The crossover has long been a storytelling gadget for the small screen.

Here’s a look at the history of crossover episodes.

As a public, our ever-growing love of crossovers seems to have hit its apex recently.

Shows are compared and contrasted.

As television has matured though, so has the depth of crossovers.

Helen Buchman even visited Central Perk on a rare occasion.

Characters fromCheersappeared onWingsseveral times, and of course onFrasiertoo, long afterCheershas ended.

All of this trying its hardest to fit under the moniker of Must See TV.

Munch is the television God particle.

In Munch we Trust.

Looks like this crossover couldnt save that one…).

While a rather ambitious, and even covert kind of crossover, it never seemed to yield huge rewards.

The idea of crossovers being treated as tremendous spectacles.

TheSimpsons/Futuramacrossover Simpsorama seemed to be very probing and in this style as well.

What is Marvels film slate if not one big, colossal crossover, which will only keep getting bigger?

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