Television Crossover Universe

THE TELEVISION CROSSOVER CROSSOVER UNIVERSE  LAUNCHED JANUARY 10, 2011 CELEBRATING FOUR YEARS  My sitcom blog posts are not very popular, and yet, they are my favorite.  They are usually very short, simple, and uncomplicated, and yet, all have their place within a larger shared reality.  It was sitcoms that cross connected, like the All in the Family and Happy Days groups, that got me into this whole obsession. This one is pretty neat, because I had to create a theory based on a continuity glitch caused by crossover connections.  Newhart was supposed to be a dream of Dr. Hartley of the Bob Newhart Show, but if you connect the crossover dots, you'll find they coexist within the same shared reality.   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the final episode of Newhart, it was revealed that the entire series was a dream of Dr. Bob Hartley from the...

First, don't expect me to be pumping out a new blog every day, but I'm in the mood and I did make a Christmas promise to cover Scrooge. Second, I don't usually cover material that originated from literature, but the three ghosts tend to return as a very traditional Christmas season TV trope, thus making them as worthy of inclusion as historical characters or mythical beings. Note that as with Dracula, Tarzan, ect, I will not cover appearances and crossovers from literature and comics.  That doesn't meant they don't exist in the TVCU.  They just aren't my focus here.  My upcoming Horror Crossover Universe will not be covering A Christmas Carol, despite its supernatural elements, as its genre is much more of a holiday/religious theme. December 24 to 25, 1837--A CHRISTMAS CAROL--A miserly man named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited  by three ghosts, who show him his past, present, and future, in an attempt to save him his soul from damnation by getting him to redee...

Day 2 of celebra ting our four th anniversary, and I represen t our 9 th mos t popular blog pos t.  I was very surprised  to see  this ge t so many views, and I hope i t's because of  the show i tself and no t readers confusion wi th  the Marvel movies.  I t's also nice  tha t  this being one of our more popular pos ts, i t is also a more recen t pos t, having been wri t ten on January 1, 2013, jus t as we were celebra ting our 2 year anniversary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Though not a horror series, the Avengers get a few crossover references in my upcoming book, the Horror Crossover Encyclopedia, on sale...SOON! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi.  So, welcome to the TVCU 2013.  A few things. I' m writing a book...