Television Crossover Universe

I wasn't sure what I wanted to talk about this Christmas. But then I remembered I had written the following for Television Crossover Universe: Worlds and Mythology Volume II, a book that I started but then ran out of steam. The book is likely never to be published, but I put a lot of work into this essay which is complete so why not publish it here? THE TELEVISION CROSSOVER UNIVERSE TAKES A HOLIDAY: THE SANTA CLAUS MYTHOS Originally Presented in Ho Ho Ho! The Santa Blog and Easter Comes Late...The Bunny in the TVCU and inspired by Gordon Long’s Of Flying Reindeer, Talking Snowmen, and the World's Greatest Toymaker: The Rankin-Bass Universe Timeline "HO HO HO! Now, my friends, I will show you the way the real Santa Claus should look. Please! As if there was such a person as Santa Claus, which is of course absolutely ridiculous in a people's democracy!" Chairman Georgi Koz 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' When children believe that Santa Claus is real, he IS ...

FRED AND BARNEY MEET THE SHMOO (ANIMATED SERIES) Release Date:   November 8, 1979 - November 15, 1980 (Setting is circa one million B.C.) Series:   Flintstones; The Shmoo Animated Series:   L’il Abner The Story:   While working as police officers, Fred and Barney encounter the Shmoo! Notes:   The Shmoos are a species from the Valley of Shmoon.  In the L’il Abner comic strip, the hero discovers them in 1948, and brings them home.  This strange species, which is edible, and happy to oblige, and also make great pets, ends up multiplying asexually and exponentially, to an extent that threatens to destroy the world economy.  This leads to a mass government led slaughter of all Shmoos outside the valley. They are afterwards declared a major threat to national security. Two Shmoos are saved by L’il Abner, and live for a time in Dogpatch, before marrying and returning to the valley.  In 1979, The New Shmoo was a series involving myster...