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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 ''[[Marvel Universe]]:
** 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.
=== [[Fan Works]] ===
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* In ''[[Magical Girl Noir Quest]]'', Midori is behind the series ''[[Author Avatar|Miracle Midori]] x Murder Mayumi''. Unsurprisingly, she is rather embarrassed when the person represented as Murder Mayumi finds out about it.
* In ''[[Undocumented Features]]'', anything published by BaconBooks -- be it comic books or hardback self-help -- has probably had Derek Bacon's hand in it somewhere, and not just as the publisher.
* ''[[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]] ===
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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.
=== [[Literature]] ===
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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.
=== [[Newspaper Comics]] ===
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* In ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]]'', Ryusei Date is fan of mech simulator game call ''Burning PT'', which is actally used by military to recuit pilot. It's only mention in dialogue and players never actually see the game until anime adaption of [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]] though. In the end of Super Robot Wars Original Generation Gaiden, he end up watching his favourite anime ''Banblade'' with his [[Unwanted Harem]], but players never actally see how the anime look like. Also in Super Robot Wars Alpha 3, he give [[Macross 7|Mylene Jenius]] a rare copy of ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]] : Legend of Lyn Minmei'' as birthday present.
* Some of the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' games have a number of different (all rather raunchy) shows that the player can watch.
* In ''[[Ace Attorney]]'', Edgeworth's [[Guilty Pleasure]] is a cartoon called ''The Steel Samurai''.
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** Season four Mikey starts watching ''Chris Bradford's 2 Ruff Krew'', a show staring Chris Bradford (a villain on the show) that seems similar to ''[[Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos]]'' with some of ''[[The A-Team]]'' mixed in.
** Season five, they watch ''Space Heroes: The Next Generation'', clearly a [[Sequel Series]] to the show in the first season based on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''.
* ''[[Amphibia (TV series)|Amphibia]]'' has:
** ''Suspicion Island'', which combines elements of ''[[Survivor]]'' and ''[[Lost]]''.
** ''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 by Mr. X in season 3; a [[Mythology Gag]], as his voice actor - [[RuPaul]] - is a close friend of [[Judge Judy| Judith Sheindlin]].
* ''[[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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