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The comedy event of the summer is here—and it’s on Netflix! GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event is a new Netflix limited series that will actually look partially familiar to viewers—or totally familiar if you’re already obsessed with Netflix’s lineup of family sitcoms. In the grand tradition of TGIF, Netflix is uniting the casts of four of its popular family sitcoms for one comedy event. But which shows are
What is GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event?
GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event is, well, exactly what the title implies: it’s a comedy crossover event! It’s a four-part limited series that mixes and matches the casts of four of Netflix’s current family sitcoms. Four episodes, four sitcoms, four crossovers, way more than four LOL moments.
Which shows are part of GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event?
The four shows that make up GAME ON are: The Big Show Show, Mr. Iglesias, Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love, and Family Reunion.
The Big Show Show stars professional wrestler Big Show as a fictionalized version of himself. It centers around his family, and the shakeup they go through when his oldest daughter moves in.
Mr. Iglesias stars Gabriel Iglesias as a high school history teacher who’s in charge of getting a bunch of good-hearted but unruly kids on the track to gradute.
The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia stars Paulina Chávez as the titular Ashley, the youngest ever rocket scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She juggles being a high school student with working at NASA, all while living with her football coach uncle.
And Family Reunion stars Tia Mowry and Anthony Alabi as the heads of the McKellan bunch, a big family who pack up and move from the Seattle, Washington to Columbus, Georgia after attending a family reunion.
Do you have to know all four shows to watch GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event?
You do not! The truth is, this isn’t a full-blown, CW-superhero-style blockbuster crossover. There is not one unifying plot that continues from episode to episode. In fact, each episode of GAME ON is, essentially, an episode of one of the four shows. Each episode retains one show’s opening credits and focuses on the cast of just one show. There is a unifying theme in each episode: there are various competitions and challenges that propel each story, but it’s not the same challenge across all four episodes.
The crossover portion comes in via cameos and guest spots; Gabriel Iglesias and Big Show each pop up on each other’s shows, and then the McKellan family and Garcia family share the spotlight. Netflix is betting that if you like one of their family sitcoms, you’re probably gonna like all four of these family sitcoms. GAME ON is intended to introduce fans of Family Reunion to The Big Show Show, Ashley Garcia to Mr. Iglesias, and vice versa and all combinations, etc.
You can stream all four parts of GAME ON: A Comedy Crossover Event right now on Netflix.
