What’s most attention-grabbing, nonetheless, is that John Munch’s crossover appearances weren’t restricted to the world of “Legislation & Order,” which implies the character canonically connects a youngsters’s academic program like “Sesame Road” to the sci-fi horror collection, “The X-Recordsdata.”

The character first appeared in “Murder: Life on the Road,” which was based mostly on the e-book “Murder: A Yr on the Killing Streets” by David Simon, who would go on to create “The Wire.” Are the planets aligning for you, but? Belzer wouldn’t solely seem as Munch, canonically throughout 10+ reveals, however would typically seem in random movies (like “A Very Brady Sequel”) and different TV reveals (“Mad About You”) as random members of regulation enforcement, but nonetheless in his distinctive costuming.

His interconnectivity additionally makes for some fascinating multiverse developments. For instance, Munch seems in an unique “made-for-the-show” scene of “Legislation & Order” for “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” and Kimmy acknowledges Richard Belzer as taking part in the actor on TV. On the identical time, Kimmy’s landlady Lillian is performed by Carol Kane, who’s canonically Detective Munch’s ex-wife, Gwen Munch. To make it much more attention-grabbing, each Gwen and Lillian are famous conspiracy theorists. Is Lillian simply Gwen’s alter-ego?

Given the variety of crossover appearances of John Munch and the variety of crossovers every of these reveals had with different reveals on their very own, we’d as effectively exchange the “Six Levels of Kevin Bacon” recreation with “Six Levels of Detective John Munch.” In an period the place each model has been making an attempt its hardest to develop its personal multiverse, we have been residing within the Munchiverse all alongside.