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July 12, 2016
WATSON'S EDITOR
Upcoming this weekend, I will be continuing the series of real persons and events in the TVCU with Pablo Picasso, the Titanic, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
This is part III of the Sherlock Holmes TVCU Trilogy. Click here for Part I:
Sherlock Holmes: A TVCU Quickie, and here for Part II: One Ghost Need Apply: The Adventure of Sherlock’s Spirit.
May 22, 1859--Birth of Arthur Conan Doyle, future editor and literary agent for John Watson and Edward Malone. For a full list of appearances of Arthur Conan Doyle as portrayed by actors on screen, click here.
Late December 1884-Late March 1885 - The events of The List of Seven, as recounted by Mark Frost, in which an occult cabal known as the Seven is broken up by Jack Sparks and his friend Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle (Watson's literary agent).
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Before 1886--FOREVER KNIGHT--"Blind Faith"--Nick's vampire dog is implied to inspire THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, though that story is also based on a true case of Sherlock Holmes. This story has to take place before Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), but is also implied to be set before Arthur Conan Doyle's first published story.
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1888--VOYAGERS--"Jack's Back"--Phineas is framed by evil Voyager Drake for the murders of Jack the Ripper. Jeffrey seeks the aid of Arthur Conan Doyle and Nellie Bly.
1888--SHANGHAI KNIGHTS--Chon Wang (AKA the Shanghai Kid, said to be an ancestor of Jackie Chan in the JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES) and Roy O'Bannon (the pen name of Wyatt Earp) travel to London to seek revenge on those who killed Chon Wang's father. There they find Chon's sister. They are assisted by police officer Arthur Conan Doyle, and a young homeless boy named Charlie Chaplin. The Shaghai Kid's sister, Chon Lin, kicks Jack the Ripper's ass when he attacks her.
September 1894 - Arthur Conan Doyle and his sometime partner, Jack Sparks, share an adventure in America in The Six Messiahs, as told by Mark Frost.
1908--IN THE COMPANY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES--"By Any Other Name"--Arthur Conan Doyle reveals to his second wife, Jean Leckie, that he did not write most of his books, which had ghost - writers. This conforms with TVCU canon.
1909--THE ROOK # 1 - 4--"The Rook: Master of the World"--The Rook, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, O. Henry, the Cisco Kid, Pancho, and Sherlock Holmes team up against Robur the Conqueror. Note that Jules Verne died in 1905 in the real world, but in the TVCU, that death must have been averted or delayed a few years. This story provides evidence that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also existed in the same universe as Sherlock Holmes. In the TVCU, Watson was Holmes' biographer, and Arthur Conan Doyle was Watson's editor.
1909--TARZAN: THE MODERN PROMETHEUS--One of the more significant crossovers involved, ostensibly, the original Monster meeting Tesla, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Tarzan in New York City, 1909.
1911--PROFESSOR CHALLENGER: NEW WORLDS, LOST PLACES--"King of the Moon"--This anthology of new stories featuring Challenger includes a story that states that Challenger reached out to Arthur Conan Doyle to write his tales, but since Malone was the storyteller, we must assume that in the end, it must have been settled that Arthur Conan Doyle chose instead the role as editor to Malone, just as he was to Watson. This story is also a crossover with THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON and takes place ten years after that story.
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April 10 to 14, 1912--YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE TITANIC ADVENTURE--Young Indy and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are aboard the Titanic. Both survive. Arthur Conan Doyle has also appeared on TARZAN (DARK HORSE COMICS), VOYAGERS, SHANGHAI KNIGHTS, and THE STRANGE CASE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. The Titanic has also appeared on VOYAGERS, FUTURAMA, GHOST HUNTERS, TIME BANDITS, GHOSTBUSTERS II, AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON, and THE TERROR OF FU MANCHU.
My life is gliding downwards; it speeds swifter to the day
When it shoots the last dark Canyon to the Plains of Far-away,
But while its stream is running through the years that are to be,
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.-from "The Athabasca Trail"
by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1914
March to April 1917--THE DEMON DEVICE--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle meets "the Hairless Mexican", from Ashenden, or the British Agent. Arthur Conan Doyle was working as a spy for the government. He would later relate this tale to author Robert Saffron.
August 1921--ESCAPADE--Harry Houdini solves a mystery. His friend, Arthur Conan Doyle, briefly appears in the story. Note that Houdini has also met Sherlock Holmes several times in the TVCU.
July 7, 1930--Death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Summer 2265--STAR TREK--"Wolf in the Fold"--The Enterprise crew encounter Redjac, who is an energy being who has inhabited many people over the centuries using them to kill people as a serial killer. He was Jack the Ripper. Of course, SHERLOCK HOLMES and ELLERY QUEEN both thought they solved the Jack the Ripper mysteries. Gary Seven also encountered Redjac in 1974 in Moscow. Vandal Savage aka Kane has also claimed to have been Jack the Ripper. One could have been a copycat of the other. The Shanghai Kid's sister encountered one of the Ripper's and kicked his ass. The Shanghai Kid and Wyatt Earp were in London working with Arthur Conan Doyle and Charlie Chaplin. The Shanghai Kid is an ancestor of Jackie Chan.
divergent timelines:
Earth-Prime (Sometimes referenced as TVCU-33)--This isn't the real world, but it's the fictional representation of the real world. As I've mentioned in other posts, there are cases where doppelgangers in different realities have a psychic connection, but aren't always aware of it. This accounts for how the stories edited by Arthur Conan Doyle in the TVCU were also written by Arthur Conan Doyle in the "real world".
"TVCU 3" or something similar--Brett Graham Fawcett reports: It seems to me that "Murder Rooms", "Houdini and Doyle" and "Arthur and George", all of which depict Arthur Conan Doyle solving mysteries and which clearly depict Holmes as a fictional character (yet are also too heavily fictionalized to be a part of "our" world), can all share a continuity. Obviously it's not the main TVCU in which Sherlock Holmes figures prominently but surely it is a "TVCU 3" or something similar.
This is part III of the Sherlock Holmes TVCU Trilogy. Click here for Part I:
Sherlock Holmes: A TVCU Quickie, and here for Part II: One Ghost Need Apply: The Adventure of Sherlock’s Spirit.
May 22, 1859--Birth of Arthur Conan Doyle, future editor and literary agent for John Watson and Edward Malone. For a full list of appearances of Arthur Conan Doyle as portrayed by actors on screen, click here.
Late December 1884-Late March 1885 - The events of The List of Seven, as recounted by Mark Frost, in which an occult cabal known as the Seven is broken up by Jack Sparks and his friend Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle (Watson's literary agent).
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Before 1886--FOREVER KNIGHT--"Blind Faith"--Nick's vampire dog is implied to inspire THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, though that story is also based on a true case of Sherlock Holmes. This story has to take place before Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), but is also implied to be set before Arthur Conan Doyle's first published story.
[image error]1888--VOYAGERS--"Jack's Back"--Phineas is framed by evil Voyager Drake for the murders of Jack the Ripper. Jeffrey seeks the aid of Arthur Conan Doyle and Nellie Bly.
1888--SHANGHAI KNIGHTS--Chon Wang (AKA the Shanghai Kid, said to be an ancestor of Jackie Chan in the JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES) and Roy O'Bannon (the pen name of Wyatt Earp) travel to London to seek revenge on those who killed Chon Wang's father. There they find Chon's sister. They are assisted by police officer Arthur Conan Doyle, and a young homeless boy named Charlie Chaplin. The Shaghai Kid's sister, Chon Lin, kicks Jack the Ripper's ass when he attacks her.
September 1894 - Arthur Conan Doyle and his sometime partner, Jack Sparks, share an adventure in America in The Six Messiahs, as told by Mark Frost.
1908--IN THE COMPANY OF SHERLOCK HOLMES--"By Any Other Name"--Arthur Conan Doyle reveals to his second wife, Jean Leckie, that he did not write most of his books, which had ghost - writers. This conforms with TVCU canon.
1909--THE ROOK # 1 - 4--"The Rook: Master of the World"--The Rook, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jules Verne, O. Henry, the Cisco Kid, Pancho, and Sherlock Holmes team up against Robur the Conqueror. Note that Jules Verne died in 1905 in the real world, but in the TVCU, that death must have been averted or delayed a few years. This story provides evidence that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also existed in the same universe as Sherlock Holmes. In the TVCU, Watson was Holmes' biographer, and Arthur Conan Doyle was Watson's editor.
1909--TARZAN: THE MODERN PROMETHEUS--One of the more significant crossovers involved, ostensibly, the original Monster meeting Tesla, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Tarzan in New York City, 1909.
1911--PROFESSOR CHALLENGER: NEW WORLDS, LOST PLACES--"King of the Moon"--This anthology of new stories featuring Challenger includes a story that states that Challenger reached out to Arthur Conan Doyle to write his tales, but since Malone was the storyteller, we must assume that in the end, it must have been settled that Arthur Conan Doyle chose instead the role as editor to Malone, just as he was to Watson. This story is also a crossover with THE FIRST MEN IN THE MOON and takes place ten years after that story.
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April 10 to 14, 1912--YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE TITANIC ADVENTURE--Young Indy and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are aboard the Titanic. Both survive. Arthur Conan Doyle has also appeared on TARZAN (DARK HORSE COMICS), VOYAGERS, SHANGHAI KNIGHTS, and THE STRANGE CASE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. The Titanic has also appeared on VOYAGERS, FUTURAMA, GHOST HUNTERS, TIME BANDITS, GHOSTBUSTERS II, AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON, and THE TERROR OF FU MANCHU.
My life is gliding downwards; it speeds swifter to the day
When it shoots the last dark Canyon to the Plains of Far-away,
But while its stream is running through the years that are to be,
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me.-from "The Athabasca Trail"
by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1914
March to April 1917--THE DEMON DEVICE--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle meets "the Hairless Mexican", from Ashenden, or the British Agent. Arthur Conan Doyle was working as a spy for the government. He would later relate this tale to author Robert Saffron.
August 1921--ESCAPADE--Harry Houdini solves a mystery. His friend, Arthur Conan Doyle, briefly appears in the story. Note that Houdini has also met Sherlock Holmes several times in the TVCU.
July 7, 1930--Death of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Summer 2265--STAR TREK--"Wolf in the Fold"--The Enterprise crew encounter Redjac, who is an energy being who has inhabited many people over the centuries using them to kill people as a serial killer. He was Jack the Ripper. Of course, SHERLOCK HOLMES and ELLERY QUEEN both thought they solved the Jack the Ripper mysteries. Gary Seven also encountered Redjac in 1974 in Moscow. Vandal Savage aka Kane has also claimed to have been Jack the Ripper. One could have been a copycat of the other. The Shanghai Kid's sister encountered one of the Ripper's and kicked his ass. The Shanghai Kid and Wyatt Earp were in London working with Arthur Conan Doyle and Charlie Chaplin. The Shanghai Kid is an ancestor of Jackie Chan.
divergent timelines:
Earth-Prime (Sometimes referenced as TVCU-33)--This isn't the real world, but it's the fictional representation of the real world. As I've mentioned in other posts, there are cases where doppelgangers in different realities have a psychic connection, but aren't always aware of it. This accounts for how the stories edited by Arthur Conan Doyle in the TVCU were also written by Arthur Conan Doyle in the "real world".
"TVCU 3" or something similar--Brett Graham Fawcett reports: It seems to me that "Murder Rooms", "Houdini and Doyle" and "Arthur and George", all of which depict Arthur Conan Doyle solving mysteries and which clearly depict Holmes as a fictional character (yet are also too heavily fictionalized to be a part of "our" world), can all share a continuity. Obviously it's not the main TVCU in which Sherlock Holmes figures prominently but surely it is a "TVCU 3" or something similar.
Taking a break
I’ve decided I’m at a point where I need to start focusing less on promoting the books already out, and need to work more on finishing the books in progress. You can find my two published books on my amazon page. And as new books come out, I will start promoting those. Until then, I’ll be writing.
July 5, 2016
King of the World: The Untrue Story of the Titanic in the TVCU
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Upcoming this weekend, I will be continuing the series of real persons and events in the TVCU with Pablo Picasso, the Titanic, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Pre-History--HOMO ERECTUS--A cave drawing shows a caveman riding a wooley mammoth yelling "I"m King of the World" while doing the pose, so that thing has been going on and trending in the TVCU for a very long time before Jack did it.
1846 to 1863--GANGS OF NEW YORK--Someone is seen doing the "King of the World" thing on a boat. Clearly, in the TVCU, this must have been a thing people did long before Jack did it on the Titanic. [This was an intentional nod to Leonardo DiCaprio.]
March 6, 1910 to August 27, 1911--TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN VOLUME 9: LA VIE EN NOIR--"Professor Peaslee Plays Paris"--Our friend Peter Rawlik spins a crossover tale that links: LOVECRAFT'S CTHULHU MYTHOS, PHILIP JOSE FARMER'S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE, SHERLOCK HOLMES, AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, DOC SAVAGE, FATHER BROWN, THE BLACK COATS, CHARLIE CHAN, ZIGOMAR, JULES MAIGRET, YOUNG INDIANA JONES, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, ARSENE LUPIN, TITANIC, THE PINK PANTHER, MALTESE FALCON, BARON CESARE STROMBOLI.
April 10 to 15, 1912--TITANIC--A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind, but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. Molly Brown, a real life figure important in this film, has also appeared in TELEPHONE TIME, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN, S.O.S. TITANIC, VOYAGER FROM THE UNKNOWN, VOYAGERS!, TITANIC (1996), TITANIC: BREAKING NEW GROUND, TITANIC: SECRETS REVEALED, FRENCH AND SAUNDERS, GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS, LAST MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC, and TITANIC (2012). Click here for other appearances of Captain Edward J. Smith. Click here for other appearances of Thomas Andrews. And for Bruce Ismay.
1912--FOREVER KNIGHT--"Black Buddha"--A flashback episode reveals that a cursed Buddha statue is the reason why the unsinkable ship sank.
1912--LEGENDS OF THE DCU--The Spectre was present at these events but chose to preserve the fixed point in time by letting the disaster occur.
1912--NO TIME FOR NUTS--Scrat from the ICE AGE time travels and winds up on the iceberg.
1912--DOCTOR WHO--There was also 2 versions of the the 7th Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield, The master, A time traveler form the London blitz and a con man named Buick Riviera who had previouslymet a man named the Stanger in the New Mexico town of Diamondback in 1882
1912--VOYAGERS--Also there.
Phineas Bogg:The first thing we have to do is find out how much time we have.
Jeffrey Jones:Are you crazy? We've got to stop this ship!
Phineas Bogg:Jeffrey, look...
Jeffrey Jones:Over a thousand people are gonna die. We can stop it. We can make it so it never happened.
Phineas Bogg:That's not what's wrong.
Jeffrey Jones:How can you say that?
Phineas Bogg:I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes history's cruel. There's, there's wars, disasters, injustices, but some of those things, no matter how much you want them not to happen, are supposed to happen.
Jeffrey Jones:But the Titanic...
Phineas Bogg:Is a terrible tragedy, but it's going to happen. It was in my guidebook; you learned it in school. We can't change that. But we can find out why the Omni's red. Maybe somebody's on board that isn't supposed to be. Maybe we can save somebody important before it goes down.
Jeffrey Jones:No! We can save them all!
Phineas Bogg:No, we can't.('Voyagers!)
Fritz & Ivan on the 1st Class Promenade1912 - APR - THE LOST TRACK OF TIME - Ivan and Fritz
Ivan on the Grand StaircaseSchablotski arrive from the year 2013 and find themselves onboard the RMS Titanic's maiden voyage. The ship seems frozen in time except for Fritz, Ivan, and the Hounds of Langalos that begin pursuing them. The only other person they can interact with is I. P. Freely, who claims to be the First Officer. Freely (who was expecting a different pair of brothers) pushes back the hounds and reveals that Ivan and Fritz are trapped inside a fixed moment in time, but he is able to return them to 2013 by undoing the changes he already made to the timeline.
The RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage, a trip that has appeared in numerous works of fiction (including TIME BANDITS, GHOSTBUSTERS II, and TITANIC, just to name a few). The Hounds of Langalos are derived from Frank Belknap Long's "The Hounds of Tindalos" (1931) and Stephen King's "The Langoliers" (1990), suggesting the two races of temporal predators are the same or have interbred. The concept of 'fixed points in time' is from the BBC tv series Doctor Who (1963 to present). I. P. Freely was an alias used by the angel Balthazar when he (temporarily) saved the Titanic in SUPERNATURAL season 6 episode 17 "My Heart Will Go On" (2011).
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April 10 to 14, 1912--YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE TITANIC ADVENTURE--Young Indy and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are aboard the Titanic. Both survive. Doyle has also appeared on TARZAN (DARK HORSE COMICS), VOYAGERS, SHANGHAI KNIGHTS, and THE STRANGE CASE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. The Titanic has also appeared on VOYAGERS, FUTURAMA, GHOST HUNTERS, TIME BANDITS, GHOSTBUSTERS II, AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON, and THE TERROR OF FU MANCHU.
April 10-14, 1912 - Aboard the Titanic, Jacques Futrelle, chronicler of the cases of Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (aka "the Thinking Machine") and Futrelle's wife May, investigate a series of murders. Unfortunately, Futrelle does not survive the Titanic tragedy, although May does (The Titanic Murders, as related by Max Allan Collins).
1912--THE TIME TUNNEL--The characters from this show were also on the Titanic.
1912--BBC TITANIC MINI-SERIES--JENNA LOUISE COLEMAN appears. Because she played Clara, who had split herself up and traveled back to various points to help the Doctor, and since the Doctor has been on the Titanic, it's possible the character she plays here is one of those versions of Clara.
1912--TIME BANDITS--The time travelling bandits are relaxing on the Titanic while hiding.
1912--GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS # 11--In reality, a time travelling Godzilla was responsible for the sinking of the Titanic.
April 1912--THE ADVENTURE OF THE PERFIDIOUS MARINER--From the classy James Bojaciuk: I listened to this last night. I don't see why it shouldn't fit into the TVCU, given how much we're incorporating Big Finish's audio dramas now. Watson's wife (the unnamed one he married around 1902) dies on the Titanic. (Neither Holmes nor Watson were aboard, however.) Since we count The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, that explains what allowed Watson to marry again near the end of WW1.
1912--UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS--"Miss Forest"/"A House Divided"--Characters are aboard the Titanic, and not all survive.
1912--TIMON & PUMBAA--"Going Over-Boar'd"--The pair leave Africa and run amok on the Titanic, partially responsible for the ship hitting the iceberg.
1912--AMERICAN DRAGON: JAKE LONG--"Fu and Tell"--But also, Yan Yan and Fu Dog also are partially responsible during their fights throughout time.
Downton Abbey is a British period drama television series created by Julian Fellowes and co-produced by Carnival Films and Masterpiece.[1] It first aired on ITV in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 26 September 2010 and on PBS in the United States on 9 January 2011 as part of the Masterpiece Classic anthology. Four series have been made so far; a fifth is planned for 2014. The series, set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey, depicts the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with the great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy. Such events depicted throughout the series include news of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in the first series; the outbreak of the First World War, the Spanish influenza pandemic, and the Marconi scandal in the second series; the Interwar period and the formation of the Irish Free Statein the third series; and the Teapot Dome scandal in the fourth series. Toobworld O'Bserver Toby O'Brien adds: Since two members of the Crawley family supposedly died on the Titanic, then we can make connections to upstairs downstairs, Dr. Who, and the time tunnel.
December 1913--THE TERROR OF FU MANCHU--Fantomas is said to have also been on the Titanic when it sank. Other crossovers include: THE YELLOW CLAW and LES VAMPIRES.
1915--NIGHT GALLERY--"Lone Survivor"--The Lusitania finds a survivor of the Titanic who had survived through cowardice and is now forced to become the cursed Flying Dutchman. He reveals he is forced to survive and be rescued by doomed ships. The Lusitania is sunk by a torpedo moments later.
1956--NIGHT GALLERY--"Lone Survivor"--The survivor of the Titanic is found again, now among the wreckage of the Lusitania, by the Andrea Doria, a ship that famously sunk off the coast of Massachusetts in 1956.
1973 - Si Morley returns briefly to the present and becomes embroiled in another assignment for the Project, involving the events surrounding the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 (From Time to Time, by Simon Morley, edited by Jack Finney; click here for more information).
2000--'N SYNC & BRITTNEY SPEARS: YOUR # 1 VIDEO REQUESTS...AND MORE!--Apparently an astronaught went and retrieved the Heart of the Ocean for Brittney Spears, who is living on Mars.
FAMILY GUY (ANIMATED SERIES) SEASON 2 EPISODE 6 “DEATH IS A BITCH”Release Date: March 21, 2000Cutaway Crosses: TitanicNon-Crosses: Dawson’s CreekThe Story: When Peter fakes his death to avoid paying a bill, the Grim Reaper takes it seriously and comes to claim Peter’s soul. However, Death twists his ankle while chasing Peter, and so he makes a deal with Peter. Peter can live if Death is allowed to recuperate in the Griffin home. However, while Death is recovering, and thus not working, no one on Earth can die. Once Peter exposes this fact to the public, the only way to rectify the situation is for Peter to take over the job temporarily to restore the natural order. Notes: The embodiment of Death personified dates back to 15th century English folklore, including the trappings of the skeletal form, cloak, and scythe. He is first referred to as the Grim Reaper in 1847. Often, Death is considered to be a heavenly angel serving God. Within the Cartoon Universe, it may be that there is more than one Grim Reaper. It’s not likely that this is the same Death/Grim Reaper as those seen in other Cartoon Universe canon series such as the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Supernatural, Bill & Ted, and more. In fact, the Death seen in this episode, who will become a recurring character on the show, states that this is just a job, one his father once held, and that he was pressured into following in the family tradition. So though this episode portrays that no one can die while Death is out of commission, perhaps it really is isolated to the Quahog area only, as other Reapers would still be working. Cutaway Crosses: An alternate ending to Titanic is seen in a cutaway flashback, so that it may have been a film, real events, or just made up. No way to really tell. Non-Crosses: Peter reflects on an episode of Dawson’s Creek that never aired in the real world.
2004--SHARK TALE--One of the sharks lives in the remains of the Titanic, and he has the famous nude drawing of Rose on the wall.
December 25, 2007--DOCTOR WHO--"Voyage of the Damned"--The Doctor accidentally crashes into a space replica of the Titanic visiting Earth on Christmas Day.
2008--THE MIDDLEMAN--"The Cursed Tuba Contingency"--The Middleman must retrieve a stolen tuba that had survived the sinking of the Titanic and holds with it a curse.
April 10, 2011--SUPERNATURAL--"My Heart Will Go On"--The Winchesters discover that they are in an alternate timeline, which may be the one from TITANIC: ADVENTURE OUT OF TIME, seen below in the Alternate Realities section. Balthazar, having hated the James Cameron film and the Celine Dion song, prevents them from existing by going back in time to the fixed point singularity, and prevents the sinking under the alias I.P. Freely. (Note that it's a common practical joke name.) Balthazar explains that he was able to alter a fixed point in time because there are no rules following the averted apocalypse. Clearly Balthazar's messing of a fixed point is responsible for almost every time traveler, divergence, curse, and major character becoming involved with this single event. Note that the descendants of those who should have died on the Titanic are dying in the manner of those who averted deaths in the FINAL DESTINATION franchise. Things that are different in the timeline where the Titanic never sank:Obviously the movie Titanic was never made!Dean drives a Mustang which has the original plates the Impala had - KAZ 2Y5 - until 2.20 What Is and What Should Never Be. A 65 Mustang was Kripke's original casting choice for the role of Dean's car: "When I was originally writing the show I wanted to give the guys an American muscle car. My first choice was a '65 Mustang. My neighbor said it has to be a '67 Impala, because you can put a body in the trunk. He says, 'You want a car that, when people stop next to it at the lights, they lock their doors.' " Source.The Impala line of cars was not produced.Ellen and Jo are alive.Ellen and Bobby are married and Singer Salvage Yard is called B & E Scrap Yard. Bobby's house appears neater than usual.In 2.17 Heart we learned that Sam knew Dean always played 'scissors' when they did Rock, Paper, Scissors, so Sam always won. Here Sam loses, although Dean still throws scissors.In the travel agency we see Cuba is a resort island destination -- "America's favorite holiday destination" -- and Detroit was voted "America's top city."Celine Dion is a "destitute lounge singer somewhere in Quebec."Cas transports Sam and Dean to "White Russia." this is an old term for Belarus and may be a hint that the Russian revolution of 1917 that lead to the formation of the Soviet Union, didn't occur.Other Titanic references:The episode was aired on the 99th anniversary of the date the Titanic sank.The travel agency is called E.J. Smith, who was the captain of the Titanic.Sam and Dean stay at the White Star Motel - the White Star Line was the name of the company that owned the Titanic.Sam uses a Wikipedia-like site called "Marconi Pages" named after Guglielmo Marconi the inventor of radio. The radio operators on the Titanic were employed by his company and were vital in relief efforts. Britain's postmaster-general later said "Those who have been saved, have been saved through one man, Mr. Marconi...and his marvelous invention." Source.From the Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 6 - everyone is drinking Astor Cola, named after businessman John Astor who died on the ship.While Sam was researching about the Titanic, the picture "Officers of the RMS Titanic", with Balthazar as First Mate I.P. Freely, is actually the picture of the captain and officers of RMS Carpathiawhich is the passenger steamship famous for rescuing the survivors of Titanic (Source).
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April 10, 2012--TITANIC 2--A replica of the Titanic sets off on the 100th anniversary of the original. A tidal wave causes an iceberg to crash into the replica. In the commentary, it's stated this same event is what freed Mega Shark in MEGA SHARK VERSUS GIANT OCTOPUS. This film has absolutely no connection to the James Cameron blockbuster, but it's certainly meant to be implied by the title.
2013--ECTOBER
Entering the distortion
Traveling the distortionEarly OCT - Because the Ghostbusters, Miskatonic University, and the crew of the Lord Kitchener already closed the case, Ivan convinces his brother Fritz to travel with him back into the Bermuda Triangle to further investigate the cause of the Sharknado phenomenon. This time a space-time distortion sends them into the past, and they find themselves briefly onboard the RMS Titanic in April 1912, during a singularity event. Returned to the present, they are attacked by a monstrous scarred great white that Ivan believes to be the same one he encountered in 1990; an undead shark referred to as Bruce. Ivan tries to take samples from Bruce, but the aquatic predator is too strong and fast, and quickly overpowers its bipedal opponent, even on the dry deck. Ivan discovers that sharks are among those animals capable of killing werewolves and barely escapes with his life. Hurt, and with nothing to show for it, Ivan promises to leave the matter alone after this.
Ivan tries to take a sample from Bruce
Bruce tries to take a sample from IvanThe RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage, a trip that has appeared in numerous works of fiction. SHARKNADOis a 2013 SyFy exclusive film that garnered undeserved popularity for its over-the-top premise. Bruce the Great White Shark was introduced in the 1975 movie JAWS (though he was only referred to as Bruce behind the scenes), but has been proposed to be a recurring undead "slasher" in the 2006 comic book HACK/SLASH: TRAILERS.
2014
NOV 11-18 - TIMELORD OF THE RINGS -The 8th Doctor discovers Ivan is of particular interest to the Fractal Paradox. The TARDIS, however, will still not move (or perform any other function that acknowledges Ivan's presence) while Ivan is aboard. Ivan postulates this may be related to the singularity he participated in that involved the Titanic. His efforts to study this anomaly results in the cessation of an endlessly looped videotape stored at the Arkham Ghostbusters' lab, and the creepy dead girl captured with the VHS tape in 2006 escapes, along with several duplicates created by the video-looping used to originally contain her, punctuated by a call on the Police Box telephone stating the prophetic quote "Seven Days". The Doctor notes that even the act of storing a psychic imprint in such a manner is nonsensical, and deduces that the onryō is the hybrid offspring of a human and an isomorphic being, which is something of a paradox since the ethereal cannot mate with the material. Together they detain the spirits and recombine them into a single entity, which they then trapped inside a piece of 3D Gallifreyan art called a Stasis Cube. The Doctor then deposits the cube on an uninhabited planet destined to be consumed by a black hole in a month's time.
The 8th Doctor debuted in the 1996 Made-For-TV movie DOCTOR WHO and appears in specials, audio performances, and assorted literature, as opposed to the other iterations of the Doctor, who appeared within episodes of the BBC television programme. Fractal Paradox is a variation on Faction Paradox, an antagonistic organisation in some of the adventures of the 8th Doctor, but which later spun-off into a series of stories unconnected to DOCTOR WHO, which is appropriate given the nature of paradoxi. The onryō spirit is similar to the ones seen in the various books, movies, television series, etc. based on the novel Ring (リング "Ringu") by Koji Suzuki, though this character is not stated to be Sadako, Samara, or other recorded onryō / yurei character within the franchise media. Statis Cube artwork / technology was first introduced in the 2013 Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR.
22nd and 23rd centuries--FALLOUT TACTICS--The remains of Jack Dawson are found, along with the sketch of Rose and the Heart of the Ocean. Clearly, even though it was a movie in the TVCU, the James Cameron film was more closely based on true events while in the real world, many elements were more fictitious. Click here to find Ivan and Matt have the most detailed discussion of Titanic I've ever witnessed.
10th April 2912--Futurama--"The Mutants Are Revolting"--The Land Titanic is launched from New New York City.
14th April 2912--Futurama--"The Mutants Are Revolting"--Four days into its maiden voyage, the Land Titanic strikes a mailbox and sinks into the New New York City sewers.
3000--FUTURAMA--"A Flight to Remember"--The Planet Express crew are on the space ship Titanic, that gets drawn into a black hole.
3013--FUTURAMA--"Assie Come Home"--Lots of junked robots appear creating crossovers with: GIGANTOR, STAR WARS, IRON GIANT, DOCTOR WHO, JETSONS, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, LOST IN SPACE, MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS, BUCK ROGERS, GIANT ROBO, BILL & TED, CLASH OF THE TITANS, BIG GUY & RUSTY, ROCKY, HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, FORBIDDEN PLANET, TERMINATOR, STAR TREK. There is also an incident where Fry gets his head stuck in one of POOH's honey pots. A Tatooine Land Speeder and Speedy Gonzales also appear. Also among a wrecked ships' cargo are the Ark of the Covenant and Holy Grail (INDIANA JONES), the Golden Fleece (JASON AND THE ARGONAUGHTS), and the Heart of the Ocean (TITANIC).
ALTERNATE TIMELINES:
CARTOON MULTIVERSE--Alternate versions exist in the universes of MAD and ROBOT CHICKEN.
MEMEVERSE--Click her to see actual in-depth discussions about these theories.
SKITLANDIA--Technically, a series of realities where sketch comedies take place. Shows like SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE have done parodies.
TITANIC: ADVENTURE OF OUT TIME: According to master researcher Matt Hickman Titanic: Adventure Out of Time and Dust: A Tale Of The Wired West crossover thanks to a con man named Buick Riviera with each other so probably their own AU snice the good ending of Titanic: Adventure Out of Time has this happening to quote the Wiki page "the player manages to successfully obtain all four objects, history is altered with World War I, the Russian Revolution, and World War II never occurring. The Black Hand is not financed and their plan to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria fails; the painting, which is revealed to be Adolf Hitler's "The Courtyard of the Old Residency in Munich", causes him to become a famous artist after the painting is retrieved, averting World War II; Willi's notebook makes its way to the Czar, and the Russian Revolution never occurs. Afterwards, the character retires after a successful career to a world of peace." I suppose is possible that Frank Carlson traveled from the TVCU thou
Upcoming this weekend, I will be continuing the series of real persons and events in the TVCU with Pablo Picasso, the Titanic, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Pre-History--HOMO ERECTUS--A cave drawing shows a caveman riding a wooley mammoth yelling "I"m King of the World" while doing the pose, so that thing has been going on and trending in the TVCU for a very long time before Jack did it.
1846 to 1863--GANGS OF NEW YORK--Someone is seen doing the "King of the World" thing on a boat. Clearly, in the TVCU, this must have been a thing people did long before Jack did it on the Titanic. [This was an intentional nod to Leonardo DiCaprio.]
March 6, 1910 to August 27, 1911--TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN VOLUME 9: LA VIE EN NOIR--"Professor Peaslee Plays Paris"--Our friend Peter Rawlik spins a crossover tale that links: LOVECRAFT'S CTHULHU MYTHOS, PHILIP JOSE FARMER'S WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE, SHERLOCK HOLMES, AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, TWENTY THOUSAND LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, DOC SAVAGE, FATHER BROWN, THE BLACK COATS, CHARLIE CHAN, ZIGOMAR, JULES MAIGRET, YOUNG INDIANA JONES, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, ARSENE LUPIN, TITANIC, THE PINK PANTHER, MALTESE FALCON, BARON CESARE STROMBOLI.
April 10 to 15, 1912--TITANIC--A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind, but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. Molly Brown, a real life figure important in this film, has also appeared in TELEPHONE TIME, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN, S.O.S. TITANIC, VOYAGER FROM THE UNKNOWN, VOYAGERS!, TITANIC (1996), TITANIC: BREAKING NEW GROUND, TITANIC: SECRETS REVEALED, FRENCH AND SAUNDERS, GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS, LAST MYSTERIES OF THE TITANIC, and TITANIC (2012). Click here for other appearances of Captain Edward J. Smith. Click here for other appearances of Thomas Andrews. And for Bruce Ismay.
1912--FOREVER KNIGHT--"Black Buddha"--A flashback episode reveals that a cursed Buddha statue is the reason why the unsinkable ship sank.
1912--LEGENDS OF THE DCU--The Spectre was present at these events but chose to preserve the fixed point in time by letting the disaster occur.
1912--NO TIME FOR NUTS--Scrat from the ICE AGE time travels and winds up on the iceberg.
1912--DOCTOR WHO--There was also 2 versions of the the 7th Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield, The master, A time traveler form the London blitz and a con man named Buick Riviera who had previouslymet a man named the Stanger in the New Mexico town of Diamondback in 1882
1912--VOYAGERS--Also there.
Phineas Bogg:The first thing we have to do is find out how much time we have.
Jeffrey Jones:Are you crazy? We've got to stop this ship!
Phineas Bogg:Jeffrey, look...
Jeffrey Jones:Over a thousand people are gonna die. We can stop it. We can make it so it never happened.
Phineas Bogg:That's not what's wrong.
Jeffrey Jones:How can you say that?
Phineas Bogg:I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes history's cruel. There's, there's wars, disasters, injustices, but some of those things, no matter how much you want them not to happen, are supposed to happen.
Jeffrey Jones:But the Titanic...
Phineas Bogg:Is a terrible tragedy, but it's going to happen. It was in my guidebook; you learned it in school. We can't change that. But we can find out why the Omni's red. Maybe somebody's on board that isn't supposed to be. Maybe we can save somebody important before it goes down.
Jeffrey Jones:No! We can save them all!
Phineas Bogg:No, we can't.('Voyagers!)
Fritz & Ivan on the 1st Class Promenade1912 - APR - THE LOST TRACK OF TIME - Ivan and Fritz 
Ivan on the Grand StaircaseSchablotski arrive from the year 2013 and find themselves onboard the RMS Titanic's maiden voyage. The ship seems frozen in time except for Fritz, Ivan, and the Hounds of Langalos that begin pursuing them. The only other person they can interact with is I. P. Freely, who claims to be the First Officer. Freely (who was expecting a different pair of brothers) pushes back the hounds and reveals that Ivan and Fritz are trapped inside a fixed moment in time, but he is able to return them to 2013 by undoing the changes he already made to the timeline.The RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage, a trip that has appeared in numerous works of fiction (including TIME BANDITS, GHOSTBUSTERS II, and TITANIC, just to name a few). The Hounds of Langalos are derived from Frank Belknap Long's "The Hounds of Tindalos" (1931) and Stephen King's "The Langoliers" (1990), suggesting the two races of temporal predators are the same or have interbred. The concept of 'fixed points in time' is from the BBC tv series Doctor Who (1963 to present). I. P. Freely was an alias used by the angel Balthazar when he (temporarily) saved the Titanic in SUPERNATURAL season 6 episode 17 "My Heart Will Go On" (2011).
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April 10 to 14, 1912--YOUNG INDIANA JONES AND THE TITANIC ADVENTURE--Young Indy and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are aboard the Titanic. Both survive. Doyle has also appeared on TARZAN (DARK HORSE COMICS), VOYAGERS, SHANGHAI KNIGHTS, and THE STRANGE CASE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES AND SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. The Titanic has also appeared on VOYAGERS, FUTURAMA, GHOST HUNTERS, TIME BANDITS, GHOSTBUSTERS II, AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON, and THE TERROR OF FU MANCHU.
April 10-14, 1912 - Aboard the Titanic, Jacques Futrelle, chronicler of the cases of Professor Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (aka "the Thinking Machine") and Futrelle's wife May, investigate a series of murders. Unfortunately, Futrelle does not survive the Titanic tragedy, although May does (The Titanic Murders, as related by Max Allan Collins).
1912--THE TIME TUNNEL--The characters from this show were also on the Titanic.
1912--BBC TITANIC MINI-SERIES--JENNA LOUISE COLEMAN appears. Because she played Clara, who had split herself up and traveled back to various points to help the Doctor, and since the Doctor has been on the Titanic, it's possible the character she plays here is one of those versions of Clara.
1912--TIME BANDITS--The time travelling bandits are relaxing on the Titanic while hiding.
1912--GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS # 11--In reality, a time travelling Godzilla was responsible for the sinking of the Titanic.
April 1912--THE ADVENTURE OF THE PERFIDIOUS MARINER--From the classy James Bojaciuk: I listened to this last night. I don't see why it shouldn't fit into the TVCU, given how much we're incorporating Big Finish's audio dramas now. Watson's wife (the unnamed one he married around 1902) dies on the Titanic. (Neither Holmes nor Watson were aboard, however.) Since we count The Adventure of the Peerless Peer, that explains what allowed Watson to marry again near the end of WW1.
1912--UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS--"Miss Forest"/"A House Divided"--Characters are aboard the Titanic, and not all survive.
1912--TIMON & PUMBAA--"Going Over-Boar'd"--The pair leave Africa and run amok on the Titanic, partially responsible for the ship hitting the iceberg.
1912--AMERICAN DRAGON: JAKE LONG--"Fu and Tell"--But also, Yan Yan and Fu Dog also are partially responsible during their fights throughout time.
Downton Abbey is a British period drama television series created by Julian Fellowes and co-produced by Carnival Films and Masterpiece.[1] It first aired on ITV in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 26 September 2010 and on PBS in the United States on 9 January 2011 as part of the Masterpiece Classic anthology. Four series have been made so far; a fifth is planned for 2014. The series, set in the fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey, depicts the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with the great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy. Such events depicted throughout the series include news of the sinking of the RMS Titanic in the first series; the outbreak of the First World War, the Spanish influenza pandemic, and the Marconi scandal in the second series; the Interwar period and the formation of the Irish Free Statein the third series; and the Teapot Dome scandal in the fourth series. Toobworld O'Bserver Toby O'Brien adds: Since two members of the Crawley family supposedly died on the Titanic, then we can make connections to upstairs downstairs, Dr. Who, and the time tunnel.
December 1913--THE TERROR OF FU MANCHU--Fantomas is said to have also been on the Titanic when it sank. Other crossovers include: THE YELLOW CLAW and LES VAMPIRES.
1915--NIGHT GALLERY--"Lone Survivor"--The Lusitania finds a survivor of the Titanic who had survived through cowardice and is now forced to become the cursed Flying Dutchman. He reveals he is forced to survive and be rescued by doomed ships. The Lusitania is sunk by a torpedo moments later.
1956--NIGHT GALLERY--"Lone Survivor"--The survivor of the Titanic is found again, now among the wreckage of the Lusitania, by the Andrea Doria, a ship that famously sunk off the coast of Massachusetts in 1956.
1973 - Si Morley returns briefly to the present and becomes embroiled in another assignment for the Project, involving the events surrounding the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 (From Time to Time, by Simon Morley, edited by Jack Finney; click here for more information).
2000--'N SYNC & BRITTNEY SPEARS: YOUR # 1 VIDEO REQUESTS...AND MORE!--Apparently an astronaught went and retrieved the Heart of the Ocean for Brittney Spears, who is living on Mars.
FAMILY GUY (ANIMATED SERIES) SEASON 2 EPISODE 6 “DEATH IS A BITCH”Release Date: March 21, 2000Cutaway Crosses: TitanicNon-Crosses: Dawson’s CreekThe Story: When Peter fakes his death to avoid paying a bill, the Grim Reaper takes it seriously and comes to claim Peter’s soul. However, Death twists his ankle while chasing Peter, and so he makes a deal with Peter. Peter can live if Death is allowed to recuperate in the Griffin home. However, while Death is recovering, and thus not working, no one on Earth can die. Once Peter exposes this fact to the public, the only way to rectify the situation is for Peter to take over the job temporarily to restore the natural order. Notes: The embodiment of Death personified dates back to 15th century English folklore, including the trappings of the skeletal form, cloak, and scythe. He is first referred to as the Grim Reaper in 1847. Often, Death is considered to be a heavenly angel serving God. Within the Cartoon Universe, it may be that there is more than one Grim Reaper. It’s not likely that this is the same Death/Grim Reaper as those seen in other Cartoon Universe canon series such as the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Supernatural, Bill & Ted, and more. In fact, the Death seen in this episode, who will become a recurring character on the show, states that this is just a job, one his father once held, and that he was pressured into following in the family tradition. So though this episode portrays that no one can die while Death is out of commission, perhaps it really is isolated to the Quahog area only, as other Reapers would still be working. Cutaway Crosses: An alternate ending to Titanic is seen in a cutaway flashback, so that it may have been a film, real events, or just made up. No way to really tell. Non-Crosses: Peter reflects on an episode of Dawson’s Creek that never aired in the real world.
2004--SHARK TALE--One of the sharks lives in the remains of the Titanic, and he has the famous nude drawing of Rose on the wall.
December 25, 2007--DOCTOR WHO--"Voyage of the Damned"--The Doctor accidentally crashes into a space replica of the Titanic visiting Earth on Christmas Day.
2008--THE MIDDLEMAN--"The Cursed Tuba Contingency"--The Middleman must retrieve a stolen tuba that had survived the sinking of the Titanic and holds with it a curse.
April 10, 2011--SUPERNATURAL--"My Heart Will Go On"--The Winchesters discover that they are in an alternate timeline, which may be the one from TITANIC: ADVENTURE OUT OF TIME, seen below in the Alternate Realities section. Balthazar, having hated the James Cameron film and the Celine Dion song, prevents them from existing by going back in time to the fixed point singularity, and prevents the sinking under the alias I.P. Freely. (Note that it's a common practical joke name.) Balthazar explains that he was able to alter a fixed point in time because there are no rules following the averted apocalypse. Clearly Balthazar's messing of a fixed point is responsible for almost every time traveler, divergence, curse, and major character becoming involved with this single event. Note that the descendants of those who should have died on the Titanic are dying in the manner of those who averted deaths in the FINAL DESTINATION franchise. Things that are different in the timeline where the Titanic never sank:Obviously the movie Titanic was never made!Dean drives a Mustang which has the original plates the Impala had - KAZ 2Y5 - until 2.20 What Is and What Should Never Be. A 65 Mustang was Kripke's original casting choice for the role of Dean's car: "When I was originally writing the show I wanted to give the guys an American muscle car. My first choice was a '65 Mustang. My neighbor said it has to be a '67 Impala, because you can put a body in the trunk. He says, 'You want a car that, when people stop next to it at the lights, they lock their doors.' " Source.The Impala line of cars was not produced.Ellen and Jo are alive.Ellen and Bobby are married and Singer Salvage Yard is called B & E Scrap Yard. Bobby's house appears neater than usual.In 2.17 Heart we learned that Sam knew Dean always played 'scissors' when they did Rock, Paper, Scissors, so Sam always won. Here Sam loses, although Dean still throws scissors.In the travel agency we see Cuba is a resort island destination -- "America's favorite holiday destination" -- and Detroit was voted "America's top city."Celine Dion is a "destitute lounge singer somewhere in Quebec."Cas transports Sam and Dean to "White Russia." this is an old term for Belarus and may be a hint that the Russian revolution of 1917 that lead to the formation of the Soviet Union, didn't occur.Other Titanic references:The episode was aired on the 99th anniversary of the date the Titanic sank.The travel agency is called E.J. Smith, who was the captain of the Titanic.Sam and Dean stay at the White Star Motel - the White Star Line was the name of the company that owned the Titanic.Sam uses a Wikipedia-like site called "Marconi Pages" named after Guglielmo Marconi the inventor of radio. The radio operators on the Titanic were employed by his company and were vital in relief efforts. Britain's postmaster-general later said "Those who have been saved, have been saved through one man, Mr. Marconi...and his marvelous invention." Source.From the Supernatural: The Official Companion Season 6 - everyone is drinking Astor Cola, named after businessman John Astor who died on the ship.While Sam was researching about the Titanic, the picture "Officers of the RMS Titanic", with Balthazar as First Mate I.P. Freely, is actually the picture of the captain and officers of RMS Carpathiawhich is the passenger steamship famous for rescuing the survivors of Titanic (Source).
[image error]April 10, 2012--TITANIC 2--A replica of the Titanic sets off on the 100th anniversary of the original. A tidal wave causes an iceberg to crash into the replica. In the commentary, it's stated this same event is what freed Mega Shark in MEGA SHARK VERSUS GIANT OCTOPUS. This film has absolutely no connection to the James Cameron blockbuster, but it's certainly meant to be implied by the title.
2013--ECTOBER
Entering the distortion
Traveling the distortionEarly OCT - Because the Ghostbusters, Miskatonic University, and the crew of the Lord Kitchener already closed the case, Ivan convinces his brother Fritz to travel with him back into the Bermuda Triangle to further investigate the cause of the Sharknado phenomenon. This time a space-time distortion sends them into the past, and they find themselves briefly onboard the RMS Titanic in April 1912, during a singularity event. Returned to the present, they are attacked by a monstrous scarred great white that Ivan believes to be the same one he encountered in 1990; an undead shark referred to as Bruce. Ivan tries to take samples from Bruce, but the aquatic predator is too strong and fast, and quickly overpowers its bipedal opponent, even on the dry deck. Ivan discovers that sharks are among those animals capable of killing werewolves and barely escapes with his life. Hurt, and with nothing to show for it, Ivan promises to leave the matter alone after this.
Ivan tries to take a sample from Bruce
Bruce tries to take a sample from IvanThe RMS Titanic sank on its maiden voyage, a trip that has appeared in numerous works of fiction. SHARKNADOis a 2013 SyFy exclusive film that garnered undeserved popularity for its over-the-top premise. Bruce the Great White Shark was introduced in the 1975 movie JAWS (though he was only referred to as Bruce behind the scenes), but has been proposed to be a recurring undead "slasher" in the 2006 comic book HACK/SLASH: TRAILERS.
2014
NOV 11-18 - TIMELORD OF THE RINGS -The 8th Doctor discovers Ivan is of particular interest to the Fractal Paradox. The TARDIS, however, will still not move (or perform any other function that acknowledges Ivan's presence) while Ivan is aboard. Ivan postulates this may be related to the singularity he participated in that involved the Titanic. His efforts to study this anomaly results in the cessation of an endlessly looped videotape stored at the Arkham Ghostbusters' lab, and the creepy dead girl captured with the VHS tape in 2006 escapes, along with several duplicates created by the video-looping used to originally contain her, punctuated by a call on the Police Box telephone stating the prophetic quote "Seven Days". The Doctor notes that even the act of storing a psychic imprint in such a manner is nonsensical, and deduces that the onryō is the hybrid offspring of a human and an isomorphic being, which is something of a paradox since the ethereal cannot mate with the material. Together they detain the spirits and recombine them into a single entity, which they then trapped inside a piece of 3D Gallifreyan art called a Stasis Cube. The Doctor then deposits the cube on an uninhabited planet destined to be consumed by a black hole in a month's time.
The 8th Doctor debuted in the 1996 Made-For-TV movie DOCTOR WHO and appears in specials, audio performances, and assorted literature, as opposed to the other iterations of the Doctor, who appeared within episodes of the BBC television programme. Fractal Paradox is a variation on Faction Paradox, an antagonistic organisation in some of the adventures of the 8th Doctor, but which later spun-off into a series of stories unconnected to DOCTOR WHO, which is appropriate given the nature of paradoxi. The onryō spirit is similar to the ones seen in the various books, movies, television series, etc. based on the novel Ring (リング "Ringu") by Koji Suzuki, though this character is not stated to be Sadako, Samara, or other recorded onryō / yurei character within the franchise media. Statis Cube artwork / technology was first introduced in the 2013 Doctor Who 50th Anniversary special THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR.
22nd and 23rd centuries--FALLOUT TACTICS--The remains of Jack Dawson are found, along with the sketch of Rose and the Heart of the Ocean. Clearly, even though it was a movie in the TVCU, the James Cameron film was more closely based on true events while in the real world, many elements were more fictitious. Click here to find Ivan and Matt have the most detailed discussion of Titanic I've ever witnessed.
10th April 2912--Futurama--"The Mutants Are Revolting"--The Land Titanic is launched from New New York City.
14th April 2912--Futurama--"The Mutants Are Revolting"--Four days into its maiden voyage, the Land Titanic strikes a mailbox and sinks into the New New York City sewers.
3000--FUTURAMA--"A Flight to Remember"--The Planet Express crew are on the space ship Titanic, that gets drawn into a black hole.
3013--FUTURAMA--"Assie Come Home"--Lots of junked robots appear creating crossovers with: GIGANTOR, STAR WARS, IRON GIANT, DOCTOR WHO, JETSONS, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, LOST IN SPACE, MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS, BUCK ROGERS, GIANT ROBO, BILL & TED, CLASH OF THE TITANS, BIG GUY & RUSTY, ROCKY, HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, FORBIDDEN PLANET, TERMINATOR, STAR TREK. There is also an incident where Fry gets his head stuck in one of POOH's honey pots. A Tatooine Land Speeder and Speedy Gonzales also appear. Also among a wrecked ships' cargo are the Ark of the Covenant and Holy Grail (INDIANA JONES), the Golden Fleece (JASON AND THE ARGONAUGHTS), and the Heart of the Ocean (TITANIC).
ALTERNATE TIMELINES:
CARTOON MULTIVERSE--Alternate versions exist in the universes of MAD and ROBOT CHICKEN.
MEMEVERSE--Click her to see actual in-depth discussions about these theories.
SKITLANDIA--Technically, a series of realities where sketch comedies take place. Shows like SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE have done parodies.
TITANIC: ADVENTURE OF OUT TIME: According to master researcher Matt Hickman Titanic: Adventure Out of Time and Dust: A Tale Of The Wired West crossover thanks to a con man named Buick Riviera with each other so probably their own AU snice the good ending of Titanic: Adventure Out of Time has this happening to quote the Wiki page "the player manages to successfully obtain all four objects, history is altered with World War I, the Russian Revolution, and World War II never occurring. The Black Hand is not financed and their plan to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria fails; the painting, which is revealed to be Adolf Hitler's "The Courtyard of the Old Residency in Munich", causes him to become a famous artist after the painting is retrieved, averting World War II; Willi's notebook makes its way to the Czar, and the Russian Revolution never occurs. Afterwards, the character retires after a successful career to a world of peace." I suppose is possible that Frank Carlson traveled from the TVCU thou
July 2, 2016
The Imaginary Adventures of an Artist: Pablo Picasso in the TVCU
Upcoming this weekend, I will be continuing the series of real persons and events in the TVCU with Pablo Picasso, the Titanic, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
I've added real life events to place in context. The fictional events will be in bold blue.
":My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become The Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
1838--Birth of Pablo's father, Don José Ruiz y Blasco,
October 25, 1881--Birth of Pablo Picasso.
1881 to 1973--SURVIVING PICASSO--The life of Pablo Picasso. Other on-screen appearances of Picasso portrayed by various actors can be found here.
Before 1890--Picasso's father had begun training him.
1891--Picasso moves to A Coruña.
1893--the juvenile quality of his earliest work falls away
1894--his career as a painter can be said to have begun.
1895--Picasso is traumatized by the death of his sister.
1896--The First Communion
1896--Portrait of Aunt Pepa
1897--his realism became tinged with Symbolist influence, in a series of landscape paintings rendered in non-naturalistic violet and green tones.
1898--Picasso sets off on his own for the first time to study abroad.
1899 to 1900--Modernist Period
1900--Picasso first travels to Paris.
January to May 1901--Picasso is in Madrid.
1901 to 1904--The Blue Period
March 31, 1901--The first issue of Picasso's magazine, Arte Joven, is published.
1903--La Vie
1903--The Blindman's Meal
1903--Celestina
1904 to 1906--The Rose Period
1904--The Frugal Repast
1904--Picasso met Fernande Olivier, a bohemian artist who became his mistress, in Paris
October 8, 1904--PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE--Picasso meets Albert Einstein.
1905--Picasso became a favorite of American art collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein.
1905--Picasso meets Henri Matisse.
1907 to 1909--The African-Influenced Period
1907-- Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
1907--Picasso joined an art gallery that had recently been opened in Paris by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
September 1908--YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES--"Paris, September 1908"--Young Indy meets Picasso. Tarzan will meet Picasso the next year.
1909 to 1912--Analytic Cubism
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August 1909--TARZAN # 11 - 12--"Le Monstre"--Tarzan meets Picasso. This takes place while Tarzan is in Paris during the events of TARZAN OF THE APES by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan is also involved in a case involving a copycat of the Phantom of the Opera. Note that Indiana Jones has met Picasso twice in his youth, in 1908 and again in 1917.
1911--In Paris, Picasso entertained a distinguished coterie of friends in the Montmartre and Montparnasse quarters, including André Breton, poet Guillaume Apollinaire, writer Alfred Jarry, and Gertrude Stein. Apollinaire was arrested on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Apollinaire pointed to his friend Picasso, who was also brought in for questioning, but both were later exonerated.
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1912 to 1919--Synthetic Cubism
1913--Picasso's father dies.
August 1914--World War I begins.
1915--Death of Picasso's lover, Eva.
Spring 1916--Apollinaire returned from the front wounded. They renewed their friendship, but Picasso began to frequent new social circles.
February 1917--Picasso visits Italy for the first time.
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May 1917--YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES--"Spain, May 1917"--Indy and Picasso meet again.
Summer 1918--Picasso married Olga Khokhlova, a ballerina with Sergei Diaghilev's troupe, for whom Picasso was designing a ballet, Erik Satie's Parade , in Rome; they spent their honeymoon near Biarritz in the villa of glamorous Chilean art patron Eugenia Errázuriz.
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May 1920--HIGHLANDER--"Methos"--Duncan MacLeod waves hello to Pablo Picasso, and states that they are acquaintances. Picasso is a real historical figure, but this is his TVCU counterpart. Indiana Jones and Tarzan also met Picasso.
1920--During the same period that Picasso collaborated with Diaghilev's troupe, he and Igor Stravinsky collaborated on Pulcinella
February 4, 1921--Birth of Picasso's son, Paulo.
1925--the Surrealist writer and poet André Breton declared Picasso as 'one of ours' in his articleLe Surréalisme et la peinture, published in Révolution surréaliste.
1927--Picasso met 17-year-old Marie-Thérèse Walter and began a secret affair with her.
September 5, 1935--Birth of Picasso's daughter, Maya.
1937-- Guernica
1937-- The Weeping Woman
1937--Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
1939 to 1940--the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, under its director Alfred Barr, a Picasso enthusiast, held a major retrospective of Picasso's principal works until that time. This exhibition lionized the artist, brought into full public view in America the scope of his artistry, and resulted in a reinterpretation of his work by contemporary art historians and scholars.
1941-- Desire Caught by the Tail
1942--Still Life with Guitar
1944 to 1948-- The Charnel House
1944--after the liberation of Paris, Picasso, then 63 years old, began a romantic relationship with a young art student named Françoise Gilot.
1944--Picasso joins the French Communist Party.
May 15, 1947--Birth of Picasso's son, Claude.
April 19, 1949--Birth of Picasso's daughter, Paloma.
1949-- The Four Little Girls
Mid-1949--Picasso was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
1950--Picasso receives the Stalin Peace Prize.
1951--Picasso had a six-week affair with Geneviève Laporte, who was four years younger than Gilot.
1955--Khokhlova's death
1955--he helped make the film Le Mystère Picasso (The Mystery of Picasso) directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
1961--By his 70s, many paintings, ink drawings and prints have as their theme an old, grotesque dwarf as the doting lover of a beautiful young model. Jacqueline Roque (1927–1986) worked at the Madoura Pottery in Vallauris on the French Riviera, where Picasso made and painted ceramics. She became his lover, and then his second wife in 1961. The two were together for the remainder of Picasso's life.
1962--Picasso receives the Lenin Peace Prize.
1968 to 1971--he produced a torrent of paintings and hundreds of copperplate etchings.
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Late in Picasso's Life--SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE--"Portrait of the Artist: Pablo Picasso"--Picasso is giving out free autographs at a cafe. Watch here.
April 8, 1973--Death of Pablo Picasso.
June 5, 1975--Death of Paulo.
1981--Guernica was on display in New York's Museum of Modern Art for many years. In 1981, it was returned to Spain and was on exhibit at the Casón del Buen Retiro.
1986--Devastated and lonely after the death of Picasso, Jacqueline Roque killed herself by gunshot
1992--Guernica was put on display in Madrid's Reina Sofía Museum when it opened.
1997—Teen Angel—“Honest Abe and Popular Steve” and “Who’s the Boss”--From Wikipedia, “Teen Angel follows a high school boy, Steve Beauchamp (Corbin Allred), and his recently-deceased best friend, Marty DePolo, (Mike Damus) who, after dying from eating a six-month-old hamburger from under Steve's bed on a dare, hangs around as a kind of dimwitted guardian angel to Allred's character. Ron Glass played God's cousin, Rod. Maureen McCormick, who played Steve's mother, Judy, left the series halfway through its run.” I include this show on the basis of Gary Bollock’s portrayal of Abraham Lincoln. I’m inclined to treat his Lincoln, which appeared on a number of 1990s television sitcoms, as a crossover of sorts. Thus the inclusion of Teen Angel in the TVCU. It is highly unlikely that Rod is God’s cousin, however; more likely he’s an angel who knew that if he didn’t give himself a highly inflated resume, the dimwitted Marty and Steve would have ignored him. Per Wikipedia, in the episode “Honest Abe and Popular Steve,” “Marty starts bringing in historical figures to help Steve with his life (Abraham Lincoln to write his history papers, Cleopatra to give him love advice so he can date Homecoming Queen Amy Kosover, Pablo Picasso to design "Steve for Class President" campaign posters, etc.) Rod decides that since Marty has done such a good job with Steve that it's time for him to move on to famous jerk rock star, Sammy Noah (Dee Snider).” In “Who’s the Boss” Marty and Steve throw a birthday party, inviting both cute girls and famous dead people—among them (the famous dead dudes, not the cute girls) Abraham Lincoln. After his journeys with Bill and Ted, Lincoln has come to love a good party!--James Bojaciuk
2013--EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY--"Bob Ross vs Pablo Picasso"--Picasso comes down from Heaven again to do a rap battle with Bob Ross, or maybe they are pulled from time. I'm not sure exactly how the premise of this YouTube series works.
ALTERNATE REALITIES:
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CARTOON UNIVERSE--The toon counterpart of Picasso discovers his talent while playing Pictionary with the Warners as seen on ANIMANIACS. He also appeared in TINY TOON ADVENTURES.
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NOT ANOTHER SPOOF MOVIE UNIVERSE--Setting for the events of THE ADVENTURES OF PICASSO.
AND IN THE WHAT THE WHAT CATEGORY...
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I don't know how to place the song and music video for Prince Charming by Adam and the Ants. It features a male version of Cinderella, who later transforms into the Man with No Name (from THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY), ALICE COOPER, Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan (from THE SHIEK), Vito Corleone (THE GODFATHER), and the Dandy Highwayman (from STAND AND DELIVER). Also, in the song, this Cinderella claims to have seen Picasso visiting the PLANET OF THE APES.
HISTORICAL DATA TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA, SO IT MUST BE TRUE.
I've added real life events to place in context. The fictional events will be in bold blue.
":My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become The Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
1838--Birth of Pablo's father, Don José Ruiz y Blasco,
October 25, 1881--Birth of Pablo Picasso.
1881 to 1973--SURVIVING PICASSO--The life of Pablo Picasso. Other on-screen appearances of Picasso portrayed by various actors can be found here.
Before 1890--Picasso's father had begun training him.
1891--Picasso moves to A Coruña.
1893--the juvenile quality of his earliest work falls away
1894--his career as a painter can be said to have begun.
1895--Picasso is traumatized by the death of his sister.
1896--The First Communion
1896--Portrait of Aunt Pepa
1897--his realism became tinged with Symbolist influence, in a series of landscape paintings rendered in non-naturalistic violet and green tones.
1898--Picasso sets off on his own for the first time to study abroad.
1899 to 1900--Modernist Period
1900--Picasso first travels to Paris.
January to May 1901--Picasso is in Madrid.
1901 to 1904--The Blue Period
March 31, 1901--The first issue of Picasso's magazine, Arte Joven, is published.
1903--La Vie
1903--The Blindman's Meal
1903--Celestina
1904 to 1906--The Rose Period
1904--The Frugal Repast
1904--Picasso met Fernande Olivier, a bohemian artist who became his mistress, in Paris
October 8, 1904--PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE--Picasso meets Albert Einstein.
1905--Picasso became a favorite of American art collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein.
1905--Picasso meets Henri Matisse.
1907 to 1909--The African-Influenced Period
1907-- Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
1907--Picasso joined an art gallery that had recently been opened in Paris by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.
September 1908--YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES--"Paris, September 1908"--Young Indy meets Picasso. Tarzan will meet Picasso the next year.
1909 to 1912--Analytic Cubism
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1911--In Paris, Picasso entertained a distinguished coterie of friends in the Montmartre and Montparnasse quarters, including André Breton, poet Guillaume Apollinaire, writer Alfred Jarry, and Gertrude Stein. Apollinaire was arrested on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Apollinaire pointed to his friend Picasso, who was also brought in for questioning, but both were later exonerated.
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1913--Picasso's father dies.
August 1914--World War I begins.
1915--Death of Picasso's lover, Eva.
Spring 1916--Apollinaire returned from the front wounded. They renewed their friendship, but Picasso began to frequent new social circles.
February 1917--Picasso visits Italy for the first time.
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May 1917--YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES--"Spain, May 1917"--Indy and Picasso meet again.
Summer 1918--Picasso married Olga Khokhlova, a ballerina with Sergei Diaghilev's troupe, for whom Picasso was designing a ballet, Erik Satie's Parade , in Rome; they spent their honeymoon near Biarritz in the villa of glamorous Chilean art patron Eugenia Errázuriz.
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May 1920--HIGHLANDER--"Methos"--Duncan MacLeod waves hello to Pablo Picasso, and states that they are acquaintances. Picasso is a real historical figure, but this is his TVCU counterpart. Indiana Jones and Tarzan also met Picasso.
1920--During the same period that Picasso collaborated with Diaghilev's troupe, he and Igor Stravinsky collaborated on Pulcinella
February 4, 1921--Birth of Picasso's son, Paulo.
1925--the Surrealist writer and poet André Breton declared Picasso as 'one of ours' in his articleLe Surréalisme et la peinture, published in Révolution surréaliste.
1927--Picasso met 17-year-old Marie-Thérèse Walter and began a secret affair with her.
September 5, 1935--Birth of Picasso's daughter, Maya.
1937-- Guernica
1937-- The Weeping Woman
1937--Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War.
1939 to 1940--the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, under its director Alfred Barr, a Picasso enthusiast, held a major retrospective of Picasso's principal works until that time. This exhibition lionized the artist, brought into full public view in America the scope of his artistry, and resulted in a reinterpretation of his work by contemporary art historians and scholars.
1941-- Desire Caught by the Tail
1942--Still Life with Guitar
1944 to 1948-- The Charnel House
1944--after the liberation of Paris, Picasso, then 63 years old, began a romantic relationship with a young art student named Françoise Gilot.
1944--Picasso joins the French Communist Party.
May 15, 1947--Birth of Picasso's son, Claude.
April 19, 1949--Birth of Picasso's daughter, Paloma.
1949-- The Four Little Girls
Mid-1949--Picasso was one of 250 sculptors who exhibited in the 3rd Sculpture International held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
1950--Picasso receives the Stalin Peace Prize.
1951--Picasso had a six-week affair with Geneviève Laporte, who was four years younger than Gilot.
1955--Khokhlova's death
1955--he helped make the film Le Mystère Picasso (The Mystery of Picasso) directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
1961--By his 70s, many paintings, ink drawings and prints have as their theme an old, grotesque dwarf as the doting lover of a beautiful young model. Jacqueline Roque (1927–1986) worked at the Madoura Pottery in Vallauris on the French Riviera, where Picasso made and painted ceramics. She became his lover, and then his second wife in 1961. The two were together for the remainder of Picasso's life.
1962--Picasso receives the Lenin Peace Prize.
1968 to 1971--he produced a torrent of paintings and hundreds of copperplate etchings.
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Late in Picasso's Life--SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE--"Portrait of the Artist: Pablo Picasso"--Picasso is giving out free autographs at a cafe. Watch here.
April 8, 1973--Death of Pablo Picasso.
June 5, 1975--Death of Paulo.
1981--Guernica was on display in New York's Museum of Modern Art for many years. In 1981, it was returned to Spain and was on exhibit at the Casón del Buen Retiro.
1986--Devastated and lonely after the death of Picasso, Jacqueline Roque killed herself by gunshot
1992--Guernica was put on display in Madrid's Reina Sofía Museum when it opened.
1997—Teen Angel—“Honest Abe and Popular Steve” and “Who’s the Boss”--From Wikipedia, “Teen Angel follows a high school boy, Steve Beauchamp (Corbin Allred), and his recently-deceased best friend, Marty DePolo, (Mike Damus) who, after dying from eating a six-month-old hamburger from under Steve's bed on a dare, hangs around as a kind of dimwitted guardian angel to Allred's character. Ron Glass played God's cousin, Rod. Maureen McCormick, who played Steve's mother, Judy, left the series halfway through its run.” I include this show on the basis of Gary Bollock’s portrayal of Abraham Lincoln. I’m inclined to treat his Lincoln, which appeared on a number of 1990s television sitcoms, as a crossover of sorts. Thus the inclusion of Teen Angel in the TVCU. It is highly unlikely that Rod is God’s cousin, however; more likely he’s an angel who knew that if he didn’t give himself a highly inflated resume, the dimwitted Marty and Steve would have ignored him. Per Wikipedia, in the episode “Honest Abe and Popular Steve,” “Marty starts bringing in historical figures to help Steve with his life (Abraham Lincoln to write his history papers, Cleopatra to give him love advice so he can date Homecoming Queen Amy Kosover, Pablo Picasso to design "Steve for Class President" campaign posters, etc.) Rod decides that since Marty has done such a good job with Steve that it's time for him to move on to famous jerk rock star, Sammy Noah (Dee Snider).” In “Who’s the Boss” Marty and Steve throw a birthday party, inviting both cute girls and famous dead people—among them (the famous dead dudes, not the cute girls) Abraham Lincoln. After his journeys with Bill and Ted, Lincoln has come to love a good party!--James Bojaciuk
2013--EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY--"Bob Ross vs Pablo Picasso"--Picasso comes down from Heaven again to do a rap battle with Bob Ross, or maybe they are pulled from time. I'm not sure exactly how the premise of this YouTube series works.
ALTERNATE REALITIES:
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CARTOON UNIVERSE--The toon counterpart of Picasso discovers his talent while playing Pictionary with the Warners as seen on ANIMANIACS. He also appeared in TINY TOON ADVENTURES.
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NOT ANOTHER SPOOF MOVIE UNIVERSE--Setting for the events of THE ADVENTURES OF PICASSO.
AND IN THE WHAT THE WHAT CATEGORY...
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I don't know how to place the song and music video for Prince Charming by Adam and the Ants. It features a male version of Cinderella, who later transforms into the Man with No Name (from THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY), ALICE COOPER, Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan (from THE SHIEK), Vito Corleone (THE GODFATHER), and the Dandy Highwayman (from STAND AND DELIVER). Also, in the song, this Cinderella claims to have seen Picasso visiting the PLANET OF THE APES.
HISTORICAL DATA TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA, SO IT MUST BE TRUE.
June 28, 2016
Bedtime for Bonzo
Really? That's what I'm covering?
I first saw this film (and last saw this film) at a drive-in, the summer after Ronald Reagan was elected president, because I guess they thought it would be funny. I was eight years old at the time, and it was the first I had learned our president was once an actor. It really blew my mind.
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TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN VOLUME 3: DANSE MACABRE “THE FAMOUS APE” (SHORT STORY BY CHRIS ROBERSON)Release Date: 2007 (Setting is unknown and questionable)Series: Tales of the ShadowmenHorror Crosses: Island of Doctor MoreauNon-Horror Crosses: Nyoka the Jungle Girl; Babar; Curious George; The Flash; Zembla; A Report to an Academy; Kaspa the Lion Man; Ka-Zar; Jann of the Jungle; Tarzan; Bedtime for Bonzo; His Monkey Wife; Speed Racer; Magilla Gorilla; Grape Ape; TintinThe Story: Dr. Moreau continues his experiments in African jungles.
Notes: This story explains several anthropomorphic cartoon characters and seemingly more than usually intelligent animals as being the experiments of Moreau. This story also unintentionally provides a lead-in to the Tarzan animated episode where Taran meets a descendant of Moreau in the jungle. Several jungle heroes appear along with famous animals. In regards to bringing in Hanna-Barbera characters, it may be true that the events of the original Magilla Gorilla and Grape Ape cartoons actually happened as seen on TV in the Horror Universe, but this doesn’t bring in all the rest of the Hanna-Barbera stock of cartoon characters.
1951--BEDTIME FOR BONZO--A psych professor is trying to teach morals to a chimp as an experiment in nurture versus nature. Prof. Hans Neumann mentions seeing an invisible six-foot rabbit, who is clearly HARVEY!!!!
1952--BONZO GOES TO COLLEGE--Since the events of the last film, Bonzo has learned how to read, and ended up in a circus, where he escapes and is taken in by a college football coach.
1988 to 1991--SPITTING IMAGE--Bonzo, now deceased and stuffed, ends up in the possession of President Reagan.
June 26, 2016
Jungle Girls
I'm only covering the more well-known and crossovery ones, but the Jungle Girl is a major trope. For more on the trope and a longer list of Jungle Girls, click here.
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1818 to late 19th century--MONSTER IN THE MANSIONS--Frankenstein's Monster in the jungles of Rima. Publisher Tommy Hancock has informed me the novel picks up directly after the events of Mary Shelly's novel, and ends several years before the events of Green Mansions.
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TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN VOLUME 3: DANSE MACABRE “THE FAMOUS APE” (SHORT STORY BY CHRIS ROBERSON)Release Date: 2007 (Setting is unknown and questionable)Series: Tales of the ShadowmenHorror Crosses: Island of Doctor MoreauNon-Horror Crosses: Nyoka the Jungle Girl; Babar; Curious George; The Flash; Zembla; A Report to an Academy; Kaspa the Lion Man; Ka-Zar; Jann of the Jungle; Tarzan; Bedtime for Bonzo; His Monkey Wife; Speed Racer; Magilla Gorilla; Grape Ape; TintinThe Story: Dr. Moreau continues his experiments in African jungles.
Notes: This story explains several anthropomorphic cartoon characters and seemingly more than usually intelligent animals as being the experiments of Moreau. This story also unintentionally provides a lead-in to the Tarzan animated episode where Taran meets a descendant of Moreau in the jungle. Several jungle heroes appear along with famous animals. In regards to bringing in Hanna-Barbera characters, it may be true that the events of the original Magilla Gorilla and Grape Ape cartoons actually happened as seen on TV in the Horror Universe, but this doesn’t bring in all the rest of the Hanna-Barbera stock of cartoon characters.
August 1900--TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN--"The Mark of Kane (Angels of Music II)--Sequel to Kim Newman's homage to Charlie's Angels featuring classic literary characters. Rima the Jungle Girl is mentioned (as Riolama the Bird Girl). Also many, many other crossovers, far too numerous to list here.
1904--Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest--Rima, a primitive girl of the shrinking rain forest of South America, meets Abel, a political fugitive. Rima has also been mentioned in Ray Bradbury's THE VELDT, Geoffrey Household's WATCHER IN THE SHADOWS, and Charlotte MacLeod's VANE PURSUIT, but I'm unsure if she is mentioned as being real or fictional in those stories. If anyone knows, please contact me.
1931--BLUE BOOK--"The Land of Hidden Men"--The story that introduced Nyoka, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The story was later expanded the next year as Jungle Girl, and then adapted as a serial in 1941. The 1941 serial renames her Nyoka Meredith, but the sequel, the Perils of Nyoka, restores her real name, Nyoka Gordon.
1937--WAGS # 1--The first appearance of Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.
???--DYNAMITE--The publisher has announced it will be teaming Sheena and Tarzan. It's unknown if it will be set in the 1930s era or the present day.
1942--THE PERILS OF NYOKA--It's intrepid Nyoka and her friends versus Vultura, Queen of the Desert, on a quest for the Golden Tablets of Hippocrates.
1940s--THE ADVENTURES OF DR. SHADOWS: THE EYE OF DARKNESS--There is a reference to the expedition of Dr. Henry Gordon, father of Nyoka the Jungle Girl, from the events of THE PERILS OF NYOKA.
1947--ZOOT COMICS # 7--First appearance of Rulah, Jungle Goddess.
Summer 1953--THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF NYOKA, THE JUNGLE GIRL # 1 - 3--Nyoka meets Chuck Ramsay, former sidekick of CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT.
1972--SHANNA, THE SHE-DEVIL # 1--First appearance of Shanna.
Spring to Summer 1973--SUPER FRIENDS--Batman II (Dick Grayson) becomes an instructor along with Robin II (Bruce Wayne Junior), Superman (Kal-El/Clark Joseph Kent), Wonder Woman, and Aquaman to train new heroes Marvin and Wendy (and later Zan and Jayna). They also work as part of the Justice League of America. The team is nick-named the Super Friends, and later will be code named the Super Powers Team. The team works secretly for the U.S. Government and the United Nations. The team was actually founded in 1967 and disbanded in 1985. It's entire roster over it's long run included: Aquaman, Batman II, Robin II/Batman III, Robin III, Superman (Kal-El/Clark Joseph Kent), Wonder Woman, Atom II, Cyborg, Firestorm, Flash II, Green Lantern Hal Jordan, Hawkgirl II, Hawkman II, Apache Chief, Black Vulcan, El Dorado, Rima the Jungle Girl, Samurai, Green Arrow II, Plastic Man, Wendy Harris, Marvin White, Wonderdog, Zan, Jayna, Gleek, Captain Marvel I, Huntress II, Black Canary II. See the end of this blog, where I will go through all the super-heroes (and villains I have brought in so far with little bio info on each. I want to make clear that even though the shows for the most part appear just like you see them, in general the public isn't aware or clear of the activities of these heroes. The primary foes of the Super Friends would be the Legion of Doom: Bizarro, Black Manta, Brainiac, Captain Cold, Cheetah, Giganta, Gorilla Grodd, Solomon Grundy, Lex Luthor, Doctor Natas, the Riddler I, the Scarecrow II, Sinestro, the Toyman II, Mordru, and Dr. Sivana. During their final years, they mostly fought Darkseid and his minions. Additional bad guys they faced were: Bizarra, Joe Chill, the Crime Syndicate of America, Felix Faust, Gentleman Ghost, Joker Junior, Mirror Master, Mr. Mxyzptlk, Penguin II, Royal Flush Gang, the Shark, Dracula, Frankenstein, Orville Gump, the Phantom Zone villains, and Zy-Kree.
Rima--Rima the Jungle Girl appeared in three episodes of Hanna-Barbera's The All-New Super Friends Hour during the 1977-78 season, alongside such mainstays as Aquaman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. In her run with the Super Friends TV series, she is often known for being one of the new 'affirmative action heroes' during that period. Along with characters Apache Chief, Black Vulcan, El Dorado and Samurai, Rima is considered a minority character. Being both female and ethnic, she was added during the 1977 overhaul of the show's all-white, mostly-male cast of heroes.
December 1990--DIE HARD 2--The evil dictator is from Val Verde, a fictional country also seen or referenced in COMMANDO, SUPERCARRIER, ADVENTURE INC., SHEENA, and all were written by Steven E. de Souza, who created the fictional country when he wrote Commando.
ALTERNATE REALITIES:
CARTOON UNIVERSE--Jill of the Jungle is a video game character who has many video game crossovers which you can read about here. Another weird crossover is SCRIBBLENAUGHTS, a game where you can type in certain things and they appear, including Rima!!! For a full list, click here. Shanna the She-Devil appears with other Marvel characters in Marvel vs. Capcom.
TVCU2--Perhaps this is the setting of the terrible BATMAN/DOC SAVAGE SPECIAL: BRONZE NIGHT, which takes pulp characters and sets them in the modern world. Featured besides the title characters are THE AVENGER, BLACKHAWK, RIMA THE JUNGLE GIRL, BLACK CANARY, and THE SPIRIT.
Did I leave out your favorite Jungle Girl? Let me know who you would like me to add to this post in the future and make sure to provide at least one valid crossover to demonstrate her inclusion in the TVCU.
June 22, 2016
Mighty Joe Young
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GLIMMERGLASS: THE CREATIVE WRITER’S ANNUAL, VOLUME 1 “THE BEAST” (STORY BY JOHN SMALL)Release Date: October 15, 2009 (Setting is 1700s to Contemporary Times)Series: King Kong (Original)Horror Crosses: King Kong (2005 remake); War of the Worlds (novel); War of the Worlds (radio); The Mummy (remake film series); Jurassic Park (film series); Kong: the Animated Series; Jurassic Park (novel)Non-Horror Crosses: Buckaroo Banzai; Tarzan; Flash Gordon; Tales of the Gold Monkey; Journey to the Center of the Earth; Tales of the Shadowmen; Doc Savage; Indiana Jones; Mighty Joe Young; A-Team; Fu ManchuThe Story: Author John Small discovers that the film King Kong was based on true events and gathers research on the true events of the film and the follow-up events that have happened since.
Notes: John Small uses a popular Farmerian method (named for Philip Jose Farmer) in which he places himself in the world of fiction, imagining that fictional stories are based on true events. Here, he melds together the original Kong story, and its sequels, prequels, and remakes, and makes them all fit into one coherent reality. Along the way, he throws in references to other fictional characters who must have been involved in such events based on their stature and the nature of the event. John Small makes official my conjecture that the 2005 film by Peter Jackson is the same events as the original film, just retold with dramatic license from Mr. Jackson. In explaining how the events of Kong could have happened in a world where most people are unaware of the supernatural and the extraordinary, he references other events that have later been covered up, despite their overly public exposure, such as the 1898 and 1938 Martian invasions from War of the Worlds, and the invasion of Mongo from Flash Gordon. DOC SAVAGE and TARZAN employ Denham to return to Skull Island to do documentary filming. Skull Island is said to be "the Menace of the Monsters". Joining in on the expedition were INDIANA JONES, Alex O'Connell (famous for taking down THE MUMMY), and Joshua Williams (from "Joshua Williams Breaks a Date"). (TARZAN couldn't make it due to events seen in TARZAN ALIVE). Roland Tembo is among the expedition as well. Tembo's CINEVERSE counterpart appears in THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK. SON OF KONG is a fictionalized version of events that actually happened during this expedition. In Kong Reborn, Dr. Jill Drake is involved in this incident. Jill discovers that BUCKAROO BANZAI has moved a clone of KING KONG to BANDUKI. It may be that the events of KONG: THE ANIMATED SERIES may be based on these events, which involve a female scientist who clones Kong then has to release him in a suitable environment. It was followed by KONG: KING OF ATLANTIS and KONG: RETURN TO THE JUNGLE. Among the crew that journeys to Skull Island in the first expedition is Jake Cutter (TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY). Kong is of the same species as seen in JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, TARZAN AT THE EARTH'S CORE, and TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN 3: DANSE MACABRE "The Ape Gigans". Mighty Joe Young is also connected to Kong and one of Denham’s grandsons is tied in as a villain on an episode of the A-Team. Fu Manchu is also said to be the villain secretly behind Jurassic Park.
1949--MIGHTY JOE YOUNG--A young woman who has raised a giant gorilla from an infant brings him to Hollywood years later seeking her fortune in order to save her family's ranch. It should be noted that in the credits, Mighty Joe Young is played by himself. That helps with zonks, because it implies that the events of Mighty Joe Young happened, and then Joe later went and starred in his own movie based on those events.
1940s/1950s--MIGHTY JOE YOUNG MEETS TARZAN--This was a sequel that almost happened. I like to think it still exists in the TVCU since there's nothing really to my knowledge to contradict it. This would have been a sequel to Mighty Joe Young and also part of the Lex Barker Tarzan film series.
1966--NOT WITH MY WIFE, YOU DON'T!--A live action film, but in a cartoon prologue, a female ape points out her angry husband, and it cuts to a clip of Mighty Joe Young, implying that this female ape is the wife of Mighty Joe Young.
1974--SANFORD AND SON--Fred Sanford makes two references to Mighty Joe Young, both as insults to women (once for Esther, and once for Grady's fiance).
1978--KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK--Mighty Joe Young is referenced.
1988--CHEERS--"Woody for Hire, Meets Norman of the Apes"--Cliff mentions Mighty Joe Young.
ALTERNATE REALITIES:
TVCU2--The events of the 1998 remake of MIGHTY JOE YOUNG. A legendary fifteen-foot tall mountain gorilla named Joe is taken to an animal sanctuary in California by a zoologist and a young woman whom he grew up with. A poacher from the past returns to seek vengeance on him. Also probably in the TVCU2, in George of the Jungle 2, Ape is called Mighty Joe Old.
GLIMMERGLASS: THE CREATIVE WRITER’S ANNUAL, VOLUME 1 “THE BEAST” (STORY BY JOHN SMALL)Release Date: October 15, 2009 (Setting is 1700s to Contemporary Times)Series: King Kong (Original)Horror Crosses: King Kong (2005 remake); War of the Worlds (novel); War of the Worlds (radio); The Mummy (remake film series); Jurassic Park (film series); Kong: the Animated Series; Jurassic Park (novel)Non-Horror Crosses: Buckaroo Banzai; Tarzan; Flash Gordon; Tales of the Gold Monkey; Journey to the Center of the Earth; Tales of the Shadowmen; Doc Savage; Indiana Jones; Mighty Joe Young; A-Team; Fu ManchuThe Story: Author John Small discovers that the film King Kong was based on true events and gathers research on the true events of the film and the follow-up events that have happened since.
Notes: John Small uses a popular Farmerian method (named for Philip Jose Farmer) in which he places himself in the world of fiction, imagining that fictional stories are based on true events. Here, he melds together the original Kong story, and its sequels, prequels, and remakes, and makes them all fit into one coherent reality. Along the way, he throws in references to other fictional characters who must have been involved in such events based on their stature and the nature of the event. John Small makes official my conjecture that the 2005 film by Peter Jackson is the same events as the original film, just retold with dramatic license from Mr. Jackson. In explaining how the events of Kong could have happened in a world where most people are unaware of the supernatural and the extraordinary, he references other events that have later been covered up, despite their overly public exposure, such as the 1898 and 1938 Martian invasions from War of the Worlds, and the invasion of Mongo from Flash Gordon. DOC SAVAGE and TARZAN employ Denham to return to Skull Island to do documentary filming. Skull Island is said to be "the Menace of the Monsters". Joining in on the expedition were INDIANA JONES, Alex O'Connell (famous for taking down THE MUMMY), and Joshua Williams (from "Joshua Williams Breaks a Date"). (TARZAN couldn't make it due to events seen in TARZAN ALIVE). Roland Tembo is among the expedition as well. Tembo's CINEVERSE counterpart appears in THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK. SON OF KONG is a fictionalized version of events that actually happened during this expedition. In Kong Reborn, Dr. Jill Drake is involved in this incident. Jill discovers that BUCKAROO BANZAI has moved a clone of KING KONG to BANDUKI. It may be that the events of KONG: THE ANIMATED SERIES may be based on these events, which involve a female scientist who clones Kong then has to release him in a suitable environment. It was followed by KONG: KING OF ATLANTIS and KONG: RETURN TO THE JUNGLE. Among the crew that journeys to Skull Island in the first expedition is Jake Cutter (TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY). Kong is of the same species as seen in JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, TARZAN AT THE EARTH'S CORE, and TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN 3: DANSE MACABRE "The Ape Gigans". Mighty Joe Young is also connected to Kong and one of Denham’s grandsons is tied in as a villain on an episode of the A-Team. Fu Manchu is also said to be the villain secretly behind Jurassic Park.
1949--MIGHTY JOE YOUNG--A young woman who has raised a giant gorilla from an infant brings him to Hollywood years later seeking her fortune in order to save her family's ranch. It should be noted that in the credits, Mighty Joe Young is played by himself. That helps with zonks, because it implies that the events of Mighty Joe Young happened, and then Joe later went and starred in his own movie based on those events.
1940s/1950s--MIGHTY JOE YOUNG MEETS TARZAN--This was a sequel that almost happened. I like to think it still exists in the TVCU since there's nothing really to my knowledge to contradict it. This would have been a sequel to Mighty Joe Young and also part of the Lex Barker Tarzan film series.
1966--NOT WITH MY WIFE, YOU DON'T!--A live action film, but in a cartoon prologue, a female ape points out her angry husband, and it cuts to a clip of Mighty Joe Young, implying that this female ape is the wife of Mighty Joe Young.
1974--SANFORD AND SON--Fred Sanford makes two references to Mighty Joe Young, both as insults to women (once for Esther, and once for Grady's fiance).
1978--KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK--Mighty Joe Young is referenced.
1988--CHEERS--"Woody for Hire, Meets Norman of the Apes"--Cliff mentions Mighty Joe Young.
ALTERNATE REALITIES:
TVCU2--The events of the 1998 remake of MIGHTY JOE YOUNG. A legendary fifteen-foot tall mountain gorilla named Joe is taken to an animal sanctuary in California by a zoologist and a young woman whom he grew up with. A poacher from the past returns to seek vengeance on him. Also probably in the TVCU2, in George of the Jungle 2, Ape is called Mighty Joe Old.
June 21, 2016
Jim Beard & Godzilla
This Saturday, June 25, the TVCU Crew will be recording episodes 32 and 33 of the Television Crossover Universe podcast from Castle Wolfenstein on the Grand Guignol Network.
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In Episode 32, Robert, Chris, Ivan and James will joined by author Jim Beard, known for Monster Aces, with the big slugfest between Stevenson’s Mr. Hyde and the Universal Frankenstein’s Monster as well as other crossovers. We will also talk to him about how so many of the authors who work on his anthologies put in so many crossovers..
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In Episode 33, Robert, Chris, Ivan and James will be discussing Godzilla--We're doing another guestless discussion episode. We will talk about Godzilla and the Kaiju Shared Cinematic Universe. We had a really great time with our previous discussions and our listeners apparently like them too.
New episodes of the show are released every Tuesday. You can check out the latest episode at the link provided in the upper right hand corner of this page.
And please join us on Facebook to discuss the episodes. Feel free to join us before the show to post any questions you have for our guests, and then feel free to join us after the shows to provide feedback.
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[image error][image error][image error]In Episode 33, Robert, Chris, Ivan and James will be discussing Godzilla--We're doing another guestless discussion episode. We will talk about Godzilla and the Kaiju Shared Cinematic Universe. We had a really great time with our previous discussions and our listeners apparently like them too.
New episodes of the show are released every Tuesday. You can check out the latest episode at the link provided in the upper right hand corner of this page.
And please join us on Facebook to discuss the episodes. Feel free to join us before the show to post any questions you have for our guests, and then feel free to join us after the shows to provide feedback.
June 18, 2016
TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY
Now that I've tackled Buckaroo Banzai, the next one long overdue to tackle will be Tales of the Gold Monkey.
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GLIMMERGLASS: THE CREATIVE WRITER’S ANNUAL, VOLUME 1 “THE BEAST” (STORY BY JOHN SMALL)Release Date: October 15, 2009 (Setting is 1700s to Contemporary Times)Series: King Kong (Original)Horror Crosses: King Kong (2005 remake); War of the Worlds (novel); War of the Worlds (radio); The Mummy (remake film series); Jurassic Park (film series); Kong: the Animated Series; Jurassic Park (novel)Non-Horror Crosses: Buckaroo Banzai; Tarzan; Flash Gordon; Tales of the Gold Monkey; Journey to the Center of the Earth; Tales of the Shadowmen; Doc Savage; Indiana Jones; Mighty Joe Young; A-Team; Fu ManchuThe Story: Author John Small discovers that the film King Kong was based on true events and gathers research on the true events of the film and the follow-up events that have happened since.
Notes: John Small uses a popular Farmerian method (named for Philip Jose Farmer) in which he places himself in the world of fiction, imagining that fictional stories are based on true events. Here, he melds together the original Kong story, and its sequels, prequels, and remakes, and makes them all fit into one coherent reality. Along the way, he throws in references to other fictional characters who must have been involved in such events based on their stature and the nature of the event. John Small makes official my conjecture that the 2005 film by Peter Jackson is the same events as the original film, just retold with dramatic license from Mr. Jackson. In explaining how the events of Kong could have happened in a world where most people are unaware of the supernatural and the extraordinary, he references other events that have later been covered up, despite their overly public exposure, such as the 1898 and 1938 Martian invasions from War of the Worlds, and the invasion of Mongo from Flash Gordon. DOC SAVAGE and TARZAN employ Denham to return to Skull Island to do documentary filming. Skull Island is said to be "the Menace of the Monsters". Joining in on the expedition were INDIANA JONES, Alex O'Connell (famous for taking down THE MUMMY), and Joshua Williams (from "Joshua Williams Breaks a Date"). (TARZAN couldn't make it due to events seen in TARZAN ALIVE). Roland Tembo is among the expedition as well. Tembo's CINEVERSE counterpart appears in THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK. SON OF KONG is a fictionalized version of events that actually happened during this expedition. In Kong Reborn, Dr. Jill Drake is involved in this incident. Jill discovers that BUCKAROO BANZAI has moved a clone of KING KONG to BANDUKI. It may be that the events of KONG: THE ANIMATED SERIES may be based on these events, which involve a female scientist who clones Kong then has to release him in a suitable environment. It was followed by KONG: KING OF ATLANTIS and KONG: RETURN TO THE JUNGLE. Among the crew that journeys to Skull Island in the first expedition is Jake Cutter (TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY). Kong is of the same species as seen in JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, TARZAN AT THE EARTH'S CORE, and TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN 3: DANSE MACABRE "The Ape Gigans". Mighty Joe Young is also connected to Kong and one of Denham’s grandsons is tied in as a villain on an episode of the A-Team. Fu Manchu is also said to be the villain secretly behind Jurassic Park.
1938--TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY--This series is set with loads of historical and fictional anachronisms, but that doesn't stop it from existing in the TVCU. After all, we include Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. We must remember that the TVCU IS NOT the real world. It is a fictional alternate reality.
1938--TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY--"Black Pearl"--A character references being part of the events of BEAU GESTE, a novel by Percival Christopher Wren. [Episode 3]
1938--TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY--"Legends Are Forever"--Solomon's treasure is being kept on a Pacific Island. However, later, in THE LIBRARIAN: THE RETURN TO KING SOLOMON'S MINES, a TV movie that references that the events of H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines featuring Allan Quatermain actually happened, shows the treasure returned to Africa. "Legends Are Forever" also refers to the events of Haggard's novel as having actually happened, and also refers to the film version's elements, conflating the 1950 film and the novel as being the same events, from different perspectives. There are also references that place THE MALTESE FALCON and BEAU GESTE as being real within the same universe as this series. [Episode 4]
1938--TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY--"The Sultan of Swat"--Caeric J ArcLight reports: Jake Cutter reads "Murder on the Footbridge" by Isobel Sedbusk. This book is from the 1941 Hitchcock film SUSPICION. It also apparently shows up on a bookshelf in the 1962 film THE NOTORIOUS LANDLADY. I haven't seen SUSPICION so I don't know if Jake *should* be reading it in 1938 but it wouldn't be the first instance where time in the Monkey-verse didn't work the way it should. In this scene, Corky is sitting next to him reading a Superman comic from 1941. [Episode 11]
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August 13, 1956--QUANTUM LEAP--"Ghost Ship"--Dr. Sam Beckett is a time traveler leaping into different bodies in the past. In this instance, he leaps into pilot Eddie Brackett, flying a refurbished Grumman G-21 called Cutter's Goose. This plane is the plane from Tales of the Gold Monkey. To further cement the crossover, the passengers are Grant Cutter Jr and his bride Michelle. They are flying through the Bermuda Triangle, and so weirdness ensues.
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December 1980--MAGNUM P.I.--Bellasario originally intended to call the lead character Thomas Cutter, not Magnum, to imply a relationship to the lead character of TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY. I contend there is still a relationship, due to writer's intent.
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March 1983--MAGNUM P.I.--"Two Birds of a Feather"--William Lucking, who had played Gandy Dancer in TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY, appears in this later series by Bellisario, in a potential back door pilot for a character who Bellisario had intended to be descended from Gandy.
January 1984--AIRWOLF--This series came about in the evolution of the back-door pilot from "Two Birds of a Feather" episode of Magnum. So Stringfellow Hawke may be a descendant of Gandy Dancer as well.
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November 1984--A-TEAM--"The Island"--Cutter's Goose is apparently still flying, as seen in this episode (using stock footage).
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March 26, 1989--QUANTUM LEAP--Another Bellisario series with a reuse of a name. Gushie was a waiter in TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY and a scientist in QUANTUM LEAP, with another implied intentional relationship.
ALTERNATE REALITIES:
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CARTOON UNIVERSE--Talespin is an animated series that is both a sequel of sorts to Disney's Jungle Book, but inspired by Tales of the Gold Monkey.
June 17, 2016
The Chronology of Buckaroo Banzai Across the TVCU
Long overdue. I am going through older posts and adding links in an attempt to add a cross referencing element to the website, and in doing so, I realized I've yet to cover Buckaroo Banzai. So now to alleviate that.
Of course, crossovers can be more subtle. Angel is in the same universe as Buckaroo Banzai and the Alien franchise because the fictional companies from those series are clients of the law firm from Angel. -- From What's a Crossover?
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GLIMMERGLASS: THE CREATIVE WRITER’S ANNUAL, VOLUME 1 “THE BEAST” (STORY BY JOHN SMALL)Release Date: October 15, 2009 (Setting is 1700s to Contemporary Times)Series: King Kong (Original)Horror Crosses: King Kong (2005 remake); War of the Worlds (novel); War of the Worlds (radio); The Mummy (remake film series); Jurassic Park (film series); Kong: the Animated Series; Jurassic Park (novel)Non-Horror Crosses: Buckaroo Banzai; Tarzan; Flash Gordon; Tales of the Gold Monkey; Journey to the Center of the Earth; Tales of the Shadowmen; Doc Savage; Indiana Jones; Mighty Joe Young; A-Team; Fu ManchuThe Story: Author John Small discovers that the film King Kong was based on true events and gathers research on the true events of the film and the follow-up events that have happened since.
Notes: John Small uses a popular Farmerian method (named for Philip Jose Farmer) in which he places himself in the world of fiction, imagining that fictional stories are based on true events. Here, he melds together the original Kong story, and its sequels, prequels, and remakes, and makes them all fit into one coherent reality. Along the way, he throws in references to other fictional characters who must have been involved in such events based on their stature and the nature of the event. John Small makes official my conjecture that the 2005 film by Peter Jackson is the same events as the original film, just retold with dramatic license from Mr. Jackson. In explaining how the events of Kong could have happened in a world where most people are unaware of the supernatural and the extraordinary, he references other events that have later been covered up, despite their overly public exposure, such as the 1898 and 1938 Martian invasions from War of the Worlds, and the invasion of Mongo from Flash Gordon. DOC SAVAGE and TARZAN employ Denham to return to Skull Island to do documentary filming. Skull Island is said to be "the Menace of the Monsters". Joining in on the expedition were INDIANA JONES, Alex O'Connell (famous for taking down THE MUMMY), and Joshua Williams (from "Joshua Williams Breaks a Date"). (TARZAN couldn't make it due to events seen in TARZAN ALIVE). Roland Tembo is among the expedition as well. Tembo's CINEVERSE counterpart appears in THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK. SON OF KONG is a fictionalized version of events that actually happened during this expedition. In Kong Reborn, Dr. Jill Drake is involved in this incident. Jill discovers that BUCKAROO BANZAI has moved a clone of KING KONG to BANDUKI. It may be that the events of KONG: THE ANIMATED SERIES may be based on these events, which involve a female scientist who clones Kong then has to release him in a suitable environment. It was followed by KONG: KING OF ATLANTIS and KONG: RETURN TO THE JUNGLE. Among the crew that journeys to Skull Island in the first expedition is Jake Cutter (TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY). Kong is of the same species as seen in JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, TARZAN AT THE EARTH'S CORE, and TALES OF THE SHADOWMEN 3: DANSE MACABRE "The Ape Gigans". Mighty Joe Young is also connected to Kong and one of Denham’s grandsons is tied in as a villain on an episode of the A-Team. Fu Manchu is also said to be the villain secretly behind Jurassic Park.
1884--ATOMIC ROBO--"Knights of the Golden Circle"--According to John D. Lindsey, Robo, while stuck in the year 1884 after the events of the previous miniseries, says to Bass Reeves: "Old colleague of mine. He used to say "Wherever you go, there you are." I think it works for whenever, too." As far as I know, that quote originates with Buckaroo Banzai. West and Gordon from THE WILD WILD WEST also appear.
February 1944--THE AVENGER CHRONICLES--"Nightmare Destroyer"--Features Dr. Reno, a physicist working on an invisibility project for the Navy. In Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World, Win Scott Eckert claims that "Dr. Reno is clearly the father of Reno from Buckaroo Banzai". Also in the story, an American branch of Cox and Co. is seen. The London bank is where Dr. Watson kept his papers. The Avenger mentions his friend, who is implied to be Doc Savage (lives in the Empire State Building and runs a college for societal rehabilliation.)
1950 - Buckaroo Banzai is born in London, the son of two scientists, Masado Banzai and Sandra Willoughby.
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VINELAND (NOVEL BY THOMAS PYNCHON)Release Date: 1990 (Setting is the 1960s and 1984)Horror Crosses: War of the Worlds (Radio)Non-Horror Crosses: Buckaroo BanzaiThe Story: The story of a hippy commune being threatened by the government.
Notes: Ramon Raquello, the orchestra leader from the radio version of War of the Worlds is mentioned, and a band appears called Eddie Enrico and his Hong Kong Hotshots, which is actually meant to be Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers, minus the infringement of intellectual property, of course.
April 1 to May 1, 1974--THE ILLUMINATUS TRILOGY--Crossovers include: The Beatles; Lovecraft's Mythos, Conan, Kull, Lord of the Rings, and Buckaroo Banzai. According to Win Scott Eckert, the trilogy features a World Crime Syndicate which he feels is the same as the World Crime League from Buckaroo Banzai.
Before the movie--OF HUNAN BONDAGE--A two-issue prequel to the movie was released in early 2008 called Of Hunan Bondage. It was written by Rauch with art by Superman Returns storyboard artist Chewie. In early 2009, Moonstone released Big Size, a special oversize one-shot comic, written by Rauch with art by Paul Hanley.
June 12-13, 1984--THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI: ACROSS THE EIGHT DIMENSION--The events of the film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension, and novelization by Earl Mac Rauch. Yoyodyne Systems originated in THE CRYING OF LOT 49.
After that--BUCKAROO BANZAI AGAINST THE WORLD CRIME LEAGUE--The credits mention a sequel, Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League, which was never produced: the film would have focused on the League and its leader, Hanoi Xan. MGM now owns the rights to the Banzai franchise (after being passed on from now-defunct Sherwood Productions and its successors), so any sequel or remake is at their discretion. In 2016, director Kevin Smith stated that he would like to direct the sequel, if MGM is willing to let him.
1985--INTO THE NIGHT--This romantic comedy stars Jeff Goldblum, who also appeared in Buckaroo Banzai, makes his own sly reference to this movie. At one point he holds up his thumbs and yells, "Banzai!" In case it's not obvious enough, the movie also plays the three notes of the oscillation overthruster in the background.
1985--BACK TO THE FUTURE--Neil Canton (producer), Dennis Jones (production manager) and Christopher Lloyd (Doc Brown) all worked on Buckaroo Banzai before working on Back to the Future, which may be why there are a lot of references to BB. The most well-known is the flux capacitor, which (with its triangular display and moving lights) closely resembles the lighted readout for the oscillation overthruster. The flux capacitor is even placed in the same location in the Delorean as the oscillation overthruster was in Buckaroo's jet car - over the left shoulder of the driver. The car also has to get up to 88 miles an hour, which is a frequently-used number in Buckaroo Banzai (because 88 looks like "BB").
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1986--BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA--According to The Buckaroo Banzai Timeline , Billy Travers' (from Buckaroo Banzai) and Felicia Vasquez' marriage is annulled, and Felicia is last seen with trucker Jack Burton (from Big Trouble in Little China; click here for more information). Big Trouble will later be covered in a separate post.
December 1988--DOC SAVAGE VOLUME 2 # 1 - 6--"The Discord Makers"--Doc Savage performs a hypnotic technique he learned from The Shadow, using a girasol. Also, while in Washington, D.C., Monk Mayfair and Ham Brooks walk past a graffiti-painted fence which has the names of many rock stars and bands, including REM, Iggy Pop, Elvis, PIL, and Buckaroo Banzai. The full name of the band is Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers. Thus, Buckaroo exists in The Television Crossover Universe. The Shadow reference is in issue 6; the graffiti scene is in issue 3.
1980s--DICK TRACY--"The Resurrection of Abner Kadaver"--Crossovers include: BUCKAROO BANZAI, POPEYE. Thanks to Sean Levin's Crossover Universe for further information on this and other select entries on this page.
1980s--BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW--From the classy James Bojaciuk: I just watched Beyond the Black Rainbow. While there's much to say about this bizarre, strange movie, two points will suffice for now: 1) the credits quote Buckaroo Banzai's eternal maxim "No matter where you go, there you are." 2) Dr. Barry Nyle shows all the signs of a black oil infection (which began after he immersed himself in a vat of...hrmm...black oil. There's a point where vagueness becomes crossoverness.)
1992--LAST CALL--References Yoyodyne. Also references William Ashbless.
1995--THE BRADY BUNCH MOVIE--In the movie parody of the original Brady Bunch TV show, the father Mike Brady often dispenses pearls of wisdom. At one point, he says, "A wise man once said, 'No matter where you go, there you are.'" That wise man is Buckaroo Banzai.
July 1995--GEN13 # 3--"The Magical Mystery Tour"--According to James Bojaciuk: Gen13 #3. "The Magical Mystery Tour." Written by Brandon Choi & J. Scott Campbell; Art by Alex Garner; inks by Joe Chiodo; colors by Richard Starkings. The Gen13 crew sneaks out to hunt down their parents. Following clues, they arrive at the MacArthur Foundation, "a world-renowned philanthropic organization." Take note of the portraits. In the second panel, we have a deadringer forBuckaroo Banzai. In the first panel, we have Christopher Reeves (anyone who includes Wanted can use this as further evidence that Reeves is Superman). I have no idea who Lord Heisler is supposed to be.
1997--MEN IN BLACK--Another popular movie that referenced Buckaroo Banzai was the alien immigration sci-fi movie, Men in Black. At one point, Edgar the Bug calls Agent K, "monkey boy." This was also a derogatory term used by the Red Lectroids to refer to humans in Buckaroo Banzai.
1997--AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME--Buckaroo banzai quote in the second Austin powers film.
late 1998--BUCKAROO BANZAI: ANCIENT SECRETS AND NEW MYSTERIES--In late 1998, the Fox Network tried to develop a Buckaroo Banzai TV series, entitled Buckaroo Banzai: Ancient Secrets and New Mysteries, but nothing ever came of it. The special edition DVD contains a short computer animated sequence; done by Foundation Imaging, that was made as a test reel for the series. Among other things, the clip depicts a Space Shuttle trying to land with broken landing gear. Dr. Banzai maneuvers his Jet Car under the Shuttle and uses it to take the place of the broken gear. In May 2016, Kevin Smith announced he is adapting the film for television through MGM and that he and the company are in the process of shopping it around to a network.
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late 1998--BUCKAROO BANZAI: RETURN OF THE SCREW--In 2006, Moonstone Books began publishing comic books depicting earlier and further adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and the Hong Kong Cavaliers. The first story, Buckaroo Banzai: Return of the Screw, was written by Buckaroo Banzai's creator, Earl Mac Rauch. The black-and-white preview edition of the comic was released in February 2006, featuring a behind-the-scenes article by Dan Berger regarding the transformation of the rejected Buckaroo Banzai television pilot script Supersize those Fries into the present comic book limited series. The three issues of this comic have been collected into a trade paperback. In December 2007, Moonstone released a new Banzai comic story, "A Christmas Corrall," in the Moonstone Holiday Super Spectacular compilation, also written by Rauch and drawn by Ken Wolak.
1999--FIGHT CLUB--In the post-existential comedy about an ordinary man who starts a bare-knuckles fighting group, we hear a PA announcement for a phone call for John Bigboote. John Bigboote is one of the evil Red Lectroids in Buckaroo Banzai. Just don't pronounce it "John Bigbooty." He hates that.
1999 to 2006--A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS--Again, from James: The books crossover with everything. Just off the top of my head: The Maltese Falcon, Buckaroo Banzai, The Crying of Lot 49, The Plague (which Win brought in with his one Doc Ardan story), The Moonstone (which was brought in by a Holmes story), The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd, Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, the Grimm fairy tale "The Boots of Buffalo Leather," Oliver Twist, The Detective Dupin stories of Edgar Allen Poe, Madame Bovary, Mrs Dalloway, John Dos Passos' The U.S.A. Trilogy, "The Vane Sisters," and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
2000--THE CHRONICLE--"Here There Be Dragons"--David Lo Pan is a respected businessman in Chinatown (New York) who also controls its underworld. Although Lo Pan warns them to stay away, several reporters for the World Chronicle become involved in the search for New York's underground subway dragons. The David Lo Pan character is played by James Hong, who also played David Lo Pan in the feature film Big Trouble In Little China. Although he displays no supernatural powers, it is the same actor, the same character name, and the same type of role. We may speculate that David Lo Pan survived the finale of Big Trouble in Little China and simply relocated to New York City. It is generally accepted that the events of Big Trouble in Little China and Buckaroo Banzai take place in the same universe. Since Buckaroo Banzai exists in the TVCU, so do The Chronicle and its characters.
2003--NOTHING--When Dave goes to work, two announcements can be heard over the PA. The first, "John Whorfin, line 2. Line 2." and the second, "John Bigboote, please call reception."
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ANGEL (TELEVISION SERIES)SEASON 5 EPISODE 9 “HARM’S WAY”Release Date: January 14, 2004 (Contemporary Setting)Horror Crosses: AlienNon-Horror Crosses: Buckaroo BanzaiThe Story: Harmony finds it difficult adjusting to working at Wolfram and Hart.Notes: In an orientation video, three of the evil law firm’s top clients are said to be Weyland-Yutani, Yoyodyne, and NewsCorp. Weyland-Yutani is the company from the Alien series. Yoyodyne is from Buckaroo Banzai. Newscorp is the company that produces Angel.
July 2005--STARGATE SG-1--"Origin"--Cameron: "'Wherever you go, there you are.' I think that's Buckaroo Bonzai."
2006
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Unidentified creepy dead girlMAY - Ivan joins journalist Henry Covert and Caeric Arclight (of the Blue Blaze Irregulars) on an investigation of strange deaths occurring around Elmwood Cemetery in Charlotte NC. The common denominator turns out to be a videotape which nearly kills Caeric and Henry (Ivan is immune, likely due to either the Anti-Logic or the strange Mythos Beer he drank), but they manage to trap the malign videotape spirit by adding footage of the television showing the spirit climbing from a well to the tape, so that she is trapped in a visual loop. They surmise that the unidentified girl is connected to similar curses reported in Tokyo and Seattle. Ivan sends the tape to Peter Fitzhume in Ripton MA for storage.
Mythos BeerThe Blue Blaze Irregulars are associated with the film THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION (1984). The cursed girls from Tokyo and Seattle first appeared in the films RINGU (1998) and THE RING (2002), respectively. Henry Covert and Caeric Arclights are characters created by their real world counterparts. Peter Fitzhume is the creation of Kevin Heim, but is related to Emmet Fitz-Hume from the 1985 film SPIES LIKE US. Ripton is a fictional town in Massachusetts created as a hoax by a University of Massachusetts professor. The Mythos Beer is a reference to Lovecraft'sCthulhu Mythos, but is also a real(ly bad) beer.Summer 2008--PHINEAS AND FERB (Episodes 105 - on)--Another summer of adventures.There is a film within the series that is a crossover between True Blood and Teen Wolf (and clearly spoofing Twilight). In the TVCU, Teen Wolf is based on true events, whereas True Blood is fictional.
Space Invaders - The holographic aliens descend from the sky in rows, just like they do in the game Space Invaders. This is also alluded to by Doofenshmirtz shouting "You're being invaded! From Space! By invaders! From space!"The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Lawrence mentioned: "Invading force from Planet 10", this was the planet from which the Aliens came in "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension".The Honeymooners - The Sewer Repairman pays tribute to the Ed Norton character on the classic Jackie Gleason series, The Honeymooners. Norton, portrayed by Art Carney, nearly always wore the same outfit--White T-Shirt, Unbuttoned Vest, and Pork-pie Hat. Norton worked for the New York City Sewer Department. (One must wonder if this is indeed Buzsla?)Futurama - The professor in the endangered animals meeting is called Professor Herbert Farnsworth Weatherman Jones, giving a resemblance to Futurama's mad scientist, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth. Farnsworth may refer to Hubert's ancestor, Philo T. Farnsworth, in real life, one of the inventors of television.Asteroids - The "Asteroid Warning" sign on the space station features an asteroid which resembles those from the 1980 Atari video game.The Big Bang Theory - During a song in "Bullseye!", there is an evil scientist resembling Dr. Sheldon Cooper.(!!!)Ghostbusters/The Real Ghostbusters - The devices used by the kids to investigate the haunted house closely resemble the PKE Meters used by the Ghostbusters.Ozzy Osborne - One of the zombies in the Russell's underground river has the appearance of a zombie Ozzy. Mr Bean and Friends - At some point, Doofenshmirtz gets his head stuck in a cooked turkey. This is an allusion to what happens to Mr. Bean in the Christmas episode, and to Joey and Monica from Friends in the episode The One with All the Thanksgivings . Doofenshmirtz lampshades the allusion, by saying, "It can't be the first time someone's got their head stuck in a turkey". (Most of my info stolen, er, borrowed from the Phineas and Ferb Wiki.)
September 2008--THE MIDDLEMAN--"The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome"--Includes: Beryllium Spheres (GALAXY QUEST), Oscillation Overthruster (BUCKAROO BANZAI), Polydichloric Euthimal (RELIC, OUTLAND, TERMINATOR 2), Phased Polarons (STAR TREK).
December 2014--THE LIBRARIANS--"And the Apple of Discord"--The World Crime League is mentioned as a faction that sent a representative to the supernatural conclave. Also mentioned is the O2STK (Organization To Secret To Know) from the MIDDLEMAN. Also, this from Sean Lee Levin's Crossover Universe: "Jenkins, the group's caretaker, refers to the amendment to the Wold Newton bylaws at a prior conclave. The conclave involving the Wold Newton bylaws may have been part of a larger conclave that happened in Wold Newton, Yorkshire on December 13, 1795, as originally revealed by Philip José Farmer in Tarzan Alive, and elaborated on by Win in “The Wild Huntsman.” "
May 2015--SILICON VALLEY--"Adult Content"--Dinesh said he interviewed at Yoyodyne
2015--OCT 21 - BACK IN THE FUTURE - Emmett "Doc" Brown gathers several organizations that have benefitted from his technological breakthroughs, including the Ghostbusters, in Hill Valley CA to prepare for the arrival of Doc's 1985 self. He arranges the town to reflect the skewed version of 2015 he and Marty McFly visited so that the events he has previously lived through will still take place Marty will still temporarily alter the past by letting Biff steal the time machine, and Doc and Marty will wind up in the year 1885, since any deviation from what has gone before could be disastrous (Emmet met his wife in 1885, an event that never would have occurred if Biff didn't force Marty and Doc to return to 1955). Among the organizations represented to help Doc Brown with this project (and that have benefited from exclusive research from him) are the Banzai Institute, Ghostbusters International, On the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown are set to arrive from 1985, a series of protocols have been set into place to ensure Marty still experiences the same things he did originally, but Ivan, who is mostly performing crowd control to ensure no one interferes, accidentally tries to stop Biff from taking the DeLorean, and winds up being sent back in time to 1942 (without the car) when his Anti-Logic interferes with the time circuits.
Marty McFly. Doc Brown, Hill Valley, and their time machines are from BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985) and its sequels. Arkham Asylum reflects both the BATMAN franchise and the Cthulhu Mythos. Ghostbusters is from the 1984 filmGHOSTBUSTERS. The Banzai Institute is from the 1985 film THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION.December 2015--DOCTOR WHO--Andrew Brook reports: Town motto of Jackson, Nevada (in which part of tonight's "Doctor Who" was set) is (I think) a quote from Buckaroo Banzai
2040--PHANTOM 2040--"Dark Orbit"--In this tale of the 24th Phantom, Guran, speaking to Kit about a crimelord named Gordo, says "...and she will spread her tentacles world wide, like Hanoi Xan before her...." Hanoi Xan was the arch-nemesis of adventurer Buckaroo Banzai. Of Hanoi Xan and Hanoi Shan , Matthew Baugh writes: Hanoi Shan, described in H. Ashton-Wolfe's "Warped in the Making: Crimes of Love and Hate" is, according to Farmer, an earlier identity of the man we know as Fu Manchu. [See The Fu Manchu Chronology.] Could Fu Manchu/Hanoi Shan and Hanoi Xan be one and the same? There are a couple of reasons it doesn't quite work. The first is that the personalities of the two characters are rather different. Xan is a demented sadist who delights in calling himself "evil" while Fu Manchu sees himself as the benefactor of humanity and has a strangely noble character. More telling though is ancestry. Fu Manchu is (as his nom-de-guerre indicates) a Manchu. The manchus were a Northern peoples who conquered China and ruled for several centuries as the Ch'ing dynasty. They knew that China had a long history of absorbing her conquerors and, to prevent this, they were very strict about preventing intermarriage with the Chinese. The rank of mandarin (which Fu held) was only open to pure blood Manchus. Xan on the other hand was a pure-blooded Mongol and boasted of being a direct descendant of Genghis Khan. With this "foreign taint" he would never have gotten very far with the racial politic of Ch'ing China.
The Future--MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME--In the post-apocalyptic movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Mad Max is captured and imprisoned. There, he meets a fellow prisoner nicknamed Pigkiller. At one point, Pigkiller says the line, "No matter where you go, there you are." That's a famous philosophical quote from Buckaroo Banzai himself.
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22nd to 24th centuries--STAR TREK FRANCHISE--There are way too many Star Trek/Banzai references to list them all, so I've only included a small sampling.
November 2153--STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE--"Chosen Realm"--A callsign is used that was the same call sign "HB88" used when Bonzai tested the jet car in 1984.
2258--BABYLON 5--In the classic TV series set around a space station, there was an unspoken battle againstStar Trek. Star Trek made numerous references to Banzai. Not to be outdone, Babylon 5 had its own homage to Buckaroo Banzai. It shows up in an episode where G'Kar hands Mr. Garibaldi an engine piece from his Starfury. The piece is none other than the oscillation overthruster.
2293--STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY--Spock refers to Sherlock Holmes indirectly as his ancestor. A plaque on the Excelsior is actually a quote from BUCKAROO BANZAI which reads "No matter where you go, there you are."
September 2363 to Unknown--STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION--Captain Jean-Luc Picard commands the Enterprise-D. The ship's impulse engines are powered by Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, another connection to BUCKAROO BANZAI. Yoyodyne also appears in ANGEL and THE JOHN LARROQUETTE SHOW.
2365--STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION--"Up the Long Ladder"--This is just full of BUCKAROO BANZAI crossover goodness. There is a ship called the S.S. Buckaroo Banzai. It's captain is John Whorfin. The ship's mission is at Planet 10 in Dimension 8. Another ship, the S.S. Mariposa is powered by Yoyodyne pulse fusion.
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STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE (LIVE ACTION SERIES)Release Date: January 3, 1993 - June 2, 1999 (Setting is 2369 - 2375)Series: Star Trek: Deep Space NineAnimated Series Crosses: JetsonsOther Crosses: Star Trek; Star Trek: The Next Generation; Buckaroo Banzai; The First Men in the Moon; The Man From UNCLE; Dick Tracy (comic strip); The Forbin Project; Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; Mystery Science Theater 3000The Story: After the Bajorans have freed their planet from Cardasian rule, the Federation occupies space station Deep Space Nine to help the Bajorans in their transition, while also maintaining a strategic military position near a newly discovered wormhole.Notes: There is lots of evidence that a version of Star Trek does exist in the Cartoon Universe. This series was a spin-off of the Next Generation, which was a spin-off of the original series. Among the regular shops seen on Deep Space Nine throughout the series is Spacely Sprockets, which is where George Jetson had once worked in the 21st century. Other shops seen throughout the series tie to other crosses listed above, meaning that those series must exist within the Cartoon Universe as well. There have been other crossovers within the series in specific episodes, but they are not relevant to this animated series specific reference guide.
October 2375--STAR TREK: VOYAGER--"Relativity"--The plaque on the 29th century time-vessel Relativity reads: "The only reason for time is so everything doesn't happen at once." It's clear that Buckaroo Banzai may be legendary in our time, but clearly by the 24th century, he is considered one of the greatest men of history, and this must continue on even until the 29th century. (I don't know of any 30th/31st century references...yet.) The timeship is a Wells class ship, named for H.G. Wells, who chronicled the lives of many amazing people, and had his own amazing adventures as well, as did his sister.
Alternate Versions: Yes, even this character has counterparts in other realms.
Bonus. Horror Crossover Universe! --Pretty much everything that happened to Buckaroo would qualify,.
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LIFE AQUATIC--Lots of BB fans have noticed similarities to Buckaroo Banzai in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic. Zissou has a team of experts called Team Zissou, much like Buckaroo had his Team Banzai. Jeff Goldblum appears in both movies, and wears a cowboy outfit in both. But the undeniable similarity comes in the closing credits, where the cast of the movie comes together and walks along the docks in time with the music. According to Wes Anderson, this was a direct reference to the closing credits ofBuckaroo Banzai, where the cast does the same thing.
SKITLANDIA--In 1985, John Lithgow reprises his role as Dr. Federico on Saturday Night Live.
There seems to be some confusion about the phrase "No matter where you go, there you are." It's true that Buckaroo Banzai did not originate the expression. It's based on a quote by Confucius. While it's possible that other movies are referring to Confucius instead of Buckaroo Banzai, it's unlikely. First of all, the original quote from Confucius is, "Wherever you go, there you are." Whenever anyone uses the phrasing "No matter where you go, there you are," they're quoting Buckaroo Banzai, whether they know it or not. Second of all, the phrase had never appeared in American cinema before Buckaroo Banzai in 1984, followed by its second appearance in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdomein 1985, just one year later. Coincedence? I think not.
Also, from Buckaroo Bojaciuk: Yoyodyne is actually from Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, though the references in Buckaroo Banzai popularized it.
It's amazing that a single film could have this many crossovers, right?
