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It's an unspoken rule that, somewhere in the universe, there is a show similar to ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* While not in a television per se, the 2nd part of the 1993 ''[[Time Bokan]]'' OVA has Dorombo Gang of Yatterman enter a sewer and find a world entirely populated by Tatsunoko characters. While attempting to cause havok and expect Yatterman to show up, they don't count on the Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Casshern, Hurricane Polymar and Tekkaman arriving and trouncing them. Oh, and there's the obligatory Speed Racer cameo too.
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== Fanfic ==
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* In ''[[The Blue Dragon]]'' series, the two primary protagonists (Demex in the first, Josh in the second) get sent to the [[The Legend of Spyro]] universe.
* The famous ''[[Star Trek]]'' fanfic "[[Refugee From TV Land|Visit to a Weird Planet]]" eventually spawned a sequel, "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited", which appeared in one of the early official ''Star Trek'' fanfic anthologies published by Bantam Books. While the characters were on set, the actors were struggling to deal with a crisis involving a Klingon ship.
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4505478/1 Kyle-091]'' is about a Halo fanboy ending up (via [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy|sending himself there with Forerunner tech]]) on the ONI medical station orbiting Reach in the early stages of the Spartan program. Since he knows what's going to happen in the future, the ONI would've been after him had it not for Mendez and Halsey covering up the incident by giving him Spartan enhancements and sneaking him into the program. The sequel [[Refugee From TV Land|turns this around]] by the Covenant trying to invoke a [[Grandfather Paradox]].
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6930195/1/My_Little_Brony_Reality_vs_Fantasy My Little Brony: Reality VS Fantasy]'' (a ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic) is about a brony who ends up in Equestria. The Equestrian natives are understandably freaked out, and he's forced to go live with Zecora and Apple Bloom. His arrival, however, is just in time for him to witness one of the great laws of Equestrian apocrypha: that which states that all shall go to shit. In this case, a mad scientist wants to get rid of the ponies, but it turns out that [[Doctor Who|the (ponyfied) Doctor]] and his companion [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Derpy]] [[Funny Background Event|Hooves]] are watching.
* ''[[Sleeping with the Girls]]'' is all about this, fused with semi-uncontrolled reality hopping. Before you ask, no, there's no sex, the title's just like that. A guy who is an anime fan in real life is, for unknown reasons, being teleported to the side of eight of his favorite anime characters. The problem? He is transported the instant he falls asleep, and the characters he likes are a) always asleep when he teleports to them, and b) they tend to run in the [[Tsundere]] category. One of the most realistic takes on a self-insert, he nearly dies several times because they can throw punches he can't survive, not to mention that he almost never gets enough sleep. He's cycling through eight separate worlds, each one one of his favorite anime/manga. Currently in the middle of its second of what the author claims is a three-volume story. See the trope page for more details.
* ''[[Mass Vexations]],'' is probably one of THE examples of Trapped in TV Land done right. Another self-insert story, it shows Art, a quirky college guy, suddenly transported to the world of Mass Effect. He doesn't gain super-powers, and it shows how a fan of the game could realistically interact with a fictional world, while trying to hide that he knows pretty much every single outcome from when he arrives (near the beginning of [[ME 1]]) to the end of [[Mass Effect 2]].
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3107822/1/The_Wild_Horse_Thesis The Wild Horse Thesis]'' is a story about how, due to a magical spell, Ranma from ''[[Ranma ½]]'' is trapped inside a series of video tapes, which contain ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''. He finds himself replacing the character of Shinji, but has all his [[Martial Arts and Crafts|abilities and techniques intact]]. Unlike some of the other examples, we see Ranma having his Tokyo-3 adventures from the viewpoint of Ranma's family and fiancees, who are watching the tapes in the "real" world. The best part is seeing Ranma telling people in the show of his "previous" life, thinking no one knows what he's talking about, while the characters in the "real" world are subjected to his honest opinions of them.
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