14 Fan Theories From TV Comedies That Have To Be True

From Redditor u/RIPDandyChiggins:

Sheldon wins the Nobel Prize, and Young Sheldon is his attempt at writing his biography.

It always struck me as a little weird that Jim Parsons narrated Young Sheldon, but something about it made me think there was a purpose to it: Sheldon is telling his life story leading up to how he wins the Nobel Prize.

In the last episode of Season 1 of Young Sheldon, Old Sheldon talks about how he came up with the idea of relationship agreements with people and how he would write them up for his own children also. This means that the narration isn't just a talking thing to explain what we see on screen but is a story being told to someone; otherwise, why mention that he ends up having kids?

Fast forward to the last season of TBBT. Sheldon and Amy are vying for a Nobel Prize for a theory they came up with. They are competing for it with two scientists who want to steal the glory after they accidentally confirmed the theory for them and gained popularity amongst the general public and the scientific community. 

So I think what happens is that Sheldon and Amy win the Nobel Prize at the end of the main show, and he then decides to write his life story when he finds out Amy is pregnant. It would be the icing on the cake for the Sheldon story to end in absolute happiness for the awkward, annoying guy we saw back in season 1 trying to sell his sperm for better broadband. The problem is that when Young Sheldon picks up, he already has children, but Sheldon probably hasn't skipped forward or anything. The guy has an eidetic memory, so it probably took him years to go through every detail of his early life up until he could recite his life at high school.

And to support this even more, Sheldon mentions several times during the course of the show that he wants to write his autobiography and encourages his friends to be nicer to him, so he mentions them favorably in it.

From Redditor u/grambocrackah:

This theory pieces together some of the very few things that we know about Rosa:

1. She's highly secretive, to the point that even her closest friends know very little about her.
2. She trained and competed as a ballerina and gymnast in her youth, probably traveling frequently
3. She's incredibly fit, highly advanced in hand-to-hand combat, a skilled driver and pilot and proficient with the use of several different weapons.
4. She moves apartments regularly and always in secret.
5. She maintains several different identities, even once claiming that "Rosa Diaz" is not her real name.
6. She has a bug-out plan in place if she ever needs to escape the city/state/country.

EDIT: CIA does not deploy within the US, so I'm settling on former CIA. Thanks

From Redditor u/jirouisbestgirl_:

TLDR; Trying to piece together Phoebe Buffay's mysterious life.

• February 16th, 1967- Phoebe and Ursula are born. Her biological mother gives them up, and Lily raises them.
• 1967- Phoebe's biological father, Frank, walks out on her and Ursula.
• 1967-1980 - Lily and their Step-dad raise Phoebe and Ursula. They lived an impoverished lifestyle, and their step-dad often sold his blood to buy them food.
• 1980- Phoebe's mother{non-biological}, Lily, kills herself when Phoebe is 13. Around this time, her Step-dad goes back to prison.
• 1980-1981- After moving to the city, she lived in a burned-out Buick LaSabre for a while. Later got hepatitis after a pimp spit in her mouth. Phoebe's mugging days begin.
• 1981- Phoebe's step-dad is back in prison, Phoebe was living with an albino guy who was cleaning windshields outside port authority, and then he killed himself. And then, she found aroma-therapy. Around this time, she mugs Ross outside of a comic-book store.
• 1983- She spent her sweet sixteen being chased around a tire yard by an escaped mental patient who, in his own words, wanted to 'kill her or whatever.'
• 1985- Living in a gremlin with a guy named Cindy who talked to his hand. Age 18.
• Between 1987 and 1993- Phoebe moves in with Monica, later moving in with her grandmother.
• 1994- Season 1 of friends.

I compiled this info by looking for places in episodes where she actually mentions her past and searching for quotes online.

There's a gray area between 1985 and 1993 (that could've been when she was living with Monica, but Monica is like 1 or 2 years younger than Phoebe, and I doubt Monica moved to the city as soon as she turned 18, and they weren't living together for very long). It's also said that her stepdad was in prison multiple times, and she has stabbed a cop (probably in her mugging days). 

From Redditor u/Zelda2IsUnderrated:

TLDR; The Good Place committee is ineffectual on purpose

In The Good Place, the Good Place committee is comically useless, never managing to take any action because they're too busy forming committees upon committees, investigations, demoting themselves for the slightest upsets, etc. While at first this might have seemed a gag about how over the top good the Good Place is, Season 4 shows another possible reason.

Given the state of The Good Place with everyone as pleasure zombies and how quickly they shoved responsibility onto Michael and fled (which would seem contrary to the long lengths of time it took them to decide anything), it's possible they were deliberately impeding the efforts of the main party.

They want to prevent any new people from getting into the Good Place or any system changes that would make it easier to get in because more people means more problems they can't solve. They can't drop their good guy personae and tell the truth, so they use the facade of being comically ineffectual to keep their problems from getting worse.

From Redditor u/lurker69:

TLDR; The entire family knows what a chicken looks and sounds like, and they just all have their own dance because they know it irritates Michael.

I know the joke is supposed to show the disconnect between the Bluth's and the middle class. Still, with the exception of Gob, I choose to believe that they actually developed their coos/chants/dances to irritate Michael in the same way they patronize and tease each other (and Lucille 2, Egg, etc.). They have more fun with it knowing that Michael isn't in on the joke or in control of the situation. It obviously upsets him, and often it causes the argument he's having with them to redirect its focus to the dance. Shortly after, he is doing pretty much exactly what they wanted him to do to prove them wrong, but the dance puts him over the edge and suckers him in.

From Redditor u/F*ckingClassAct:

Alright, I theorize that Modern Family is one of Cam's elaborate projects. In season 1, episode 7 ("En Garde"), Cam mentions that he makes home films, not home videos/movies. He says: "Any monkey can shoot a home movie. I pride myself on shooting home films."

Cameron also states multiple times throughout the show that he overdoes things. We know Cameron is a celebrator, one of the reasons we love him so much. If the footage we're seeing is Cam's home film/project, then that would explain why it starts on the day Lily joins the family. With Cam's personality and friends like Pepper, is it really so crazy to imagine that Cam would have a small crew walking around to capture important and funny moments in their lives? It's not the craziest idea he's ever had, considering he threw a funeral for a fictional cat and wanted to have a waterfall with a projected picture of him and Mitch embracing at the wedding.