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-->-- '''OpeningNarration''' for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a76cFdO1btk The Itchy and Scratchy Show]]'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[note]]''The Itchy and Scratchy Show'' is actually a segment on ''The Krusty the Klown Show''. ''The Simpsons'' was once a segment on ''The Tracy Ullman Show''. So, technically, that makes it a [[UpToEleven Show Within A Show, within a former Show Within A Show]]. Or [[Film/{{Inception}} Showception]], for short.[[/note]]

* "Fitness con Dark Angel" at Wrestling/{{CMLL}}. Five episodes were put on Youtube in 2014.

* All the [[TalkShowWithFists Talk Shows With Fists]].

For the pre-television history of this trope, [[ZerothLawOfTropeExamples once again]] we must go back to Creator/WilliamShakespeare, who featured plays within plays both in comedy -- ''The Most Lamentable Comedy, and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe'' within ''AMidsummerNightsDream'', and ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' actually ''is'' one by means of a FramingDevice -- and in tragedy (''The Murder of Gonzago'' within ''{{Hamlet}}'').

* ''TabletopGames/{{GURPS}}
* ''GURPS Magical Items 3'' includes a brief description of a setting where TheFairFolk battle with {{Magitek}} HumongousMecha in the chapter describing such mecha. The vignette for an earlier chapter on magic toys suggests that this setting is a popular kids' TV show in the world of ''TabletopGame/GURPSTechnomancer'', with its own line of living action figures.

Compare with SchoolPlay, SoapWithinAShow, WhoWouldWantToWatchUs, FictionalDocument, FramingDevice, RecursiveFiction, RecursiveReality (of the "nested stories" variety), MutuallyFictional, PushedInFrontOfTheAudience, PostModernism, PlotParallel.

* SHINE Wrestling has "Lucha Family Films(This does not exist)".[[/folder]]

* ''GURPS Magical Items 3'' includes a brief description of a setting where TheFairFolk battle with {{Magitek}} HumongousMecha in the chapter describing such mecha. The vignette for an earlier chapter on magic toys suggests that this setting is a popular kids' TV show in the world of ''GURPS Technomancer'', with its own line of living action figures.
** The opening vignette of ''Technomancer'' has a police mage channel-surfing while on stakeout. What she finds are mostly news and commercials, but there's a trailer for a show where [[Series/TheXFiles FBI agents Cat Morrigan and Dara Skuld]] investigate rumours of TheFairFolk.

* ''TabletopGames/{{GURPS}} Magical Items 3'' includes a brief description of a setting where TheFairFolk battle with {{Magitek}} HumongousMecha in the chapter describing such mecha. The vignette for an earlier chapter on magic toys suggests that this setting is a popular kids' TV show in the world of ''GURPS Technomancer'', with its own line of living action figures.

* TabletopGames/{{GURPS}} Magical Items 3'' includes a brief description of a setting where TheFairFolk battle with {{Magitek}} HumongousMecha in the chapter describing such mecha. The vignette for an earlier chapter on magic toys suggests that this setting is a popular kids' TV show in the world of ''GURPS Technomancer'', with its own line of living action figures.

-->-- '''OpeningNarration''' for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a76cFdO1btk The Itchy and Scratchy Show]]'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[note]]''The Itchy and Scratchy Show'' is actually a segment on ''The Krusty the Klown Show''. ''The Simpsons'' was once a segment on ''The Tracy Ullman Show''. So, technically, that makes it a [[UpToEleven Show Within A Show Within A Show Within A Show]].[[/note]]

-->-- '''OpeningNarration''' for ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a76cFdO1btk The Itchy and Scratchy Show]]'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[note]]''The Itchy and Scratchy Show'' is actually a segment on ''The Krusty the Klown Show''. ''The Simpsons'' was once a segment on ''The Tracy Ullman Show''. So, technically, that makes it a [[UpToEleven Show Within A Show Within A Show Within A Show Within A Show]].[[/note]]

* ShowWithinAShow/{{Live-Action Films}}

* ShowWithinAShow/{{Live-Action TV}}

-->-- '''OpeningNarration''' for ''[[TropeCodifier The Itchy and Scratchy Show]]'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[note]]''The Itchy and Scratchy Show'' is actually a segment on ''The Krusty the Klown Show''. ''The Simpsons'' was once a segment on ''The Tracy Ullman Show''. So, technically, that makes it a [[UpToEleven Show Within A Show Within A Show Within A Show Within A Show]].[[/note]]

-->-- '''OpeningNarration''' for ''The Itchy and Scratchy Show'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[note]]''The Itchy and Scratchy Show'' is actually a segment on ''The Krusty the Klown Show''. ''The Simpsons'' was once a segment on ''The Tracy Ullman Show''. So, technically, that makes it a [[UpToEleven Show Within A Show Within A Show Within A Show Within A Show]].[[/note]]

[[MemeticMutation Yo dawg, we heard you like shows, so we put a show in your show so you can...]] sorry, just had to get that out of the way.

* ''Dog City'' (the cartoon) in ''DogCity''.
* ''The Muppet Show'' on ''TheMuppetShow''.
* In an episode of ''{{Dinosaurs}}'' (the early '90's animatronic puppet show), Earl watches a sock-puppet show where a woman refers to some skanky-looking characters as "cheap hose/ho's." (See {{Parental Bonus}}.) He says something close to, "I love this show. It's got one meaning that's funny for grown-ups, and one that's funny for kids!"

For the pre-television history of this trope, [[ZerothLawOfTropeExamples once again]] we must go back to Creator/WilliamShakespeare, who featured plays within plays both in comedy; ''The Most Lamentable Comedy, and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe'' within ''AMidsummerNightsDream'', and ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' actually ''is'' one by means of a FramingDevice, and in tragedy (''The Murder of Gonzago'' within ''{{Hamlet}}'').

Yo dawg, we heard you like shows, so we put a show in your show so you can... sorry, just had to get that out of the way.