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Books: A TVCU Quickie

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What's a quickie?   See this blog. Today, I'm going to talk about stories from print, in the context of a site dedicated to television crossovers. This site is indeed centered around TV crossovers, but we do not exclude other valid crosses into other mediums, such as film, video games, comics, and books. I tend to only mention literature when there is a cross with television or film involved.  Other writers in the crew tend to focus more on literature, and their blogs are pretty popular, so what do I know, right? The first blog I covered was in fact about a literary character.  I discussed Tarzan's role in the Television Crossover Universe, but because of my focus on television and film, it was probably one of my worst blogs I've written.  Which is sad, because Tarzan is awesome.  But his television and film TVCU appearances are very limited.  There's the crossover between the 70s cartoon and the Star Trek cartoon, and then a bunch of minor refere...

Easter Comes Late...The Bunny in the TVCU

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Yeah, it's kind of late, right.  Well, I did cover IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE just a month ago.  But you can blame Toby for giving me the idea.  But he can blame NBC's HOP promotion. So...the Easter Bunny.  How do we explain his presence in the TVCU?  Is he a mutant?  Is he an immigrant from the Looniverse?  No and no. Here's the thing.  Children have underdeveloped brains.  It's a known fact that because of this, and because of the emotional instability and angst of children, their minds can manifest poltergeist. So imagine if billions of children all at the same time imagine the same fictional being as being real.  Imagine all that psychic energy focused on one thing.  And that's what happens.  The Easter Bunny exists because children will it into existence.  This also explains why the Bunny appears differently at different times, with even different personality, methods of operation, ect.  Even his origin can ch...