No. Not that. Well, not unless you really want it to be, you sicko.
No, this week's Meme of the Week is inspired by Frasier, Ashes to Ashes, After M*A*S*H, etc. You have a favourite TV character – or merely favourite TV show. You take that character or a character from the show and you transplant them to a new environment. That's a 'TV transplant'. So…
What's your favourite TV transplant?
I've given you a couple already, but feel free to suggest your own: after all, TV is littered with plenty of spin-offs (K9 and Company, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Private Practice, Going Straight, Highlander: The Raven). But what's your favourite?
For advanced students, what's your least favourite, or perhaps you'd like to create your own: Frank Spencer on Batllestar Galactica? Neil Burnside on The Brittas Empire? Jack Bauer on Pushing Daisies? What do you fancy?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
July 9, 2009 | Reply
Without a doubt my favourite spin off is Angel. Far superior to Buffy in many ways. Taking Angel and Cordelia and Wesley outside of atypical American town of Sunnydale and into the lonely and corrupt city of LA was brilliant. Spike was also far better treated by this show than he was in Buffy- another brilliant transplant.
July 10, 2009 | Reply
I agree about Angel (though I loved Buffy too) but personally one of the best transplants is surely the appropriation by the X-Files of Homocide's John Munch. Occasionally, especially early on, he was also well used by Law & Order: SVU but now is a shadow of his former self.