lettered | West Wing meets Earth's Mightiest Heroes

my_daroga and I have been making our way through West Wing and Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. At first, you think, "What a strange pairing!" Then you realize its brilliance.

WW: Toby attempts to SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY. This is the teaser, seriously. Cue ep with some awesome location shots, a Republican senator who just might see the light, Toby behaving a little bit too underhandedly, and oh, our broken Congress--which just might be fixed, if we are capable of compromise.
EMH: Oh, right, and the Secretary of Defense is actually Red Skull, which Steve finds out during a visit. Seriously, Steve passed Toby in the halls. End with a riveting battle in front of the Washington monument and Red Skull almost destroys America, I mean the Capitol Building. But since the Avengers stopped Red Skull social security is totes okay.

WW: Who's testing their nukes? Bartlett doesn't know, but suspects Iran. The US is ready to fight, and meanwhile Josh hates NASA. But actually everyone's just burned out on NASA because after going on the moon, what happened? Nothing. But why don't we stop wasting money on nuclear weapons when we could be going to Mars? Because it turns out it was Isreal running nuke tests all along.
EMH: The Kree attempt to build an intergalactic highway through our sun or something, which will destroy life on Earth as we know it. Marvel marvels at the fact that humanity hasn't managed to travel beyond Earth's moon. Tony points out he's been busy making nuclear weapons.

(Actually Tony says, "We're working on it," which really embodied so poignantly all the hope and despair the West Wing episode was attempting to convey.)

In other news, Earth's Mightiest Heroes is a fantastic show. Not as fantastic as Avatar: The Last Airbender, but then again, what is? Sometimes I imagine the writers/creators of EMH sort of sitting around and bitching at each other (sort of like I imagine the writers of SPN).

writer: No, her hair gotta be flying all around.
artist: why?
writer: Zero g!
artist: . . . you realize how hard that is to draw?
writer: But the science.
artist: . . . you are so hot to me right now.
writer: can she be in a ponytail?
artist: Captain Marvel wears her hair down. I can draw her putting it up.
writer: . . . you are so hot to me right now.

Also, WW meets EMH. What would CJ Cregg do with Tony Stark? I don't even know.

Do you ever have shows that unwittingly pair up?