Television crossovers

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We've all seen them. One TV show making a reference to another, totally independent, show. Or an actor from one series playing the same character in a totally unrelated series. Sometimes there are weird spin-offs - Mork and Mindy is a spin-off from Happy Days of all things! - though those aren't really crossovers.

(Curse of the Were-Rabbit included a cross-over with Harry Potter, the first of the Emma Peel episodes in The Avengers had a nice cross-over with James Bond's Goldfinger, and so on.)

What's the best/worst/stupidest crossover you've ever seen?

The Munsters used to do that. In one scene, Lily is pulling Grandpa away from the TV set as My Three Sons was starting. They even played a few bars of the opening theme.

Double Crossover

In 'Last Action Hero' Arnie is in a video store and he walks past a poster for one of the Rambo movies. He then pumps up his bicepts, compares them to the poster, laughs, and walks away.

In 'Demolition Man' Sly Stallone gets his revenge when he makes a couple of jokes about the Arnold Schwartzeneger Presidential Library.

I'm not sure which came first but I know that one was in revenge for the other and the two guys are in fact good friends. I guess the WP members now know what sort of movies I like

Ed Almos

Years ago NBC did (actually I think they might of did several of this) a crossover that included The Golden Girls, Empty Nest, Nurses and I think another show which I cannot recall. Since the setting of these shows were in the state of Florida, in the Miami area to be exact, the writers wrote an episode about a hurricane hitting Miami and having the same hurricane effect everyone in these shows.

FYI Empty Nest was a spinoff of the Golden Girls and Nurses was a spinoff of Empty Nest.