This is The John Cleese Hypothesis.
I believe that I came first. And I was a great bard once.
And then John Cleese, in another life, witnessed me in my amazing awesomeness. And it inspired John Cleese to do Monty Python.
Douglas Adams saw this, and he too was inspired.
Hugh Laurie saw this, and he too was inspired.
And Steven Moffat saw this, and he too was inspired.
Why even Shakespeare saw this, and he too was inspired.
And then I was born… In 1980.
And all of me and my past lives came back to me and when I saw Monty Python… and Shakespeare… and Doctor Who… Fry and Laurie… and Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy, I cried out, “PLAGIARIZERS! FOR THAT IS MY WORK!”
But alas, people do not understand Quantum Time and Ontological Physics.
And thus a grudge was born.