TV Crossover Madness!

February is sweeps month. Last week we had a riveting Grey's Anatomy/Private Practice Crossover -- *yawn. I'm sure I could come up with some better ones. All right, maybe some of mine would involve some serious travelling, to the UK for instance -- or back in time, but TV budgets are pretty big today, we'll just throw some product placements in there and we're off!

On an exciting new Episode of Mad Men, we are treated to a flash back of Don Draper/Dick Whitman fighting in the Korean War. We see Don/Dick in the hospital after the explosion that killed the real Don. Dick/Don is lying in his bed, and as the army officials are making their way around handing out medals and discharges Dick/Don starts writhing in pain. Apparently there was some shrapnel left in Dick/Don's chest and he needs surgery right away. The army calls in the best chest surgeons in all of Korea -- MASH's Hawkeye Pierce and Trapper John (and of course Frank Burns would insist he came along) Hawk and Trap save the day (natch) and they all celebrate by retiring to swamp and consuming a swimming pool's worth of gin, and just for fun they fill Frank's boots with pudding.


On a much publicised mulitnetwork crossover. The doctors at Sacred Heart Hospital (Scrubs) have a case that not even Dr. Cox can solve. They transfer the patient to Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in NJ so the famous diagnostician Dr. House can take a look at him. At first House couldn't care less, until he finds out that the patient a Mr. John Smith isn't just a nut, but a brilliant doctor himself. We see John Smith's X-rays and he's got two hearts! As you may have guessed this patient isn't really John Smith, but none other than Doctor Who! Ends up he's here to rescue NJ from an evil, over dramatic/whiny/boring alien we know as Dr. Remy Hadley AKA 13. The Doctor does a lot of running and sonic screwdrivering and eventually traps the unwatchable Dr. 13 in some sort of simulated reality where everyone's life is more dramatic than hers and we don't have to listen to her anymore. The Doctor impressed my House's brilliance and cynicism offers to take him on as a companion and travel through time and space. House scoffs at this, and mocks the Doctor using a cheesy British accent. The Doctor leaves, alone again, and House confides in Wilson that he would have liked to have gone off in the TARDIS, but is afraid that he wouldn't be able to do all the running that is required.