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A sequence where the main action is in some way echoed, mimicked, or reflected by the action taking place during [[Show Within a Show|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.
A scene where stuff is happening on the show is very similar to what is happening in a show within show at the same time.
 
Compare [[Coincidental Broadcast]], [[Contrived Coincidence]], [[Show Within a Show]], [[Plot Parallel]], [[Twisted Echo Cut]] and [[Recursive Reality]] (of the "nested stories" variety). [[Super-Trope]] of [[Suspiciously Apropos Music]].
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==[[Live-Action TV]]==
* 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 [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051021 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.
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-09-28 when Ennesby] quoted the order he cajoled out of Tagon, that he's "only supposed to be awakened if he is on fire". Thurl points at TV...
 
==Western Animation==
* ''[[My lifeLife as a teenageTeenage robot -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.
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* While we visually see the movie, in ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' episode, The Spoiler, the movie's script at least loosely aligns with what is going on in the movie theatre.
 
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