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?

[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.

[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?

[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