Insert Character A into Show B: Could Survivor characters make it on Gilligan’s Island’?
Sometimes mixing things up in unexpected ways is the royal road to genius: Think of the first guy to put peanut butter next to jelly, or gin next to tonic. Sometimes its a really, really bad idea, like the time I ignored my mechanics advice and added a quart of maple syrup to my cars engine instead of motor oil.
The same is true of TV shows. George Clooney and Noah Wyle once showed up as their “ER” characters on a particularly funny episode of “Friends.” Bob Newhart found a perfect way to end his 1980s sitcom by realizing the entire series had been just a dream of the character Newhart played in his 1970s sitcom. But there are plenty of crossovers that just shouldnt happen, no matter how tempting they may seem. Here are seven of them.
Originally published on msnbc.com Feb. 13, 2004. Read the complete article.
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