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Tommy in Melbourne...

Aug 02, 2007 15:40

The Green Guide in Melbourne's The Age newspaper today discusses a crossover between Crossing Jordan and Las Vegas. It discusses crossovers in general - why they happen, when they work best - and then discusses the Tommy Westphall theory and the site.

The writer's conclusion: "So [Crossing Jordan and Las Vegas] don't really exist. And thank God for ( Read more... )

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buffyannotater August 2 2007, 06:41:53 UTC

The Simpsons is usually on publications' Best Sitcoms list, so it could count if you wanted to let that in. But then of course you'd also be adding on Futurama and The Critic, because of Bart Simpsons crossovers, as well as South Park and Family Guy, due to South Park and Family Guy episodes linking all of them. And once you factor all those animated shows in there, you have an insane number of other things via pop culture references and whatnot.

crossoverman August 2 2007, 06:50:39 UTC

The problem isn't The Simpsons. (And actually for our purposes, Futurama isn't linked to The Simpsons... Bart only ever appeared in that as a doll.) I knew that it would bring in Family Guy... and King of the Hill, but I didn't realise South Park would come in.

But we don't really like making exceptions to our rules. Letting one animated series in, also lets in Hanna Barbera madness... and that way lies, uh, madness.

lokicarbis August 2 2007, 09:16:28 UTC

Maybe there should be a separate animation-only universe...

crossoverman August 2 2007, 10:05:32 UTC

That's for someone else to compile :-)

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paulbot August 2 2007, 06:49:48 UTC

with Keifer Sutherland appearing as Jack Bauer on a recent episode, "24 Minutes".

As well as Mary Lynn Rajskub as fabulously snarky Chloe O'Brien.

I wonder if Prime Time animated series should...

Would that count prior Prime Time animated series like The Flintstones and their non-prime time spin offs? That would expand things like crazy!

crossoverman August 2 2007, 06:55:46 UTC

This is why we keep animated shows out, because of The Flintstones and associated madness... Actually, I think the problem stems from The Brady Kids! And expands ever outwards...

paulbot August 2 2007, 13:22:44 UTC

Madness or not, I am a supporter of including animated series. Afterall, that just proves more and more how intricately linked all televised fiction can be. And bad as Brady Kids, to name one, might be, there is the fact that quality is never a rule for inclusion.

Perhaps I should just start my own (complementary) site to document the animated connections.

Of course, they don't stay in a purely animated world, as proven by the 24/Simpsons episodes (and many more). My favorite of these would have to be that the entire "DC Animated" group, which started with Paul Dini & Bruce Timm's Batman in 1991 or so, also includes Birds of Prey (again, quality doesn't matter), as Mark Hamill voiced the Joker in one sequence, just as he did for those cartoons. Of course, none of those programs can be linked to the Tommy-verse...yet ( ... )

crossoverman August 2 2007, 21:25:17 UTC

I believe we have found a connection to the DC Animated verse, but can't remember what exactly - because it was animated, we didn't really keep track of it.

AFAIK, "Ripper" will be a one-shot TV Movie. After that, we'll see.

I'm not sure that there was an Australian "Are You Being Served" series, but there was definitely an "Are You Being Served Down Under" special...

I think we'll discount Muppets, too - as much as I loved Sesame Street's Law & Order: Special Letters Unit. Because, you know, Munch!

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linked through a paper anonymous August 2 2007, 16:30:09 UTC

24 should already be linked because, as i pointed out in a post several month ago, Jack Bauer can be seen reading the Los Angeles Tribune which is the paper "Lou Grant" worked at.

Also it turns out that Deadlline was not the first show about the New York Ledger, in 1951 there was a show called "Not for Publication" about the same paper, that would make this show, which debuted 6 months before I Love Lucy, the oldest on the grid

RAF

Re: linked through a paper crossoverman August 2 2007, 21:26:08 UTC

As you might have noticed, I'm a fair way behind in chronicling all those links - but thanks for the reminder.

Dallas and the Wörthersee johnmunch August 3 2007, 21:12:45 UTC

Although I am German I have never seen 'Ein Schloss am Wörthersee' which ran for three seasons and was a cross between 'Hotel' and a Heimatroman - never mind.

Anyway. Apparently there was an episode where this well-to-do and not quite hatrmonious Texan couple appeared. Right - JR and Sue Ellen of Dallas fame made a stop at the Schloss.

I don't know anything else about that episode. I saw the imdb entry and got it confirmed by somebody who remembered having seen it when it was aired.