Wacky Cross-Over Question Meme: Part II
So, I really liked the wacky cross-over question meme that I did last week with The West Wing, Buffy, Angel, Dollhouse, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Orange is the New Black, House of Cards, Gilmore Girls, and Seinfeld.
I decided to do it again with a new crop of shows. I ended up accidentally repeating Dollhouse but that's it. I'm doing the meme with:
1. Firefly
2. Dollhouse
3. Glee
4. Sex and the City
5. Mad Men
6. Rome
7. Frasier
8. Law and Order: Criminal Intent
9. The Good Wife
10. Homeland
1. Give a likely scenario of what would happen if #3 (Glee) and #7 (Frasier) were combined in some fashion.
Aw, it would be adorable! David Hyde Pierce and Kelsey Grammer have great voices and they're totally Broadway. I think Perri Gilpin also has great pipes. The plot? Glee, in its tradition of implausible, ridiculous storylines, takes this story on. Principal Figgins decides to hire famous radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane to counsel the students at the high school, especially the weird, deviant Glee club. It's an all-expense paid trip to Ohio so fly-over-state afficionado Martin wants to go. Daphne needs to travel with Martin. Niles put up a fight about going to *Lima, Ohio*, until he learned that Daphne was going and then he was eager to go and stay in the same hotel.
Meanwhile, Frasier gets caught up in the Glee club because, as we all know, he did musical theatre at Haaaaahvad. Frasier decides to organize a big musical festival through the school as a revolutionary way of psychiatric healing...and Frasier wants to perform like a staaah. The results are wacky hijinks, Rachel Berry/Lea Michell v. Frasier Crane/Kelsey Grammer hilarious bitch-fights/awesome diva-offs, and finally, a disastrous show in front of the whole school which makes the Gleeks even bigger outcasts while the Crane family flees the auditorium back to Seattle.
2. What crossover pairings might occur if #6 (Rome) and #10 (Homeland) were combined?
LOL. Ancient Roman war v. modern America's war on terror. The futility of maintaining the entire Roman empire, heralding the then global super-power's fall and demise v. the futility of America's global war on terror, heralding the current global super-power's likely fall and demise. Plus, sex. Lots of sex.
I see the similarities- but the time periods are too remote. I say Titus Pullo is pulled by a time-machine portal to Homeland time. It's hard for Pullo to adjust to modern times but he immediately understands fighting terror by sleeping with a terrorist. "I was just following orders! Bloody good orders, if you ask me!" LOL. However, Carrie has issues with Pullo's flip attitude to her TRRRUUUE LUUUURVE.
3. Deathmatch! #1 (Firefly) vs. #8 (Law and Order: Criminal Intent)!
Aw, I'm afraid the Firefly crew would kick the Criminal Intent squad's asses with their futuristic technology and entire crew of physical and/or mental badasses. In ascending order of CI squad bad-assery. First, Mal would start a drinking game with Mike Logan and Mal would totally swindle Logan out of everything, including his changing female partner of the season. Poor Det. Zack Nickols Jeff Goldblum thought he was showing up to a battle of wits with maybe some pretentious piano playing but Jayne just flat-out shot him. Firefly would have the toughest time fighting Eames and Goren. However, Simon and River would challenge Eames and Goren to a brainiac triathalon and Goren would jump into it because he's used to be being the smartest kid on the block. But Simon and River are smarter.
4. You have to kill of 2 characters in #5 (Mad Men), what characters from #2 (Dollhouse) would you replace them with?
SO HARD. Early Dollhouse S2-era Topher comes in to do tech support on Harry Crane's monster of a crappy 1960s computer but Topher does his "create fuck-ups through genius" routine and Topher upgrades Crane's computer into...a monster of a super-computer that accidentally kills Crane. (I feel like I'm ramping up to a BSG crossover but alas, no.) Thus, Topher has to stay in the 1960s and do Crane's job. Meanwhile, Topher was tinkering with the technology at SC and figured out a way to emit waves to any person on the street to force them to buy products. Topher names it the UBER-Draper, because of course, Topher develops a little Man-Crush (but just emotionally- no Man Reaction) on Don while he's hanging in the '60s.
Meanwhile, Boyd sees potential to rework history in his favor so he goes back in him and murders Jim Hobart, CEO of McCann. McCann owns a controlling share of SC as of last ep. At the top, Boyd manipulates Topher into telling him about the plans to the UBER-Draper and it works because at this point in canon, Boyd is Topher's Original Man-Friend. BOOM. Boyd gets his thought-pocalypse.
5. You have to give up one forever. It never existed and never will. Choose between #4 (Sex and the City) and #9 (The Good Wife).
Difficult. I think The Good Wife is consistently better while Sex and the City was uneven. But Sex and the City is more important to the history of TV (putting HBO on the map, loosening sex standards on TV, prestige-shows about women). Sex and the City is also more creative, while The Good Wife is a really elegant, consistently good procedural lawyer show. I can't pick.
6. Using actors from #6 (Rome), replace them with actors from #3 (Glee) and vice versa. If one or both fandoms are book-related? Cast actors for the roles instead.
LOL. Rome's cast are quality British thespians. The opposite of Glee. Then again, I don't know who on Rome's talented, distinguished cast can sing and dance, let alone pop tunes. Some of Glee's casts are flakey actors who can't really emote- but they pretty much all have musical skillz. Even as actors, I don't see anyone switching parts except maybe Dianna Aragorn (Quinn) with Kerry Condon (Octavia). Mathew Morrison (Will) shares a weaselly, "beta who wants to be an alpha and is mysteriously treated as one" quality with Tobias Menzies (Brutus).
7. Using 2 characters from each, #8 (Law and Order: Criminal Intent) and #5 (Mad Men), create a spinoff show/sequel. Which verse will it be set in?
Obviously, Goren and Eames are dispatched to solve Adam Draper's hanging to figure out if it was a real suicide. "In New York City's War on Crime, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the major case squad. There are their stories. DUN DUN." Goren gets his own back after being trounced by the Firefly crew. Goren circles around Don and totally gets into his head as an ad man. Goren figures out that Don was there and left the 5Gs and then, Adam committed suicide.
However since Goren isn't an asshole, he doesn't turn Don in for desertion and identity theft. Goren was there to investigate a murder. It wasn't a murder so Goren feels no need to prosecute Don for non-murderous actions from years in the past. (Yes, this is my position on whether I'd like to see Don face criminal prosecution for deserting the Korean War and taking on the Don Draper identity. COME AT ME, BRO.)
8. #9 (The Good Wife) and #7 (Frasier) are crossed over - which characters would adapt the best, which the worst?
The Good Wife characters are all more kick ass than the Frasier characters. They all lead pretty cushy lives, though. But the Good Wife lawyers (Alicia, Carey, Will, Peter, especially Diane) could bullshit their way through being fake shrinks while Frasier and Niles would hang themselves as attorneys by blustery and pretentiously talking too damn much to hilarious ends. Martin THINKS he could fill Gary Cole's boots as a gun-shot analyst but Martin is a marshmallow and would fall apart on cross-examination. Roz would get caught up in the sexy aspects of being "Kalinda" and get distracted by any cute cops or investigators and never solve a case. Kalinda, as producer of Diane's or Will's or Alica's psychiatric radio show, would use her Power of Awesome to investigate a way to get it syndicated.
9. One will never end, choose between #10 and #1.
FIREFLY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ironically, Homeland's first season was clearly the best because IMO, the writers really pitched the show as that season. Carrie v. Brody- main draw. Meanwhile, Firefly with its big ensemble cast and many moving parts had every reason to be a multi-season show.
10. Choose two characters from each, # 2 (Dollhouse) and #4 (Sex and the City), they have to switch verses and take up the causes of the others. What happens?
Awkward question. END OF DISCUSSION.
I decided to do it again with a new crop of shows. I ended up accidentally repeating Dollhouse but that's it. I'm doing the meme with:
1. Firefly
2. Dollhouse
3. Glee
4. Sex and the City
5. Mad Men
6. Rome
7. Frasier
8. Law and Order: Criminal Intent
9. The Good Wife
10. Homeland
1. Give a likely scenario of what would happen if #3 (Glee) and #7 (Frasier) were combined in some fashion.
Aw, it would be adorable! David Hyde Pierce and Kelsey Grammer have great voices and they're totally Broadway. I think Perri Gilpin also has great pipes. The plot? Glee, in its tradition of implausible, ridiculous storylines, takes this story on. Principal Figgins decides to hire famous radio psychiatrist Frasier Crane to counsel the students at the high school, especially the weird, deviant Glee club. It's an all-expense paid trip to Ohio so fly-over-state afficionado Martin wants to go. Daphne needs to travel with Martin. Niles put up a fight about going to *Lima, Ohio*, until he learned that Daphne was going and then he was eager to go and stay in the same hotel.
Meanwhile, Frasier gets caught up in the Glee club because, as we all know, he did musical theatre at Haaaaahvad. Frasier decides to organize a big musical festival through the school as a revolutionary way of psychiatric healing...and Frasier wants to perform like a staaah. The results are wacky hijinks, Rachel Berry/Lea Michell v. Frasier Crane/Kelsey Grammer hilarious bitch-fights/awesome diva-offs, and finally, a disastrous show in front of the whole school which makes the Gleeks even bigger outcasts while the Crane family flees the auditorium back to Seattle.
2. What crossover pairings might occur if #6 (Rome) and #10 (Homeland) were combined?
LOL. Ancient Roman war v. modern America's war on terror. The futility of maintaining the entire Roman empire, heralding the then global super-power's fall and demise v. the futility of America's global war on terror, heralding the current global super-power's likely fall and demise. Plus, sex. Lots of sex.
I see the similarities- but the time periods are too remote. I say Titus Pullo is pulled by a time-machine portal to Homeland time. It's hard for Pullo to adjust to modern times but he immediately understands fighting terror by sleeping with a terrorist. "I was just following orders! Bloody good orders, if you ask me!" LOL. However, Carrie has issues with Pullo's flip attitude to her TRRRUUUE LUUUURVE.
3. Deathmatch! #1 (Firefly) vs. #8 (Law and Order: Criminal Intent)!
Aw, I'm afraid the Firefly crew would kick the Criminal Intent squad's asses with their futuristic technology and entire crew of physical and/or mental badasses. In ascending order of CI squad bad-assery. First, Mal would start a drinking game with Mike Logan and Mal would totally swindle Logan out of everything, including his changing female partner of the season. Poor Det. Zack Nickols Jeff Goldblum thought he was showing up to a battle of wits with maybe some pretentious piano playing but Jayne just flat-out shot him. Firefly would have the toughest time fighting Eames and Goren. However, Simon and River would challenge Eames and Goren to a brainiac triathalon and Goren would jump into it because he's used to be being the smartest kid on the block. But Simon and River are smarter.
4. You have to kill of 2 characters in #5 (Mad Men), what characters from #2 (Dollhouse) would you replace them with?
SO HARD. Early Dollhouse S2-era Topher comes in to do tech support on Harry Crane's monster of a crappy 1960s computer but Topher does his "create fuck-ups through genius" routine and Topher upgrades Crane's computer into...a monster of a super-computer that accidentally kills Crane. (I feel like I'm ramping up to a BSG crossover but alas, no.) Thus, Topher has to stay in the 1960s and do Crane's job. Meanwhile, Topher was tinkering with the technology at SC and figured out a way to emit waves to any person on the street to force them to buy products. Topher names it the UBER-Draper, because of course, Topher develops a little Man-Crush (but just emotionally- no Man Reaction) on Don while he's hanging in the '60s.
Meanwhile, Boyd sees potential to rework history in his favor so he goes back in him and murders Jim Hobart, CEO of McCann. McCann owns a controlling share of SC as of last ep. At the top, Boyd manipulates Topher into telling him about the plans to the UBER-Draper and it works because at this point in canon, Boyd is Topher's Original Man-Friend. BOOM. Boyd gets his thought-pocalypse.
5. You have to give up one forever. It never existed and never will. Choose between #4 (Sex and the City) and #9 (The Good Wife).
Difficult. I think The Good Wife is consistently better while Sex and the City was uneven. But Sex and the City is more important to the history of TV (putting HBO on the map, loosening sex standards on TV, prestige-shows about women). Sex and the City is also more creative, while The Good Wife is a really elegant, consistently good procedural lawyer show. I can't pick.
6. Using actors from #6 (Rome), replace them with actors from #3 (Glee) and vice versa. If one or both fandoms are book-related? Cast actors for the roles instead.
LOL. Rome's cast are quality British thespians. The opposite of Glee. Then again, I don't know who on Rome's talented, distinguished cast can sing and dance, let alone pop tunes. Some of Glee's casts are flakey actors who can't really emote- but they pretty much all have musical skillz. Even as actors, I don't see anyone switching parts except maybe Dianna Aragorn (Quinn) with Kerry Condon (Octavia). Mathew Morrison (Will) shares a weaselly, "beta who wants to be an alpha and is mysteriously treated as one" quality with Tobias Menzies (Brutus).
7. Using 2 characters from each, #8 (Law and Order: Criminal Intent) and #5 (Mad Men), create a spinoff show/sequel. Which verse will it be set in?
Obviously, Goren and Eames are dispatched to solve Adam Draper's hanging to figure out if it was a real suicide. "In New York City's War on Crime, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the major case squad. There are their stories. DUN DUN." Goren gets his own back after being trounced by the Firefly crew. Goren circles around Don and totally gets into his head as an ad man. Goren figures out that Don was there and left the 5Gs and then, Adam committed suicide.
However since Goren isn't an asshole, he doesn't turn Don in for desertion and identity theft. Goren was there to investigate a murder. It wasn't a murder so Goren feels no need to prosecute Don for non-murderous actions from years in the past. (Yes, this is my position on whether I'd like to see Don face criminal prosecution for deserting the Korean War and taking on the Don Draper identity. COME AT ME, BRO.)
8. #9 (The Good Wife) and #7 (Frasier) are crossed over - which characters would adapt the best, which the worst?
The Good Wife characters are all more kick ass than the Frasier characters. They all lead pretty cushy lives, though. But the Good Wife lawyers (Alicia, Carey, Will, Peter, especially Diane) could bullshit their way through being fake shrinks while Frasier and Niles would hang themselves as attorneys by blustery and pretentiously talking too damn much to hilarious ends. Martin THINKS he could fill Gary Cole's boots as a gun-shot analyst but Martin is a marshmallow and would fall apart on cross-examination. Roz would get caught up in the sexy aspects of being "Kalinda" and get distracted by any cute cops or investigators and never solve a case. Kalinda, as producer of Diane's or Will's or Alica's psychiatric radio show, would use her Power of Awesome to investigate a way to get it syndicated.
9. One will never end, choose between #10 and #1.
FIREFLY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ironically, Homeland's first season was clearly the best because IMO, the writers really pitched the show as that season. Carrie v. Brody- main draw. Meanwhile, Firefly with its big ensemble cast and many moving parts had every reason to be a multi-season show.
10. Choose two characters from each, # 2 (Dollhouse) and #4 (Sex and the City), they have to switch verses and take up the causes of the others. What happens?
Awkward question. END OF DISCUSSION.