most TV is just the dream of an autistic child

[juldea]

This is so, so cool. Thanks for en_ki for the link. To summarize:

TV shows often have crossovers wherein an actor/actress not only guest stars on a show, s/he guest stars as his/her character from her/his main show - i.e. Richard Belzer playing Detective John Munch on Law & Order, Homicide, the X-Files, and Oz. This insinuates that these shows all exist within the same universe.

On one episode of Law & Order, the lawyers were involved in a trial of a doctor from St. Elsewhere.

St. Elsewhere ended its final episode by revealing that the entire series - the characters, the story, everything - was in fact the dream of a dying autsitic child named Tommy Westphall.

Hence, the five shows I mentioned above, as well as the other one hundred and sixty-three shows that have been linked to them through character crossovers, are all the dream of Tommy Westphall.

*brain 'splody!*

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Neato. They need a better visualization, though.

...working on it...

[ian-goodknight.livejournal.com]

That's freaking neat!

I'm a huge fan of Law and Order, and I really enjoy John Munch crossing over all the time... But this is really cool!

It's like something Stephen King would've come up with.

(Sidenote: Buy the last Dark Tower book. That is all.)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

mmmm books.... yes, must buy Dark Tower! Must reread and finish series!

Dreaming the dreamer

[cristovau.livejournal.com]

And yet the Bob Newhart (of the Bob Newhart Show) dreamed that he was dreaming his entire second show in the final episode of the Newhart Show. It's an odd culdesac in the Tommy map.

Re: Dreaming the dreamer

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Ah, but people dream about dreaming all the time (or at least I do)... dreaming about someone else's dream isn't that crazy :)

Re: Dreaming the dreamer

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

Right, especially if you're really familiar with the other person's dream.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Crossovers are great fun. Philip Jose Farmer wrote several books explaining how all the great pulp heroes were related to each other, stemming from a single event in Wodl Newton. In recent comics, we have Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Arguably the tradition goes back to Jason and the Argonauts -- "Hey, wouldn't it be neat if all the mythological heroes teamed up on one big adventure!"

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I ♥ the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. The graphic, at least.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Have you read the second volume? It's less plot-oriented than the first, but the characterization rocks even more.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't. You're welcome to lend it to me though. ;) (Once I get done with MoA and CoN...)

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Give me a reminder once you've got time in your entertainment schedule, then. Oh, and watch the movies I loaned you! [I know, I'm such a nag...]

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I need reminding on one of these nights I'm not actually doing something preplanned...

[ex-krink990.livejournal.com]

is this like the thing where on the final episode of roseanne she reveals that most of the story line was just things she made up for the purpose of writing a book? i was always so disappointed they didn't REALLY win the lottery.
(is it necessary for me to indicate that i'm being sarcastic?)
i liked the cross-overs between friends and mad about you - and then the whole empty nest and golden girls / cheers and frasier phenomenons - ah let's all give three cheers to spin-off series. hip hip for nbc sitcoms!