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The above is a bullshit clickbait headline for an article (actual link replaced with an archive.is version to reduce traffic to the offending site) I happened to see in my Google News app just now. I hate that kind of stupid shit.
No, Dave Sundstrom, Barney Rubble dressing up as Mr. Spock in a Cocoa Pebbles commercial is not a fucking Star Trek/The Flintstones "crossover." That's not what crossovers are. That's not how crossovers work. Simply licensing the rights to use the name and likeness of "Mr. Spock" (for $50,000 in 1992 money) does not a crossover make. For it to have been a "legitimate crossover," the actual Mr. Spock would have had to show up. It would be like taking some Halloween-themed sitcom episode in which some rando happened to dress up as Superman and calling that a "crossover."
And, yes, I did already know about this """""crossover""""" before reading the article, because I saw that shit on TV when I was 13 and thought it was passingly amusing at the time. I said to myself before going into the article that this better not be about the fucking Cocoa Pebbles commercial, but, sure enough, that's exactly what it was about.
I am rather irked by this. Perhaps unreasonably so, admittedly.
No, Dave Sundstrom, Barney Rubble dressing up as Mr. Spock in a Cocoa Pebbles commercial is not a fucking Star Trek/The Flintstones "crossover." That's not what crossovers are. That's not how crossovers work. Simply licensing the rights to use the name and likeness of "Mr. Spock" (for $50,000 in 1992 money) does not a crossover make. For it to have been a "legitimate crossover," the actual Mr. Spock would have had to show up. It would be like taking some Halloween-themed sitcom episode in which some rando happened to dress up as Superman and calling that a "crossover."
And, yes, I did already know about this """""crossover""""" before reading the article, because I saw that shit on TV when I was 13 and thought it was passingly amusing at the time. I said to myself before going into the article that this better not be about the fucking Cocoa Pebbles commercial, but, sure enough, that's exactly what it was about.
I am rather irked by this. Perhaps unreasonably so, admittedly.
