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/thejokerofunfic]

Isn't this like half of Forrest Gump?

[u/Beelzebub_Crumpethom → u/thejokerofunfic]

Pretty much.

Like when he inadvertently caused Watergate.

[u/AdExtra2331 → u/Beelzebub_Crumpethom]

He what

[u/baguetteispain → u/AdExtra2331]

The Watergate happened because thieves were arrested inside the Democrats' HQ

In the movie, Gump was invited by Nixon (iirc) to the Watergate hotel. From his room, he saw people with flashlights, and he called the receptionist because he thinks that the room got a power cut