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* ''[[RoboCop]]'' has two:
** One an action show about a lawman, ''T.J. Lazer'', which is the favorite show of Murphy's son.
** Another, ''It's Not My Problem'', is a comedy of sorts.
* ''[[Forgetting Sarah Marshall]]'' where Sarah is the star of Crime Scene - Scene of the Crime. Jason Segel's character also writes music for the show.
* ''[[The Holiday]]'' features a movie trailer for a fictional film called "Deception" starring [[James Franco]] and [[Lindsay Lohan]].
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** The U-62 schedule lists a few other shows-within-a-show that exist only as fictional [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie|cinema trailers]] or else don't exist at all, usually with bizarre titles like ''[[Hide Your Gays|Those Darn Homos!]]'' Effectively, the [[Ultra High Frequency|station]] is merely a [[Framing Device]] used to package a random string of short comedy/parody sketches as a feature-length film.
* Likewise, ''[[Network]]'' (1976) has the UBS network newscast, complete with "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!" editorialising, as a show within a show.
* The Japanese [[Sleeper Hit]] ''[[One Cut of the Dead]]'' is a cheesy low-budget horror movie about a film crew ''making'' a cheesy low-budget horror movie, which is titled... ''One Cut of the Dead''. A lot of meta humor here.
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* Dean Winchester of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' is a big (though secret) fan of the ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''-like ''Dr. Sexy, MD''.
* In an unusual case, a real show was the show-within-a-show on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' -- Spike was a fan of the [[Soap Opera]] ''[[Passions]]'', and was shown watching -- or trying to watch -- it on several occasions.
* Another weird case was the show the heroes are watching in the ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'' episode "Lost & Found in Translation", which seems to be a Japanese show about them. Truth be told, the episode is a big [[Mythology Gag]] where the show is a dubbed version of ''[[Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger]]'', the show ''Dino Thunder'' is based on.
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** ''Love Choice'' a teen romance where the female lead is torn between a [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]. (Watching the show throws all of Wartwood into a shipping war.)
** ''Printhistle Manor'', watched by the Plantars in season 3 while staying with Anne's folks, resembles ''[[Downton Abbey]]''.
** ''Judge Julie'', watched
* ''[[DC Super Hero Girls]]'' has ''Just Before Dusk'', a romantic tear-jerker that all the Hero Girls like. According to Night Sting (Karen's scary future self) this movie had at least 16 sequels, the 16th set in [[After The End| a post-apocalyptic]] setting. Night Sting claims the franchise "Goes into some strange directions."
== Examples of type 3 (SWAS is plot point) ==
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* ''As the Kitchen Sinks'' in ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' is a [[Soap Within a Show|soap opera show]] that the Autobots are seen watching on Teletraan-1.
** Humorously enough, when Optimus was called to fight, he actually ''groaned'' when this happened. That's right, the most [[Badass]] robot there is wanted to see what happened next.
* The ''Puppet Pals'', which is a [[Slapstick]] puppet show both in ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' and ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''. Both shows were made by the same creators. In one episode the trope is [[Inverted]] with the actual show being [[All Just a Dream]] of one of the Puppet Pals. *BONK!*
* ''[[Invader Zim]]'' boasts two -- ''[[Department of Redundancy Department|Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mystery]]'', and ''Probing the Membrane of Science With Professor Membrane.''
* ''[[Futurama]]'' featured the head of Matt Groenig presenting his new show ''Futurella'' at the 3010 Comicon. It got cancelled 3 seconds into the opening sequence.
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