Theory

The one thing in common that seemed to always take place when Kenny died was that no one around him recalled it had happened. Moreover, there was never any residue, repercussions, corpse parts or any evidence whatsoever that the event had actually occurred.

Kenny has, I am sure, suspected that he was insane. However, if we was not insane, and these were not all “American Psycho” style imaginings, there would seem to only be one conclusion… Kenny’s mind is hopping to an adjacent dimension / reality at the moment of his death, where the death did not occur. He simply “awakens”, fully dressed, in bed.

Of course, to the people left behind in the other reality, he did die, his corpse remains, etc.

But the show’s camera follows Kenny’s psyche, so although his body dies and there is an immediate reaction to it from the people present, once it completes the transition, we are looking at slightly different versions of all of the other characters.

This could be the reason why time seems to flow so unusually in the show, and the kids don’t really grow up. Kenny keeps leaping back in time as he transitions and reawakens, resetting most of the events of the day.

Kenny, unfortunately, remains ignorant of what is actually behind what is happening to him, and simply feels he cannot die.

The most immediate rebuttal to this concept is the one episode which showed Kenny being birthed from his mother and growing ten years in a matter of moments, before being placed in bed.

Since it does not make sense for this to happen each time (we have seen Kenny dying while waiting overnight on a bus stop, then being alive and unharmed in the morning), that one episode’s instance could be explained as that the particular jump he had made (in that one death) took him very far out, to a very strange reality indeed.

Thoughts? 🤔