History Main / ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou

* ''TheWizardOfOz'' - The Trope Namer, in which after waking up, Dorothy realizes that the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion and Scarecrow bear more than a passing resemblance to the ranch hands.
** Only in the movie. In the book it was all real.

* {{All That}} had a parody of {{The Wizard of Oz}} called the wizard of coz. At the end of the sketch, Dorothy says the quote, and nobody believed her.

* Yet another ''TheWizardOfOz'' parody occurs in the final ''TheFarSide'' strip, when cartoonist Gary Larson wakes up surrounded by his relatives: "All the cows looked just like you [to a relative with a bovine face]...All the scientists looked just like you...All the nerdy kids looked just like you..."

* TheWizardOfOz example is parodied in ''{{Futurama}}''.

* ''TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' inverts this trope by having several characters (Malon, Talon, Kaepora Gaebora) who are based on characters that originally appeared in a dream in ''TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' (Marin, Tarin, Owl).

This is somewhat of a TruthInTelevision because people do tend to have people they know in their dreams.

* ''{{Inception}}'': regardless of whether you think [[spoiler:the whole thing was a dream,]] this must have been at least one of Fischer's reactions when he woke up immediately after the inception.

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* ''TenchiMuyo'': ''Mihoshi Special'', Mihoshi tells the Masaki Household a story of her greatest Galaxy Police adventure, casting the various characters of the show in the roles of various players in her story. She doesn't even bother to change their names to those of the characters in her story, to much ongoing annoyance of her audience.
* An episode of ''AzumangaDaioh'' uses this: Osaka, Tomo, Sakaki and Kaorin have dreams in the New Year's morning involving their friends. In all of them, Chiyo-chan made an appearance - not to mention Chiyo-dad's formal debut in Sakaki's dream.

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* In ''{{Fite}}!'', [[spoiler:Lucco turns out to have been in a coma. Cub and Skerry from his dream turned out to be another patient at the hospital and a doctor, respectively.]]

Subtrope of AndYouWereThere. See also VisionOfAnotherSelf.

* ''SonicStorybookSeries'' - Sonic is transported into the book ''1001 Arabian Nights'' and finds that Ali Baba, Sinbad and the emperor/sultan take after the appearance of Tails, Knuckles and Eggman, respectively.
** Happens again in ''Sonic and the Black Knight'': Knuckles - Sir Gawain, Shadow - Sir Lancelot, Blaze - Sir Percival, Silver - Sir Gallahad, Jet - Sir Lamorak, Amy - Lady of the Lake, and apparently [[spoiler:Sonic - King Arthur]].
* Gilligan's dreams on ''[=~Gilligan's Island~=]'' are always like this.
* ''TheSimpsons'' has done a few episodes like this. The original "Treehouse of Horror" featured a sequence based on EdgarAllanPoe's "The Raven", with Homer as the narrator and Bart as the titular bird. This was later done in "Simpsons Bible Stories", "Simpsons Tall Tales", "Tales from the Public Domain" and "Simpsons Christmas Stories".
* TheWizardOfOz example is parodied in ''{{Futurama}}''.
--> '''Leela:''' I was having the most wonderful dream. (beat) Except you were there, and you were there, and you...
* Yet another ''TheWizardOfOz'' parody occurs in the final ''TheFarSide'' strip, when cartoonist Gary Larson wakes up surrounded by his relatives: "All the cows looked just like you [to a relative with a bovine face]...All the scientists looked just like you...All the nerdy kids looked just like you..."
* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' - comatose child Billy is causing everyone's nightmares to come true - when Buffy and friends finally wake him at the hospital he says "I had the strangest dream! You were there, and you...who are you people?"
* The ''{{MacGyver}}'' Old West dream episodes: "Serenity" and "[=MacGyver=]'s Women".

* ''TenchiMuyo'': ''Mihoshi Special'', Mihoshi tells the Masaki Household a story of her greatest Galaxy Police adventure, casting the various characters of the show in the roles of various players in her story. She doesn't even bother to change their names to those of the characters in her story, to much ongoing annoyance of her audience.
* The 2010 ''AliceInWonderland'' seemed tp be setting this up at the beginning, as there's an old woman who has traits of the red queen, and twins that behave like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Turns out that was a red herring, and it's all completely unrelated.
* ''SherlockJr." plays this straight, with all of the characters in the framing story playing similar roles in the dream sequence that constitutes the bulk of the film.
* An episode of ''AzumangaDaioh'' uses this: Osaka, Tomo, Sakaki and Kaorin have dreams in the New Year's morning involving their friends. In all of them, Chiyo-chan made an appearance - not to mention Chiyo-dad's formal debut in Sakaki's dream.

* ''Piwem i Mieczem'' ("With Beer And Sword"), an episodic story published in ''Magazine/TopSecret'', involved a character going to a fantasy world and meeting comrades who were all based on the magazine's editors.

This is somewhat of a TruthInTelevision because people do tend to have people they know in their dreams

Subtrope of AndYouWereThere.

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* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' - comatose child Billy is causing everyone's nightmares to come to - when Buffy and friends finally wake him at the hospital he says "I had the strangest dream! You were there, and you...who are you people?"

This is somewhat of a TruthInTelevision because people do tend to have people they know in there dreams

Subtrope of AndYouWereThere.