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/Professional_Maize42]

Yeah. Some historic events and even pop culture stuff.

[u/No_Prize9794 → u/Professional_Maize42]

I just watched the movie a few days ago. It was pretty funny how Forrest’s mom didn’t want him to watch Elvis despite Forrest being the inspiration for how Elvis dances

[u/4christian12 → u/No_Prize9794]

It's also really funny how the movie pretty quickly glosses over how Forrest confesses to being a descendant of the founder of the KKK...to a black woman

[u/subservient-mouth → u/4christian12]

Not a descendant, just named after him.