"Is such a thing even possible?
Yes it is!" — Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
To go along with
The History Channel's
Network Decay,
Ancient Aliens deals with conspiracy theories about
Ancient Astronauts and presents them as reasonable.
The show is known for having frequent appearances by
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
, consulting producer and ancient astronaut researcher. More specifically, it's known for the involvement of
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos' hair.
This show provides examples of:
- All Myths Are True: Albeit aliens were involved with all of them.
- Ancient Astronauts: Prescribes to this, using scripture and myths.
- Blatant Lies: The entire show. All the lies and deception are picked apart by Ancient Aliens Debunked. Notable is presenting 19th and 20th century New Age texts as ancient texts, deliberate mistranslations, deliberate presenting false dates, not citing actual sources, quote mining, and presenting hoaxes as true (such as the infamous Crystal Skulls). All and all, the show is one big lie that is getting far, far too much attention and all the 'experts' should be sued for misinformation and thrown out of the academic community, if they were even in it to begin with.
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy:
- Surely anyone with ideas that were somewhat ahead of their time was abducted by aliens at some point.
- With Leonardo da Vinci, they think that he was either kidnapped by aliens, or even was actually a TIME TRAVELER.
- The Bermuda Triangle: This along with Japan's "Dragon's Triangle" are theorized to be portals which UFO's travel through to get to Earth.
- Dan Browned: A staple of this show.
- Early Installment Weirdness: The series is actually a Spin-Off from a one-off documentary that presented a much less biased examination of the Ancient Astronaut theory; both proponents and detractors were interviewed. Myths were not presented as evidence. Artistic licence and symbolism were acknowledged. Ironically, by presenting it as a two-sided argument with evidence against it as well as for it, it makes the whole thing seem more reasonable.
- E.T. Gave Us Wi-Fi
- For the Evulz: Aliens apparently cause volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Why they're doing it and what they would have to gain from doing it isn't known or dwelled upon in the show.
- The Great Flood: The show takes the Noah's ark story as the literal truth. But aliens did it.
- The Grim Reaper: According to the show the black death was caused by Grim Reaper aliens with plague scythes. Seriously.
- Groupie Brigade: According to pics, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is quite the Kavorka Man. It's gotta be the hair.
- Insane Troll Logic: As picked apart in this spectacular takedown of the show, written by a scientist who understands the topic of the week inside and out.
- Logical Fallacies: The main one showing up all the time is the Converse Error Affirming the Consequent.
1. If aliens really existed and visited Earth, they could theoretically have shown humans how to build pyramids.
2. Humans built pyramids.
3. Therefore aliens!
- Once per Episode: At some point during any given installment, the phrase "as ancient astronauts theorists believe/contend/theorize" will be uttered at least once. This functions more or less as a disclaimer or possibly a Catch Phrase.
- Phlebotinum Killed The Dinosaurs: Yup, the aliens apparently offed them too. Oh, and they made them in the first place as well.
- Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale:
- No Sense Of Distance: Aliens come from stars tens to hundreds of light years away to mine gold (a relatively common metal in asteroids) on Earth.
- Speculative Documentary: Basically, everything important happened because of aliens.
- Stupid Jetpack Hitler: They do this in a few episodes.
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