WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS STAYS IN TOOBWORLD

Tele-folks aren't the only members of the TV Crossover Hall of Fame; objects have been inducted as well over the years.

One of those member objects made a return appearance to 'CSI' this past week:

Playpen magazine - the most popular racy men's magazine in Toobworld - showed up at least once before in the Las Vegas-based forensic crime procedural. There was an episode in which a family was investigated after the baby was found murdered. The oldest son had issues of the skin mag in his closet.

This time they were found under the pillow of a deaf student's bed in a college dormitory. That round disk is a vibrating smoke detector for the deaf in case of emergency.

It looks like the other magazines were "Backside" and "Frolic". Either one of those could turn out to be gay magazines with those titles, so that student could have been a switch-hitter.

Bet that actor never considered such an interpretation when he was filming the scene!

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AS SEEN ON TV: COACH VINCE LOMBARDI

Sort of a Monday-morning quarterback situation.....

VINCE LOMBARDI

AS SEEN ON:
'The Late Show with David Letterman'

AS PLAYED BY:
Dan Lauria

As seen in this context, Vince Lombardi is a character out of Skitlandia. He's been portrayed by other actors in other TV dimensions. But this marks Lauria's version as a multiversal, since he's currently playing the role on Broadway. I knew Dan Lauria back at UConn when he was a grad student. When we worked together on "Inherit The Wind" (He played the Clarence Darrow-like role.), he always referred to me as "Tim, his favorite prop man."

I'm not sure why he kept using my brother's name......

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McBAIN - THE MOVIE

Movie previews play a big part during the Super Bowl, right along with the Bud Light and eTrade commercials.

So how about a fictional movie from the TV Universe?

From the Tooniverse, actually....

Somebody took all of the scenes about the action hero "McBain" from episodes of 'The Simpsons' and edited them together to make a pretty decent movie short. I get the feeling that the producers of 'The Simpsons' planned this all along and were just waiting for somebody to figure it out.

Very "Lost"......

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MENDOZAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

SUPER BOWL BLIPVERTS: REIN-CAR-NATION

The idea that tele-folks can be reincarnated as cars has been around at least since the "glory" days of 'My Mother The Car'. (Maybe even farther back if there were talking cars in TV commercials before now.)

As seen in a recent spate of Volkswagen blipverts, these living cars with human souls have become more accepted in Toobworld society. Whereas Dave Crabtree had to hide the existence of his mother reborn as a 1928 Porter, Max the Jetta and a classic VW bus (whom I call "the Dub Dude") live openly in the suburbs......

The Dub Dude abides.

Max has even gone on to host his own talk show on TV, where his automotive appearance and even his German accent have not been impediments to his aspirations:

So it's not really a surprise to see a "drove" of reincarnated cars get together and get all up in each other's grills.....

(And that's another blipvert that will be seen during the Super Bowl.)

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SUPER BOWL BLIPVERTS: CHIMP CHANGE

Careerbuilder.com stuck with the theme they've been running for the last few years, so it must be working for them....

This poor schmuck is stuck in that same alternate TV dimension in which you can find 'Lancelot Link', and 'The Chimp Channel'.

It could be that the future timeline of this TV dimension is where the two astronauts from Earth Prime-Time landed and were befriended by the chimp Galen (as seen in the TV adaptation of 'The Planet Of The Apes'). If so, then their belief that the current state of that world had been the result of human Armageddon was a lie. (They were already under the delusion that they were in the future of their own world.)

It would appear that the blame for the devastated landscape of that future ape-world rested on the great apes. And probably the chimps were solely responsible......

Hey! Is Mata Hairy flipping me off?

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TELE-VADER

The only reason I bother recording the Super Bowl is for the commercials. (So be prepared for a lot of posts analyzing several of the blipverts and their place in the TV Universe. Just warning ya.....)

This one has already been leaked for about a week now, and just in my small circle of friends on Facebook it's already been passed around quite a lot:

So a little kid dressed as Darth Vader shouldn't be a Zonk, since "Star Wars" is part of the movie universe, right?

Wrong. Especially in Skitlandia and the Tooniverse, "Star Wars" is part of the TV Universe. But it is mostly through other commercials that Darth Vader has made his presence known in the main Toobworld.....

We know that R2-D2 and C-3PO, along with Luke Skywalker, were brought forward in time through a wormhole and they ended up at the Muppet theatre. We saw that happen on 'The Muppet Show'. (And somehow Luke and actor Mark Hamill turned out to be related.) Although it aired after the "first" movie (now known by the boring title "A New Hope"), this happened after the (now) sixth movie. The two droids struck out on their own and could later be seen at movie theatres, fast food restaurants, and other Toobworld locations.

As for Darth Vader, he also found his way from the distant past in the movie universe to the "present" day in Toobworld. But this must have occurred for him after the events of "A New Hope" and he made it back to his own universe before the events of "The Empire Strikes Back".

While in the TV Universe, it looks as though Lord Vader tried to fit in with society.....

And when it came time for him to return to the "Cineverse", it looks as though a few characters from Toobworld followed him back......

Somebody else must have also come through the vortex and, as with the mysterious Time traveler who came from the Future to guide Gene Roddenberry in sharing the secrets of Starfleet, that somebody mentored George Lucas in memorializing that far-off galaxy from long ago with the "Star Wars" movies.

Perhaps to better prepare Earthlings when the "real-life" characters crossed over into Toobworld. And that's why TV characters can refer to "Star Wars" as a movie and as "real" people.....

Hey, these peyote buttons are tasty! But they're making me kind of thirsty.....

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AS SEEN ON TV: GALE SAYERS

It's Super Bowl Sunday. It's Black History Month. So.......

GALE SAYERS

AS SEEN IN:
"Brian's Song"

AS PLAYED BY:
Billy Dee Williams

From Wikipedia:
Gale Eugene Sayers (born May 30, 1943) also known as "The Kansas Comet", is a former professional football player in the National Football League who spent his entire career with the Chicago Bears.

Sayers is a member of both the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the College Football Hall of Fame. His friendship with fellow Chicago Bear Brian Piccolo was the basis for the 1971 movie Brian's Song. He is a successful entrepreneur in the information technology field and an active philanthropist.

Sayers' friendship with teammate Brian Piccolo, and Piccolo's struggle with cancer (embryonal cell carcinoma, a type of lung cancer, presenting as a large tumor in his chest cavity, and which would shortly result in his death), became the subject of the made-for-TV movie "Brian's Song". The movie, in which Sayers was portrayed by Billy Dee Williams in the 1971 original, and by Mekhi Phifer in the 2001 remake, was adapted from Sayers' account of this story in his 1971 autobiography, "I Am Third".

A notable aspect of Sayers' friendship with Piccolo, a white man, and the first film's depiction of their friendship, was its effect on race relations. The first film was made in the wake of racial riots, escalating racial tensions in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination, and charges of discrimination across the nation. Sayers and Piccolo were devoted friends and deeply respectful of and affectionate with each other. Piccolo helped Sayers through rehabilitation after injury, and Sayers was by Piccolo's side throughout his illness.

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PURELY SHIRLEY

Just in time for Black History Month, this YouTube video mash-up between 'Friends' and - is it 'Sealab 2020'? - a cartoon provides a rap song about the egregious lack of color in the entire history of the sitcom 'Friends'.....

That computer did a pretty good job of analyzing the content of the series and extracting every example of a black person on 'Friends', didn't it?

Wrong, Buffalo Breath!

They forgot a character who, for me, was the most important black character in the whole history of 'Friends':

PHOEBE'S BABY DOCTOR!

And why is she so important to me? Because the actress who played that role is my twin sister!

Well, okay. Not exactly, but she's one of my dearest friends, Shirley Jordan. Shirley is an actress who has garnered a lot of supporting roles in Toobworld over the years - among them 'ER', 'Shark', 'Better Off Ted', 'Desperate Housewives', 'Strong Medicine', and 'Boston Legal' & 'Ally McBeal'. (I combined those two characters into one.) Last year she was in "Munched", an acclaimed play in the Los Angeles area, and has an upcoming role in an episode of 'Friends With Benefits'.

I was able to combine all of her nameless medical roles into two characters who happened to be sisters. I'm even thinking she should receive the Birthday Honors List induction into the TV Crossover Hall of Fame. (I'm already in there myself, and I could use the company. Everybody else shuns me......) So I just wanted to set the record straight and make sure Shirley Jordan got her due as a black person on 'Friends'.......

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REALI-TV: MILAN FALL

A word of warning from Milan - don't get too deeply engrossed in your gaming! Luckily for this ten year old, an off-duty cop sprang into action!

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WHO'S ON TV: TURKISH DAFFY

Every Video Weekend, we add a 'Doctor Who' clip to the mix, something out of the ordinary to shake things up. This week? It's so far out of the ordinary to be just plain weird.

Turkish TV and movies are notorious for ripping off concepts without regard to copyrights. I own copies of their versions of "The Wizard Of Oz" and "Young Frankenstein", and I know that there are versions of "Star Wars" and 'Star Trek' out there as well.

But this is bizarre. It's the Turkish adaptation of 'Doctor Who'. And the only way you can tell it's supposed to be 'Doctor Who' is by the presence of the police box TARDIS. Otherwise it's just some horny hippie beating up an Apis-Cervidae, an insectoid-ruminant hybrid.

In other words, a "Bee-Deer". Or as the subtitles put it: a "beedeer".

The people who crap-slapped this together didn't even bother with getting the basic principles of the Doctor's character established (which, despite the changes in personality with each regeneration, remained the same.) Why should they, when they couldn't even be bothered to get the "Doctor" to actually act as if he's running down that green screened road?

And yet.... this is still a part of the main Toobworld. This guy will never be an incarnation of the Doctor, but apparently he's a renegade Time Lord who survived the Time War (depending on when this was broadcast in Turkey.) The way I see it, this Time Lord is similar to that alien from Gore Vidal's "Visit To A Small Planet" - maybe more powerful and smarter than the people of Earth, but considered retarded back home on his own world.

This was a Time Lord hopped up on some alien narcotic until his brains were fried and he acts it!

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