The Tommy Westphall Hypothesis theory

cloud493

'Tommy Westphall was an austistic child on the TV series St Elsewhere who, it was revealed in the closing moments of the final episode of that series, had dreamt the entire run of the show.

What's this about his Mind?
St Elsewhere has direct connections to twelve other television series - many of them direct crossovers of character to and from the series. Others make mention of specific parts of the St Elsewhere fictional universe, placing them within the same fictional sphere.

So?
If St Elsewhere exists only within Tommy Westphall's mind, then so does every other series set within the same fictional sphere.

Some of the links are direct - characters cross over from television series to television series all the time, it's a long-time television tradition. Some series spin off entire other series, obviously expanding their fictional universes.

Some connections are indirect - fictional places, character names, awards, newspapers, cigarette brands, companies place some shows within the same fictional universe.

There isn't necessarily any rhyme or reason with having one series connect to another. There is no attempt to have any crossover consistency either within the series themselves or here as we discover more connections.

Tommy's mind is a tricky thing to decipher.'

I only recently learnt about this, and it blew my mind. Obviously you don't have to take it as true, but its pretty interesting all the same. If you take it as true, over 280 shows can be argued to be part of Tommy's mind, including doctor who, frasier, buffy, mission impossible, arrested development, ER.

Where To

Can you repeat the question please?

CreepingDeath

Drugs are bad.

ScumLord

cloud493 wrote: »

I only recently learnt about this, and it blew my mind. Obviously you don't have to take it as true, but its pretty interesting all the same. If you take it as true, over 280 shows can be argued to be part of Tommy's mind, including doctor who, frasier, buffy, mission impossible, arrested development, ER.

Tommy is also a fictional character so it's not that impressive seeing as nothing actually happened.

cloud493

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCeZbrvvDmc

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TheRealSquishy

Wouldn't it make more sense if he saw the other shows on TV and then dreamt about them, fitting then into his little world?

Seedy Arling

Reminds me of this

Gotham

A lot of people seem to brush this off as nothing. The truth here is that some group of people spent a really long (and fun time) making a massive chart and list of "references" that these shows made to each other. Even if it's all a bit silly, it's really cool to see these references listed the way they are.

humanji

Wait, so Star Trek isn't real?

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humanji wrote: »

Wait, so Star Trek isn't real?

Apparently it wasn't created by someone, what actually happened is that someone created it.

tin79

cloud493 wrote: »

I only recently learnt about this, and it blew my mind. Obviously you don't have to take it as true, but its pretty interesting all the same. If you take it as true, over 280 shows can be argued to be part of Tommy's mind, including doctor who, frasier, buffy, mission impossible, arrested development, ER.

Fascinating :rolleyes:

Lets dicuss the existence of fictional shows and see where we end up.

CreepingDeath

humanji wrote: »

Wait, so Star Trek isn't real?

If it was I'd never leave the holodeck.

ScumLord

CreepingDeath wrote: »

If it was I'd never leave the holodeck.

Because you enjoyed it there or because of a malfunction/sentient vapour life forms have reprogrammed the holodeck for their own nefarious ends?