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{{trope}}
[[File:Tuck leaping.png|thumb|link= My Life as a Teenage Robot|That's not just some billboard. This is happening at a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-in_theater drive-in theater]]]
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.
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
* The end of the ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' episode "The Wedding Bride".
== Music ==
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==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 Life as a Teenage 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
* This happens in the ''[[Regular Show]]'' episode "Grave Sights". The park hosts a showing a 3d zombie movie. Being ''Regular Show'', actual zombies show up and attack. The guests watching the movie think that the [[All Part of the Show|real zombies are just part of the movie]]. On at least one occasion actions taken by the park staff match the actions taken of those in the zombie movie.
* This happens in the ''[[Legend of Korra]]'' episode "Night Of A Thousand Stars".
* 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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