OCEANIC CYLONS?

Maureen Ryan, the TV critic/columnist for the Chicago Tribune, is a closet Toobworldian.

Wait, that's not true. Maureen Ryan could very well be probably proud of her Toobworld leanings.

While visiting Alan Sepinwall's blog entry about "Eggtown", this week's episode of 'Lost', Mo Ryan wrote:

Lost Easter Eggs says Sawyer's book, The Invention of Morel, is about a man who is "creating a machine to reproduce reality." Then I found it interesting that there were two robots on the wall over Aaron's bed. These two tiny facts probably have nothing to do with anything, but they fit into my theory that the fifth Cylon is on the Lost island...
11:45 AM, February 22, 2008
In response, Devin McCullen posted:
I don't watch Galactica, but ever since Mira Furlan showed up my secret Lost theory is that it's all a gigantic experiment by the Vorlons.

11:42 PM, February 22, 2008

And Ms. Ryan added:
Devin McCullen, you are my hero. I was going to bring up Babylon 5 and Mira Furlan but was too chicken. I can definitely Go There, sci-fi TV-wise, but I wimped out. I must give it up for your timely and well-put Voorlon reference.

Can we start talking Deep Space 9 now? Talk about the Founders? Just kidding.

Why kid about it? Such a conversation would be perfectly at home here at Inner Toob!

After all, I'm just biding my time before I bring up my various connections between 'Lost' and 'Doctor Who'!!!!

BCnU!
Toby OB

MIDWAY TO THE TVXOHOF

It's a given in the Toobworld concept that even though a show may be cancelled, its characters continue leading their lives in the TV Universe. And it doesn't matter how many years pass since they were last seen - take the cast of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show Reunion', for example. With the exception of Alan Brady, who appeared in an episode of 'Mad About You' back in the 1990s, most of them had not been seen since 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' left the air.
(Rob and Laura Petrie, shown here from the reunion special, appeared together in a sketch for a 1969 TV special that reunited Van Dyke with Mary Tyler Moore. But those Petries would have been doppelgangers from Skitlandia.)

When 'Stargate SG-1' finished its run, Samantha Carter moved over to the sequel, 'Stargate: Atlantis'. And Teal'c has now made two appearances on the series - the latest being in the recent episode "Midway".

Because of their different line of succession for the Presidency of the United States, the 'Stargate' series on the whole have to be relegated to a different dimension. However, It could be that the series started out on Earth Prime-Time and they "jump-gated" back to a new dimension with nobody the wiser. And then the national elections caused the divergence.
At any rate, I think Teal'c does exist in Earth Prime-Time, and it would be great if we got the chance to see him show up on another sci-fi series someday......

BCnU!
Toby OB

LOST JERICHO

Even in the parallel dimensions of Toobworld, the Numbers of 'Lost' hold sway.....

In the first episode since the return of 'Jericho', Stanley was seen wearing a really old football jersey with the number "15" emblazoned on the chest.

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42......

(I wonder if there's any reason why "7" and "9" aren't represented anywhere in that sequence? "1" and "4" show up twice and "1" and "8" show up in the final tally of "108". But no 7s and no 9s......)

BCnU!
Toby OB

TOBY-VISIONS

My "serendipiteevee" kicked in yesterday when I flipped over to the Fox Movie Channel, just in time for a hypnotized Sheree North to gaze into the camera and proclaim:

"I want Toby."

Woohoo! Sign me up!

The moment came from "How To Be Very Very Popular", which came out the year I was born (another cosmic coincidence).

Later in that same film, Alice Pearce (who would later gain her true fame as the first Gladys Kravitz on 'Bewitched') said:

"You know what a dear, sweet, accommodating boy Toby is."

Well, I know it, that's for certain!

BCnU!
Toby OB

PS:

Oh, by the way - the last bit of serendipiteevee attached to the experience - Toby was played by Orson Bean, a favorite since I was a kid! (And he was totally ripped off by whoever approved that poster!)

TIDDLYWINKYDINKS: JAPANESE DRAGGIN'

My Little Buddy Sean, father of my god-daughter, sent me this e-mail from Taiwan [where he's relocated with the family in order to teach English]:

"::sigh::

I don't know WHY I thought of you when I read this..., but,

---Actually, it sounds like a scene out of one of my brother's queen movies..."

And there was a link to the following story:

A Japanese man was arrested for trespassing this week after turning up at a high school dressed in a girl's uniform and a long wig, local police said.

Thirty-nine-year-old Tetsunori Nanpei told police he had bought the uniform over the Internet and put it on to take a stroll near the school in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on Wednesday, the daily Asahi Shimbun said.

When students standing outside the gates started to scream at the sight of him, he dashed inside the school grounds, hoping to blend in with the crowds of teenagers, the paper said.

They also screamed, forcing the man to flee, losing his wig in the process. A school clerk pursued him and stopped him at a nearby riverbank, the paper said.

Police confirmed the arrest of the man in school uniform and wig but declined to give further details.
(Reuters - Reporting by Isabel Reynolds; Editing by Alex Richardson)

Well, I'll give him a good reason as to why he sent it: this would make a great story on 'Law & Order'. At least it would be a good jumping off point to get the main plot started.

What's great about 'Law & Order' and their ripped-from-the-headlines stories is that you may know the basics of the real news story, but you won't know where it's leading once given the 'L&O' treatment.

It could be one of Allan Shore's clients on 'Boston Legal' as well.....

BCnU!
Toby OB

TIDDLYWINKYDINKS: IN-JOKE CASTING (#2500)

This was from Time.com's TV blog, posted after last night's 'Lost' episode, "Eggtown":

But probably the best "wink" at the audience came in Kate's flash-forward, with her lawyer Duncan Forrester, played by Shawn Doyle. Did you recognize Mr. Doyle? In a 2000 Dennis Quaid-Jim Caviezel movie called "Frequency," which involved communication via short-wave radio across a 30-year time continuum, he played a character named... wait for it... Jack Shepard!

Actors are always cast on shows because of their previous connections to the project as an inside joke.

Examples:

Lee Majors, star of 'The Six Million Dollar Man', appearing in an episode of 'Jake 2.0'

William Shatner on 'Third Rock From The Sun', and both his character and that of John Lithgow had similar experiences seeing men on their airplanes' wings. (Just as they did in 'The Twilight Zone', TV show and movie respectively.

Marlo Thomas, formerly 'That Girl', in an episode of 'Ugly Betty', in which she went to see 'Wicked' on Broadway - during which Elphaba sings "I'm Not That Girl".

BCnU!
Toby OB

PS:
I'm going to make the claim that Duncan Forrester is related in some way to the Forrester family of the Los Angeles fashion industry......

And that's Post #2500!!!

SKED ALERT: "B&B"/"Y&R" CROSSOVER

Ashley Abbott and Eric Forrester of 'The Bold & The Beautiful' will cross over to 'The Young and the Restless' for a couple of episodes beginning Feb. 26th. For Ashley, it's a return home, as her family is based in Genoa City, Wisconsin.

BCnU!
Toby OB

NEWS VIEW: MARTIN DEPARTIN'

From Variety's V-TV:

After nine seasons, Jesse L. Martin is leaving “Law & Order” and is expected to be replaced by “K-Ville” star Anthony Anderson.

Martin’s departure has been buzzed about for months. He’s expected to lens one more episode of Dick Wolf’s NBC drama, with Anderson joining later this season.

With that one last episode to be filmed by Martin, I think they'll use it to wrap up his character's storyline. And with that being such an abrupt conclusion (within the context of the TV Universe), I've just got this feeling that Detective Ed Green will go the way of Detective Max Greevey.....

I don't know nuthin. This is Inner Toob; you think I have any inside contacts? Bwahahahahaha!

BTW - Detective Ed Green was the August 2006 inductee into the TV Crossover Hall of Fame as part of the year-long celebration of 'Law & Order'.

BCnU!
Toby OB

TIDDLYWINKYDINKS: THE CASE OF THE SHRINK'S DOOR

During the run of 'The Bob Newhart Show', the number on his office door changed from "715" to "751". His office was still in the same location, and had they moved to a different floor, it would have probably begun with a different number from "7".

I think it's a simple splainin. In order to facilitate faster mail distribution throughout the building, the numbers of each room on the floors were re-assigned. So it was the same office, different numerical designation.

Unfortunately, we don't get the full 'Lost' sequence with that first number - "415", "815", these would have been better for a cosmic link to "the Numbers".

BCnU!
Toby OB

TIDDLYWINKYDINKS: STANFORD SECOND SEMESTER

One last point about the new 'Knight Rider' and its place in Toobworld......
Yet again Stanford University plays a role in the lives of TV characters this season. Sarah Graiman was a teacher there, and had gone there earlier as a student herself. The new version of KITT was sent there to get her and it raced through the campus to elude their pursuit.

The other shows this year which featured or at least mentioned Stanford during the fall semester were:

'Chuck'
'Reaper'
'Journeyman'
'Boston Legal'
'Moonlight'

In the past, Stanford played a role in:

'Grey's Anatomy'
'One Tree Hill'
'One Man's Family'
'Party of Five'
'Too Close For Comfort'

And there may be more I'm not aware of yet!

BCnU!
Toby OB
UConn '77
(We get 'Cheers', maybe 'Judging Amy'....)