History Main / ButYouWereThereAndYouAndYou

* ''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.

* ''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".
** In "Bart Gets Hit by a Car", the end of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' is parodied when Bart regains consciousness. He points out everone standing around the hospital bed like Dorothy until he spots someone he doesn't remember from his dream of the afterlife: ambulance-chasing lawyer Lionel Hutz.

* As an example of the overlap with WholePlotReference, see the ''Phineas & Ferb'' entry "The Wizard of Odd".

* The ''{{MacGyver}}'' Old West dream episodes: "Serenity" and "[=MacGyver=]'s Women".

* In ''LesMiserables'' Jean Valjean has a very strange dream where he meets up with his brother.

Subtrope of AndYouWereThere. See also VisionsOfAnotherSelf and HerCodeNameWasMarySue.

* In the ''{{Leverage}}'' episode "The Van Gogh Job", the World War II-era backstory of the van Gogh the team is trying to retrieve gets told to Parker by its current owner; she fantasy-casts members of the Leverage team in all the appropriate roles of the story.

* ''{{MirrorMask}}'': The Prime Minister is Helena's dad, and the Queens of Light and Shadow are both her mother. Oh, and [[spoiler: the Princess of Shadow is Helena herself]].

* ''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?"

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

* The ''KryptoTheSuperdog'' episode "Storybook Holiday" has Kevin enter a storybook and finds that the famous characters resemble his visiting relatives.

* In ''[[LordOfTheRings Fellowship]]! TheMusical'', The Balrog sings a lounge act entitled ''The Balrog Blues'', about how he was woken up from a "delightful little dream". His description of the dream parodies this - while [[NoFourthWall pointing at members of the audience]], he says: "well you know, you were there, and you were there, and y... who the hell are ''you''? Why don't you get out of your mom's basement and get a ''[[TakeThatAudience job]]''? Sheesh."

* The prelude to ''AliceInWonderland Jr.'' takes place in the park where Alice' sister Mathilda instructs Alice on history. There's a boy in a white vest for the White Rabbit, a child blowing bubbles for the Caterpillar, and kids playing Ring-Around-the-Rosie for the Caucus Race.

* 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.

* In [[LordOfTheRings Fellowship]]! TheMusical, The Balrog sings a lounge act entitled ''The Balrog Blues'', about how he was woken up from a "delightful little dream". His description of the dream parodies this - while [[NoFourthWall pointing at members of the audience]], he says: "well you know, you were there, and you were there, and y... who the hell are ''you''? Why don't you get out of your mom's basement and get a ''[[TakeThatAudience job]]''? Sheesh."

* It's implied in the 2010 ''Film/AliceInWonderland'' that Alice used this reaction to dismiss her first visit to Wonderland as a dream. There's an old woman who has traits of the Red Queen, and twins that behave like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Turns out to be a red herring, and it's all completely unrelated.

* The 2010 ''Film/AliceInWonderland'' seemed to 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.

* The 2010 ''AliceInWonderland'' seemed to 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.

Subtrope of AndYouWereThere. See also VisionsOfAnotherSelf.

* The NoirEpisode of ''{{Smallville}}'', where Jimmy dreams the entire cast into a world of thirties cynicism. Notably, his casting suggests his subconcious knows more about them than he realises; for instance, he casts Clark as an undercover cop, and on awakening thinks the idea of Clark secretly being a crimefighter came out of nowhere.

* This was used during the Wizard of Oz inspired epsiode (The Wizard of Song) of ''TheFreshBeatBand''

* Gilligan's dreams on ''[=~Gilligan's Island~=]'' are always like this.

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

* Used on ''{{Arthur}}'' in "D.W.'s Name Game" with an OrWasItADream twist when a character that was original to the dream appeared outside D.W.'s window.