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* The ''[[Friends]]'' episode that featured Phoebe thinking her mother has come back to her in cat form was penned by a writer whose own mother had recently died. Other staff writers have said that the script -- which earned primarily negative responses from the audience -- would not normally have been greenlit, but under the circumstances nobody felt comfortable saying 'no.'

* An in-universe example in ''[[Degrassi]]''. Eli writes a play after he breaks up with Clare, even naming the character that breaks the main character's heart Clare and naming the guy who stole her from him Jack (after Clare's new boyfriend Jake).