TVXOHOF, JULY 2024 - FINDER-SPYDER!

An O’Bservation from Toobworld Central….

The July 2024 entry into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame had been penciled in since the year began, as a tribute to an actor whom we lost within the last year.  But we kept losing more who also qualified for membership and it was weighing heavily on my poor excuse for a mind.  Plus, because of some of those memorial ceremonies and a few specials which always come up in June, my birth month for this year probably holds the record for the most inductions in a month.  Imagine how much work there would have been if I was still doing the Friday induction ceremonies!

On July 1^st, Martin Mull’s memorial TVXOHOF tribute was posted and I could easily have just let that serve as the July showcase.  But I wanted to provide something for the month in which the Hall usually salutes detectives.  And in order to lighten the mood, at least between my ears (Mull’s passing was a real downer for me), I decided to propose a candidate who does detective work, and on several TV series which are mysteries.

Submitted without approval….

THE FINDER-SPYDER SEARCH ENGINE

From Wikipedia:
Finder-Spyder is a fictional Web search engine that appears in numerous television shows, used in the same manner as the fictitious 555 telephone number in TV and film. It has been called "an unofficial, open source stand-in for Google and its competitors" (used as a legality-free alternative to a brand-name product), and "the most popular search engine in the TV universe." Finder-Spyder appears as a top 10 pick in "best fictional brand" lists by various online media, along with Oceanic Airlines, Morley cigarettes, Acme Corporation, and others.

From the 'Journeyman' Wiki:
Finder-Spyder is a popular stand-in recently for real search engines. It has appeared in episode eight of ‘Moonlight’ (though with a different logo), in the pilot episode of ‘Prison Break’ as well as season three episode 10 and season four episode 5, also in episodes of ‘CSI’ ("Time of Your Death" May 4, 2006) and in at least one episode of ‘Hidden Palms’ ("Party Hardy" June 13, 2007) and at least one episode of ‘Without a Trace’ ("Baggage" October 25, 2007). It has also featured in the series ‘Dexter’ and ‘Breaking Bad’.  Also appears on ‘Touch’. ("Eye to Eye", Mar. 1, 2013)

From Mashable:
Supposedly, it is the only website to hold a place on the Wikipedia category of "Fictional Brands," which includes icons such as Oceanic Airlines and Duff Beer.

Most Finder Spyder usage on popular shows was pre-2010. Only a handful of lesser-known, less-long-running shows (‘Touch’, ‘Bosch’, and ‘The Finder’ among them) used Finder Spyder in the 2010s, so the searches don't rise up much.

That strange little blip in 2016, however, directly lines up with the first episode of the tenth season of ‘The X-Files’, where Scully used lil' ol' Finder Spyder to search for Tad O'Malley.

So let’s put together a list of Finder-Spyder’s appearances in Toobworld.  Maybe we can get some help from Finder-Spyder itself….

O’Bservation:
You’ll notice that there will be a variety of homepage variations from show to show, especially when it comes to the company logo and even some difference in the name of the search engine itself.  In fact, in its very first appearance it is known as “Spyder-Finder”.  Splainin to do?  O’Bviously, the search engine was still in its beta-testing stage.  This may affect the placement of these appearances despite when they were broadcast.

Here are the shows I’ve been able to find online, thanks to far more dedicated Finder-Spyder Finders than me.

PRISON BREAK
PILOT (29 Aug 2005) 

O’Bservation:
I’m not going to go looking for this episode.  Mashable did the work so I already know that Wikipedia is wrong about Finder-Spyder being in the pilot.

From Mashable:
According to its own Wikipedia page, the earliest use of Finder Spyder was in the 2005 pilot episode of ‘Prison Break’. Finder Spyder's actual first appearance isn't until the 17th episode of ‘Prison Break’, which aired in early 2006.

1] J-CAT (10 Apr 2006)

From Mashable:
Used by LJ Burrows to search "O.Kravecki, Chicago" in order to find more about agent Paul Kellerman.

2] UNEARTHED (30 Oct 2006)

From Mashable:
Used by Michael Scofield to search information about Alexander Mahone.

3] DIRT NAP (21 Jan 2008)

From Mashable:
Used by Lincoln Burrows to search the name Gary Miller. 

4] SAFE AND SOUND (22 Sep 2008)

From Mashable:

Used by Sara Tancredi to search "Laos" to find out more about a person named Lisa Tabak who took a plane there.

5] THE LEGEND (10 Nov 2008)  

O'Bservation:
While these may have been the first appearances on TV for Finder-Spyder, it did not happen on Earth Prime-Time.  The main Toobworld must always have the same President and Vice-President as we have on Earth Prime.  (There's a lot of leeway when it gets down to Senators, Congressmen, Governors, and Mayors... except for New York city.)

And with 'Prison Break,' the plot hinges on one of the two main characters being accused of murdering the brother of the Vice- Preisent, Carolyn Reynolds.  The only female Vice President we've had so far has been Kamala Harris.

GENERAL HOSPITAL

O’Bservations:

I don't know when most of these appearances took place, so I'm going to post them here at the beginning for Toobworld.

I didn’t find many pictures, but at least Mashable provided a good list of examples:

• Used by Nikolas Cassadine to look up "Rachel and Baxter Corbin"
• Used by Rachel Berlin to "find out what comes up when you type in 'Naomi Dreyfus'."
• Used by Elizabeth Webber to find out who "Amy Dreyfus" is.
• Used by Ava Jerome to look up unethical doctors who perform plastic surgery
• Used by Curtis Ashford to look up "Peter August birth records"

Plus

• Used to discover who “The Balkan” is. (2010-2011)
• Used by Anna Devane to search for “Henrik Faison”, but the screen comes up blank. (2018)
• Used by Spencer to search for "Maggie Fitzgerald, London" when he is interrupted by Esme. (2022)

O’Bservation:
Since the search engine appears as SpyderFinder, either all of these appearances have to take place before 2006 or the company was celebrating its roots yet again.

JOURNEYMAN

 1] A LOVE OF A LIFETIME (2007)

2] GAME THREE (2007)

3] THE YEAR OF THE RABBIT (2007)

4] THE LEGEND OF DYLAN McCLEEN (2007)

From the 'Journeyman' Wiki:
Finder-Spyder is the Internet search engine Dan Vasser uses in the PILOT episode "A Love for a Lifetime" to look up Neil Gaines, in "Game Three" to look up the details of the attorney Alan Pratt as well for Melissa Waters' death in "The Year of the Rabbit". He later uses it to find information on Dylan McCleen in "The Legend of Dylan McCleen".

When he's in the present, Dan can access Finder-Spyder on his iPhone, but in the 1990s or earlier in the past, Dan obviously cannot access this Internet-based service because it was before either the Internet or the search engine existed.

On ‘Journeyman’, the name "Finder-Spyder" is an amalgam for the Google and Web Crawler online search engines. Some have speculated that its name also alludes to the Lexis-Nexis search service, which would be a more useful and detailed service for a reporter to be using.

From Mashable:
Finder Spyder made four consecutive appearances in science-fiction television series, ‘Journeyman’, from late September through October of 2007.

According to TechRepublic, ‘Journeyman’'s usage of Finder Spyder is particularly daring, because it uses the same color-scheme as Google. On their trademark page, Google very explicitly states: "Don't copy or imitate Google's trade dress, including the look and feel of Google web design properties or Google brand packaging, distinctive color combinations, typography, graphic designs, product icons, or imagery associated with Google."

‘Journeyman’ is also the only show with a wiki that has a page for Finder Spyder. The show itself did not have high ratings, but apparently, it had the kind of fans who would take notice of a fake search engine.

CROSSING JORDAN
HUBRIS (March 2007)

HIDDEN PALMS
PARTY HARDY (June 2007)

MOONLIGHT
"12:04 AM" (16 Nov 2007)  

BREAKING BAD

CAT’S IN THE BAG (2008)

O’Bservation:
Skyler uses Finder-Spyder's Phone Trace feature to do a reverse lookup to discover the identity of the caller behind a suspicious call.

WITHOUT A TRACE

1] "Baggage" (25 Oct 2007)  

2] "Cloudy with a Chance of Gettysburg" (16 Dec 2008)  

CRIMINAL MINDS

1] ZOE’S REPRISE (Feb 2009)  

2] PLEASURE IS MY BUSINESS (Feb 2009)  

3] HOPELESS (Oct 2009)  

4] CRADLE TO THE GRAVE (21 Oct 2009)  

5] "100" (Nov 2009)  

HUNG

Pilot (28 Jun 2009) 

O’Bservation:
This appearance was probably the best one of all!  LOL

WEEDS

WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS (20 Jul 2009)  

HEROES

HYSTERICAL BLINDNESS (12 Oct 2009)  

O'Bservation:
This may be set on an alternate Toobworld.  It's been a while since I've seen it and I can't remember if there were too many drastic differences with the real world which couldn't be covered up.

HOMELAND
GRACE (9 Oct 2011)  

CLEAN SKIN (16 Oct. 2011)

O’Bservation:
1]  I was misled by Mashable and a Finder-Spyder Fanom Wiki – turns out that the appearance is in the third episode, not the second.
2]  This was my third favorite use after the ones from 'Hung' and ‘Southland’.  I like a challenge.  This reminded me of finding "Nina" in Hirschfeld drawings.
3] Because the President was eventually revealed to be Elizabeth Keane, this has to be set on an alternate Toobworld.  

THE FINDER

EYE OF THE STORM (8 Mar 2012)  

SOUTHLAND

SALLY IN THE ALLEY (9:48) (29 Mar 2012)

O’Bservation:
I thought this would be another example where I couldn’t find the search engine.  But it was cleverly hidden as the URL for Finder-Spyder’s video section.  The cop called it “YouTube”, but he was using a copyrighted term in a generic sense, something we all do with words like “Xerox” and “Kleenex”.

TOUCH
1] SAFETY IN THE NUMBERS (29 Mar 2012)  
2] EYE TO EYE (1 Mar 2013)  
3] CLOCKWORK (29 Mar 2013)  

BONES

THE GEEK IN THE GUCK (2014)

From Mashable:
"The Best Search Engine on the Web," [is] used by teenage boys in search of porn.

O’Bservation:
Because the name is listed as “Spyder-Finder”, this episode’s placement should have been placed higher but that would have caused Zonks.  So instead I knew I "got some splainin to do."

When we saw the Finder-Spyder screen in the episode as Spyder-Finder, that was the day the search engine company must have been celebrating another anniversary.  And to mark the occasion, Finder-Spyder took on its original appearance, in much the same way as McDonald’s reverting to their original prices for a day to celebrate.

BOSCH

1] CHAPTER TEN: US AND THEM (13 Feb 2015)

2] BOOK OF THE UNCLAIMED DEAD (13 Apr 2018)

THE X-FILES

MY STRUGGLE (2016)

We see Scully use the search engine to look up Tad O'Malley’s show in “My Struggle.” 

O’Bservation:
She gets the same annoying pop-up ad that Skylar White got eight years earlier in the ‘Breaking Bad’ episode.

BREAKING BAD

THE X-FILES

I've got a request for Team Toobworld....

I have been unable to get Finder-Spyder screen grabs from the following:

• 'Crossing Jordan' - "Hubris"
• 'Hidden Palms' - "Party Hardy"
• 'Moonlight' - "12:04 AM"
• 'Touch' - "Safety In The Numbers", "Eye To Eye", and "Clockwork".

If you have any of these in your collections or you have access to them on some streaming platform which is unavailable to me (I can only juggle so many before my wallet starts to whimper), then I hope you'll be able to grab some screenshots for me.  Thanks in advance!

I don’t know if Finder-Spyder will ever show up again in one of the dimensions in the greater TV Universe.  In the last few years, various TV shows have been having fun with creating their own search engines: In Telemerica, there’s Chum Hum, Searchling, Searchies, but elsewhere in Toobworld, there's Browzee (Ireland), SearchWebnet (Isle of St. Marie), SirCheazy (Wildemarsh, England), Lookee (New Zealand). 

Because of all those other rivals (with probably more to come), it looks like Finder-Spyder’s dominance in the number of separate appearances will never be equaled.

Welcome to the Television Crossover Hall of Fame, Finder-Spyder.

 Awwwww.... Bless your heart!

MARTIN MULL'S MONDAY MEMORIAL TVXOHOF TRIBUTE

From Wikipedia:

Martin Eugene Mull (August 18, 1943 – June 27, 2024) was an American comic actor whose career included contributions as a musician and painter. Mull gained visibility on screen for ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman’ and its spin-off ‘Fernwood 2 Night’.

His other notable roles include Colonel Mustard in the 1985 film “Clue”, Leon Carp on ‘Roseanne’, Willard Kraft on ‘Sabrina the Teenage Witch’, Vlad Masters / Vlad Plasmius on ‘Danny Phantom’, and Gene Parmesan on ‘Arrested Development’. He had a recurring role on ‘Two and a Half Men’ as Russell, the drug-using, humorous pharmacist.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Martin Mull, the droll comedian, actor, singer-songwriter and painter who found fame on the soap opera satire ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman’ and its spinoff ‘Fernwood 2 Night’, has died. He was 80.

Mull died Thursday at home after a “valiant fight against a long illness,” his daughter, Maggie Mull, shared on her Instagram.  

“He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials,” she wrote. “He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny. My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and — the sign of a truly exceptional person — by many, many dogs. I loved him tremendously.”

I say this every year, and usually around this time – the year is shaping up to be a bad one for losing our pop culture icons.  And 2024 looks like it wants to be really bad!  William Russell, David Soul, Charles Osgood, Glynis Johns, Joyce Randolph, Chita Rivera, Gary Graham, Donald Sutherland, M. Emmett Walsh, Dabney Coleman, Richard Lewis, Terry Carter, Barbara Rush….  Damn.  I had to stop.

The news about Martin Mull hit very hard.  His records and his work on ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman’ rocketed him to the top of my fan interests back in the 70s.  And he was always a dependable presence with every co-star or guest star role he took on.

His character of Barth Gimble is already a member of the Television Crossover Hall of Fame.  But we’re back again to induct him as a member of the League of Themselves….

MARTIN MULL

But first, here’s more from Chris Koseluk’s tribute in The Hollywood Reporter:

More recently, he was one of the old guys on the Fox sitcom ‘The Cool Kid’s and an acid-tripping attorney on Netflix’s ‘The Ranch’ and recurred on ABC’s ‘Not Dead Yet’.

However, it was as Garth and Barth Gimble, the very different identical twins from Fernwood, Ohio, — the mythical setting for the Norman Lear-produced ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman’ — that placed Mull in the national spotlight.

Designed to poke fun at America’s obsession with consumerism and pop culture, ‘Mary Hartman’ starred Louise Lasser as an unassuming housewife trying not to lose her mind in the banal hell known as suburbia. Mull joined the syndicated series in 1976 for its second season and quickly became one of its most despised characters — the wife-abusing Garth.

“I thought they hired me because I was a comedian,” Mull said in a 2014 interview. “I was kind of surprised when all of a sudden we got all this Virginia Woolf-ish high drama. I didn’t like the character at all. I don’t care for violence, and wife-beating is particularly repugnant to me, so it was quite hard.”

Despite Mull’s reservations, his razor-sharp comic timing and sly, off-center approach made Garth work. Audiences cringed but laughed when Gimble locked his wife in the closet and then kissed the closet door as he left for work.

Al Burton, the series’ creative supervisor who hired Mull, figured he would be perfect for the controversial character. “Martin is one of a kind,” he said. “He has this unique hateful quality while still being an appealing performer.”

Though Garth appeared in only a handful of the show’s 325 episodes, he went out with a bang. In one of the most macabre plot twists in TV history, he met his end by being impaled on the star atop an aluminum Christmas tree in his closet.

But Mull’s stay in Fernwood was just getting started. In the last month of the series’ run, he reappeared as Barth Gimble, a smarmy type who had trouble adjusting to small-time life. For reasons never quite revealed (it was hinted his situation involved an underage girl in Miami), Barth decided it best to lay low in Fernwood.

When ‘Mary Hartman’ ended in 1977, Lear created the spinoff ‘Fernwood 2 Night’. Produced by Alan Thicke, it featured Barth as a leisure suit-wearing talk show host whose insufferable ego had him believing he was the Tri-County’s answer to Johnny Carson.

Joining the show was Gimble’s sidekick, Jerry Hubbard (Willard). Much to Gimble’s constant annoyance, Hubbard was the epitome of cluelessness. When a female guest brought the discussion around to gynecology, Hubbard innocently asked if a cure had been found for that.

“Barth would host the town’s premiere talk show, bringing on guests to recall their UFO sightings and anchoring segments such as ‘Talk to a Jew,'” Rolling Stone wrote in 2015. “Martin Mull and Fred Willard don’t get nearly enough credit as a crack comic duo, and the show’s skewering of the format’s cliches — made to seem even cheesier by the public-access production values — set the pace for the faux-sincere showbiz parodies and fake late-night programming (see Larry Sanders) that would become a comedy staple in the years to come.”

‘Fernwood 2 Night’ became a cult hit, and many of Lear’s friends asked to be on it. The producers couldn’t figure out a way to make sense of all these famous folks showing up in a small Ohio town, so they moved the show to the fictitious Alta Coma, California, the “unfinished furniture capital of the world.” Renamed ‘America 2-Night’, the show now had Gimble and Hubbard interviewing Burt Lancaster, Carol Burnett, Charlton Heston and Jim Nabors.

He created (with Steve Martin and Craig Kellem) and starred as a Seattle television commentator on the CBS sitcom ‘Domestic Life’, but it lasted just 10 episodes in 1984. He lasted longer on ‘Roseanne’, on which Leon in 1995 married a character played by Willard in one of TV’s first gay weddings.

Mull also had recurring roles on ‘The Jackie Thomas Show’, ‘The Ellen Show’, ‘Dads’, ‘Life in Pieces’ and ‘American Dad!’, among other shows.

He earned his only Emmy nomination in 2016 for his performance as political operative Bob Bradley on ‘Veep’.

Here are the appearances Martin Mull made as himself which have earned him another trip to the Hall:

D.C. FOLLIES

REAGAN PARACHUTES INTO D.C. FOLLIES (1987)

Ronald Reagan parachutes into D.C. Follies to hear Woody Allen's paranoia about becoming a father. Martin Mull has trouble getting a drink while Nixon, Ford, and Carter badger him for campaign contributions. 

IT'S GARRY SHANDLING'S SHOW

1] SAVE MR. PECK'S (1989)

When Garry finds out that Mr. Peck's club is closing so a mall can be built, he decides to seek some help from some celebrity friends to save the club where he got his start in stand-up.

2] GARRY GOES GOLFING (1989)

Martin Mull asks Garry to participate in a charity golf event. He agrees to play, despite not being a good golfer.

3] BOYSVILLE (1989)

4] SHANDLING VS. MULL (1990)

When Martin Mull thinks Phoebe overcharged for her interior design services, a feud begins between the Shandlings and the Mulls. It may take God Himself to settle this argument.

THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW
1] THE PARTY (1992)

An innocent invitation to Arthur and his wife for dinner turns into a full-blown staff party

2] THE GRAND OPENING (1993)
Hank struggles to open the Look-A-Round Café.

[Hank talking about Martin Mull: "He was fine on that make-believe talk show, that ‘Fernwood’ thing.”]

O'Bservation:
I know it's a discrepancy and it should be de-Zonked, but I don't have it in me just now....

THE DREW CAREY SHOW
DREWSTOCK (1997)

After realizing there is no way to profit from Buzz Beer, the gang decides to shut down the brewery and throw a party with free beer to get rid of their supply. Drew meets a woman at the Warsaw and invites her to the party but can't remember her name or number. Mimi puts a flier about Drew's party in the Winfred-Louder newspaper as revenge for an earlier prank.

Drew's hopes of finding his mystery woman dwindle when everyone in the city of Cleveland (including the mayor, Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar, Little Richard, and Joe Walsh) shows up at his house for the party.

O'Bservation:
Martin Mull makes an uncredited cameo, probably at the party.

THE NANNY
MAKING WHOOPI (1998)

Maxwell is the Upper Left Square.
Martin is the Bottom Center.

Fran is depressed over her inability to conceive. She finds out that she is ovulating just as they are making an appearance on ‘Hollywood Squares’.

Maxwell learns that he's been approached to be a celebrity panelist on ‘Hollywood Squares’ (1998) (they couldn't get Andrew Lloyd Webber), so he, Fran, Sylvia, Yetta and Val traipse off to California. Regardless if Maxwell is having a good time on the show (he isn't – Mull commandeered his punchline), Fran drags him off the set during the middle of the show for more important matters: she's ovulating.

O'Bservations:
1] The 'Hollywood Squares' sequence was taped during the marathon taping sequence for the actual game show.  Maxwell was occupying the square Fran Drescher had for that week, but she was in the audience as Fran Fine.

2] The other Celebrity Squares were Rita Rudner, Howie Mandel, Caroline Rhea, Coolio, Estelle Getty, Bruce Vlanch, and Whoopi Goldberg as the Center Square. 

The plot summaries are from the IMDb (with some slight editing.)

Welcome to the TVXOHOF, Mr. Mull.  Again….  But this time as your glorious self.

KAMEKONA TUPUOLA - A MONDAY MEMORIAL TVXOHOF TRIBUTE

 

From KTLA:

Actor Taylor Wily, best known for his role as Kamekona Tupuola on “Hawaii Five-0,” has passed away. He was 56 years old.

Lana Girl Langi, a Hawaiian personality and musician, announced his death on the local lifestyle show ‘’Island Life Live’ on June 20.

He’s appeared in Jason Segel’s film “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and the modern reboots of “Hawaii Five-0,” “Magnum P.I.” and “MacGyver.”

As something of a confidential informant, Kamekona Tupuola proved useful to the Five-0 squad, Angus MacGyver, and Thomas Magnum.  And he was always around if you craved some flavored shaved ice, various shrimp dishes, or a sight-seeing tour in a helicopter.

Of course, it was his interactions with those other characters on their TV shows which get him into the Television Crossover Hall of Fame as one of the representatives for the Toobworld of TV Show Remakes – Toobworld-Toobworld or Toobworld2….

KAMEKONA TUPUOLA

From the 'Hawaii Five-0" Wiki:
Kamekona Tupuola is a confidential informant for the Hawaii Five-0 team and entrepreneur who runs Wailoa Shave Ice, The Shrimp Truck and a Hawaiian tour helicopter company.

And there’s more information from another wiki….

From Five-0 Pedia:

Kamekona is an ex-criminal informant who has ties to the underworld of Hawai'i. He is first introduced in “Pilot” when Chin Ho joins the Five-0 task force; Kamekona aids them in their search for Victor Hesse. Kamekona owns his own shave ice business named, Waiola Ice.

Kamekona frequently helps Five-0 in certain cases due to his former years in that type of work.

After the “Pilot”, he later appears in other episodes.  Among them:

• “Lankila” to which Steve McGarrett has tasked Kamekona to "babysit" his little sister, later on though Steve's sister, Mary Anne manipulates Kamekona into letting her go, he tells Steve she used a "Jedi mind trick".
• He appears briefly in “Ho'apono” when Kono is out with Lily asking her questions about the incident in that episode.
• In “Mana'o” it appears that he now has moved his franchise to be a mobile one instead the original one, declaring it "old school."
• He appears again in “Heihei” watching McGarrett repairing his house from the events of the previous “Po'ipu”.
• In “Hana 'a'a Makehewa”, he brings Danny an oversized Santa suit which Danno wears annually as a tradition for his daughter.

Here are the shows which qualified Kamekona for membership in the Hall.  (All summaries are from the IMDb unless otherwise stated.)

HAWAII FIVE-0

171 Episodes (2010–2020)

Again, from the ‘Hawaii Five-0 Wiki’:

In the “Pilot” episode, Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly recruited Kamekona for information into the death of Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett's father, John McGarrett.  (In exchange for information, Kamekona charged money for a 'Wailoa Shave Ice' t-shirt.)

In many episodes, he is seen bringing food to the Five-0 team or assisting them in their investigations and is considered a close friend.

MacGYVER

FLASHLIGHT (2017)

In their trivia section for this episode, the IMDb posted this:

By crossing over with 'Hawaii Five-0', 'MacGyver' is now firmly placed in the same TV Universe as 'JAG', all three 'NCIS' series, and 'Scorpion'.

O’Bservation:

This is only partially true.  ‘MacGyver’ is in the same TV DIMENSION as the other two remakes - ‘Hawaii Five-0’ and ‘Magnum P.I.’.  Technically, they are in the same TV dimension as an alternate version of ‘NCIS: LA,’ which was only seen in that one episode of ‘Hawaii Five-0’.  All of the other ‘NCIS’ shows, plus their mothership of ‘JAG’ and ‘Scorpion’ as well, all exist in the main Toobworld, Earth Prime-Time.

As for the other half of the crossover....

HAWAII FIVE-0
PUKA 'ANA (2017)

The events of the ‘MacGyver’ cross-over episode are talked about.

MAGNUM P.I.

7 Episodes (2018-2020)

(The pictures all come from the same episode - "A World Of Trouble".)

1] FROM THE HEAD DOWN (2018)

A] Taylor Wily plays his character Kamekona from the remake of ‘Hawaii 5-0’. One scene is filmed at the restaurant that Steve McGarrett and Danny Williams were planning to open. This crossover from ‘Hawaii 5-0 follows’ on from the appearance of Kimee Balmilero (Dr. Noelani Cunha) in the first episode of the remake of ‘Magnum P.I.’

B] In the early restaurant scene, Kamekona (Taylor Wily) jokingly calls Magnum "Rockford", in reference to James Garner's character in ‘The Rockford Files’ (1974).

O’Bservation:
This not a Zonk, not a “Darrin Discrepancy”.  There has never been a remake of ‘The Rockford Files’, and the Good jakLord willing, there never will be one.  In Toobworld-Toobworld, ‘The Rockford Files’ is just a fictional TV series.  We have no clue if it even resembled the TV series from our world.  For alls I know, "Jim Rockford" was "just this guy, you know?" 

Had this been a reference from a TV series set in Earth Prime-Time, as was the case with Big Pussy’s mention of it in an early episode of ‘The Sopranos’, than he would have either been referring to the actual detective (who did work on some publicity-generating cases), or a TV show made about his life, as often happens to people in the main Toobworld.

2] DAY OF THE VIPER (2019)

3] LIE, CHEAT, STEAL, KILL (2019)
Three "Hawaii Five-O" characters - Noelani, Kamekona and Flippa - make crossover appearances in this episode.
Kamekona's line to TC about coming to him with a favor some time, and TC not saying no, is taken from “The Godfather” (1972).

4] DESPERATE MEASURES (2020)

5] MONDAYS ARE FOR MURDER (2020)

6] A GAME OF CAT AND MOUSE (2020)

7) A WORLD OF TROUBLE (2020)

But wait!  There’s more!

With those three series, Kamekona easily qualifies for membership in the TVXOHOF as a citizen of Toobworld2.  But what if I told you that he appeared even earlier in that particular TV dimension?

NORTH SHORE

TIES THAT BIND (2004)

O’Bservation:

Wiley’s character was unnamed, but his occupation was as a "Bartender" at the Sugar Bar & Grill.  He was O’Bviously deep into his mob connections, as evidenced by the way he threatened Jason and Frankie who were hoping to get some info.  

Frankie relieved him of his baseball bat and might have done some serious damage.  But luckily for Kamekona, Jason spotted the low-life they were seeking and they gave chase.

That was the last we saw of the bartender, but if we accept now that he was Kamekona, then this turn of events was probably his “Road to Damascus” moment.  Over the next six years, before we would see him again in the pilot episode of ‘Hawaii Five-0’ in 2010, he must have worked to better himself spiritually and probably found inner peace in shaved ice.

Welcome to the TV Crossover Hall, Kamekona.  I’m sorry Taylor Wiley has joined the Choir Invisible, but there’s nothing to prevent us from claiming that you still live on in Earth Prime-Time Redux.  In fact, I won’t be around someday to say so, but you could still be going strong by 2054, well into your eighties, enjoying the riches from the financial empire you built.

Raising a cup of shaved ice in memory of Taylor Wiley....