Television Crossover Universe

  Some Rankin-Bass Christmas Presents, with Spoilers   Aaron was a little drummer boy in the province of Judea in the Roman Empire some 2,000 years ago. After his parents were killed by bandits, a series of adventures saw him meet three kings traveling to Bethlehem (1) and become an acolyte of a baby (born in a stable) that the kings believed to be a future holy king of the world. He tried to spread the word about the infant with the help of one of the kings. (2)   The little baby’s parents had traveled from some distance to pay taxes in a census mandated by the Empire. For the price of a single silver coin, they bought a venerable donkey (named Small One by his young owner) so that the heavily pregnant mother of the babe-to-be could ride him instead of walking. (3) Unfortunately, Small One was pretty old, and only made it part of the way, before passing away. However, the husband of the wife found another donkey with incredibly long ears. The donkey, named Nestor, had traveled

  Goll-lee!: The One With Bedford Falls, The Miracles of 34 th Street, and Seven Stranded Castaways…and a bunch of Friends   Some people have heard of Harry Bailey of Bedford Falls, New York, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for shooting down 15 Japanese fighters in World War II, most notably two kamikazes that were about to strike a loaded US Navy destroyer loaded with troops in the fall of 1944 (1). While losing one ship and the troops on it would not have made a tremendous difference in the outcome of the war, several persons of note were serving on the destroyer or were among the troops being transported. It’s entirely possible that Harry Bailey is far more important to history than was realized when he received his medal in December, 1945 (1). Bailey himself served on the USS Enterprise CV-6, which arguably is the greatest and most successful wet navy warship in history; centuries later, interstellar starships would be named for her (2).   One of the destroyer’s o

  While I haven't done much work in the TVCU blog lately, I'm 100 pages into Saturday Morning Crossovers (the project which used to be tentatively titles Cartoon Multiverse: The Cartoon Crossover Encyclopedia). The book is half original material and half blog post reprints. Rather than trying to fit all cartoons into a singular continuity (my original goal), I'm instead writing a series of individual chronologies based on what was airing on Saturday morning in 1970. So far my subjects are for the first 100 pages: The Reluctant Dragon and Mr. Toad, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, The Heckle and Jeckle Show, The Woody Woodpecker Show, Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies, Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down!, Josie and the Pussycats, The Further Adventures of Dr. Dolittle, Harlem Globetrotters, The Pink Panther Show, Archie’s Funhouse, H.R. Pufnstuf, The Hardy Boys, and Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!.

  In January of 2018 I embarked on a quest to watch every movie based on an English language comic book. I have finally completed my quest. So now what? Well, it's been suggested to me that I should have some sort of forum to discuss my views on the films I watched, and so I'm launching a new podcast, Super Entertainment presents Comics to Screen, in which I will discuss comic book movies. This won't just be film reviews. Because these are all comic book movies, each podcast, I will discuss the history of the comics that the films are based upon, how well the film adapted the source material, and where the film fits into a larger continuity (such as it's placement in the MCU timeline, or is it part of the Arrowverse multiverse, etc.) And of course, I will also offer my uneducated, but very opinionated views of the films I watched, to tell you if they were gold or garbage. The new podcast won't launch for a little while. I have to get a new laptop that can sto

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Another late, late April Fool's post.  I previously covered other pranksters the Joker and Mxyzptlk.  But Loki was the original.  (Ironically, I haven't covered the Prankster, another Superman foe.  I don't think there's much to cover with that character crossover wise.) Please note this post is not, I repeat not, about really cool TVCU Crewsie Loki Carbis... though maybe it should be. Also, we will not be discussing Loki, the Angel of Vengeance seen in Dogma (except for in one entry below.) 1981 --  By this point in time, when Mike Nero was 13, his anger and resentment towards the treatment he received from his peers and his inability to get along with and be understood by his family had taken a terrible toll on his psyche. It was at this low point in his early life that he was approached by Rutger, a representative of the Brotherhood of Fenris, worshipers of the Norse lupine deity known as the Fenris Wolf (and none other than the progeny of Loki, the notorious g