mind numbing

Grab an aspirin and a strong drink, cause this is going to make your head hurt. Let me start by saying I'm a huge geek for continuity. I get more excited than I should when there's a reference from one tv series/movie/ book in a completely different tv series/movie/ book. Like how Charlie from the show Lost once dated a girl whose father worked for a paper factory in Slough. The paper factory in Slough is the paper factory of The Office (UK). I like seeing how everything is connected.

So what's this have to do with anything?

I stumbled across this site, TOMMY WESTPHALL'S MIND - A MULTIVERSE EXPLORED, that claims that St. Elsewhere (which I've never watched) and Homicide: Life on the Street (which I've never watched, but want to) connect to over 260 shows. Being a Wire fan, and knowing that Homicide: Life on the Street has many similarities and character ties to the Wire, I investigated some more.

There's this chart:

And this 15 page pdf text explaining the connections: Your eyes will cross by page 7

So if you feel like wasting an hour or so from your life and are curious to see how Homicide and St Elsewhere exist within the same fictional sphere as Buffy, Seinfeld, Walker Texas Ranger, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, The White Shadow, Alf, Lost, Cop Rock, Ellen, M*A*S*H, The X-Files, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, The Jeffersons... and a whole host of others, feel free to devle into that site.

I honestly can't see how your interest wouldn't be piqued, trying to see the ties between Alf and Cop Rock.