Trapped in TV Land: Difference between revisions
m
clean up
m (update links) |
m (clean up) |
||
Line 30:
* 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.
Line 70:
== 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 the Sky]]'' by [[L. Ron Hubbard]], a [[Deconstruction]] of swashbucklers with the main character having "fallen into" the role of the [[Designated Villain]].
* 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 ''[[Portnoy's Complaint|Portnoys Complaint]]'' just to fuck female
* The humor book ''[[How to Survive a Horror Movie]]'' tells how to recognize if you've become a victim of this trope, and how to stay alive once you're there.
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel ''The Crooked World'' sees the TARDIS crew trapped on a cartoon planet populated by thinly-veiled parodies of [[Scooby Doo]], ''[[The Perils of Penelope Pitstop]]'', ''[[Wacky Races]]'', [[Tom and Jerry]], ''[[Looney Tunes]]'', and others. The Doctor's interference means that for the behavior of those parodies, [[Reality Ensues]].
Line 81:
== 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 ''[[Psycho]]''
* ''[[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 (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'', etc.)
* 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"}}.
Line 117:
* This is where the main characters in ''[[Persona 4]]'' fight.
* This is part of ''[[Raving Rabbids]] TV Party'': the Rabbids get sucked into [[Rayman]]'s TV set, and in the single-player mode they set out to annoy him into busting up the set and letting the Rabbids out.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' has the [[Sonic Storybook Series]]
** Aladdin was the hero of the ''[[Arabian Nights]]'' now?
*** [[Small Reference Pools|As far as most people know, yes.]]
| |||