History WMG / EerieIndiana

When Marshall runs off, Schaefer makes it clear that if the show doesn't go on, they're cancelled. So Marshall's life and Dash's plan aren't the only things at stake here -- the show is over if Dash doesn't win.... And he doesn't. The take-over plan is a bust and Eerie, Indiana is canceled for good. But the show ends on a high note: Marshall is still the star and the show doesn't care if he's doing something "uncool" like going to the movies with his family.

Now look at the series finale again: Marshall finds out his life is a TV show and he's the star, but another guy is about to take his place with the network's blessing. In other words, ''it's a retool''. The last time we saw Dash, he was alone in the world, relatively powerless and searching for answers about his identity. He was scheming and selfish, but he had a conscience and could be counted on the help Marshall out in life-or-death situations. Now he's being treated like a star and has managed to bamboozle an entire network into making him the main event, something he's willing to murder Marshall to keep. Dash seems to only know who he is and what he's capable of once he's aware he's a fictional character.

Now look at the finale again: Marshall finds out his life is a TV show and he's the star, but another guy is about to take his place with the network's blessing. In other words, ''it's a retool''. The last time we saw Dash, he was alone in the world, relatively powerless and searching for answers about his identity. He was scheming and selfish, but he had a conscience and could be counted on the help Marshall out in life-or-death situations. Now he's being treated like a star and has managed to bamboozle an entire network into making him the main event, something he's willing to murder Marshall to keep. Dash seems to only know who he is and what he's capable of once he's aware he's a fictional character.

Now look at the episode again: Marshall finds out his life is a TV show and he's the star, but another guy is about to take his place with the network's blessing. In other words, ''it's a retool''. The last time we saw Dash, he was alone in the world, relatively powerless and searching for answers about his identity. He was scheming and selfish, but he had a conscience and could be counted on the help Marshall out in life-or-death situations. Now he's being treated like a star and has managed to bamboozle an entire network into making him the main event, something he's willing to murder Marshall to keep. Dash seems to only know who he is and what he's capable of once he's aware he's a fictional character.

* Without identifying where [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_Motor_Speedway The Track]] has gone, there's no way Eerie can be Indianapolis. As alluded to above, Eerie is an alternate universe Muncie.

* Without identifying where [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_Motor_Speedway#Formula_One_and_road_course_racing The Track]] has gone, there's no way Eerie can be Indianapolis. As alluded to above, Eerie is an alternate universe Muncie.

* Without identifying where [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_Motor_Speedway#Formula_One_and_road_course_racing The Track]] has gone, there's no way Eerie can be Indianapolis.

* Eerie is most likely intended as a generic "small town America" locale, but if we were to guess a location, it would be somewhere along I-69 in the North-eastern part of the state. In "Just Say No Fun", the nurse is shown driving north to Canada and in "Tornado Days", the Tornado is said to be moving "North East into lake Erie" (although it cold be a local lake by the name of "Lake Eerie"). Also, Todd is hitchhiking to Indianapolis, implying to it be a little farther away than a city is to Suburb. Regardless of the geographical information in the episodes, the visual aesthetics and culture of Eerie remind me more of say, Muncie or Lafayette than an Indianapolis suburb (although both cities have a lot more people than Eerie's 16,661). Then, there is also the reference to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middletown_studies Middletown studies]] (which studied Muncie) when Marshall tells us that his dad was required to move to the "statistically most normal place in the United States" as a part of his job.

Another hint/clue is when a dog from ''The Retainer'' says "''Eerie today, Indianapolis tomorrow!''" Though it is just a figure of speech, it makes sense literally as well.

The theory is this. Eerie really '''is''' as boring as it appears to be but Milkman!Marshall causes the events to happen to provide his younger self with a fascinating childhood. He hits and kills two children, knowing how they'll affect his younger self; he leaves his milk truck unattended when it's most important and he probably had his hand in other things behind the scenes. Due to the presence of some kind of stable time loop, by being the Milkman and creating the weirdness, the weirdness exists for him to become the Milkman in the first place. This also explains why Marshall seems to be the only one aside from Simon and Dash that realize anything is weird in Eerie. All the weirdness is centralized around him specifically because it's tailor-made for him.