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Old 04-01-2009, 02:44 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Tommy Westphall

I debated where to put this, paranoia perhaps, but not quite. Found on the net maybe... but there was more to it.

I am quoting most of this information from this site: Tommy Westphall - A Multiverse Explored
I am just reducing it to a more readable level. If there is any doubt, consider the words not my own.

Remember the TV show from waaaay back in the day called St. Elsewhere? Remember how it ended?

Tommy Westphall was an autistic child on the TV series St Elsewhere who, it was revealed in the closing moments of the final episode of that series, had
dreamt the entire run of the show.


Okay you might ask, what does this have to do with anything?

St Elsewhere has direct connections to twelve other television series - many of them direct crossovers of character to and from the series.
Others make mention of specific parts of the St Elsewhere fictional universe, placing them within the same fictional sphere.


Basically, anything that has any tie with St Elsewhere, be it a fictional place, character names, awards, newspapers, cigarette brands, companies place some shows within the same fictional universe...
They all would be in the same "Multiverse" as St. Elsewhere.

Remember when Phobee's (from Friends) sister Ursula was the dog walker for the couple on Mad About You?
That places all of the characters from Friends in the same universe as all of the characters from Mad About You
(and also in the same multiverse as St Elsewhere).

That is basically what we are taking about here, except on a much... MUCH larger scale.

It should also be added that If St Elsewhere exists only within Tommy Westphall's mind, then so does every other series set within the same fictional sphere.

Alrighty you say, sounds plausible, but what exactly are we taking here? We are talking about this Douche here: TomFontana.com

Tom Fontana was one of the lead writers for St. Elsewhere, he is also the producer for a TV show named Homicide (heard of it?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLOTS#Crossover_episodes
St Elsewhere - which had a direct crossover with Homicide - had many connections to other TV shows. And cross-pollinating Homicide with Dick Wolf's Law & Order franchise bred even more connections.

The scope you ask? 280 shows are connected to Homicide: Life on the Street and St. Elsewhere, for a grand total of 282 series.

280 TV shows that exist only inside the mind of an autistic child.

Woah.. did I blow your mind?

No? Okay... to continue.

So you might be asking yourself: "Self, why do I care?"

You should care, this is important! (not really)

You wanna see it?

I feel I should warn you, it's huge! (that is probably the only time I will ever get to use that line, so let me run with it.)



click here for all the shows   click to show 


It should be noted that it was 4:30 in the AM when I was putting this together, so I might come across as a bit insane.
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Old 04-02-2009, 05:16 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I almost forgot to add the key to the whole thing!
Here is an example of what is in the key:

Quote:
1. In the center: St Elsewhere's Dr Turner was investigated for murder by Homicide's Pembleton and Bayliss. And St Elsewhere's entire run was just a dream inside autistic Timmy Westphall's head. This means every show listed below is a figment. And Newhart (and the shows that crossed over with it) are a figment twice over. (See: Bottom right quadrant)

2. Top left: St Elsewhere's Westphall, Craig and Auschlander visited Cheers' bar
A. Cheers' Norm, Cliff, and Drs. Crane visited Wings' airport.
i. Cheers spun-off The Tortellis with Carla.
ii. And going back to Cheers it also spun-off Fraiser.
(1) John Larroquette Show's John Hemingway called into Fraiser's show.
(a) John Larroquette Show referenced Yoyodyne. Yoyodyne was also a client of Angel's Wolfram & Hart.
(i) Angel was a spin-off of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (for more on Buffy see item 4.A.)
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Old 04-02-2009, 02:42 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Wow, I didn't realize Hollywood was this incestuous.
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Old 04-02-2009, 04:53 PM   #4 (permalink)
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That's awesome that someone put all that together. Brilliant.
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Old 04-02-2009, 05:01 PM   #5 (permalink)
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I don't know if Trapper John M.D. should be listed. TJMD was stated to be a spin-off of the film M*A*S*H not the TV show due to licensing reasons and since the St. Elsewhere link is a reference to BJ Hunnycut who didn't appear in the film.
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Old 04-03-2009, 09:38 AM   #6 (permalink)
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I don't know if Trapper John M.D. should be listed. TJMD was stated to be a spin-off of the film M*A*S*H not the TV show due to licensing reasons and since the St. Elsewhere link is a reference to BJ Hunnycut who didn't appear in the film.
Wow... that was.. hardcore.
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Old 04-03-2009, 09:59 AM   #7 (permalink)
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My only question is, did all of the linking events happen in the shows that are reality? I'll pick on 6 and 7, since they are clear and many of the other references are ambiguous as to which show the crossover occurred in.

6. Top right: St Elsewhere's Warren Coolidge appeared on an episode of Method & Red --If we are willing to assume that no character named Warren Coolidge ever existed outside of the dream world, this clear indication that Method & Red is also a dream.
7. Top right: St Elsewhere's Mark Craig talked about M*A*S*H's BJ Hunnicut. --Assuming this happened in St. Elsewhere, this proves nothing about the reality of M*A*S*H...if I have a dream about someone, that doesn't mean they don't exist.

I'm afraid that as a proof that all of these shows exist in a dream world, this might break quite a few of the logical links, however as a display of how interwoven TV is, it's still very interesting!
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Old 04-03-2009, 02:14 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Here's another problem with this logic.
According to the key
(iii) In the Red Dwarf episode "Psirens", the crew of the Red Dwarf come across a space ship graveyard which includes a Weyland-Utani ship (connecting it with Angel, and a Eagle ship from the TV series Space: 1999.
1. A Klingon Bird of Prey from the Star Trek universe(see 2.A.ii.(1).(b)(i) for more Star Trek) is also in the grave yard
2. An Eagle ship from the TV series Space: 1999 is in the graveyard as well

Stuff like this is kinda stretching things. Lets assume that Red Dwarf is infact part of the kids dream. Because the kids dream places recognizable ships in the background then these shows must be a part of the kids dream? OR the more obvious answer, the kid's brain filled space with things that he had seen on TV.
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