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[[caption-width-right:307:Top: In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'', the Tenth Doctor watches ''[[Eastenders]]''. Bottom: in ''EastEnders'', Bradley and Stacey attend a ''Doctor Who'' convention.]]
 
The [[Reciprocal Fiction Paradox]] occurs when two different works reciprocate actions which establish each other as being fiction within their own respective '[[Verse|verses]]. Characters might discuss a work, make a [[Shout -Out]] or [[Take That]], or the work is shown as a piece of fiction in the show and then the other work does the same. The logic and consistency prone viewer may go "But if that A is shown in B and A has watched B then A has watched B watching A and...oh no, I've gone cross-eyed. How can this be?"
 
The answer is: [[Fiction Identity Postulate|Because it's not real!]]
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== Fan Works ==
* Played with in M. McGregor's "[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-16694-62/MMcGregor+The+Wonderland+Subject.htm The Wonderland Subject]", a dimension-hopping ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' / [[Ultimate Marvel]] crossover in which each universe has fiction based on the other one. Xander and Jean Grey spend quite a while [[The Knights Who Say Squee|being fannish at each other]].
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'', characters make several references to ''[[Lucky Star]]'' -- which, in turn, contains many references to ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''.
** It has been [[Wild Mass Guessing|theorised]] that in the fanfic's universe, ''[[Lucky Star]]'' references "the [[Trope Tan]] [[Show Within a Show|anime]]" instead of ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''.
 
 
== Film ==
* [[Star Wars]] and [[ETE.T. the Extraterrestrial (Film)|ET the Extraterrestrial]] each contain a shoutout to each other.
* In the first scene of ''[[Scream (Film)|Scream]]'', the film ''[[Halloween (Film)|Halloween]]'' is the subject of one of the questions the killer asks, and later ''Halloween'' is shown at a party (with one character [[Genre Savvy|loudly protesting at the mistakes Laurie Strode is making]]). Likewise, in the ''Halloween'' sequel, ''Halloween: H20'', a couple of characters are watching ''Scream 2'' in one scene.
* Also, in ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'', the duo stumbles upon the the filming of a ''[[Scream (Film)|Scream]]'' movie. The first movie in the series had a poster for ''[[Clerks]]'', a movie in [[The View Askewniverse|the same continuity]] as ''Jay and Silent Bob''.
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** Made more complicated when Jay and Silent Bob make a cameo in ''Scream 3''.
* In ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors]]'', the TV-obsessed patient is seen watching an early scene from the movie ''Critters''. Later, ''Critters 2'' had one of its alien doppelgangers attempt to imitate a cardboard Freddy Kruegar standee at a video store.
** In the first ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street (Film)|A Nightmare On Elm Street]]'', ''[[The Evil Dead]]'' is seen on a TV, a [[Shout -Out]] to a poster for [[Wes Craven|Wes Craven's]] earlier film ''[[The Hills Have Eyes (Film)|The Hills Have Eyes]]'' appearing in ''[[The Evil Dead]]'' (which was itself a [[Shout -Out]] to a poster for ''[[Jaws (Film)|Jaws]]'' appearing in ''[[The Hills Have Eyes (Film)|The Hills Have Eyes]]''). Then in ''[[Evil Dead 2]]'', Freddy Kreuger's glove is seen in the shed where Ash creates his chainsaw-hand. Confused yet?
* In ''[[Independence Day (Film)|Independence Day]]'' a character makes a passing reference to the [[X Files]], conversely, in the first [[X Files]] movie we see Mulder urinating in front of an ''[[Independence Day]]'' movie poster.
 
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' is fictional in ''[[Eastenders]]'', they have a character who is a fan (Bradley) who even goes to a Doctor Who convention at one point. ''EastEnders'' is also fictional in ''Doctor Who'' wherein Jackie Tyler is a fan, and ''EastEnders'' appears [[Show Within a Show]] style in "Army of Ghosts". The Doctor also references it in "The Satan Pit". There was a crossover between them in 1993 for ''[[Children in Need]]''. In "Dimensions In Time", neither show acknowledges the other's fictionality in it and it isn't considered in continuity for either (one explanation touted by ''Doctor Who'' Spin Off Media is that it was [[All Just a Dream]] of the Seventh Doctor).
** ''EastEnders'' and ''Doctor Who'' are so popular and iconic, though, that any program predominantly set in 21st century Britain is bound to reference one or the other eventually.
** There's a lot of crossover fanfiction for Doctor Who and [[Harry Potter]]- despite the latter being fictional in the Whoinverse, to the point where 'expelliarmus' was actually a plot point in one episode.
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