Television Crossover Universe

 James Van Der Beek has passed away from cancer.  In his honor, I will be covering Dawson's Creek in the TVCU and also James Van Der Book in the TVCU. 1998 - 2003--Dawson's Creek--A soap opera about teen angst.  I remember when this show first came out one of my soldiers was watching it and I made fun of him for it, but later it was on in the mornings in reruns and I got hooked.  The show launched several careers, and was one of the most popular shows of its era.   1999--Muppets from Space--Pacey and Joey are at the beach when aliens arrive.   2000--Scary Movie--Dawson crawls in through the wrong window.   2000--Young Americans--This is a spin-off of Dawson's Creek.  It takes place at a private boys' school.   2001--Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back--James Van Der Beek, the star of a show called Dawson's Creek, is cast in the new Bluntman and Chronic movie.   November 1, 2010--Funny or Die--"Van Der Week:  Behi...

 In the past, I've covered other series in the Scooby-Doo Multiverse, which seems to mostly align with the DC Multiverse. Today I'm going to cover Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, which seems to align with the DC Animated Universe, or Earth-12.   June 27, 2019--"Revenge of the Swamp Monster!"--In the tradition of the New Scooby-Doo Movies, Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? features guests who are both real life celebs and fictional characters.  This one features Houston Rockets basketball player Chris Paul.  I'm just going to say while the New Scooby-Doo Movies was a who's who of who was famous in the 70s, this series kind of goes for, "Well, who's available and needs some money?" July 2, 2019--"A Mystery Solving Gang Divided"--This one guest stars the Funky Phantom.  The Funky Phantom previously appeared in Scooby-Doo:  Mystery Incorporated, but that was a separate continuity.   July 11, 2019--"Peeble's Pet Shop of Terrible Terrors!"--...

 In the past, I have covered some fictional companies within series posts, such as Hudson University in the Law & Order post or Oceanic Airlines in the Lost post.   I've discovered a new one, Enzo's.   It's an upscale Italian restaurant franchise dating back to the 1930s.  Now I should say, in my research I have found there to be many real Enzo's restaurants, so it could be that all these Enzo's that appear in fiction are unrelated, as are the ones in real life, but where's the fun in that?  That fact is that they are connected because it's a go-to for fiction writers. I came across this a few weeks ago, when Enzo's was mentioned in both Stranger Things and St. Dennis Medical Center , both as an upscale Italian restaurant, but it must be a franchise since both shows have different settings.   So I did a little research and found this google AI information: "Enzo's" is a common name for fictional Italian restaurants, appearing in va...

 So the X-Men are coming to the MCU.  Yay, I'm very excited!  But which X-Men?  We know they are coming from an alternate universe, and we have the original actors coming back, but still, which timeline? I hope they aren't saying it's the Deadpool timeline.   Here's the problem with Deadpool being in the MCU multiverse.  Deadpool and Wolverine was a fun movie.  But first off, Deadpool shouldn't have been in the same universe as Logan.  First, Logan is still alive in the present of Deadpool.  He hasn't died yet.  So it made no sense to go looking for a new Wolverine to replace him.  Second, the X-Men still exist in the present of Deadpool.  Prof. X is said to still lead the X-Men.  But according to the Logan timeline, the X-Men died shortly after the first film, and Prof. X is living with Logan in hiding.   I know, it's a spoof movie.  And I'm fine with that.  Only, they made it part of MCU canon....

  Rutland Vermont has an annual Halloween Parade , the longest running annual Halloween Parade in America .  It started in 1960.  It was founded by Tom Fagen .  While in the past it had a very strong superhero theme , this year's parade seemed to focus more on Ghostbusters and The Nightmare Before Christmas .   The parade was very well known and popular among comic creators in the 1970s and 1980s who would travel from New York City to attend the parade.  They would feature the parade in their stories, for both Marvel and DC, and usually show people in costumes from their competitors in those stories, as well as putting themselves and their friends in the stories.  Tom Fagen would often appear in the stories as well.  Tom usually dressed as Batman in the parades, but in Marvel Comics he would be drawn dressed at Nighthawk .   The first appearance of the parade was in Avengers # 83 , December 1970. In 1972, it appeared in a three p...

 I've taken another hiatus on the Sci-Fi Multiverse book.  There's a lot of redundencies with the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia, more than I anticipated.  There's a lot of sci-fi/horror crossovers.  I don't want to repeat myself but I also want to be all-inclusive.  This has left me frustrated and ready to abandon the project altogether.  My previous venture, Cartoon Multiverse, was abandoned because of my quest to be all-inclusive faced me against Family Guy, where the crossovers never end and I was really sick of watching every Family Guy episode in such minute detail.   So...  I figured I can spend more time on the TVCU blog.  I love the TVCU blog.  Except, I'm running out of ideas.  I think I've covered mostly everything, except for maybe some topics I don't have enough familiarity with to cover.  I know there's a lot of anime crossovers, which I would have gotten to in Cartoon Multiverse, but I'm really not that famil...