Television Crossover Universe

TGIF stands for Thank God It's Friday traditionally, but from 1988 to 2000, it stood for Thank Goodness It's Funny.  During those years, ABC had a Friday night block of programming from 8PM to 10PM that was family oriented programming, and admittedly, my family was in that market audience.  Some of these programs crossed with each other, and at least one crosses into the greater Television Crossover Universe, pulling all other other shows in with it.  Have Mercy! Since not all of the shows from TGIF have crossed, I'm not going with an automatic presumption that they are in.  This blog will only cover TGIF shows that have valid connection to the TVCU, by starting with Perfect Strangers (which is brought in via a cross with Happy Days), and from there, Perfect Strangers connects to Family Matters, the show that, God help us, introduced Steve Urkel, the crossover glue of the TGIF TVCU. Summer 1983--GHOSTBUSTERS--Paranormal research scientists Egon Spengler, Ray St...

What's a quickie?   See this blog. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia My Name Is Earl  is an American television comedy series created by  Greg Garcia  that aired on the  NBC  television network from September 20, 2005, to May 14, 2009, in the United States. It was produced by  20th Century Fox Television  and starred  Jason Lee  as the title character, Earl Hickey. The series also stars  Ethan Suplee ,  Jaime Pressly ,  Eddie Steeples , and  Nadine Velazquez . Most episodes from the first season, then only a few from the rest, begin with Earl presenting the premise of the series: You know the kind of guy who does nothing but bad things and then wonders why his life sucks? Well, that was me. Every time something good happened to me, something bad was always waiting round the corner:  karma . That's when I realized that I had to change, so I made a list of everything bad I've ever done and one by o...