History ShowWithinAShow / WesternAnimation

** In another episode, pitches ''Doof 'n Puss'', a ridiculous take on buddy cop shows, which was to star Doof and Perry the Platypus. The show eventually makes to air as ''The Platypus and His Girlfriend'', without Doofenshmirtz.

* Rusty Venture had his own cartoon in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. As a result, many people finish his own anecdotes for him - and he's left wondering what were his actual experiences and what were just cartoon episodes.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode O.R.B. featured the ''Rusty Venture Show'' [=DVDs=] in which a critical clue to the orb mystery was hidden in a single frame of a sniper rifle shot. [[spoiler:It was a URL for a google map of the Venture compound.]]

* ''The Brown Hornet'' cartoon on ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'', also [[FictionalVideoGame an arcade game]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "I Have No Son" created Rocko and Filburt's favorite ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]]''-esque grossout [[WidgetSeries nonsense show]], ''The Fatheads''. Then, in a variety-one example, in the fan-beloved sequel episode "Wacky Delly", the creator of ''The Fatheads'' cancels the show and lets the main characters ghost-write the eponymous and unintentionally {{Dada|Comics}}ist cartoon [[SpringtimeForHitler so it can be cancelled and they can retire]]. It doesn't work.

** Season 5, episode 20, "Hawk & Chick", involves Bob and Louise meeting the titular actors of their favorite series of B-movie samurai flicks.

** ''Terrance and Philip'', a show involing two Canadian friends farting on each other and everyone they meet, which the boys are huge fans of, along with a similar series called ''The Queef Sisters'', a show involing two Canadian sisters queefing on each other and everyone they meet, which ''the girls'' are huge fans of.

** In "Tentacle-Vision", Fab and Fancy.

** In the episode "Your Shoe's Untied", SpongeBob was [[Main/ParentalBonus secretely watching a dancing amenone and when Gary arrived, he quickly switched the channel to the sports channel.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', one of Patrick's favorite shows is Sir Urchin and Snail Fail. There is even an entire episode dedicated to that show, where the titular characters split up after a fight.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' has numerous shows that Anne has downloaded on her phone, which she shares with the Plantars. "Suspicion Island" seems like a blend of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', "Love Choice" is a teen romance about a girl having to chose between [[SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan sensitive guy Alastair and manly man Hunter]] (causing the town to descend into a literal shipping war), and "Ab-snatchers" seems to be a crime drama about someone literally stealing people's abs. Later in Season 3, while living in LA, the Plantars become fans of a ''Series/DowntonAbbey''-esque Victorian-era soap opera called “Printhistle Manor”

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' has numerous shows that Anne has downloaded on her phone, which she shares with the Plantars. "Suspicion Island" seems like a blend of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'', "Love Choice" is a teen romance about a girl having to chose between [[SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan sensitive guy Alastair and manly man Hunter]] (causing the town to descend into a literal shipping war), and "Ab-snatchers" seems to be a crime drama about someone literally stealing people's abs.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', Luz is a huge fan of a book series called ''The Good Witch Azura'', which she often tries to imitate during the first season, but unfortunately the Boiling Isles is [[WrongGenreSavvy nothing like those stories.]] Amity Blight is later revealed to also be a fan of the series; Luz loaning her the latest entry ends up being a big step in them developing from rivals to friends [[spoiler: and eventually girlfriends]].

** ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', which is a segment of the ''Krusty the Klown'' show, making it a show within a show ''within'' a show (And at a time, a show within a show within a show '''within''' ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow''...) Also a Homer gets involved for the episode in which he voices Poochie, a temporary costar to Itchy and Scratchy.

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': "Spaghetti Western and Meatballs" has Bob and Gene bonding over ''Banjo'', a series of spaghetti Westerns about a MusicalAssassin gunslinger.

* ''Hello, Megan'' from ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' is Miss Martian's favorite show. It wasn't popular in-universe, however, and only lasted one season.

** In "The Gray Ghost", the villain's MO is patterned after that of a villain in the show ''The Gray Ghost''; Bats also ends up teaming up with the show's hero, who's played by [[AdamWesting Adam West]] of all people.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' has an episode in which our heroes are TrappedInTVLand and must navigate the troperiffic parodyscape of gameshows, soap operas, sports programming, [[Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon ominous swamps]], the black-and-white [[TheFifties fifties]] and [[Franchise/StarWars Star Destroyers]].

** ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' had the season five episode "Neighbor Hood," which had Bubbles as a loyal viewer of a children's TV show that enticed kids to send "magic paper" from their parents' wallets to the show to keep it alive (a reference to a stunt Creator/SoupySales pulled on his show in the 1960s). This was intened to be a season one episode, but the staff was afraid of a lawsuit from Fred Rogers (''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'') so the storyline was given to DC Comics to make as the story "Remote Controlled" (issue #7).

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' has "Hello Megan", an '80s sitcom from which Miss Martian took her human name and physical appearance. It's revealed that she suggested Superboy's civilian identity of "Conner Kent" because Megan's love interest on the show was named Conner. Superboy is understandably weirded out when he learns this.

* In each season of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'', the turtles discover a new cheesy 1980s cartoon and become fans of it. These cartoons are parodies of real-life 1980s cartoons, and the episodes shown usually end up reflecting whatever's happening to the turtles at the time. In order, the parodies are ''[[JustForFun/SpaceHeroes Space Heroes]]'', ''[[JustForFun/SuperRoboMechaForceFive Super Robo Mecha Force Five]]'', ''[[JustForFun/CrognardtheBarbarian Crognard the Barbarian]]'', and ''[[WesternAnimation/ChuckNorrisKarateKommandos Chris Bradford's 2 Ruff Krew]]''.

** In another episode, pitches ''Doof 'n Puss'', a ridiculous take on TheyFightCrime shows, which was to star Doof and Perry the Platypus. The show eventually makes to air as ''The Platypus and His Girlfriend'', without Doofenshmirtz.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'' has ''Ottoman Empire'', a show about the brothers Johnny and Randy building [[PunnyName ottomans]]. There is apparently some behind the scenes drama involved. Randy at some point quits the show to work on his own carrier, while Johnny stays behind to host it alone, becoming bitter.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SittingDucks'', the episode ''Daredevil Ducks'' has Ed, Oly, and Waddle getting involved within one of the show’s weekly challenges which involved rubbing an alligator’s belly to get them to sleep. In turn, these event lead to the camera-duck getting eaten.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SittingDucks'', the TV show ''Running Duck'' has major plot relevance and even foreshadows an event in the first episode. In the show, an unnamed duck runs away from an alligator that is chasing him. When Bill leaves the Decoy Café, me comes across his friend-to-be, Aldo, who chases him into an alley.

* The ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "I Have No Son" created Rocko and Filburt's favorite ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]]''-esque grossout [[WidgetSeries nonsense show]], ''The Fatheads''. Then, in a variety-one example, in the fan-beloved sequel episode "Wacky Delly", the creator of ''The Fatheads'' cancels the show and lets the main characters ghost-write the eponymous and unintentionally [[DadaComics Dadaist]] cartoon [[SpringtimeForHitler so it can be cancelled and she can retire]]. It Doesn't Work.