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Uncle Grandpa is not only everyone in the world's uncle and grandpa but everyone in the multiverse's uncle and grandpa.

Uncle Grandpa is a Gem
It would explain EVERYTHING. Plus, the fact that there's a crossover episode between Steven Universe and Uncle Granpa shows that both series take place in the same universe.
  • Actually, Uncle Grandpa notes early on the crossover isn't canon. AND he has a list of "grandkids" that are all from different universes, confirming he can travel the Multiverse and implying he was just visiting Steven's Universe.

Uncle Grandpa is a Time Lord
Hey, it makes sense.
  • His RV is Bigger on the Inside...
    • And he does claim to be the oldest person in it, which would mean he's been around for over a billion years.
      • On top of that, he travels with a group of companions, and his RV has a London-style phone booth inside it (the wrong kind, but the allusion is still clear). In universe, he may have actually met the Doctor and keeps said booth as a reminder of one of his few surviving brethren. He just forgot the colour, being that he's...well, Uncle Grandpa.

Uncle Grandpa shares a universe with Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
Much like Izanami, Izanagi, and Hito-Shura, Uncle Grandpa survived the conception of the last universe and is now the head deity of the new one. He's called Uncle Grandpa as a sign of endearment and respect from the people of the world he created and as a nod to his role in their existence. As their creator and general benefactor he really is everyone's Uncle and Grandpa. His reality warping powers are a side effect of being the person that defined their reality.

Pizza Steve is a distant relative of Don Patch
It makes way too much sense.

The Drivers Ed Teacher from Drivers Test is only taking the form of Remo's dad.
When he reveals that the crazy baby is his baby, his face changes into what looks like the crazy baby's.

Uncle Grandpa is an anthropomorphic personification of every male in the multiverse.
He is an amalgamation of the different personalities of every male that exists or has ever existed. He travels the timelines bringing annoyance to all of his nephews, nieces, and grandchildren.
  • And he will eventually meet the woman of his dreams, Aunt Grandma, the amalgamation of every woman that exists or has ever existed.
    • Partially confirmed in "Aunt Grandma". There is an Aunt Grandma, but she resents Uncle Grandpa, and she's a normal human who only fakes being the Aunt and Grandmother of everyone.

Uncle Grandpa is Grandfather Nurgle.
  • After all, what do most of Nurgle's followers end up calling him? And some of his Greater Daemons prefer to go by "Uncle". Makes sense if you think about it enough.

Beary Nice actually enjoys watching Hot Dog Person get hurt
  • Thing is Beary is just really good at masking his sadistic nature, he's like a weird mix off Affably Evil and Faux Affably Evil, that is his real personality there, and he's a pretty cute little guy overall, but the fact that he remains so calm and seems to still enjoy himself even as Hot Dog Person gets hurt/dies is just disturbing.
    • The Nightmare Face Beary Nice makes in "Pal.0" seems to suggest he might be torturing Hotdog Person on purpose which makes this WMG valid.

Uncle Grandpa is a G rated friendly Eldritch Abomination
  • As a fan of the OLD CN, I conquer. Remind me to write a fanfic where he is the spawn of Aku

Uncle Grandpa is either directly related to or is the same species as the Space Emperor
Uncle Grandpa is actually a Defector from Decadence from his species, a species that would rather horde their power over the "Inferior Races". UG is determined to undermine this by making everyone in the world happy and someday take the reigns of being Emperor of the Universe.

We see the show through the eyes of Uncle Grandpa, meaning he is hallucinating.

Uncle Grandpa is God
  • He's virtually omnipotent and is the uncle grandpa of everyone on Earth, much like how God is known as "the father".
    • Also a Shrug of God implied that all the idiotic mistakes he makes may actually be going exactly according to his plan, much like how religious people IRL often explain horrible things as being part of God's perfect plan.

Uncle Grandpa's wife was Primordial Soup

Uncle Grandpa is an evil counterpart to Pee-Wee Herman.
  • He appears child-friendly with his wacky bunch of friends, yet he gleefully admits to enjoying things like blowing up the world (and he kinda does just that in "Charlie Burgers") and doesn't seem to feel bad when he basically ruins a kid's day before fixing it in a bizarre way.

Uncle Grandpa is some kids imaginary friend come to life.

  • I mean, come on, what else could he be? Some kid was bored and lonely one day and imagined himself up a playmate who could take him on wild and fun adventures in the "magical RV" that was parked in the driveway of his home. As for how Uncle G came to life, well, maybe the kid just made him that powerful.
    • This is supported by "Afraid of the Dark" when UG refers to the monsters attacking him as his imagination.

Uncle Grandpa is Adam
It's the only way I can think of how he could be both everybody's uncle and everybody's grandpa. Adam and Eve have the same father, and they're the great-great-great-great-you-get-the-point-great grandparents of everyone.

Uncle Grandpa is related to Ed or is Ed from the future
There are implications that Ed is a Reality Warper so why not?

Belly Bag will get a girlfriend at some point in the show
Just think of all the potential cute moments!

Uncle Grandpa is related to Haruhi Suzumiya.
They're both eccentric reality warpers. The only difference is that Uncle Grandpa's powers are of a different nature from Haruhi's, while Haruhi can never know about her powers lest she reboot the universe.

The obligatory Instrumentality theory.
Seems no one single series is safe from these theories. So, let's get down to business.

After Instrumentality, Shinji wanted a world where he was loved by everyone and not expected to save it. So, he became Uncle Grandpa. Mr. Gus is an amalgamation of Rei and the Evas, seeing as how Mr. Gus is deadpan half the time, and is very strong.

Shinji wanted to get rid of the negative elements, so when remaking Asuka, he got rid of her Tsundere personality and made her Pizza Steve. Despite being much friendlier, he still kept her narcissism so he could still recognize her.

Belly Bag and Giant Realistic Flying Tiger are his creations, as is everyone else in the world.

As for the rest of the Neon Geneis Evangelion characters, Shinji allowed them to die because they had no place in his utopia world.

Possible motives for Aunt Grandma wanting to replace Uncle Grandpa.

1. She was a young girl who Uncle Grandpa failed to help, so she took it upon herself to get revenge on Uncle Grandpa

  • The episode says this is the way it happened. She was an overachieving student named Priscilla who wanted Uncle Grandpa's help with her science project, but he instead took her on one of his "pointless adventures", resulting in her only making 2nd place. So she decided to try and take his job based on that.

2. She comes from an alternate universe and, with no way to get back, decides to take over for Uncle Grandpa, believing "there can be only one"

  • Jossed.

3. She is a government agent, since the US government could see Uncle Grandpa's help towards kids as obstructive towards civil order (or Uncle Grandpa's abilities threaten the New World Order plot), so they have an MI6 agent pose as a female version of Uncle Grandpa, an idea the president got from watching Adventure Time.

  • Jossed.

4. She is jealous of Uncle Grandpa, and wants to replace him and hog all the love and fame.

  • Jossed.

5. She is a reptilian, and subtle commentary on conspiracy theorists.

  • Jossed.

The Uncle Grandpa/Steven Universe Crossover was made to make Uncle Grandpa popular

Uncle Grandpa isn't that popular compared to other shows to make it better, so they are combining it with a good show in hope to boost ratings.

Uncle Grandpa used to work as the dinosaur in this animated intro to Captain Kangaroo

Maybe that's how he met Gus.

  • Jossed, if you count the episode "Uncle Caveman".

Uncle Grandpa is from the same dimension as Bill Cipher

They're both reality warpers from a dimension of weirdness. When Bill destroyed this dimension, this left Uncle Grandpa and his pals no choice but to travel around the world in their RV, spreading weirdness in their path (like what Bill tried to do, but using the power of weird for good instead of evil).

Uncle Grandpa has done a lot of inbreeding.

I mean how else can you explain the guy being everyone's uncle AND grandpa?


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