The Popcorn Isn't Real: Fan Theory Podcast

The popcorn courtroom is back in session. Last week we proved Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the lost third film of the Chinatown trilogy. This week the defense calls its star witness: Gary K. Wolf, the man who wrote Who Censored Roger Rabbit and invented the very word Toon. He rules on our theory (denied!), endorses a few others (Doom shot Bambi's mother, confirmed), spills the secret history of the six-frame gags Disney hunted down and destroyed, promises justice for the Red Shoe, and tells the story of the blue cow Spielberg hid in Toontown just for him. Court is adjourned. The jury is you.

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Roman Polanski wrote Chinatown as a trilogy, then fled the country before he could finish it. Jack Nicholson salvaged The Two Jakes, but the third script, titled Cloverleaf after the land-grabbing company at its heart, supposedly vanished. Only it didn't. It hit theaters in 1988 wrapped in a toon costume. Same detective setup, same mid-case beatdown, same loyal femme fatale, same wrong-culprit twist, and a plot that secretly hinges on infrastructure, red trolley cars and a freeway land grab. Grab your magnifying glass as we prove Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the lost finale of the Chinatown trilogy.

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They did it again, and we've got proof. The Mandalorian and Grogu isn't a Mandalorian story at all. It's the cancelled Book of Boba Fett Season 2 Mando's face glued to it! A Hutt succession war, the return of the Twins, a gladiator pit lifted straight out of a Boba Fett comic, and a flimsy New Republic badge taped over Boba Fett's name to hide the swap. That's twice now that Disney has handed Boba Fett's story to the Mandalorian. Strap in as we dive in and prove once and for all whose movie this really is.

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Today we have the pleasure of discussing the true sequels to the Original Star Wars films with the writer himself, Timothy Zahn! That's right, we're talking about the legendary Heir to the Empire trilogy. And not just that, but we're asking Zahn to confirm a few highly contested Star Wars theories! Find out if Thrawn is really just Sherlock Holmes in Space, and was the old Luke Skywalker we saw in the sequels actually just a clone named Luuke?!

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Did you know that the first Alien movie was actually made by John Carpenter in 1974, years before the Alien franchise began? You didn't?? Well then we've got a treat for you! Let's talk about DARK STAR and ALIEN as we prove that a strange beachball-alien is actually the very first Xenomorph on film.

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