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* In ''SamAndMax Season 3 Episode 5'', the [[FantasticVoyagePlot living room in Max's brain]] has a rack of 'ideas for novels in audiobook vinyl form', which can be listened to. One of them is a FanFic about Flint Paper, which ends when Flint says that to solve the mystery, he needs to rely on "his best friend - [[SelfInsertFic Max!]]".

* In ''SamAndMax Season 3 Episode 5'', the [[FantasticVoyagePlot living room in Max's brain]] has a rack of 'ideas for novels in audiobook vinyl form', which can be listened to. One of them is a FanFic about Flint Paper, which ends when Flint says that to solve the mystery, he needs to rely on "his best friend - Max!"

** After being humiliated in the first part of the first episode of ''[[HomestarRunner Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People]]'', Homestar monopolizes (among other things, ''simultaneously'') Strong Bad's drawing table as he works on his 23-part graphic novel about a guy who wins the Race to the End of the Race, isn't wanted for public indecency, and dumps Marzipan for a much hotter girl who still likes him. Or he will once he can think of a good name for the main character. Personally, [[{{Crisis}} I]] like "Dash Bigstar."

* In [[WorldOfWarcraft World of Warcraft]], the newest expansion, Cataclysm,is about how [[BigBad Deathwing]] ravages Azeroth. There are a series of quests where three drunken NPCs tell you how they 'dealt' with him while he was passing by in the most hilarious way possible.

-->'''Aku''': The was an all-mighty, all-powerful wizard, and there was a pathetic little samurai... and the wizard ''destrooooyed hiiiiim''. '''[[CutShort THE END]]'''!

** The movie was based on a book, OrSoIHeard, and in the movie, the journal got published because her printer was broken and she needed to send her homework to a friend to print out, and she accidentally sent the wrong file.

* In ''TheSingleGuy'' ([[OrSoIHeard where did I get that from?]]), the main character writes a book about a single guy, mainly himself.

* Vriska's "Flarp" (yeah, sort of like [[{{LARP}} that]]) character, [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004096 Marquise Spinneret Mindfang]] (note the initials), is (from her perspective) "the best character, and you wish you were her. Oh wait, you are her!"

* Vriska's "Flarp" (yeah, sort of like [[{{LARP}} that]]) character, [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004096 Marquise Spinneret]] Mindfang (note the initials), is (from her perspective) "the best character, and you wish you were her. Oh wait, you are her!"

* In the animated shorts included with the ''TransformersAnimated'' DVDs, there are several "profiles" showing footage of various characters as another character describes their personality and abilities. Starscream voices his own profile, presenting himself as basically the most awesome Decepticon ever and showing a few clips that aren't in the show itself (such as him standing atop a pile of Autobot corpses). It's only until the last clip that it shows a bit of reality--namely, Megatron shooting him in the face.

** ....you mean the 1148 page novel about stalinist purges, lensgrinders in omsk and attractive daughters he wrote in 3 hours?

See also ParodySue for the trope this draws upon.

-->'''Andy''': [[SarcasmMode "Oh, ''he'' gets tortured?"]]

* ''{{Seinfeld}}'' featured a story arc where Jerry and George create a sitcom whose characters are based on Jerry and his friends. Of course, ''Seinfeld'' itself is an example of this trope, since the show is based on the real Jerry Seinfeld and his friends Larry David and Elaine Boosler, plus Larry David's former neighbor Kenny Kramer.

**There is a hint of RelationshipSue in [=McGee=]'s character--Agent [=McGregor=]--since he was planning on pairing him up with [[PerkyGoth Abbey's]] character. Also, [=McGee=] mentions he was playing with the idea of killing [=McGregor=] off, but he decided that would have been stupid "because everyone likes him so much."

* One episode of TheOffice has regional manager Michael Scott out of his office. While innocently searching his desk for something else, the staff finds his screenplay "Threat Level: Midnight" where "FBI Detective Michael Scarn" saves the world while romancing Catherine Zeta-Jones.

** In an Australian television special about {{NCIS}}, Micheal Weatherly played himself very Tony-esque, walking around the set. He did a short skit where he played all the characters of the show. '[=McGee=]' was even nerdier and more awkward than normal, Ziva was 'strangely attracted to [Tony], due to [her] [[BuffySpeak Israeli-ness,]]' and Tony was a suave JamesBond clone who [[SubvertedTrope slipped off his chair rather stupidly.]]

* In the TV show ''{{Bones}}'', Dr. Brennan is a successful novelist whose books star a fictionalized version of herself named Kathy Reichs... which is also the name of a real-world author who has written a series of books starring a fictionalized version of herself named Temperance Brennan.

*An episode of ''[[MarriedWithChildren Married...With Children]]'' played with this. Kelly was unsuccessfully auditioning for a show when, at some point during her banter with the show's producer, she told him all about her dysfunctional family and their various antics. Of course she portrayed ''herself'' as an intellectual and a shining example of humanity in a sea of idiots. Later on, when she discovers that the producer has actually made a show based on her stories, she is shocked to see that it portrays her (quite accurately) as a brainless slut.

*In "the Nightman Cometh," the season 4 finale of ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia, Charlie expands the song "Dayman" that he and Dennis wrote in an earlier episode into a full musical. The main character is clearly a SympatheticSue version of himself and the plot revolves around his [[StalkerWithACrush obsessive attachment]] to the Waitress (whose character sings a song expressing her true feelings of longing for his). Charlie begs her to attend the performance and reserves her a seat front-and-center, hoping that she'll be so moved that she'll finally realize they were meant to be together. Awkward HilarityEnsues.

**There is a hint of RelationshipSue in McGee's character--Agent McGregor--since he was planning on pairing him up with [[PerkyGoth Abbey's]] character. Also, McGee mentions he was playing with the idea of killing McGregor off, but he decided that would have been stupid "because everyone likes him so much."

** The one who really got the short end of the stick in the novel was Palmer (Ducky's assistant), who became a necrophiliac named "Pimmy Jalmer". McGee insists that he named the character after a real person named "Pimmy"...