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* Possibly first done in the "Murray in Videoland" sketches in the 1987 film ''[[Amazon Women on the Moon]]''.

* 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 ''[[Three's Company]]'', complete with lookalikes of Chrissy and Janet coming in and asking him "''Where'' have you been?" He promptly fell over the sofa and screamed in horror.

* 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]].

** 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]].''

* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' did a [[Made for TV Movie]], titled "Channel Chasers", wrapped around a combination of this trope (most examples being stuff you probably grew up with in the 90s) and [[Time Travel]]. It also used a trapped in books variation in the series its self.

** Some of the shows parodied in "Channel Chasers" include ''[[Fat Albert]]'', ''[[Blue's Clues]]'', ''[[Sesame Street]]'', ''[[Scooby Doo]]'', ''[[The Jetsons]]'' ''[[Rugrats]]'', ''[[Jonny Quest]]'', ''[[Batman]]'', and ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''; however the episode was more centered on a parody show named "Maho Mushi", which was a hybrid of ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' and ''[[Pokémon]]''.

*** Don't forget a [[The Simpsons]] pardoy, complete with Blackboard Gag:

* ''[[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 (animation)|The Mask]]'' had this on the season two episode, "Channel Surfin'".