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* Bolivar Trask's sci-fi pulp series ''The Sentinels'' in ''X-Men Noir''. For bonus points, the original series featured chapters from ''The Sentinels'' as back-ups. ''Punisher Noir'', meanwhile, has Frank Castelione, Jr.'s favorite radio drama, ''The Punisher''. ''Iron Man Noir'' has ''Marvels: A Magazine of Men's Adventure'', a pulp magazine featuring the (heavily fictionalized) exploits of Tony Stark as written by his friend Virgil Munsey and, later, Pepper Potts.
* [[Spider-Man]]'s former wife Mary Jane was an actress in a soap opera called ''Secret Hospital'' for a while. Her character's name was "Sybil Shane" and from what was shown of the show (which was very little), her character seemed to be a vixen of sorts, the show having pretty every soap opera stereotype included.
* ''The Demon that Devoured Hollywood'' is a supernatural-themed horror movie that features in two stories in the
** The first was in the horror anthology ''[[Tower of Shadows]]''. The star of the movie, Jason Roland makes a [[Deal with the Devil]], offering his soul for stardom. Part of this deal includes some very realistic make up, making his performance far more convincing and terrifying, but Jason tries to renege on the deal, and is turned into the monster he portrays before being [[Dragged Off to Hell]].
** Much later, a minor ret-con reveals that before he became the hero [[Wonder Man]], Simon Richards was a stuntman for the movie. Years later, when the studio plans to remake the movie, Roland appears again as the villainous Hangman, now an emissary for the demon lord Satannish (who had been posing as the actual Devil in the previous story.) As Hangman, Roland takes over the criminal gang the Night Shift, convincing them to help take over the studio so he can remake the movie his way. Although, he later confesses that this was just a personal matter for him, his real goal being to recruit more souls (starting with the Night Shift) for Satannish.
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* ''[[My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character]]'' has ''[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=14534 So You Just Arrived from a Parallel Universe]'', an in-universe guidebook for displacees which has been made available in PDF form to readers of the story. It comes complete with [[Marginal Note|comments jotted in the margins]] by various characters.
=== [[Film]] ===
* The Disney film ''[[Bolt]]''.
* The Radiator Springs Drive-In in the closing credits of ''[[Cars (film)|Cars]]'' shows parody [[In-Universe]] versions of other [[Pixar]] films, such as "Toy Car Story" (Toy Story) and "A VW Bug's Life" (A Bug's Life).
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* Pretty much any comedy built around a [[Struggling Broadcaster]], in any medium, will have that broadcaster produce a few far-fetched shows within the show.
* For instance, [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'' fills an entire fictional broadcast schedule with these:
** [[Almighty Janitor]]:
** [[Wheel of Decisions]]: The ''[[Wheel of Fortune|Wheel of Fish]]'' game show.
** ''Raul's Wild Kingdom''. [[Weird Al Effect|Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!]]
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** In the gag dub, it is called ''Action Bastard''
** He also likes to watch ''Quantum Robot''
* ''[[Bamboo Blade]]''{{'}}s Tama is a fan of the toku show ''Chouken [[Sentai]] Blade Braver''. Another show called ''Materia Puzzle'' also makes a short appearance.
* ''Mogenta'' in ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' is about this boy and his sidekick Mogenta, a creature thing, who go around fighting monsters. There are many references made to it: Kyo, Yuki, Tohru and Kagura go on a [[Double Date]] to one of the movies, Yuki goes out of his way to buy Machi a paperweight and later a soft toy and Kisa, Hiro and Momiji watch the show while at the Sohma summer home.
** ''Mogenta'' may be an [[Homage]] or [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Ushio and Tora]]''.
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* ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' has ''Fashionable Detective Lovely Chocolat'' in its anime version.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' features the ''Sailor V'' franchise, which started out as a video game Artemis came up with to train Minako in ''[[Codename: Sailor V]]''. The kicker is that Sailor V is a real person, but apparently has shows and merchandising anyway that she clearly has nothing to do with. The show itself is never seen, but an entire episode of the first season of ''Sailor Moon'' features the production studio for ''Sailor V'' and was basically an excuse for the entire Sailor Moon animation studio making fun of themselves.
** We later see
** This may be subverted and parodied in the live action ''[[Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon]]'', where Minako (Sailor V) is a recording superstar and media juggernaut who apparently creates all her own promotional campaigns.
*** It's definitely parodied. Minako's current hit song in the series is "C'est La Vie", which is phonetically identical to "Sailor V" in Japanese. It comes off an album entitled "Venus", and includes lines like "As long as I am me, C'est la vie". Another song off the same album is named "Venus Over My Shoulder".
* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' has ''Big Shot!'', which features information for bounty hunters on the latest rewards posted for the capture of criminals. Possibly a pirate show, since the picture is always grainy and flickering.
** Or more likely the fact that the main characters are usually watching it several million miles from the nearest inhabited planet has something to do with the flickering image. Not to mention that the whole show has deliberate retro quality.
** After ''Big Shot!'' is
* ''[[Nodame Cantabile]]'' has that ''Puri Gorota'' show, that Nodame is an [[Otaku]] about (even to collect the figures of it).
** One teacher uses her addiction to bring hear to the classes she kept missing!
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** ''Good Max'', an anime set in [[The Apunkalypse]], Yosh Imimi's favorite show.
** Sushiko Maki's favorite show, ''Chef Detective Culinary Crimes'', a mystery show where the protagonist detective is also a [[Chef of Iron]].
* The younger recurring characters in ''[[Super GALS!]]'' are fans of the detective show "Odaiba Cop". They're young enough to not know the difference between reality and fiction, so when it's (temporarilly) cancelled for one episode of ''GALS!'', and the lead actor goes on to star in another show, they think the actor just looks like Odaiba Cop.
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
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=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* The [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] TV series ''[[WandaVision]]'', streamed on [[Disney+]], presents a bizarre hybrid of types 1 and 4. Wanda Maximoff, driven near-mad by grief, imposes a sitcom "reality" over a small New Jersey town, which she lives in with her husband [[Back from the Dead|the Vision]], and in the process (unconsciously?) broadcasts actual ''episodes'' of the sitcom version of their lives together
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