# Worst Television Cross-over **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 22, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-television-cross-over/797006 "2017-09-22T21:18:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-television-cross-over/797006/61 "2017-09-26T22:02:19Z")
> [@golffan1963](#): > > To those who replied about Happy Days…Fonzie once made an appearance on Laverne and Shirley. Pathetic. As an adult I’m now embarrassed that I was a fan of those shows…not to mention Welcome Back, Kotter. I watch reruns of any of the three and cringe with shame. Laverne and Shirley was a Happy Days spinoff. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-television-cross-over/797006/62 "2017-09-26T22:04:32Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > What about the Petticoat Junction/Green Acres/Beverly Hillbillies nexus? Characters from all three shows appeared on each others’ courtesy of CBS’ seamless sitcom universe. It wasn’t that seamless, what with Bea Benadaret playing Jethro’s ma on the Beverly Hillbillies, but Kate on Petticoat Junction. ---
**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:** [September 26, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-television-cross-over/797006/63 "2017-09-26T22:56:23Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > It wasn’t that seamless, what with Bea Benadaret playing Jethro’s ma on the Beverly Hillbillies, but Kate on Petticoat Junction. The in-universe explanation was that Kate and Pearl were cousins. Hey, it worked with Patty and Cathy Lane! ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-television-cross-over/797006/64 "2017-09-26T23:04:58Z")
there was a 70s version of a plastic man cartoon where he had a blonde dim wit girlfriend (whom he married and had a baby with) and a side kick who was called something like “hula joe” because he was Hawaiian but all he did was sound like a whiny Costello and mess things up ---
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-television-cross-over/797006/65 "2017-09-28T00:22:41Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Comic book. The old 12¢ variety. And… mm hmm I see the thread did specify television (oops) Since off-topic comic books have already been mentioned…did you see the Punisher/Archie crossover? I never read it, but heard it worked surprisingly well (at least relative to the absolute disaster one would think it would be). ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-television-cross-over/797006/66 "2017-09-28T00:52:12Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Laverne and Shirley was a Happy Days spinoff. So was _ **Mork and Mindy** _. IIRC, Mork, Laverne, and Shirley were in the same episode of _ **Happy Days** _. Laverne and Shirley debuted a couple of weeks before I left to live abroad. I thought it was hilarious! I came back 14 months later, and found it had devolved into a _ **Lucy Show** _ clone. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-television-cross-over/797006/67 "2017-09-28T00:56:16Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > He showed up in one episode of the 1973 version of _Super Friends_–the first, clunky season, featuring Wendy and Marvin as the teenage sidekicks/designated hostages. He was used to retrieve a mouse from deep inside the inner works of a giant computer. Seriously, that was the plot. He was played as a fairly straight-laced, stretchy-guy hero, with none of the wackiness Cole gave him. Frankly, he might as well have been Elongated Man! 🙂 Was that the giant computer that was supposed to run everything in the world, but malfunctioned (due to the mouse, I’d guess) badly requiring the Superfriends to disable it? I saw that one, back in the day. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-television-cross-over/797006/68 "2017-09-28T00:56:59Z")
Oops, I see now that _ **M&M** _ and\*\*\* L&S\*\*\* were dealt with on Page 2. Never mind. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-television-cross-over/797006/69 "2017-09-28T01:42:40Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Was that the giant computer that was supposed to run everything in the world, but malfunctioned (due to the mouse, I’d guess) badly requiring the Superfriends to disable it? I saw that one, back in the day. Sounds about right. Those early episodes were pretty goofy. Things didn’t get exciting until the Legion of Doom showed up! ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-television-cross-over/797006/70 "2017-09-28T01:48:53Z")
OK, this technically isn’t a crossover, but in 1990 there was an animated tv special called _Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue_ warning about the dangers of drug use. It featured characters from the following: _ALF: The Animated Series_ _Alvin and the Chipmunks_ _DuckTales_ _Garfield and Friends_ _Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies_ _Muppet Babies_ _The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh_ _The Real Ghostbusters_ _The Smurfs:_ _Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles_ It was horrendous. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon\_All-Stars\_to\_the\_Rescue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_All-Stars_to_the_Rescue) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-television-cross-over/797006.md?page=3)