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* In the ''Series/FamilyTies'' episode "Quitting Time," Lauren temporarily drops her senior thesis and spends her time watching TV, including ''Days of Our Children''.
-->'''Lauren''': Zander was about to tell Reef that Brick and Cashmere were trying to frame Skyler for Nicole's murder!


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* Another soap-within-a-soap was ''Fraternity Row'' on ''Series/OneLifeToLive'', which began on the show in 1988 with several regulars getting involved with its production.
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* Soap opera ''Series/{{Generations}}'' seemed like it was going to lean heavily into the usual tropes and cliches right out the gate. In the very first scene, we're introduced to [[LoveTriangle a philandering husband and his amorous secretary]], who worry that his wife's memory, [[EasyAmnesia lost]] when he [[MurderTheHypotenuse tried to kill her]], may soon return. Eventually the scene switches to a couple in bed watching TV, and that's when we learn the first scene was actually from an in-universe show called ''Tomorrow's Another Day''. That's right, a soap within a soap! Things stayed meta for a good while afterward, as an actress on ''Tomorrow's Another Day'' was in fact one of the recurring characters on ''Generations'', concerned that the show was going to kill her off. In retrospect, she had good reason to worry: ''Generations'' lasted less than two years before being cancelled.

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* Soap opera ''Series/{{Generations}}'' ''Series/Generations1988'' seemed like it was going to lean heavily into the usual tropes and cliches right out the gate. In the very first scene, we're introduced to [[LoveTriangle a philandering husband and his amorous secretary]], who worry that his wife's memory, [[EasyAmnesia lost]] when he [[MurderTheHypotenuse tried to kill her]], may soon return. Eventually the scene switches to a couple in bed watching TV, and that's when we learn the first scene was actually from an in-universe show called ''Tomorrow's Another Day''. That's right, a soap within a soap! Things stayed meta for a good while afterward, as an actress on ''Tomorrow's Another Day'' was in fact one of the recurring characters on ''Generations'', concerned that the show was going to kill her off. In retrospect, she had good reason to worry: ''Generations'' lasted less than two years before being cancelled.
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* Soap opera ''Generations'' seemed like it was going to lean heavily into the usual tropes and cliches right out the gate. In the very first scene, we're introduced to [[LoveTriangle a philandering husband and his amorous secretary]], who worry that his wife's memory, [[EasyAmnesia lost]] when he [[MurderTheHypotenuse tried to kill her]], may soon return. Eventually the scene switches to a couple in bed watching TV, and that's when we learn the first scene was actually from an in-universe show called ''Tomorrow's Another Day''. That's right, a soap within a soap! Things stayed meta for a good while afterward, as an actress on ''Tomorrow's Another Day'' was in fact one of the recurring characters on ''Generations'', concerned that the show was going to kill her off. In retrospect, she had good reason to worry: ''Generations'' lasted less than two years before being cancelled.

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* Soap opera ''Generations'' ''Series/{{Generations}}'' seemed like it was going to lean heavily into the usual tropes and cliches right out the gate. In the very first scene, we're introduced to [[LoveTriangle a philandering husband and his amorous secretary]], who worry that his wife's memory, [[EasyAmnesia lost]] when he [[MurderTheHypotenuse tried to kill her]], may soon return. Eventually the scene switches to a couple in bed watching TV, and that's when we learn the first scene was actually from an in-universe show called ''Tomorrow's Another Day''. That's right, a soap within a soap! Things stayed meta for a good while afterward, as an actress on ''Tomorrow's Another Day'' was in fact one of the recurring characters on ''Generations'', concerned that the show was going to kill her off. In retrospect, she had good reason to worry: ''Generations'' lasted less than two years before being cancelled.
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* In the sixth season of the popular Israeli satire show ''Eretz Nehederet'', every episode ended with a GagDub of some Arabic soap opera. The series was titled ''En Gvul laAhava'' (‘Love Is Boundless’), written with a font [[ForeignLookingFont resembling Arabic script]]. One of the characters' daughter called her father ‘[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall pathet]]’ (a word coined by ''Eretz Nehederet'' in a series of sketches joking about Israeli teens), and her father complained it’s ‘[[GenreSavvy all because of television]]’.

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* In the sixth season of the popular Israeli satire show ''Eretz Nehederet'', ''Series/EretzNehederet'', every episode ended with a GagDub of some Arabic soap opera. The series was titled ''En Gvul laAhava'' (‘Love Is Boundless’), written with a font [[ForeignLookingFont resembling Arabic script]]. One of the characters' daughter called her father ‘[[LeaningOnTheFourthWall pathet]]’ (a word coined by ''Eretz Nehederet'' in a series of sketches joking about Israeli teens), and her father complained it’s ‘[[GenreSavvy all because of television]]’.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E2BerryItchyDayHerringEggsOrBust Herring Eggs or Bust]]" introduces ''The Butler of Finicky Manor''. Not much details are given about the storyline of the show, but we do know there's a man who wants to marry a woman who loves Percy Adderfish.
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* The soap opera [[https://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/todays-episode-of-our-ix-lives/ Our IX Lives]] is much beloved my the cast of ''Webcomic/BreakingCatNews''. Except for Elvis, or so he'd like you to believe.

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* The soap opera [[https://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/todays-episode-of-our-ix-lives/ Our IX Lives]] is much beloved my by the cast of ''Webcomic/BreakingCatNews''. Except for Elvis, or so he'd like you to believe.
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* The soap opera [[https://www.breakingcatnews.com/comic/todays-episode-of-our-ix-lives/ Our IX Lives]] is much beloved my the cast of ''Webcomic/BreakingCatNews''. Except for Elvis, or so he'd like you to believe.
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We now return to "[[Series/DaysOfOurLives Tropes of our Lives]]"...
->I'm sorry, JustForFun/TropeTan. We can't be together.\\
Why not, my love? The baby belongs to [[TheStinger Stinger-kun]].\\
You don't understand, Trope-tan... I ''am'' Stinger-kun!\\
'''''[[BigNo NOOOOO!!!!!!]]'''''
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* In ''Film/DoctorInTrouble'', Basil stars in one as Dr. Dare. All the nurses love the show, but Dr. Burke finds it to be a waste of time.
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* In "Is There a Doctor in the House?" from ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Arthur is distracted from housework by a soap opera featuring a guy who admits to a woman that he is not, in fact, Sheldon as he had claimed, but rather his twin, Shelby. "I should have told you sooner, Karen," he says, only for her to tell him that she's not Karen, but rather Kara. "Karen" is her undercover name and she was supposed to arrest him, but she can't, because she loves him.
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** '''[[CatchPhrase Vaya... con DIOS!]]'''

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** '''[[CatchPhrase Vaya... '''Vaya... con DIOS!]]'''DIOS!'''
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# EasyAmnesia (Q: {{Let me get this straight}}… is there ''anyone'' here who doesn't have amnesia? A: I forget…)

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# EasyAmnesia (Q: {{Let me get this straight}}… straight}} is there ''anyone'' here who doesn't have amnesia? A: I forget…)
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* Soap opera ''Generations'' seemed like it was going to lean heavily into the usual tropes and cliches right out the gate. In the very first scene, we're introduced to [[LoveTriangle a philandering husband and his amorous secretary]], who worry that his wife's memory, [[EasyAmnesia erased]] when he [[MurderTheHypotenuse tried to kill her]], may soon return. Eventually the scene switches to a couple in bed watching TV, and that's when we learn the first scene was actually from an in-universe show called ''Tomorrow's Another Day''. That's right, a soap opera within a soap opera! Things stayed meta for a good while afterward, as an actress on ''Tomorrow's Another Day'' was in fact one of the recurring characters on ''Generations'', concerned that the show was going to kill her off. In retrospect, she had good reason to worry: ''Generations'' lasted less than two years before being cancelled.

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* Soap opera ''Generations'' seemed like it was going to lean heavily into the usual tropes and cliches right out the gate. In the very first scene, we're introduced to [[LoveTriangle a philandering husband and his amorous secretary]], who worry that his wife's memory, [[EasyAmnesia erased]] lost]] when he [[MurderTheHypotenuse tried to kill her]], may soon return. Eventually the scene switches to a couple in bed watching TV, and that's when we learn the first scene was actually from an in-universe show called ''Tomorrow's Another Day''. That's right, a soap opera within a soap opera! soap! Things stayed meta for a good while afterward, as an actress on ''Tomorrow's Another Day'' was in fact one of the recurring characters on ''Generations'', concerned that the show was going to kill her off. In retrospect, she had good reason to worry: ''Generations'' lasted less than two years before being cancelled.
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* Soap opera ''Generations'' seemed like it was going to lean heavily into the usual tropes and cliches right out the gate. In the very first scene, we're introduced to [[LoveTriangle a philandering husband and his amorous secretary]], who worry that his wife's memory, [[EasyAmnesia erased]] when he [[MurderTheHypotenuse tried to kill her]], may soon return. Eventually the scene switches to a couple in bed watching TV, and that's when we learn the first scene was actually from an in-universe show called ''Tomorrow's Another Day''. That's right, a soap opera within a soap opera! Things stayed meta for a good while afterward, as an actress on ''Tomorrow's Another Day'' was in fact one of the recurring characters on ''Generations'', concerned that the show was going to kill her off. In retrospect, she had good reason to worry: ''Generations'' lasted less than two years before being cancelled.



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* ''Acorn Antiques'' from ''Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV'' was a parody of everything that was bad about UK soaps of the period. Mostly ''Series/{{Crossroads}}'' (the episode where the antique shop is suddenly a health spa with no explanation is a reference to something very similar happening to the Crossroads Motel), but with a few digs at ''Series/EastEnders'' (such as the tie-in single [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyone_Can_Fall_in_Love "Anyone Can Break a Vase"]]).

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* ''Acorn Antiques'' from ''Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV'' ''Series/VictoriaWoodAsSeenOnTV'' was a parody of everything that was bad about UK soaps of the period. Mostly ''Series/{{Crossroads}}'' (the episode where the antique shop is suddenly a health spa with no explanation is a reference to something very similar happening to the Crossroads Motel), but with a few digs at ''Series/EastEnders'' (such as the tie-in single [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyone_Can_Fall_in_Love "Anyone Can Break a Vase"]]).
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# By the same token, it's common if the show itself is American for the soap opera to be a Spanish-language ''{{telenovela}}''.

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# By the same token, it's common if the show itself is American for the soap opera to be a Spanish-language ''{{telenovela}}''. This might overlap with the subtrope AddictiveForeignSoapOpera if characters get invested in it despite not understanding the language.
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* The daytime television show that Calvin watched in one strip of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''.
-->"Oh, Mary, you look ravishing in that skimpy negligee!
-->Mmm ... darling, don't you wish we were married?
-->[[ComicallyMissingThePoint But we are!]] ... or did you mean to each other?
-->I've got to have you! Let's [[MurderTheHypotenuse murder our spouses]]!
-->Murder?! You sick animal! I love it when you talk that way! Come here!"
** Calvin then commented that he learns things staying home that he would ''never'' find out about in school.

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* The daytime television show that Calvin watched watches in one strip of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''.
-->"Oh,
''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', while at home sick:
-->*kissing sound effects throughout* "Oh,
Mary, you look ravishing in that skimpy negligee!
-->Mmm ...
negligee!"
-->"Mmm...
darling, don't you wish we were married?
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married?"
-->"[[ComicallyMissingThePoint
But we are!]] ... are!]]... or did you mean to each other?
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other?"
-->"I've
got to have you! Let's [[MurderTheHypotenuse murder our spouses]]!
-->Murder?!
spouses]]!"
-->"Murder?!
You sick animal! I love it when you talk that way! Come here!"
** Calvin then commented grins and comments that he learns things staying home that he would ''never'' find out about in school.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kiff}}'': ''Smoldering Cove''. Kiff’s father is a fan, and Kiff herself becomes hooked when [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep Miss Deer Teacher]] forgets to assign homework one night. After overhearing her teacher describe a failed date that sounds a lot like a plot line on the show, Kiff begins giving her romantic advice based on how the plotline progresses, until an episode where it turns out the heroine’s boyfriend is actually a criminal who ties up the heroine and steals her identity. Fearing for her teacher’s life, Kiff and her father rush to rescue her and find her passed out and tied up just like in the show, only to learn that her boyfriend [[ NotWhatItLooksLike wasn’t a criminal; he was just an accountant helping her do her taxes, she had passed out from boredom, and he had tied her to the chair to keep her from falling over and hurting herself.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kiff}}'': ''Smoldering Cove''. Kiff’s father is a fan, and Kiff herself becomes hooked when [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep Miss Deer Teacher]] forgets to assign homework one night. After overhearing her teacher describe a failed date that sounds a lot like a plot line on the show, Kiff begins giving her romantic advice based on how the plotline progresses, until an episode where it turns out the heroine’s boyfriend is actually a criminal who ties up the heroine and steals her identity. Fearing for her teacher’s life, Kiff and her father rush to rescue her and find her passed out and tied up just like in the show, only to learn that her boyfriend [[ NotWhatItLooksLike [[NotWhatItLooksLike wasn’t a criminal; he was just an accountant helping her do her taxes, she had passed out from boredom, and he had tied her to the chair to keep her from falling over and hurting herself.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kiff}}'': ''Smoldering Cove''. Kiff’s father is a fan, and Kiff herself becomes hooked when [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep Miss Deer Teacher]] forgets to assign homework one night. After overhearing her teacher describe a failed date that sounds a lot like a plot line on the show, Kiff begins giving her romantic advice based on how the plotline progresses, until an episode where it turns out the heroine’s boyfriend is actually a criminal who ties up the heroine and steals her identity. Fearing for her teacher’s life, Kiff and her father rush to rescue her and find her passed out and tied up just like in the show, only to learn that her boyfriend [[ NotWhatItLooksLike wasn’t a criminal; he was just an accountant helping her do her taxes, she had passed out from boredom, and he had tied her to the chair to keep her from falling over and hurting herself.]]
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# The theme music and various stingers will often be [[SoapOperaOrganScore melodramatically organ-based]] (akin to radio and early television soap operas), or at least make heavy use of PlayingTheHeartStrings or LonelyPianoPieces.

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# The theme music and various stingers will often be [[SoapOperaOrganScore melodramatically organ-based]] (akin to radio and early television soap operas), or at least make heavy use of PlayingTheHeartStrings or LonelyPianoPieces.[[LonelyPianoPiece Lonely Piano]].
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# In some versions, the theme music and various stingers will be melodramatically organ-based (akin to radio and early television soap operas)

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# In some versions, the The theme music and various stingers will often be [[SoapOperaOrganScore melodramatically organ-based organ-based]] (akin to radio and early television soap operas)operas), or at least make heavy use of PlayingTheHeartStrings or LonelyPianoPieces.

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* ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'': The series 7 episode "A coquettish fascinator" features a task to "write and perform the most suspenseful soap opera cliff-hanger." As nothing says the soap operas in question ("Feelings" and "Cul-de-Sac") have to be ''good,'' the contestants have a grand old time cramming their scenes full of every goofy cliché they can fit into one minute.

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* ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'': The series 7 episode "A coquettish fascinator" features a task to "write and perform the most suspenseful soap opera cliff-hanger." As nothing says the soap operas in question ("Feelings" and "Cul-de-Sac") have to be ''good,'' the contestants have a grand old time cramming their scenes full of every goofy cliché they can fit into one minute.minute, including MySecretPregnancy, WhosYourDaddy, LoveTriangle, MaternityCrisis, CatFight, and SurpriseIncest.
-->'''Phil:''' My water's broken!\\
'''James:''' My heart is broken!\\
'''Rhod:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext Rub-a-]]'''''[[ItMakesSenseInContext dub]]'''''[[ItMakesSenseInContext -dub!]]
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* ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'': The series 7 episode "A coquettish fascinator" features a task to "write and perform the most suspenseful soap opera cliff-hanger." As nothing says the soap operas in question ("Feelings" and "Cul-de-Sac") have to be ''good,'' the contestants have a grand old time cramming their scenes full of every goofy cliché they can fit into one minute.
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# [[TwinTropes Twin Siblings]] (often [[EvilTwin evil]], and characters are often involved, sometimes unknowningly, in an affair with them)

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* In an episode of ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'', Gantu is seen watching a soap opera which involves a woman that has been married 25 times, and most of her previous husbands are apparently in a coma.

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* In an episode of ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'', Gantu is seen watching a soap opera which that involves a woman that has been married 25 times, and most of her previous husbands are apparently in a coma.



* ''newRanma'' features a show by the name of "Nurse Academy" that Kasumi (and her sisters to a lesser extent) is a large fan of. Ranma-chan is a bit confused by the interwoven plots and unrealistic actor ages, but becomes strangely fascinated...

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* The Daytime Drama that is the setting of ''{{Film/Tootsie}}'' fills this out, so much so that the main character's real world Reveal is assumed to just be part of the show.
* Rene Zellweger's title character in ''Film/NurseBetty'' has a brain snap after watching her husband's brutal murder and thinks she's a character on her favorite soap opera, and drives cross-country to work at the hospital the show is based in (or at least one in Los Angeles with a similar name). The DVD even includes episodes of the show in their entirety. They're only five minutes long and exist just to show clips during the movie, but there's a coherent plot running through them. Expectedly, all the soap cliches are shown in full, right down to that damn fuzzy camera.
* One of the main characters in ''Film/TheRealBlonde'' acts in an insipid daytime soap opera despite being a classically trained actor. He hates it, but likes the money enough to stay. He eventually leverages his character's popularity to get his ex-girlfriend's character killed.

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* The Daytime Drama that is the setting of ''{{Film/Tootsie}}'' fills this out, so much so that the main character's real world real-world Reveal is assumed to just be part of the show.
* Rene Zellweger's title character in ''Film/NurseBetty'' has a brain snap after watching her husband's brutal murder and thinks she's a character on her favorite soap opera, opera and drives cross-country to work at the hospital the show is based in (or at least one in Los Angeles with a similar name). The DVD even includes episodes of the show in their entirety. They're only five minutes long and exist just to show clips during the movie, but there's a coherent plot running through them. Expectedly, all the soap cliches are shown in full, right down to that damn fuzzy camera.
* One of the main characters in ''Film/TheRealBlonde'' acts in an insipid daytime soap opera despite being a classically trained actor. He hates it, it but likes the money enough to stay. He eventually leverages his character's popularity to get his ex-girlfriend's character killed.



* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' has one that shows up when Edward and Nathaniel are channel-surfing. For bonus points it features a cameo of Paige O'Hara, who voiced Belle in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''.

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* ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' has one that shows up when Edward and Nathaniel are channel-surfing. For bonus points points, it features a cameo of Paige O'Hara, who voiced Belle in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''.



* One episode of ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has the the titular agency investigate a stabbing that was the result of a prop knife being swapped for a real one. Over the course of the episode nearly all cast members except Shawn and Lassiter are revealed as viewers. Even better, it was a Spanish-language ''{{telenovela}}'', themselves known for being over-the-top.

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* One episode of ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has the the titular agency investigate a stabbing that was the result of a prop knife being swapped for a real one. Over the course of the episode episode, nearly all cast members except Shawn and Lassiter are revealed as viewers. Even better, it was a Spanish-language ''{{telenovela}}'', themselves known for being over-the-top.



* The telenovela in ''Series/UglyBetty'', which has the added bonus in that non-Spanish speakers will have an even harder time understanding what's going on.
* An episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' had her inspired by Aunt Hilda's favourite soap ''Burden of Desire'' and so opens a "Can of Worms" to make her life more interesting. Highlights include Harvey getting amnesia, a hunky janitor with an eyepatch, Libby framing Sabrina for stealing an engagement ring and two minor characters discovering they are long lost brother and sister.
* ''Series/TwinPeaks'' had one called ''Invitation to Love'' in which [[CrystalBallScheduling the action closely mirrored the story of the show]]. A lot was filmed, but most was cut away in post production.

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* The telenovela in ''Series/UglyBetty'', which has the added bonus in that non-Spanish speakers will have an even harder time understanding what's going on.
* An episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' had her inspired by Aunt Hilda's favourite soap ''Burden of Desire'' and so opens a "Can of Worms" to make her life more interesting. Highlights include Harvey getting amnesia, a hunky janitor with an eyepatch, Libby framing Sabrina for stealing an engagement ring ring, and two minor characters discovering they are long lost long-lost brother and sister.
* ''Series/TwinPeaks'' had one called ''Invitation to Love'' in which [[CrystalBallScheduling the action closely mirrored the story of the show]]. A lot was filmed, but most was cut away in post production.post-production.



* An episode of ''Series/{{ALF}}'' had ALF writing for a soap opera, with a lot of the storylines taken from the Tanners day-to-day life, but soapified. Then the family asked him to stop using them for material, and his scripts got blander ... so the executives soapified them ''further''. Cue the family suspecting that the outrageous stuff now in the soap really happened.

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* An episode of ''Series/{{ALF}}'' had ALF writing for a soap opera, with a lot of the storylines taken from the Tanners Tanners' day-to-day life, but soapified. Then the family asked him to stop using them for material, and his scripts got blander ... so the executives soapified them ''further''. Cue the family suspecting that the outrageous stuff now in the soap really happened.



* Implied in ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' in the episode "[[Recap/SherlockS01E03TheGreatGame The Great Game]]", where Sherlock watches day-time tv and winds up yelling at it.
--> '''Sherlock''': No, no, [[BigNo NOOOOOO]]! OF COURSE he's not the boy's father! [[SherlockScan Look at the turn-ups on his jeans!]]

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* Implied in ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' in the episode "[[Recap/SherlockS01E03TheGreatGame The Great Game]]", where Sherlock watches day-time daytime tv and winds up yelling at it.
--> '''Sherlock''': -->'''Sherlock''': No, no, [[BigNo NOOOOOO]]! OF COURSE he's not the boy's father! [[SherlockScan Look at the turn-ups on his jeans!]]



* Lorenna in ''Series/TheBrothersGarcia'' is addicted to telenovellas as a RunningGag. One episode even has her trying to set the world record for longest time spent watching them.

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* ''Series/{{Boris}}'': The entire show revolves around the behind the scenes of a television set, where a dysfunctional troupe is shooting the awful soap-opera ''The Eyes of the Heart'', a satirical portrait of all the worst soap-opera and melodrama clichés (pretty much all the ones listed in this page and more).

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* ''Series/{{Boris}}'': The entire show revolves around the behind the scenes behind-the-scenes of a television set, where a dysfunctional troupe is shooting the awful soap-opera soap opera ''The Eyes of the Heart'', a satirical portrait of all the worst soap-opera and melodrama clichés (pretty much all the ones listed in this page and more).



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* The intro to ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn'' flips though several TV channels, one featuring two people who yell at each other, [[SlapSlapKiss slap each other in the face and then kiss]] to swelling music.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' had one with a gun toting Mexican priest/assassin (''Los Dias y Las Noches de Monsignor Martinez''). It looked awesome.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' had one with a gun toting gun-toting Mexican priest/assassin (''Los Dias y Las Noches de Monsignor Martinez''). It looked awesome.



* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Roger watches what's supposed to be ''Series/{{Dynasty|1981}}'', but the only scene we ever see is the two main women slapping each other and calling each other "bitch" in turn. The scenery changes sometimes, but they are always doing the same thing.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Roger watches what's supposed to be ''Series/{{Dynasty|1981}}'', but the only scene we ever see is are the two main women slapping each other and calling each other "bitch" in turn. The scenery changes sometimes, but they are always doing the same thing.



** Doofenshmirtz interrupted a Football match to keep seeing his Telenovela: El Matador de Amor. Describing it as "three simultaneous story lines that interconnect... Genius! Anyway, the last episode was a cliffhanger...s".
* The Autobots of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' were partial to ''[[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/As_the_Kitchen_Sinks As the Kitchen Sinks]]'', which features drama such as an affair between Donna and Gordon, Sheryl's will (which Jack apparently didn't know about), and (in a deleted line), the will actually belonging to Bob, who named Katy as his successor!

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** Doofenshmirtz interrupted a Football match to keep seeing his Telenovela: El Matador de Amor. Describing it as "three simultaneous story lines storylines that interconnect... Genius! Anyway, the last episode was a cliffhanger...s".
* The Autobots of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' were partial to ''[[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/As_the_Kitchen_Sinks As the Kitchen Sinks]]'', which features drama such as an affair between Donna and Gordon, Sheryl's will (which Jack apparently didn't know about), and (in a deleted line), the they will actually belonging to Bob, who named Katy as his successor!



-->'''Hugh:''' It's impossible to answer, because Dakota's evil twin wasn't hatched, she was [[EvilKnockoff cloned]] by Dr. Meldak's [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous wife]]'s ex-husband's [[TangledFamilyTree former lovechild]]! ''[[CaptainObvious Duh!]]''

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-->'''Hugh:''' It's impossible to answer, answer because Dakota's evil twin wasn't hatched, she was [[EvilKnockoff cloned]] by Dr. Meldak's [[ClingyJealousGirl jealous wife]]'s ex-husband's [[TangledFamilyTree former lovechild]]! ''[[CaptainObvious Duh!]]''



* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode, "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS3E4StarCrossedCircuits Star Crossed Circuits]]", Darkwing's new super computer becomes convinced that "she's" a character from a Soap Opera called, "The Young and the Brainless" and that she's in love with Darkwing.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode, "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS3E4StarCrossedCircuits Star Crossed Circuits]]", Darkwing's new super computer supercomputer becomes convinced that "she's" a character from a Soap Opera called, "The Young and the Brainless" and that she's in love with Darkwing.



* ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'': Jane, Rosie and Astro are watching "All My Androids". All three are in tears as "Galaxina threatens to pull the plug on her romance".

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* ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'': Jane, Rosie Rosie, and Astro are watching "All My Androids". All three are in tears as "Galaxina threatens to pull the plug on her romance".



** Later on, [[spoiler: Peridot]], of all people, ends up hooked on a Canadian summer-camp drama called ''Camp Pining Hearts''. Or rather, hooked on one episode for 78 hours. At first, Steven decides not to tell her there's more than one episode. Eventually, she watches more, as she and Steven agree that season 5 was terrible, and she even gets [[spoiler: Lapis Lazuli]] into it.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' has "Hospital of Horrors", which based on dialogue, appears to be horror themed, given that in a ZombieApocalypse episode, background character Millie states her zombified friend had eyes like a character from the show and another episode has a reference to giving someone a transfusion of poodle blood.

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** Later on, [[spoiler: Peridot]], of all people, ends up hooked on a Canadian summer-camp summer camp drama called ''Camp Pining Hearts''. Or rather, hooked on one episode for 78 hours. At first, Steven decides not to tell her there's more than one episode. Eventually, she watches more, as she and Steven agree that season 5 was terrible, and she even gets [[spoiler: Lapis Lazuli]] into it.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' has "Hospital of Horrors", which based on dialogue, appears to be horror themed, horror-themed, given that in a ZombieApocalypse episode, background character Millie states her zombified friend had eyes like a character from the show and another episode has a reference to giving someone a transfusion of poodle blood.



* In the beginning of the second episode of ''WesternAnimation/DinoSquad'', [[TheSmartGuy Roger]] lays into his teammates about not getting the respect he deserves.

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* In At the beginning of the second episode of ''WesternAnimation/DinoSquad'', [[TheSmartGuy Roger]] lays into his teammates about not getting the respect he deserves.
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* ''Series/{{Insecure}}'' has ''Due North'', a parody of {{prime time soap}}s like ''Series/{{Empire}}'', about a black slave involved in a clandestine romance with her master. This one is so elaborate that the writers actually wrote 13 episodes, along with creating a set and casting Regina Hall and [[Series/{{Scandal}} Scott Foley.]]

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* ''Series/{{Insecure}}'' has ''Due North'', a parody of {{prime time soap}}s like ''Series/{{Empire}}'', about a black slave involved in a clandestine romance with her master. This one is so elaborate that the writers actually wrote 13 episodes, along with creating a set and casting Regina Hall Creator/ReginaHall and [[Series/{{Scandal}} Scott Foley.]] Creator/ScottFoley.

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