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Examples: Itchy & Scratchy from The Simpsons, The Scary Door from Futurama, or The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky.

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[-] MrIamsosmrt@feddit.org 15 points 6 days ago

If games count then all the radio stations in GTA

[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The lore books in The Elder Scrolls series, hands-down.

There is an entire universe of conflicting knowledge, personal bias, and unreliable narrators that leave Tamriel's history feeling very real, and very open to interpretation. The fun of it is piecing together the truth somewhere in the middle. But I'll die on the hill that the Arcturian Heresy is absolute horseshit written by a madman, and comparable to the scribbles of a paranoid schizophrenic on an anti-vax forum. Anyone who references that volume in regards to Tiber Septim and the forming of the empire is an impressionable dweeb.

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

McBain in The Simpsons is a classic.

This video stitches the movie together somewhat.

https://youtu.be/BzjfrdcN1Z8?si=G84IdUwMkfPKDm3w

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago
[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Interesting! I didn't know there was a movie. The version I saw on stage was even more over-the-top (very stereotypical gay coded)

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago
[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Following up on that, I'd been trying to remember the song in Blazing Saddles, when they literally break the fourth wall and there's an anachronistic musical number being filmed - it's called "The French Mistake". https://youtu.be/FezOkjeNs5Y

[-] Eiri@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 days ago

I'm a big fan of fake brands/products in anime. I don't know why, but they bring me joy.

Marvelsoft Macindows

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

"Ow, My Balls" is a claaaassic.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago

Crash Nebula and The Crimson Chin from Fairly Oddparents are both great

[-] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago

Interdimensional TV on Rick and Morty

[-] Kolrami@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Fillory and Further by Christopher Plover

within

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

[-] StopJoiningWars@discuss.online 3 points 6 days ago

Fillory in the magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman is fantastic.

Surprised that no one has mentioned Vegemorphs from PBS's Arthur yet.

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

Camp Pining Hearts from Steven Universe. Does Fiona and Cake from Adventure Time count?

[-] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

As The Stomach Turns. It was a classic parody of soap operas on The Carol Burnett show, and as someone from that era i can vouch that it was a pretty spot on parody, at least from what i saw on tv when staying home sick from school.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

Galaxy Quest the Show inside Galaxy Quest the Movie

[-] LordGimp@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Do the Justice Friends from Dexter's Lab count?

[-] cook_pass_babtridge@feddit.uk 2 points 6 days ago

There's so much in Infinite Jest, but I think my favourite would be "Blood Sister: One Tough Nun".

[-] Bunnylux@lemmy.world 97 points 1 week ago
[-] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago

The Princess Bride is one of my favorite examples of this, especially because the "story within the story" is the main story, which is unusual.

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[-] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the fake old movie that plays in Home Alone. "I'm gonna give you till the count of 10 to get your ugly yeller no good keester off my property before I pump your guts full of lead! One... Two... Ten!" ๐Ÿ”ซ๐Ÿ”ซ๐Ÿ”ซ๐Ÿ”ซ๐Ÿ”ซ

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[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago

Tales of the Black Freighter from the Watchmen comics is pretty awesome.

All My Circuits on Futurama is one of my favorites on tv. Dramatic beeping intensifies.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 1 week ago

Ow! My balls! from Idiocracy

There's been some stuff coming out lately that makes me think this show isn't far off.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Angels With Filthy Souls

The "adult" movie Kevin watches in Home Alone. Apparently the main dude who was supposed to be in those didn't show up so they just had some janitor or tech fill in and he went full ham on that shit and made it something to remember.

There's also the McBane movie in The Simpsons that shows up in multiple episodes and if you connected them all together they actually make a coherent story line (it's just riffing off Lethal Weapon anyway).

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I was thinking of the Home Alone movie as well, they made that fake movie just for the movie.

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