Here is some crazy shit on this topic.

Did you listen to the Rooster Teeth podcast to get the idea to look for this?

I love how the "Law & Order Universe" has its own section.

But even aside from the "omg fan theory it was all in his mind" stuff, it really is insane how this has been able to be mapped out. Cory in the House is connected to Better Call Saul

Simply one of tv's biggest mindf**ck or/ f**k you by the writers.

I never seen it, but I heard about it. I wonder how people felt about when it first aired. Must have been some angry and/or confused people.

All I know about St Elsewhere is this scene and not much else. I really have no idea what it's about.

Battlestar Galactica and Firefly have an interesting link- in an early CGI scene you can see a Firefly class ship. R2D2 is in there too.

'Stargate' at the very top, just as it should be. Next to 'Heroes', but still, right there at the top.

Damn right- my wife and I have matching home symbol tattoos lol

That's a fun Easter egg. Since they both are about societies that began on earth, there's no real reason why they couldn't exist simultaneously, albeit far across the galaxy from each other

That's what makes the ending so bizarre - it was a fairly standard hospital show.

Iirc, the time frames are roughly the same, 2500ish.

Still trying to recover from the razor blade scene.

Denzel Washington, George Washington, Howie Mandel, Ed begley Jr, Mr Feeney, and Mark Harmon work in a hospital where weird shit happens

> George Washington

Wait what?

David Morse played George Washington in John Adams

Wasn't that much of an outcry, it was unusual, but it wasn't a phenomenon. M*A*S*H had sort of set the standard for finales at that time, and not many shows in that era knew ahead of time they would have a final episodes. Many shows didn't know their fates for the following season.

and Mark Sheppard appears in both as well

right?? based on what i’d heard about the ending, i thought it was a sci fi show or something, but it’s just a hospital show like greys or er, which is Wild

Or “Goodbye, Peter.”

Plus, "it was all a dream" endings were kind of the thing around then for some reason. In addition to St.E, you also had the 9th season of Dallas (1985-86), and the series finale of Newhart (1990).

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/AllJustADream/LiveActionTV

Mr. Feeney is really mean in it based on the first 4 episodes I watched last week

But isn't the all-those-other-shows-are-in-this-kid's-imagination theory (nothing's to say they couldn't be connected otherwise they just can't be six-degrees-of-St.-Elsewhere-d into being even more fake) disproven by the fact that The X-Files did a crossover with what's ostensibly a reality show, COPS, therefore potentially connecting our universe to that whole Gordian knot but we couldn't watch those shows if we were

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Newhart ending is still the best

Malcolm in the Middle and Breaking Bad exist in the same universe, via the X-files, leaving us with not one, not two, but three distinct Bryans Cranston occupying a very small region of the fiction omniverse. Except Breaking Bad is also a dream within Malcolm in the Middle... which is itself all part of some other kid's dream!

kid writes some damn good teevee though, I'll give him that

more organized version

There was even another COPS cameo in my name is earl. Just straight up one episode is a COPS parody

did anyone think that maybe the kid just grew up and became a TV writer?

This reminds me of the Charlie Kelly meme but if Charlie were literate and knew how to use a computer

>!Suzanne Pleshette’s deadpan “I’m happy for you.”!< kills me every time.

But what if we're in that kids head? X-Files theme plays

How old are you people? It's funny how many will use the phrase jumping the shark, usually wrong, but don't know what St Elsewhere was about? This is why tv lists on reddit rarely seem to hit the last century. These are the shows people should binge, because many are the reasons the shows popular today, came about.

Love, love love St Elsewhere. I still remember Murder She Rote, Mrs Hufnagel a recurring "patient" and the malfunctioning hospital bed. You would have to watch the series to understand how hysterically funny it was....over someone's death.

You nailed it. Probably my favorite hospital show ever, which I almost stopped watching because I thought it was going off the rails with the Peter White story line

Two episodes — they did another one.

NewsRadio spoofed the scene in its episode "Daydream", which at the end shows Mr James looking into a snow globe of WNYX