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* A [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Billy & Mandy]] story in ''Cartoon Network Block Party'' has Grim conveniently using his scythe to find out what Nostradamus is talking about, prompting Mandy to turn to the reader and comment "Doesn't this comic have ''any'' standards?"

** In ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski'', 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.

''(both look out of panel)''

* In ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'' the series, an episode ends with the Worm characters shown to have gone to Hollywood to make a movie called ''Men In Black''. The clip of it has a Jay and Kay made to resemble more their movie counterparts. Unlike the real movie, though, the Worms themselves took a lead role...

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** Used in [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-3-is-totally-gay/03-when-amber-met-nathan/cars/ this strip]], where Jazz and Bumblebee of the {{Transformers}} watch Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/Cars1'' and complain about the silliness of a planet of vehicles without any drivers.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** Spider-Man was once asked to star in a movie about himself -- the offer turned out to be a trap set (somewhat ironically) by the [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]], who made his debut in that issue.

** In ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManJMichaelStraczynski'', 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.

** The ''Papernovela'' (a parody of South-American soap operas written and drawn by [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs a woman who is either a genious or completely insane]]) had the in-universe cast blatantly based on Scrooge and family plus friends and some enemies, and played by them. One episode also had superheroes playing themselves, and another did the same with the ''Yeti''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': In "Out of the Past", Terry takes Bruce to watch ''Batman the Musical''. [[OtherMeAnnoysMe He is not amused]], not least because it more resembles [[Series/Batman1966 the '60s TV show]] than his own life.

* In ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', the characters are the one putting on the production. In this instance, however, Kyon [[StylisticSuck does have a point.]]

** Used in [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2006/comic/book-3-is-totally-gay/03-when-amber-met-nathan/cars/ this strip]], where Jazz and Bumblebee of the {{Transformers}} watch Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' and complain about the silliness of a planet of vehicles without any drivers.
** There's a followup [[http://www.shortpacked.com/2011/comic/book-13/03-fishin-chicks/carstwo/ gag strip]] for ''Cars 2'' in which they also poke fun at a race of machines with two genders but a seeming 20:1 male:female ratio.

-->'''Bree:''' Ana, I'm wanting to create a comic strip. It'll focus on your blind baby cousin, Kurami, and our [[IncrediblyLamePun big]] struggles as [[BigBeautifulWoman busty, plus-size women]].\\

* Mid-nineties Venezuelan SoapOpera ''Los Amores de Anita Peña'' (roughly "''Anita Peña's Beloveds''"), after an AllJustADream revelation, spends half of its last episode with the title protagonist telling a man (the original author and main writer of the show, in a [[TheCameo cameo]]) all her (dreamed) history. Later, the man is seen presenting "his" idea in a meeting with producers and executives of the TV channel which actually produced and broadcast the soap opera... and the meeting ends with the writer literally kicked out, his idea dismissed. Since this show, while very funny and based on the {{subver|tedTrope}}sion and parody of every trope related to the Latin American take on soap operas, was not as popular as the executives wanted, it can be seen as a [[TruthInTelevision subtle revenge]] or as [[LampshadeHanging the awful truth]].

-->'''Opus:''' It stars two young boys, a guy in a wheelchair, a big-mouthed lawyer with sunglasses, a little hacker, a flightless [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Antarctic waterfowl]], and a long-tongued, occasionally-dead Communist cat who barfs a lot.\\

* ''Series/{{UFO}}''. PlayedForDrama in "Mindbender". [[GreenRocks Alien crystals]] make Commander Straker hallucinate that he's an actor in a sci-fi television series. As he remembers being Straker, but can clearly see the cameras and backstage crew around him, he naturally starts to go insane.

* Parodied in the ''Film/SuperMarioBros'' Movie. Anyone who stuck around for TheStinger was treated to a clip of two Japanese businessmen talking to the two "heroes" offscreen, proposing to make a video game based on their adventure. The "heroes" are then revealed to be Iggy and Spike (King Koopa's nephews), whose suggested title for the game is "''The Super Koopa Cousins''".

* A serious version appears in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', when Frodo and Sam spend some time discussing whether or not their adventure would make a good story in the future, and who would be people's favourite character. More importantly, they wonder if it has a happy ending.
* As the page quote demonstrates, Anne Frank wrote that she could not imagine anyone finding much interesting to read about in [[Literature/TheDiaryOfAYoungGirl her diary]]. Several decades after her death, this has proven not to be the case.

* In ''Merry Wives of Maggody'', a DeadpanSnarker dismisses the possibility that an inquisitive visitor might be writing a book about the town, on the grounds that nobody would want to read one.

* This happens a ''lot'' in ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'', where Holmes frequently alludes to Watson's stories during his cases, e.g., wondering what his readers would think if Watson described the screw-up Holmes just committed in one of his future memoirs; or chiding Watson for "sensationalizing" cases that, to Holmes, are simply cold, dry facts to make them into exciting mystery stories. And since the Sherlock Holmes stories are Watson's memoirs, that means Watson records Holmes' suggestions or comments about his stories into his next stories, apparently for his fictional readers' amusement. Watsonception!