10 Weirdest TV Show Crossovers
Like fanfic... but it's canon.
There is a rich history of crossovers in film. As early as 1943 their was a crossover of horror greats in Frankenstein Meets Wolf Man, but it took a while for the tradition to make it to the small screen.
Famously, in 1990 an East German and West German mystery series had a crossover in which their respective detectives investigate a crime taking place just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and since then we have seen more and more TV crossovers.
There are many reasons a show can decide to do a crossover: fan service, ratings, wanting to tell a story that combines two different worlds and characters, or merely a network wanting to introduce one show to a different show's audience.
It's always fascinating to see how a crossover navigates bringing two shows together, sometimes with a delicate balance that keeps the integrity of both worlds, sometimes with the wild abandon of a drunk clown throwing hammers at a nail.
Here are ten of the wildest, weirdest and sometimes wonderful crossovers from TV shows we love.
10. Sleepy Hollow/Bones
Bones: The Resurrection of the Remains
Sleepy Hollow: Dead Men Tell No Tales
This two-part crossover special joins the worlds of Bones and Sleepy Hollow. Sleepy Hollow takes place in a supernatural world where Ichabod Crane awakes in 2013 and befriends a cop. Like Sleepy Hollow, Bones is a mystery, but unlike its fellow Fox show, it uses a real-world setting without any magic.
Consequently, having these two shows exist in a shared universe is a bit of a problem for a series like Bones that relies on "hard facts" and "science" to solve their cases.
That said, this spooky episode starts with Booth and Brennan finding a decapitated body, which brings Crane and Abbie to D.C. to help. Set in the Bones universe, despite dealing with a magical skull that is said to bring people back from the dead, the ep concludes that no magic was involved. Just normal, rational murder.
The second episode takes place in the Sleepy Hollow universe and stomps all over the rules of the Bones episode by being about a zombie army. Brennan and Booth never find out about the supernatural elements though, and it all ends well for everyone.