Television Crossover Universe

A Married... With Children Crossover Chronology by Robert E. Wronski, Jr. (original post) and Matt Hickman (all the updates) Taking a break from my research on Dracula crossover to cover something much more horrifying.  Love and marriage. Married...with Children was a really dumb show, with stupid idiotic plots and unrealistic characters, and yet it was a show my whole family loved. (Ironically, Full House was the other show we seemed to all rally around.) Married...with Children was a ground breaking show, in that it broke the popular trend of the family sitcom formula by showing us a truly dysfunctional family.  This was something my own family could relate to.  Other shows, like Roseanne, would soon follow to show us that the Cosbys, Seavers, and Keatons were a fantasy. Fortunately for us, the show was popular enough to make it's way into at least one major multi-network crossover, (yes, a Bundy Crisis Crossover of sorts), and it made at least two attempts...

Occasionally, the TVCU will discuss a character whose origins are a little askew of the norm.  Elvira did not start of in some film or tv storyline, like most of our characters discussed.  If anything, she falls in the ranks with such an assortment of characters as Father Guido Sarducci, Kermit the Frog, Jose Jiminez, Pee Wee Herman and mostly, the Shadow. Elvira started out as the host of a local network's horror movie programming.  This fictional Vampira knock-off was a goth valley girl who would introduce the films and the commercials, and occasionally interrupt the film with her sarcastic remarks, ala MST3K. She became such a hit, that soon she started appearing, as Elvira, in guest spots n a variety of TV shows, was featured in numerous commercials, and even finally got that TV series and a few films. She is an icon of my childhood who seems not to have aged one bit, and I'm very pleased to write this blog. 1851--ELVIRA'S HAUNTED HILLS--An ancestor of Elv...