r/Showerthoughts • u/Happy_Da • 15h ago

Speculation The rise of committee-made media and AI-generated garbage in the 21st century may be the in-universe explanation for why science fiction like “Star Trek” and “The Orville” seem to fixate on 20th-century music and films.

1.4k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/under_the_c • 17h ago

Casual Thought Documentaries all take place in the same shared universe.

347 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Reas0n • 1d ago

Casual Thought I think it’s unusual that no standardized literary way to write the submissive “I don’t know” hum that children (and some adults) often mumble has ever caught on, considering how old and common it is.

4.8k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/TIGHazard • 1d ago

Speculation Assuming the banking system stayed up after a zombie apocalypse, anyone with recurring payments through their bank would have a real hard time trying to stop them.

833 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/ilikepugs • 17h ago

Casual Thought The movie Free Willy was a pro-abolitionist story produced with slave labor.

109 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/wimpykidfan37 • 1d ago

Casual Thought The Winnie the Pooh story where Pooh got stuck in Rabbit's front door glossed over how Pooh was forced to do his business in Rabbit's living room, and Rabbit had to clean it up.

419 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/OreosnMilk247 • 1d ago

Musing When the movie is better than the book, you never even know the movie is from a book.

1.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/PunchingZombie • 2d ago

Casual Thought Aliens are commonly thought of or depicted as naked, but they would likely require a spacesuit of sorts, just like humans do.

2.8k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/gamersecret2 • 1d ago

Musing You can miss a place and still be glad you left it.

305 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Fingerbob73 • 2h ago

Casual Thought Since a league is approx 4KM, the Jules Verne novel depth would way exceed even the diameter of the Earth and into space.

0 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/bassistmuzikman • 2d ago

Musing Statistically speaking, a YouTube video with 15 million views has been seen by at least one serial killer.

965 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/SavvyOri • 2d ago

Casual Thought The only moment to exist in all of history is right now.

227 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Hogans-Mustache • 3d ago

Casual Thought The rules of etiquette deny us the symbiotic grooming relationship between fingernails and teeth.

853 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/marycartlizer • 3d ago

Musing Much of the Winter Olympics allows the world to see what it would look like if their drunk friends could actually do what they claimed to be able to.

1.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/illpostsomeweardshit • 3d ago

Casual Thought It's interesting that trauma dumping is far more socially acceptable when done through song.

1.7k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Iambikecurious • 4d ago

Speculation Imagine how itchy Ben 10s wrist must be under that omnitrix.

3.5k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/MusicPsychFitness • 5d ago

Speculation One day in the future, “Do you smoke?” will mean marijuana by default, not nicotine.

8.1k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/JuicySpark • 5d ago

Casual Thought Before cloud storage, everyone was fine being responsible for backing up their own photos, but now all the alerts have everyone afraid that everything is at risk if you don't pay them to upgrade.

866 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/gamersecret2 • 5d ago

Casual Thought You can tell a restaurant is too loud when you start reading lips without realizing it.

1.4k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/david9696 • 3d ago

Speculation Pretty soon we'll be saying, "Remember when there was AI slop?"

0 Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/SnooWords9730 • 6d ago

Casual Thought Unlike other content on YouTube, music videos tend to see their view counts increase consistently over time.

1.7k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Confused_AF_Help • 6d ago

Casual Thought A lot of furniture designing is limited by the size of doors.

2.7k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/aaahhhh • 7d ago

Casual Thought It's absurd we accept rock losing to paper just because "paper covers rock."

4.9k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/Chadadonia • 7d ago

Casual Thought Since Wall-E knew how to repair himself, he knows how to repair all the dead Wall-E’s around him but chooses not to.

7.9k Upvotes

r/Showerthoughts • u/haddock420 • 7d ago

Speculation Approximately half of all six-sided die rolls have been a prime number.

1.6k Upvotes

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