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* ''[[Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (Literature)]]'' by [[Gary Wolf|Gary K. Wolf]] and the sequels, not-quite-sequels, [[Spiritual Successor|spiritual successors]], and short stories it spawned, (not to mention [[Adaptation Distillation|a much more famous]] [[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?|film adaptation]]) featuring an [[Alternate History|alternate 1947 Hollywood]] where the animated stars are just as real as the live-action film stars. Sadly out of print, these books are hard to get a hold of, but one of the short stories is available for free [http://garywolf.com/ at Mr. Wolf's website]

** Interestingly, unlike the movie, the book presents the Toons as comic-strip characters (talking via speech balloons, for instance) rather than animated cartoons. If memory serves, one scene has Eddie attempting to reattach Roger's nose first with tape and then glue.

* The [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] novel ''The Crooked World'' implies ~~this -- the~~ [[Planetville]] ''du jour'' is inhabited by cartoon characters. However, none of the protagonists seem to notice that the people they're interacting with are strangely coloured, although they do notice they're generally odd-looking and don't seem to work according to the normal laws of reality, biology, and so on, and the ([[Contemptible Cover|ridiculous-looking]]) cover features a cartoon of the Doctor, so it's not clear exactly what is going on.

* The [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] novel ''The Crooked World'' implies this—the [[Planetville]] ''du jour'' is inhabited by cartoon characters. However, none of the protagonists seem to notice that the people they're interacting with are strangely coloured, although they do notice they're generally odd-looking and don't seem to work according to the normal laws of reality, biology, and so on, and the ([[Contemptible Cover|ridiculous-looking]]) cover features a cartoon of the Doctor, so it's not clear exactly what is going on.

* In Simon R. Green's ''Shadows Fall'', cartoon creatures are among the many inhabitants of the titular town of fictional and legendary beings. When the town is invaded by outsiders, some find out just how dangerous it is to fight semi-mutable creatures that ''always'' bounce back when injured...

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* ''Homer³'', one of the [[Three Shorts]] of [[Halloween Episode|Treehouse Of Horror VI]] in ''[[The Simpsons]]'', ends with 3D Homer being transported into the real world (if you can call [[Los Angeles]] real). "Mmm... erotic cakes!"

** If you pay attention to the people around him, they seem very well aware that the strange, yellow man walking down the sidewalk isn't normal. None of them seem to do anything more than stare, however.

* In March of 1959 Cambria Productions came up with the show [[Clutch Cargo]], which used the then cutting edge idea of combining animated characters with live-action mouths superimposed onto their faces, called "Syncro-Vox", this show had the distinction of [[Uncanny Valley|horrifying its target audience]] and inducing more childhood nightmares than [[H. R. Giger]] could ever dream of. Cambria struck again a year later with ''Scott McCloud: Space Angel'' and also prepared a pilot based on the comic strip ''Moon Mullins'' (which did not get optioned as a series). Both used the Synchro-Vox technique.

* In March 1959 Cambria Productions came up with the show [[Clutch Cargo]], which used the then cutting edge idea of combining animated characters with live-action mouths superimposed onto their faces, called "Syncro-Vox", this show had the distinction of [[Uncanny Valley|horrifying its target audience]] and inducing more childhood nightmares than [[H. R. Giger]] could ever dream of. Cambria struck again a year later with ''Scott McCloud: Space Angel'' and also prepared a pilot based on the comic strip ''Moon Mullins'' (which did not get optioned as a series). Both used the Synchro-Vox technique.

* [[South Park]] had a two-parter featuring giant, real-life guinea pigs "rampaging" through town.

* In a truly bizarre example of this trope, in the late 40's, when [[Columbia Pictures]] was making live action [[Superman]] serials, in order to save money on the flight effect, they actually had Superman ''turn into a cartoon version of himself'' when he flew!