pop culture what if

Now this one is an interesting one and I just thought of this one. In this post, what if The Owl House never aired on Disney; and by that, I mean what if the show aired on Cartoon Network (I would have said "…or Nickelodeon", but I feel like Cartoon Network would have been more caring to the...

What if Nickelodeon developed its own equivalent to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim? How successful might it be, and what might it look like?

There are some people who die before they can show their full potential. One of these was an Irish actor and comedian named Dermot Morgan. While his talents were widely recognized, he had difficulty finding consistent success. He finally found acclaim playing the title character on the sitcom...

In 1973, Stephen King wrote Carrie, his breakthrough hit. Overnight, he went from having to give up on phone service to save money to being one of hottest new American authors. Ever since, he's been a major part of the landscape of horror literature. However, this was by no means guaranteed...

1986: Nintendo announces that what was going to be Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels IOTL to be cancelled, therefore announcing that what what was going to be Super Mario Bros. 3 IOTL will become Super Mario Bros. 2 ITTL. On a side-note, Super Mario Bros. 2 ITTL is kinda like OTL’s Super Mario...

The Harry Potter fanfic My Immortal is one of the most infamous fanfics on the internet, and also one of the most intriguing. The quintessential "so bad, it's good" fanfic, it's looked back upon fondly as representing a time capsule of mid-2000s internet culture, and has inspired numerous...

There have been many... unusual ideas for sequels that never came to pass. A Heathers sequel where Veronica accidentally kills the First Lady, a Se7en sequel with a psychic doctor, a Gladiator sequel where Maximus is resurrected by the Roman gods... these ideas may sound too crazy to be real...

One of the most enduring and influential online shows is The Angry Video Game Nerd, about a temperamental gamer who gets disproportionately angry at bad video games. While the premise is simple, the show quickly became popular, spawned many imitators, influenced countless other online content...

While it may be hard to believe nowadays, there was a time when former Disney CEO Michael Eisner was universally hailed as one of the film industry's true greats. Brought in by Roy E. Disney and Sid Bass to save The Walt Disney Company and replace Ron W. Miller, he turned the company's fortunes...

While many English-speaking Dragon Ball fans will debate over whether Ocean or Funimation did a better job at dubbing the series, they weren't the only English dubs of the franchise. There are, of course, the notoriously terrible AB Groupe and Speedy dubs, but there's also an even more obscure...

When Batman: The Animated Series made its debut in 1992, it proved a major critical and commercial success. Three months after its premiere on Fox Kids, the Fox network also began airing it on prime time. Unfortunately, they made the questionable decision to put it in the same time slot as 60...

IDEA: Imagine the fates of the series of Star Trek and Doctor Who are switched. One will continuously run non-stop for 4 decades, to be revived again in a film 7 years later, and complete revival in the 21st century, serving as the backbone for a network. The other series will run for 3...

Considering how long-running and influential The Simpsons is, I think starting a thread about PODs centered around it might be appropriate. These are some I came up with: - The show is more of a dramedy. - They go with the original plan of Homer and Krusty secretly being the same person. - "The...

Few authors have had as great an impact as J. R. R. Tolkien. Widely considered the father of modern fantasy, he played a major role in defining the genre for generations to come. So here's my question: what might he have accomplished had he lived until 1992 - or even later? What impact would...

OK, I asked this question a while ago on Reddit and the response was...mixed at best, So I figured I'd re-ask it here and see what comes of it. In 1967, National Periodical Publications, the company that in a decade would officially become DC Comics, was bought by a Car Parking and Cleaning...

At the 64th Academy Awards, Beauty and the Beast became the first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture. What if it claimed the Oscar?