History Main / AndYouWereThere

* Creator/{{Abbott and Costello}}'s ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' does this.

** ''Film/ReturnToOz'' played with this trope as well by having the Head Nurse double as Princess Mombi and the doctor double as the Nome King. Also played with the little girl who helps Dorothy escape [[spoiler: who is implied to be Princess Ozma. Interestingly, Ozma is also implied to be Dorothy's analogue in Oz.]]

** ''Film/ReturnToOz'' played with this trope as well by having the Head Nurse double as Princess Mombi and the doctor double as the Nome King.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E114IDreamOfGenie I Dream of Genie]]", George P. Hanley's co-workers Ann and Roger Hackett and his boss E.L. Watson appear in each of his three fantasies in different roles. In the first fantasy, Ann is the glamorous film star Ann Alexandra and George's unfaithful wife, Roger is her co-star and lover and Watson is the film director. In the second fantasy, Ann is George's secretary, Roger is his chauffeur and Watson is the president of his alma mater. In the third fantasy, Ann is a woman who wants President Hanley to pardon her son for falling asleep on duty, Roger is a three-star general who warns him that he must attack the approaching alien ship and Watson is a member of his staff.

* The ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "The Blue Butterfly" has Castle find a rather [[NoirEpisode Noir]] diary of a 1940s-era P.I., and as he reads it, we see scenes from it playing out, with all the characters played by the main cast. (Castle's character, of course, falls in love with Beckett's character at first sight.)

** Another example of this trope is in the parallel between the victorian guild and the modern cast. Colonel Venture = Dr. Venture (both are related), Eugene Sandow = Brock (muscular bodyguards to a Venture), Samuel Clemens = Pete White (both have white hair and dress in white), Creator/OscarWilde = The Alchemist (both are FlamboyantGay intellectuals), Fantomas = Phantom Limb (again, related), Aleister Crowley = Dr. Orpheus ("wizards" with a penchant for the theatrical).

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':

* The German animated movie ''Peter in Magicland'' has the title character and his little sister dream that they journey to the moon to help a talking beetle recover his missing leg. Among the characters that assist them in their quest is the benevolent Night Fairy. At the end of the movie when the two kids wake from their dream, it's revealed that the Night Fairy is [[spoiler: the dream-world counterpart to their mother, who looks and sounds much like the Fairy]].

* ''PhoebeinWonderland'' features occasional fantasy scenes where the title character sees the characters from ''Literature/AliceinWonderland'' appear as her [[ImaginaryFriend ImaginaryFriends]], with the characters themselves being played by the same actors as the primary adults/authority figures in Phoebe's life.

* In ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', during the Wedding scene, much of the bridal party is made up of actors who later become the Transylvanians and Riff Raff, Magenta and Columbia's actors appear as church workers with Frank's actor as the minister.

** ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'' does the same with its own cast of Kansas and Ozian characters [[spoiler:including making Glinda a double for the one woman Oscar has genuine feelings for.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsofOzDorothysReturn'' follows the example of the live-action Oz films below by having the shady Appraiser trying to shut down Dorothy's hometown and his silent assistant be the Kansas counterparts to the evil Jester and his chief flying monkey minion.

* ''VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries'': Almost everyone except the main antagonist and Sonic' ExpositionFairy are alternate versions of all of Sonic's friends. [[spoiler:Merlina from ''Black Knight'' counts as both exceptions.]] He starts to get used to it halfway through ''Black Knight'' -- rather than confuse Gawain with Knuckles, he simply mocks him with comparisons, and when he meets up with Percival he doesn't even mention Blaze; he just raises his blade and accepts the challenge to duel.

* Parodied in the 2003 ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' series, when Leo wakes Michelangelo:

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' does this in "D.W.'s Name Game" with an OffToSeeTheWizard sort of plot. In the story, after Arthur and D.W. trade insults, events culminate with Arthur shocking her by calling her "Dora Winifred" (her real name) and her being sent to bed. She has a dream in which she consults "The Great Thesaurus" and Arthur is cast in the role of the Wicked Witch. When she finally wakes up, she tells her family "And you were there, and you, and you were there too." At which point, the Thesaurus (a dinosaur) appears outside her window, saying his CatchPhrase, "Ah, sheesh." Notably, though, neither Mr. Read nor Mrs. Read were actually in D.W.'s fantasy in any form.