MARK IN MARCH! 03/2020 TVXOHOF - MARK HAMILL

For me, March is a boring month, save for my brother’s birthday and the occasional Easter.  So for this month’s Television Crossover Hall of Fame big crossover induction – as well as for the weekly inductions as Friday Hall of Famers – we have what I believe is an interesting theme to liven things up.

The League of Themselves!  Those are the people – usually famous in some fashion – who appear as their own “televersions” in a fictional setting.

And this year, we have someone who became famous for one of the best known movie characters, a character he’s finally said goodbye to after 42 years (on-screen, that is.)

MARK HAMILL

From Wikipedia:
Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor, voice actor, and writer. Hamill is best known for playing Luke Skywalker in the “Star Wars” films, which won him the Saturn Award for Best Actor three times. He is also known for his voice acting in animation and video games, especially for his portrayal of the Joker, beginning with ‘Batman: The Animated Series’ in 1992.  

In 1980, he also made a guest appearance on ‘The Muppet Show’, both as himself and as Luke Skywalker in “The Stars of Star Wars”; this episode also starred C-3PO and R2-D2 who were along with him on a search for Chewbacca.  

He appeared on ‘Saturday Night Live’ playing himself being sold on a “Star Wars”-themed home shopping sale.  Hamill appeared in single episodes of ‘3rd Rock from the Sun’ in 1997, ‘Just Shoot Me!’ in 1998, and ‘The Big Bang Theory’ – the episode in which Sheldon and Amy got married.

Mark Hamill is a member of a very select group within the TVXOHOF – he is being inducted twice over, once for his appearances as himself in Earth Prime-Time, and as his animated self in the Tooniverse.  Off-hand I can only think of one other League of Themselveser who pulled that off – Adam West.  Which figures – two genre icons.

Here are the roles he’s being inducted for in the main Toobworld: 

The Muppet Show
- The Stars of Star Wars (1980)

America 2-Night
- Legalizing Prostitution (1978)

3rd Rock from the Sun
- Fifteen Minutes of Dick (1997)

Just Shoot Me!
- The List (1998)

Player$
- May The Crunk Be With You (2004)

The Bronx Bunny Show
- Episode #1.3 (2007)

Nightcap
- The Show Must Go On: Part 2 (2017)

The Big Bang Theory
- The Bow Tie Asymmetry (2018)

In 1997, the Toobworld Mark Hamill communicated with Space Ghost in the Tooniverse:

Space Ghost Coast to Coast
- Switcheroo (1997)

As was the case with Ice-T, an inductee from last month, Space Ghost was interviewed the live-action Hamill while he had a Tooniversion Hamill available to be in the studio.

Hrmmmmm

And here are his qualifications from the Tooniverse:

Freakazoid!
- And Fan Boy Is His Name/Lawn Gnomes Chapter IV: Fun in the Sun/Freak's French Lesson (1995)

O'Bservation:
Just my opinion, but this was the best representation of Hamill in the Tooniverse.

The Simpsons
- Mayored to the Mob (1998)

Pepper Ann
- The Finale (2000)
- Unhappy Campers/The Search for Pepper Ann Pearson (2000) ...
- Beyond Good and Evel/One of the Guys (1999)
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Milo/The Sisterhood (1998)

Johnny Bravo
- Johnny Bravo Goes to Hollywood (2004)

O'Bservation:
He was recognized as being the CGI version of himself.

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle
- Amazamoose and Squirrel Wonder: Chapter Three (2019)

O’Bservation:
This might have been an appearance by the Toobworld Mark Hamill instead of a Tooniverse Hamill. That might be him in the picture, dressed as Shakespeare; I have no clue.

As mentioned in the Wikipedia excerpt, Hamill appeared as himself in a sketch on 'Saturday Night Live', but that belongs in Skitlandia.  One day he'll have enough credits playing himself in sketches - he might even have enough now! - to have his Skitlandean version inducted.

Hamill is also known for being the actor who has portrayed the Joker the most times.  And apparently there's an animated short out there in which the Joker kidnaps Mark Hamill.  But I don't know if that's just a rumor or if it actually exists.

Welcome to the Hall, Mark Hamill.

May the F--#  No.  I’m sure you must be sick of hearing that….