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* In ''[[TheXFiles X-Files]]'', a character is seen watching an episode of ''TheSimpsons''. Fortunately, it's not the episode where David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson appeared as Mulder and Scully. Note that it does not seem the fictionality is both ways, so it may not count. Or didn't until Comic Book Guy said his CatchPhrase "Worst. Episode. Ever."? in regard to an episode of ''[[TheXFiles X-Files]]'', so now it does.

* In ''[[TheXFiles X-Files]]'', a character is seen watching an episode of ''TheSimpsons''. Fortunately, it's not the episode where David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson appeared as Mulder and Scully. Note that it does not seem the fictionality is both ways, so it may not count.

[[caption-width-right:307:Top: In ''Series/DoctorWho'', the Tenth Doctor watches ''{{EastEnders}}''. Bottom: in ''[=EastEnders=]'', Bradley and Stacey attend a ''Doctor Who'' convention.]]

* In ''Film/IndependenceDay'' a character makes a passing reference to the XFiles, conversely, in the first XFiles movie we see Mulder urinating in front of an ''IndependenceDay'' movie poster.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' is fictional in ''{{EastEnders}}'', they have a character who is a fan (Bradley) who even goes to a Doctor Who convention at one point. ''[=EastEnders=]'' is also fictional in ''Doctor Who'' wherein Jackie Tyler is a fan, and ''[=EastEnders=]'' appears ShowWithinAShow style in "Army of Ghosts". The Doctor also references it in "The Satan Pit". There was a crossover between them in 1993 for ''ChildrenInNeed''. In "Dimensions In Time", neither show acknowledges the other's fictionality in it and it isn't considered in continuity for either (one explanation touted by ''Doctor Who'' Spin Off Media is that it was AllJustADream of the Seventh Doctor).

** There's a lot of crossover fanfiction for Doctor Who and HarryPotter- despite the latter being fictional in the Whoinverse, to the point where 'expelliarmus' was actually a plot point in one episode.

* A really subtle one with QuestionableContent and Webcomic/{{xkcd}}. Marigold wears an xkcd shirt [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1625 here]], and [[http://xkcd.com/574/ this]] xkcd comic shows one of Hannelore's Twitter posts.

* ''TheSimpsons'' and ''{{Futurama}}'' play with this in the TV show, with MattGroening's cameos on each being the creator of the other.

* In ''DannyPhantom'', Danny can be see playing a ''Crash Nebula'' arcade game. In the ''Crash Nebula'' PoorlyDisguisedPilot episode of ''{{The Fairly OddParents}}'', Crash has a ''Danny Phantom'' comic book.

* In ''{{Community}}'' Abeds favorite TV show is ''CougarTown'' and in one episode he talks about guest starring on it. In one episode of ''CougarTown'' Laurie and Travis watch the first season of ''{{Community}}'' on dvd. This eventually came full circle with Laurie and Travis as bit characters in the season finale of ''{{Community}}'' and Abed as a bit character on the season finale of ''CougarTown''. A later episode of ''Community'' had Abed, MetaGuy that he is, explaining the MindScrew the whole thing had been for him.

* ''TheSimpsons'' and ''{{Futurama}}'' play with this in the TV show, with Matt Groening's cameos on each being the creator of the other.

* In ''ANightmareOnElmStreet 3'', the TV-obsessed patient is seen watching an early scene from the movie ''Critters''. Later, ''Critters 2'' had one of its alien doppelgangers attempt to imitate a cardboard Freddy Kruegar standee at a video store.
** In the first ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', ''TheEvilDead'' is seen on a TV, a ShoutOut to a poster for [[WesCraven Wes Craven's]] earlier film ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes'' appearing in ''Film/EvilDead'' (which was itself a ShoutOut to a poster for ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' appearing in ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes''). Then in ''EvilDead 2'', Freddy Kreuger's glove is seen in the shed where Ash creates his chainsaw-hand. Confused yet?
* In ''IndependenceDay'' a character makes a passing reference to the XFiles, conversely, in the first XFiles movie we see Mulder urinating in front of an ''IndependenceDay'' movie poster.

* StarWars and {{ET}} each contain a shoutout to each other.

* A really subtle one with QuestionableContent and {{xkcd}}. Marigold wears an xkcd shirt [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1625 here]], and [[http://xkcd.com/574/ this]] xkcd comic shows one of Hannelore's Twitter posts.

*** Also, Problem Sleuth was apparently in the same universe as [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001555 Jailbreak]] and [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=001577 Bard Quest]], and John in Homestuck [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001931 has video games of all three of these.]] [[BeyondTheImpossible There are probably even more tie-ins than that.]]

* ExcelSaga featured a kid who drew forged key frames from the show PuniPuniPoemi. The show was {{Defictionalized}}, and Puni Puni Poemi, a math problem in school involved the number of cels used in each episode of Excel Saga.

** In the first NightmareOnElmStreet, ''EvilDead'' is seen on a TV, a ShoutOut to a poster for [[WesCraven Wes Craven's]] earlier film ''TheHillsHaveEyes'' appearing in ''EvilDead'' (which was itself a ShoutOut to a poster for ''{{Jaws}}'' appearing in ''TheHillsHaveEyes''). Then in ''EvilDead 2'', Freddy Kreuger's glove is seen in the shed where Ash creates his chainsaw-hand. Confused yet?

* In ''{{Community}}'' Abeds favorite TV show is ''CougarTown'' and in one episode he talks about guest starring on it. In one episode of ''CougarTown'' Laurie and Travis watch the first season of ''{{Community}}'' on dvd. This eventually came full circle with Laurie and Travis as bit characters in the season finale of ''{{Community}}'' and Abed as a bit character on the season finale of ''CougarTown''.

** [[{{House}} Dr. House]] watches ''GossipGirl'' and Blair Waldorf watches ''House''. Leighton Meester, the actress who plays Blair, also guest-starred on an episode of ''House'' as a teenager in love with the titular character. In the 2011 movie ''The Oranges'' Hugh Laurie plays a man who falls in love with a friend's daughter... played by Meester.

* In the first scene of ''Film/{{Scream}}'', the film ''Film/{{Halloween}}'' is the subject of one of the questions the killer asks, and later ''Halloween'' is shown at a party (with one character [[GenreSavvy loudly protesting at the mistakes Laurie Strode is making]]. Likewise, in the ''Halloween'' sequel, ''Halloween: H20'', a couple of characters are watching ''Scream 2'' in one scene.

* TerraObscura. Their science heroes are the stars of comic books in TomStrong's world, and vice versa.

* A tricky one: ''GreenAcres'' coexists with ''PetticoatJunction'', and ''PetticoatJunction'' coexists with ''BeverlyHillbillies'', but Beverly Hillbillies is fictional on Green Acres (and is Eb's favorite show).
** In one episode of "GreenAcres" Eb even watches an episode of "PetticoatJunction"

* [[{{House}} Dr. House]] watches ''GossipGirl'' and Blair Waldorf watches ''House''. Leighton Meester, the actress who plays Blair, also guest-starred on an episode of ''House'' as a teenager in love with the titular character. In the 2011 movie ''The Oranges'' Hugh Laurie plays a man who falls in love with a friend's daughter... played by Meester.

* In the first scene of ''{{Scream}}'', the film ''Film/{{Halloween}}'' is the subject of one of the questions the killer asks, and later ''Halloween'' is shown at a party (with one character [[GenreSavvy loudly protesting at the mistakes Laurie Strode is making]]. Likewise, in the ''Halloween'' sequel, ''Halloween: H20'', a couple of characters are watching ''Scream 2'' in one scene.
* Also, in ''JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'', the duo stumbles upon the the filming of a ''{{Scream}}'' movie. The first movie in the series had a poster for ''{{Clerks}}'', a movie in [[TheViewAskewniverse the same continuity]] as ''Jay and Silent Bob''.

* In the first scene of ''{{Scream}}'', the film ''{{Halloween}}'' is the subject of one of the questions the killer asks, and later ''Halloween'' is shown at a party (with one character [[GenreSavvy loudly protesting at the mistakes Laurie Strode is making]]. Likewise, in the ''Halloween'' sequel, ''Halloween: H20'', a couple of characters are watching ''Scream 2'' in one scene.

[[caption-width-right:307:Top: In ''DoctorWho'', the Tenth Doctor watches ''{{EastEnders}}''. Bottom: in ''[=EastEnders=]'', Bradley and Stacey attend a ''Doctor Who'' convention.]]

* ''DoctorWho'' is fictional in ''{{EastEnders}}'', they have a character who is a fan (Bradley) who even goes to a Doctor Who convention at one point. ''[=EastEnders=]'' is also fictional in ''Doctor Who'' wherein Jackie Tyler is a fan, and ''[=EastEnders=]'' appears ShowWithinAShow style in "Army of Ghosts". The Doctor also references it in "The Satan Pit". There was a crossover between them in 1993 for ''ChildrenInNeed''. In "Dimensions In Time", neither show acknowledges the other's fictionality in it and it isn't considered in continuity for either (one explanation touted by ''Doctor Who'' Spin Off Media is that it was AllJustADream of the Seventh Doctor).

* Played with in M. McGregor's "[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-16694-62/MMcGregor+The+Wonderland+Subject.htm The Wonderland Subject]]", a dimension-hopping ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / UltimateMarvel crossover in which each universe has fiction based on the other one. Xander and Jean Grey spend quite a while [[TheKnightsWhoSaySquee being fannish at each other]].