Tommy Westphall: You are his hallucination
So, I don't know if you've seen St. Elsewhere, but it's a pretty good show, and it has one of the craziest last episodes ever. In the final episode of the series it is revealed (or at least implied) that the entire show has taken place in the mind of Tommy Westphall, the autistic son of one of the main characters.
This in itself is pretty crazy, but then I heard that there is an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street that has a crossover with two characters from St. Elsewhere, implying that Homicide also takes place in Tommy Westphall's mind, which is super crazy.
But then it turns out that there are about a million shows that have crossovers with Homicide, or crossovers with crossovers, and that's when shit gets really crazy. There is this web page http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/crossovers.html that has almost 300 shows that are in some way connected to St. Elsewhere including, The X-files, Sienfield, Buffy, I Love Lucy, Star Trek, Battlestar, The Wire, and MASH.
Then there is some next level crazy shit, like the fact that both Buffy and Walker Texas Ranger are on the list, but people from Buffy watch Walker Texas Ranger, so how does that work? And, Maybe craziest of all, Newhart is on the list, and in the last episode of Newhart, it is revealed that that entire show takes place in Bob Newhart's head. So, I don't know what the hell that means.
One page which is full of objections to the idea that all of these shows exist inside Tommy Westphall's head points out that there are also crossovers between some of these shows and consensus reality. Michael Bloomberg, for example, plays the mayor of New York on Law and Order, and in real life. This is meant to imply that the logic of linking shows that have crossovers into a shared universe is faulty, but I prefer to think that in means that real life exists only in Tommy Westphall's mind.
This in itself is pretty crazy, but then I heard that there is an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street that has a crossover with two characters from St. Elsewhere, implying that Homicide also takes place in Tommy Westphall's mind, which is super crazy.
But then it turns out that there are about a million shows that have crossovers with Homicide, or crossovers with crossovers, and that's when shit gets really crazy. There is this web page http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/crossovers.html that has almost 300 shows that are in some way connected to St. Elsewhere including, The X-files, Sienfield, Buffy, I Love Lucy, Star Trek, Battlestar, The Wire, and MASH.
Then there is some next level crazy shit, like the fact that both Buffy and Walker Texas Ranger are on the list, but people from Buffy watch Walker Texas Ranger, so how does that work? And, Maybe craziest of all, Newhart is on the list, and in the last episode of Newhart, it is revealed that that entire show takes place in Bob Newhart's head. So, I don't know what the hell that means.
One page which is full of objections to the idea that all of these shows exist inside Tommy Westphall's head points out that there are also crossovers between some of these shows and consensus reality. Michael Bloomberg, for example, plays the mayor of New York on Law and Order, and in real life. This is meant to imply that the logic of linking shows that have crossovers into a shared universe is faulty, but I prefer to think that in means that real life exists only in Tommy Westphall's mind.