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Examples: Itchy & Scratchy from The Simpsons, The Scary Door from Futurama, or The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky.

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[–] Bunnylux 97 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] alquicksilver 73 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The Princess Bride is one of my favorite examples of this, especially because the "story within the story" is the main story, which is unusual.

[–] credo 32 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The Never Ending Story too.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fake old movie that plays in Home Alone. "I'm gonna give you till the count of 10 to get your ugly yeller no good keester off my property before I pump your guts full of lead! One... Two... Ten!" 🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago

Angels with Dirty Souls

Image my disappointment upon becoming old enough to rent R-rated movies and finding out the only one I wanted was fictional.

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[–] spankmonkey 56 points 3 weeks ago

Tales of the Black Freighter from the Watchmen comics is pretty awesome.

All My Circuits on Futurama is one of my favorites on tv. Dramatic beeping intensifies.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Ow! My balls! from Idiocracy

There's been some stuff coming out lately that makes me think this show isn't far off.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Community has Inspector Spacetime and the Kickpuncher movie series.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

Troy and Abed in the Morning!

Nights

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Angels With Filthy Souls

The "adult" movie Kevin watches in Home Alone. Apparently the main dude who was supposed to be in those didn't show up so they just had some janitor or tech fill in and he went full ham on that shit and made it something to remember.

There's also the McBane movie in The Simpsons that shows up in multiple episodes and if you connected them all together they actually make a coherent story line (it's just riffing off Lethal Weapon anyway).

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

30 Rock has quite a few good ones:

  • M.I.L.F Island
  • Bitch Hunter
  • TGS
  • The satirized version of NBC in the show (lots of 'biting the hand' humor)
[–] ninjabard 30 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can't forget The Rural Juror

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Apparently I will forget you, Rural Juror. 😆 But I'm still glad I met you.

[–] jqubed 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Weirdly (or not, perhaps) MILF Island was turned into a real show (sort of) not once but twice. On The Cougar a 40-year-old woman was seeking a partner among male contestants who were all in their 20s. On the rather more disturbing MILF Manor a group of women between the ages of 40-60 stay in a villa seeking to pair up with a pool of younger bachelors, which turns out to be made entirely of the women’s sons. Wikipedia says in season 2 the ex-husbands were also added to the dating pool so the sons had to compete against their dads for the divorced moms.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My god. That… that’s enough reality tv, thank you

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

John Oliver sometimes runs random out of context clips of MILF Manor and I'm not sure actually watching them in context would make them any less ridiculous.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] NeoNachtwaechter 36 points 3 weeks ago

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

by Douglas Adams is a book about a book called "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] halendos 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In-universe, creating that show was a genius move, if anything legit leaked they can just say it's some fan fiction from the show and not from the real Stargate program.

[–] slazer2au 10 points 3 weeks ago

Makes you wonder what the Stargate show was hiding :P

[–] batmaniam 10 points 3 weeks ago

"what do you mean it's not a real show? Does my agent know? I still get paid with real money though right?"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well I grew up on a farm...

That's the Wizard of Oz.

You got that from "I grew up on a farm"?

If you're going to rip something off, choose something no-one knows.

Farscape flashback.

Gold.

[–] MattTheProgrammer 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tool Time in Home Improvement

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"Sick, Sad World" from Daria

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Interdimensional Cable from Rick and Morty is outrageous. GTA's radio stations (VCPR was the best) and TV shows are often really funny. The Pißwasser beer commercial from IV always gets me.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Check out https://nestflix.fun/ for a Netflix-like way to browse popular fictional media like this

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[–] AplasticAenima 24 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Control: Threshold Kids

and Bitch Hunter from 30 Rock

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The "I'd buy that for a dollar!" guy from Robocop.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ballfondlers from Rick and Morty

Impotent Rage from GTA V

The Silver Shroud from Fallout 4

[–] eightpix 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

As far as other media within Rick & Morty, the Second Life-like "Roy" is something that I wish could exist. Immersive gameplay, accelerated time, tangible experiences, and endless possibilities.

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[–] Num10ck 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Tropic Thunder movie previews

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"The Wall" in Solar Opposites. It's arguably better than the main story.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The main story has really picked up since Dan Stevens took over the voice of Korvo. IMO, it was a huge improvement. Also, the wall story isn’t as compelling as it used to be.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

“Scary door” from Futurama

It’s a play on the twilight zone and it’s quite something.

“A casino where I’m always winning? This must be heaven!” “A casino where I always win… I must actually be… IN HELL!”

“No Mr. smith. You’re not in heaven or hell. You’re on an airplane!”

“Help! There’s a gremlin destroying the plane! You’ve gotta believe me!”

“Why should I believe you?! You’re Hitler!”

For those interested: The Scary Door

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[–] grue 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The Adventures of Captain Proton from Star Trek: Voyager!

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[–] wildcardology 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Ya Heard? With Perd!" in parks and recreation.

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[–] Thcdenton 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] AgentGrimstone 16 points 3 weeks ago

All the ads in Robocop and Starship Troopers really

[–] PP_BOY_ 15 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The book House of Leaves is presented as a documentary within a book within a book. Really fun read, too

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

If games count then all the radio stations in GTA

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mystery from Invader Zim

Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mystery logo from the episode Gaz, Taster of Pork

Come to Zim!

[–] ToffeeIsForClosers 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

“Invitation to Love”, the soap opera within the show “Twin Peaks”.

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[–] saltesc 12 points 3 weeks ago

McBain in The Simpsons is a classic.

This video stitches the movie together somewhat.

https://youtu.be/BzjfrdcN1Z8?si=G84IdUwMkfPKDm3w

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] ElfWord 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Three Dog, the radio DJ for "Galaxy News Radio" within Fallout 3, was one of the best parts of the game.

The Fallout series has lots of other media within media too, like the Grognak the Barbarian comic series or Cat's Paw magazine.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The lore books in The Elder Scrolls series, hands-down.

There is an entire universe of conflicting knowledge, personal bias, and unreliable narrators that leave Tamriel's history feeling very real, and very open to interpretation. The fun of it is piecing together the truth somewhere in the middle. But I'll die on the hill that the Arcturian Heresy is absolute horseshit written by a madman, and comparable to the scribbles of a paranoid schizophrenic on an anti-vax forum. Anyone who references that volume in regards to Tiber Septim and the forming of the empire is an impressionable dweeb.

[–] thermal_shock 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

the Wall in Solar Opposites.

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[–] AbouBenAdhem 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Homer’s Odyssey.

Most modern adaptations present the stories Odysseus tells while visiting the Phaeacians as if they were the actual plot—but Homer’s audience would have known Odysseus as a notorious liar and trickster and wouldn’t necessarily have regarded his stories as true even within the context of the frame narrative. Homer’s epic focuses as much on the parallel stories of Telemachus and Penelope—I read the underlying story as their struggle to untangle Odysseus from his own web of deceptions and fantasies and bring him back to reality.

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