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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: The Original Series]]''.
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** She's appeared since--one story had her work out that Superman shook off her Earth stories because he was really an alien, and she drew on Kryptonian stories instead. Luckily, this version of Superman had learned or remembered these stories, so he [[Genre Savvy|knew to look for]] the Striped River Witch and shatter the crystal soldiers with ricocheting light. It was all very Jungian. Interestingly, the benefits of biculturalism didn't come up; apparently your Collective Unconscious is [[Hollywood Psych|determined almost solely by]] the conjunction of [[Genetic Memory|biology]] and what you hear in your first year of life.
* 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]].
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* ''[[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 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.
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* 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 ''[[976-EVIL]]'', seeking to frame the female lead, traps one of her friends inside a television program. It doesn't seem so bad at first, as she finds herself amongst the ending of ''[[It's a Wonderful Life|Its a Wonderful Life]]''. Then the movie is mashed up with ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'' which is playing at the next channel and she is killed by the [[Creepy Child]] from it.
* 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 with Plot]] where two friends get trapped in a porno, and find it's not all fun and games, as there is a [[Yandere]] and a cop after them.
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** ''[[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]]''
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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|Simpsons]]'' comic. Both shows have the same creators.
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** And the [[Hypocritical Humor]] of having Chief Wiggum mock [[The Ahnold|Rainier Wolfcastle]] for an obvious parody of ''[[Last Action Hero]].''
{{quote|'''Chief Wiggum''': "Magic ticket ''my ass'', McBain" }}
* ''[[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:
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