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* ''[[The Daily Show]]'' advertises several fake products on a regular basis, including ''Jon'' magazine and the Daily Show Home Game. In 2003, they started airing joke trailers for a new spinoff called ''The Colbert Réport'' that had "already been cancelled". ''[[The Colbert Report|The Report]]'' premiered in 2005, and has been described as "the only show that [[Defictionalization|started as a promo for itself]]".
* A [[Bill Nye the Science Guy]] episode on the Earth's Crust had a trailer for a kid cop show called "Johnny Crust."
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' had one of these where a trailer for ''[[The Wedding Bride]]'' was mentioned on the show and the full trailer was released online [https://web.archive.org/web/20121214015335/http://www.weddingbridemovie.com/ here]. The movie describes {{spoiler|Ted's failed relationship with Stella however from the somewhat skewed mind of her ex-husband Tony. Ted in one episode goes to see this movie more than once and, at one point, acts out something similar to it to is date while he is in the movie theatre.}}
* In the two-hundredth episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1|Stargate SG 1]]'', titled "200," the team is giving advice on the production of ''Wormhole X-Treme!'', a show based on their adventures. The opening to act four, which airs immediately after a commercial break and was intended to be mistaken for another commercial, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2RWM65ZjL4 is a trailer for] ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2RWM65ZjL4 Teal'c, P.I.]''. Bonus points for ''actually getting [[Shaft|Isaac Hayes]]'' to do the narration.