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* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': The 1990 short ''Box-Office Bunny'', in which Bugs Bunny gets chased around a movie theater, ends with Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd getting thrown into movie screen that just happens to be showing a slasher flick.

-->'''The Mask''': You've been here for 30 years. [[LampshadeHanging You've built a nuclear reactor out of coconuts.]] For the love of God, man! [[JustEatGilligan FIX THE HOLE IN THE BOAT!!]]

** A "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror" segment uses this plot, with Bart and Lisa sucked into ''The Itchy & Scratchy Show''. At one point they change channels, appearing in a ''live action'' snippet of ''Live with Regis and Kathie Lee''.

* Control Freak (again) in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' This time he shoves the team inside "Pretty Pretty Pegasus", a show Raven is obsessed with. She loves it but everyone else is weirded out by it. Control Freak also loves this show, apparently.

** The fanfiction site Website/FimfictionDotNet contains literally thousands of similar fics based on the same premise; a human in the real world, whether a brony, a normal guy, a celebrity, or a self-insert, somehow lands themselves in the MLP universe. HilarityEnsues.

* In ''Literature/TheScumVillainsSelfSavingSystemRenZhaFanpaiZijiuXitong'', Shen Yuan, an anti-fan of trashy WishFulfillment HaremGenre web novel ''Proud Immortal Demon Way'' ends up transmigrated into said series after he dies. He is trapped in the role of SadistTeacher Shen Qingqiu for TheHero Luo Binghe's backstory. His very presence and different choices begins to drastically [[ForWantOfANail alter the course of the story.]]

* ''Fanfic/LockedInDigital'' is about [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku Midoriya]] being kidnapped by a MadScientist with a BodyUploading Quirk and digitized into a computer server. The teen must go through nine different simulations based on early 21st century Horror games, including ''VideoGame/BioShock'' and ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1'', and beat them all within a year before the server overheats and kills him. The story is told as a FlashbackBPlot with the "B" plot itself showing his runs. The "A" plot reveals the aftermath: The simulations have not only taught Izuku a lot of skills like swordmanship and gunmanship but has altered his body into that of borderline superhuman, despite being Quirkless. The downside is he suffers from severe PTSD with BloodKnight tendencies thanks to his struggles to survive which involve [[TheManyDeathsOfYou constantly dying]] and encountering multiple dangers within the games. Unfortunately, Izuku must also deal with going to UA, encountering similar events as his canon self [[ForWantOfANail with his kidnapping being the catalyst of the notable changes]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood}}'', the Televillain goes on a rampage using the miracle of [=TiVo=] and ends up trapping a recent addition to the team on the set of Oprah. Shaft and Cougar go after her and briefly end up on a number of different shows, including a rerun of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''.

* ''ComicBook/WarOfTheGods'' has Creator/GrantMorrison's AuthorAvatar from their run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' appear as a recruit of the ComicBook/SuicideSquad during their tie-in to the event, bemoaning that they've been trapped within the DC Universe after the events of their ''Animal Man'' run and that they can't reliably use their ability to influence the story to defend themself from harm now that their fate is that the mercy of a different writer. Sure enough, they're [[DroppedABridgeOnHim abruptly killed off]] by getting a sudden case of writer's block while the team are fighting off Beastiamorphs.

* In the ''Series/SesameStreet'' special ''Film/WhenYouWishUponaPickle'', a mysterious (and [[AnthropomorphicFood sentient) Wish Pickle]], which grants one wish per customer, is delivered to Sesame Street. Ernie's wish for Bert to be on TV causes Bert to become physically trapped inside the television set and get shuffled from show to show.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' did a MadeForTVMovie, titled ''WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers'', wrapped around a combination of this trope (most examples being stuff you probably grew up with during the '90s) and TimeTravel. Some of the shows parodied in "Channel Chasers" include ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'', ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', ''Series/SesameStreet'', ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (complete with a blackboard gag: "This is the sincerest form of flattery"), ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'', ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}''; however, the movie was more centered on a parody show named "Maho Mushi", which was inspired by many anime shows such as ''Manga/DragonBall'' and ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''.

-->-- '''Carlos''', ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'', "[[Recap/TheMagicSchoolBusS3E3SpinsAWeb The Magic School Bus Spins a Web]]"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'' does this in the episode "Spins a Web", in which the class enters a [[TheFifties 1950s]] sci-fi flick about a town being terrorized by a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever 50-foot]] SlayingMantis. Oddly enough, the Topic of the Week is spiders.

* WebVideo/PawDugan's Top 9 Video Game Composers has Paw and his friends [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses That Chick With The Goggles]], [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] get trapped in video game land by Paw's SuperpoweredEvilSide. The worlds they travel to include ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'', ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'', ''VideoGame/KingsQuestV'', ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'', ''VideoGame/RiverCityRansom'', ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', and ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon''. Worth noting, the lead-in to this video had Paw and company depicted as modified ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' sprites and fighting Dark Paw in the classic turn-based style.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom has quite a few of these. One particularly popular story that spawned an array of RecursiveFanfiction is [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/34702/why-am-i-pinkie-pie ''Why Am I Pinkie Pie''], wherein a human from our world switches brains with the fictional character Pinkie Pie and must figure out a way to switch back. He-In-Pinkie's-Body goes on a grand adventure, while Pinkie-In-His-Body does nothing but watch television in his house her entire stay.

** Another one involves VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog and Dr. Eggman in a similar Teletubby-driven situation as they travel through dimensions.

* Invoked in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'', which features characters from our world attempting to find a way into Amestris (the setting for ''Anime/FullMetalAlchemist'').

* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}: TheMovie'' revolves around Anthony and Ian finding [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube an embarrassing YouTube video of one of themselves]] they want to be removed, resulting in them going to [=YouTube=] headquarters and asking Steve [=YouTube=] to remove it. He then suggests that the two "change the video from the inside", resulting in them travelling through various videos.

* The ''VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries'' -- all two of them -- in which Sonic is pulled into classical storybooks. The first one is based on "Literature/{{Aladdin}}", and the second on Myth/ArthurianLegend. Both featured Sonic the Hedgehog replacing the titled hero, along with the title itself.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' has the science fiction nerd/supervillain Control Freak (who is oddly enough ''not'' a ControlFreak) design a piece of tech to do this intentionally. Beast Boy was the couch potato/cliché expert. Control Freak explicitly did this to obtain various powerful gadgets and abilities from different series to use them against the Titans, [[NotSoHarmlessVillain and actually proves quite dangerous as a result]]. Shows they visit include:

** A WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes spoof with Beast Boy as Wile E. Coyote chasing after Control Freak acting like Roadrunner.