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* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s short story "The Goldfish Pool", a young writer struggles to adapt one of his novels to film. Due to [[Executive Meddling]], he is forced to discard the title, plot, characters, themes and even genre of his original book; ultimately changing it from a psychological horror story into a romantic comedy.
* In ''[[Homestar Runner (Web Animation)|Homestar Runner]]'', the DVD-exclusive Strong Bad Email "Comic Book Movie" had Strong Bad describe how Hollywood would handle a movie of his comic book character Strong Badman: badly.
* An episode of ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' involves a lot of [[Did Not Do the Research]] in the narrative: Jake feigns having read ''[[Lord of the Flies]]'' (his book report assignment), while Charlie feigns having read the ''Oshikuru'' comic book (the [[Animated Adaptation]] of which he's writing the theme song). In the [[Oh, Cisco]] moment, after a [[Montage]] of Jake trying to help Charlie understand his source material, we get to watch Alan, Jake, and Charlie watch the premiere of ''Oshikuru''. The show uses the exact same theme Charlie had originally written with a [[Lighter and Softer]] twist. Jake voices his incredulity, while Charlie simply says, "[[Executive Meddling|The network liked it]]."
* Parodied [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/485797 here] with a [[Saturday Morning Cartoon]] version of ''[[Watchmen (Comic Book)|Watchmen]]''.
* Fans' typical [[Berserk Button|reaction]] was [http://www.weregeek.com/2007/05/09/ reflected here] in ''[[Weregeek]]''.
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* In one issue of ''[[The Authority]]'', a [[Brown Note|suicide-inducing meme]] is rendered harmless when it's told to a screenwriter, who acknowledges that "it's very good, but [[Executive Meddling|it needs something]]", and rewrites it.
* ''[[Turtles Forever]]'' features the 1987 and the 2003 [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] meeting and constantly getting confused over the differences in their worlds. They also note how they are [[Lighter and Softer]] than the 1984 comic book Ninja Turtles they are based on
* An episode of ''[[Blossom]]'' once demonstrated almost instant Adaptation Decay in action: Nick once had a chance to pitch a TV show concept about his family life to a pair of network execs. The concept was called "Rosie", and was essentially a recursive version of ''Blossom''. By the time the network execs got done with it, though, "Rosie" had transformed from a gentle family comedy to [[They Fight Crime|a detective show]] starring [[
* ''[[Married With Children]]'' also demonstrated this in an hour-long ep, where Christine Applegate's talk show went from being an edgy local cable show... into a show with [[Disneyfication|practically no bite at all]] when a network picked it up. Example: heavy metal guitarists yelling "Sex!" replaced with nice accordionists saying "Book."
* The aptly named movie ''[[Adaptation]]'' portrays a highly self-referential example of this.
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** Brian's drama ''What I Learned on Jefferson Street'' becomes the sitcom ''Class Holes!'' with a live studio audience, a chimpanzee, and James Woods.
* ''[[The X Files]]'' episode "Hollywood AD" centred around a film being made based on Mulder and Scully's work. The [[Big Bad]] is an insane bishop using a magical artifact to take over the world, his henchmen are gun-toting zombies, Mulder (played by Garry Shandling!) cracks cheesy one-liners during fight scenes and there is a romantic subplot between the two agents.
* In the ''[[
* ''[[Hellboy (Comic Book)|Hellboy]]'': All of the in-universe adaptations of the life of 1930s pulp hero The Lobster are said to be ''massive'' examples of this, ''utterly'' rife with [[Stylistic Suck]]. Worst of these are a series of Mexican movies in which he is not only given the name "Lobster Johnson" (the last name taken from the [[Pulp Magazine]] version's secret identity), but is also portrayed as a [[Masked Luchador]]. [[Cult Classic|Hellboy still enjoys the stuff, though.]]
* The show-within-a-show in ''The Band Wagon'' starts off as a musical adaptation of the Faust legend. Decay and [[Stylistic Suck]] rapidly ensue.
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