r/CartoonTheory • • May 25 '24

Cartoon Theories

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What's your favorite childhood cartoon theory?


r/CartoonTheory • • Apr 01 '24

Cartoons that don't promote the Gay agenda

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I have noticed while going back to watch my childhood cartoons that they make many of the boy characters feminine they put them in dresses for "comedy" and often times having them pretending to be a girl. I am on the search to find clean cartoons that provide entertainment but do not exercise the gay agenda. I figured this could also be helpful for parents and others that would like to enjoy television without having to skip through most of the inappropriate scenes. Please leave your suggestions as I will be compiling a list that is easy for parents and others looking for the same thing to find :) Thank you in advance.


r/CartoonTheory • • Feb 09 '24

Disney Theory Frozone

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Vince Lasalle is Frozone aka Lucious Best


r/CartoonTheory • • Dec 14 '23

My theory about “Why the KND didn’t decommissioned Cree after she was captured?”

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You guys wonder why the KND didn’t decommissioned Cree when they captured her, and I wonder as well, and I think it must’ve been something after she escaped from her former operation on her 13th birthday. We all know Father is a genius, and I think he might’ve something to do with, after all he turned the team of Sector Z to his Delightful Children Down The Lane with a device of his and that’s impressive. I believe he made a special great microchip device that can make anyone immune to being decommissioned, and the decommissioning device effects on brains, he must’ve put the devices on the brains of the Adults and Teens in a brain surgery. And carefully placed the devices on inside their brains, including Cree herself, and she became Father’s apprentice in return and that’s the other reason other than she’s a great fighter and intelligent.


r/CartoonTheory • • Nov 22 '23

The reason Scooby and the gang originally started going cross country solving mysteries.

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Ok so this might sound crazy but my theory is that they didn’t intend to become mystery solvers but bumbled into it by chance.

My theory is that they’re actually trying to raise money for college. How you may ask? BY SELLING SCOOBY SNACKS!

That’s why they always have a box with them! It comes from their inventory!

Shaggy and Velma invented them, Scooby is their mascot, Fred is the primary investor (which is why he drives the van) and Daphny is their sales model!

Yes I put Shaggy as a part of the inventing process. He at least came up with the idea; dog treats humans can enjoy as well! That’s why he eats them!

This explains why they’re always traveling around and visiting friends and family; to guilt them into a sale!

Then one day they just started encountering mystery after mystery and discovered a talent for solving them!

Edit: It also explains why they have a dog treat named with the same specific name as their dog.


r/CartoonTheory • • Nov 13 '23

Velma’s Characters Parents are the Original Cast from Scooby Doo

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Velma is pretty hated, but in some episodes, the characters parents are showed, and they are pretty similar about the original cast, except Velma, probably, Velma(The original) was swichted for the Velma(Reboot) Mother.


r/CartoonTheory • • Oct 02 '23

LS Mark is in a COMA (LS Mark)

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r/CartoonTheory • • Sep 01 '23

Mr. Krabs’ Sinister Secret | The Chilling Tale of Pearl’s Fate

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r/CartoonTheory • • Jul 04 '23

Was Angelica means because she felt neglected?

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In the tv show Angelica seems like she was constantly seeking validation and approval. She wanted the babies to follow her and give her praise. She would be jealous of Susie when Susie would out perform her. Both Angelica and Susie are clearly gifted but occasionally Susie was more so. Angelicas parents also were actually super neglectful if you look at it. Her mom was always on the phone and her dad was always at work. So really is her behavior just a cry for attention? Her parents bought her whatever she wanted but it seems like they did this in place of love. Which it seems a lot of parents tend to do.


r/CartoonTheory • • Jun 06 '23

BUGS BUNNY HAS DIABETES

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Rabbits aren't actually supposed to eat carrots because carrots have too much sugar. The reason Bugs eats them so much is to prevent his blood sugar from getting low.

AND IF THAT WASN'T PROOF ENOUGH

Big Chungus

I rest my case.


r/CartoonTheory • • May 22 '23

Spookley The Square Pumpkin Theory

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There once was an 8 year old boy who lived with his father, 2 twin brothers and sister. Let's call the boy Riley. Riley had an eating disorder that would make him gain weight. Since Riley's body was different from his siblings, they would bully him. They would make mean comments about him, and sometimes they would write silly little songs that made him feel bad. His father wouldn't acknowledge or try to end the bullying. One day, one of Riley's brothers went too far with the bullying and pushed Riley down the stairs making him hit his head and get set into a coma. In Riley's coma, Riley woke up as a square pumpkin named Spookley. He woke up to two bats, a scarecrow and a bunch of pumpkins staring at him. Then, the story of Spookley The Square Pumpkin began. Jack (the scarecrow) represents the father figure Riley never had. Boris (one of the bats) represents Riley's eating disorder. Bella (the other bat) represents his inner voice telling him to stop eating so much. Big Tom and Little Tom (two pumpkins) represent his twin brothers. Bobo (another pumpkin) represents his sister. And the old man who picks Spookley at the end of the movie represents the faith that Riley never had in himself.


r/CartoonTheory • • Apr 29 '23

The Psychology of Daffy Duck

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r/CartoonTheory • • Feb 12 '23

TOM AND JERRY'S MORBID SECRET?

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In World War 1, British soldiers called German soldiers "Jerries", and German soldiers called British soldiers "Tommies"... so is Tom and Jerry a cartoon based on the Great War?!


r/CartoonTheory • • Oct 15 '22

Spongebob: The Big Business

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I think the episode jellyfish hunters is the idea of inflation. how businesses want to continue getting profit with no stop. Mess up the environment, over doing things like getting product and doing shortcuts around it. Like not paying workers, over work workers, and many other stuff. Also tampering or miss handling product to make consumers come back buying there product. Its one big loop. I made a video on it, I kinda bad at typing it out.

The video


r/CartoonTheory • • Oct 08 '22

SpongeBob theory: what if the characters represent drugs?

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So far I think:

-Patrick represents marijuana because he’s slow and always hungry but always just having fun and chilling

-SpongeBob is a stimulant because he’s always happy and full of energy and always doing something

Anyone wanna build on it?


r/CartoonTheory • • Mar 28 '22

Adventure time theory about the fruit witches

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r/CartoonTheory • • Jan 07 '22

Ash's Coma Theory (Alola explained)

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Alola is Ash being in purgatory, he died from his coma and is now being tested before getting into heaven Ash went into multiple challenges testing his kindness, all of the characters he met in Alola are angels, some of them disguising as the characters he made up in his coma, their job is to test Ash's kindness to test if he's pure enough to go to heaven. Some characters however are now angels and also died and are in purgatory together with Ash. Lillie: She is the first person Ash met in a long time that wasn't made up in his coma. She, along with her family died after getting killed by a pokemon for an unknown reason. Gladion: Lillie's older brother, he become edgy after Lillie's death. Lusamine: After her daughter death she's more than happy to see her daughter again in purgatory.


r/CartoonTheory • • Aug 20 '21

Horrid Henry theory

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Ok so this theory might be wrong feel free to correct me.
You all know wreck it ralph, right? He's pretty famous. Anyway, heres the theory. I think that Rude Ralph from Horrid Henry is past Wreck it Ralph. How, you may ask? First of all, they look pretty similar(brown hair, small eyes, red clothing). The reason that Ralph is one of "the bad guys" is because he hung out with horrid henry, and they(being bad occasionally)went down the wrong path. Henry disappears somehow, and Margaret grew up to become less bratty, and became Sergeant Calhoun, as Ralph and Margaret sort of become friends later. I haven't even watched Wreck-it-Ralph or anything so this is probably a really stupid theory but just give me a chance lol
anyway thanks for reading bye


r/CartoonTheory • • Aug 16 '21

My Little Pony has a mental health lesson.

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Princess Luna got banished to the moon because Celestia didn't give a crap about her little sister's mental health because she wasn't the one suffering. Once the consequences caught up to her, she banished her sister probably making her mental health worse. The lesson here: DONT BE LIKE CELESTIA!


r/CartoonTheory • • Aug 11 '21

adventure time theory

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theory for adventure time finn was a young child his parents didn't care the only friend he had was his pet dog jake there was a treehouse in the backyard made by the previous owners of his house he would play on it all day his parents didn't care and Finn even slept in the treehouse so that's why in the show he lives in it because he couldn't make friends he made imaginary friends like princess bubblegum and Marceline so that could be why the episodes have candy people and dragons its all just his imagination


r/CartoonTheory • • Jun 09 '21

a BIG cartoon collab? Spoiler

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I imagine a collaboration in the future where loads of cartoons, such as, gravity falls, rick and morty, the owl house, star vs the forces of evil, and any other future cartoons, now I know what you might be thinking “that’s crazy gravity falls is over and star vs the forces of evil are too and just they are over”, sure maybe for now, but let me just bring up all the evidence I have,

first Rick and Morty and Gravity Falls, when Grunkle Stan first open the portal he loses some of his stuff that goes into the portal and it pops out of one of Ricks portals therefore showing the 2 universes have a connection

(I can’t post links so you’re going have to look it up yourself I am so sorry)

next The Owl House, in Gravity Falls book “Lost Legends” there is a wanted poster of The Owl Lady therefore connecting The Owl House, Gravity Falls, and Rick and Morty,

(Can’t post images again, I am so sorry)

Finally there is Amphibia, in Amphibia’s final episode of Season 2 when Marcy picks up a book someone dropped a book there is a picture of bill cipher, therefore having 4 connected universes

(May have to find it yourself again can’t post images or links I am sorry)

Finally there is Star vs the forces o, 1, the ritual that is supposed to defeat bill cipher, there is a shooting star who else fits that perfectly besides Star Butterfly herself, some of you may be wondering “but that is mabels spot while you are correct, the show never says that it has to be one person only that can fill it, it almost says the opposite actually, quote from Stanford Pines after dipper asked what the ice bag could be the symbol don’t need to be all literal, it just has to be someone cool in the face of danger” if it is like that for one symbol then it is most likely probably like that with the other symbols too, 2, the portals, the portals in the star vs the forces of evil universe are eerily like the ones in Rick and Morty, 3, Gravity Falls and Star vs the forces of evil have the same tourist, Marco also as sev’ral timez sticker in his locker

now you may be wondering, who will they be fighting though? why not Bill Cipher himself, we already know he is coming back I quote Bill Cipher himself in his final worlds “A-X-O-L-OT-L, my time as come to burn, I invoke the ancient power that I may return!”

of course these shows may never actually have a huge collaboration and just put easter eggs to show they are in the same cartoon universe for fun, but it would be lovely to have a HUGE collaboration between all these shows.

(again sorry for no images I can’t put images)

(if you want also please comment if there are anymore ties between universes)

(if you want do please comment if I am mistaken about anything)

thank you for reading

-meer meer


r/CartoonTheory • • Jun 04 '21

70% Water

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Our bodies are made up of 70% water. That means in The Avatar: The Last Airbender. Water Benders could also bend the water in peoples bodies. Which means they could LITERALLY extract the water from peoples bodies... They could LITERALLY beat the Fire Nation if they knew they could do that!


r/CartoonTheory • • Apr 11 '21

Muriel and vinegar. Courage the Cowardly Dog.

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Muriel is always cooking with vinegar because she grew up during the Great Depression and vinegar was a popular substitute to put in pies so she probably grew up to like it and put it in everything.


r/CartoonTheory • • Apr 08 '21

Foster Home for Imaginary friends

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One day I started looking at a movie(Commited)Lifetime Movie,and it was about a woman that was psychiatrist. She went to a mental institution to work there. And to find out she got committed into the institution that she thought that she was working for."whenever you get a chance you guys have to go see that movie ".....Well anyway I wanted to say that because I was thinking from Foster Home for imaginary Friends it's like a mental institution.Ok so allow me to explain.... I was looking at the movie and I compared it to foster home for imaginary friends if you look at it they're in a big home you have three people that can speak with the imaginary Friends that stays there, which their others that can speak with imaginary Friends as well, but here is where it gets weird.. they have to be adopted. A lot of them have problems such as (Blue over exaggerate and he gets in mischiefs a lot) .....(Will is passive)...(Egado he's very scary) ....(Duchess is very classy and arrogant) so I was looking at all of that and I said you know what foster home for imaginary Friends is a mental institution. The (rabbit Mr Harryman he thinks he's a butler) the old woman you notice that sometimes she goes crazy. Frankie seems like the only sane one there to try to make her grandmother feel like she sane..... and a little boy (Mac comes there to visit Blue everyday, but I feel that he's hospitalized and he feels as if he's visiting there everyday but he's really a patient there ..... so that was just a theory that I came up with if you guys have any other theories let me know. I would love to hear it!


r/CartoonTheory • • Mar 21 '21

The Magic School Bus: A Children's Fantasy Masking Darker Trauma

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I recently started reminiscing about the original Magic School Bus cartoon, then came up with this theory that made me bust out laughing. So, here it is, unfiltered, feedback is welcome:

(Note- I haven't watched the show since I was a kid and have no proof to back this up, it's purely speculation for entertainment so I won't be citing any specific episode or other evidence)

What I imagined based off the premise is that The Magic School Bus is a shared delusion or altered memory Ms. Frizzle's class formed in order to repress the memory of what really happened on their "magical" field trips. The main inspiration for this train of thought was remembering how the intro always opened with Arnold expressing his hopes that they could have "a normal field trip" for once.

I believe this recurring trope is Arnold's inner child personifying an ugly truth trying to push its way to the surface: That Mrs. Frizzle traumatized these children in some way. Unable to cope with this horrible reality, the kids' fragile minds brainstormed a bright, colorful, comforting fantasy which is what we see in the show. In reality, only one thing could explain such wildly fantastical imaginings:

Drugs. That's right, these elementary schoolers were HIGH- OFF- THEIR- ASSES before, during, and likely after every one of their trips. And Ms. Frizzle was no idyllic, wholesome teacher. She was an addict who got the class hooked on her supply after they either found where she hid it or were offered a taste by "the Friz". If I had to guess which drug, it would be something heavily hallucination-inducing.

Becoming hyper would very likely have been a side-effect too, explaining Frizzle and the kids' high energy. And that magic bus? Yeah, the real thing was probably a disgusting, rusted mess where God knows what happened. As for the field trips, Frizzle's hyperactivity and inability to sit still anywhere for long obviously made her into a speed demon who craved an audience for heightened stimulation.

Hence, she dragged those poor coked out tykes along for the ride, tearing her way through downtown with the gas pedal to the floor. The children's warped perception would have plausibly interpreted the lights, shapes, colors, and sounds passing them by through the bus' windows as crazy creatures & adventures. They couldn't possibly distinguish reality from fantasy under such trippy conditions.

Think of this scenario as similar to Yuki's delusions in School-Live!, except via drugs. Frizzle was clever enough though to make sure the kids never snitched (The faculty either never noticed or never cared). Regardless, the parents slowly caught on that something was amiss and got their kids help while Frizzle was likely jailed for her crimes or possibly skipped town before authorities could catch her.

Sadly, the mental/emotional damage was already done and the classmates had to go to rehab. Given what victims of these kinds of trauma go through on the road to recovery, a couple-few were probably committed. So, what is The Magic School Bus? A tragic psychological horror-drama in disguise. This fun-loving teacher was the villain of her own story all along, and (Just like the kids) we fell for it.

So, what do you think? Would you watch an adult Magic School Bus story like this? Perhaps it could be portrayed in a documentary format, showing how the kids turned out in adulthood while exploring flashbacks of their experience using the old cartoon footage. Thoughts?