Media Mirroring

A sequence where the main action is in some way echoed, mimicked or reflected by the action taking place during a work inside the work transpiring at the same time. An exact one-to-one match is not necessary, but there must be a strong parallelism, and it is not uncommon for one to interrupt or complete the other with an accidentally appropriate interjection or observation.

Compare Coincidental Broadcast, Contrived Coincidence, Show Within a Show, Plot Parallel, Twisted Echo Cut and Recursive Reality (of the "nested stories" variety).

Live Action V

 * The end of the How I Met Your Mother episode "The Wedding Bride".

Music

 * The baseball game on the radio (announced by Phil Rizzuto) during the make-out session in the middle of "Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" by Meat Loaf.

Web Comics

 * Girl Genius has a scene when Tarvek Sturmvoraus argues with his father in a theatre, and on the words "if the mistress were here, she'd say -" he is interrupted by an actress screaming a very appropriate ending to this line. As it happens, not only in the role of said "mistress", but in the same voice. They both are stunned for a while.

Western Animation

 * My Life as a Teenage Robot: "Future Shock". Tuck’s behavior matches up with the hero, Jenny’s behavior matches with the villain, which is an is probably an alien. The matching up happens more than the other current examples.
 * This happens in the Regular Show episode "Grave Sights". This happens with a zombie. The scenes outside the movie and the ones in the movie don’t always match the scenes in the movie. Unusually, the audience think that the scene outside of the movie is part of the movie.
 * This happens in the Legend of Korra episode "Night Of A Thousand Stars". Like regular show, the scenes outside the movie don’t match up that to often. Unusually, most of the match up between the what is going on outside the movie and the show with in a show are done by characters who acted in the show within a show.