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# [[Twist Ending|A big twist that everyone looks forward to]]

# [[Back From the Dead]] (yet again 1)

# [[Easy Amnesia]] (Q: [[Let Me Get This Straight...]]...is there ''anyone'' here who doesn't have amnesia? A: I forget...)

# [[Deus Angst Machina]]

# A roguish, [[Troubled but Cute]] hunk that all of the women want (often wearing an [[Eyepatch of Power]]).

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== Fanfiction ==

* ''newRanma'' features a show by the name of "Nurse Academy" that Kasumi (and her sisters to a lesser extent) is a large fan of. Ranma-chan is a bit confused by the interwoven plots and unrealistic actor ages, but becomes strangely fascinated...

* In the ''[[Death Note]]'' fic ''[[All You Need Is Love]]'' in order to [[Broke Episode|raise funding]] for the Kira investigation Matsuda begins work on a low-budget soap opera which is (''very loosely'') based [[I Wrote Our Story|on the lives of the Kira Taskforce]]:

{{quote|'''Matsuda:''' Well, [[Significant Anagram|Inamo]] it turns out had an affair with Y's [[Evil Twin]] A and that A is now back in town but Y doesn't want [[This Is My Name on Foreign|Hikaru]] to know because he's afraid that A will seduce Y because they're identical and it's really hard to tell them apart.<br />

'''Light:''' And let me guess Hikaru is going to sleep with both of them because he's not only gay but he's also a whore.<br />

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** It should be notet, that was before they started ''[[Stargate Universe]]''.

* ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'' had a lot of fun with this one.

* Done to the extreme in the ''[[That 70s Show]]'' season 2 episode 'Vanstock'.

* Done to the extreme in the ''[[That '70s Show]]'' season 2 episode 'Vanstock'.

* In ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'', there is the telenovela ''El Amor Prohibido'' which stars GOB's girlfriend Marta.

* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' had an episode where the crew went back in time to Earth and Neelix and Kes got hooked on several soap operas.

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* In ''[[Sonny With a Chance]]'', one of the main characters is the star of a [[Dawson's Creek]]-esque soap opera called "Mackenzie Falls" .

* One of these was even a major plot point of the fifth season of ''[[Nip Tuck]]''. Just the name tells you everything: ''Hearts'n'Scalpels''

* ''[[Mad TV]]'' had a parody of K-Dramas entitled ''Attitudes and Feelings, Both Desirable and Sometimes Secretive'', or ''Taedo''. It featured accidental [[Brother-Sister Incest]], assassins, [[Fun with Subtitles]], doppelgangers, [[Incurable Cough of Death]], and John Cena.

* An episode of ''[[ALF]]'' had ALF writing for a soap opera, with a lot of the storylines taken from the Tanners day-to-day life, but soapified. Then the family asked him to stop using them for material, and his scripts got blander ... so the executives soapified them ''further''. Cue the family suspecting that the outrageous stuff now in the soap really happened.

{{quote|'''ALF''': I even cut out the sex...

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* ''[[SCTV]]'''s ongoing soap opera parody ''The Days of the Week'' was a surprisingly understated example of this trope.

* ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'' has a sketch that purports to be an Australian soap opera. It gets increasingly surreal, ending with Fry's character admitting to Laurie's that they've been having an affair ("You mean we've been sleeping together all this time... behind my back?") and then giving as an excuse that he'd just discovered that he was his own father.

* A season 7 episode of ''[[7th Heaven]]'' had Eric, who was off from work recovering after open-heart surgery, sitting around the house watching a soap opera about a woman named Maria alien DNA in her stomach.

* Spoof news programme ''[[The Day Today]]'' does occasional features on ''The Bureau'', a spoof soap opera set in a bureau-de-change of all places, where the staff all sleep with each other, get savagely beaten up, take drug overdoses and get fired as a matter of routine. All in less than 6 minutes of clips.

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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* The daytime television show that Calvin watched in one strip of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]''.

{{quote|"Oh, Mary, you look ravishing in that skimpy negligee!

Mmm ... darling, don't you wish we were married?

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** In one of the vid-comics, Quark is watching one when he's interrupted by the arrival of his trainer, Helga. Hilariously, it seems to be the exact same one Nefarious broadcasts.

* On the silver strip in ''[[Dead Rising]]'', you can go to the cinema and see a film which is practically every cliché line by line. It is incredibly funny.

* The intro to ''[[Command ~~and~~ Conquer]]: Tiberium Dawn'' flips though several TV channels, one featuring two people who yell at each other, [[Slap Slap Kiss|slap each other in the face and then kiss]] to swelling music.

* The intro to ''[[Command & Conquer]]: Tiberium Dawn'' flips though several TV channels, one featuring two people who yell at each other, [[Slap Slap Kiss|slap each other in the face and then kiss]] to swelling music.

== [[Web Animation]] ==