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* There's a scene in ''[[Troll 2]]'' of Elliot and his friends watching a movie about a [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|gorilla]] who uses a crystal ball to fly around. Of course, ''Troll 2'' is hardly any less stupid.

* ''[[My Name Is Bruce]]'' is a meta-example of this trope, the movie being about B-Movie star [[Bruce Campbell]] [[As Himself]] meeting a bunch of B-Movie fans to help them get-rid of a local monster. This is funny because it is by itself also a B-Movie.

* In ''[[Donnie Darko]]'', Donnie goes to see ''[[Evil Dead]]''.

 

* [[Captain Underpants]]'s Extra-Crunchy Books o' Fun each had a story featuring a villain named Hairy Potty. The second Hairy Potty story was called ''The Night of the Terror of the Revenge of the Curse of the Bride of Hairy Potty'', which ends with a teaser for ''The Night of the Terror of the Dawn of the Day of the Curse of the Late-Afternoon of the Son of the Bride of Hairy Potty''.

* [[Dave Barry]] likes to make fun of classic literature in this way, mentioning such titles as ''[[Hamlet]] II: The Next Day'' (noted for its [[Shower Scene]]) and ''[[Moby Dick]] vs. the Atomic Bat from Hell''.

 

 

* Used as a [[Subverted Trope]] in ''[[Mr. Show]]'' in the sketch "The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost".

* Live Action Example: Lister's favourite movies in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' include ''Revenge of the Surf-Boarding Killer Bikini Vampire Girls'' and ''Vampire Bikini Girls Suck Paris''. Another episode features ''Attack of the Giant Savage Completely Invisible Aliens'', which is just as daft as it sounds.

* There were movies in some ''[[Seinfeld]]'' plots, many of which were B movies like "Sack Lunch", "Checkmate", and "Prognosis Negative".

** "DEATH BLOW! When someone tries to blow you up, not because of who you are but, for different reasons all together."

* In ''[[The X-Files]]'', Mulder claims to have seen ''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]'' [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|42]] times, and claims he finds the movie useful for shutting down his brain's logic processes, allowing for intuitive leaps.

{{quote|'''Scully:''' [[Saw Star Wars 27 Times|You've seen this movie forty-two times?]] ... That doesn't make you sad? It makes me sad, Mulder.}}

* During one scene in the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "Point of No Return", we briefly see O'Neill watching a black-and-white UFO movie.

 

* Musical example: The [[Frank Zappa]] track "Return of the Son of Monster Magnet".

** And live album, ''Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n' Play Your Guitar''.

* The [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] song "Nature Trail to Hell" is presented as a trailer for one...[[Title Drop|in 3D]]! His later song, "Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters From a Planet Near Mars" is also B-movie inspired, although the song itself claims to be referencing actual events.

** Don't forget his song "Slime Creatures From Outer Space". That song just screams b-movie.

 

* Calvin from ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' often would attempt to get cheesy slutty movies like "Venusian Vampire Vixens".

** In a Sunday strip, he imagines himself as [[Godzilla]] rising from the sea (his bathtub) to defeat Megalon (his mother).

* In a 1960-era ''[[Peanuts]]'' comic, Linus and Lucy are looking over the movie listings in the paper and see "I Was a Teenage War Monger" and "I Was a Teenage Camel Driver" - Linus comments "It's hard to choose between such obviously quality motion pictures!"

 

* The Para-Medic from ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' is obsessed with (real) [[B-Movie|B Movies]] and Japanese [[Toku]], and talks about them a great deal to the main character, who isn't obsessed with [[B-Movie|B Movies]]. To be fair, she does like some classic movies, but there's no excuse for anyone, fictional or not, trying to convince an unsuspecting soldier to see ''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]]'' or ''The Alligator People''.

* The main character from ''[[Secret of Evermore]]'' was obsessed with movies and would equate any encounter he had to being "Just like" various movies, most of them either starting with ''[[Attack of the Killer Whatever|Attack of...]]'' or ending with ''...from Planet X.''

 

* John Egbert from ''[[Homestuck]]'' loves terrible movies, although they're all real, relatively recent films (his favorite is ''[[Con Air]]''). This has gotten to be the point where fanworks often [[Flanderisation|Flanderise]] this quality, and his other interests - computer programming and magic tricks - are almost completely ignored.

** Don't forget pranking, this was supposed to be his primary character trait judging from things like the Prankster's Gambit and the Colonel Sassachre text.

** The ''Jack San Robo'' series is heavily implied to be a horrible mindless action flick.

** ''Fashion Assault'' is every bit as stupid as one would expect from the title.

* In ''[[Broken Plot Device]]'', Liz, who is a [[Petting Zoo People|lizard woman]], sometimes plays at being a female Godzilla to amuse herself.

 

 

* The title characters of ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'' are fans of these types of movies. Such choice titles as ''Viking Women from Venus'' (Who will become the bride of the volcano?!) and ''The Oozing Flesh... of the Rotting Hand''.

** In fact, a [[Halloween Episode]] revolved around the monsters from those movies coming to life.

** In one episode of ''[[Scooby Doo|Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!]]'', the gang discusses a movie called "I Was A Teenage Blob".

* In an episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', the entire plot of the cartoon "Video Airlines" revolved around Jon and Garfield trying to find something to watch ''besides'' the alien invasion B-movie ''Kung-Fu Creatures on the Rampage II''. Eventually they're forced to go to a movie theater, at which point they explicitly ask to make sure that the theater is '''not''' showing ''Kung-Fu Creatures on the Rampage II'', but discover after the movie has started that they're watching ''Kung-Fu Creatures on the Rampage '''III'''''.

*** "PBS is airing a special presentation: ''The Making of 'Kung-Fu Creatures on the Rampage II'.''"

* ''[[As Told by Ginger]]'': In [[The Movie]], the girls watch a movie at camp about a slime monster coming out of the lake.

* In one of the brighter spots of the first season of ''[[Fantastic Four]]'', Thing and the Human Torch watch one of these.

* Ed of ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'' is obsessed with B horror movies and comic books.

** ...which given his [[The Ditz|intelligence]] and [[Cloudcuckoolander|grip on reality]], does not bode well for his behavior. Especially when it rubs off on others.

** The games can be seen as a video game version of this.

** In his defense, it is, {{spoiler|although it turns out to be the Video Store Clerk in a British Taxi Costume.}}

* Every film by Vincent Van Ghoul in ''[[Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated]]''.

 

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