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Some crossovers seem absolutely impossible—until they actually work! Join us as we look at the most unexpected TV show team-ups that surprised us all with their chemistry and creativity. From hilarious sitcom mashups to surprising animated encounters, these odd couple episodes delivered iconic moments and brought together fans from wildly different worlds. Which unlikely TV union was your favorite? Let us know in the comments!
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00:00You commandeered my friend's mom's car and then you crashed it? That's like me asking to borrow
00:04your dumb cop jacket and then just crashing it. Welcome to Ms. Mojo. And today, we're counting
00:11down our picks for the times when shows with completely different vibes and universes
00:16come together to maximize their joint slay.
00:19Number 10. General Hospital and Roseanne. Roseanne Connor was like any other working mom who needed
00:33an escape. She was a General Hospital fan. In this season 6 episode, Roseanne meets Luke and
00:40Laura Spencer, the first soap opera supercouple themselves.
00:44I don't know, Roseanne.
00:49We've been through so much, and it just gets harder.
00:55You wouldn't believe the incredible drama that we're always going through.
00:59Oh, wouldn't I?
01:00General Hospital legends Anthony Geary and Jeannie Francis made cameos in the episode's last
01:06moments, lamenting about all the crazy storylines they're having to deal with.
01:10Uh, no, we're Luke and Laura from General Hospital.
01:16I'm sorry I'm a guiding light man.
01:17They were telling me about all the trouble they're having in their marriage, so I thought
01:22you should tell them some of the stuff we've been through.
01:24If you don't know how big a deal they were in the 80s and 90s, the audience's screaming
01:29should clue you in. Turns out, these two couples have more in common than we would have thought.
01:34It was a hilarious meta-moment that honored both shows.
01:37And I'll never forget the good times we had saving the world from Mikos Kasadyn's evil weather
01:42machine.
01:48Number 9. ALF and Mr. Robot
01:50The sitcom about a puppeteered alien creature taken in by a suburban family is a curio that
01:56only could have existed in the 80s. In fact, the very idea sounds like a fever dream.
02:02Hey, no problem, E-Meister. Give me four. Or not.
02:12You might not think that an intensely paranoid techno-thriller is where ALF would show up,
02:17but when you think about how weird Mr. Robot is, it makes a little more sense.
02:21Rami Malek's character suddenly finds himself in an 80s sitcom world.
02:25What's happening? Where are we going?
02:29God, Elliot, what's your damage?
02:32Well, Darlene, you know your brother needs our help sometimes.
02:35The use of the character ends up saying a lot about Elliot and the way we protect ourselves
02:40from emotional pain and hard truths. ALF, in that sense, becomes a vehicle for the show's big ideas.
02:47I kill me!
02:53Number 8. Bones and Family Guy
02:55Viewers tuning in to catch up on the mystery-solving duo Bones and Booth
03:00probably thought their cable was messing up when they saw Stewie Griffin.
03:04The cheeky Family Guy baby appears to the FBI agent when he arrives at a sperm bank.
03:09Ooh, look, a pile of porn. Delicious!
03:12Give me a peek, Booth. Just a little peek at a booby, please?
03:15Stewie appears on a TV screen and begins taunting him.
03:19He almost sounds like a fan the way he goads Booth about his longtime sexual tension
03:23with title character Temperance Bones Brennan.
03:26I want her to have a baby because it's what she wants.
03:30And you could just walk away like a heartless cad while she changes poo all by her lonesome?
03:34It's what she wants!
03:36It was the kind of big swing that got a lot of attention at the time.
03:39The show later explained that the visions were actually a symptom of Booth having a brain tumor.
03:44I don't need your help.
03:45You know, you're not a bad-looking fellow, and if you just keep an open mind...
03:49Go back to cartoon land or wherever you came for relief.
03:52You sure? I'm good at pretend games.
03:55Number 7. Brooklyn Nine-Nine and New Girl
03:58These popular sitcoms merged for a two-episode arc in 2016.
04:04Airing on the same night, the episodes see Detective Jake Peralta commandeering Jess Day's car in pursuit of a suspect.
04:10I'm a cop. Can you please get out of the car?
04:12No, this is Schmidt's mom's car, and I'm more scared of her than I am of some two-bit thug.
04:17I'm not a thug. I'm police.
04:19Okay, then name one law.
04:20Don't kill people?
04:21That's on me. I set the bar too low.
04:23Look, can you please just get out?
04:25Zooey Deschanel and Andy Samberg really shine together.
04:29What's kind of amazing and unique is how both shows really maintain their own brand of humor
04:33while still taking place in the same world.
04:36This is an application to join the NYPD softball team.
04:39You think I like sitting here handing you form after form?
04:42Kind of.
04:43You're right. I do.
04:46God, it's like you're in here.
04:48We see the same events through Jess and Jake's separate perspectives.
04:52Jess is a particularly zany, obstructive side character in Peralta's case,
04:57and the cops at Precinct 99 are given an extra layer of goofiness through her eyes.
05:02I cut my trip off early.
05:05Oh my god.
05:09Oh my god.
05:14That's when that was?
05:15Obviously I don't know because I have no idea what you're talking about.
05:17Number 6.
05:18How to get away with murder and scandal.
05:21Shonda Rhimes is a true gift to the culture.
05:24She's given us some of the best TV heroines ever.
05:26The idea of Kerry Washington's Olivia Pope and Viola Davis's Annalise Keating joining up
05:32should have been on our minds from the jump.
05:34But scandal's intensely fictionalized version of the United States and its government
05:39meant that a crossover would take some retconning.
05:42People think we lie for a living.
05:44But in fact, the truth is often our greatest weapon.
05:47Anyone else?
05:52Not knowing they're in a crisis.
05:53Very good.
05:57Ms.
05:57Keating.
05:59Annalise Keating.
06:00Another reason a crossover might have been unlikely is that each character usually wears
06:05the pants on their respective shows.
06:07In the pair of episodes, Annalise and Olivia join forces, though not always comfortably,
06:13to handle a legal matter.
06:14Arson charges for dinner, murder for dessert.
06:17Even if I was able to spend this rather colorful history of yours,
06:20you'd still have to pull off a miracle to get the Supreme Court to come anywhere near this
06:23case.
06:24Are you saying I'm a hot mess?
06:26Yes.
06:29I thought you were able to move mountains.
06:31That's why I came here looking for you.
06:33The crossover event was a lightning rod of drama and intense acting from two of the best to
06:38ever do it.
06:38I'm doing it on my own.
06:42Good.
06:44I'm not in the mood to make new friends.
06:46Number five.
06:47I Love Lucy and Adventures of Superman.
06:50In its last season as a weekly series, the groundbreaking sitcom got a visit from Superman
06:55himself.
06:56What do you do?
06:57My name is Superman.
06:58Oh, boy, am I glad to see you.
07:01Tell me, when you're flying around, do you have case trouble?
07:05No, but then I've had a lot more flying time than you have.
07:07Lucy and Superman sees Lucy Ricardo's attempts to get George Reeves, the actor who plays Superman
07:14on TV, to appear in costume at her son's birthday party go fantastically awry.
07:20So much so that Lucy ends up spending a good portion of the episode stuck on a ledge outside
07:24their apartment building.
07:25The real Superman does show up, only to have to rescue Lucy from her latest predicament.
07:39It's a hilarious, albeit mind-bending crossover between two titans of 50s television.
07:45You mean to say that you've been married to her for 15 years?
07:48Yeah, 15 years!
07:50Then they call me Superman!
07:51Number 4, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? and Supernatural.
07:58In this episode, the demon-hunting Winchester brothers are sucked into the cartoon world
08:02of the Mystery Inc. gang, and team up with them to stop a homicidal ghost.
08:06Of course we know you.
08:08You guys are famous.
08:10Famous?
08:12Like the only thing we're famous for is our eating skills.
08:16Yummy, yum, yum.
08:17There are some major differences between these two shows right off the bat.
08:20The first is that the demon-hunting brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, deal with some very
08:25real and very scary monsters.
08:28Come on, gang!
08:30So, do they always just walk away from dead bodies, or...?
08:34The villains on Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? always turn out to be people in masks.
08:38Then, of course, there's the fact that Scooby-Doo is animated and Supernatural is live-action.
08:43Random as it may be, it turned out to be a fan-favorite.
08:47Scooby gang does not have nervous breakdowns.
08:49Now, you may not have tangled with the supernatural, but you fought monsters.
08:53Real freaking psychos.
08:55You stopped Zeke and Zab.
08:56Jaggi figured out that the shark's old Iron Face Road were really just torpedoes disguised
09:01to look like sharks.
09:02Number 3.
09:03Community and Cougar Town
09:05Abed Nadir is the resident pop culture nerd at Greendale Community College.
09:10As a result, he's often the bridge between community and the real world, using his knowledge
09:15of TV to enlighten the other characters.
09:17One such merging of reality and fantasy occurred in the show's second season episode, Critical
09:23Film Studies.
09:24Two days after I got that invitation, I was on the set of Cougar Town, Jeff.
09:28Cougar Town.
09:28Look, if you want me to take it seriously, stop saying its name.
09:31Abed tells his study group about his philosophical realizations made while being an extra on the
09:37show Cougar Town.
09:38That show responded in kind with its own episode featuring the Abed character.
09:43Just this morning, I saw this big billboard and it said, cheap tickets to Hawaii.
09:46And I thought, yeah, you know, why not?
09:48Why don't I just max out my credit card and just go to Hawaii?
09:51The community episode in particular got great reviews for its exploration of the character's
09:56lives and feelings.
09:58So, this wasn't a real conversation?
10:02You were doing another movie?
10:04A movie about a real conversation.
10:05Did you poop your pants on the set of Cougar Town?
10:08That shouldn't matter.
10:09Number 2.
10:10Cops and the X-Files.
10:12Mulder and Scully made a huge impact on the culture.
10:16And as a result, they found themselves in a few other universes.
10:20Call for the FBI!
10:22Give them back their guns!
10:23We're investigating a case.
10:25What case?
10:26Same case you're working on.
10:28So who are we looking for?
10:30Not who, what?
10:31They even showed up on The Simpsons at one point, but who hasn't?
10:34That was topped by one of the craziest and most unexpected crossovers of all time.
10:39This episode was the brainchild of X-Files staff writer and future Breaking Bad creator,
10:45Vince Gilligan, who was a fan.
10:47In it, the FBI agents ride along with local police in search of a criminal they believe
10:52might be a werewolf.
10:53You really believe I saw what I thought I saw?
10:55Yeah, I believe you.
10:58Why?
10:59Why do I believe you?
11:00Yeah, I mean, what proof do you have what I'm saying is real?
11:03I mean, it's not on the videotape.
11:07The camera doesn't always tell the whole story.
11:09The episode adopted the handheld camera and fourth wall breaking documentary style of cops
11:14while continuing the supernatural themes of The X-Files.
11:18What's up?
11:19Get the bad ring right on.
11:20I'll get it.
11:21Get the wrong way.
11:22Stay in there.
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11:40Number one, Abbott Elementary and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
11:46The teachers and staff at Willard R. Abbott Elementary School may have their quirks,
11:51but they're just a group of fundamentally good people trying to do their best with limited
11:55resources.
11:56I tried to tell you.
11:57Oh, this week wasn't so bad.
11:59We taught a guy to read.
12:01Jacob, how are you always so optimistic?
12:02You kidding me?
12:03We live in the city of brotherly love, my brother.
12:05The patrons of Patty's Pub are a group of sociopaths and reprobates who wouldn't know
12:11a good deed if they could steal it.
12:12But one thing they do share is the city of Philadelphia.
12:15Wait, did you ever get into a fight at an Eagles game?
12:18Of course.
12:19Yeah, of course.
12:19Have you?
12:20Are you kidding?
12:21What am I not?
12:24Okay, that's what it is then.
12:26All right.
12:26Go birds.
12:27Go birds.
12:27Go birds.
12:28Mixing the two ensembles turned out to be an incredible move, where the Abbott teachers
12:33see an opportunity to get these jerks to give back to their community.
12:37The It's Always Sunny crew sees yet another chance to be a public nuisance.
12:41It's a mismatch made in TV heaven.
12:43Come on, I got your car detailed.
12:45I blackmailed a golf course.
12:47I even went the extra mile and wrote thank you notes to all the teachers.
12:50You did what?
12:51Which shows would you love to see get a crossover?
12:54Let us know in the comments.
12:56You don't get what I'm doing here at all.
12:59The hell out of my school.
13:02Oh, God.
13:03Let's never ask for help again.
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