Television Crossover Universe

JOHNNY BRAVO! A spiritual sequel to the original Saturday morning Scooby-Doo! SEASON 4 EPISODE 11 “A PAGE RIGHT OUT OF HISTORY” Release Date:   August 2004 (Setting is c. 1,000,000 B.C., during the time when Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm are teens) Animated Series Crosses:   The Flintstones; The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show The Story:   A million years ago, in Bedrock, an ancestor of Johnny Bravo has his life saved by Fred Flintstone, after which Johnny’s ancestor attempts to repay the debt by doing Fred’s chores. Notes:   The prehistoric ancestor is also named Johnny Bravo, and acts just like our Johnny, but it’s made clear from the episode this is Johnny’s prehistoric ancestor, not a contemporary Johnny in Bedrock.   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

I first became aware of the fictional crossover/shared reality concept when I was five years old. As my family was about to embark on a drive from Massachusetts to California, my father gave me my first comic book to keep me occupied, and it was an issue of the Marvel Comics adaptation of Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics. This is the first time I was able to comprehend what was going on here, on a significant level. All these characters from their own cartoons were appearing together, as part of the same reality, thus placing all their previous cartoons in the same reality. Chris Nigro adds, from this except from his foreword in TELEVISION CROSSOVER UNIVERSE: WORLDS AND MYTHOLOGY I: Nevertheless, it’s far from a new concept. It was simply a trope not commonly presented to the general public, save in a few popular fictional universes we are encouraged (quite unfortunately) to “forget” once we enter the esteemed status of adulthood. Relevant to some of the timelines presented in