A term for wild, off-the-wall theories. Named after a leading
tinfoil-hat theory explaining the mysterious shaking, rustling trees on
Lost during the first season of that program. The theory?
The trees are having epileptic fits.
Not only common, but expected for
Mind Screw series. A major species of Tree is
Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory. An ongoing series which uses
Chekhovs Guns to the point of becoming a
Chekhov's Armoury encourages Trees because all newly introduced objects/people/skills/etc will be suspected of being a
Chekhov's Gun. Horrible epileptic trees are known as
Poison Oak Epileptic Trees.
See
Stock Epileptic Trees for other common examples.
Epileptic Trees suggested by
characters are a sign of
Scully Syndrome. When an Epileptic Tree is rendered null and void by the official
Canon, it's said to be
Jossed. When an Epileptic Tree
becomes Canon, you're allowed to say, "
I Knew It!" See also
Inferred Survival,
Urban Legend of Zelda and
Schrodinger's Butterfly.
If you'd like to see the wiki contributors' own personal epileptic forest, check out our
Wild Mass Guessing page. Don't waste your tree here. Plant it in
Wild Mass Guessing.
Not to be confused with the patient on
House who had epileptic
testicles.
