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Could someone put in a summary of the Pixar theory from the Mental Floss article? It's the kind of thing that Randall is trying to reference. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.215|108.162.246.215]] 17:25, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 
Could someone put in a summary of the Pixar theory from the Mental Floss article? It's the kind of thing that Randall is trying to reference. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.246.215|108.162.246.215]] 17:25, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
:Ehh, The Pixar theory is a famous example, but there are a lot more, like the snow globe theory, I don't think a single one needs to be summarized here to get the point [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.69|162.158.74.69]] 01:16, 8 June 2019 (UTC) sam
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  Ehh, The Pixar theory is a famous example, but there are a lot more, like the snow globe theory, I don't think a single one needs to be summarized here to get the point [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.69|162.158.74.69]] 01:16, 8 June 2019 (UTC) sam
  
 
Is it weird that I found this funnier before I understood that Ken Burns was a documentary filmmaker? For some reason I thought that Burns was an actor and that cueball was trying to explain how his character could be the same person in some weird pseudohistorical fictional universe.
 
Is it weird that I found this funnier before I understood that Ken Burns was a documentary filmmaker? For some reason I thought that Burns was an actor and that cueball was trying to explain how his character could be the same person in some weird pseudohistorical fictional universe.
 
:OMG same here! I thought Ken Burns was an actor I wasn't terribly familiar with (outside of having heard his name), and these were fictional movies based on elements of real life that he's acted in... Somehow it's less funny that Burns is a documentary maker and Cueball is just trying to create a fictional link that's actually really already there, LOL! [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 04:01, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 
:OMG same here! I thought Ken Burns was an actor I wasn't terribly familiar with (outside of having heard his name), and these were fictional movies based on elements of real life that he's acted in... Somehow it's less funny that Burns is a documentary maker and Cueball is just trying to create a fictional link that's actually really already there, LOL! [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 04:01, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 
:Uh, yes. You're both weird! ;-) [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 04:38, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 
:Uh, yes. You're both weird! ;-) [[User:Ianrbibtitlht|Ianrbibtitlht]] ([[User talk:Ianrbibtitlht|talk]]) 04:38, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
:: Or neither of us particularly care for documentaries and prefer our fiction to be fictional. :) LOL! [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 03:33, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 
 
All the movies by M. Night Shyamalan ''are'' in the same universe though, right?
 
[[Special:Contributions/172.68.211.244|172.68.211.244]] 16:41, 8 June 2019 (UTC)
 
:[https://news.avclub.com/theory-split-takes-place-in-the-same-universe-as-the-s-1827628970 Maybe?] [[Special:Contributions/172.68.132.149|172.68.132.149]] 01:52, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
 
 
And I thought the joke was related to the liberties that Ken Burns takes with his "Histories" so that it isn't clear whether his versions of events could exist in the same universe.
 
 
What's up with the link to the "Star Wars Extended Universe Wiki"? Wouldn't Wookieepedia be a better link?[[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.148|162.158.214.148]] 20:48, 20 December 2019 (UTC)
 

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