This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
From YKTTW:
Bluetooth The Pirate: I want to do the page for a plot I've seen at least twice, but I'm not sure how to categorize it. It'd be called Trapped in TV Land or something similar, when some sort of Applied Phlebotinum carries some heroes and villains into a televison, and the characters jump from show to show, a la the film Stay Tuned. I've seen it recently on Teen Titans and Kim Possible (there I go again), but I just know it's been done elsewhere. I'm pretty sure this is a Plot, but it could be an Animated Trope. Any thoughts?
Looney Toons: Hm. Don't forget the movie Pleasantville, which embraced and then skewered the trope.
Bluetooth The Pirate: That film didn't have channel-hopping, but perhaps it should be included to avoid narrowing the field too much. I'll just go ahead and write the page, and we'll hammer it out later.
Dark Sasami: Nother movie example, for completeness's sake: Amazon Women on the Moon.
Red Shoe: Would it be fair to count the dozen or so Star Trek examples where people get trapped on the Holodeck? Seems like it's a related trope at least, as they're trapped in a fictional world that is intentionally analogous to a TV.
Bluetooth The Pirate: As a note, sure. The primary focus of this was the episodes in which the characters hit a bunch of shows in sequence, but that's probably too narrow a field to get a lot of examples.
Mister Six: What's the opposite of this, where a character comes out of the TV/whatever and into the real world? Like The Purple Rose of Cairo?
Eric DVH: Would it be allright to add examples where people from the "real world" somehow end up journeying into media other than TV like Last Action Hero, The Neverending Story or those old cartoons where the characters go from one book to another in a bookstore after closing?
Fire Walk: Given there's a couple of Book examples on there, and it generally fits the style it should be fine.
Treguard: Does the old Dungeons and Dragons cartoon fit? Also, the Ultima series (starting with IV) set up the main character being from Earth, returning at the end of every game.
