In Which We Meet Bane Cosby

Ashly and I have both told you about how these crossovers occur.  Random statements happen. Another unrelated comment arises.  The tangents meet, then twist, turn and eventually merge into experiments in the impossible.  So far we've looked at tacos and wave superposition as well as a crossover bar fight between famed smugglers Han Solo and Malcolm Reynolds.  But today we have one that clocks in a little higher on the meta scale.

In late July, My friend was telling me about The Dark Knight Rises.  I had yet to see it, and he was trying to give me the spoiler free review.  I'm not sure how it worked out that this came up, but discussions of Batman turned into discussions of The Cosby Show, of which we're both big fans.  Our end conclusion - Bane, The Dark Knight Rises villain and expellee from Ra's Al Ghul's League of Shadows, was in fact a member of the Cosby Show family - a son of Cliff and Clair Huxtable.  This all spawned from a twitter exchange Ashly and I had about CM Punk turning heel on RAW's 1000th episode.  The logic at the time was that Big Show was to CM Punk as the Joker was to Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, pretty much "letting him off his lease" and turning his dark side loose.

Remember the episode where Vanessa goes to a party and gets drunk (Season 6 Episode 3, "I'm 'In' with the 'In; Crowd") playing some drinking game called "The Alphabet Game?" Taking shots when you can't name a city beginning with a given letter is a cornball idea that really only could have been spawned in the 80's, but they made it work.  While this whole mess was going on at the Huxtable house, Theo happened to be at the house when Cliff and Clair figured out what was going on.  Theo's response?

Theo: I never thought Vanessa would crack under the pressure.
Clair: What pressure?
Theo: The pressure of growing up in this family. Because of what you guys have accomplished, people expect a lot more from us than other kids. Think about it, you're a lawyer, dad's a doctor. That's a lot of pressure mom.
Clair: We never said "become a doctor" "become a lawyer", we said "go to school, get good grades, become whatever you want".
Theo: There you go, pressure! "Go to school" "become something", that's a lot of pressure, mom. All my friends see it.

What went unsaid was that in addition to the Huxtable children we had seen on television, there was also Bane, the adopted eldest.  He had clearly cracked under the pressure of being a Huxtable child.  So he didn't become a doctor or a lawyer.  Instead he ended up in that prison pit, torn over the fact that his father was now Ghost Dad.

Ashly of course added some additional evidence to the proceedings, citing that anyone whose father was in Leonard Part Six would also go insane.  But no kids, we're not nearly full circle yet.  It's clear at this point that Bane has some daddy issues.  And as said by Austin Powers' father in Goldmember, "If you have a daddy issue, here's a daddy tissue."  Do we all remember who played him in the movie?  That's right kids, Michael Caine - The Alfred Pennyworth Himself.

So after this was up on the facebooks and the twitters for a bit, of course the picture at the top of the post starts showing up on the interwebs.  So you're welcome, internet.  Because we're totally taking credit for that.