Canon Collision

[tzikeh]

As figured out by mamadeb, jacquez, elynross, and me, and with the incredible resource of Thom Holbrook's Crossovers:

XFiles is canonically in the same universe as Law and Order, Law and Order:SVU, and Homicide, via Munch.

Homicide is canonically in the same universe as St. Elsewhere, via Dr. Turner.

St. Elsewhere is canonically in the same universe as the following: Bob Newhart (via Bob's patient Mr. Carlin), Scrubs (via Drs. Craig, Ehrlich, and Axelrod), Oz (via Wiegert Medical Corporation), M*A*S*H (via B.J. Hunnicut), Cheers (Doctors stop in after work), and the list goes on.

Cheers, of course, is in the same universe as Frasier. I'm noticing a lot of pscyhiatrists and psychologists wandering about...

Honestly? I couldn't begin to write up how all these shows are interconnected - go visit Thom's page and spend an afternoon. All I can tell you is, the next time someone drops Krycek into Oz, or has Mulder dating The Janitor? They're at least *starting* from solid canon. What they do next, well... that's out of your hands.

But remember this - St. Elsewhere? Was all the dream of an autistic child. So, none of our tv shows actually exist.

Comments

[prillalar]

What about Mulder and Scully on the Simpsons? Does that count?

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I don't know - I guess so! I mean, it's animated, but it was Mulder and Scully and they *were* there.

[cereta.livejournal.com]

'spose the Skinners are related?

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I have a headache now.

Were you around when Nicole's theory was prevalent -- that they were all in Viet Nam together? You could link everything from Sandbaggers to Miami Vice to a bunch of other shows by the characters' pasts.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

:D No, I wasn't around for that theory! It's a good one, but what I'm amazed by is the actual canonical links. This website is giving me brain-break.

[lapillus]

Trying to figure out which universes are shared is a game I've liked for a long time. What I'd really like to figure out is which are mutually fictitious. Namely, do we have characters watching each other on TV at any point?

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not mutually fictitious, but you do end up with people watching other people on television with Sports Night and Spin City. Michael J. Fox's character on Spin City watched Sports Night (the show within the show, not the show we-the-real-people watched).

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Two examples I can think of -
A character on Quantum Leap watches Magnum P.I. on tv -

and Buffy says "I can't believe you're trying to Scully me", which for me says X-F is fictional in the Buffyverse.

[yahtzee63.livejournal.com]

Will from "Will and Grace" admits to watching "The King of Queens." Also, "Dawson's Creek," the Superman mythos, and "Passions" are all fictional for BTVS.

[barkley.livejournal.com]

My favorite one is all in TXF. I want to say it's "The Natural" but perhaps it's "Agua Mala" that has old Arthur Dales watching the Alien Bounty Hunter in I think "Colony/End Game."

[yahtzee63.livejournal.com]

Interesting factoid -- "I Love Lucy" is in the same universe as "It's Garry Shandling's Show."

[(Anonymous)]

The tricky bit about the Homicide:X-Files connection, though, is that even though Munch appeared on X-Files (meaning that in the world of the X-Files, the world of Homicide is real rather than televised), in the world of Homicide there is a show called The X-Files on TV. On the night of the grand opening of The Waterfront, once Tim, Meldrick, and Munch are co-owners, they're waiting around and no one has arrived yet. And one of them makes the remark that everyone is probably home watching The X-Files.

So the question becomes, can reality only go one way? Or if the worlds/characters of Homicide and X-Files are both real at the same time, is there a different TV show called "The X-Files" in that universe that's about something else?

Dude. This is deep.

Dorinda

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

So the question becomes, can reality only go one way? Or if the worlds/characters of Homicide and X-Files are both real at the same time, is there a different TV show called "The X-Files" in that universe that's about something else?

Yay!! Someone else shares my theory. *g* I hold that this is especially true of The X-Files, for obvious reasons--that whole universe is some sort of canon wormhole, which you can prove by trying to follow the logic threads of the conspiracy storyline. Mostly, I hold this is true because I like Highlander/XF crossovers even though Methos makes a 'Mulder and Scully' reference in "Indisretions."