Does anything scream childhood like Saturday morning cartoons?

Nothing's more innocent than sitting down with a bowl of cereal and enjoying some animated classics.

And till you grow up and realize your childhood favorites are actually packed full of strange implications,

uncertainty, and worst of all, subtext.

So buckle up because we're about to explore some dark cartoon theories that

might just ruin your childhood. We all know the Disney adaptation of the Middle Eastern folktale Aladdin.

A street monk in Agriba discovers a magic lamp, wishes to be a prince, gets found out, saves the day, marries a princess, and lives happily ever after.

But a weird plot hole that always stood out to me was the fact that Aladdin is afraid everyone will find out he's only a commoner who wished to become a prince.

Indeed, the evil advisor Jafar later figures this out, disgracing Aladdin in the process.

But this raises a pretty important question.

When Aladdin wished to become a prince, what did the genie actually do? Think about it for a second.

Aladdin didn't wish for people to think he's a prince. He wished to be a prince. If the genie had

actually granted Aladdin's wish, then there'd be no dark truth to expose. Reality would

have been rewritten to make Aladdin an actual member of a real royal family, but it wasn't.

Instead, Aladdin acts like he most constantly lie and conceal his past and is eventually

exposed as a common street rat in Jafar's words. So the genie didn't actually grant a Latin's

wish. He just gave him some new clothes and an entourage. If I were Aladdin, I'd have

asked for a refund. One rather clever theory explains this by positing that in fact the entire

movie's plot is just the genie granting Aladdin's first wish. Think about it. At the end of the

movie, Aladdin saves the day woo's Princess Jasmine and they get married making Aladdin a prince all the fake print stuff the clothes the elephants the title

the entire adventure Aladdin goes on is simply a means by which the genie gets

Jasmine to fall in love with him and marry him thus fulfilling Aladdin's first

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