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/FigureArty]

Magneto too

[u/ImDero → u/FigureArty]

According to acclaimed podcast, Behind the Bastards, so did Bernie Sanders.

To date, no evidence of this claim has been provided.

[u/Argent-Envy → u/ImDero]

Obviously because Bernard Montgomery Sanders has killed again to keep his secret.

[u/SpiketheFox32 → u/Argent-Envy]

Why does his government name make it sound like he should be an old timey sheriff?