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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Wheel! Of! Fish!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Tales of The Black Freighter in Watchmen. Comic in a comic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i love coming across playable arcade games inside other games.
the example that comes to mind is Klungo's Arcade in Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Fishing game in Ocarina of Time

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The girl who looked up is a story told within Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive series. It's told very well, and actually told twice.

There are other stories told to different characters in times of need, but I liked that one the most.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

GTA 4 in game TV series.

Carl's lock.

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Once (I liked it so much I saw it twice...my apologies to Ted Lasso)

I don't know if that fits the definition, but it's an album being written within a movie which sounds like "media within media" to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Station Eleven from… Station Eleven is probably there only one that’s been as interesting to me as the story itself, I guess because it’s such a big part of the story and character motivations. The book and show are both good in their own ways, but I particularly like the passage repeated throughout the show:

I remember damage, then escape

Then adrift in a stranger’s galaxy for a long time

But I’m safe now

I found it again, my home

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
  • Nation's Pride, in Inglourious Basterds. "Who wants to send a message to Germany?!" ~Fredrick Zoller

  • "I'd buy that for a dollar." in RoboCop.

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I’m surprised and saddened for it to have taken so long for someone (in this case, me) to have mentioned Astronaut Dolphin Detective from Mr Pickles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The "Lucky Earther" mini documentary in S06 of the Expanse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I seem to remember one of the GTA games (maybe San Andreas?) had a stand up set from I think Ricky Gervais as something that would play on the TVs.

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The Mr. Frog show in Smiling Friends.

[–] BA834024112 3 points 2 months ago

Station eleven

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Who Dat Ninja

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

King's Misery when there are several bits from the novel the writer is making to please his capturer seems like a classic at this point. More classic is the trope of Necronomicon-alikes in lovecraftian stories. But I prefer The Book of Mindfulness that a character from the Black Book sitcom accidentially swallowed and became a saint, even god-like figure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Steel samurai from the ace attorney series.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Inside the 90s anime Martian Successor Nadesico, there is a 70s-era anime called Gekiganger III. Characters various levels of knowledgeable about, or fans of, the show. A single OVA episode was released in addition to the clips from within Nadesico.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The movie Twins starring Danny Divito and Arnold Schwarzenegger plays at the drive in the anime Blood Blockade Battlefront

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

This may not fit perfectly into the that category but i think it's cool how Lazarus Jones exists in the media in some capacity in most of the GTA games. One of the best threads of continuity throughout the series.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That Baywatch show on friends looks good.

"Always running"

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