Short of time and inspiration again, so I'll cash in another link coupon. TV Tropes is a lovely website where the minutiae of popular culture are catalogued and discussed, where a simple enquiry and end up on twenty different pages an hour later. It's where I found the idea of the Tommy Westphall hypothesis which states that, since TV shows tend to do crossovers and shout-outs to other works, that they are all part of the same interconnected fictional universe, making it possible to say that "The Wire" and "Red Dwarf" happen in the same continuity.
A character in The Wire mentions a character from Homicide: Life On The Street... where another character questioned The Lone Gunmen from The X-Files... where The Cigarette-Smoking Man smoked the same brand of cigarettes as Spike, from Buffy and Angel... where an evil lawyer firm represented the Weyland-Yutani corporation... who have a wrecked ship in the background of an episode of Red Dwarf. Mmmm, tenuous!
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