@owashii@plush.city @Austin_Dern @mawr @porsupah I missed out on Spongebob as a kid/teen altogether, but Alex Bale's Spongebob Iceberg videos are some of the only "deep" fan-theory stuff I've ever actually enjoyed. Yeah, on the surface Spongebob plays like a fairly ordinary wacky kids cartoon for me too, but there's a *lot* of interesting stuff in the background and you can tell the creators put an *absurd* amount of thought into the show. :O
@zebratron2084 @owashii @Austin_Dern @mawr That definitely sounds like my jam - and I'll note those videos for the appropriate time, for further insight.
I daren't imagine what kind of deep dive analyses may exist for Gravity Falls.. ^_^ (Another show I only got around to a while after it'd (finally) concluded)
@porsupah @owashii@plush.city @Austin_Dern @mawr All I can tell you about Gravity Falls lore is that it's the source of the single most facepalmy fan theory I've ever seen.
Somebody on a Steven Universe forum INSISTED they saw the Four Diamonds' sigil on something in Gravity Falls and they doubled down on the notion that this was CLEAREST PROOF that GF and SU were in the same universe.
Yeah. They spotted this "sigil" on a fire hydrant. It was a NFPA 704 hazard diamond. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
@porsupah @owashii@plush.city @Austin_Dern @mawr (though to be fair, much of Gravity Falls fan theory turned out to be uninteresting on the grounds that it proved to be OBJECTIVELY RIGHT -- the fans did an amazing job with [rot13 spoiler]chmmyvat bhg gung Fgna jnf gur Fvk Svatrerq Nhgube'f gjva, sbe vafgnapr[/rot13] for instance)
@zebratron2084 @porsupah @owashii @mawr I've heard mostly good things about Gravity Falls (and Steven Universe, for that matter), but just ... you know, it's so hard anymore finding time for the things I already like, where do I even fit something new in?