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

[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."