Sock Puppet Explanation

Tonight's Sock Puppet Explanation: Where That Floating Island Chain Came From

A poorly-presented in-universe explanation of an event that happened or is happening. Because of its low quality or nonsensicality, it's often found to be bad or laughable. Sock Puppet Explanations sometimes tend to be a little lengthy in order to have a good connection with the canon. Due to its seemingly unnecessary lengthiness, the audience might be quick to say that the explanation does no more than make things more confusing and, as a result, stupider.

A Sock Puppet Explanation may be needed to give a description of a controversial or sensitive topic, like politics or an actor's passing, to a younger audience so then they won't be as hurt by the announcement. This might be done with simple white lying like saying the actor had to retire and move far away instead of going with the Terrible Truth.

Sock Puppet Explanations aren't often given directly from the creators themselves but instead are told through exposition or slowly as time passes, giving the audience pieces to put together and make their own interpretations to minimize the creators' job to explain what's going on in the universe.