Surprisingly Plausible Fan Theories About Super Famous Comedy Movies

Most of the evidence for this theory from Redditor/u/scottlikesfire one comes from Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, yet the very first time we meet Brick in the original film, he's already telling us that a doctor will explain his IQ to him years from now. In the second film, Brick mysteriously acquires a ray gun, implying that he got it from the future. When the guys are telling nostalgic stories at the beginning of the movie, he talks about "that time ten years from now." Later, he quotes Ghostbusters, even though that film wouldn't come out for another four years. This would also explain how he's able to rustle up a grenade and a trident out of nowhere in the first movie, not to mention his general confusion at his surroundings throughout the series. 

Macaulay Culkin reacted to this dark theory on The Tonight Show on March 3, 2018, helping to give the theory some legs. Although the ages don't exactly match up, it honestly makes a lot of sense. Kevin doesn't just vanquish home invaders Harry and Marv in the Home Alone movies - he demolishes them. He sets up brutal traps which bruise, beat, and basically torture his adversaries. Sound a little like anyone else? That's right, that sweet kid from Home Alone grows up to be the murdering psychopath Jigsaw from the Saw franchise, and we're witnessing the birth of his pathology in John Hughes's classic family comedy. 

There are so many fan theories about Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy, they actually merit a separate list. But for this one, let's just focus on Hot Fuzz. As Redditor/u/emofraggle points out, we're told at the beginning of the film that Sgt. Nicholas Angel is basically the ultimate cop. Yet in five years on the force, he only used his gun the first three. He describes the one time he shot someone as an experience he would never forget. The lingering effects of this incident haunt him, which is why he became more and more obsessed with his job, determined to never make the same mistake again. From the way Nicholas talks about it, it seems clear that he killed a man while in the line of duty, sending him down a path which would eventually take him to Sandford, setting in motion the events of the movie. 

Redditor/u/AngrySpock was the first one to point this out. It's kind of tricky, so pay attention. At the beginning of the movie, Rufus tells the boys, "Now, most important, no matter what you do, no matter where you go, that clock, the clock in San Dimas is always running." This creates a literal "ticking clock" in Ted's watch that Bill and Ted have to battle against for the rest of the movie.

What Rufus left out was the fact that some of the preparation for Bill & Ted's report could actually have been done after it was due. AngrySpock goes on to argue that Rufus's goal was always to bring them to this realization in order to lead them to a series of non-linear breakthroughs which would've ushered in a new age of enlightenment for humanity. Whoa, dude! Where's Conspiracy Keanu when you need him?

We all know this one. Is it really possible that Ferris, the charismatic hero of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, really doesn't exist? Let's examine the facts. Ferris is ridiculously cool for a high school student, almost implausibly so. He gets away with everything he tries to pull off, scot-free.

Cameron, meanwhile, always faces the consequences of his actions, right down to the very last minute of the film when he decides to accept responsibility for wrecking his dad's car. And why does he do this? Because he has to. Ferris is the carefree persona Cameron has invented to escape his reality, and he uses this persona until he can't run from that reality anymore. And after all, since so many of us relate to Cameron more than Ferris anyway, isn't there a part of you that wants this to be true? 

If the Ghostbusters remake proved anything, it's that some people love the original a little too much. But what if the Ghostbusters themselves were responsible for the dimensional rift that nearly destroyed New York City in the first film? As Redditor/u/ToliB suggests, they were the ones who kept cramming all those supernatural creatures into one place. This might've created a kind of magnet for ghosts, drawing more supernatural entities to their area and opening the dimensional rift which they would later have to close.