#2160: Ken Burns Theory

XKCD comic, described below.
Transcript

[Cueball is standing next to Megan.]

Cueball: Lincoln was "President" in The Civil War (1990), the same office held by Johnson in The Vietnam War (2017).

Cueball: And Baseball (1994) briefly showed 1960s "protesters." I think they were protesting Johnson's war!

Cueball: It all fits!

[Caption below the panel:]

I have a fan theory that every Ken Burns miniseries exists within a single cohesive universe.


(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)

Title text:Some of the KBCU ancillary works try a little too hard to tie everything together. Doris Kearns Goodwin, the sports journalist featured in "Baseball," was somehow ALSO a famous historian who wrote bestselling biographies of Lincoln AND Johnson? Unrealistic.


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