On Brand / How work gets passed down, and what changes on the way

Works

Every work in the corpus. A work holds units, an episode and a song being the same kind of object, and every unit can hold exact anchors.

Fully developed

  • Community

    television2009–2015110 unitsDan Harmon

    A study group at Greendale Community College. The project's centre of gravity: the show most often doing the inheriting.

  • NewsRadio

    television1995–199997 unitsPaul Simms

    The WNYX newsroom. The project's main documented ancestor, and a complete work in its own right rather than a source list.

  • evermore

    music20201 unitTaylor Swift

    Carries “right where you left me,” the first of the two hairpin substitutions.

  • Midnights

    music20221 unitTaylor Swift

    Carries “The Great War,” the second hairpin substitution.

Branches

  • Saved by the Bell

    television1989–1993

    An additional ancestry layer rather than an alternative that cancels NewsRadio.

  • Mr. Show with Bob and David

    television1995–1998

    A personnel cluster that recurs on both sides of the lineage.

  • Arrested Development

    television2003–2019

    Shares a dense performer and director pool with Community.

  • Seinfeld

    television1989–1998

    Source of the Puddy recognition that surrounds Patrick Warburton by 1998.

  • The Daily Show

    television1996

    A later workplace node linking Jon Stewart to Community performer John Oliver.

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation

    television1987–1994

    “Chain of Command, Part II” supplies the four-lights coercion image.

  • Lover

    music2019Taylor Swift

    The era whose promotion made the Easter-egg method explicit.

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