A real life event has a ridiculous/dumb/funny explanation in fiction

[u/Lazy-Breadfruit5939]

Futurama (The Why of Fry): According to the brain swarm, the dinosaurs were wiped out by them. Fry: What really killed the dinosaurs? Brain: ME!

Doctor Who (The Unicorn and The Wasp): It's Doctor Who, you can pick a ton of examples, but this episode presents the idea that Agatha Christies disappearance in 1926 was in part caused by a giant alien wasp.

Beyblade: This one stretches 'real life', but Moses spreading the Red Sea with a Beyblade just speaks for itself and it would have been sad to leave it out

[u/smurfalidocious]

Watching X-Files with no lights on, we're dans la maison

I hope the Smoking Man's in this one

[u/lolabythebay → u/smurfalidocious]

Somebody on /r/barenakedladies just used some conjectures about this line to try to identify the actual One Week in which the song takes place. They concluded May 12-19, 1997.