Random Wild Fan Theories About '90s Sitcoms (11 items)

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  (#1) 'Friends,' 'Seinfeld,' And 'Mad About You' All Took Place In The Same Universe

  On an episode of Mad About You, Phoebe’s twin sister, Ursula, is a waitress at a restaurant named Riff’s. Also, Jamie from Mad About You was on Friends, and she spoke to Phoebe at Central Perk, mistaking her for Ursula. That links Mad About You to Friends. 

  Meanwhile, Kramer was once on Mad About You, taking over Paul’s apartment, and he mentions a comedian living across the hall – an obvious reference to Jerry, linking Mad About You to Seinfeld. This would mean they’re all closely connected.
  
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  (#2) 'Boy Meets World' Is Shown As Cory Sees It

  One thing fans of this series question is the evolution of Eric’s character, from cool older brother to comically dumb dummy. The theory says that we’re being shown things as Cory sees them, so as a kid his older brother was cool, but once he’s grown and matured, he sees how stupid he is. This could also explain the disappearance of his little sister for a couple seasons, because he was a teenager who wants nothing to do with their younger sibling.
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  (#3) Bender From 'Futurama' Isn’t A Criminal Until He Meets Fry

  When the series begins, Bender is on the brink of ending his life because he found out he was making suicide booths, yet throughout the series his character is completely different. When Fry and Bender are trying to escape Leela in the head museum, Bender gets shocked by a light fitting. The theory is that this rebooted him, and since it happened in the hall of criminals, it turns him “into the lovable but highly-illegal rogue.”
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  (#4) 'Saved by the Bell' Was Just Zack Morris's Dream

  There once was a series called Good Morning, Miss Bliss and it featured Zack, Mr. Belding, Screech, and Lisa. On this series Zack wasn’t the cool, smooth kid. He was your average schmuck at a school in Indiana. Then, that series came to an end and Zack reemerged on Saved by the Bell as the popular kid who is good at everything and liked by everyone.

  Essentially, this theory holds that Saved by the Bell didn’t happen and it was simply Zack’s ideal, perfect dream life being imagined to escape his less magnificent reality. The creator of the theory, Logan Trent wrote, “It’s nothing more than the escapist fantasy of a disillusioned young man named Zack Morris.”
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  (#5) 'That '70s Show' Is A Sequel To 'Happy Days'

  This theory suggests that Richie from Happy Days is Red from That '70s Show. At the end of Happy Days, Richie and Ralph head off for the Korean War, but Fonzie stays behind. Fonz was the person who always kept Richie calm, but since he wasn’t around, you flash forward 20 years and Richie is Red, embittered by his experiences. Without Fonz around, Red's relationship with his silly neighbor, Bob (Ralph) has gone kaput. The theory also makes note of the fact that Happy Days was made in the '70s and set in the '50s, while That '70s Show was made in the '90s and set in the '70s. Though not mentioned in the original theory, it’s worth pointing out that both series take place in Wisconsin, as well.

   
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  (#6) 'Modern Family' Is A Sequel To 'Married… With Children'

  Ed O’Neill is on both shows which initiated the link, but the theory points out that on both shows he had a blonde daughter and a son. They were kids on Married… With Children, but they’re fully grown adults on Modern Family. It adds up even more when you realize that O’Neill’s character on Modern Family is in his second marriage, and he admits the first didn’t go well because he wasn’t very nice.
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  (#7) The Children Of 'Full House' Were Actually Fathered By Joey Gladstone

  This is a heck of a concept that doesn’t have the backing of a Maury show paternity test to confirm it, but is interesting nonetheless. The Tanner girls are blond, blue-eyed children while their father, Danny, has brown hair and brown eyes. In a flashback we see that their late mother, Pamela Tanner was blond, but even her brother Jesse has dark hair and eyes. So, someone crunched the numbers and came to the conclusion that Danny and Pam would only have a 1 in 16 chance of creating one blond, blue-eyed child, much less three of them, which would have a 1 in 4,096 chance of occurring.

  What would make this very possible is a very blond-haired, blue-eyed Joey Gladstone, who technically isn’t even an uncle, but lingers around as a close, family friend. Perhaps he was secretly hooking up with Danny’s wife? The theory extends beyond Danny, noting that Jesse and Rebecca had blond-haired, blue-eyed twin sons, which is super, incredibly unlikely based on their appearance, meaning Joey could’ve been their father as well.
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  (#8) Homer Simpson Has Been In A Coma for 20+ Years

  In short, there’s a 1992 episode of The Simpsons that ends with God telling Homer he’s going to pass in six months. Six months later, in a 1993 episode, Homer is put in the hospital after Bart’s April Fools' prank goes wrong. After that he’s crushed by a vending machine and goes into a coma. He wakes up at the end of the episode, but this theory proposes that Homer didn’t wake up, and imagined all the episodes from that point on. The creator of this theory points out more details to back his claim, though they can’t necessarily be proven.
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  (#9) 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' Takes Place In Heaven

  This theory states that the “one little fight” Will got into on the basketball court in West Philadelphia was a fatal one. That’s right, Will passed on the court, and the taxi driver with the “rare” cab is God, transporting Will to heaven. The times Will sees his mom and dad on the show are instances in which they’re visiting his grave.
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  (#10) 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' Was About Being Gay

  This theory states that Sabrina’s secret (being a witch) and the fact that she can’t tell her friends out of fear of persecution, is actually a gay allegory. The creator of the theory also points out that Sabrina is her “true self” when she’s in a world called the Other Realm, which she accesses through a closet.
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  (#11) All 10 Seasons Of 'Friends' Were Imagined By Phoebe

  A Twitter user, @strnks, pitched the concept of Friends being a “fantasy of a homeless Phoebe as she stared through the window of Central Perk." It suggests that Phoebe was projecting herself into the other characters’ lives because all she really wanted was friends.

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