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Hamlet

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'Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio' I covered William Shakespeare's Macbeth a little while ago, so on to Hamlet. 16th Century--HAMLET--The Mel Gibson version, yes, is the official version in the TVCU because Mel Gibson played the same role again on Sesame Street.   16th Century--HAMLET 2--Hamlet and Jesus have time travel adventures.  (Okay, this was a fake play within a comedy film, but I just had to include it.) 1897--THE PURSUIT OF THE HOUSE-BOAT--This story features many characters in the afterlife including SHERLOCK HOLMES, HAMLET, SHYLOCK, LECOQ, HANKSHAW, MAN FRIDAY, PORTIA, JIM HAWKINS, OPHELIA, TRILBY, THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, THE OLD SLEUTH, THE THREE MUSKETEERS and numerous other biblical and historical characters.   1947--A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE-- Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.  IMDB, ever conflating minor characte...

Sesame Street Revisited

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Continuing our celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Television Crossover Universe... This was my eighth blog post, and probably the one that truly separated the Television Crossover Universe from other crossover based shared reality websites and groups.  In fact, in one particular group, someone brought up this post in a thread, and it was quickly deemed off topic and forbidden to speak of.  I wear that as a badge of honor, because the Television Crossover Universe is unique and it is my baby, and I'm very happy to be doing my own thing, and standing apart from what others may be doing. How many other crossoverists would seriously place a potty training video in their shared reality?  I take my methodology very seriously, but this should still be fun, right? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OK, so this will be my position on muppets.   For now, I'll say that if you d...