# Television crossovers that can only end in fisticuffs. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-crossovers-that-can-only-end-in-fisticuffs/662590 "2013-07-03T22:23:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Orr\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ee59a6/32.png) [@Orr\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orr_G)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-crossovers-that-can-only-end-in-fisticuffs/662590/81 "2013-07-06T00:25:15Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > Don’t discount Archer’s… I’m sure there’s a TV tropes term for it, but I don’t know what to call it other than “idiot luck”. Related to Plot Armor, but not quite the same–rather, things just happen to go his way, despite his best efforts to the contrary. Jar Jar Binks had it as well. So did that annoying little twerp from the same movie, actually. Perhaps it’s the Force. 😛 Good point, certainly. But I think it wouldn’t preclude a truly classy lady like Ms. Peel from laying him out - he would simply be a bit battered in later scenes, and entirely unrepentant (as long as she wasn’t in the room). Lana’s certainly given him worse on the show. Now, Archer vs. Brock, as mentioned above, is a bit trickier. Would Brock’s tendency to render others a mere smear (as an afterthought, almost) be enough to overcome Archer’s truly epic Idiocy? I mean, Idiot Luck? Perhaps, but somehow I can’t help but imagine the two of them high-fiving over a blissful young lass at some point before their story plays out. Warburton did voice a slightly Brock-like character in a few episodes of Archer, but, I think, not Brock-like enough to draw any conclusions. And, apropos of nothing, that’s how you get ants. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-crossovers-that-can-only-end-in-fisticuffs/662590/82 "2013-07-06T02:06:37Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Am I the only one who thinks that the Doctor and Q would get along great? I imagine an episode where Q shows up, and is being his usual Charming Asshole Self to everyone in sight, while elsewhere, the Doctor is racing to intercept what everyone is describing as a incredibly dangerous enemy. They finally meet haflway through the episode, stare at each other grimly for a moment, then warmly embrace and walk off happily chatting about old times. > > \*\*Doctor \*\*(tenth, natch): Q, you auld sod! It’s been ages! > **Q** : My dear Doctor! You haven’t changed a bit! > **Doctor** : … I have regenerated five times since we last saw each other. > **Q** : Oh, piffle. Trivialities. How have you been? > **Picard** : You know each other? > **Q** : This, _mon capitan_ is a Time Lord. They embody everything you humans lack: grace. Dignity. Not being descended from monkeys. > **Doctor** : There’s the old Q charm! [wrapping an arm around Picard’s shoulders] Don’t let him get to you, _capitan_. The Q have a rough exterior, but inside they’re big old softies. Wouldn’t hurt a fly! Well, except for that time they wiped out the fly-people of Musca IV. > **Q** : There were extenuating circumstances: they were disgusting. > **Doctor** : I suppose it’s all water under the bridge now. [to Picard] So, what seems to be the problem? You can tell me. I’m the Doctor. Wow - you really nailed them! > [@panache45](#): > > Ok, then, Marie Barone (Raymond’s mother) vs. Roseanne. That would be worth it just to see someone laying that shrieking harpy (Marie) out. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-crossovers-that-can-only-end-in-fisticuffs/662590/83 "2013-07-06T05:00:01Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I was thinking about this one the other day, as I watched the two shows on, um, Me TV I think. Jeannie’s a lot more powerful than Samantha (and less dependent on spoken spells), but Sam’s a lot smarter. Sam gets her ass kicked in the first fight, but assuming she survives she owns Jeannie in the remmatch. > > There is, incidentally, no version of this tale in which Dr. Bellow survives. I doubt Sam even loses the first fight, as the battle almost certainly starts because Jeanie screwed something up, and that something is big enough that Sam gets an idea of her powers. Either they get together after both Darrin and Tony have done something stupid, or it’s because one of Jeanie’s stupid ideas winds up hurting Darrin, and thus Jeanie becomes the magical villain for Samantha and crew. Either way, in the end they make up, with Sam still being a bit infuriated with her but being able to hold her tongue due to her experience with more powerful witches. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-crossovers-that-can-only-end-in-fisticuffs/662590/84 "2013-07-06T10:54:31Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Either way, in the end they make up, with Sam still being a bit infuriated with her but being able to hold her tongue I’ll be in my bunk. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-crossovers-that-can-only-end-in-fisticuffs/662590/85 "2013-07-06T16:48:10Z")
I was just thinking about Archer and Michael Westen, but they’d probably wind up on the same side. But when Sam Axe saw Mallory–_that_ might come to blows. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-crossovers-that-can-only-end-in-fisticuffs/662590.md?page=4)