{"id":12608,"date":"2008-03-12T09:36:06","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T16:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/03\/12\/the-mind-of-tommy-westphall.html"},"modified":"2013-06-03T11:39:06","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:39:06","slug":"the_mind_of_tommy_westpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/12\/the_mind_of_tommy_westpha.html","title":{"rendered":"The Mind of Tommy Westphall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"TV!\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/tv-philco-predicta.jpg\" width=\"144\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>According to this site, an amazing amount of the TV universe &#8212; including everything from <em>Firefly <\/em>to the <em>Dick Van Dyke Show<\/em> to <em>Lost <\/em>to <em>I Love Lucy<\/em> to <em>Buffy<\/em> to <em>The Office<\/em> to <em>Law and Order<\/em> to <em>Doctor Who<\/em> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/home.vicnet.net.au\/~kwgow\/crossovers.html\" target=\"_blank\">all exist in the mind of&nbsp;autistic child Tommy Westphall<\/a>, who (in the show&#8217;s final episode) was revealed to have imagined the entire (excellent) series <em>St Elsewhere<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Based on documented character (and other element) cross-overs, any fictional show that touched St Elsewhere is considered also part of Tommy&#8217;s amazingly complex dreams. The count of shows comes to 280 &#8212; which is a remarkable tribute to how TV writers \/ producers like to do cross-overs or sly cross-references to other works they admire or have worked on.<\/p>\n<p>Fun stuff.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/03\/15224.html\" target=\"_blank\">kottke<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this site, an amazing amount of the TV universe &#8212; including everything from Firefly to the Dick Van Dyke Show to Lost to I Love Lucy to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43,361,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv-doctor-who","category-media-tv-fireflyserenity","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36652,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/03\/fear-of-firefly.html","url_meta":{"origin":12608,"position":0},"title":"Fear of &quot;Firefly&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 3-Jun-13 10:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"I think there's something to be said for Whedon's concern.\"There's a real fear of 'The Monkey's Paw,' you know? 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