Jeremy Kerley has a perfectly solid explanation as to how a banned substance got into his system. He didn’t take the substance intentionally nor did he accidentally grab a buddy’s thinking it was meant for him. No, Jeremy Kerley’s reason is a bit simpler than that.
Jeremy Kerley says the Ghost of Christmas Past is to blame for his suspension
“Ghost put it in.”
It’s ghosts.
Specifically, it’s Christmas ghosts because you can’t blame Halloween ghosts now. It’s December and Halloween has been over for a while, so blaming an October ghost is just silly. But the Ghost of Christmas Past is fair game.
Since Christmas isn’t here just yet, the Ghost of Christmas Past need something to do when it’s not trying to persuade Scrooges around the world to change their ways in the spirit of the holidays. To be honest, I didn’t expect the ghost to be that mischievous when its purpose, at least according to the Dickens novel, is so pure.
Kerley’s excuse explanation is straight out of a Futurama episode, too. In an episode where the Planet Express crew finds parallel universes, parallel Leela says she flipped a coin to decide whether she would use ghosts as a phony excuse.
Leela 1: Then one night, when Fry asked me out, the only excuse I could think of involved ghosts. I knew he wouldn’t buy it, so I did what I always do in those situations.
Leela A: Oh, Lord...
Leela 1: I flipped a coin. It came up heads and we went out.
[Fry A turns to Leela A, who appears embarassed.]
Fry A: You mean you flipped a coin too? And it was tails? So that’s why you said you had to meet that ghost.
My guess is that we’re living in a universe where Kerley flipped a coin to decide whether he would blame ghosts, and it came up tails.
