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{{quote|''"I've been having these dreams lately. Like is any of this real, or not?"''|'''Sora'''
Around fifty minutes into the program, really weird stuff starts happening, like little people juggling while riding a tricycle around a bewildered protagonist. Then the protagonist realizes, just as you do, that this has all been a dream, a really bad hallucination, or some other escape from reality.
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** Another One involves Al taking a job as a janitor for a Private Eye only to become one himself and solve a diamond case, getting a big fat check as reward. Of course, [[Status Quo Is God]] and it was just a dream of his (this one was the season-erasing resolution).
** Another has Al making a deal with the Devil (Robert Englund) to lead a football team to the Super Bowl. He gets his wish but is killed in a tackle and taken to Hell where his family and friends also end up (as a result of improbable accidents after his death, oddly enough). After three hundred years in Hell, Al can't take it anymore and challenges the Devil to a football match. The Devil picks some of the world's worst historical figures for his team. Al manages to win (even though given an offer to go back with beautiful women and loads of cash which, in a rare moment selflessness, he passes up). Al then wakes up back where he was before the Devil appeared and it appears to be a dream to him... least until he pulls out some Red Hots candy the Devil had given him.
* Sent up by Robert Rankin in ''[[Far Fetched Fiction|Armageddon, The Musical]]''. A planet of aliens have been controlling Earth so they can watch us as a soap opera. [[Executive Meddling|Meddling executives]] decide that allowing [[World War III]] was a mistake and try to [[
* The last episode of ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'' reveals that the entire series has taken place in the mind of an autistic child. If you accept that crossovers between shows imply that they occupy the same fictional universe, an argument can be made that no fewer than [https://web.archive.org/web/20060824200044/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/crossovers.html 282 shows] were figments of Tommy Westphall's imagination, including ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. The aforementioned site seems to have a very low threshold for calling a show a cross-over, however; it includes minor [[Shout-Out
* This trope's application in the ''[[Newhart]]'' episode "The Last Newhart" resulted in what is widely considered one of the best series [[Grand Finale|finales]], ever. In the end it was revealed that the entire show was a nightmare of Robert Hartley, the star of ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'', also played by Bob Newhart. Interestingly, ''[[The Bob Newhart Show]]'' received a crossover from ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'', which combined with the previous entry could make ''[[Newhart]]'' a [[Dream Within a Dream]].
** If that's true, explain {{spoiler|the parody at the end of his 1995 episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''.}} Was that a [[Dream Within a Dream]], too?
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