Why have oneTV showwhen you could have two ? And why just have a regular TV crossover when you’re able to have a reallyweirdTV crossover voter ? The TV crossover had something of a blossom in the1980sand1990s , when quality from popular program on the same internet would routinely intersect paths with one another as must - see events made to hike rating . But sieve through the bleed - of - the - John Mill telecasting show collaborations and you ’ll find some oddball crossovers that have taken place across the decades .
1.The X-FilesandCops
As a show , The X - Fileswas never too concerned with realness — unless one take on that all variety of monsters and footling light-green men really do exist . It was rum , then , that the show ’s seventh season saw a crossing episode withCops , one of the earlier world TV show . “ X - Cops ” start out off like a normal episode ofCops … only to see Mulder and Scully trespass on the police ’s hunting for what turns out to be an invisible monster that transforms based on the fears of its dupe . The X - Fileswriter / manufacturer Vince Gilligan had been adjudicate to get aCopsspinoff episodemade since time of year 4 , but it took until season 7 — when it looked likeThe X - Filesmight be headed toward cancelation — for showrunner Chris Carter to give him the go - ahead .
2.AlfandGilligan’s Island
ALFhas really gotten around . The African tea - eating alien — star ofhis own sitcombetween 1986 and 1990 — has appeared in episodes ofYoung Sheldon , Blossom , andMatlock , to name a few . Back on his own show , the 2d season gave us a crossover withGilligan ’s Island . In the instalment , entitle “ Somewhere Over the Rerun , ” aGilligan - ghost ALF has a dream that he ’s in the show and hobnobbing with Gilligan , the Skipper , the Professor , and Mary Ann . TheGilligancrew , meanwhile , reveal thattheyare superfans of a show that depicts the quotidian lifespan of the Tanners — ALF ’s adopted Earth fellowship .
3.AlfandMr. Robot
Hey , wesaidALF induce around . In 2016 , decades after his show ’s cancellation , ALF descend out of mothball to make a cameo coming into court inMr . Robot . Paul and Linda Fusco , puppeteer for ALF in the original show ( Paul did the representative ) , riposte forMr . Robot ’s second season installment " eps2.4_m4ster-s1ave.aes , ” in which main character reference Elliot ( Rami Malek ) shortly finds himself inside a ‘ 90s - expressive style sitcom .
In an interview withThe Wall Street Journal , Mr. Robotwriter / co - producerAdam Penn explainedwhy ALF was the perfect selection for a cameo in the trippy techno - thriller about a human beings disconnect from world : “ While [ ALF and Elliot ] differ on a personality grade , ALF was literally strand on a planet away from rest home , isolated in a house , forced to endeavor to fit in and touch base with a family of alien . There are certainly weird parallels between Elliot and ALF , which made the option of our guest star seem like a no - brainer . ”
4.SupernaturalandScooby-Doo
The recently - endedSupernaturalwas never a show to shy away from the weird and the meta ; one season 6 installment send main quality Sam and Dean Winchester into an alternative reality where — expect for it — their demon - hunting dangerous undertaking are really a TV show , and they keep getting mistaken for the actor who play them . It was n’t too surprising , then , thatSupernaturaleventually got around to spoil over with monster hunt classicScooby - Doo . In season 13 episode " ScoobyNatural , " the Winchester are give suck into an episode ofScooby - Dooby a cursed TV . The trio join force with the Scooby Gang to fight a ghost — who actuallyisa shade , not the Scooby - standard “ human in a mask . ” ( The Winchesters assure the Scooby Gang that touch have been real the whole meter causes them , of course , to have a mental breakdown . )
5.RoseanneandAbsolutely Fabulous
In the ill-famed final season ofRoseanne(at least until its 2018 revival ) , the workings - class Conner menage wins the lottery — at least itseemsthat way , until the final installment reveals that Roseanne made up her family ’s unexpected bonanza as a elbow room to mentally cope with the death of her husband . In between the Conners winning the drawing and the explanation that they didn’tactuallywin the lottery , we got a Halloween episode ( “ Satan , Darling ” ) that double as a crossover with British sitcomAbsolutely mythologic . Jennifer Saunders ( who also co - pen theRoseanneepisode ) and Joanna Lumley appear asAbFabcharacters Edina and Patsy , who get drunk with Roseanne in New York City . Lumleylater saidof the experience : “ It was very flakey . We were quite confused . But it was fun . "
6.I Love LucyandAdventures of Superman
InI Love Lucyepisode “ Lucy and Superman , ” Lucy and Ricky enlist Superman — play by George Reeves , star of ‘ 50s showAdventures of Superman — to put in an appearance at Little Ricky ’s natal day party so that it wo n’t be overshadowed by a ally ’s political party taking topographic point on the same day . Though it ’s clear in the context of the show that “ Superman ” is actually Reeves dressed up as the superhero , the credits list him not as “ George Reeves ” but as “ Superman”—meaning that , if you take to theWestphall Theory of a Unified TV Universe , Superman and the entire DC universe take property in the mind of a kid fromSt . Elsewhere .
7.Boy Meets WorldandSabrina the Teenage Witch
A crossover ofBoy Meets WorldandSabrina the Teenage Witchseems odd enough already , if only becauseSabrinatakes place in a earth where magic exists , andBoy Meets World … does n’t . But it gets weirder : In the season five episode " No Guts , No Cory , " the core fictional character ofBoy Meets Worldare transported back in time to World War II by Sabrina ’s cat , Salem . Cory enlists and is almost kill in battle . He then comes down with a case of amnesia that makes him recall he ’s a Frenchman . Sabrinastar Melissa Joan Hart had appeared shortly in the previous season 5 episode " The Witches of Pennbrook , " where she ’s see going on a date with Cory ’s handsome buddy Eric .
8.Power Rangers in SpaceandNinja Turtles: The Next Mutation
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtleshave gotten a mickle of crossover action in comic , where Leonardo , Raphael , Donatello , and Michelangelo have hobnob with the likes of Batman , The X - Files ’s Lone Gunmen , the Ghostbusters , and the casting ofArchie . sing TV , though , 1998 saw the Ninja Turtles — refreshing from live - action showNinja Turtles : The Next Mutation — pop over toPower Rangers in Space , the 6th time of year of the popularPower Rangersfranchise . In thePower Rangers in Spaceepisode “ Shell Shocked , ” the Ninja Turtles are brainwashed by the space enchantress Astronema into aid her steal the Power Rangers ’s spaceship . The turtle finally break free of their brainwashing and team up up with the Power Rangers to defeat Astronema and her minion in struggle .
9.Doctor WhoandEastEnders
British sci - fi institutionDoctor Whohas cross a handful of times with British grievous bodily harm opera institutionEastEnders . A two - part 1993 Polemonium caeruleum particular calledDimensions in Time — which reduplicate as a thirtieth day of remembrance celebration forDoctor Who — sees the third through 7th incarnation of the Doctor attempt to stop the Rani from capture a man , which would allow her to complete her quasi - menagerie of all sentient lifeforms . The Doctor and various fellow traveller chance themselves bopping through different clip periods around London ’s fancied Albert Square , whereEastEnderstake place ; in the process , they meet several characters from the show . EastEndershas been denote to several times withinDoctor Whoas the fancied show that it is , make its actual visual aspect inWhocanon a bit of a coherent head - scratcher — nothing you would n’t expect from a show about traveling through quad and sentence with an foreign Time Lord in a law call box .
10.BatmanandHogan’s Heroes
A 30 - endorsement cameo upgrade some questions in the Adam West - starringBatman . The gag sees Batman and Robin , while climbing up a building , have a abbreviated conversation with Colonel Klink fromHogan ’s Heroes . Colonel Klink was the commandant of the POW camp that served as the main locale for the World War II - fructify sitcomHogan ’s wedge — so plain this bona fide Nazi escaped to Gotham after the War , and Batman and Robin are content to just confabulate with him for a while without alerting the authorities ? Questions , question .
11.ArcherandBob’s Burgers
ArcherandBob ’s Burgersare wildly different shows with a few key similarity . They ’re both animated . They both exist under the Fox ( now possess by Disney ) television umbrella . And they both star the same doer : H. Jon Benjamin . So it made sense that there would be a crossover , even thoughBob ’s Burgersis family - friendly andArcheris decidedly not . The crossover train piazza inArcher ’s fourth time of year premiere and sees particular agentive role Sterling Archer ( Benjamin ) suffering from amnesia . Not remembering who he is , he ’s been living asBob ’s Burger ’s nominal paterfamilias Bob Belcher ( also Benjamin ) and run his eatery with his family . Said household is drawn in the more realistic way ofArcher , versus the more stylized face fromBob ’s Burgers .
