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## [[TeamMom Katara]] as a much older (and chubbier/fuller) [[{{Melodrama}} melodramatic]] [[LargeHam ham]];

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* ''Manga/SailorMoon'', Japanese episode 21, has Usagi (after seeing the ''Sailor V'' anime) wishing someone would make an anime of her, to which Luna replies that nobody would be interested. This episode was also a small TakeThat at the fact there was supposed to be a real life ''Sailor V'' anime (or at least an OAV) but the creator was asked to expand the series into a team format and ended up creating ''Sailor Moon''.

'''Bruce:''' Don't remind me.\\

Compare the DocumentaryEpisode and IShouldWriteABookAboutThis. Compare and contrast LiteraryAgentHypothesis, in which the book/film/show/etc. about the cast's adventures is the ''actual'' book/film/show/etc. See also FilmFelons, OhCrapThereAreFanficsOfUs.

** In ''JMSSpiderMan'', Aunt May jokes about someone making a movie about Spider-Man. Eventually they go to Los Angeles to visit Mary Jane, who is starring in a moving called "The Amazing Lobster-Man." Production is complicated by the filmmakers' debating whether the title character should be bitten by a radioactive lobster or something more important like a lobster god, and by Dr. Octopus.

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->''"Who'd want to watch a ''Powerpuff'' movie? What a dumb idea."''
-->-- '''Professor Utonium''', ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls''

** It turns out that a prophet has been writing a book series about Sam and Dean (with titles the same as those of the respective episodes). It was only popular with a cult following, and got cancelled after "No Rest for the Wicked" (the book), but Chuck keeps writing since he still gets the visions. In "The Real Ghostbusters" (about a third of the way through season five), Chuck says the book series is going to be revived.

* In ''{{Thunderbirds}}'', Scott and Virgil are offered a chance to star in a movie about Martians, to which Scott replies "I guess we're not the movie star type." Despite this, they became stars in not ''one'' but '''''two''''' movies afterwards.

* The ''FarmVille''-esque iOS game ''TheSimpsons: Tapped Out'' begins with Homer playing on his "[=myPad=]":

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* Mentioned in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. As Tucker puts it, who'd want to watch them, as all they ever do is stand around and talk.
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* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', Zoe retells her friends' adventures on the radio, only changing their names slightly (Gwen instead of Gwynn, for example). Her friends are all humiliated by this, with Riff being extra-pissed that she claims he threw poop at a monkey. He actually built a poop-hurling ballista (giant crossbow).

* [[http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=1227 This strip]] of ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' has taken this and manages to make it even more meta- than it already is.

* In ''WebComic/SabrinaOnline'', Sabrina is either oblivious or in complete denial that her webcomic is a thinly-veiled retelling of the eponymous webcomic.

-->'''K:''' Looks like we have to neuralize Hollywood. ''Again.''\\
'''J:''' So ''that's'' why they keep making the same movies over and over!

* The ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' episode "Lost and Found in Translation" plays with this, turning an episode of ''BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'' into a Japanese TV series based off of the Dino Thunder Rangers. Conner initially dislikes it because he thinks they're making fun of the Rangers, but eventually he recognizes it as different, but not bad. This was intended as a poke at the "Sentai purists" who despise ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' as an embarrassment to ''Franchise/SuperSentai''; ironically, their attitude towards this episode was nearly identical to Conner's InUniverse reaction.

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-->'''Artax:''' Why yes, I often mull over that tale! In fact, I wish I had it in a printed form, about 32 pages long, with pictures, clever drawings, and even a letters page. I'd buy as many copies as I could for about three silvers each[[hottip:*:About $2.95]]. They'd be a great gift for people of all ages!

* This was actually used in a 1963 ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'' animated series. Kokonino Kounty is bankrupt and characters start throwing suggestions on how to gain money. Ignatz suggest that they sell themselves to television. Officer Pup laughs it out, only for Ignatz to throw a brick at him and say "Go ahead and laugh! They laughed at Al Brodax[[hottip:*:the show's executive producer]], too!"

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* ''Manga/SailorMoon'', Japanese episode 21, has Usagi (after seeing the ''Sailor V'' anime) wishing someone would make an anime of her, to which Luna replies that nobody would be interested. This episode was also a small TakeThat at the fact there was supposed to be a Real life of a ''Sailor V'' anime (or at least an OAV) but the creator was asked to expand the series into a team format and ended up creating ''Sailor Moon''.

* ''Anime/SpiderRiders'': The episode "Hero Act" has the main characters viewing a play detailing the exploits of a legendary Spider Rider, only the real actors deciede to quite before the next showing. So Hunter (naturally) volunteers himself and Shadow as replacements. And as one would expect CharacterExaggeration and bad acting ensues.
* In ''Manga/RaveMaster'' there's a village of "manga-publishing demons", and one of them has a weekly series known as ''Rave Master'', a story about a blond sword fighter with magical stones. It's apparently based off a true story. To the cast's despair, the characters are far from acurate (with the exception of Ruby).

-->'''Keroro:''' ''WHAT THE HELL IS THIS CRAP?! This 'Baron Keroro' character is a bufoon!!!''

* In the ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' AU manga ''Manga/ShinjiIkariRaisingProject'', during a field trip to see the HumongousMecha Jet Alone, one of the students wonders why such a thing would be used. Shinji speculates that it could be used if giant monsters attacked, but Asuka interrupts, saying that it sounds like the plot for a cheesy, psudo-symbolist anime, with a low budget and ambiguous ending.

** In another story where WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck makes some rather pitiful attempts to write a novel, and at first only gets ideas that have [[ItsBeenDone already been used]] in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'' and ''Literature/MobyDick'', which Huey, Dewey and Louie happily point out. Donald eventually turns to them and sarcastically suggests he could write about something no-one has thought of before: an average duck who lives with his three annoying nephews. The nephews are quick to tell him that the idea is simply [[SelfDeprecation too bad for anyone to think of it]].
* Happens in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' sequel comics. After Los Angeles gets dragged to Hell and back, some bright spark gets the idea to do a movie based on Angel's adventures there -- which Angel and Spike go and see in the course of an adventure, and which has a ComicBookAdaptation [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis in our world]] as an ''Angel'' annual.
* In the final issues of Milligan's ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'' after Creator/{{DC|Comics}} had decided to cancel, Lenny is describing Shade to her father.

* ''Series/DreamOn'' has a couple-episode plot of a movie being made of the protagonist's ex-wife's perfect husband's life. Protagonist falls in love with the woman playing his ex-wife.
* Also happened in ''[[Film/ShanghaiNoon Shanghai Knights]]'', where Roy (Owen Wilson) tries to sell Jackie Chan's character, a Chinese cowboy named [[Creator/JohnWayne Chon Wang]] on the idea of the then-new "moving pictures", even going so far as to suggest, "You could do your own stunts!" In a slight subversion, Chon nods and replies:

* They do this in ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'', where Trevet, using another one of his {{Get Rich Quick Scheme}}s suggests they make a show about their lives as Texas Rangers. The rest of the cast wave him off. However they do play with the idea of who would play their characters if the show was real, ironically using their actual actors names.

* ''Series/EarlyEdition'' Chuck tries pitching a series about a guy who gets tomorrow's newspaper with no success.

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* In ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'', when Jay and Silent Bob confront Holden over image rights for the upcoming ''Bluntman and Chronic'' movie, Holden says, "A Jay and Silent Bob movie? Who'd pay to see that?" (All three then glance silently at the camera; Jay winks, and Silent Bob grins comically.) Later, while walking out of a movie theater, Alyssa (the female lead from ''Film/ChasingAmy'') says, "''Chasing Amy''? That would never work as a movie." At some point, Marshall Willenholly reacts to hearing a rather asinine plot point with, "Sounds like something out of a bad movie." (All characters in the scene then again glance at the camera.)

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''

** And ''again'' when Sam and Dean are transported to an alternate universe... where they're actors named JaredPadalecki and JensenAckles on a TV show called ''Supernatural''.

* ''DreamOn'' has a couple-episode plot of a movie being made of the protagonist's ex-wife's perfect husband's life. Protagonist falls in love with the woman playing his ex-wife.

## [[TheMessiah Aang]] as a [[CrossdressingVoices Woman]] (actually a small woman playing a boy a la ''Theatre/PeterPan'' -- and in a case of life imitating art, a woman did many of Aang's stunts in the live-action movie);

* In ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'', when Jay and Silent Bob confront Holden over image rights for the upcoming ''Bluntman and Chronic'' movie, Holden says, "A Jay and Silent Bob movie? Who'd pay to see that?" (All three then glance silently at the camera, one of them nods slightly, Silent Bob grins comically.) Later, Alyssa (the female lead from ''Film/ChasingAmy'') says, "''Chasing Amy''? That would never work as a movie." At some point, Marshall Willenholly reacts to hearing a rather asinine plot point with, "Sounds like something out of a bad movie."

* ''Manga/DragonBall''