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Xavier is part-robot
Why else would he have a high-tech hoodie and access to portals through time and space?

Sarah's father is abusive
Remember Sarah from "I Am Jackie Robinson"? Sarah acted rather discriminatory towards Jackie in that episode, and so did her father. Maybe Sarah isn't racist at all, and is only acting like it because her father wants her to be, and if she acts that way, he'll keep his beltnote  on more often.

The painting of the bald man at the museum is Brad in the past
One day, when the kids were time traveling, Brad got trapped in the past, and had to grow up there. Eventually, the museum obtained a painting of him.

Credit for this theory goes to Tycio on the Xavier Riddle Wiki.

  • Jossed. It's not Brad, it's Great-Great Grandpa Riddle.

Brad is secretly related to Xavier and Yadina
It would explain why Great-Great Grandpa Riddle looks exactly like Brad.

The Secret Museum only simulates time travel by using holographic projections.
It would explain why the historical figures that they visit always appear to be children even though the crew frequently visits them after the historical figures have grown up.

It would also explain how the crew has ready access to historical figures who likely wouldn't be available to interact with just anybody. Examples include Cleopatra, Theodore Roosevelt, and even Sally Ride in the Space Shuttle.

  • It also explains Xavier's "translation antenna," which we've never seen working outside the Secret Museum; using them just signals the Museum to switch the language options. Aside from being more responsible to the timeline, the simulation option allows the Secret Museum/Berby to skip or censor anything that the kids might not yet be ready to handle, which is why they've only witnessed tamer examples of, say, racism or sexism.
  • Brad's queasiness during the "time-travel" sequences isn't from temporal motion sickness: it's because the rapid montage of holograms which accompanies each such "journey" causes disorienting reflections in his eyeglasses. The Riddles are unaffected because they don't wear spectacles.

The Riddles will have a third child, a baby boy they will name Zachary.
Because X, Y, Z.
  • Alternatively, the baby will be named Zoe if she were a girl.

If there will be a season 2, these historical figures should be in it
  • MLK Jr
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Malcolm X
  • Sojourner Truth
  • Elizabeth Peratrovich
  • Bessie Coleman
    • Confirmed. She has an episode in season 2.
  • Ellen Ochoa
  • Anne Frank
  • Dolly Parton
  • Oprah Winfrey
  • Walt Disney
  • Gianni Versace
  • Frida Kahlo
  • Jane Goodall
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Lucille Ball
  • Jim Henson
  • IM Pei
  • Malala
  • Ben Franklin
  • Sonia Sotomayor
  • Steve Irwin
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Diana, Princess of Wales
  • John Lewis

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