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What's your personal headcanon for your favourite TV series, movies etc?
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Down in TNZ into Crazy thread, we're talking about M.A.S.H. and China Beach, and I think a case could be made that China Beach, Tour of Duty and The Wonder Years all share the same universe since they all deal with or are centered around Vietnam and what was going on Stateside at the same time.
In my own personal head cannon Chuck Cunningham from Happy Days and "Stretch" Cunningham from All In The Family are the same person separated by twenty or so years.
Chuck Cunningham moved away from Milwaukee to Queens and acquired the nickname "Stretch".
I know that Stretch real first name was Jerome, but maybe "Chuck" was a nickname as well, and Jerome was his real first name.
In my own personal head cannon Chuck Cunningham from Happy Days and "Stretch" Cunningham from All In The Family are the same person separated by twenty or so years.
Chuck Cunningham moved away from Milwaukee to Queens and acquired the nickname "Stretch".
I know that Stretch real first name was Jerome, but maybe "Chuck" was a nickname as well, and Jerome was his real first name.
How does the Universal Frankenstein and Wolf Man series fit into the Dracula continuity?
Huh you guys unlocked a memory for me. I thought I had made up that show The Nanny And The Professor, but it was in fact a real show.. I don't think I ever watched it but knew who the actors were once I looked them up.
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Unless "Tracy Bond" is also a code name. Whomever a given Bond is married to becomes "Tracy."
Why? I have not the slightest idea. But why not?
I dreamed of a Brady Bunch/Partridge Family crossover when I was very young. I remember having such a vivid memory of it that I believed there had actually been such an episode.
Greg should have hit on Shirley to make Carol jealous.
For a dead woman.
I guess I should add one.
I like to think that all versions of The Terminator exist in the same universe. All the time travel to various universe's have created multiple timelines which either exist in a multiverse or are replaced by the next time jump. And maybe the movie release dates are not in chronological order, other than the first three.
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Like I said in a prior similar thread, A Knight's Tale is a Fast & Furious film. William Thatcher (Heath Ledger) is a direct ancestor of Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker), and no one will convince me otherwise. 
I also like to think of The Warriors as a prequel to Escape from New York.
Spock's suggestion that he's descended from Sherlock Holmes on his mother's/human side is cute. Also, Nicholas Meyer's Holmes novels significantly rewrite the Holmesian canon, specifically with regard to Moriarty, that I entirely approve of.
Dwight Schultz played Robert Oppenheimer in the movie Fat Man and Little Boy, so I guess one could call Reginald Barclay a descendant of his.
I've always hated that idea, because it's fundamentally nonsensical. Why would multiple agents adopt the same alias? (Why not just change their names and introduce themselves to everyone as "United Kingdom Secret Agent"?) The idea's one and only purpose is to explain why different-looking 007s all have the same name, but the question itself is completely unnecessary. Each new pre-Craig actor is a subtle multiversal variant of the same guy, period. IMHO.
By that logic, maybe Indiana Jones is actually Achilles, as in the Achilles, who actually survived the Trojan War, and who has memory loss and delusions of being an American from hitting his head real hard on the Titanic as it was going down. (But only the Raiders/Temple of Doom/Crystal Skull/Dial of Destiny Indy, not the Crusade one, obviously.)
Why? I have not the slightest idea. But why not?
I also like to think of The Warriors as a prequel to Escape from New York.
Spock's suggestion that he's descended from Sherlock Holmes on his mother's/human side is cute. Also, Nicholas Meyer's Holmes novels significantly rewrite the Holmesian canon, specifically with regard to Moriarty, that I entirely approve of.
Dwight Schultz played Robert Oppenheimer in the movie Fat Man and Little Boy, so I guess one could call Reginald Barclay a descendant of his.
I've always hated that idea, because it's fundamentally nonsensical. Why would multiple agents adopt the same alias? (Why not just change their names and introduce themselves to everyone as "United Kingdom Secret Agent"?) The idea's one and only purpose is to explain why different-looking 007s all have the same name, but the question itself is completely unnecessary. Each new pre-Craig actor is a subtle multiversal variant of the same guy, period. IMHO.
By that logic, maybe Indiana Jones is actually Achilles, as in the Achilles, who actually survived the Trojan War, and who has memory loss and delusions of being an American from hitting his head real hard on the Titanic as it was going down. (But only the Raiders/Temple of Doom/Crystal Skull/Dial of Destiny Indy, not the Crusade one, obviously.)
Why? I have not the slightest idea. But why not?
Not sure if it’s as explicit as that. Connery only did one official 007 after Tracy’s appearance I OHMSS, namely Diamonds Are Forever, the next one in the series. While some have interpreted Bond’s furious search for Blofeld at the start to be motivated by revenge, the wedding and bride aren’t mentioned.
Moore Bond visits her grave at the start of For Your Eyes Only, IIRC, before being attacked by an unnamed bald guy (due to copyright issues) in a wheelchair, in the most explicit reference in the series.
In Licence to Kill, at the wedding of Felix Leiter (which ends up even more badly than Bond’s) someone says of Bond “he was married before” or something like that. But I don’t think Tracy is named (though who else could it be?).
Brosnan - I can’t actually remember if there is a reference to his having been married or of her name, though it’s certainly inferred a few times that he’s loved and lost in the past.
Vesper Lynd is the equivalent of Tracy for Craig’s Bond.
Tracy also gets mentioned in TSWLM. When Moore and Barbara Bach are meeting for the first time, she starts flirting by listing off his 00 status and says that he was married and Moore's face hardens and he cuts Barbara off.
I do the same thing with the French Revolution/Napoleonic Era -- Hornblower, Sharpe, Aubrey and Maturin, Brigadier Gerard, the Scarlet Pimpernel, A Tale of Two Cities, War and Peace all exist in the same universe.
I published a short story this year that has Brigadier Gerard having one of his adventures with one of the major characters of War and Peace, working along these lines.
For something more culturally relevant, while John Cusack thinks of War Inc. as the spiritual sequel to Grosse Pointe Blank, I actually think of GPB as the sequel to Say Anything...--when Lloyd/Martin's relationship with Diane/Debbie explodes after the end of Say Anything..., he joins the Army, becomes a sniper and eventually a hitman, and doesn't return home until the 10 year high school reunion. The details don't exactly line up (different states, different backstories on Diane and Debbie), but I really can see Lloyd Dobler becoming Martin Blank.
@Allyn Gibson
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Say Anything and Grosse Pointe Blank share the same universe.
I wish I could say seeing the connection was original to me, but it was pointed out to me by the woman I saw Grosse Pointe Blank with at the time, as the reason for why she didn't like the film. "It cheapens Say Anything...," she said. I think we went out twice more after that.
I have a friend who thinks Better Off Dead works better as GPB backstory. If I'm detaching GPB and War Inc, then maybe BOD and War Inc go together.
Not mine, but I saw this on Facebook:
I actually just had the same thought about Bond being a Time Lord, it would make perfect sense, it would explain things like how he can keep changing appearances but still remember being married to Tracy, and continue his conflicts with characters like Blofeld and Jaws across multiple incarnations. If he's a Time Lord does that mean characters like Blofeld, Felix Leiter and Moneypenny are too?
They pretty much have to be, Craig is the only bond who gets a definite beginning and end. I guess you could try and squeeze all of the other movies in between the Craig movies, but I that really work for me.
Oh come on everyone knows Rassilon (played by Timothy Dalton) was on holiday on Earth for quite a while and was slumming it as a British spy.
Earth is like some kind of fetish for aliens like them. They love the place.
Earth is like some kind of fetish for aliens like them. They love the place.
Or how about the Fifth Doctor spending time on Earth with a brother who was a veterinarian?
Or that time the 10th Doctor was a cop.
All this reminds me of my own headcanon that the Doctor Who franchise was created by the Evil from Time Bandits (the movie) to destroy all of fiction, and eventually every real-world universe.
Ooh I'd like to hear more of this one
