I was watching an episode of Green Acres today when Oliver mentioned watching The Beverly Hillbillies. “Huh?” I thought, because I knew that there were crossovers between Beverly Hillbillies episodes and at least episodes of* Petticoat Junction*, and there are crossovers between Petticoat Junction and Green Acres. So I google to see if anybody mentions that Green Acres mention, and find that it is even more extreme than that, with a Green Acres episode where the characters actually put on a play about the Beverly Hillbillies. (Which can be watched on at least one less than official streaming site, if you google for it. I used to watch GA all the time as a child, but had no memory of the episode.) And I see that the Douglases themselves are in at least one of the crossover episodes of Beverly Hillbillies.
So in the canon of Green Acres, *The Beverly Hillbillies *is both a fictional series and real people that the characters really encounter. Any similarly twisted continuities come to mind?
Emergency! was technically a spin-off of Adam-12 (which was itself sort of a spin-off of Dragnet!–all in the Jack Webb universe). The cops from Adam-12 appear in the pilot episode of Emergency!, and the paramedics from Emergency! later appeared in an episode of Adam-12.
There was also an episode of Emergency! in which the firefighters all watched Adam-12 on TV.
Well, Green Acres did tend to dabble in the surreal. It wasn’t uncommon, in the scene immediately following the opening theme song, for one of the characters to be performing a repetitive task, while carrying on a conversation. And while the task was being performed, the props would have production credits emblazoned on them (for instance, Lisa Douglas would be hanging out the laundry, and the sheets would be printed with the names of the writer, the director, and the executive producer. And “music by DeVol,” of course).
I distinctly recall Granny getting mash notes from Sam Drucker, whom they had met on a road trip that took the Clampetts to Hooterville (well, she thought they were mash notes; they were pretty clearly just friendly greetings to the entire family). But I don’t recall if their sojourn in Hooterville featured appearances by either Oliver Douglas or Uncle Joe at the Shady Rest (Betty Rubble had already passed on by the time this crossover took place).
First it’s established in MAY that Kramer’s apartment is actually Paul’s old apartment that he sublets. Jamie is unhappy about the sublet and Paul keeping some stuff there. At the end of the episode Paul gets his stuff from Kramer and asks about the guy across the hall (Jerry). Paul apparently doesn’t think much of him. How Paul knows Jerry since Jerry moved in after Kramer is another matter.
In a latter episode Paul is excited to see the famous Jerry Seinfeld from TV on the street and rushes up to talk to him.
(The actor who played Kramer in the Jerry pilot also appears on MAY, BTW. So both Kramers appeared on MAY.)
There might be several of these in the Munch universe since several of his appearances are not within the show but on TV within the show. E.g., 30 Rock.
It’s like that episode of Wild Wild West where Dr Loveless transported people into paintings, which had their own reality, and then that reality had paintings that transported you back into the real world. Marco is both on TV and in the real world.
No, wait, there really was nothing ever like that episode anywhere. Maybe it was more like Last Action Hero.
Doctor Who was in a universe where the Doctor Who TV show exists (“Remembrance of the Daleks” shows it about to air).
Stephen Moffat just recently has fanwanked that the Peter Cushing Doctor Who movies were in the Doctor Who universe. They were made from some of his in-show adventures, but the producers changed things. He wanted to make it explicit, but couldn’t get the rights to the posters (!).
Wait, what?
I don’t recall anybody but Michael Richards playing Kramer. In the pilot he was called Kessler, but it was still Richards playing the part, wasn’t it?
There’s also a sort of a connection with Plan 9 from Outer Space: Their senator was Lyle Talbot, who played a general in Wood’s film. Since the show was in a parallel universe (they established in the same episode that the Eiffel Tower was in Washington, DC), this should count.
ftg’s referring to the pilot Jerry and George produced for NBC within the show. All of the main ***Seinfeld ***characters (with the exception of Jerry) were played by different actors.
