After watching the episode “Normal Again,” I chose to entirely disregard the fact that it implied that the entire series might be taking place in Buffy’s head. The idea was just too depressing. But now I’ve come across a website that has some pretty promising evidence that not only Buffy and Angel, but also Firefly, Battlestar, and Star Trek are all taking place in the mind of Tommy Westphall. In fact, over 282 shows are.
Who is Tommy Westphall? Well, if you’ve watched the end of St. Elsewhere you’d know. In the final moments of the series finale, it was revealed that this autistic child had dreamt up the entire show. It was all in his mind. But how does that connect to the Scooby Gang?
Let me explain. In the show St. Elsewhere, Westphall, Craig, and Auschlander visit the Cheers bar, thus establishing that they are in the same universe. From there, Cheers spun off the series Fraiser, which fielded a phone call to the radio show from John Hemingway on the John Larroquette Show. The John Laroquette Show references Yoyodyne, who is also a client of Wolfram and Hart on Angel. And we all know Angel and Buffy are in the same universe.
Well, what about Warf, Kaylee, and the Adamas? You’ll just have to check the website to find out for yourself: Tommy Westphall’s Mind: A Multiverse Explored.
Juliana Weiss-Roessler is an aspiring TV writer in Los Angeles. She has been writing in web-based media for 10 years, including writing web videos for an Emmy-nominated reality series and ghostwriting a blog for Yahoo. To learn more about the process of applying to write for TV, visit her website WeissRoessler.com to read her spec scripts or visit her blog Boring Future Generations.
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Ah, but you've only begun to unravel this great cosmic reality… for it must also be true that all other references to pop culture and all references to what we generally call "the real world" would all be part of Tommy Westphall's multiverse as well. Just one bit of evidence: Buffy tells Giles that she is surprised that he, of all people, is
trying to Scully her in 'The Pack,' which is a reference to The X-Files, and in the latest X-Files movie, both George W. Bush and J. Edgar Hoover are referenced — meaning, of course that everything in the known universe is in Tommy's mind…
Not to disappoint, but Yoyodyne is actually a company from Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 54, written in mid-60s. It gets name-checked in The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai, and a ton of other films and tv shows. If anything, I think that makes Tommy Westphall a figment of Oedipa Maas' imagination, another piece to the paranoid plot she imagines enveloping her throughout the book.
I just found out about this Tommy Westphall thing tonight and it's crazy insane! I was actually having sex with my boyfriend tonight and he mentioned Buffy and told me about all these other shows being connected to it and other shows. I told him what a weird thing to think of while he's on top of me inside me but it was funny and we laughed. He even got up to proof it to me on the internet and it sort of made me angry he wanted to see that instead of finishing inside me. When I was a younger boy I remember watching that show that Tommy was in but i can't remember that much about it. It's a very interesting story and hopefully I can learn more about it but I'd rather have gotten my butt came in then read about that haha.