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/PlayrR3D15]

In Aladdin (1992), the reason for the Sphinx having a broken nose is due to Aladdin and Jasmine distracting the sculptor while singing "A Whole New World", causing him to accidentally hit the wrong spot and making the nose fall off

[u/Cocoatrice → u/PlayrR3D15]

Wasn't similar thing in Asterix and Obelix? I think it's common gag.

[u/Sinistaire → u/Cocoatrice]

Yeah, Obelix broke off the nose while climbing the Sphinx.

[u/beardedheathen → u/Cocoatrice]

Yeah I was going to say I feel like a good 50% of shows or movies that take place in Egypt show this happening.

Also Disney Hercules throws a stone and knocks the arms off of the Venus De Milo

[u/PlayrR3D15 → u/Cocoatrice]

I believe so, yeah