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* Episode 26 of ''[[Ghost Sweeper Mikami]]'' features a haunted video game which is an expy of ''[[Dragon Quest]]''. Yokoshima and Okinu get trapped in it while Mikami uses her spiritual powers to participate in it from outside.
* ''[[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 ==
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* Ellie Dee gets transported into a video game in one issue of ''[[Cherry Comics]]'', where she has to [[Win to Exit]].
== Fan Works ==
* This is the basis behind many Self-Insert fanfictions.
* 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.
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* 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.
== Literature ==
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* 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]].
* ''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 ==
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** 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)]]is about a member of the audience send in a montage of classical movies.
== Videogames ==
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* 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 The Glasses|That Chick With The Goggles]], [[The Angry Joe Show|Angry Joe]] and [[The Spoony Experiment|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]]'', ''[[King's Quest V]]'', ''[[Dragon Quest]]'', ''[[River City Ransom]]'', ''[[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.▼
== Western Animation ==
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* The 70s ''[[Superfriends]]'' did it at least twice, in one episode the Legion of Doom put them into random fairy tales, in the other Mr Mxylpic puts them in "The Wizard of Oz" with Aquaman as the Scarecrow, Supes as the Tinman and Wonder Woman as the Cowardly Lion.
* 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|That Chick With The Goggles]], [[The Angry Joe Show|Angry Joe]] and [[The Spoony Experiment|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]]'', ''[[King's Quest V]]'', ''[[Dragon Quest]]'', ''[[River City Ransom]]'', ''[[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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