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* ''[[My Little Pony]]'': Paradise is well-versed in the tropes of fairy tales and legends, and yet she, a winged pony living in a [[Magical Land]] with unicorns and dragons, wonders why her life can't be more like a storybook. Uh...
* One episode of ''[[Bonkers]]'' featured a [[Screwy Squirrel]]-type character who goes on a crime spree. At first Bonkers thinks he's unstoppable, because the character always wins in his cartoons. Then Bonkers comes to the realization that ''this'' is '''his''' cartoon, and so is able to defeat him.
* ''[[Futurama]]'': Fry's [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe]] when he thinks he's a robot counts as this:
{{quote|'''Fry''': "Fear not, for I shall assist ye!"
'''Hermes''': [[Lampshade Hanging|"Robots don't say 'ye'!]] ...Quit thinking you're a robot!"
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* In an episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'', SpongeBob becomes convinced that Mr. Krabs is a robot thanks to having seen a movie where robots take over the Earth (and some coincidentally odd behavior on Mr. Krabs' part). After he and Squidward have ruthlessly interrogated the "robot", Squidward thinks to ask SpongeBob how the movie ended, to which he replies that it turned out there weren't any robots after all; it was a misunderstanding. Oops.
** Mr. Krabs in the episode ''Born Again Krabs'' thought that the Flying Dutchman's visit is [[All Just a Dream]], turns out it's actually real. It also turns out that by screwing around like everything is a dream Krabs has driven the Krusty Krab into bankruptcy.
* In ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', Zuko is under the impression that he's [[The White Prince]] on a
* ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' - Gaston ([[Big Bad]]) thinks he's the hero, and that Beast ([[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]) is a monster who wants to [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|get his claws on Belle]].
* The [[A Worldwide Punomenon|mane cast]] of ''[[My Little Pony:
* In the [[Animated Music Video]] for DyE's "Fantasy", the [[Final Girl]] does absolutely everything right to survive if she were in a [[Slasher Movie]]. Unfortunately for her, she's actually in a [[Cosmic Horror Story]], and makes the mistake of [[Brown Note|looking directly at]] the [[Big Bad]].
* In the first season of ''[[Martin Mystery]]'' Diana thinks that most of the paranormal monsters were [[Scooby-Doo Hoax]], when in fact they really are paranormal monster/aliens.
* In a few episodes of [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|the 2003 ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'']] series, Michelangelo loves monster movies and panics when he meets creatures from beneath the earth, body-snatching aliens, or eldritch horrors. ''Someone always dies horribly.'' Lucky for him, he's not in a monster
* In ''[[The Owl House]]'', this is lampshaded by the protagonist herself in the first episode, who realizes the Boiling Isles aren't as child-friendly as the fantasy worlds
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