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The Television Crossover Universe Celebrates Gordon Long!

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Gordon Long is the final of the original Crew to discuss.  Gordon was a founding member of the TVCU Crew along with Ivan and James. Like the previous two Crewsies I discussed, I met Gordon Long also in the Wold Newton Family Yahoo group, where Gordon, among other things, was the master of linking fictional characters based on names. When I created the Crossovers Forum, Gordon was one of the earliest and most active participants, and when the TVCU website was launched, he became one who contributed a lot of ideas and discussion relevant to the TVCU.  He really got what the TVCU was about.  He gets crossovers and he happens to know a lot about classic TV, in such detail that makes him a great resource for me. So it was a no-brainer that he was also a founding member of the TVCU Crew when I created the idea.  And Gordon enthusiastically jumped on board and wrote some of the most excellent crossover chronologies on this website.  Sadly, after a while, Gordon h...

Oh, No, Not This: My Little Pony: Crossovers are Magic

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A TVCU blog post by James Bojaciuk. What are we covering today? NO. That is not happening. Let’s talk about Bill and Ted. Fine. You win. Okay? You and your cute eyes win. They win every time, Stupid ponies. It seems this is the show that I cannot escape from. First, the most peculiar of all my exes made me watch this with her; then, my one friend who probably does not want to be named continually sent me all sorts of pony-content without my approval; and then, sigh of sighs, my paper on how a sense of wonder will always attract an audience requires me to watch this show and try to understand the “brony” (bro-pony) culture. (The paper also lets me write about Bill and Ted, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Wonderland, and Doctor Who—so it’s not all sunshine apocalypses.) In case you’re dying to understand Equestrian biology, enjoy the following image. For those of you who barely contained your bile during Bio class, I recommend scrolling really really fast. S...