Pepe Silvia - Puzzling Pieces of Peter!

Sweet Dee Has A Heart Attack, aka S4.E10 of Always Sunny In Philadelphia, first aired 10/21/2008, giving this meme over 16 years to haunt the world with confusion and ambiguity, while also blessing it with an iconic distillation of the social highs and lows of critical thinking.

Speaking of distillations, here is the official "Dead End" sign designed to decelerate any additional efforts.

"Previously on PEPE SILVIA"

"Thanks, but I wanna try anyway."

- Me

I figured I'd start with The Word Finder (aka one of many available haystacks machines)

All the word-finders equally failed to deliver, at least with this particular anagram.

One morning I was on my iPad and looked at the notorious screenshot of Charlie once again. I knew the Wordfinders were not fruitful, but just wanted to stare at it a bit. When I noticed that, "LIVES" was a possible partiality, so I wondered if I could make anything with the remaining letters, "P,P,E,I,A".

PAPE I LIVES? Maybe?

What is PAPE?

Perhaps that's why PAPE did not appear in any of the online anagram finders I tried. Interesting, potentially relevant, but what does it all mean?

Wait, first, anyone else claiming that?

(Spoiler Alert: No.)

Now to figure out what to do with the "I". Oh, so there's a backstory waiting to be discovered about this? Specifically that the "I" was supposedly omitted from the script?

Doesn't the architect like to call attention to omissions like this? Especially when the omission interrupts deep analysis? The same thing happened with the active ingredient in TMF...INR!

I've said it before and I'll say it again, #EllipsesAreForOmissions

So, what would this look like?

Pope I Lives?

If I play with the "I" maybe this could be Pope 1 Lives. Who is Pope 1?

St Peter?

Ok, so is this trending?

Google: "St. Peter Lives" (no real direct hits)

Hmm, this is interesting, crucified upside down?

Oh like this?

Then I saw the NPS mention bats. NPS likes timely seeding, especially regarding the Washington Monument.

The official Mammal of #Washington DC is the Big Brown Bat? As in BBB?

What do bats have to do with Saint Peter?

Got it, but why? Is Saint Peter similar to Batman?

But why use a Scottish word like Pape?

The Scottish Influence Behind The Creation of Batman

So, Batman Lives? What does that mean? Like movies are still being made? The cycle reboots before the previous is even digested?

Batman Lives. Literal or metaphorical? Oh wait, are you referencing this one?

That whole E Nigma brainwave thing hits different today than it did in '95.

No, not that brainwave thing, I meant this one, but thanks for the above reference as well.

Now that I have the movie version and the real version so close to one another, I can't help but notice the similarities. While looking for direct comparisons, I found this older Enigma Machine to be interesting.

I often read references connecting Batman to JFK. Does JFK tie to this movie at all? Been reading a growing lore on this lately.

Also, peripherally, this post just got more interesting. Thanks to, "Tony Montana" for asking the question.

Ok so I feel confident in the layer mapping progress so far, but I do want to circle back to the scene that started all this.

If we found Pepe Silvia, what about Carol? Carol in HR?

Big haystack, maybe I can distill this a bit if I'm lucky and go with the Kennedy thing. Google, "Kennedy HR"

Hmm, let's take a look at that 2nd link, "Life In Human Resources".

Wow. I can't say this is iron-clad proof of anything yet, but this maps with what Charlie was saying, at least enough to pull me in deeper.

Nothing on WayBack. While this does not provide proof the job has been vacant since 2008, it also does not provide proof the job has been filled since 2008. Absence of evidence is indeed evidence (but not absolute proof) of absence.