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What’s a crossover?

Something that always surprises me when I try to discuss what I write about is that a lot of people do not understand what a fictional crossover is. I felt that before reading the Television Crossover Universe, I had best explain what it is. The term crossover can be used in a very general way, or in a more specific way. In a broader sense, a crossover can be any combination of two separate series. This can include mashups. An example of this would be a story or even a picture with Dirty Harry Potter, combining the character of Dirty Harry played by Clint Eastwood with the boy wizard from the J.K. Rowling books. It can also be a story that couldn’t possibly exist within the canon of the series involved. One example was the Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue animated special. This combined many famous cartoon characters, but presented them all as toys brought to life. For my purposes, what I consider to be a valid crossover is one where two series are combined in a way that demons...

The Muppets and Sesame Street Revisited: A TVCU Quickie

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What's a quickie?   See this blog. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Muppets  are a group of  puppet  characters known for an absurdist,  burlesque  and  self-referential  style of  variety - sketch   comedy . Created in 1955 by  Jim Henson , they are since 2004 the namesake for the  Disney   media franchise  that encompasses films, television series, music recordings, print publications, and other media associated with  The Muppet Show  characters. Henson once stated that the term "Muppet" had been created as a  portmanteau  of the words " marionette " and " puppet ", but also claimed that it was actually a word he had coined. [1]  The Muppets debuted on the television program  Sam and Friends , which aired locally on  WRC-TV  in Washington, D.C.  from 1955 to 1961. After appearing on skits in several late night talk shows and advertising commercials duri...