All that talking about Parallel TV Shows and the previous post about Boy Meets World & 3D characters made me remember an episode, and I figured I'd link two and two together.
As I said before, all the characters were 3-dimensional and the viewers knew what everyone was about, almost as if they knew them personally. That's what made the following episode so ironic.
Eric tries out for a role in an upcoming TV show, "Male gets acquainted with the Universe" (an obvious take on the real show's title.) In it, all the actors look exactly the same as the one's in Boy Meets World, only they're in a 'parallell universe' so to speak. Corey, the usually mellow one, is a complete jerk & primadonna. Shawn, the usual blunt and confident one, is ridiculously shy and self consious. And the little innocent sister, if I remember correctly, was a chain smoker who was really twice her supposed age. I could be wrong though.
They did another one where Corey gets knocked out an has a dream where he's in the Happy Day's era. Shawn become Shawnzie, the girls are all wearing poodle skirts, that whole thing. And the comedy comes from how they all relate to each other in similar manners but only in Greaser style.
Just a tangent, but these types of episodes probably wouldn't have worked if the character's wern't 3 dimensional and connected with audiences on such a level.
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