# Most shows set in the same "universe"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shows-set-in-the-same-universe/774389 "2016-12-10T22:58:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shows-set-in-the-same-universe/774389/41 "2017-07-17T19:26:21Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > I don’t know if other people do this, but when I start with a new Marvel- or DC-based program … I routinely Google the various characters to see “who they were” in the comics. Catch on to some Easter eggs that way. Anyway, I did that early on with _Legion’s_ David … so maybe there are things about him that I only _think_ I know from the TV show, but that I actually gleaned from an outside source. That particular factoid has been mentioned in 3 or 4 comics threads here on the dope before (don’t remember all of them, but one was a question about religious characters in comics–you can do a keyword search to find them) back before it retroactivity became a sooper sekrit. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shows-set-in-the-same-universe/774389/42 "2017-07-17T19:38:01Z")
And I admit that I’m not familiar with the character or the show at all. Someone reported the post as a spoiler, and I presumed that it was, so I boxed it. And no, I don’t remember who it was who reported it, and am not inclined to check. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2017, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shows-set-in-the-same-universe/774389/43 "2017-07-17T20:17:45Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > And I admit that I’m not familiar with the character or the show at all. Someone reported the post as a spoiler, and I presumed that it was, so I boxed it. And no, I don’t remember who it was who reported it, and am not inclined to check. Actually, _you_ didn’t box it. They say the memory is the second thing that goes… BTW, [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=217357) is the religious characters thread I was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![akrako1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@akrako1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akrako1)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2017, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shows-set-in-the-same-universe/774389/44 "2017-07-18T20:30:49Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > This thread can’t go on without discussion of Detective John Munch, as portrayed by Richard Belzer. > > Originating on Homicide: Life on the Street, he also appeared in several episodes of Law & Order, plus a number of its spinoffs. Add to that a couple of Law & Order spinoffs in which the character has not made an appearance, but which are definitely in the same universe, and several other shows which did crossovers with or featured characters from \*those \*shows, and we have: > > Homicide: Life on the Street > The Wire > St. Elsewhere > Law & Order > Law & Order: SVU > Law & Order: Criminal Justice > Law & Order: Trial by Jury > Law & Order: LA > New York Undercover > Conviction > Deadline > In Plain Sight > Chicago P.D. > Chicago Fire > > … - Chicago Med ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shows-set-in-the-same-universe/774389/45 "2017-07-19T03:15:41Z")
If we’re including cartoon universes in this discussion, we mustn’t forget that brief confluence of the _Pearls Before Swine_ universe with the universe of _Calvin and Hobbes_ for three days back in June, 2014. To be sure, Calvin doesn’t appear himself, but his universe is there! 6/4/2014: [Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 04, 2014 - GoComics](http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2014/06/04) 6/5/2014: [Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 05, 2014 - GoComics](http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2014/06/05) 6/6/2014: [Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 06, 2014 - GoComics](http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2014/06/06) ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shows-set-in-the-same-universe/774389/46 "2017-07-19T03:28:06Z")
Didn’t St. Elsewhere turn out to be the dream of an autistic boy? Would that then mean that all the linked shows (L&O and the rest) were also part of that dream? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shows-set-in-the-same-universe/774389/47 "2017-07-19T04:50:17Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Didn’t St. Elsewhere turn out to be the dream of an autistic boy? Would that then mean that all the linked shows (L&O and the rest) were also part of that dream? Mentioned in posts #5 and 6. The Tommy Westphall Universe. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shows-set-in-the-same-universe/774389/48 "2017-07-19T07:24:39Z")
And in my post #8. As I said, it’s in one of the crossover universes that has been put together in the website I mentioned. It’s Group 2 in this link: [http://www.poobala.com/crossoverlistb.html](http://www.poobala.com/crossoverlistb.html) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shows-set-in-the-same-universe/774389/49 "2017-07-19T09:49:14Z")
Actually, you mentioned it in posts #12 and 36. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shows-set-in-the-same-universe/774389/50 "2017-07-19T12:23:42Z")
Wait, does that mean that posts 8, 12, and 36 are all in the same universe? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shows-set-in-the-same-universe/774389/51 "2017-07-19T13:08:06Z")
Oh, no, I’m wandering between universes! Everything looks slightly different when ever I as much as blink. 12’s turn into 8’s! Where am I? When am I? Who is that little boy who claims he created this universe? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-shows-set-in-the-same-universe/774389.md?page=2)