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From The Hughleys to... ABC's TGIF line-up!

Oct 21, 2006 13:27

While westphallian and I continue to work on updating the Grid and the Key (yes, yes, it's been a while...), this week has been an embarassment of riches... if indeed that's what you can call "Heroes" and "Miss Match" being welcomed to the Tommyverse.

Now johnmunch has discovered a link between The Drew Carey Show and The Hughleys! And The Hughleys is ( Read more... )

possible update

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buffyannotater October 21 2006, 05:50:22 UTC

Perfect Strangers is the only funny show on that list, IMHO. But sad to say, I actually do remember the Boy Meets World, Step By Step, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers, Full House, AND (dear god!) Mr. Cooper crossover episodes. Damn you, TGIF, for warping my fragile pre-teen brain!

crossoverman October 21 2006, 05:54:46 UTC

Scary!!

Also - Boy Meets World lasted for 7 years??

And Girlfriends has just started its seventh season?? I'd never heard of it before today!!

truthbealiar October 21 2006, 10:46:12 UTC

Excuse me, Boy Meets World is the finest show in television history!

truthbealiar October 21 2006, 10:48:48 UTC

P.S. I remember doing some research before and figuring out that these shows coming into the Tommyverse would also bring in Gilligan's Island and Gidget due to a Gilligan's crossover with Meego and a Gidget crossover with Gilligan's Island.

crossoverman October 21 2006, 11:42:17 UTC

The Gilligan/Meego crossover was a dream sequence and thus doesn't place the two shows in the same reality.

There was a Gidget/Gilligan crossover? How did that work?

And maybe Boy Meets World was the finest show in the history of television - it lasted for 7 years (!!) - but I didn't want to see Ben Savage doing a modern day rip-off of his brother Fred's classic Wonder Years.

truthbealiar October 21 2006, 12:15:59 UTC

No, it was the connection between Hogan's Heroes and Gilligan that was a dream sequence, wasn't it? Not the one between Meego and Gilligan.

crossoverman October 21 2006, 21:35:00 UTC

I might have been confusing the Gilligan/ALF dream sequence, actually!

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tele_toby October 21 2006, 12:32:36 UTC

Add to this list "The Game", new to The CW this year. It's a spin-off of "Girlfriends", and aired as a "backdoor pilot" episode on that show back in April.

I'd like to hear about that "Gidget"/"Gilligan's Island" link. I know there's a link between "Gidget" and "The Flying Nun". Both Sister Bertille (Elsie Ethrington) and Gidget Lawrence were in the same band in their hometown. (And yet neither one noticed how much they resembled each other?)

crossoverman October 21 2006, 20:55:20 UTC

Well "The Game" would become the first Tommy series to originate on The CW! Excellent.

I want to hear more about the Gidget/Flying Nun thing - did they both mention this band's name in their series? Or did one mention the other's name? What's the story?

tele_toby October 21 2006, 22:17:51 UTC

Both Gidget and Sister Bertrille mentioned in their respective shows that they were members of a rock band called The Gorries. Gidget (Sally Field version) grew up in Santa Monica, but I don't know where Elsie Ethrington was raised.

But since "The Gorries" is obviously not a very common name, I would think it had to be the same band; and so Elsie grew up in Santa Monica as well.

Professor Lawrence really got around, I guess.....

Mea culpa johnmunch October 21 2006, 14:36:14 UTC

Forgive me, everybody.

I did not know what I was doing. And since all of these additions are character x-overs, it means that they will have to be included in the list.

This was fun when it started with the dramas - St. Elsewhere, HLOTS, the L&O's etc.
But did I ever mention that I hate sitcoms with a laugh track?

I really do. With a vengeance.

The horror. The horror. And there is no way out except waking up Tommy.

I'd never even heard about The Hughleys before. Darn.

What hath Tommy wrought? crossoverman October 21 2006, 20:58:51 UTC

This is madness. But the good kind of madness. This is historical research, my friend! (But, yes, your list has just expanded greatly!)

Almost none of these series are that funny - although I suppose most of them are pitched at young teens, so I'm way past that age bracket.

I had heard of The Hughleys before, but only because of D.H. Hughley - I wanted to know his history when I saw him on the new show "Studio 60".

But "The Parkers" and "Girlfriends"? Obviously UPN "urban" comedies don't translate to the Australian television market - I'd never heard of them!