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Advertising
- For the Cheetos commercials, The Cheetos Cheetah appears to people and encourages them to do something bad to people who are annoying them, which seems basis for a psychotic illusion for the mentally unstable.
- Then there's Dr. Rabbit, the anthropomorphic mascot of Colgate designed to market oral health products to young children and promote dental hygiene. As helpful and well-intentioned as he's portrayed in the educational videos featuring him, YouTube Poopers just love to paint this guy as some kind of bigoted pedophile who abducts children.
- The infamous K-Fee ads have been interpreted by some as being found footage with the zombies and gargoyles seen in them being the monsters in a ongoing Zombie Apocalypse.
- In an ad for Mini-Wheats, an anthropomorphic Mini-Wheat is pitted against a Cheerio in a boxing match, but the Cheerio falls over before the match even begins. The intent is that the Cheerio passed out due to being Pathetically Weak, but is that really the case, or did it Faint in Shock at the thought of fighting a much bigger piece of cereal that has arms which it doesn't? Or did it pretend to faint to throw the match, knowing that the challenge wasn't fair? Or is it not even sentient and it just fell over because it's a normal Cheerio?
- Wendy, the usually cheerful mascot of Wendy’s, has been reinterpreted
by many as being a smug Deadpan Snarker who frequently enjoys trolling and roasting others. This is thanks to the Wendy’s Twitter account, which had suddenly gained notoriety in 2017 for their unusually (for corporate Twitter standards) snarky comments and comebacks towards numerous Twitter users, becoming a Memetic Mutation as a result.
Audio Plays
- Fans of 36 Questions can't seem to agree on if Judith and Jase are good people, or if they would be good in a relationship. Is Judith a manipulative liar, or just someone who used a fake name? Is Judith even sorry about her lies, or is she just sorry she got caught? Is Jase's habit of leaving Judith cowardly, or a reasonable reaction to her lies? Is Judith a Determinator who won't give up on fixing her relationship, or a psycho who is in Mad Love with someone who doesn't love her back?
Blogs
- Animation blogger The Unshaved Mouse often comes up with these:
- Disney himself was a Mad Artist who trafficked heavily in the occult, obtaining immortality in the process. Not Heat Vision though, that's apparently just something that animators can do.
- Mulan is a walking avatar of Death itself.
- The rat from Lady and the Tramp was named Larry, and was just checking on the baby out of concern for its well being. He survived his run-in with Tramp, received botched reconstructive surgery, went mad, and renamed himself Ratigan.
- The Blue Fairy from Pinocchio had an affair with a human, resulting in the birth of Cinderella. Now older, she claimed to be Cinderella's Fairy Godmother so she could help her without revealing their connection.
- The "Princess of Glowerhaven" that Prince Eric failed to hit it off with was the Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This incident resulted in her becoming self-conscious about her appearance.
- The actual Brazilian state of Bahia is in reality a realm of madness and chaos, in which the devil himself (a Crimson Cockerel named Panchito Pistoles) can be encountered. And Jose Cariocca is a warlock in his service.
- Hera is the true evil mastermind in Hercules, in keeping with her mythological counterpart.
- After marrying into royalty, Cinderella sicced the kingdom's guards on Lady Tremaine for domestic slavery and possibly the murder of Cinderella's father, causing her to go on the run. She fled to France (leaving her daughters as patsies) and lived off her fortune, becoming Lady Adelaide before being identified and apprehended by Lieutenant Columbo.
- As of Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scott Lang is part of an... "open marriage" between his ex-wife and her current husband.
- He claims that Pepper Potts was somehow possessed by the spirit of Terrence Howard out of revenge, after his role as Rhody was taken over by Don Cheadle in Iron Man 2, explaining why Pepper is more hostile to Tony than she was in the original film.
Fairy Tales
- Many retellings of Cinderella include the two stepsisters... however, many portray one of these stepsisters as not being all that bad. It's always the younger of the two who does this - and sometimes she may end off better when karma bites them and the wicked stepmother in the ass. (In fact, many older versions have the younger sister be the one who calls her Cinderella, as opposed to Cinderslut.) This shows in Ever After, and even seeped into the Disney version where the sequels show Anastasia undergoing Character Development.
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Did Goldilocks break into the bears' house and eat their porridge because she's a naive little girl and doesn't know any better, because she's a jerk, or because she's lost in the woods and possibly homeless (though if it was the third one, she'd be oddly picky with the porridge)?
- In The Little Mermaid, the little mermaid seems more interested in the whole "receiving a mortal soul" thing that comes with a human falling for a mermaid than she actually does the prince. Does she really love him as much as she says or is she only using him as an excuse because she's afraid of the Cessation of Existence?
- The Pied Piper of Hamelin is sometimes shown to take the children away not as Disproportionate Retribution, but to save the children from a corrupt world or from becoming like their parents, who cheated him out of their promised payment.
- The Snow Queen's personality and degree of villainy varies from adaptation to adaptation - some have her as a straight-up villain, while others portray her as more of an Anti-Villain who kidnapped Kai out of loneliness or to have him and/or Gerda help her fix the mirror or break a curse.
- Some adaptations of Rapunzel, including Donna Jo Napoli's Zel, depict the witch as a Knight Templar Parent who genuinely loves Rapunzel but goes overboard with her protectiveness. Disney's Tangled was even meant to originally go this route, however they decided to make her an emotionally abusive parent who loves Rapunzel like an object.
- In Stone Soup, are the soldiers/travelers heroes who teach the villagers a moral about the value of sharing, or are they tricksters and con artists who swindle the villagers out of their last remaining food supplies?
Podcasts
- In the Fancy Nancy: Fancy It Yourself episode of Escape from Vault Disney!, Zach says that, because of Nancy's tendency to talk to the audience in a pronounced way, combined with her being far wiser and more knowledgeable than her implied age would suggest, Nancy is destined to grow up to become a high-fem Jigsaw.Zach: Hello. Would you like to have a tea party?
Poetry
- The brother from "My Brother's a Genius" — is he truly a genius who becomes so sad when he loses his computer that he loses his intelligence, a boy who is Book Smart but not street smart and thus seems dumb when he's not using his computer, a Know-Nothing Know-It-All who uses facts found online to pretend to be a genius, or a normal boy whose sibling is just making fun of him for how attached to his computer he is?
Professional Wrestling
- Matt and Jeff Hardy. Depending on which degree of smark you are, one brother is potentially the future of the entire business, and the other shouldn't even be working the lowliest of indies shows. You can swap out whichever one you like.
- The Undertaker gets a lot of these, thanks to being Undead Druidic All-American Cowboy Biker, but the most popular one is, that during Ministry of Darkness era, he was Brainwashed and Crazy by Vince McMahon into believing he killed his parents and being more evil than ever before or after.
- Vince McMahon himself. Either he's one of the most brilliant showmen of all time and a man who should be hailed by all who would call themselves wrestling fans, or he's an imbecilic amoral scumbag who's only redeeming feature is that he knows to run with what's popular.
- Evolution Schematic, a column at 411mania's wrestling site, is all about alternate character interpretations, specifically about finding the defining trait that serves as a wrestler's focus through all his Heel Face Turns, Face Heel Turns, gimmick changes, changes of employers, and other such nastiness.
- Ever since the new incarnation of ECW debuted, fans have criticized the third brand for being a nothing more than a pale imitation of its former namesake, even moreso after a gradual talent purge left Tommy Dreamer the sole ECW Original. However, some enjoy the new ECW for having the pure wrestling that Raw and Smackdown sometimes lack and its focus on making newer stars and elevating wrestlers that aren't ready for Raw or Smackdown. In fact, repeat that last sentence subbing WWF for Raw and WCW for Smackdown and you may have a decent show to watch every Tuesday that just fell victim to a PG mandate a lot earlier than the other two brands did but recently found its own niche. Taz, after leaving WWE, once said call it something else and it would a cool hour.
- And after the early Executive Meddling by Sci-Fi forced the WWE to add sci-fi elements to the show (failing miserably with a zombie wrestler), the Ent got creative with Kevin Thorn and Ariel, WWE's first vampire personas since Gangrel and the Brood. They even inserted them into brand's main feud between the ECW Originals and New Breed. Just too bad they didn't go with it.
- In Scott Keith's WCW Halloween Havoc 1993 retro rant (originally written in 1999), he writes that, since it's impossible for any human being to be that useless, Sid must do it on purpose and as a kind of perverse art form, which Scott dubs "Sidism"."He's painting a picture with his terrible wrestling, giving a profound and painful lecture on the current state of wrestling, whereby he's saying, 'Any promotion that would push ME is severely messed up.' It's sad and beautiful at the same time that someone would suffer for their art so, indeed martyring themselves for the cause of bring awareness to the essential suckiness that surrounds him. It's a cry for help, you see. Every time he puts on his idiotic rear chinlock, he's crying 'Stop me before I suck again!' and yet he continues to be pushed. I think the current rambling interviews are just a further sign of his current surrealistic art being taken to yet another, even sicker level."
- This column offers an interesting defense of the original Dungeon of Doom, insisting that, even if it was stupid, it was the last gasp of a "family-friendly" kind of stupid as opposed to the "adults-only" kind of stupid that would follow with the NWO and the Attitude Era.
- R-Truth's character during his storyline with The Judgment Day can go in two directions: either he's a complete idiot who can't get the hint he's not part of the group or he's acting as an idiot in order to manipulate others behind the scenes. Michael Cole himself has come to question some of his behavior in a match between The Miz and JD McDonaugh as he can't tell who he's helping.
Roleplay
- Many roleplayers use the ITT: We Are Our Avatars thread as a way to experiment with giving their characters different personalities. Several characters who began almost completely faithful to canon have changed and in many cases even gained new powers due to their interactions with other characters.
Theme Parks
- Journey into Imagination: Figment's mischief in the current attraction: Is he a spoiled Looney Tunes-ish brat that hates the guests or is the attraction a Meta plot and he's a Karmic Trickster ruining Channing's Open House because he hated Journey into YOUR Imagination as much as everyone else did?
- If it is the second interpretation, is Figment also acting out due to missing Dreamfinder seeing as a silhouette of the two riding the Dreamcatching Machine appears on top of the sheet music for "One Little Spark" in the second to last scene?
Websites
- The lovable 2chan character Kuma was an excited bear who loved dancing. But on 4chan, a series of ShiftJIS posts showed Kuma having a phone conversation with a young, impressionable anime girl. From that day on, Kuma received a wildly different interpretation on 4chan than on the originating imageboard, to the point where the bear is hardly referred to by his original name, and further variations have popped up such as a Mexican bear.
- Not Always Friendly:
- The beggar in this story claims to have not eaten for most of the day, but when the OP offers him a sandwich, he asks what kind it is. Unreasonable Picky Eater, or a victim of an allergy/intolerance/disease that leaves him with dietary restrictions that he still has to be wary about regardless of how hungry he is? Many commenters seem to think the latter, calling out the OP for being rude and snarky about what could have been a legitimate concern.
- A theater patron being incredibly disruptive during a live play, laughing when he shouldn't and not when he should, talking back to the actors, and generally being disruptive, is dismissed as just being a brat by the submitter. The comments might have agreed if he was a child, but he's described as being in his 20s, leading a few to wonder if he has neurodivergent special needs that were neglected when he was growing up.
- Invoked at the end of this story, where the submitter questions whether or not she or her elderly acquaintance was in the wrong in the described situation, wherein the submitter gets him a chain to attach his glasses to so he won't keep losing them, only for him to later give said chain away to another elderly friend of his right in front of the submitter, claiming that "once a gift is given, the receiver can do with it as he pleases".note
- Is the submitter's friend really The Ditz in this story, or did she just use Obfuscating Stupidity to make the boy stop trying to use bad pickup lines on her?
- In this story, the submitter was watching a cartoon on their laptop during a long travel in bus; a stranger asks if he could watch too and the submitter doesn't mind, but then the stranger notices the laptop's webcam is covered in tape and starts a long, insult-filled rant where he accuses the submitter of believing conspiracy theories.note Was he just a jerk who intended to show off by explaining how "tech-savvy" they are? Or was he a decent person who happened to have conspiracy theories as Berserk Button, for various reasons (for instance, having lost friends who became conspiracy theorists)? In either case, it still makes him a rude asshole.
- This peer of the submitter's is unable to comprehend that the submitter built their daughter's playhouse themselves and repeatedly asks who their contractor was or where they got the playhouse from no matter how many times the submitter tells him that they built it by themselves. Did the other parent not think that anyone wealthy enough to send their child to an affluent private school would bother building something themselves, or was the submitter (whose gender is never mentioned) a woman and the other parent was refusing to believe that a woman could build a playhouse by herself?
- Does the old lady in this story really have trouble walking or was she lying to try and steal the parking spot?
- The beggar in this story
- Not Always Healthy:
- Medical staff insisting on performing pregnancy tests on any female patient - including those who have had hysterectomies, are sterile due to medical reasons, or weren't even born female. While they might be trying to milk more money by performing unnecessary tests, it's possible that they've been subjected to the But I Can't Be Pregnant! line from patients so often that they simply choose to ignore any patient and perform the test anyways. (Of course, in many cases, a quick glance at the patient's medical history would be an easier solution.)
- This transplant patient's wife gets told that her husband will be thrown off the transplant list for failing to show up for an appointment. After a week of back-and-forth, the submitter gets a letter and tells the coordinator that her insurance paid for the supposedly missed appointment, so the staff is either committing insurance fraud or lying about her husband not having appeared for his appointment. After that, the paperwork suddenly appears. Was there really attempted insurance fraud going on, or did the staff honestly misplace the paperwork?
- This woman complains that she was put down as having an egg allergy when she's only allergic to the yolks. When the submitter pries further, she finds that the woman didn't have an allergy; she just doesn't like runny yolks. Honest mistake about what an allergy is, or was she served food with something she requested be left off so many times that she habitually claims allergy because that's the only way her request will be honored?
- Pick any story where a person is DIY-ing a treatment for something that clearly needs professional medical attention. If the location is in the US (or not given, at which point people will generally assume the US unless implied otherwise), commenters will assume it's because the person can't afford medical help.
- Several comments to this story speculate that the loony-acting folk healer was trying to convince his client to go to a real hospital for his affliction (all but stated to be COVID-19). If he was, it worked.
- The crooked dentist from this story dies from Covid-19 before legal action against them could succeed, and the last sentence mentions the people who started said legal action now have a private joke where they refer the pandemic as a "kill stealer." Comments debate whether those people literally wished for the dentist's death, or if it merely highlighted the dentist died before being tried and condemned for their fraud.
- The K-9 officer in this story. Commenters pointed out that (1) the paw contains many nerve endings - the reason paper cuts hurt so much for us humans - so the officer might be genuinely hurting more than the submitter assumed, (2) the dog might have been hurt in the paw before and having a fear/pain reaction to that, or (3) it might not even understand how major/minor the pain is, only that it was hurting. Given how often humans who can communicate to doctors about their physical pain and mental trauma are dismissed, this could be the case for the K-9.
- Not Always Learning:
- This professor: senile, or secretly testing his students to find out which ones don't do their own research?
- This teacher deals with a 10th grade class that had been unruly all year by refusing to approve their requests to go on to AP or even just Honors, with the exception of the sole well-behaved student. The replies have been divided as to whether the teacher should have tried harder throughout the year to rein them in, or if she tried all she was allowed under the administration and her hands were ultimately tied up until that point. Doubly so since she's a first-year teacher, so she might lack the experience and know-how to deal with such students.
- The teacher in these two stories is so unhelpful that by the second one, the commentators were beginning to suspect that he was either being unhelpful on purpose and likes seeing the students squirm through and through or, in regards to the second story, was being unhelpful (and, eventually, outright hostile) to the students as payback for getting him suspended from the school over the Problem Girl incident.
- This teacher: well-intentioned, Innocently Insensitive idiot who doesn't understand anything about boundaries, introversion, or that trying to force a shy girl to come out of her shell before she feels comfortable with making friends at this particular school is going to make her a bully magnet? Or, as a few commenters pointed out, a possible groomer?
- Did this vice-principalsummary sincerely underestimate their student body's mental age, or did they deliberately pass the message in such a goofy way to be sure the student would remember it? The submitter assumes the former, but a few comments assumed the latter.
- In this story, the poster appears to think a professor's way of teaching his students to save their work regularly (namely, cutting power to the computer lab while the students are in the middle of coursework) was "tough love". The comments almost universally slam the professor, both for deliberately sabotaging his students' coursework and for the damage he was likely doing to the terminals by playing with the breaker switch.
- While this principal brought everything on himself, some debates happened around his daughter; was she a Spoiled Brat who cut her father off because she didn't get what she wanted? Or was she disgusted by her father's stunt? Some have even speculated that this may have been the latest in a long line of broken promises and parental failures; in that case, this may have simply been the straw that broke the camel's back.
- If that last point is true, then this adds another layer to the principal's actions; he may have realized he was on his last chance with his daughter, and did that stunt out of desperation to save whatever relationship he still had with her, only for the results to make her cut him off for good after she finally had enough.
- The OP in this story gets last-minute inspiration for a writing assignment in a dream, only for a friend to point out that it's basically the plot of a movie they saw last week. (Specifically, Heathers.) With no time to think of anything else, OP just tells themself that it's OK since it's not a word-for-word rehash and turns it in anyway. When they're called to the office, they think they're getting penalized for plagiarism, only for it to turn out that the staff were just concerned that OP was about to go on a killing spree due to the nature of the essay. OP successfully argues that it was ultimately an argument for pacifism and walks away thinking the staff had no idea about the movie. Some comments theorize that they could have recognized the general plot, but didn't consider it plagiarism because it was still the OP's own take on it.
- This professor
- Not Always Legal:
- A woman gets a ticket for speeding, but the policeman immediately gives up after learning she works for a local law firm owned by the local head judge (and is on a First-Name Basis with her boss), which could be interpreted in several ways:
- Said judge is known for being corrupt, so the policeman thought it wouldn't be worth the effort since the ticket would be cancelled anyway.
- Since the woman is on First-Name Basis with the local head judge (or at least claims to be), the policeman assumes that she'll try to pull a Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!.
- Said judge would have been the prosecutor for the speeding offence. Since he also is the woman's boss, that would create a conflict of interest, so the policeman destroyed the ticket to avoid some administrative headache.
- The driver didn't deserve this ticket, and the policeman was a Dirty Cop who backed down once he learned the woman worked in a law firm (since she would have noticed this was fishy).
- In this story, the submitter gets in a car accident when the driver in front of the submitter abruptly slams on their brakes, causing the car behind her to rear-end the submitter. When the police are on the scene, two random busybodies who witnessed the accident suddenly rush up and try to make it seem like the submitter was at fault for the accident (when it is very obvious that the driver in front was at fault). While the police and the rear-ender prove the ladies' accusations incorrect, the submitter is left baffled as to why the two randomly decided to throw her under the bus. The comments theorize that the accident was actually an attempted insurance scam that the first driver and women were in on: the first driver meant to brake-check the submitter and blame them for the resulting accident, and the women were supposed to back the driver up to make the submitter look guilty and pay the insurance money. However, the submitter not hitting the driver's car along with the third driver unexpectedly hitting the submitter caused the scam to go completely pear-shaped, which resulted in the driver fleeing and the women trying to salvage the scheme.
- This teenage con artist has been repeatedly running away from home and getting caught by the police since she was ten, and her parents didn't even bother reporting it this time. Is she just a Consummate Liar, or are there problems at home, or is she mentally unwell and can't get help?
- Most of the comments agree that this student's second email is a complete non-sequitur to the previous exchange, and is more likely meant for someone else and sent to the police address by mistake than the rude dismissal it was taken as.
- Did this robber (who robbed a computer store after writing his name, phone number, and address on an invoice) give false information or not? Sure, telling the truth would be very dumb of him and he could just as easily write in nonsense, but petty crooks being unbelievably stupid is not exactly uncommon.
- This lawyer storynote :
- Some comments and the site's editor (the story has the "Stupid" tag) believe that the defendant is really dumb; but some comments postulate the defendant was sure they would lose the trial anyway, didn't want to waste time and energy in the matter, and just wanted to check if attendance was legally required.
- The "you’re not represented by anybody else" bit means the defendant has no lawyer yet. Some comments have interpreted the dialog as the defendant checking whereas they should have their own lawyer for the case, and the part where the defendant decide to not come after being told it would make them lose the case could mean they would send a lawyer instead.
- In this story, a customer who cancelled an installation threatens to kill the technician who previously serviced him if he returns to his house. The comments note that there's no context for this situation or how warranted the threat is (i.e. it could be anywhere from "I don't want a [racist slur] in my house" to "this guy tried to look up my daughter's skirt").
- This story has an apathetic clerk who doesn't care about someone stealing from his uncles' store and is indicated to be generally doing a pretty poor job running it. Is he simply lazy because he thinks he can get away with it due to Nepotism or was he coerced into taking the job by his family (possibly for little to no pay) and is deliberately doing a poor job in retaliation?
- A woman gets a ticket for speeding
- Not Always Related:
- The mother in this story: Scatterbrained smother whose mind is too far up in the clouds to stop and listen to her grown-up child's wishes (and what they're allergic to), or Jerkass who knows full well she's using a detergent her kid is allergic to, but just doesn't care because she herself likes it?
- The father-in-law becoming a born-again Christian and becoming much more abrasive and rude to his family and friends over time. Several commenters question whether the guy's change of attitude might be indicative of a health issue — like a brain tumor or illness — and not a case of Belief Makes You Stupid. Or was he just always an asshole, but his new religion gave him an outlet and "appropriate" targets? Or is he suffering from a self-righteousness addiction?
- The comments in this story seem divided over whether the submitter's dad was awesome for navigating out of a state about to get hit by a massive snowstorm (and only just barely keeping ahead of said snowstorm), or if he was just crazy for risking crashing his car and injuring himself and his family in rapidly deteriorating weather conditions just to not end up stranded in a hotel in Wyoming for Christmas (it's mentioned that semis are already losing control and toppling over).
- Is this cousin who frivolously buys things for himself and his family members merely very unwise with his money or are his bizarre spending habits the result of an untreated psychological disorder (especially since he buys his family members the same exact thing over and over again, such as constantly giving one person calendars)?
- The aunt in this story, zealously insisting that anyone old enough should be dependent on the services of a senior center, and particularly adamant that they join the one to which she belongs. Is it indeed a cult run by the director she clearly reveres, or is she senile and misinterpreting the words of a well meaning director? Indeed, she may be misinterpreting advice given specifically to her.
- The sequel shows that the director does indeed say that every senior 'needs' to join a center, and is in fact pushing for a law that would mandate it (though given that the director explicitly mentions wanting the law to bring more money into her center, it seems likely that her motives are selfish).
- The sequel
- In this story, the submitter repeatedly tries to contact their mother to debate about something the mother posted on Facebook, which resulted in the mother trying to burn all bridges with the submitter and their close family (the relation was amended a few times later); it turns out the mother felt harassed. At least one comment points out lack of context about the family's background and past interactions allows a potential interpretation which makes the mother's reaction much more understandable:Comment from user Lord Circe: [...] Now, was cutting you out of her life an overreaction? Yes, provided that this is honestly the single inciting incident, and not simply the latest in a pattern of you harassing her when she is doing something you think is wrong. You may think that you were trying for a "reasonable discussion", but you ultimately were just hounding her for not engaging with you.
- Another point of contention among commentators is how the submitter mentioned that their mother was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. General consensus is that the submitter blames their mother's behaviour on her diagnosis.
- While no one's defending the Step-Aunt in this story for dragging the (child at the time) OP around Epcot all day, a lot of people pondered if she was trying to do the "Drink Around The World" challenge, where you get an alcoholic beverage from each "country" showcased at Epcot. Building from this, some wonder if that was her original plan for the day and she was bitter that it was interrupted by the request to take OP to ride the Tower of Terror. (Though many of those same commenters point out that the Step-Aunt could have taken the OP to the ride and then gone drinking after OP got back to the hotel.)
- In this story, the submitter's step-father blows his stack and demands that the staff at a fast food restaurant be fired when they get the family's order wrong three times in a row, with the submitter finding out from a classmate who worked there that the manager did fire half the staff afterward. The story presents this as the step-father getting a bunch of innocent employees at a restaurant fired by a Bad Boss, but the comments point out that the staff messed up their order three times, leaving the step-father's complaints completely justified (assuming the orders were completely messed up all three times and the complaints weren't over extremely minor things) and suggesting that the restaurant may have been full of lazy slackers who didn't care about their jobs.
- In this story, the submitter and their mother take in an abandoned hamster. At some point after this, a neighbor comes in and remarks to the mother that she "didn't know [they] kept rats" upon seeing the hamster. The mother, who has a phobia of rats, is immediately driven into a panic attack and isn't placated until the vet reassures her the hamster is still a hamster and did not spontaneously morph into a rat. Commenters questioned the intent behind the friend's rat remark, wondering whether or not it was an Innocently Insensitive remark or a comment meant to deliberately trigger the mom's phobia (it's worth mentioning that the friend in question was the same person who found and brought the abandoned hamster to them in the first place).
- In this story, the submitter notices that their mother's computer has gone missing. When they ask their sister about it, she responds with "you need to ask Mom" in a serious tone while smiling, and their mother later admits to setting the computer on fire because of a Screamer Prank that claimed the NSA was spying on her through her computer. Some commenters theorised that the sister may have been behind the pop-up, based on her reaction.
- The mother in this story
- Not Always Romantic:
- This teenager touching girls on the school bus has a learning disability, according to his parents. Comments are divided on the parents either lying about it to keep their child from being punished — many citing that his grinning when he's about to touch a girl's legs indicates that he's fully aware of what he's doing and that it's wrong — or they willingly don't do anything to help him, letting him run loose and wild, hoping this (alleged) disability will absolve them of any responsibility.
- The girlfriends in this story overhear their boyfriends talking about what sounds like appearance-preferences, and banish their boyfriends to the couches. The few comments think the girlfriends overreacted to something they overheard without knowing the actual topic or consider their reaction to be emotionally abusive. However, the "we just need to find some" comment doesn't really make the boyfriends look good either.
- In this story, the behavior of a Bridezilla causes her mother to eventually decide that the wedding will no longer be paid by the mother but the would-to-be bride would have to pay for it herselfSummary, then the would-to-be groom entirely cancels the wedding the next day. Commenters debate whether the groom cancelled the wedding because he broke up with his girlfriend after the incident showed how awful his bride was, or if he only cancelled because the wedding was no longer funded by his mother-in-law (which could mean either greed, or just being unable to afford to pay entirely for it). In the latter option, it could mean he only courted this woman in the first place because she belongs to a rich family.
- Many commenters believe that the man in this story may have suffered a stroke or some kind of injury. While what he said was definitely inappropriate and creepy, it's worth noting that his wife is unfazed by this, and her first reaction is to apologize to the OP, stating that "He's learning boundaries".
- Commenters on this story have conjectured that the husband's irrational paranoia of his wife cheating was because he was cheating and projecting his mindset onto his wife. It could have also been because he was on-edge due to having previously been cheated on by a different partner.
- In this story, the submitter works in a pub and witnesses a couple of married patrons having a "messy break-up", then being apparently so distraught they forgot to pay when leaving (they did after being reminded). A comment wonders if the heated argument was actually a scheme to have free drinks, planning on the staff being too embarrassed by the scene to ask for payment.
- In this story, did the submitter's boyfriend, who is "on the spectrum", really not understand his friend was lying about catching the submitter cheating due to an unrequited crush... or did he find a way to calmly employ Conviction by Contradiction without directly accusing her of anything, thus not even giving her the satisfaction of upsetting him?
- This story features a husband planning a full apology dinner for his wife, after she had a lousy day entirely due to mistakes he made. Some comments slam the guy hard for thinking he can just apologize without changing his behavior (it's indicated in the story that he's made some of those mistakes several times before), but multiple commenters with ADHD say his behavior sounds just like untreated ADHD and the guy needs to be tested.
- While many are against the submitter in this story, without much information, some have wondered if they had this conversation multiple times, and this one moment just happened to be the straw that broke the camel's back rather than him blowing up for no reason.
- This teenager touching girls on the school bus
- Not Always Working:
- There's a surprising number of entries about someone trying to buy alcohol along with other items, realizing they don't have their ID, and trying unsuccessfully to inform the cashier (who keeps saying they need ID) to put the wine aside and just let them buy the other stuff. Are they really that clueless, or are they so lazy they're hoping the customer will go and put the wine back for them if they keep this up long enough? Or they may just be so used to people complaining that they assume these people are doing the same.
- A comment in a related story suggests that this is the result of a store policy (meant to prevent underage buyers from purchasing without an ID) taken too far: "If the customer doesn't show ID for alcohol, nothing the customer says should change your mind."
- The bystanders in this story. Were they all really that uncaring, or did they just figure the submitter had things under control and they were better off not getting involved? Alternatively, it's possible none of them intervened because they didn't know what to do when somebody has a seizure and didn't want to risk hurting the person (although someone could have at least helped keep the guard out of the way).
- In this story, a court assistant cheerfully tells a concerned juror about how even the few hoses and extinguishers they pass without "Out of Order" signs don't work. Is their safety really that bad, or was it just some kind of twisted prank?
- This funeral home director seems to find it amusing that he didn't check whether his, ahem, customers are actually dead before sending the body to the incinerator. Was the person unprofessional and apathetic, or was it merely a dark joke? Note that very dark humor is common in jobs with high emotional charge (such as funeral related ones).
- In this story, a woman is in labor and the fetal heart monitor flatlines twice; at the second time, the doctor asks the husband (the submitter of the story): "We could lose the baby and we could quite possibly lose your wife. What do you think we should do?" The submitter seems to have thought the doctor was incompetent (his reaction: "I think one of us went to medical school, and I sure as h*** hope it was you!"), but comments point out that the doctor's question may have been a poorly worded attempt at asking the husband whether they should focus on saving the wife or the baby.note
- This story has an employee notice suspicious transfers in an account and heads to their manager, since only managers can freeze accounts. Their manager keeps brushing them off, citing them to be too busy, so the submitter goes to a different manager and gets them to freeze the account. The original manager gets annoyed because they think the submitter was causing a stink over nothing, despite being shown that $7,000 had been transferred just a few minutes before the account was frozen. Several comments are discussing if this manager is on a power trip and didn't like that their subordinate did things on their own, or if they were actually aware or even part of these suspicious transactions and purposefully stalled their employee.
- In this story, a customer goes to return a skirt and gives the cashier the receipt... only for the cashier to act like the customer did not give her a receipt despite the fact that the customer gave it to her mere seconds before and it's still lying on the cashier's computer, frustrating the customer until the manager is called down to settle the problem. The comments theorize that the cashier was not merely just trying to be hard to get along with for no apparent reason and was actually trying to steal the receipt so they could pocket the money made with a fraudulent return using another of the same skirt with it.
- This story's OP is bewildered by the fact that the cashier says they don't like artichokes when seconds ago they didn't know what they were. Several comments point out the possibility that the cashier ate some artichokes in a different form, like in a soup or dip, and didn't like them then and simply didn't recognize them in the raw form that OP was buying.
- In this story, a worker borrowed a coworker's loyalty card to replace his own, which he had lost. Comments debate whether the coworker willingly lent his card or if the first worker "borrowed" (read: stole) it (or borrowed it with intent of returning it but still without permission).
- Did this employee really see no difference between someone forgetting to put their mask back on and someone ranting about how the COVID-19 Pandemic is a hoax designed to cause an Islamo-commie-fascist Day of the Jackboot through Bill Gates microchipping people, or was the employee so fed up with anti-maskers refusing to cooperate and threatening her health that the one genuine mistake just happened to be the straw that broke the camel's back?
- In this story, every month or so several soldiers at a US military base are forced to clean absolutely everything, even the rocks outside, until one day the first sergeant becomes unhappy with the rocks still looking dingy and orders them "bleached" - which the sergeant left in command over the weekend takes literally, resulting in the first sergeant coming back to rocks that still look dingy in a bed of dead plants (the bleach killed them), but unable to find any specific soldier to punish for it because they followed his orders to the letter and ultimately ending his obsession with how clean the rocks look. While the poster seems to think the lower-ranking sergeant was an idiot who made a blunder (the narration introduces him by pointing out he "isn’t the brightest bulb in the box"), comments speculate it was malicious compliance from his part to force his superior to stop issuing this absurd order.
- The OP in this story raises eyebrows at their boss saying the scripted phone greeting before actually picking up the ringing phone. Some comments point to other stories of people flubbing phone greetings and theorize that the boss was practicing the script so he wouldn't do so when he actually answered.
- The comments for this story are sharply divided between those who think the receptionist's rude, lying behavior was a one-time mistake and she deserved to be forgiven, and those who think it was proof of long-term dishonesty behind her boss's back and she did not.
- While nobody is really on the candidate's side in this story, some people think he didn't realize he was a bully and thought it was all in good fun, or at the very least, his memories of OP are more positive than the actual events were. His comments seem to back up this interpretation, and indeed, it's not uncommon for bullies to not realize they were hurting their victims, and try to talk to them as if they were old friends years later.
- This manager. Misgendering asshole who got what was coming to him or did he legitimately not understand that the coworker he was looking for was non-binary and used different pronouns?
- At the end of this story, the manager is described as "red-faced", but it's never stated if it's from embarrassment (due to the police calling him out for making a massive issue over something that his staff's fault, rather than the submitter) or rage (due to him not getting his desired outcome).
- The mother in this story is described as being the complete opposite of the introverted submitter and loudly announces to the waitress that it's the submitter's birthday; yet when the waitress instead asks the submitter if she wants to be sung to (and the submitter says no), is noted to have given her a big tip. Innocently Insensitive woman who didn't realize what her loud announcement could have triggered (or was simply just excited) or was she gunning for the waitstaff to sing to her daughter, only to have a Heel Realization after hearing the waitress's story and realizing how much the daughter didn't want people to sing to her?
- The maintenance worker in this story enters unannounced in an apartment then goes to the bathroom to do some repairs, and unexpectedly encounters the submitter there, who was half naked and cleaning an incision on her chest (consequences of heavy surgery, which also left a huge scar). The maintenance worker then take offense from seeing such disgusting wounds, refusing to take account he barged unannounced in a bathroom without checking if it was occupied first. While the situation may just be a coincidence caused by the maintenance worker being unprofessional, the story happened in a college housing facility (the submitter is the wife of a student studying here), and the maintenance worker's anger was specifically directed to the fact the submitter was doing something he found gross, which implies the man may have rushed to the occupied bathroom with the explicit intent of ogling at a pretty naked young woman, and got angry because he found something completely unsexy instead.
- The Holidays Are Creeping Up On You has three different interpretations, depending on how you read it: (1) the narrator is correct to trust her gut and her manager is a bad boss for not believing her. (2) The narrator is a nervous wreck who is severely overreacting to the situation or (3) the narrator is a troll who wrote this story to prove that women are delicate.
- In this story, one worker brought peanut butter treats and stored them in the workplace fridge, while knowing current rules forbid him to eat food with allergens onsite but not store it in the fridge. The same day, a new employee suffering from peanut allergy leaves early after suffering an allergic reaction and the other worker notices someone ate some of his peanut butter treats. The story ends with the company firing the new employee (for either poor judgment or deliberately trying to get someone else in trouble), but some comments speculate the food thief was someone else and the new employee was a collateral victim thanks to cross-contamination.note
- A handful of comments on this story theorize that the guards were actually asleep on the job; it would explain why there was zero reaction from any of them to the very visible fire on the cameras, while the banging of one person on the window woke them up, hence why they only reacted then. They also moved very slowly when they did wake up and chose a longer route to take the elevator to the basement (NEVER a good idea; the warnings against using the elevator during a fire are there for a reason), which could be attributed to them not being fully awake at that point.
- There's a surprising number of entries about someone trying to buy alcohol along with other items, realizing they don't have their ID, and trying unsuccessfully to inform the cashier (who keeps saying they need ID) to put the wine aside and just let them buy the other stuff. Are they really that clueless, or are they so lazy they're hoping the customer will go and put the wine back for them if they keep this up long enough? Or they may just be so used to people complaining that they assume these people are doing the same.
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- Battle for Dream Island:
- Two can be seen as a jerkass who willingly stole most of the contestants so they can compete in their show, or a friendly person who tried to save the contestants from Four.
- Book can be seen as someone who has taken a lot of punishment from FreeSmart and has undergone severe trauma over the years, and thus her behavior with Bleh is believable, or can be seen as an Academic Alpha Bitch who never really feels sorry for her actions and has a weak Freudian Excuse.
- Profily can be seen as a character who wants to just hang out with everyone or a self-centered Attention Whore who wants nothing but to be remembered.
- Bedtime Stories (YouTube Channel): Invoked. One of the most common recurring themes in this series is whether or not the various phenomena, incidents, or examples shown are supernatural or have a scientific/rational explanation. Among many examples listed here include:
- Michael Taylor: A man genuinely falling to the corruption of some 40 demons or driven insane by joining a religious group purportedly known for using brainwashing techniques?
- The SS Ourang Medan: Supernatural phenomenon responsible for the deaths of her crew and subsequent sinking, or the result of poor handling of Deadly Gas dating from World War II? Or completely made up, since no record of such a ship exists?
- Elisa Lam: Was she killed by malevolent spirits residing in her hotel? Or was it a Serial Killer checked in there at the time of her disappearance? Or was it the result of her mental illness?
- The Men in Black: Are they Government agents? Aliens? Some sort of Government Conspiracy involving both alien and human agents? Supernatural entities? Or just characters in very old scary stories?
- The "Bones" on Mars: Are they actual evidence of alien life that possibly once existed on the Red Planet, Ancient Astronauts, or just the result of an optical illusion?
- Flight 19: Pilot and navigation error or Alien Abduction? Unlike the previous cases, the creators themselves emphasize that the probability is more on the former.
- The Lead Masks of Vintem Hill: Alien Abduction? Or the more rational explanation of being mugged and killed by a crime syndicate?
- The Grinning Man: Humanoid Abomination? Humanoid Alien? Part of The Men in Black? Or some fabricated hoax?
- Cindy James: Did she really have a stalker? Was she stalking herself, wittingly or otherwise? Or is the truth something else entirely?
- The Manchester Pusher: Is a rash of drownings in Manchester the result of one or more people committing murder, or just a series of unconnected tragic accidents? Or is it a combination of the two?
- Kenny Veach: Did he die on the way to the cave? Was he murdered for witnessing something he shouldn't have? Or did he deliberately find a spot where nobody can find him so he can end his own life? The narrators believe Kenny had killed himself due to evidence of him suffering from depression and planning his own suicide, Kenny's girlfriend also believes this to be true as well.
- Christopher Case: Was his death a result of a curse? Or was his death a result of mental health issues and myocarditis due to his excessive use of suppliments.
- Camp Camp:
- David is shown as a Stepford Smiler who's deeply in denial about how bad things are at the camp, but was the moment where he finally broke down and admitted how bad things were a result of him finally accepting reality or dropping his cheerful facade and admitting what he's really know this whole time? It could go either way as it's unclear whether David is genuinely tuning out of reality or simply covering his worries with a smile at any given time.
- David mentions in episode 2 that he can only do a few camp activities without Gwen. Does that mean he's not competent enough to run things on his own, the workload is genuinely too much for him alone, or he legally can't do those things without her?
- One interpretation of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is that Dr. Horrible is an Unreliable Narrator who twists events to make himself seem nicer and Captain Hammer seem meaner than they actually are. As presented by the blog, Dr. Horrible as an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain incapable of true villainy until the events of the story push him over the edge while Captain Hammer is a Jerk Jock Smug Super who dates the girl Horrible likes just to mess with him. However, if you put their personalities aside, they can be read as a straight hero and villain. Hammer attempts to stop Dr. Horrible from committing a crime, saves Penny's life in the process, begins a relationship with her, helps out at the homeless shelter she volunteers at, and only tries to kill Horrible after Horrible first attempts to kill him. Dr. Horrible, on the other hand, is a Mad Scientist who aspires to join the Evil League of Evil, stalks Penny, steals some Unobtainium, tries to commit another heist before being foiled by Hammer, and attempts to Murder the Hypotenuse after Penny and Hammer fall in love. Since they're pretty much intentional designated heroes and villains, this was probably inevitable.
- Epithet Erased: Molly and Lorelai's parents, Martin and Calliope Blyndeff, were they good people in the past, or were they always selfish, and it wasn't apparent until one of them was gone.
- Martin Blyndeff has been shown to be nothing but a despicable, irresponsible man-child who put off working on his shop to his youngest daughter Molly who is still a preteen, and despite appearing to be closer to his oldest daughter Lorelai is uncaring towards her as well. Almost everyone that knows Martin dislikes him for his irresponsibility and selfish attitude; however, his daughters have nothing but positive things to say about his deceased wife, Calliope, who was a responsible adult who had planned her daughter's futures. However, Word of God, and later Molly herself in Prison of Plastic, note that neither would be good parents by themselves, instead perfectly balancing each other out; Blaber would go on to state that if Calliope had lived while Martin had died, it would have resulted in Lorelai being miserable rather than Molly.
- This calls into question how bad of a person Martin Blyndeff was both in the past and present. There's no question that he's an uncaring and neglectful parent presently, but how bad was he in the past, and is there a deeper reason for his bad behavior now? According to the series creator, while Martin was never a good dad, he was a better parent in the past when he and his wife could balance out their worst traits, this also implies that he wasn't that bad as a person in the past, and if he was immature, maybe it was in an endearing way, and he knows when to be mature because of his wife. And while Martin was always immature, is his behavior partly a coping mechanism to deal with his wife's death. Martin's youngest daughter Molly pointed out that after her mother died, her father and sister just kind of "ignored the situation." His childishness today may result from being deep in denial about his wife's death because he does not want to deal with the fact that she is gone and he has to raise their daughters. That would give an understandable but not justifiable reason for Martin's behavior.
- Martin Blyndeff has been shown to be nothing but a despicable, irresponsible man-child who put off working on his shop to his youngest daughter Molly who is still a preteen, and despite appearing to be closer to his oldest daughter Lorelai is uncaring towards her as well. Almost everyone that knows Martin dislikes him for his irresponsibility and selfish attitude; however, his daughters have nothing but positive things to say about his deceased wife, Calliope, who was a responsible adult who had planned her daughter's futures. However, Word of God, and later Molly herself in Prison of Plastic, note that neither would be good parents by themselves, instead perfectly balancing each other out; Blaber would go on to state that if Calliope had lived while Martin had died, it would have resulted in Lorelai being miserable rather than Molly.
- The Game Grumps often come up with different interpretations of characters from the games they play.
- Egoraptor believes that Kirby is a xenophobic psycho, which... isn't that far from canon.note
- Their playthrough of Banjo-Kazooie has a lot due to its varied supporting cast.
- Gloop the Fish is a depressed teenager, whose farts can get you high. His friends exploit this, and are only his friends because of this, always trying to get him to come to parties just so he can fart for them.note He also has a cousin named Beezenbatz that no one invites to parties because when anyone tries to invite him, people think he's trying to bring live animals.
- Boggy the Bear is a deadbeat Dad that lets his 3 kids go hungry while he sleeps outside and also ate a Jiggy piece despite having 2 more ready to give away and therefore should have been familiar with them.
- Mumbo Jumbo is a depressed Barbiturate abuser that only stays alive because Banjo visits him for the Transformations.
- The mummy in the matching game pyramid just desperately wants to give you a hug because he died in a disfiguring accident and none of his friends know that he's still around. He's also a ghoul.
- During their time in Athens, they've been interpreting nearly all their neighbours, such as Maelle as a chain smoker and Sally as a child abuse victim.
- Rouge the Bat quiffs pokéballs out of her snatch.
- Rocky from Kirby Super Star is a lazy, overweight, slow loser who gently walks wherever he's needed, while screaming up ladders at fast speeds.
- Chameleusnote has a family and two friends named Bob and Bill. Bill bought Chameleus a Game Boy Advance for his birthday and Chameleus, being more of a Sega guy, was a bit offended. However Chameleus covered it up well and pretended that he enjoyed the gift because he's very good at camouflaging himself.
- Moundo, a mini boss in Kirby's Return to Dream Land, is not a rock. He is a grouchy mound who can't deny that he has a weight problem yet can't work out... since he's not human. If he were to be chiseled, it would hurt. The other rocks make fun of him because his mother was bad at naming.
- For some reason, Ego is convinced that Luigi hails from Nazi Germany.
- War is a misunderstood Woobie who just wants to be loved. However, whenever he attempts to hug people it, "hurts them... and me."
- They decide that the characters in Wild Guns are ruthless bandits, and all the enemies are just trying to protect their homes.
- According to Egoraptor, Mickey Mouse is a man who has detachable ears and has a disorder where he has big hands, feet, and head, which he hides by claiming he's a cartoon character. When he goes home, he beats himself up, saying to himself that he's a freak whom no one loves.
- Apple White from Ever After High. Is she really selfish and privileged due to having the best destiny of all, and looking down on those who have worse destinies like Anti-Villain Raven, who will have a future of being hated by everyone and locked up in chains, or is Apple just making Raven follow her destiny just because of peer pressure from her mother, Snow White?
- In gen:LOCK, Cammie has a high amount of rabbit Animal Motifs linked to her, including having her Ether avatar as a bunny. Is this merely because she finds rabbits cute or is she part of the Furry Fandom?
- Kid Time Story Time occasionally has In-Universe examples, where characters speculate on the behaviour of the story characters:
- In the reading of Aliens Took My Daughter, they speculate that the girl really was replaced by an alien, instead of the canon situation of that being a mistake on her father's part.
- In the reading of The Grouchy Ladybug, Eileen/Storyteller thinks that the eponymous ladybug backing out of the fights with progressively larger animals and saying, "Oh, you're not big enough!" was actually too scared to fight and making an excuse, whereas Witcheficent thought that she sincerely just wanted to fight a bigger animal.
- In the reading of He Came with the Couch, Eileen wonders if the guy who came with the couch deliberately chose the chair that had a woman in it at the end.
- In the reading of Sand Between My Toes, they speculate on why a baby cries as he and his parents evacuate a beach due to a storm. Doug wonders if the baby is scared, while Green Bear wonders if he just doesn't want to leave the beach, not minding the rain as he and his parents are already wet from swimming. Storyteller thinks it's probably both.
- In the reading of Never Let a Unicorn Meet a Reindeer, Eileen/Storyteller thinks the unicorn and reindeer end up making friends, while Witcheficent thinks they only called a temporary truce because it was Christmas.
- In the reading of I Need My Monster, Fushia Fish thinks that Gabe was just bluffing about the fish being scared of him to boost his ego.
- In the video for The Candy Cane Fiasco, the characters speculate on the ending, in which the grandma is revealed to have known all along how to unstick her granddaughter from the Christmas tree, yet she refrained from doing so until Santa Claus came, for reasons unstated. Witcheficent thinks that she's an abusive grandmother who left her granddaughter stuck for hours for no other reason than to torture her, whereas Abuela Bear thinks that she did it to get some peace and quiet and eventually meet Santa, making her ultimately a bit selfish, but not as evil as Witcheficent thought.
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- Mario Party TV:
- Waluigi has polio, and any coins he wins in the games that don't go towards Stars are for the Polio Fund.
- According to events in King Boo's Haunted Hideaway, Boo is a deadbeat dad who ran out on his ex-girlfriend Pink Boo and their kids, and has a strained relationship with his father King Boo.
- Nicobbq is pretty much a fan of this trope with his "NOT A" series, involving videos listing several reasons why the stated video game character (usually from Super Mario Bros.) defies their said character trait.note
- Matthew Santoro:
- Matt has a clone, Hugo, who is insane. Or is he? Depending on your interpretation, Hugo might actually be an intelligent Cloudcuckoolander who just has a terrible way of communicating things. Or maybe even both! For example, in Psychic Octopus & Oil Spills, Matt takes an hour to figure out that the answer to a math problem is 7. When he's done, before he announces this, Hugo comes in and says that it's obviously 7.
- Matt has a clone, Eugene, who is a nerd. Matt looks down upon him for being a nerd, and he sometimes threatens Matt with a lightsaber. This has inspired numerous interpretations of him: Is he a nice guy who doesn't deserve being looked down upon by Matt, a Jerkass who takes things too far when he threatens Matt with a lightsaber, or a guy who takes it too far when he threatens Matt, but doesn't deserve being looked down upon by him just for being a nerd?
- Eugene is supposed to be smart, but is he really? In Star Wars in 3-D!!!, he requires a calculator to solve a simple math problem.
- Lorrenzo claims to always "get some bitches", but it's possible that he's actually a Casanova Wannabe and is merely lying to make himself look cool. After all, we never actually see him outside of Matt's house.
- In Q&A with Matt #3, Matt is asked by a fan what the most shocking thing he's discovered is, and he says it was a troll in his butt. Was he talking about the mythical creature, or an internet troll? Given how much Matt criticizes the latter kind, it would make sense for Matt to be shocked by it.
- Some viewers have theorized that Matt is actually Hugo's failed clone, rather than the other way around.
- In "20 Ways to Lose Your Card", Matt lists 20 ways a man can lose his man card, a symbolic representation of one's manliness. The man card is seen as a good thing by Matt. Did Matt intend this as a mere comedic video, or was he using the Straw Misogynist trope as a Take That! against misogynists?
- * A fan video for Mr. Bungle's "Pink Cigarette" seems to be about a woman being stalked by a Creepy Crossdresser, until she eventually kills him in self-defense... But some of the youtube comments point out that it reads differently depending upon which scenes you take to be fantasy and which ones are reality: So instead, a paranoid woman has delusions about being followed, leading her to attack and kill her significant other.
- My Little Pony: Totally Legit Recap: Invoked by the narrator, who has many:
- His reason to explain Twilight's sudden attraction to a guy in Equestria Girls is because the EQ universe (at least in his eyes) is just like one of those animes where all teenagers are horny and depraved, just in English and with smaller breasts (to his relief and disappointment, respectively). Twilight suddenly being thrust into such a body with all those hormones has thus thrown her mind and instincts out of whack.
- He also points out that, unlike say Starlight who had a long-term goal and genuinely believed her ideology was the best, Sunset Shimmer seemed more just angry and didn't seem to have any sort of long-term plan, which he has interpreted as her just being a rebellious girl lashing out at her parental figure (Celestia).
- He believes instead of Trixie coincidentally wanting the same guitar as Rainbow Dash in the Rainbow Rocks shorts, she was really just waiting there to cause a fight to work out her own issues.
- Lindsay Ellis: Whenever Lindsay brings up The Great Mouse Detective, she always refers to Basil and Ratigan as "bitter ex-boyfriends", where in the movie they are supposed to be analogous to Holmes and Moriarty; equally intelligent men, one of whom channels it into upholding justice, the other into selfish evil.
- Twisted Translations:
- Mother Gothel in the cover of "Mother Knows Best" from Tangled. While in the movie, she was a villain who only raised Rapunzel as her daughter because of the latter's magical hair, in this version of the song, she claims to understand that parents support, though this could be a lie. She also mentions an execution and peace delays, and it's unclear whether she approves or disapproves of them, at one point stating that violence cannot be used, yet following it up with "insufficient" hinting that she's simply being pragmatic. She also sometimes implies that she's going to die, and it's unclear whether she actually means it, or if she has just gone emo.
- In the cover of Frozen (2013)'s "For the First Time in Forever", Anna is out of her mind, making nonsensical statements and implying she wants to kill everybody. Is she being slowly Driven to Madness, was she mad from the get-go, or, as she wonders herself, is she drunk on the champagne she'd been drinking, or high?
- In another Frozen song, "Let it Go", Elsa keeps repeating, "Give up!". Is she telling herself to give up (because it's implied that she was the victim of a "discrimination law") or is she telling an enemy, perhaps the enforcers of said law, to give up?
- When the Beast says he must "skip" in the cover of "Something There", does "skip" refer to skipping over something, or to prancing?
- In the cover for "Poor Unfortunate Souls" from The Little Mermaid (1989), does the man who "wants to explore a chick" want to date a woman or examine a baby bird?
