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{{quote|''"This is what I call a [[Drive in Theater|drive-in movie]]!"''|'''[[Pungeon Master|Carlos]]''', ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' ("Spins a Web")}}▼
{{quote|''"This is what I call a [[Drive-In Theater|drive-in movie]]!"''
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A group of characters, often a mix of heroes and villains, are trapped by some form of [[Applied Phlebotinum]] inside the world of literature, video games or the like, but most often, television. Either they must learn to cope with their newfound environment until some way can be found to escape, or they will jump from channel to channel, hitting a multitude of clichéd worlds and thin parodies.
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Most common in animation, where "building" all the new environments and sets is easy and cheap. Well, easy.
This plot can sometimes be connected to its opposites, the [[Refugee From TV Land]] and [[Welcome to The Real World]]. See also: [[Dream Land]], with which this sometimes overlaps; [[Portal Book]] Type 1, where characters getted trapped in Book Land; and [[Fisher Kingdom]], as the channels change the visitors. Compare and contrast [[Intrepid Fictioneer]], for when the travel is deliberate. Frequently paired with a [["Reading Is Cool" Aesop]] (provided it's "Trapped in Literature Land").
This is common [[Fanfic Fuel]].
It's an unspoken rule that, somewhere in the universe, there is a show similar to ''[[Star Trek:
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== 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.
* The framing device for the anime exercise video ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) ''[[Training
* In ''[[Princess Tutu]]'', the main characters are characters from the book ''The Prince and the Raven'', which ended prematurely when its author, Drosselmeyer, died. While the characters have escaped from the book, the entire city is being controlled by a story, which in turn is controlled by Drosselmeyer's ghost. Some of the characters are [[Genre Savvy]], while some aren't.
* Episode 26 of ''[[
* ''[[Detective Conan]]'' movie 6, "The Phantom of Baker Street". traps the main characters in a virtual reality game controlled by a rogue AI, and featuring [[Jack the Ripper]].
== Comic Books ==
* The off-beat comic book series ''[[The Invisibles]]'' had an appropriately weird example where King Mob and Boy get caught in the mindscape of the Marquis de Sade (yes, really) during an attempt to pull him out of the past that goes somewhat pear-shaped. They end up having to witness the entirety of ''120 Days of Sodom'', which King Mob treats as a sick joke.
* A mid-1980's ''[[Superman]]'' Annual had a secondary story in which Superman artist Curt Swan fell asleep while drawing a comic and woke up in Metropolis. It was ''All Just a Dream'', except that Curt found two bullets in his hand from when Superman stopped a crook.
* The [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]] miniseries ''Fantastic Four: True Story'' does this in a homage to the ''Thursday Next'' books (see the Literature section below).
* One storyline in ''[[Justice League of America]]'' involved the evil Queen of Fables trapping the League in a book of old fairy tales (the original bloody ones) and forcing them to live through the stories.
** She's appeared
* This is the power of ''[[Supreme]]'' baddie the Televillain - entering into a TV show's fictional world and drawing others into it as he pleases. And, of course, changing the channel to whatever premise fits his need. In one outing he killed Monica on an episode of ''[[Friends]]'' to prove he wasn't kidding around.
* [[She Hulk]] met old [[Howard the Duck]] foe Doctor Bong when he set about changing television shows' internal reality (just roll with it) and accidentally zapped her into them. Possibly the most infamously surreal Shulkie story ever.
* Ellie Dee gets transported into a video game in one issue of ''[[Cherry Comics]]'', where she has to [[Win to Exit]].
== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[
▲* This is the basis behind most Self-Insert fanfictions.
* 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.▼
▲* In ''[[The Blue Dragon (Fanfic)|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.
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4505478/1 Kyle-091]'' is about a Halo fanboy ending up (via [[Self
▲* 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 Star Trek fanfic anthologies. While the characters were on set, the actors were struggling to deal with a crisis involving a Klingon ship.
* ''[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
▲* ''[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]].
* ''[[Sleeping
▲* ''[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 (Animation)|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 (TV)|the (ponyfied) Doctor]] and his companion [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Derpy]] [[Funny Background Event|Hooves]] are watching.
* ''[[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 [[
▲* ''[[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 [[ME 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 one-half 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 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 fiance's, 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.
== Film ==
* Possibly first done in the "Murray in Videoland" sketches in the 1987 film ''[[Amazon Women
* This was the plot of the 1992 film ''[[Stay Tuned]]'', where couch potato Roy Knable (played by John Ritter) and his wife Helen (played by Pam Dawber) get sucked into a Hell-spawned satellite TV network. In [[Actor Allusion|an obvious nod to his TV career]], Ritter's character was briefly trapped inside a demonic version of ''[[
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* Two American teens (brother and sister) are sucked into a black-and-white 1950s sitcom series in ''[[Pleasantville]]'', where they inadvertently take the role of two of the main characters.
* ''[[Last Action Hero]]'' has a kid sucked into an action movie, and the characters [[Refugee From TV Land|following him back to the real world]].
* The [[Buster Keaton]] movie ''[[Sherlock, Jr.]]'' can be considered an early example of this trope. Keaton plays a movie projectionist who dreams he walks into the movie he is showing, and at first has a hard time dealing with a series of jump cuts.
* In the slasher film ''There's Nothing Out There'', the main characters come to realize that they have literally wandered into a slasher film. There's even a scene where one of the characters swings off the boom mic.
* Some scenes in ''[[Tron]]'' evoke this trope for video games.
* Last chase scene in the horror film ''[[Shocker]]'' has the protagonist and the villain fight their way through war documentaries, [[Leave It to Beaver]], [[Frankenstein]], a boxing match, newscast and [[
* ''[[
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5pQfOMkhmQ "I'm sending you] to cartoon land" ''[[Twilight Zone the Movie]]''.
* In ''[[Mary Poppins]]'', Mary, Burt, and the children jump into a chalk pavement picture.
* ''[[The Icicle Thief]]''
* ''Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure''.
* The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[
* Anyone murdered by the killer in ''Midnight Movie'' becomes trapped in the black and white [[Hillbilly Horrors]] film he originates from.
* In ''Delirious'', a soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character [[Author Powers|inside his own show]].
* ''Deep in the Valley'', a [[Porn
== Literature ==
* Jasper Fforde's ''[[Thursday Next]]'' novels concern an invention called the "Prose Portal" which allows people to enter works of fiction. Later novels reveal a whole world of fiction, in which characters in books are like actors, and must "[[Animated Actors|act out]]" the events of a story every time it is read.
* ''The Incredible Umbrella'' and its sequel ''The Amorous Umbrella'', by Marvin Kaye. The protagonist acquires a magical umbrella that allows him to access fictional worlds. Or ''nearly'' access
* One of the first examples (if not ''the'' first), from 1940: ''[[Typewriter in
* There's a [[Robert Bloch]] story (found in the anthology ''Hollywood Nightmare'', edited by Peter Haining) about a woman who, after watching so many tv-horror-marathons that her brain melts (more or less), finds herself taking a walking tour of RKO Horror and the Universal Monsters canon. [[Hilarity Does Not Ensue]].
* [[Woody Allen]]'s short story ''The Kugelmass Episode'' features a man launching himself into various classic novels. It being Allen, the protagonist enters ''Madame Bovary'' and ''[[
* The humor book ''[[How to Survive
* The ''[[
* ''Ms Wiz Goes Live'' has Ms Wiz take Caroline and her little sister inside the TV. In a variation they go to an actual TV studio where the sister causes uproar on a talk show, Ms Wiz reads her own version of the news and Caroline does a guest spot on a drama. The book ends with a producer calling the house to see if Caroline wants a bigger role.
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'' has a small subplot when Earl was in a coma, in which Earl was in the only place he felt happy; 'TV Land'. A few episodes detailed his life in a fifty's television sitcom, while is friends tried to get him out of a coma. The older he got in the sitcom, the closer he was to dying in real life.
* In a 1991 episode of ''[[Growing Pains]]'', Ben is trapped in ''the show [[Growing Pains]]''
* In the finale of ''[[The Famous Jett Jackson]]'', Jett actually switches places with Silverstone, the character he plays in the [[Show Within a Show]].
* At the end of an episode of ''[[Clarissa Explains It All]]'', Clarissa fakes this happening to her as part of a [[Zany Scheme]] to get revenge on her brother.
* ''[[Power Rangers Time Force]]'' had an ''excellent'' two-parter based around this concept with the [[Big Bad]] and the [[Monster of the Week]] splitting up the rangers and sending them through [[The Western|westerns,]] [[Samurai|Samurai films]], [[Wuxia|Martial Arts Epics]], [[Nature Hero|Jungle Hero serials]], [[The Musical|Musicals]], and even a [[Mad Max]] parody!
* ''[[Weird Science (TV series)|Weird Science]]'' had the boys explicitly thrown into a slasher movie and a soap opera, as well as into alternate universes modeled on ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' and [[James Bond]] movies.
* ''[[Amazing Stories (TV series)|Amazing Stories]]'' has a cross between [[Be Careful What You Wish For]] and this trope in "Welcome To My Nightmare". Complaining that real life is nothing like the movies, and wishing it was, he lands in the movie ''[[
* ''[[That's So Raven]]'' has an episode in which Raven has a dream that she and her friends are in various TV shows and movies (such as ''[[I Love Lucy]]'', ''[[The Wizard of Oz (
* This is the plot of an episode of ''[[Lexx]]'' in which the heroes are plopped onto a literal "TV world," where they mysteriously transported onto the set of a show and are "rated" on their performance in whatever TV show they land in. High ratings lead to "primetime," whereas low ratings lead to gradually more degrading roles, ending with {{spoiler|being decapitated on a snuff show and having one's head added to the mostly offscreen "audience"}}.
* New Zealand kids show ''[[Freaky]]'' had an episode where a girl with troubles at home gets sucked into TV and finds herself as part of perfect [[Dom Com]] family.
* In ''[[Lost in Austen]]'', Amanda Price finds a door through her shower stall that leads to the world of ''Pride & Prejudice''. She accidentally trades places with Elizabeth Bennett and then promptly messes up the original storyline.
* Used very nicely in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', as par for the course for the Trickster's shenanigans. [[Genre Savvy|Genre Savviness]], [[No Fourth Wall|breaking of the fourth wall]], and [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity]] all ensue.
* The ''[[
* Reversed in ''[[Hi Honey Im Home|Hi Honey, I'm Home!]]'', which featured a family from a [[The Fifties|50's]] sitcom that has been canceled. They are relocated to the [[Real Life|Real World]], in a typical 90's suburb. [[Cold Sleep, Cold Future|When overwhelmed by the complexities of the world in which they now live]], they seek comfort by using a device known as a [[Applied Phlebotinum|Turnerizer]], which causes themselves and their home environment to [[Good Old Ways|revert]] to [[Deliberately Monochrome|monochrome]]. The outside world (as seen through open doors, etc.), as well as anyone ''from'' the outside world, are [[Splash of Color|unaffected]].
* The live-action [[Recycled: the Series]] adaptation of ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (TV series)|Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]'' has an episode where Wayne invents a remote control that picks up dead television waves for a bored Nick and Amy. However, when the kids bicker and accidentally spill juice on it, the remote causes Wayne, Nick, and Amy to be sucked into a vortex that lands them into various programs.
* The live-action [[Recycled: the Series]] adaptation of ''[[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure]]'' has an episode where the guys use their time machine to travel into Bill's stepmom's favorite soap opera, as a nod to the preceding [[Animated Adaptation]] (see the "Western Animation" section)
* In ''[[
** The sisters are trapped in an old movie ("Kill it before it dies") in the episode "Chick Flick". Meanwhile, the handsome hero of that movie and villains from slasher movies [[Refugee From TV Land|escape into the real world]].
** The episode "Charmed Noir" has Paige and Brody sucked into a 1930's ''[[Maltese Falcon]]'' spoof while investigating the murder of a teacher at the Magic School. Also, outsiders could write plot twists which were incorporated into the narrative.
* Happens to the Twist kids in the ''[[Round the Twist]]'' episode "TV or Not TV".
== Theme Parks ==
* Cinemagique in Walt Disney Studios [[Disney Theme Parks|(Disneyland Resort Paris)]]
== Videogames ==
* In the Japan-only ''[[
* ''[[City of Heroes|City of Villains]]'' has "The TV Invasion", a [[Story Arc]] of missions for characters level 45 to 50 that takes you into a monster movie, a gangster movie, and a [[After the End|post-apocalypse]] movie, all at the bidding of Television itself.
* ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' is basically ''[[Last Action Hero]]'' except with [[
** It's also probably [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] with {{spoiler|Captain Blue, who went insane because his life kept on going downhill, even after an upside happened, fate would find some way to twist into something he wouldn't want, such as his rise to fame? Eventually forgotten. He gets sucked into his own movies? Goes insane because he can't escape to meet his family and eventually tried to destroy everything}}, it shows a lot, and is probably what would happen if people really did get trapped in a "Movie Land".
* Old Game example: ''[
* The Sega Genesis game ''[[Comix Zone]]'' features a [[Badass Normal]] comic book author trapped in his own comic. If he can't fight his way through the story (traversing the actual panels), the comic's villain will take his place in the real world.
* This trope is the premise for the first ''[[Gex]]'' game. In the next two sequels he entered TV land(s) voluntarily.
* The general plot of ''[[Wario
* This is where the main characters in ''[[Persona 4]]'' fight.
* This is part of ''[[
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has the [[Sonic Storybook Series]]
** Aladdin was the hero of the ''[[
*** [[Small Reference Pools|As far as most people know, yes.]]
* The 1990's sidescroller ''[[Garfield
* ''[[Cool Spot|Spot Goes To Hollywood]]'' has the titular 7 Up mascot exploring levels based on movies.
* In ''[[Mickey Mouse|Disney's Magical Quest 3]]'', Huey, Dewey and Louie are pulled into Storybook Land by King Pete. Mickey and [[Donald Duck]], with the assistance of the Guardian Fairy have to rescue the trio by entering the book and defeat the evil ruler.
* The sequel to the casual game ''Azada'' features puzzles embedded in books of fairy tales and of various literary classics.
== Web Animation ==▼
* Web Cartoon example: The ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/imp.html International Moron Patrol]'' has the dubious honor of having two episodes featuring this trope; Episode 10 centered around characters Hentai Boy and H Hog being sucked into a videogame console. The 2007 Halloween episode 2-parter had Henrik being sucked into the TV, too.▼
* One of the episodes of the surreal, nonlinear flash series ''[[Sixgun]]'' revolves around a character who has been sentenced to a "maximum security sitcom," which apparently involves being forced to read corny one-liners and quips at gunpoint by robots. He gets his hands on the gun, tries to shoot his way out, and dies a happy man.▼
* "[[The Adventures of Gyno Star]]" features a story arc in which the main character (feminist superhero Gyno-Star) gets trapped inside the world of beer commercials, and has to deal with sexist stereotypes and objectification of women.▼
== Web Original ==
* [[Paw Dugan]]'s Top 9 Video Game Composers has Paw and his friends [[That Guy With
** Worth noting, the lead-in to this video had Paw and company depicted as modified ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' sprites and fighting Dark Paw in the classic turn-based style.▼
== Western Animation ==
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*** But then the contestants can't walk around buck naked! No fair!
** A kids' puppet show reminiscent of ''[[Teletubbies]]''
** A ''[[
** ''[[Fear Factor]]''
** ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'', which KP has been accused of ripping off
*** Isn't sending Kim Possible into ''Alias'' like sending [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy Summers]] into ''[[Hellboy]]''?
** ''[[That '70s Show]]'', reimagined into the Salem era as ''That 1670s Show''
*** "Eric, you bastard, you better not be a warlock or else I'll kick your sorry ass!"
** ''[[ER]]''
** ''Evil Eye for the Bad Guy,'' a supervillain's version of ''[[Queer Eye For The Straight Guy]]''
** ''The Fearless Ferret'', a parody of the old ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' show and a [[Continuity Nod]] to a previous episode
** ''[[The Hollywood Squares]]''
** A commercial for Ron's favorite restaraunt, "Bueno Nacho"
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** A [[Cooking Show]], with Rufus as the secret ingredient
** A [[Talk Show]]
** [[Animal Planet]], rerendered as ''Ape Island'', which is [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|hell for Ron]]
* ''[[Teen Titans (
** A [[Soap Opera]]
** An old [[
** A [[Sci Fi]] [[Martial Arts Movie]] show, where Control Freak gets some [[I Know Karate|training]]
** The local [[News Broadcast|news]]
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*** [[DC Comics|Jonah Hex? The Trigger Twins? The Whip? Bat Lash?]]
*** [[Cattle Punk|Robotic gunslingers]], [[Take a Third Option|actually]]. A shame.
** A [[Lawyer
** A parody of one of Steve "The Crocodile Hunter" Irwin's nature shows
*** "Now watch as I introduce my fist into Beast Boy's rectum..."
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*** The name of the product in question was Zinthos, one of Raven's Magic words. It was also said to be blue (The color of raven's outfit) and the side effects includeing what happens when she loses control of her emotions, such as extra eyes.
** A Barney-esque [[Edutainment Show]]
** A [[Looney Tunes]] spoof with Beast Boy as Wile E. Coyote chasing after Control Freak acting like Roadrunner.
* ''[[Futurama]]'' did it with classic (and handily public-domain) ''books'' in one episode: ''Tom Sawyer'', ''Moby Dick'' and ''Pride and Prejudice''.
** Also, in a comic, the characters of ''[[Futurama]]'' end up in a ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' comic. Both shows have the same creators.
* One [[Three Shorts|mini-episode]] of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' featured this plot, involving him mostly travelling through various commercials; at the end, it was [[All Just a Dream]] ([[Or Was It a Dream?|although he kept the scarf of the shopping channel]]...). Another episode featured a variant on this, where Garfield woke up to find he was in the [[No Fourth Wall|wrong cartoon]], an odd cross between ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' and ''[[Transformers]]''; eventually, he was shot into a forest of ''Bambi''-esque forest animals, and ran off into the distance, shouting that [[Tastes Like Diabetes|he wanted the giant robots back.]]
** Garfield being trapped in a TV was also the main plot of the Sega Genesis video game ''[[Garfield: Caught in
* A segment of one of ''[[The Simpsons]]''' "[[Halloween Episode|Treehouse of Horrors]]" episodes used this plot, with Bart and Lisa sucked into ''The Itchy & Scratchy Show''. At one point they changed channels, appearing in a ''live action'' snippet of ''[[Live With Regis And Kathie Lee]]''.
** Also worth mentioning is an episode where the trope gets inverted, as Homer is transported into the third dimension.
** And the [[Hypocritical Humor]] of having Chief Wiggum mock [[The Ahnold|Rainier Wolfcastle]] for an obvious parody of ''[[Last Action Hero]].''
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* ''[[The Fairly
** Some of the shows parodied in "Channel Chasers" include ''[[Fat Albert]]'', ''[[
*** Don't forget a [[The Simpsons]] pardoy, complete with Blackboard Gag:
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* ''[[The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat]]'' also did a plot like this, and like KP, it included a ''[[Friends]]'' sitcom called "Pals".
* The cartoon adaptation of ''[[The Mask (
* The cartoon ''[[Captain N:
* A variation is used in the ''[[Rugrats]]'' episode "Kid TV": When the television set breaks, the babies climb into a cardboard box and make their own shows, which they're randomly running in and out of by the end: a game show, a soap opera, a [[Perfume Commercial]], a [[James Bond]]-esque show commercial, the news, and a COPS spoof.
* ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' did this in the episode "Spins a Web", where the class entered a [[The Fifties|Fifties]] [[Sci-Fi]] flick about a town being terrorized by a [[Attack of the 50
* The first half of the ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' episode "Twitching Channels" follows this plot, as Darkwing chases his [[Psycho Electro|electricity-themed enemy]] Megavolt through the fictional universes of many [[Show Within a Show|TV shows]]. The second half of the episode becomes a [[Welcome to The Real World]] plot, as Darkwing and Megavolt both discover that they themselves are just TV show characters in our universe.
* The 70s ''[[
* The final season of the [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure]]'' added the capability to travel into TV shows, movies, and literature to the guys' time-travelling phone booth, leading to a series of cheap thinly-veiled pop-culture parodies. (This was also used once in the following live-action [[Recycled: the Series]], see the "Live Action TV" section)
* The Ralph Bakshi-era ''[[Mighty Mouse]]'' had him stuck in a
▲== Web Animation ==
▲* Web Cartoon example: The ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/imp.html International Moron Patrol]'' has the dubious honor of having two episodes featuring this trope; Episode 10 centered around characters Hentai Boy and H Hog being sucked into a videogame console. The 2007 Halloween episode 2-parter had Henrik being sucked into the TV, too.
▲* One of the episodes of the surreal, nonlinear flash series ''[[Sixgun]]'' revolves around a character who has been sentenced to a "maximum security sitcom," which apparently involves being forced to read corny one-liners and quips at gunpoint by robots. He gets his hands on the gun, tries to shoot his way out, and dies a happy man.
▲== Web Original ==
▲* [[Paw Dugan]]'s Top 9 Video Game Composers has Paw and his friends [[That Guy With the Glasses (Website)|That Chick With The Goggles]], [[The Angry Joe Show (Web Video)|Angry Joe]] and [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|Spoony]] get trapped in video game land by Paw's [[Super Powered Evil Side]]. The worlds they travel to include ''[[Super Mario Bros]] 2'', ''[[The Legend of Zelda|Zelda 2]]'', ''[[Battletoads (Video Game)|Battletoads]]'', ''[[King's Quest V]]'', ''[[Dragon Quest]]'', ''[[River City Ransom]]'', ''[[Wolfenstein 3D (Video Game)|Wolfenstein 3D]]'', and ''[[Harvest Moon]]''.
▲** Worth noting, the lead-in to this video had Paw and company depicted as modified ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' sprites and fighting Dark Paw in the classic turn-based style.
▲* "[[The Adventures of Gyno Star]]" features a story arc in which the main character (feminist superhero Gyno-Star) gets trapped inside the world of beer commercials, and has to deal with sexist stereotypes and objectification of women.
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