Television Crossover Universe

 I'm running out of crossovers.  I used to have a rule.  Only series that had three crossovers get covered.  But I'm running out of ideas.  So now I'm also going to cover series that had a franchise, meaning they spun off movies or such from the original concept.  (In doing my due dilligence, I found that this series actually does have the crossovers to make it following my three crossover rule.) So today we're going to talk about Gilligan's Island.  With Gilligan, the skipper too.  The Millionaire and his wife.  The movie star, and the rest... okay, fine, the professor and Mary Ann.   William Gilligan was a mighty sailor man, or so the story goes.  However, he seemed on the island to be dimwitted at best. CPT Jonahs Grumy was the skipper.  He was brave and sure.  If not for the courage of the fearless two, the S.S. Minnow would be lost.   Thurston Howell III is a former multi-billionaire until after the sto...

  So this is not going to be a chronology, and it's not even really about crossovers.  Sometimes the TVCU is about reconciling different versions of the same character.   I recently watched Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and there will be slight spoilers here, so you've been warned.   As I watched the movie, my brain kept thinking of how the cartoon could fit in the same universe as this sequel.   So following the events of the first film, and prior to the first episode of the cartoon, Betelgeuse and Lydia became friends, and Adam and Barbara went away.  The second is explained in the sequel.  Lydia found a loophole in the Handbook that allowed the couple to pass on.  That would have happened prior to the cartoon.  Perhaps Betelgeuse helped with this and that's how they became friends.   Then would follow the wonderful animated series.   Following the animated series, Betelgeuse, having fallen in love with Lydia, ...

You'll shoot your eye out. It's March, and I'm covering A Christmas Story.  It's been a Christmas tradition for me to cover a Christmas themed subject every December 25 on the blog, but I've been a bit behind schedule.  So since we're behind schedule, and we've finally wrapped up the TVCU Crew celebration (It's a major award!) let's get going with Ralphie and his Red Rider BB gun. sometime between the 17th and 18th centuries--TALES OF MONKEY ISLAND--It all makes sense now.  The earliest appearance of the Leg Lamp (chronologically within the TVCU) is this pirate adventure where the the lamp is part of a voodoo curse, and now it all makes sense. 1912 to Present--Santa has appeared on screen since 1912, in over a thousand films and television shows. Not all are TVCU canon. Of those that are, some are of the “real” Santa and some are just a man in the suit, but it’s a TVCU concept that anyone wearing the suit can become possessed by the Chr...