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== Art ==
* [[M. C. Escher]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103221800/http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW410.jpg "Print Gallery"] is a very unusual take on this concept: It only shows one copy of the picture, but implies an infinite recursion all the same, using uneven magnification to make the contents of the picture merge with their real-world analogues.
== [[Comics]] ==
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* In ''[[Spaceballs]]'', the titular bad guys [[Medium Awareness|watch the Spaceballs video tape]] to find out where the heroes are. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when they get to the exact point in the tape that they are watching, although the Droste effect is too small to see much of.
* Happens in ''[[The Matrix]] Reloaded'' with the architect: The room's wall is filled with monitors depicting Neo in the room (and his various anticipated reactions), which in turn are rooms with monitors across all walls. There are several transitions where the scene zooms in on whichever monitor corresponds to Neo's actual reaction.
* While not in the film itself, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20141011220213/http://chasenchamberlain.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/memento.jpg box art] for ''[[Memento]].''
* ''[[Airplane!]]'' uses this when the air traffic controller, McCroskey, adopts a thoughtful pose in front of a framed photograph of himself holding the same pose. ''[[Airplane 2 The Sequel]]'' then cranks this [[Up to Eleven]] by posing McCroskey in front of a framed photo of himself posing in front of the framed photograph of himself.
* In ''[[Planet of the Apes|Escape from the Planet of the Apes]]'', the President's Science Advisor uses one during a TV interview as an illustration for his "[[Handwaved|explanation]]" of '''possibly''' how Cornelius and Zira wound up [[Time Travel|traveling back in time]].
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** Referenced in another Web Original: ''[[Echo Chamber]]''. Tom attempts to explain the [[Show Within a Show]] trope by comparing it to the Hasselhoff Recursion.
{{quote|'''Tom''': Okay, so, you guys have seen the internet video where it's [[David Hasselhoff]], and they zoom in on his crotch and there's another David Hasselhoff and they zoom in on ''his'' crotch...}}
* [http://a.imagehost.org/0158/1250826090189.gif This]{{Dead link}}.
* [http://www.infinitecat.com/ The Infinite Cat Project]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et_MmlTxMXA A webcast] goes horribly, horribly [[Funny Moments|wrong.]]
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