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| 8 | [[caption-width-right:350:Carly watches her actress Creator/MirandaCosgrove play Megan on ''Series/DrakeAndJosh''.]] |
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| 10 | [[index]] |
| 11 | * ''CelebrityParadox/{{Arrowverse}}'' |
| 12 | * ''CelebrityParadox/{{Community}}'' |
| 13 | * ''CelebrityParadox/{{Glee}}'' |
| 14 | * ''CelebrityParadox/HowIMetYourMother'' |
| 15 | * ''CelebrityParadox/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' |
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| 19 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 20 | [[folder:General Examples]] |
| 21 | * The Creator/DisneyChannel appears to enjoy playing with this trope. In an episode of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', Maddie (played by Music/AshleyTisdale) auditions for the part of Sharpay in ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' (who was also played by Ashley Tisdale). She claims all her friends say she looks the part, but no one else sees it. |
| 22 | ** Similarly in ''Series/HannahMontana'', Robbie Ray (played by Billy Ray Cyrus) puts on a mullet wig and claims to ''be'' Billy Ray Cyrus. The woman he's talking to thinks he's crazy and quickly leaves. |
| 23 | *** A throwaway joke in one episode's cold open finds Jackson Stewart changing channels on the remote control of the living room TV, switching the TV to ''Series/HannahMontana'' (as evident by the series' theme song playing) and complaining, "[[SelfDeprecation When is this show not on?]]". So ''Series/HannahMontana'' exists in the Hannah universe, but the show's characters are real. |
| 24 | ** Also, the existence of Music/SelenaGomez in the Creator/DisneyChannel series' universe poses some problems. She played a character in [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Zack and Cody's]] middle school production of ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' and also Mikayla, Series/HannahMontana's rival twice, but according to the two crossovers, the two shows exist within the same universe. And to top it all off, Gomez stars in ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' where she plays the wizard Alex Russo, who appeared in the second Creator/DisneyChannel crossover. So, either there are three girls who look freakishly like Selena Gomez, or Alex has been using her magic to screw with our heads. |
| 25 | *** Of course, none of this is mentioning Gomez's guest star role in ''Series/SonnyWithAChance'', where Gomez is famous, but there is no mention of ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' being an actual show. Chad speaks of Series/HannahMontana as a real person. (Although, that might be because of stupidity, because in another episode, after Selena's, Sonny mentions that Chad doesn't know that Hannah and Miley aren't the same person, hinting that ''Series/HannahMontana'' is also a show in that universe.) |
| 26 | *** Within the ''Series/SonnyWithAChance'' episode, there is no ''Film/CampRock'' or [[Music/TheJonasBrothers Jonas Brothers]]. (Selena stars in a different version, called "Camp Hip Hop" about dancing - a kind of funny shout out to ''Film/AnotherCinderellaStory'' which stars Gomez - instead of singing, with three Jonas Brothers lookalikes, despite the fact that Joe Jonas guest starred as himself in the Christmas episode.) |
| 27 | ** An example from ''{{Series/Jessie}}'' both [[LampshadeHanging plays with this trope]] and crosses over with ActorAllusion, where in one episode the titular character (played by Creator/DebbyRyan) goes to a hotel to look for Emma (one of the Ross kids that she works as a nanny for) and she happens to stumble across Mr. Moseby (played by Creator/PhillLewis , and is a character from ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' and ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'' ). After she leaves, Mr. Moseby calls Cody (who is also a character from ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' and ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'') and tells Cody that Jessie looks just like Cody's girlfriend Bailey, and obviously because Bailey was played by the same actress Debby Ryan on ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck''. |
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| 29 | |
| 30 | [[folder:#]] |
| 31 | * ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' referenced Creator/WilliamShatner a couple of times before he became the Big Giant Head. |
| 32 | ** In one episode, the cast asks the Big Giant Head how his flight was, and he replies that it was terrible. He says [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 there was something on the wing]] and no one would believe him. Dick assures The Big Giant Head that the same thing had happened to him. Of course, Creator/JohnLithgow and Creator/WilliamShatner played the same part, in the Movie and the series respectively. |
| 33 | ** A companion book to the series includes an introduction by John Lithgow despite the book being written in an in-universe manner. Attached to the introduction is a note purportedly written by Dick in which he says he has no idea why the introduction is there, and refers to Lithgow as an Earth actor from "[[Film/{{Cliffhanger}} some helicopter movie]]". |
| 34 | ** Then there was the episode with [[AdamWesting George Takei...]] |
| 35 | *** In that same episode, Mary sees someone {{cosplay}} as one of the Film/{{Coneheads}} at a {{Sci|enceFiction}}Fi [[FanConvention convention]] and gets a big smile on her face. |
| 36 | * ''Series/EightSimpleRules'': An episode confirmed that ''Series/ThreesCompany'' definitely exists in-universe, but Paul Hennessy's remarkable resemblance to Jack Tripper is never commented on. To make things even more bizarre, Paul then has a dream sequence resembling ''Series/ThreesCompany'' wherein he plays the part of not Jack, but Mr. Roper. |
| 37 | * ''Series/ThirtyRock'': According to WordOfGod, ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' does not exist InUniverse for this reason. Creator/TinaFey has said that making reference to Creator/EddieMurphy is about the closest the show could ever come to acknowledging the existence of ''SNL''. |
| 38 | ** In one episode, Liz and Tracy argue about Creator/WayneBrady. A few episodes later, Wayne Brady appeared on the show as a character. |
| 39 | ** In an early episode, Jack mentions watching ''Series/{{Friends}}'' and asks about Ross and Rachel. Both Creator/DavidSchwimmer ("Ross") and Creator/JenniferAniston ("Rachel") later guest starred. And in an episode after Aniston's appearance, Jenna mentioned her (the actress, not the character). |
| 40 | *** Helpfully averted by [[Creator/MichaelSheen Wesley Snipes]], who made reference to "Russ and Rebecca", from "Chums", an apparent TransatlanticEquivalent. |
| 41 | ** Creator/AlecBaldwin once guest starred in an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' as an almost fourth wall breaking character. Constantly commenting on the characters almost as if he watched them on TV... |
| 42 | ** [[http://www.myspace.com/lizlemonfans This]] [=MySpace=] page someone created for Liz Lemon lists Tina Fey as one of Liz's heroes. |
| 43 | ** Liz is a big ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan and references the films frequently. So it's a little odd that when Creator/CarrieFisher appears as a guest star in the episode "Rosemary's Baby," Liz doesn't recognise her as Princess Leia. (The episode did include the requisite movie reference: "Help me, Liz Lemon, you're my only hope!") |
| 44 | ** In one episode Liz wonders who played "the white guy in ''Film/{{Invictus}}''" -- in our world it was Creator/MattDamon, who played Liz's boyfriend Carol. |
| 45 | ** ''Series/TheView'' exist on ''30 Rock'' and Jenna even made an appearance on it, so it's strange no one mentions how much Tray's wife Angie looks like Sherri Shepherd. |
| 46 | ** In "Kidnapped by Danger", Jenna appears on ''Series/LateNight with Creator/JimmyFallon''. Jimmy Fallon is best known for co-anchoring "Weekend Update" with Tina Fey. He's also believed to the basis for the ''Series/ThirtyRock'' character Josh Girard. |
| 47 | *** This got even more bizarre when Jimmy Fallon played a young Jack Donaghy in a flashback during the series' second live episode. |
| 48 | ** The ad agency Sterling Cooper from ''Series/MadMen'' apparently exists in the ''30 Rock'' universe (Liz's mother was a secretary there in the sixties), but Jon Hamm appears as Drew, one of Liz's boyfriends. Also, like Jimmy Fallon and several other actors including the main cast, Hamm plays a few roles in the live episodes in "clips" from fictional TV shows past. |
| 49 | ** Kenneth makes RuleOfFunny references implying he is attached to the mythologies of both ''Mad Men'' and ''Series/{{Lost}}'', yelling, "My real name is Dick Whitman!" as well as talking to Jacob more than once. ''Lost'' exists as a TV show on ''30 Rock'', while the ''Mad Men'' one is extra-nonsensical for the above-mentioned reasons. |
| 50 | ** When trying to prove that NBC isn't racist, Jack says he was too busy trying to remember the name of the black kid on ''Series/{{Community}}'', too which Liz proudly answers "[[Music/ChildishGambino Donald Glover]]". Donald Glover is a former ''30 Rock'' writer. |
| 51 | ** The series finale just went for it and had Jack include "Baldwin" in a list of his enemies. |
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| 53 | |
| 54 | [[folder:A]] |
| 55 | * ''Series/AbsolutelyFabulous'': Both Creator/JoannaLumley and Patsy Stone were minor Bond girls. It remains unknown whether or not they were the same minor Bond girl. |
| 56 | * ''Series/AllMyChildren'': Music/JesseMcCartney played J.R. for three years. Five years later, after becoming a popular recording artist, he returned as himself. His appearance was a birthday surprise for Colby, J.R.'s sister. It was somewhat justified because another actor was playing J.R. by this point so he couldn't just reprise his role. |
| 57 | * ''Series/AllyMcBeal'' is set in the same universe as other David E. Kelley shows, including ''Series/ThePractice'', and in fact those two shows [[IntercontinuityCrossover crossed over]] on at least one occasion. However, another episode has Ally watching TV (although the audience can only hear the sound, not see the screen) and the famous "head in the bag" scene from ''The Practice'' is playing. |
| 58 | * ''Are We There Yet?'': In one episode, Nick gets his kids interested in ''Series/ADifferentWorld'', which he mentions being a fan of, Sinbad in particular. Several episodes later, Sinbad pops up playing a judge, and Nick doesn't notice the resemblance. |
| 59 | * ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'': |
| 60 | ** Creator/RonHoward narrates the show and appears a few times as himself. His brother Creator/ClintHoward and ''Series/HappyDays'' costars Creator/HenryWinkler and Creator/ScottBaio play various characters. |
| 61 | ** Unsurprisingly for a show that aired right on the heels of UsefulNotes/TheNineties, the series references both ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons,'' and also features guest appearances by Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus as lawyer Maggie Lizer and Creator/DanCastellaneta as Dr. [[PunnyName Frank Stein]]. |
| 62 | --->'''Dr Stein:''' Well, the operation went pretty smoothly. But once I got in there, the appendix wasn't so inflamed. [[CharacterCatchphrase D'oh!]] |
| 63 | --->'''Lucille:''' [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall I knew it!]] |
| 64 | * ''Series/TheATeam'': |
| 65 | ** One episode introduced Wrestling/HulkHogan playing himself as an old friend of B.A. Baracus. No mention was made as to Hogan's [[Creator/MrT tag-team partner]] at ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} I''. |
| 66 | ** Another episode that took place at Universal Studios shows Face doing a double take as a [[Series/BattlestarGalactica1978 Cylon]] walked right by. One wonders who played the role of Starbuck in that universe... |
| 67 | *** Maybe Face did, as part of some con-game that went {{hilari|tyEnsues}}ously off the rails? |
| 68 | [[/folder]] |
| 69 | |
| 70 | [[folder:B]] |
| 71 | * ''Series/{{Ballers}}'': |
| 72 | ** It's not necessarily canonical, but the title sequence shows [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] in his playing days at the University of Miami. |
| 73 | ** The season 5 premiere begins with Johnson's character reading ''The Fight is Our Fight'' by Elizabeth Warren... a book in which, on the very first page, the TV show itself is mentioned. |
| 74 | * ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has all the characters as fans of a wide variety of TV shows and movies. Considering that wide of a net, there was going to be some actor overlap. |
| 75 | ** Cameos by [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Wil Wheaton]], [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Brent Spiner]], [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries George Takei]], [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Katee Sackhoff]], [[Series/{{Firefly}} Summer Glau and Nathan Fillion]], all playing themselves. Creator/MichaelTrucco appears as a visiting physicist, no one mentions how much he looks like [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Sam Anders]]. Raj's father looks like [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Dr Bashir's]] father. Raj also doesn't notice he's dating Zoe from Series/{{Caprica}}. |
| 76 | ** We're treated to an interesting take of this in the Creator/SummerGlau episode. Sheldon speculates that if Skynet were real, then the best strategy would be for them to copy and impersonate actors who have played Terminators on film. |
| 77 | ** In a season 1 episode, the characters have a discussion about how Creator/MayimBialik and Creator/DanicaMcKellar are serious academics as well as actresses. It would've been weird enough if just one of them had shown up later in the series, but ''both'' actresses would end up playing fictional guest parts in season 3, and Bialik's character Amy has since become one of the show's main characters. |
| 78 | *** Indeed, it's remarkable that Sheldon didn't notice that his computer-matched girlfriend not only looks like the actress he previously admired but ''studies the same academic subject''. |
| 79 | ** Raj is a fan of ''Series/TheGoodWife'', yet hasn't noticed that Leonard's mother looks like one of the main characters. |
| 80 | ** Simon Helberg once cameoed in ''WebVideo/TheGuild'', which exists in this world, implying Howard has a doppelganger. He was also in ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', another show once brought up. |
| 81 | ** At least Leonard and Sheldon are fans of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', but they don't notice that the FBI agent who does Howard's background check looks a lot like Creator/ElizaDushku. |
| 82 | ** As mentioned above in ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', the show appears in Season 7 and Creator/MarkHarmon is mentioned, but in Season 12 of ''NCIS'', an episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' plays in the episode "Parental Guidance Suggested." Hence, [[MutuallyFictional the shows exist in each other's universe]], which means NCIS exists within The Big Bang Theory, which exists within NCIS, which exists within The Big Bang Theory, etc.... |
| 83 | ** The characters mention ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' as being one of their favorite theme songs. TBBT creator Creator/ChuckLorre wrote cartoon theme songs, ''including'' that one, before getting into sitcoms. |
| 84 | ** ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' was mentioned late in the series' run, but Sheldon's former roommate was played by Creator/StevenYeun. |
| 85 | * ''Series/{{Blindspot}}'': A very likely deliberate one, combined with a ShoutOut: one of the characters recommends the book ''Vacationland'' by John Hodgman. Hodgman previously appeared on the show in a recurring role as an FBI internal affairs inspector. |
| 86 | * ''Series/BlueBloods'': |
| 87 | ** The show is aired on Creator/{{CBS}}, yet on two occasions in the show, we see interviews with CBS anchors like Norah O'Donnell. Even halfway through Season 13 (where the show stands as of this writing), there's been no explanation for what show replaces ''Blue Bloods'' in the in-universe programming lineup at CBS. |
| 88 | *** Probably a very similar show starring Tom Selleck. |
| 89 | ** "After Hours" has an offhanded reference made to Gordon Gekko, Creator/MichaelDouglas' character in ''Film/WallStreet''. Tom Selleck appeared as a surgery patient in the 1978 movie ''Literature/{{Coma}}'', which also starred Michael Douglas. |
| 90 | ** A reference is made to ''Series/MadMen'' by name in "Mercy". Several ''Mad Men'' cast members have guest-starred in ''Blue Bloods'', like Mark Moses (Duck Phillips), Michael Gaston (Burt Peterson), and Gary Baseraba (Herb Rennet). |
| 91 | ** In "The Truth About Lying," Danny deals with a homeless man suspected of pushing a woman in front of a subway train (said woman turns out to have been committing suicide). The man is known as "the Hulk", ostensibly named after ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, because of his mental problems and how he acts when he has an outburst. Ostensibly, Danny's never watched ''[[Film/TheAvengers2012 The Avengers]]'' or he'd comment on how Sgt. Gormley (Robert Clohessy) looks a lot like one of the police officers Steve Rogers gave commands to in the climax. Not to mention that Gormley's replacement at the 54th, Lieutenant Carver, is played by [=LaTanya=] Richardson Jackson, the wife of Nick Fury actor Creator/SamuelLJackson, and who played Mama Mabel Stokes in ''Series/LukeCage2016''. And if the Marvel Cinematic Universe exists in the ''Blue Bloods'' universe, there might be complications since several of the Netflix Marvel shows' actors have had appearances on ''Blue Bloods'', including Creator/MikeColter (Series/LukeCage2016), Toby Leonard Moore, Amy Rutberg, Chris Tardio, Daryl Edwards (James Wesley, Marci Stahl, Detectives Christian Blake and Carl Hoffman from ''Series/Daredevil2015''), Clarke Peters and John Ventimiglia (Det. Oscar Clemons and Det. Eddy Costa from ''Series/JessicaJones2015''). |
| 92 | * ''Series/{{Bones}}'' played with it a bit. In real life, Kathy Reichs is a forensic anthropologist, who writes novels about a fictional forensic anthropologist named Temperance Brennan. In ''Bones'', Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist, who writes novels about a fictional forensic anthropologist--named Kathy Reichs. (WordOfGod explains that Bones is really an AuthorAvatar more than a direct adaptation of the novels' Temperance, and Reichs describes her as more or less a "younger" version) However, in the first episode, Bones mentions that the next-closest forensic anthropologist besides herself is in Montreal--where Temperance Brennan works in the novels. Also played more typically straight in a few episodes: |
| 93 | ** Intern-of-the-week Fisher mentions that he's a ''Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}'' fan, without mentioning how much Booth looks like Series/{{Angel}}. |
| 94 | ** In the episode "The Gamer in the Grease", three of the lab techs take turns camping out for the premiere of ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', a movie starring Joel David Moore, who also plays Fisher. Must be intentionally invoked, because Moore is only occasionally a guest star on the show, and he appears in this episode. |
| 95 | ** Very early in the show, Hodgins comments to Zack -- "Your robot is like you. You tell it to walk, it jumps. You tell it to jump, it rolls. You tell it to take out the garbage, it watches old reruns of ''Series/{{Firefly}}''." This is pre-Cam, who is played by Tamara Taylor, who has a bit part in [[Film/{{Serenity}} The Big Damn Movie]], but any Whedon reference in a show starring David Boreanez is amusing. |
| 96 | *** Considering Hodgins knows ''Firefly'' he probably is also aware of the other two shows, in one of which he [[Series/{{Angel}} worked as a lawyer for Booth]]. |
| 97 | ** Music/CyndiLauper appeared in a fifth season ep, "The Harbingers In The Fountain" as Avalon, Angela's tarot card reader. In Season 3, Brennan admitted that she was fond of Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", and even sang it on-stage. Years later, Avalon would return the favor [[spoiler: by singing Etta James' "At Last" at Booth and Brennan's wedding.]] |
| 98 | ** In the upcoming Season 9 there may be more potential for this trope; [[spoiler:Freddie Prinze Jr, real-life husband of Creator/SarahMichelleGellar, will play a recurring villain. No doubt we'll be treated to at least one line regarding his character and Booth "having similar taste in women"]]. |
| 99 | ** In the season 10 premiere, Hodgins mentions recording ''Sleepy Hollow''. In season 11, the show has a direct crossover with the show Sleepy Hollow itself, with the Bones cast meeting the main characters. Hodgins and Angela discuss if the two remind them of anyone, but Hodgins says the couple reminds them of themselves while Angela thinks they resemble Booth and Brennen. |
| 100 | * ''Series/{{Bosch}}'': |
| 101 | ** Bosch's [[FriendsRentControl cliff house with a spectacular view]] is explained by him getting a payment from a film called ''The Black Echo'' that was adapted from one of his cases. There is in fact a poster for that movie on the wall. In Season 3, however, plot threads from ''The Black Echo''--Army veterans turning to smuggling and murder, and a teenaged graffiti artist sees the first murder--are incorporated into the TV show ''Bosch''. So in the ''Bosch'' universe, just what is ''The Black Echo'' about? |
| 102 | ** In season 2, when Harry posits that murder victim Tony Allen might've been a cleaner who disposed of the body of a murdered FBI agent, Eleanor likens him to Mr. Wolf from ''Film/PulpFiction'', [[PopCulturalOsmosisFailure and is surprised when Harry doesn't get the reference]]. Creator/PaulCalderon, who appears in seasons 3-5 and 7 as Santiago Robertson, plays the bartender at Marsellus Wallace's club. |
| 103 | ** In the first episode of season 7, Detective Collins says that La Mayorista, one of the persons of interest in the East Hollywood arson fire, is a drug dealer that's kinda like "a female Stringer Bell." Jerry Edgar immediately gets the reference because he's binged ''Series/TheWire''. This must've been a surreal experience for Jerry seeing as he's pretty much a dead ringer for Marlo Stanfield (who, like Jerry, is played by Creator/JamieHector), while Cedric Daniels looks a lot like Chief Irving (both played by Creator/LanceReddick), and Marlo's lieutenant Monk Metcalf looks suspiciously like Jerry's late informant Gary Wise from season 5 (both played by Kwame Patterson). Other ''Wire'' actors to appear on ''Bosch'' include James Ransome (Ziggy Sobotka) as Eddie Arceneaux, Michael Kostroff (Maurice Levy) as Hank Myers, Rick Otto (Kenneth Dozerman) as Bernardo Piccinini, Tom Mardirosian (Kristos Koutris) as Joey Marks, Creator/ClarkJohnson (Gus Haynes) as Howard Elias, Chris Ashworth (Sergei Malatov) as Vardy, and Antonio D. Charity (Dwight Tilghman) as Bo Jonas. |
| 104 | * ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' has a deliberate ActorAllusion example: Mr. Feeny, played by Creator/WilliamDaniels, mentions at one point that he thinks ''Film/TheGraduate'' is a great film. Yet he doesn't mention anything about his resemblance to Mr. Braddock in that film. |
| 105 | * ''Series/BreakingBad'' and ''Series/BetterCallSaul'': |
| 106 | ** In "Bug", Jesse at one point refers to Gus walking unflinchingly into a line of sniper fire as "Terminator shit". Creator/DeanNorris (Hank) appeared in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' as the leader of the LAPD SWAT team that raids Cyberdyne headquarters and guns down Miles Dyson. |
| 107 | ** In "Rabid Dog", a ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'' DVD can be seen among the visible items on a shelf in Hank's house. Surely Hank notices that his sister-in-law looks a lot like Martha Bullock (both were played by Creator/AnnaGunn)? The same episode mentions ''Series/BabylonFive'', where Creator/BryanCranston (Walter White) played a small part as Ranger Captain Ericsson in the episode "The Long Night". Not only that, but Creator/JimBeaver, who has a medium-sized role on that show, appears in both ''Breaking Bad'' and ''Better Call Saul'' as Lawson, an arms dealer that Mike, and later Walt, solicit for weapons. |
| 108 | ** In "Hazard Pay", Walter White and Walt Jr. are seen watching ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}'', a movie that featured in supporting roles Mark Margolis (Hector Salamanca) as Shadow (one of Sosa's men), Steven Bauer (Don Eladio) as Tony Montana's best friend Manny, and Míriam Colón (Tuco's grandmother in ''Better Call Saul'') as Tony's mother. |
| 109 | ** In the Season 4 Finale, when Jesse is being questioned by detectives over his assumption that [[spoiler: Brock was poisoned with ricin, he says he guessed it was ricin poisoning because he "must've saw it on House or something".]] This confirms the existence of House MD as a show within the Breaking Bad universe, which is made inconsistent by the fact Christopher Cousins (who plays Ted Beneke on Breaking Bad) briefly appeared on House as a minor role in Season 2. |
| 110 | ** "Blood Money" sees Badger presenting the script for his ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fanfiction. Had he ever crossed paths with [[Creator/JohnDeLancie Donald Margolis]], would he have noticed the latter's uncanny resemblance to Q? |
| 111 | ** As shown in the set tour DVD bonus feature, there are some ''X-Files'' DVD's in Walt Jr's bedroom, implying that the two series' creator ''Creator/VinceGilligan'' himself exists in ''Breaking Bad''land. Not only that, but several members of the cast have appeared in the ''X-Files'', including Bryan Cranston in "Drive" and Creator/DeanNorris (Hank) in "F. Emasculata". |
| 112 | ** In "Switch", Daniel Warmolt acquires a Hummer that appears to have a paint job he had based on the Pussy Wagon from ''Film/KillBill''. The driver of the Pussy Wagon was played by Creator/MichaelBowen, who plays Uncle Jack Welker. |
| 113 | ** In "Amarillo", when doing a preview run of his D&M commercial to Kim, Jimmy sets up the scenario by saying they're watching ''Series/MurderSheWrote''. That show has seen guest stars like Creator/BryanCranston (Walter White), Creator/MichaelMcKean (Chuck [=McGill=]), Creator/PatrickFabian (Howard Hamlin), Creator/RaymondCruz (Tuco Salamanca), Creator/DennisBoutsikaris (Rick Schweikert), and Creator/MiriamColon (Tuco's abuelita). |
| 114 | ** In "Rebecca", Chuck mentions Carol Burnett. Burnett herself later guest-starred in season 6 as Marion. |
| 115 | * ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': Gina goes to see ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'' and no one notices that the [[Creator/LinManuelMiranda lead actor]] looks a lot like Amy's brother David. |
| 116 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 117 | ** In the [[ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Season 8 comics]] we see Buffy and Dawn are big fans of ''Series/VeronicaMars'', although no mention is made of the fact that actors from ''Buffy'' have appeared on ''Series/VeronicaMars'', as well as show creator Creator/JossWhedon. |
| 118 | ** Willow's boyfriend in season 2-4 is Oz, played by Creator/SethGreen. In one of the non-canon novels Buffy asks Willow why she couldn't be into someone current, like Seth Green. |
| 119 | ** In the episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E20TheProm The Prom]]" Tucker Wells has trained hell hounds to attack people wearing formal wear. He has done so by showing them various movies, including ''Film/PumpUpTheVolume'' -- which features Creator/JulietLandau (Drusilla) and Creator/SethGreen (Oz). |
| 120 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E10WhatsMyLinePart2 What's My Line, Part 2]]", Buffy warns Kendra not to watch the in-flight movie if it's got dogs or Chevy Chase in it, referencing the film ''Funny Farm'', which Creator/SarahMichelleGellar had an uncredited cameo in. |
| 121 | ** In Season 8's "Time of Your Life", the Tenth Doctor and Rose make a brief appearance. In "In Perfect Harmony" from the Season 9 comics, Creator/DavidTennant and Creator/BilliePiper appear. |
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| 123 | |
| 124 | [[folder:C]] |
| 125 | * ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'': |
| 126 | ** In a Halloween episode, the title character dresses up as Malcolm Reynolds, who was played by Nathan Fillion. He refers to his costume as a "space cowboy" and his daughter points out that he wore that same costume like five years ago, around the time ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' was released. |
| 127 | --->"Don't you think you should move on?"\ |
| 128 | "I '''like''' it." |
| 129 | ** Castle learned to speak Mandarin Chinese from "from a TV show [he] use to love." |
| 130 | *** Also referred to as "That Creator/JossWhedon show" in "The Final Frontier" when he's listing sci-fi shows he considers good. Explains his choice in Halloween costumes in a previous episode, at least. |
| 131 | *** In the same episode, as soon as he finds out about the murder at the 'con, his reply is "Shiny!". |
| 132 | ** It's also implied that Martha has had at least some of the roles Creator/SusanSullivan has had in real life, explicitly her role in ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'' pilot movie. Though Martha is an actress, so one can assume that in-universe she simply played all the roles that Susan Sullivan did. |
| 133 | *** Alternatively, Martha and Susan used to compete for roles, and Martha 'retreated' to New York after Susan beat her out once too often for a screen role... with some of her work even being mis-attributed to Susan due to faulty Website/IMDb fact-checking. |
| 134 | ** Since Castle seems to be familiar with ''Series/DesperateHousewives'', it would be interesting to know who played [[Creator/NathanFillion Adam]] and [[Creator/DanaDelany Katherine]] Mayfair in this universe. |
| 135 | *** In one of the Halloween episodes ''Buffy'' is mentioned. If Nathan Fillion is not around, who is it that played Caleb in season seven? |
| 136 | *** Assuming the Richard Castle Twitter feed is canon, Fillion DOES exist in the ''Castle''verse and is one of Richard's favorite actors. Presumably, the somewhat egotistical author feels an attachment to the actor who looks like him. |
| 137 | *** And assuming you consider viral promos as canon, there exists one promo video where Castle tells the viewers, "And if you run into Creator/NathanFillion, tell him he still owes me money for beating him at poker!" |
| 138 | *** One wonders why he's never mentioned that Detective Slaughter looks a lot like the guy who played Jayne on ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. |
| 139 | ** In the Michael Connelly novel ''The Drop'', Bosch's daughter Maddie mentioned watching episodes of ''Castle''. One wonders who Castle plays poker with in that version. |
| 140 | * ''Series/TheCatherineTateShow'' did a sketch for Comic Relief which featured Creator/DavidTennant as Lauren Cooper's teacher. She frequently jokes throughout the sketch about how much he resembles [[Series/DoctorWho the Doctor]] ("Your house... is it {{bigger on the inside}}?" "D'you fancy Creator/BilliePiper, sir?"). At the end, he zaps her with the sonic screwdriver, turning her into a Rose Tyler action figure.\ |
| 141 | And adding onto the confusion, Catherine had already played Donna Noble, the Doctor's companion in the 2006 Christmas special, who came back full-time for the 2008 series. Apparently Lauren Cooper missed ''The Runaway Bride'' and [[spoiler:was killed off]] before she could watch series 4 and notice the woman who looks just like her traveling through space with a Time Lord who looks just like her English teacher. |
| 142 | * ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': |
| 143 | ** On the 1988 episode "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," the guys are talking about female celebrities they find attractive. Norm mentions Jill Eikenberry of ''Series/LALaw'', which aired at 10 PM on Thursdays on Creator/{{NBC}} at the time, the same night and network as ''Cheers'', and which raises questions about how that show exists in the ''Cheers'' universe, and, if the ''Cheers'' gang were to have turned on NBC on a Thursday night at 9 PM, what would they see. |
| 144 | ** In Season 2's "Old Flames", Cliff describes ''Film/{{Gandhi}}'' as "a fine piece of cinematic art". Cliff does not stop to wonder why that American lieutenant briefly seen driving a jeep in one scene looks so much like him. |
| 145 | * ''Series/ChristmasOnVesterbro'' has Creator/AndersMatthesen not only playing all main characters, but he also appears in a cameo AsHimself. Not only that, but it seems that within the universe, Matthesen does comedy in-character as Stewart Stardust, who's the main character of the entire series. |
| 146 | * ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': |
| 147 | ** The show features a very prominent ''Film/{{TRON}}'' poster in the main character's bedroom. It also features Bruce Boxleitner as "Woody" Woodcomb, father of one of the main cast. The poster is the real thing, with Boxleitner listed as the star, but nobody ever brings it up. |
| 148 | ** Also, [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 Tricia Helfer]] has guested on the show as a fellow government agent, but Sarah has been spotted with a "Go Frak Yourself" T-shirt. Who played Six in the Chuck-verse? And now we find out that [[spoiler: Romo freakin' Lampkin]] works for The Ring? |
| 149 | ** In one episode, Sarah and Chuck are watching ''Film/SpiesLikeUs'' and Chuck specifically mentions Creator/DanAykroyd and Creator/ChevyChase, he failed to notice that Creator/ChevyChase looks a lot like season two villain, Ted Roark. |
| 150 | ** Chuck mentions ''Franchise/DieHard'' in a season four episode, though a season two episode had previously featured Creator/ReginaldVelJohnson as Sgt. Al Powell. Not a similar character. Sgt. Al Powell. |
| 151 | ** In one season 4 episode, Chuck tells Sarah he feels like he should be James Bond, to which Sarah responds that she didn't fall in love with James Bond, but with him. Later in that same episode, Sarah goes undercover working for the season's BigBad, Alexei Volkoff, played by Bond actor Creator/TimothyDalton. |
| 152 | ** In Season 3, Chuck scoffs when a bad guy chooses "Ivan Drago" as his fake name, but in the season 4 pilot he pays no mind when Creator/DolphLundgren shows up as Marco. Marco even uses some of Drago's quotes, "I must break you" and "If [they] die, [they] die". |
| 153 | ** A season 4 episode involves some tension with Alex wearing Morgan's unworn Back to the Future shirt, even though Christopher Lloyd was Chuck's therapist in the previous season. |
| 154 | ** Season 5 plays with it even more: Creator/BoDerek and Creator/StanLee appear in episodes of Season 5 as themselves. In the Chuckverse, both are secretly spies (Stan Lee with the CIA, Bo Derek working with [[spoiler: Nicholas Quinn]]. |
| 155 | ** ''Series/NightCourt'' exists in the ''Chuck''-universe (a clip from it can be seen in season one). John Larroquette just happens to play retired spy Roan Montgomery, and wouldn't you know it, there isn't a single mention of him looking a lot like Dan Fielding. |
| 156 | * ''Series/CinderellaChef'': Jia Yao says Chun Yu looks like "that Thailand star Bie" -- meaning Bie Thassapak Hsu, who plays Chun Yu. |
| 157 | * ''Series/CobraKai'': |
| 158 | ** Miguel shows up to an eighties-themed costume event dressed in the iconic red leather jacket outfit Johnny Lawrence wore in ''Film/{{The Karate Kid|1984}}''. Since Johnny Lawrence is Miguel's karate teacher and the events of the first three ''Karate Kid'' films were actual events in canon, one has to wonder... |
| 159 | ** In season 3, episode 5, Amanda derisively refers to Kreese as ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}''. Creator/MartinKove, who plays Kreese, played a supporting characer in ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII''. |
| 160 | ** Creator/JackieChan is also briefly mentioned in season 1, who played an {{expy}} of Mr. Miyagi in the 2010 [[Film/TheKarateKid2010 remake/reboot]]. |
| 161 | ** In "Party Time", Amanda refers to Daniel's cousin Vanessa as "Creator/MarisaTomei Junior", as a nod to Tomei's character [[WrenchWench Lisa]] from ''Film/MyCousinVinny'', in which Creator/RalphMacchio (Daniel [=LaRusso=]) co-starred as Bill Gambini. |
| 162 | ** In a fourth-season episode, Daniel tries to sell Miguel on the classic songs of Chicago and Peter Cetera, including “Glory of Love” - Cetera’s theme song for ''Film/TheKarateKidPartII''. |
| 163 | ** Johnny's favorite film is ''Film/IronEagle''. Tommy, Johnny's friend who [[RealLifeWritesThePlot died]] in season 2, was played by the [[TheCharacterDiedWithHim late]] Rob Garrison, whose early credits include that film. |
| 164 | * In the fictional world of ''Series/TheColbertReport'', Creator/StephenColbert's other works do exist, but Colbert (the actor) doesn't -- all of his roles were played by Kevin Spacey instead. |
| 165 | * ''Series/ColdCase'': |
| 166 | ** In "Creatures of the Night", Creator/BarryBostwick plays a serial killer. The crime in question involved a 1977 murder and one of the main plot points had the killer and suspected victim attending a midnight showing of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' which starred a much-younger Barry Bostwick. So, flashbacks showed the younger version of Bostwick's character watching a movie starring a character played by a younger Barry Bostwick. Confused yet? |
| 167 | *** Now, if only Rush had called the killer "Asshole"... |
| 168 | ** A bit of ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' confusion. Some kids watch the movie in an early season two episode and a character mentions it by name in season three, yet Paul Gleason appeared as a character in another season three episode. |
| 169 | * ''Series/CoronationStreet'': Nobody ''ever'' watches TV. Certainly not at 7:30 every weekday evening. None of the magazine titles in Norris's newsagents are those of recognisable publications in this world. And nobody in the street seems to have noticed a sudden infestation of meerkats, a species native to South Africa, and are asking whether this merits intervention by the zoo, the RSPCA, or Rentokil (An insurance company using anthropomorphic meerkats as mascots is "sponsoring" the show, with commercials at the start and finish of each segment.These feature the lovable animals drinking in the Rovers, dining in Roy's café, and doing other cute meerkat things). |
| 170 | * ''Series/{{Cosby}}'': "My Spy" had Bill Cosby reprising his role from ''Series/ISpy'', with the explanation that this was a DreamSequence after his ''Cosby'' character had fallen asleep ''watching the show''. |
| 171 | * ''Series/TheCrazyOnes'': It is revealed that Sarah Michelle Gellar's character is a fan of the show ''Series/{{Bones}}'' especially David Boreanaz, who is also well known for playing the Vampire lover to a certain [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Slayer]]... |
| 172 | * ''Series/CrazyExGirlfriend'': A tremendously meta example. In "I Need Some Balance", Maya references a tweet by Creator/NeilPatrickHarris about that year's Tony Awards, asking who the woman in the top hat was backstage. This is a reference to a minor feud that emerged from that real tweet, and the woman in question was none other than series creator (and Maya's co-worker) Creator/RachelBloom, who plays Rebecca Bunch. |
| 173 | * ''Series/CriminalMinds'': |
| 174 | ** In "The Instincts", Rossi and Morgan are waiting for Reid in Reid's hotel room, where they're watching "The Young and The Restless". It's an obvious [[ActorAllusion allusion]] to Creator/ShemarMoore - who played Y&R's Malcolm Winters as well as CM's Morgan - but it raised an interesting conundrum: at the time the episode aired, no one else had played Winters and no one noticed Morgan's resemblance to him. This only leads to the question of who played Winters in the CM universe, since we never see anyone notice how similar Morgan looks to Winters. |
| 175 | ** The show is also quite fond of hiring actors from ''Franchise/StarTrek'', including notable [=UnSub=] roles for Creator/WilWheaton, Creator/JonathanFrakes and Creator/RaphaelSbarge. However, in "The Big Game", we hear Reid discussing ''Star Trek'' with a bar patron, indicating that he is a fan of the series - yet, in "The Uncanny Valley", we see him in a room with Arthur Malcolm (played by Frakes) and he never notices the resemblance to Commander Riker. Yes, it may be true that Reid only referenced The Original Series in "The Big Game" indicating that he may only be a fan of the original, but we do also see him attend a cosplay convention in "Hit", so at the very least, he'd be familiar with the character of Riker. |
| 176 | ** The show - as expected - makes constant references to famous serial killers of yesteryear, but not once do they reference the pioneers of criminal profiling itself, such as Robert Ressler or John Douglas. The show implies that the real life figures played no role in the BAU at all, in that the characters of the show - especially the grizzled veterans Rossi and Hotch - were the ones who really did all the work in establishing profiling as a legitimate crime fighting technique. Which leads to the question - do the real life "profilers" exist in other capacities, such as, perhaps, underlings to the show's BAU? Or are they absent from the show's universe entirely? The paradox gains another dimension when you learn that Ressler was the one who coined the term "serial killer", a term the show uses frequently - if Ressler does not exist, who created the term? |
| 177 | ** "Identity" has Reid discussing how much energy it would take the [[Franchise/StarWars Death Star]] to destroy a planet the size of Earth, much to Morgan's chagrin. 5 seasons later, in "The Replicator", nobody notices that [[spoiler:the title character]] bears [[Creator/MarkHamill an astonishing resemblance]] to Luke Skywalker. |
| 178 | ** "Snake Eyes" has a scene with the characters talking about their favorite mob movies in relation to what they think will be a mob-related case. Prentiss mentions [[Film/TheGodfather The Godfather Part II]] in the same scene as Rossi, played by Joe Mantegna, who was in The Godfather Part III. |
| 179 | ** “Innocence” includes a scene in which a young doctor at a crime scene approaches JJ and Alvez and says he’s honored to work with them, and that he grew up watching and being inspired by “all the ''CSI''s”. Creator/AdamRodriguez, who plays Alvez, was a main character throughout the entire run of ''Series/CSIMiami''. |
| 180 | * ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': |
| 181 | ** Nobody comments on Detective Mac Taylor's remarkable resemblance to Gary Sinise, but he ''does'' share last names with Sinise's most famous recent role, [[Film/ForrestGump Lieutenant Dan Taylor]]. |
| 182 | ** An inverted example is John [=McEnroe=] playing both himself and a [=McEnroe=] look-alike. |
| 183 | * Larry David does a bit of AdamWesting in ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'', as the co-creator of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. Strange, then, that he doesn't notice his dentist looks like Philip baker Hall, or a hotel clerk looks just like Brian George - although they played memorable characters in his show (Mr. Bookman and Babu Bhatt). In one episode, Ted Danson befriends a coffee shop owner played by Saverio Guerra, and tries to attract people to his shop by reminding them he starred in ''Series/{{Becker}}'' - opposite Saverio Guerra too. another ''Becker'' co-star, Jorge Garcia, showed up playing a different character. |
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| 186 | [[folder:D]] |
| 187 | * ''Series/DadsArmy'': One episode has a scene in a cinema, with a poster on the wall for the film ''The Edge of the World'', starring John Lawrie - aka the platoon's Private Fraser. |
| 188 | ** In another episodes, the platoon whistles the show's theme song - "Who do you think you are kidding Mr Hitler?" - while marching. Since this song was written explicitly as the episode's theme, it follows that ''Dad's Army have watched Dad's Army''! |
| 189 | * ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'': |
| 190 | ** There have been numerous references made to Music/{{Drake}}, who played Jimmy Brooks on the show (credited under his real name Aubrey Graham) and is arguably the most famous former cast member, likely as a MythologyGag. In the TV movie ''Degrassi Takes Manhattan'', a TVM reporter mentions an interview with rap superstar Drake. The pilot of ''Degrassi: Next Class'' also begins with Maya quoting Drake's song "Started from the Bottom". |
| 191 | ** The previous film, ''Degrassi Goes Hollywood'', mentions meeting Shenae Grimes at a ''90210'' after party. Who appeared in that season playing Darcy Edwards for the last time. |
| 192 | ** Also, celebrity guest stars fall in various sides of this trope. A few appear as themselves, making this a non-issue (Kevin Smith, Jay Manuel), but others appeared as random extras (Billy Ray Cyrus, Colin Mochrie). Nobody comments on how familiar they look. |
| 193 | * ''Series/{{Dexter}}'': In season 3, after Debra babysat Astor and Cody for Rita and Dexter, she jokingly tells them that Astor almost made it through ''Film/SawI'' and ''Film/SawII''. Rita's actress, Creator/JulieBenz, would later star in ''Film/SawV'' as one of Jigsaw's victims. |
| 194 | * ''Series/DiagnosisMurder'': |
| 195 | ** Amanda Bentley has a Contest Winner Cameo on ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless'' and both her colleagues at the hospital and the crew of ''[=YatR=]'' comment on her resemblance to Creator/VictoriaRowell, who actually was a regular cast member of that series. |
| 196 | ** When Detective Sloan is talking to a TV producer who lists off several shows including ''Series/{{Airwolf}}'', a show that starred Barry Van Dyke. They stop for a moment then continue on like nothing happened. |
| 197 | * ''Series/ADifferentWorld'' (a spinoff of ''Series/TheCosbyShow'') has it happen. Dwayne and Whitely go to L.A. for their honeymoon and encounter a cut out of Creator/BillCosby. No one seems to wonder about the uncanny resemblance with Cliff Huxtable. |
| 198 | ** Justfied because although they know most of the Huxtables they never met Cliff. |
| 199 | * ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'': In "The Slumber Party", Arnold mentions Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Abdul-Jabbar would later play Arnold's teacher in two episodes. |
| 200 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 201 | ** The original series story [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks "Remembrance of the Daleks"]] is set a few weeks after the TV show actually launched (23rd November, 1963). Ace turns on a TV and the announcer is briefly heard saying, "This is BBC Television, the time is quarter past five, and Saturday viewing continues with an adventure in the new science fiction series, Do-" before it's cut off. |
| 202 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon "Aliens of London"]] features a clip from a (fictional) episode of ''Series/BluePeter'', which has referenced ''Doctor Who'' on more than one occasion. In addition, some of the characters who've appeared in the series over the years, including mid-Sixties companion Steven Taylor, have been played by ''Blue Peter'' presenters. |
| 203 | ** The Doctor mentions Arthur Dent in [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]], commenting that "he" was a NiceGuy. If this is assumed to be a reference to Creator/DouglasAdams instead of the actual Arthur Dent (whose universe is perhaps too silly even for ''Doctor Who''), this is a problem, since Adams got his start writing episodes of ''Doctor Who'' during the Creator/TomBaker era. And either way, it makes it troubling when Rory references "the Restaurant at the end of the Universe" in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex "The God Complex"]]. The 2018 [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelization]] goes the route of insinuating that Dent ''does'' exist in the Whoniverse. |
| 204 | ** In ''Doctor Who'', the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books exist and have been made into movies. The film adaptation of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' features Creator/DavidTennant (the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors) as Barty Crouch, Jr. The Doctor's a fan of the series, so you'd think he'd notice the resemblance: |
| 205 | --->'''The Doctor:''' ''[to Martha]'' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode Wait 'til you read Book 7, I cried...]] |
| 206 | *** Roger Lloyd-Pack, who played John Lumic in the two-parter [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen "Rise of the Cybermen"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel "The Age of Steel"]], played Barty Crouch, Sr. in the film adaptation of ''Goblet of Fire''. However, Lumic exists in an alternate dimension where there are zeppelins everywhere and England has a President instead of a Prime Minister, so it's entirely possible Roger Lloyd-Pack never existed in that dimension/someone else played Barty Crouch Sr.[[note]]Unless you've read the [[Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations novelization]] of [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]], which takes place in the main universe and references Lumic.[[/note]] |
| 207 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern "The Idiot's Lantern"]], the Doctor refers to Music/KylieMinogue, who appears in [[ChristmasEpisode the Christmas special]] [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]] as Astrid Peth opposite the Tenth Doctor. He didn't seem to notice the resemblance. |
| 208 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E12ArmyOfGhosts "Army of Ghosts"]], ''Series/EastEnders'' exists as a fictional television series. The character of Peggy Mitchell bars a ghost she presumes to be Den Watts from The Queen Vic. In the real ''[=EastEnders=]'', Watts was killed by his wife Chrissie, who's played by Tracy-Ann Oberman, who appears in "Army of Ghosts" as Yvonne Hartman. |
| 209 | *** There's an even more explicit overlap in the form of [[Recap/DoctorWho30thASDimensionsInTime "Dimensions in Time"]], the non-canon IntercontinuityCrossover of ''Doctor Who'' and ''[=EastEnders=]'', which aired between the end of "old" ''Who'' and TheMovie. |
| 210 | *** In addition to "Army of Ghosts", [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E9NightTerrors "Night Terrors"]] has Rory comparing the setting to ''[=EastEnders=]''. |
| 211 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment "The Lazarus Experiment"]], while wearing a tux, the Doctor acts annoyed at Martha comparing him to Franchise/JamesBond. Creator/TimothyDalton, the fourth Bond, appeared in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime "The End of Time"]] as the Narrator, [[spoiler:Rassilon, Lord President of the Time Lords]]. |
| 212 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E5TheMassacre Considering]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E4TheEnemyOfTheWorld the number]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E4TheAndroidsOfTara of identical]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E1DestinyOfTheDaleks doubles]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E5BlackOrchid they've encountered]] throughout their travels in time and space, the Doctor probably isn't too surprised by it anymore. |
| 213 | ** A more subtle one in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth "The Stolen Earth"]]. Creator/RichardDawkins is on television talking about the Earth's abrupt relocation. Dawkins is married to Creator/LallaWard, who played Romana II in the classic series. |
| 214 | *** Dawkins is again referenced by name in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]], where he's the leader of a "Star Cult" in the alternate timeline. |
| 215 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]] concerns the Doctor being a friend of Winston Churchill. [[ActorAllusion One of the previous Doctors, Jon Pertwee, was a top British spy during World War II who answered directly to Winston Churchill — and Churchill suggested he become an actor.]] |
| 216 | ** In a bonus scene made for the series 5 DVD release, the Doctor calls himself "Space [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Gandalf]]", which is only nearly accurate. But the Seventh Doctor, Creator/SylvesterMcCoy, plays the wizard Radagast in ''Film/TheHobbit'' films. |
| 217 | *** He ''also'' compares himself to [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]]. By the way, the number of actors who've been in both ''Doctor Who'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'' is well over twenty people, including [[Creator/DavidTennant no]] [[Creator/TomBaker less than]] [[Creator/PeterCushing three Doctors]] (among them being the one who ''said that line''). |
| 218 | ** As pointed out in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'', the presence of a tin of Smash instant mashed potatoes in the seventies-set episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E9Hide "Hide"]] implies the existence of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SAbJjktk7E Smash Martians]] ad, voiced by Peter Hawkins with a robotic treatment not totally dissimilar to his iconic Dalek voice. |
| 219 | ** In the Series 7 finale, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor "The Name of the Doctor"]], the Eleventh Doctor meets [[spoiler:another incarnation of himself who's later revealed to be the War Doctor]], played by Creator/JohnHurt. However, the Doctor and [[Series/{{Torchwood}} Toshiko Sato]] have mentioned Hurt before, so he obviously exists. Maybe he just looks different? |
| 220 | *** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2014CSLastChristmas "Last Christmas"]], the Twelfth Doctor is appalled to discover that there's a horror movie called ''Film/{{Alien}}''. He'll be even more offended when he learns the horrible death suffered by someone who [[spoiler:looks just like his secret incarnation.]] |
| 221 | ** Perhaps the strangest thing is that the Doctor frequently visits a bizarre alternate London in which the old-fashioned police telephone box is merely an obscure piece of obsolete street furniture, all but forgotten, and not in any way an instantly-recognizable cultural icon. |
| 222 | *** Speaking of which, in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn "The Bells of Saint John"]], the people at the office in the Shard at one point spend all night searching for the TARDIS over all the cameras in London (the Doctor had jumped ahead to the following morning to tire them out), and it's mentioned that there was an "embarrassment" involving confusion with the police box located outside the Earl's Court Tube station... which, in RealLife, is a replica installed in 1998 because American tourists who'd seen [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the TV movie]] were disappointed by the lack of police boxes in Britain! |
| 223 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood "Robot of Sherwood"]], the Twelfth Doctor accesses various fictional portrayals of Robin Hood. These include a picture from the TV adaptation starring Creator/PatrickTroughton — who played the Second Doctor. |
| 224 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"]] references both DC and Marvel Comics, including direct mentions of both ComicBook/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/SpiderMan. Assuming all their film and TV adaptations exist in the Whoniverse, that would include ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' duology with Creator/AndrewGarfield[[note]]Frank from "Daleks in Manhattan" / "Evolution of the Daleks"/Spider-Man[[/note]]; ''Series/Supergirl2015'', which is part of the Series/{{Arrowverse}} which has featured Creator/JohnBarrowman[[note]]Captain Jack Harkness/Malcolm Merlyn[[/note]], Creator/ColinSalmon[[note]][[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary Dr.]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Moon]]/Walter Steele[[/note]], Creator/AlexKingston[[note]]River Song/Dinah Lance[[/note]], Creator/RussellTovey[[note]][[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Alonso Frame]]/The Ray[[/note]] and Creator/ArthurDarvill[[note]]Rory Williams/Rip Hunter[[/note]]; and Spidey's film appearances in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, a franchise which has not only had Creator/KarenGillan[[note]]Amy Pond/Nebula[[/note]], but two of the Doctor's [[Creator/ChristopherEccleston previous]] [[Creator/DavidTennant incarnations]] as well! |
| 225 | *** In what would also count as an in-universe paradox, if all of Superman's media appearances exist, then that would include the video game ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'' — in which the Twelfth Doctor himself is also a playable character while Clara and Missy provide cameos. Is your head starting to hurt yet? |
| 226 | *** But wait! There's more! Superman also appears in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOBatmanMovie'' which is filled with DC goodness, and also certain "British robots." And, if the DC franchise drags in Franchise/{{LEGO}}, it just goes out from there, as there are many, many Who-related Lego items. |
| 227 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E5TheTsurangaConundrum "The Tsuranga Conundrum"]]: Graham mentions he's a fan of ''Series/CallTheMidwife'', a show that shares several actors with ''Doctor Who'', including former lead actress Creator/JessicaRaine. |
| 228 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall "Spyfall"]] guest-stars Creator/StephenFry as C, the head of [=MI6=]. However, Fry himself exists in the Whoniverse, having been namedropped by the Twelfth Doctor in [[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong "The Husbands of River Song"]]. |
| 229 | * In ''Series/Dracula2020'', Dracula uses a {{Dracula}} emoji in a text he sends to Lucy. |
| 230 | * One episode of ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' features Music/WeirdAlYankovic as himself. His song "Couch Potato" mentions the show. |
| 231 | * ''Series/DueSouth'': In a first-season episode, Constable Fraser (Paul Gross) mentions that Constable Buck Frobisher bears a striking resemblance to "noted Canadian character actor Creator/LeslieNielsen". Frobisher is played by Nielsen. |
| 232 | [[/folder]] |
| 233 | |
| 234 | [[folder:E]] |
| 235 | * ''Series/EastEnders'': |
| 236 | ** In "There Is No ''Film/CarryOn'' In ''Series/EastEnders''", Chris Moyles discusses the many, many things that can't exist in the ''[=EastEnders=]'' universe because of this trope, which may go some way to explaining why the series is such a CrapsackWorld. |
| 237 | ** On the same subject: in reference to the quote on the Quote Page, British soaps tend to throw another soap in the slot where they should be in real life; i.e. the soap that goes out every weekday at 7 PM in the ''Series/{{Emmerdale}}'' universe is called ''Castle Bridge''. |
| 238 | ** On the other hand, anyone watching TV in ''[=EastEnders=]'' always seems to be watching a comedy, a documentary, a movie...anything ''but'' a soap opera. |
| 239 | *** Except in one instance where long-standing character Dot Cotton announced that she never misses rival soap opera ''Series/CoronationStreet''. This was a friendly nod to the fact that ''Coronation Street'' was celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. |
| 240 | *** Does Dot ever remark on how much the owner of the Rovers Return looks like that nasty Cindy Beale (both characters played by Michelle Collins)? |
| 241 | ** ''Series/GrangeHill'' also can't exist in Endersverse either, because there is no other way of explaining how half the cast of the former ended up in the cast of the later, and nobody recognising their fellow schoolmates. |
| 242 | * ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' began as a spinoff of ''Series/Adam12'', with some early series crossovers. In a later episode, however, characters were shown watching an episode of ''Adam 12'' on TV. |
| 243 | * ''Series/{{Entourage}}'' clearly exists in a contemporary Hollywood, with many actors and prominent movie industry personalities appearing and referenced but the main characters aren't recognised for their actors - no-one mistakes Eric for Kevin Connolly, or thinks Johnny Drama looks like Matt Dillon (actor Kevin Dillon's more successful brother). |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:F]] |
| 247 | * ''Series/FantasyIsland'': In the remake, Creator/DeanCain plays a lawyer suspected of murder. The travel agent is called to the witness box and describes the lawyer as resembling 'the guy that played [[Series/LoisAndClark Superman on TV]]'. |
| 248 | * ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': As the show was a ''Jim Henson Company'' production, the Halosians were modified Skeksis costumes from ''Film/TheDarkCrystal''. In a later episode, John actually refers to them as Skeksis. |
| 249 | * ''Series/{{Flash Forward|2009}}'': |
| 250 | ** The {{pilot}} shows a billboard for Oceanic Airlines--but later on shows a bus ad for ''Series/{{Lost}}'s'' final season, implying that ''Lost'' is a show in the ''Flash Forward'' universe. [[FridgeLogic Who plays Penny and Charlie in]] ''Series/{{FlashForward|2009}}'''s [[FridgeLogic version of]] ''Series/{{Lost}}''? |
| 251 | ** The show also had a reference to Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, yet it has a fictional president in the same episode. So the 2008 election was exactly the same but with some random white guy winning instead of Obama? |
| 252 | * ''Music/FlightOfTheConchords'' is set in a world where ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies were made and filmed in New Zealand, but nobody mentions the fact that Brett [=McKenzie=] looks alarmingly like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF57D0_VV_k one of the elves]]. |
| 253 | ** Although Bret wasn't in the film for very long, and given the nature of the Conchords characters, it's entirely possible that no one thinks it worthy of comment. |
| 254 | * ''Franchise/{{Frankenstein}}'': In the 2004 MadeForTVMovie, the story of Frankenstein is mentioned a few times. When asked about it, the original creature says that Creator/MaryShelley's novel was actually BasedOnATrueStory. |
| 255 | * ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': Noel Shempsky is a big fan of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', but never seemed to notice Frasier Crane's similarity to [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Morgan_Bateson Capt. Morgan Bateson]]. |
| 256 | * ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'''s Ashley Banks is a fan of both Tevin Campbell and in-universe teen heart-throb Little T (played by Tevin Campbell). |
| 257 | ** An even weirder example was seen when [[Series/TheJeffersons George and Louise Jefferson]] make a couple of appearances...despite earlier episodes having established ''The Jeffersons'' as being a fictional show in the ''Fresh Prince'' universe... and Sherman Hemsley having already made several appearances as [[YouLookFamiliar an entirely different character]] who at one point made an ActorAllusion joke. |
| 258 | ** Will not only repeatedly references ''The Cosby Show'', and Malcolm Jamal-Warner specifically, but in one episode, he tells a detailed story claiming that Jamal-Warner is a close, personal friend of his who calls him for advice on women. A later episode has Jamal-Warner playing Hilary's boyfriend Eric. |
| 259 | ** In "Kiss My Butler", Will references Ben Vereen by name when he talks about Geoffrey's attire. Vereen would later portray Will's father, Lou, in "Papa's Got a Brand New Excuse". |
| 260 | ** In another episode, Hilary references a magazine that has "that supermodel [[Creator/TyraBanks Tyra]]" (who was then going by OnlyOneName) on the cover. During the show's fourth season, Tyra played Jackie Ames, one of Will's love interests. |
| 261 | *** It's a shame really, because had Tyra gone by her full name it would have had the potential for an additional joke. Maybe that's exactly why her last name wasn't mentioned... |
| 262 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': [[http://relatablefriends.tk/post/164532929200/friends-foreshadowing-its-celeb-guest-stars Lots of it, given the amount of guest stars.]] |
| 263 | ** Ross, Joey, and Chandler are die-hard fans of ''Franchise/DieHard.'' However, when they meet Paul Stevens (played by Creator/BruceWillis), he doesn't seem to remind them of John [=McClane=]. |
| 264 | *** Joey loves the ''Die Hard'' movies, but doesn't recognize his own father as the guy who gave John [=McClane=] a parking ticket in the [[Film/DieHard2 first sequel]]. They're both played by Robert Costanzo. |
| 265 | *** Another episode has Chandler mentioning ''Film/Armageddon1998'', which also starred Bruce Willis |
| 266 | ** In earlier episodes, Ross has Creator/WinonaRyder on his "list," but no one comments when Winona Ryder shows up as Rachel's sorority sister. |
| 267 | ** Ross also considers Creator/SusanSarandon for the list. She also turned up in a later episode, not playing herself. |
| 268 | ** Chandler has ''[[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]]'' on his list. Kathleen Turner, who voiced Jessica Rabbit, plays his transgender dad, although maybe FridgeBrilliance in that his dad could have made himself ''look'' like Kathleen Turner... |
| 269 | ** In the episode "The One With the Princess Leia Fantasy", Chandler talks about women he has mental images of during sex, mentioning Creator/ElleMacPherson. Elle herself starred in Season 6 as Janine, Joey's roommate. |
| 270 | ** ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' is mentioned quite a few times, due to Ross's being a paleontologist. Creator/JeffGoldblum shows up as a guest in one episode, also not playing himself. |
| 271 | ** In the second season episode "The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies", Chandler mentions an ex-girlfriend who thought that 'Creator/SeanPenn' was the capital of Cambodia. Sean Penn appeared in two episodes of the eighth season, playing neither himself nor the capital of Cambodia. |
| 272 | ** Ross mentions ''Series/MagnumPI'' in an OrphanedPunchline during "TOW No One's Ready"; of course, Tom Selleck had his run as Richard in the previous season (and even provides an uncredited voice cameo in the same episode). |
| 273 | ** In a fifth season episode, Phoebe's replacement doctor that helps oversee the birth of her brother's triplets initially turns her off due to his constant gushing over ''Series/HappyDays'' and Fonzie, and he gets offended when Rachel says she always preferred [[Series/MorkAndMindy Mork]]. Creator/RobinWilliams had previously made a brief cameo appearance two seasons prior, again not playing himself. Earlier, in the season 1 episode, "The One with the Fake Monica", ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'' and ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' are mentioned. |
| 274 | ** One that borders on ActorAllusion and MetaCasting; in one episode, the owner of a Russian dry cleaners refuses to put up Joey's picture, claiming he makes fun of Russians, with Joey noting he has a picture of Harrison Ford, who killed several Russians in ''Film/AirForceOne'', which the dry cleaner admits he's never seen ("you should, it's great"). It's this trope because the dry cleaner is played by Ilia Volok, who appeared in ''Film/AirForceOne'' as Vladimir Krasin, the first terrorist that Ford's character Marshall killed. Meaning that the dry cleaner never saw a movie where he gets killed, but Joey, who did see the movie, didn't notice that he looked like one of the terrorists from the film. |
| 275 | *** Speaking of ''Film/AirForceOne'' (which Joey has seen), Egor Korshunov, the main antagonist, was played by Creator/GaryOldman. Gary Oldman showed up in the ''Friends'' season finale the following year not playing himself; his character was an actor appearing in a big budget WWI epic with Joey. |
| 276 | ** In "The One with Rachel's Crush", the characters discuss RomanceOnTheSet, and Ross brings up Creator/AlecBaldwin and Kim Basinger as examples. Baldwin later guest starred as Parker, Phoebe's annoyingly positive boyfriend. |
| 277 | ** At one point, the ''Film/{{Cocoon}}'' movies are mentioned by Monica's parents, the second film of which Courteney Cox appeared in. |
| 278 | ** In "TOW Ross's Wedding", while the gang are in London Joey ends up getting homesick after watching an episode of ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. Lisa Kudrow (Phoebe) guest-starred in one episode in one of her earliest roles. |
| 279 | ** In "TOW Ross Can't Flirt," Joey's grandmother mentions ''Film/CapricornOne'', whose star, Elliot Gould, plays Jack Geller on the show. |
| 280 | ** In Season 4, it's revealed that Rachel's favorite movie is ''Film/WeekendAtBernies''. Jonathan Silverman, one of the film's stars, appeared at the end of the first season as the doctor delivering Ross and Carol's son Ben. |
| 281 | ** A very subtle instance occurs in Season 3's "The One Where Monica and Richard are Just Friends". At the beginning of the episode, Monica runs into her ex at a video rental store, where one of the tapes in the background is clearly of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''. The director of the episode was none other than Robby Benson, who provided the Beast's voice in the film. |
| 282 | ** In one particularly meta example, Ross reunites with Marcel on the set of a fictional sequel to ''Film/{{Outbreak}}''; the monkey from ''Outbreak'' was in fact played by the same monkey who plays Marcel, making Marcel TheOtherDarrin to ''himself''. |
| 283 | * ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': |
| 284 | ** ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is referenced occasionally. In fact, one delusional character believes that he is a reincarnation of Spock. However, nobody in-universe seems to comment on the fact that ultra-rich industrialist William Bell is played by Creator/LeonardNimoy. |
| 285 | ** Also, the guy who played the aforementioned delusional is Creator/ClintHoward (brother of Creator/{{Ron|Howard}}), who appeared in the episodes "[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries The Corbomite Maneuver]]", "[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Past Tense, Part II]]", and "[[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Acquisition]]". |
| 286 | * ''Series/FullHouse'': |
| 287 | ** Here's a paradox capable of destroying the universe (or at least [[Film/BackToTheFuturePartII our own galaxy]]): Jaleel White appeared in an episode as [[Series/FamilyMatters Steve Urkel]], where he met Uncle Jesse (played by John Stamos). White also appeared on ''Series/StepByStep'' as Urkel, where he met Carol (played by Suzanne Somers). But ''then'' John Stamos appears on ''Step by Step'' as ''himself'', where he meets Carol, and he mentions ''Full House''! That means that in the ''Step by Step'' universe, Urkel is both a fictional character (having appeared on ''Full House'') AND a real person, having appeared in person before their very eyes. Try getting your head around that. |
| 288 | *** It's possible that Urkel happened to land an acting gig on ''Full House'' as a part of some sort of contest or something. |
| 289 | ** Oh, and while we're at it, DJ's boyfriend Steve also meets Suzanne Somers on an episode of ''Full House'', just in case it wasn't paradoxical enough already. |
| 290 | * ''Furuhata Ninzaburou'': Played with. Big name celebrity actors make appearances on the show as [[NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize victims and murderers]], and no mention of whether or not they look like famous people, but the titular detective actually does butt heads with the JPop group SMAP (one of whom already cameoed as a suspect in an earlier episode). |
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| 294 | * ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'': The ShowWithinAShow was conceived and written by horror writer Garth Marenghi, who also plays the lead character. Characters in the show are shown reading Marenghi's books. This is just another way for him to stroke his ego, especially given the positive comments the characters (which he himself wrote) make about his books. |
| 295 | * ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Rory asks her friend 'Who are you planning to meet at this time of night? Spike and Drusilla?', suggesting that she watches ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. However, she doesn't seem to notice that her boss/friend/friend's boyfriend looks a lot like serial unlucky guy and occasional Buffy villain Jonathan Levinson, both played by Danny Strong. |
| 296 | * ''Series/GimmeGimmeGimme'' had a RunningGag of Linda being compared to actress Creator/SuPollard, who herself turned up in the final series playing Heidi Honeycomb, Tom's singing instructor, who looked identical to Linda. |
| 297 | * ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'' had a few examples: |
| 298 | ** In one early episode, Blanche wants the girls to watch ''Series/AnotherWorld.'' Rue [=McLanahan=], who played Blanche, appeared on that particular soap years before ''The Golden Girls'' began. |
| 299 | ** Dorothy, upon hearing that another bizarre St. Olaf festival is occurring, begins singing "Sunrise, Sunset", a song from ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof.'' Guess who played Yente in the original Broadway cast of that musical? Apparently, Dorothy had a successful stage career before becoming a substitute teacher... |
| 300 | ** Sophia and Dorothy dress up as Sonny and Cher for a talent show. Blanche comes in and comments that they could be Cheech and Chong lookalikes. Cheech Marin later appeared as Chef Chuy Castillos in the show's spin-off, ''The Golden Palace.'' |
| 301 | * In season 2 of ''Series/{{Good Omens|2019}}'', Gabriel is reading the first lines of books in Aziraphale's shop. One book starts exactly like the book ''Literature/GoodOmens''. |
| 302 | * ''Series/GoodnightSweetheart'': In the Series 2 episode, "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", Gary makes a reference to Pike from ''Series/DadsArmy''. When he meets his son from the past, Michael, in the Series 5 episode, "My Heart Belongs to Daddy", he is played by Creator/IanLavender, who had played Pike. |
| 303 | * ''Series/GreenAcres'': |
| 304 | ** An odd variation on this occurred in one episode. The cast decided to put on a play based on the [[EnforcedPlug "popular television show"]], ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies''. That would be fine, except ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' takes place in the same universe as ''Green Acres'', along with ''Series/PetticoatJunction'', with characters frequently [[CrossOver crossing over]] from one show to another. Which means that in ''The Beverly Hillbillies'' universe, there is a TV show called ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', featuring the characters of Jed, Jethro, Granny and Elly May, which those same characters could then watch. One wonders who played the characters on the show, and if the advertisements for it referred to it as being RippedFromTheHeadlines. |
| 305 | ** Also, one of Lisa's talents is doing Zsa Zsa Gabor impressions. No word on whether she does Eva. |
| 306 | ** An episode of ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'' featured Jed Clampett (played by Buddy Ebsen) reminiscing about how he'd seen Buddy Ebsen's song and dance act. |
| 307 | *** Which contradicted another episode where Granny notes Jed's resemblance to Buddy Ebsen. Jed responds with "Who?" |
| 308 | * ''Series/GrowingPains'': Most of the cast members haven't had much of a career afterwards. Alan Thicke's career consists mostly of playing himself, and Kirk Cameron has gone on to Christian Fundie work. Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio, however, has fared much better, which may be why he wasn't in the [[ReunionShow reunion movie]]. In the movie, the characters make reference to the missing Leonardo. |
| 309 | * ''Series/GuardianTheLonelyAndGreatGod'': Sunny describes Kim Shin (played by Creator/GongYoo) to her shaman and demands to know if the shaman knows a man who looks like that. The shaman helplessly suggests "Gong Yoo?" |
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| 313 | * ''Series/HappyDays'': One episode had the Cunningham family watching the movie ''Theatre/TheMusicMan''. Mrs. Cunningham says that one of the boys in the movie looks like Richie while Mr. Cunningham finds that silly. A much younger Creator/RonHoward did indeed have a prominent role in that movie. |
| 314 | * ''Series/HappyEndings'': In one episode Brad, played by Damon Wayans Jr., mentions that before they were married, his wife used a picture of "one of the guys from ''Series/InLivingColor''" as a placeholder for him. ''In Living Color'' was created by and starred Damon Wayans Sr. as well as [[Series/TheWayansBros his brothers and sister]]. |
| 315 | * ''Series/HawaiiFive0'': |
| 316 | ** Steve and Danny are watching ''Series/{{CHiPs}}'', comparing their lives to Erik Estrada's and Larry Wilcox's characters. Apparently they never watched ''Hawaii Five-O'' when they were younger. They should avoid Kahala Mall, where there is a sculpture of Jack Lord. |
| 317 | ** ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' also [[{{Crossover}} crossed over]] with ''Series/NCISLosAngeles''. ''NCIS:LA'' takes place in the same universe as regular ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', which referenced the ''original'' Five-O in the 2009 episode "Power Down". Meaning that there's a Five-O squad with a Danno in a universe with a classic TV show that has the very same things. |
| 318 | --->'''Gibbs''': Book 'em, Dan-ozzo.\ |
| 319 | '''[=DiNozzo=]''': Nice ''Hawaii Five-O'' reference, boss. |
| 320 | ** "Missing" had an EOD tech reference ''[=MacGyver=]''. A decade and change later, [=H50=] had a crossover with the reboot [=MacGyver=]. Both versions of the titular character are EOD techs, and it's ''technically'' possible that the reboot version had a relative by the same name who was also an EOD tech known for improvising gadgets to save the day, because he'd be far too young to do it himself. |
| 321 | ** Then there's the fact that, in real life, "Five-O" is a colloquialism for law enforcement in general, whereas in [=H50=], the squad comes up with the name after watching archive footage of Steve's high school football career. |
| 322 | * ''Series/HeatVisionAndJack'': A complete aversion occurs in this unaired pilot — character actor Ron Silver plays character actor''/assassin'' Ron Silver. At one point, while chasing the protagonist, he's stopped by an autograph-seeker who "loved [him] in ''Film/{{Timecop}}''." |
| 323 | * ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' had a lot of fun with this one. There were several {{Formula Breaking Episode}}s in which the main cast of the show would play the main ''staff'' of the show (for example, Creator/BruceCampbell played executive producer Robert Tappert). Kevin Sorbo played Hercules...playing Kevin Sorbo, the explanation being that Sorbo was simply [[JuliusBeethovenDaVinci the identity Hercules has taken on in the modern era]]. There was even an episode where Herc-Sorbo had to maintain the {{masquerade}} while at a company wilderness retreat. |
| 324 | ** Just to complicate things further, in one episode of ''Hercules'' spin-off ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', "The Xena Scrolls," the real Rob Tapert appears as himself and gets the idea for XWP from a series of ancient scrolls actor Ted Raimi, who would play Joxer, found in his grandfather's attic (his grandfather is apparently Jack Kleinman, aka Jacques S'er, who was present when the scrolls were discovered). Of course, Ted originally pitches the series with a focus on Joxer, but Rob only has ears for Xena. And apparently ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' doesn't even exist in this version of the modern world (which seems to parallel the way XWP eclipsed the series of which it was a spin-off) or at least it has no role in the origins of XWP. |
| 325 | ** Normally, this trope wouldn’t even be an issue on Series/XenaWarriorPrincess because the show is set in the distant past. However, the show has a few episodes set in our own time, and to further complicate matters, the series itself is watched by characters in those episodes. In "Déjà Vu All Over Again" and "Send in the Clones,” the celebrity paradox is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] for the audience even though none of the characters notice it. |
| 326 | ** Prior to either of these episodes (in “The Xena Scrolls”), the series has established that the XWP series we know and love was based on ancient scrolls (discovered by descendants of Xena and Gabrielle) that were written by the historical Gabrielle. In “Déjà Vu All Over Again”, set in the late 20th century, Annie (Lucy Lawless) is a big fan of the in-verse series Xena: Warrior Princess (in fact, she suspects she might unknowingly be the Xena vigilante who’s currently making big news; this seems reasonable to her because she thinks was the historical Xena in a past life and is now being temporarily possessed by her spirit). Annie has a life-size stand-up Xena (Lucy Lawless) in her bedroom, so we know that Annie looks exactly like Xena from the in-verse series. The presence of the stand-up [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the paradox for the audience, but no one in-verse mentions Annie’s startling resemblance to the actress who plays Xena. Also, the series uses the celebrity paradox to set up audience expectation in preparation for a kind of twist ending: [[spoiler:it’s not Annie who was Xena in a past life but her boyfriend Harry (Ted Raimi, XWP’s Joxer).]] |
| 327 | ** “Send in the Clones” is also set in the above version of our world of the late 20th century, which boasts its own XWP series. An evil scientist[[spoiler:, a modern incarnation of Alti,]] clones the historical Xena and Gabrielle and, with the help of some hardcore fans of the in-verse series, shows the clones clips of the show to “stimulate their latent memories.” It works and so the clones essentially ''are'' the historical Xena and Gabrielle; they have their own memories of their lives rather than just memories of what they’ve been shown—and as a result, they have some problems with the series, as evidenced by this exchange: “They have taken liberties with my scrolls.” “Yeah, and what are they tryin’ to say about our relationship anyway?” ([[{{HoYay}} Les Yay]]! Also a nod to the fans who've been debating that very question for six seasons, with a touch of SelfDeprecation acknowledging the PTB's insistence on ambiguity.) Indeed, it appears the in-verse series they’re watching is not quite the same series we know; ''our'' series is more accurate. Yet Clone Xena finds one positive thing to say about the in-verse series; after watching clips of the fictional Xena (Lucy Lawless), Clone Xena (Lucy Lawless) comments with a leer . . . |
| 328 | --->'''Clone Xena:''' I like the one who plays me. She’s kinda sexy. |
| 329 | :::Thus the show draws audience attention to the celebrity paradox, [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] it, without anyone in-verse apparently noticing it. |
| 330 | ** In “Soul Possession”, just to remind the audience of the celebrity paradox, the writers have one of the secondary characters in the modern world refer to one of the actors of their in-verse XWP series by name—and it’s the actor who plays Autolycus in the actual XWP, Bruce Campbell. Bruce Campbell isn’t even in the episode, not as a modern character and not as Autolycus in the parts of the episode set in the regular world of the actual XWP, so mention of him [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the paradox. Further, this mention happens when Ares (Kevin Smith) rides into the C.H.A.K.R.A.M. conference on a motorcycle because the conference MC apparently recognizes that Ares resembles Kevin Smith: |
| 331 | --->'''MC:''' Did you schedule any celebrity appearances?\ |
| 332 | '''Delaney:''' Well, we contacted Bruce Campbell, but he was too much money. |
| 333 | :::If Smith and Campbell play roles in the in-verse series, it’s reasonable to assume that other XWP actors also have roles in that series, and we know from “Déjà vu All Over Again” that Annie looks just like the actress who plays Xena, and yet still no one mentions that Annie, Mattie, and Harry look just like Creator/LucyLawless, Creator/ReneeOConnor, and Creator/TedRaimi, not even the hardcore fans of the in-verse series who badger Annie about what it felt like to learn she was Joxer reincarnated and bring her to tears by asking what happened after Harry and Mattie realized they were Xena and Gabrielle (“They got hitched”—[[HoYay Les Yay]]!). |
| 334 | *** Perhaps Annie and the in-verse Lucy Lawless are look-alikes, much like Diana, Meg, and Leah are Xena look-alikes. Based on "character" prominence in naming, Annie would have to be a Lucy look-alike instead of the other way around. |
| 335 | * ''Here's Lucy'': An episode of Creator/LucilleBall's '70s sitcom has her character entering a Lucille Ball lookalike contest, and meeting - you guessed it - Lucille Ball. |
| 336 | * ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': |
| 337 | ** Hiro Nakamura is a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fan. Creator/GeorgeTakei, who played Mr. Sulu on said series, plays Hiro's father. |
| 338 | ** Kaito Nakamura could well also be a fan- his car's number plate reads ''NCC-1701''. |
| 339 | ** Hiro must wonder occasionally about Sylar's uncanny resemblance to the new Spock... |
| 340 | * ''Series/HighwayToHeaven'': In one episode, Jonathan and Mark are walking on Hollywood's Walk of Fame and find Michael Landon's star. Mark says Landon is one of his favorites and mentions Bonanza and Little House on the Prairie but Jonathan (Landon) has never heard of him, having died before the shows were produced. |
| 341 | * ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'': In the episode "Shaggy Dog, City Goat", Detective Munch says that the victim in his case resembled Creator/JohnWaters and Creator/SteveBuscemi, both of whom had earlier played acting roles in the series (Waters as a barman in "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and a murder suspect in "Law & Disorder", Buscemi as a suspect in "End Game"). To make it even more extreme, Munch is strongly implied to have personally murdered Buscemi's character. |
| 342 | * ''Series/TheHoneymooners'': In one episode, Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton meet Jackie Gleason and Art Carney. This was done by alternating the actors and their roles: Ed meets Gleason just as Ralph is conveniently absent, while Ralph meets Carney while Ed is out. |
| 343 | * ''Series/HopeAndGloria'': Alan Thicke played both himself and a talk show host named Dennis Dupree who despises Thicke for looking just like him. This eventually leads to a fistfight between the two during a ''Series/GrowingPains'' reunion on Dupree's show. |
| 344 | * ''Series/{{House}}'': |
| 345 | ** In season 2, the title character gets mocked for some of the shows that are saved on his Tivo. One of them, seen briefly but not mentioned, is ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'', in which Creator/HughLaurie played a few major characters twenty years earlier. |
| 346 | ** In the series finale, House mentions ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'', where a young Robert Sean Leonard (Dr. Wilson) starred. This is particularly strange since there was a whole subplot in a previous episode where House successfully recognizes an actor in a porno as a young Wilson and yet he doesn't comment that the guy in ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'' looks a lot like him as well... |
| 347 | * ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS'': |
| 348 | ** In the first two seasons of ''Series/HouseOfCardsUS'', Frank Underwood plays video games in his spare time. Creator/KevinSpacey [[InkSuitActor loaned his voice and appearance]] in ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'' for Jonathan Irons, who seems to be very close to Underwood in personality to boot. This has led to people hoping that at some point, Frank would play COD:AW and ask why Jonathan Irons bears quite the resemblance to him. |
| 349 | ** After Frank is shot, several references are made to the 1981 attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, which was carried out by John Hinckley Jr., who was trying to impress actress Jodie Foster, over whom he had developed an obsession. The paradox is that Jodie Foster also directed a season 2 episode of ''House of Cards''. |
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| 353 | * ''Series/ICarly2021'': Creator/EmilyRatajkowski is referenced in "iM a USA Bae". Ratajkowski previously played Gibby's girlfriend Tasha in the original ''Series/{{iCarly}}''. |
| 354 | ** ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' is a series that exists in the [=iCarly=] universe, with Carly mentioning how evil Megan was at one point. Both Megan and Carly are played by Creator/MirandaCosgrove. |
| 355 | * ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': |
| 356 | ** The episode "The Gang Wrestles for the Troops" opens with the gang watching a Wrestling/{{WW|E}}F wrestling match and expressing their fandom for the wrestlers of the '80s, mentioning many real-life WWF wrestlers. Later in the episode, Dennis, Mac, and Charlie attend a local amateur wrestling show and hire the star of the show, Da'Maniac, to be in their own show. Da'Maniac is played by professional wrestler Wrestling/RoddyPiper, who was very big in the '80s. Despite this, he is treated like a completely different person. |
| 357 | ** In the Season 6 Episode "The Gang Buys a Boat", Mac and Dennis want to throw some "P Diddy-style parties" on their boat. Sweet Dee creates a "P Diddy boat dance" while listening to the Notorious B.I.G. song "Mo Money Mo Problems", which Diddy (then known as Puff Daddy) was featured in. However, in the Season 8 episode "Charlie's Mom Has Cancer", Sean "Diddy" Combs appears as a guest actor, playing Dr. Jinx, a church gardener who claims to be a practitioner of homeopathic herbal medicine. |
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| 361 | * ''Series/{{JAG}}'': Creator/DonaldPBellisario, the series show runner and creator, exists in the JAG-verse (and has a star on the HollywoodWalkOfFame) as does his series ''Series/QuantumLeap''. Actor Dean Stockwell, who had a major part in ''Series/QuantumLeap'', later plays Secretary of the Navy Edward Sheffield. |
| 362 | * ''Series/JaneTheVirgin'': In episode 14, Jane mentions ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack''. Diane Guerrero, who plays Jane's friend Lina on the former show, plays an inmate on the latter show. |
| 363 | * ''Series/JustTheTenOfUs'': In "Dreamgirls", Wendy fantasizes about watching the Oscars with Creator/KirkCameron. Cameron played the star of ''Just the Ten of Us's'' [[Series/GrowingPains parent show and his character]] even had a crush on Wendy during her two- part appearance on that show. |
| 364 | ** In another episode one of the characters makes a remark that "It looks like something out of a Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet." Several of the cast members had previously appeared in prior Elm Street movies including Creator/HeatherLangenkamp who had been the lead in two films. |
| 365 | * ''Series/{{Justified}}'' |
| 366 | ** There's an episode in which Art Mullen comments that he never found Julia Roberts that hot because "she looked too much like Eric." In Season 5, we meet a character played by Eric Roberts. |
| 367 | ** Another episode had Raylan recommend ''Film/TheBigLebowski'' to Rachel. Creator/SamElliott, who played that film's narrator, plays a character in the show's final season. |
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| 371 | * ''Series/KidsIncorporated'': |
| 372 | ** They did a cover version of "More Than You Know" by Martika, herself a former star of the series, making one wonder if she exists in the ''KI'' universe. |
| 373 | ** Almost every character in the series was TheDanza, playing a character of the same name as the actor, so one ''might'' suppose that the character and the actor were meant to be the same person. Ironically, Martika was one of the few characters who ''wasn't'' (her character was named Gloria). |
| 374 | ** Bonus point in that said cover was performed by Stacy Ferguson, who by the 1989 season was the last cast member left who had worked with her. |
| 375 | * ''Series/{{Kings}}'': In "Judgment Day", Prince Jack says, "Everyone wants an old-school lord and master. Cutting a few babies in half." in a reference to the JudgmentOfSolomon... except that since ''Kings'' is a retelling of the story of Solomon's father, King David, the original JudgmentOfSolomon story shouldn't exist in their universe. |
| 376 | ** Alternatively, that universe has the same Bible we do. This would explain why a newspaper thinks the headline DAVID SLAYS GOLIATH means anything. But the parallel between the Bible story and the modern David's career would start to freak people out eventually. |
| 377 | * ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': Inverted. At the end of the series, protagonist Sento [[IShouldWriteABookAboutThis turns his adventures into scripts and plans on turning them into a TV series]]. In the direct-to-DVD sequel ''Build New World: Kamen Rider Cross-Z'', Sento is shown looking at casting sheets for the series, and naturally the cast consists of the actors who starred in the RealLife ''Kamen Rider Build''. |
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| 381 | * ''Series/TheLarrySandersShow'': Averted. Actor Garry Shandling exists alongside Larry Sanders InUniverse (and, according to guest Sean Penn, is a terrible and insecure actor). |
| 382 | * ''Series/LasVegas'': Played with when "Big Ed" Deline, played by James Caan, is shooting a commercial for the Montecito, and can't act. The director tries to get him to act more naturally by referencing a conversation with Sonny Corleone in ''Film/TheGodfather''. Ed looks confused for a second before saying he has no idea what the director is talking about. |
| 383 | * ''Franchise/LawAndOrder'' and its franchise has several examples: |
| 384 | ** Bobby Flay cameoed in an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' as a TV chef who's enough like real Bobby Flay that if he wasn't playing himself he might as well have been. He had cheated on his wife--only since Flay is married to Stephanie March (Alex Cabot on SVU) in RealLife, on the show he had no wife to cheat on. |
| 385 | ** In the ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode "Turnaround", involving the murder of a studio executive, Briscoe mentions movie star Julia Roberts. The actress would guest star two years later as Katrina Ludlow in the episode "Empire." Unlike ''Ocean's Twelve'', however, no one seems to notice the resemblance. |
| 386 | ** ''Series/LawAndOrder'' characters have frequently referenced the O.J. Simpson trial, despite having an earlyish episode that plays off it (which itself got a sequel years after during the "If I did it" period). No one has mentioned ''Film/CapricornOne'', which co-starred an actor who looked a lot like a younger Jack [=McCoy=]. |
| 387 | ** ''Film/CapricornOne'' was also not mentioned on the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode in which an astronaut (played by James Brolin) listens to Munch's theory on the "faked" moon landing. |
| 388 | ** Larry Miller appeared as himself on ''Series/LawAndOrder'' in 2003. Detective Briscoe never mentioned Miller's resemblance to comedy club owner Michael Dobson, whom Briscoe arrested for murder twice. |
| 389 | ** In the [[Series/LawAndOrder original series]] episode "Baby It's You", a young model mentions that "Brooke Shields said, '[acting] is just modeling in action'". Shields would later appear as a guest star in both Criminal Intent and SVU. |
| 390 | ** During an interrogation in the ''Series/LawAndOrder'' season 12 episode “For Love or Money,” Lenny Briscoe says “It’s ''Series/TheSopranos''. Makes them think they can get away with everything.” Plenty of ''Sopranos'' actors guest-starred on Law & Order, including Creator/MichaelImperioli (Christopher Moltisanti) as a detective who subbed for an absent Green for several episodes. One would think Lenny would have at least noticed [[Creator/EdieFalco Carmela Soprano]]’s resemblance to recurring defense attorney Sally Bell. |
| 391 | ** A suspect in one episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSVU'' remarks that Captain Benson has "an ass like Satan and a face like Creator/JayneMansfield." Creator/MariskaHargitay is Mansfield's daughter. |
| 392 | * ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'': The local cave system ("Stump Hole Caverns") was supposed to have been used as a BBCQuarry during Tom Baker's era on ''Series/DoctorWho'', with the tour guide saying that down there in the 70s you couldn't move for Cybermen. Two of the actors in the main cast had prominent roles in the reboot series of ''Doctor Who'' (one even being a writer who helped reboot it in the first place!), one even played Patrick Troughton in ''Film/AnAdventureInSpaceAndTime'', and a more minor character is played by Ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston. |
| 393 | * ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' is full to brimming with ''Franchise/StarTrek'', up to and including guest stars: [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Jeri Ryan]], [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Brent Spiner]], Creator/WilWheaton, and [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Armin Shimerman]] have all shown up. Wheaton's character even has the in-universe nickname of The Kobayashi Maru! But hardcore fanboy and Trekkie [[TheSmartGuy Hardison]] [[{{Irony}} notices nothing]]. |
| 394 | ** Chaos (played by Wil Wheaton) once asks Hardison to get Sophie to dress up as Counselor Troi. |
| 395 | * ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2008}}'', the American version, is apparently about [[spoiler:an astronaut going to Mars, thinking of the song "Life on Mars", picturing himself in an American version of ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'']]. OrWasItADream? (Yeah.) |
| 396 | ** The original version contains John Simm (who played the Master and in this programme is playing a character whose surname was influenced by ''Series/DoctorWho'') making a reference to ''Series/DoctorWho''. |
| 397 | * ''Series/{{Lost}}'': |
| 398 | ** Invoked, possibly intentionally: Sawyer calls Karl "Cheech", and then Cheech Marin shows up playing Hurley's father a scant three episodes later. |
| 399 | ** In a similar case that also serves as an ActorAllusion, in a first-season episode Boone asks Locke if he's ever seen ''Franchise/StarTrek''. Terry O'Quinn guest-starred in [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E11ThePegasus an episode]] of ''[[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]''. You have to wonder who played Riker's former CO in the Lost universe. |
| 400 | ** In the episode "Homecoming," Charlie's girlfriend mentions that her father is buying a paper company in Slough. This is an Easter Egg reference to the [[Series/TheOfficeUK British version]] of ''The Office'', which takes place in the same universe as [[Series/TheOfficeUS its American counterpart]]...in which Dwight is a fan of ''Lost'' and repeatedly mentions it by name. |
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| 404 | * ''Series/MadTV1995'': In one episode, House (played by Michael [=McDonald=]) actually watches an episode of ''Series/MadTV1995'' featuring Stuart (also played by Michael [=McDonald=]) and says that he looks a lot like him. |
| 405 | * ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': |
| 406 | ** One episode had Al and Peg walk into a video store featuring a display for the movie Dutch, starring Ed O Neil (though his face was covered up by a "new release" sticker). Peg picked up the copy briefly, only to put it back with a disgusted reaction. |
| 407 | ** Wrestler Wrestling/KingKongBundy appeared in an early episode as one of Peg's relatives, and in a later episode as himself. |
| 408 | ** In a Season 10 episode, Kelly loves watching ''Series/{{Friends}}'' but doesn't point out how much [[Creator/MattLeblanc Joey looks like her friend Vinnie]]. |
| 409 | ** Another episode featured a SpecialGuest appearance by Gary Coleman, who played a guy who was annoyed at being mistaken for Gary Coleman. |
| 410 | * ''Series/{{Matlock}}'': In one episode, guest star Music/RandyTravis is sitting in a car singing along with one of his own hits on the radio. Leanne lampshades it: "Do you know you sound just like that guy?" |
| 411 | * ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'': In "Eels", it's shown that Music/TheHorrors exist in the Boosh universe, and that Vince is familiar with the band, as he uses his Celebrity Radar to track their guitarist. A few episodes later, in "The Chokes", The Horrors guest star as a completely different fictional band called The Black Tubes, and they don't seem to remind Vince of anyone. |
| 412 | * ''Series/Millennium1996'' and ''Series/TheXFiles'' nominally take place in the same universe: A minor character, Jose Chung, appeared in two ''X-Files'' episodes before meeting his end in an episode of ''Millennium'': "Jose Chung's Doomsday Defense", with character Bobby Wingood, an actor and Selfosophy advocate, played by David Duchovny. Likewise, ''Millennium'''s FullyAbsorbedFinale was an episode of ''The X-Files''. Mulder and Scully actually met Frank Black. Despite this though, one episode of ''Millennium'' has a very obvious reference to ''The X-Files'' (complete with the ''X-Files'' theme) [[note]]Episode in question involved a crazed MoralGuardian trying to censor everything as much as possible[[/note]] where it's only a TV show and in another episode, ''The X-Files'' can be heard from the TV as Frank is searching an apartment. |
| 413 | * ''Series/{{Moesha}}'' met Music/{{Brandy}} (the latter of whom plays the former) in one episode. |
| 414 | * ''Series/{{Monk}}'': |
| 415 | ** In "Mr. Monk and the Airplane", Creator/TimDaly makes an appearance as himself. Sharona mentions that he was in the show ''Series/{{Wings}}''. Monk says he's never heard of ''Wings'', which is a good thing because he'd be the first to note his uncanny resemblance to [[Creator/TonyShalhoub the actor]] who plays Antonio Scarpacci (leading to a funny moment where Daly notices Monk walking by and [[YouLookFamiliar does a double take]], as if he's seen him before...). Not to mention that Daly and Shalhoub's co-star Creator/StevenWeber guest-stars in "Mr. Monk Is On The Air" as shock jock Max Hudson. |
| 416 | ** In "Mr. Monk and the UFO", there's a scene where at a magazine stand, Natalie tells Monk she once saw [[Film/{{Impostor}} a movie about an extraterrestrial who didn't know he was an extraterrestrial because his brain had been rewired, and said extraterrestrial also had bad dreams]]. Said movie Natalie is describing is ''Impostor'', a movie which happened to feature Tony Shalhoub in a supporting role. |
| 417 | ** In the novel ''Literature/MrMonkIsOpenForBusiness'', there's a reference that makes it clear that ''Series/BreakingBad'' exists in the ''Monk'' universe, when Natalie compares hers and Monk's client Henry Pickler to Walter White. There are at least [[http://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0903747,tt0312172 seventeen actors]] who appeared in supporting roles on both shows, most notably Creator/JimBeaver, Creator/ChristopherCousins, Creator/DannyTrejo, DJQualls, Tom Kiesche, and Michael Shamus Wiles. |
| 418 | ** "Mr. Monk Gets Married" guest-stars Nestor Carbonell as an antiques dealer scheming to locate a prospector's long-hidden stash of gold. In the novel ''Mr. Monk and the Dirty Cop'', Natalie makes a reference to ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' at one point, a movie which features Nestor Carbonell as Gotham City mayor Anthony Garcia. Likewise, Nicky Katt, who played the SWAT officer riding shotgun with Gordon in the armored truck during the car chase, appeared in "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage" as Sgt. Ryan Sharkey. |
| 419 | ** Several episodes make references to ''Series/{{Columbo}}'', usually with it being a nickname for Monk due to his eccentric behavior. A fair number of actors on ''Monk'' have also guest-starred in ''Columbo''. |
| 420 | ** "Mr. Monk and the Earthquake" references ''Film/SpiderMan1'', which had come out earlier in the year the episode had. Alfred Molina, who played Otto Octavius in ''Film/SpiderMan2'' and ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', guest-stars in "Mr. Monk and the Naked Man," Louis Lombardi and Reed Diamond, who both guest-starred in "Mr. Monk is Someone Else," had minor roles in the second film; and Creator/DylanBaker, who played Dr. Curt Connors in ''Film/SpiderMan2'' and ''Film/SpiderMan3'', played the titular critic of "Mr. Monk and the Critic." |
| 421 | * ''Series/MorkAndMindy'': Creator/RobinWilliams existed, as himself, in-universe. And Mork is horrified when people think they look alike. This is almost believable until Mindy mentions he's a star of "'''TV''', film, and nightclubs". Maybe Robin Williams was part of the cast of whatever TV show replaced ''Mork And Mindy'' in said universe. |
| 422 | ** Mork and Mindy are in the same universe as ''Series/HappyDays'' and ''Series/LaverneAndShirley'', except ''Mork and Mindy'' takes place 20 years later. However, Mork once mentioned the show ''Laverne & Shirley'', and Mindy sang the theme song once. Since Laverne and Shirley eventually move to Hollywood, perhaps they later became TV writers and wrote a sitcom about themselves when they were younger.\ |
| 423 | Or could it be that in the ''Happy Days'' Universe, Reality Shows existed in the 1950s and in that universe ''Laverne & Shirley'' was a reality show instead of a sitcom, where both Mork and Mindy like to watch reruns of it? |
| 424 | * An episode of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' made fun of this. It featured [[Franchise/StarWars Luke Skywalker]] going into the Muppet studio and claiming that Creator/MarkHamill (the actor who played him) was his "cousin." The two made several appearances in the episode, but not on screen together. The end of the episode, however, reveals that Mark Hamill and Luke Skywalker are in fact separate people. |
| 425 | * ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' continued after its run in a series of novels allegedly written by Jessica Fletcher. In one, ''Murder in a Minor Key'', a stressed-out Jessica relaxes by watching the movie ''Film/{{Gaslight}}''. She doesn't mention that the actress playing the maid in the movie looks rather familiar--namely, it's Creator/AngelaLansbury (''Gaslight'' was her debut film role at just seventeen years old), who played Jessica on the show. |
| 426 | * ''Series/MyFamily'', a {{Britcom}}, featured Nick obtaining a toy of Madame Hooch from ''Literature/HarryPotter''. He doesn't seem to notice that she resembles his mother a whole lot... |
| 427 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': References to ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' are frequently made whilst riffing the movies. Creator/JerrySeinfeld himself cameos in the revival series as a character named Freak Masterstroke during Season 11. |
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| 431 | * ''Series/TheNakedTruth'': The main character could only remember that David Duchovny's wife was "that goofy blonde sitcom bimbo"... whom we know as Téa Leoni. |
| 432 | * ''Series/TheNanny'': |
| 433 | ** In the penultimate episode, "Maggie's Wedding", Fran Fine meets actress Creator/FranDrescher. She mentions how everyone says she looks like her, and Drescher is not happy. She also comments on her voice, her hair, and on how the episode she's taping is very similar to what's happening in Fine's life at the moment. |
| 434 | ** In "Canasta Masta", Fran ran into Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme in Atlantic City. Lawrence later appeared as Fran's father Morty. |
| 435 | ** In "The Taxman Cometh, starring Jay Leno as himself, Fran Fine advertises a book (written by Fran Drescher) and says that "It is a riot. Plus it just came out on audio cassettes!" to what Jay Leno replies "Can't believe they put this voice on audio.". |
| 436 | ** In "Val's Boyfriend", C.C. Babcock briefly quits her partnership with Maxwell Sheffield, and afterwards claims she's signing composer Music/MarvinHamlisch onto a new play she's producing herself. C.C. later asks Fran to help her get her job back, and Fran arranges for Hamlisch to come over, much to C.C.'s surprise, as she was lying about working with him. Once Maxwell and C.C. make up and leave, Fran reveals that "Marvin" is actually her old music teacher Allen Neider--who, of course, is played by the actual Hamlisch (though Allen claims he [[YourCostumeNeedsWork doesn't see the resemblance]]). So Marvin Hamlisch plays Allen Neider playing Marvin Hamlisch! |
| 437 | ** In "Fair Weather Fran", Niles mentions that Brighton Sheffield is going to a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' convention. Niles' actor, Creator/DanielDavis, guest starred in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episodes "Elementary, Dear Data" and "Ship In A Bottle" as the holographic Professor Moriarty (the latter episode aired 10 months before ''The Nanny'' premiered). |
| 438 | ** Rosie O'Donnell, Coolio, and Whoopi Goldberg also played both themselves (O'Donnell for her talk show and Coolio and Goldberg on ''Hollywood Squares'') and individual characters (a rude cab driver, a nerdy gift wrapper, and a wedding photographer, respectively). |
| 439 | ** Speaking of Rosie O'Donnell, one episode has Fran briefly joining the staff of her talk show as a childcare expert. The episode ends with Fran getting replaced by a retired couple in Florida giving candid restaurant reviews. This was an actual segment on Rosie's show at the time--and the couple in question were Fran Drescher's parents. |
| 440 | * ''{{Series/Nashville}}'': The recurring character of Peggy is played by Creator/KimberlyWilliamsPaisley, the wife of real-life country singer Music/BradPaisley. Paisley plays himself in "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive" and "I'll Keep Climbing", which begs the question of who ''he's'' married to in the show's universe. |
| 441 | * ''Series/{{NCIS}}'': |
| 442 | ** In one episode, Kate asks Gibbs what Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard looked like when he was younger. Gibbs' response? [[Series/TheManFromUNCLE Illya Kuryakin]]. Both characters are played by David [=McCallum=]. |
| 443 | ** And in the episode when the agents go to Ducky's house, his mother has a picture of him as a young man on the mantle. That picture is a promotional picture of [=McCallum=] as Illya Kuryakin. |
| 444 | ** In another episode, Tony (the team's resident movie buff) mentions "Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell in ''Film/ScentOfAWoman''." Chris O'Donnell currently plays lead character Callen on ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'', and has guest starred as Callen on regular ''NCIS''. |
| 445 | ** In one episode, Tony remarks that he has "a better chance of hooking up with Creator/JessicaAlba" than some criminals have infiltrating someplace. Creator/MichaelWeatherly (who plays Tony) was once engaged to Creator/JessicaAlba (and was her co-star on ''Series/DarkAngel''). |
| 446 | ** Tony's movie references cause all kinds of Celebrity Paradoxes after the fact. He directly referenced ''Film/TrueLies'' in the season 7 opener, yet Creator/JamieLeeCurtis has a recurring role as Samantha Ryan starting in season 9. |
| 447 | *** Curtis is also (subsequent to her appearances in NCIS) mentioned in the second episode of NCIS: New Orleans, referencing her lactose intolerance-related yogurt needs (which she herself comically mentioned in one of her NCIS episodes). |
| 448 | ** ''Star Wars'' is mentioned frequently is the series. However, one of the main characters of Episodes V and VI is Lando Calrissian, who is played by Creator/BillyDeeWilliams, who appears twice in the series as Gibbs' father's best friend (and Gibbs' namesake Leroy Jethro Moore). |
| 449 | ** [=McGee=] is obviously a fan of ''Series/DoctorWho'', since he mentions the TARDIS in one episode. Yet when he meets Gibbs' CI Miranda Pennebaker (played by Creator/AlexKingston) in the tenth season, he doesn't notice that she looks exactly like River Song. In addition, in a season eight episode, he doesn't notice that a suspect's mother looks exactly like [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie Dr. Grace Holloway]]. |
| 450 | ** Both actor and show: In October 2014, in the ''NCIS'' Season 12 episode "Parental Guidance Suggested", Tony and Bishop enter a hotel room in which a scene from ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' Season 6 episode "The Santa Simulation" is playing on a TV. Tony was able to recognize it by the sound that it was the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' episode. One must wonder if Tony is aware of an episode that aired 13 months later (January 2014), the Season 7 episode "The Hesitation Ramification", in which Penny auditions for and gets a role on ''NCIS'' (her scene is cut, but footage from the episode ("Kill Chain", which aired 5 days after the ''Big Bang Theory'' episode) is shown). |
| 451 | ** Even before "Parental Guidance Suggested", there was a Celebrity Paradox simply in the existence of NCIS in the Big Bang Universe. NCIS features Creator/MargoHarshman (who was already in the series by the time "The Hesitation Ramification" aired) as [=McGee=]'s girlfriend Delilah Fielding. Margo previously appeared in several episodes of The Big Bang Theory as Sheldon's assistant Alex Jensen. |
| 452 | ** The agency itself invokes this on a somewhat regular basis. People greeted or confronted by the agents are often oblivious to what NCIS actually is. This makes the setting of the shows out-of-step with reality as there would be few real-life Americans who don't know what NCIS is, as it is the title and focus of one of the country's highest-rating TV franchises. |
| 453 | ** During an investigation, Tony finds a replica of one of the shirts Creator/TomSelleck wore on Series/MagnumPI. Of course, this prompts him to talk about the series and mention various things associated with it (Higgins, the dogs, Rick, T.C., ect). Fast forward to 2018: Magnum now has a remake that has already been confirmed to exist in the same universe as the 2010 version of Series/HawaiiFive0. By extension, Magnum 2018 exists within the NCIS universe due to a crossover that H50 had with Series/NCISLosAngeles. |
| 454 | ** Speaking about ''Hawaii Five-0'', Creator/KatrinaLaw plays Quinn Liu in that series, guest starring in an episode of the ''Magnum'' remake as well. On season 18 of ''NCIS'', however, she plays a completely different character: Jessica Knight. |
| 455 | ** In one episode that's particularly heavy on ''Franchise/StarTrek'' references, two one-shot characters discuss ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' and name-drop Creator/JeriRyan -- who had previously appeared as Gibbs' second ex-wife. |
| 456 | * ''Series/{{Neighbours}}'': |
| 457 | ** Michelle delivers a TakeThat directed at ''Film/TheTimeMachine2002'' whose star Creator/GuyPearce had previously played Mike Young. |
| 458 | ** Toadie suggests that Nina Tucker could be "the next [[Music/KylieMinogue Kylie]]". |
| 459 | ** When choosing music for the wedding expo, Ned Willis suggests "Torn", adding "My mum used to sing it all the time!" Not only had Music/NatalieImbruglia previously starred as Beth Brennan, Beth ''is'' Ned's mother. (Though admittedly, Natalie wasn't the first to sing "Torn"). |
| 460 | ** Toadie sings "Don't It Make You Feel Good" in a charity launch, made famous by Stefan Dennis (Paul Robinson). |
| 461 | * The titular character of ''Series/NewGirl'', Jess (played by Creator/ZooeyDeschanel) had a throwaway line where she comments she might as well call someone "Film/BridgeToTerabithia" because he's good at making children cry. Zooey herself played the teacher in the 2007 adaptation of ''Bridge''. |
| 462 | * ''Series/{{Newhart}}'': In one episode, Dick Loudon (Newhart) is talking with Michael Harris about classic television, and at one point mentions the great Saturday night lineup Creator/{{CBS}} had in the '70s, with ''Series/AllInTheFamily'', ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'', etc. "Yeah," Michael responds, "and how about [[Series/TheBobNewhartShow that show with the shrink who stuttered]]?" |
| 463 | ** What makes this even odder, of course, is that Dick Loudon and the entire ''Newhart'' series are eventually revealed to have been [[AllJustADream a bad dream]] conjured up by that selfsame shrink. |
| 464 | * The Series/NickVerse, which includes shows like ''Series/ICarly'', ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}'', ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'', and ''Series/{{Victorious}}'', are all part of the same universe, but CelebrityParadox is averted because all the actors still exist. All the copies just get assumed to be different people. |
| 465 | ** CelebrityParadox is played straight, however, when in an episode of ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}'', Drake Bell plays a concert for PCA. In ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' 's BigDamnMovie , Drake and Josh Go Hollywood, Josh shows Drake ''Parker's'' performance at PCA (which is the same exact performance) to the record producer. |
| 466 | ** It gets confusing as in both ''Series/ICarly'' and ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' both have ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' as a fictional series, but ''Series/ICarly'' had characters from both ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' and ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}'' in "iStart a Fan War" while "Galaxy Wars" is a fictional movie series throughout the Nick Verse. |
| 467 | * ''Series/{{NUMB3RS}}'': |
| 468 | ** The show mentions Star Trek several times over the course of its run, while featuring guest appearances by [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Ethan Phillips]], [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Armin Shimmerman]] [[note]]notably uttering the line "Do you think my integrity would be for sale?"[[/note]], and [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Wil Wheaton]]. |
| 469 | ** In one episode you can hear the theme from ''Series/{{Taxi}}'' playing on TV. Alan Eppes, father of Don and Charlie, is played by Creator/JuddHirsch, who was the lead on ''Taxi''. |
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| 473 | * ''Series/TheOfficeUS'': |
| 474 | ** Creed Bratton plays a fantastical (and waaay crazy) version of himself. He was the lead guitarist and a vocalist in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grass_Roots The Grass Roots]] in the 60s and 70s, and now (instead of acting) works at a paper company. |
| 475 | *** This ventures into AdamWesting territory, as ''Office''!Creed is shown to be a klepto who does a multitude of drugs, and is involved in numerous criminal activities. It is also implied that he killed the "real" Creed Bratton and stole his identity: |
| 476 | ---->'''Creed''': Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? ''Creed Bratton''. |
| 477 | *** In the second Christmas episode, he sings a Grass Roots song on a karaoke machine, which the real Creed Bratton did the vocals for. Wrap your head around that. |
| 478 | *** A deleted scene has him explaining that he was in a band called "The Grass Roots" back in the late 60s, early 70s. |
| 479 | *** In another episode Office!Creed says that he avoids debt by transferring it all to another identity named William Charles Schneider. Guess what RealLife!Creed's birth name is. The icing on the cake is he holds up a "fake" passport with the real William Charles Schneider's name and date of birth on it. |
| 480 | ** Michael Scott has mentioned that he is a fan of ''Series/TheWire'', yet does not notice Holly Flax's strong resemblance to Beadie Russell (both played by Amy Ryan). Nor Charles Miner's resemblance to Stringer Bell (both played by Idris Elba). Nor Eric Ward's resemblance to Thomas Klebanow (both played by David Costabile). |
| 481 | ** Not to mention the numerous references to Michael's beloved ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' and ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', when the stars of both have appeared as characters on the show, such as Charles "Chip" Esten, Tim Meadows, David Koechner and Nancy Walls, who in addition to being on SNL, is also married to Creator/SteveCarell, who plays Michael, in real life. |
| 482 | ** Michael is also seen critiquing the film ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard''. In Season 7, Michael hires an excellent traveling salesman played by Timothy Olyphant...who was the villain in the aforementioned ''Die Hard'' film. |
| 483 | ** In season 2, Michael can't help but yell "king of the world" (from ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'') when he gets on a boat. In season six, Dunder Mifflin is bought by the Sabre printer company owned by a woman named Jo, played by Kathy Bates (who played Molly Brown in ''Titanic''). |
| 484 | ** In season 3, several of the staff make joke announcements when Dwight attempts to audio record a meeting in the conference room while Michael is away. Phyllis says "Oh, Creator/JimCarrey just walked in! Dwight, get his autograph for Michael!" After Michael leaves in season 7, one of the applicants interviewed (the unnamed "Finger Lakes Guy") is played by Jim Carrey. (So Jim Carrey eventually DID walk into the conference room. Or did he?) |
| 485 | ** After the Stamford branch personnel join the Scranton branch in season 3, Michael tries to entertain them by acting out the "Roxbury Guys" characters from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' (with help from Andy). Of course one of the characters was played by Will Farrell who looks just like Michael's would-be successor in season 7, Deangelo Vickers (something neither Michael nor anyone else seems to notice). Further complicating things is the Roxbury Guys were featured in a sketch in 1996 episode of SNL in which Creator/JimCarrey (see above) both hosted and played one the Roxbury guys. On top of that, the sketch featured Nancy Walls (then a regular on SNL), who's not only Steve Carrell's real life wife, but played his girlfriend on The Office at the time of the episode where Michael tried to be one of the Roxbury guys! |
| 486 | ** Also in Season 3, Dwight states that he's no hero, but Hiro from ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' is. Fast forward a few seasons, and no one notices Kelly's husband's resemblance to Mohinder. |
| 487 | ** The strangest aspect is that the entire show is set up as a fly-on-the-wall documentary series. The characters know they are on a TV series, with talking heads to camera in the conference room, and "Vance Refrigeration" product placements. But nobody on the show watches their-universe version of the show. This means that, e.g., no character knows the things that people are saying to camera about them. This is sometimes almost averted, e.g. when Jim and Pam are seen getting into a car together, but even here the tv crew show them the footage, they don't see it on tv. |
| 488 | *** That'd be because [[spoiler:throughout the first 8 years of the series, the film crew is only filming and editing. The show doesn't go to air until the ninth season, all of the episodes presumably edited differently than what the real world saw to be able to be condensed into a string of episodes aired during the month of May on PBS. Later episodes in the ninth season show characters commenting on what they did and didn't realize was being filmed. Then the finale is an in-universe "Where Are They Now?"-style follow-up special for the in-universe release of the DVD of the documentary.]] Inhale. |
| 489 | ** [[Series/TheOfficeUK The UK version]] plays with this idea a bit. In the Christmas special, the first two seasons of the show have aired on the BBC, and (a few) in-show characters recognize David Brent from it. Brent finds it necessary to explain that the documentary's portrayal of him was inaccurate. |
| 490 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'': In the Season 4 finale, Emma calls Hook a "regular [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Jack Sparrow]]". Grumpy - who appears in literally the previous scene - is played by Creator/LeeArenberg, who appears in the ''Pirates'' films as Pintel. |
| 491 | * ''Series/OneDayAtATime2017'': Leslie mentions having watched Netflix, and Elena asks him which show it was. Leslie then clarifies that he's watched all of Netflix--all its shows and movies, which logically, would include ''One Day at a Time''. |
| 492 | * ''Os Normais'', a Brazilian sitcom, had an episode with the characters doing a plug for a movie being released, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Copied O Homem que Copiava]]''. They list the cast... except for Selton Mello, as he played one of the main characters of the show. |
| 493 | * One minor subplot on ''Series/{{Oz}}'' had the inmates petition to get cable so they could watch Creator/{{HBO}}, the channel the show aired on, [[AllMenArePerverts so they could watch]] ''Series/SexAndTheCity''. |
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| 497 | * ''Series/PennyDreadful'': Victor Frankenstein occasionally quotes the poem "Adonais", by Percy Shelley. Percy Shelley was married to Mary Shelley, the author who created the character of Victor Frankenstein and his monster. |
| 498 | * ''Series/PrettyLittleLiarsOriginalSin'' makes reference to the film ''Film/{{Hereditary}}'', which Karen and Kelly's actress Mallory Bechtel appeared in. |
| 499 | * ''Series/{{Primeval}}'': In the fourth season Abbey, played by former S-Club 7 member Hannah Spearritt, distracts a dinosaur in an arena with a light and sound system by turning the music onto max and the lights on... The song playing being Don't Stop Movin'. |
| 500 | * ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has made at least one reference to ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', but Creator/AllySheedy, Creator/JuddNelson, Creator/MollyRingwald ''and'' Creator/AnthonyMichaelHall have all appeared in guest roles and none of them have had the comparison drawn. |
| 501 | ** Well, all of them were much older when they guest-starred, so people could be forgiven for not knowing what they looked like even in real life. In fact, another '80s teen star, Creator/JenniferGrey, found that after she got her nose job, ''nobody'' knew what she looked like. |
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| 505 | * ''Series/QuantumLeap'': |
| 506 | ** One episode features an heiress played by Brooke Shields, whose resemblance to herself causes no comment from Sam or Al. Then again, in this case it may be a JustifiedTrope because Sam is amnesiac and the show takes place in a timeline which is (at least at first) significantly different from ours. |
| 507 | ** On the other hand, there was an episode where Sam leaps into Lee Harvey Oswald during his days in the Marine Corps, and has a confrontation with a young Marine named Bellisario. Producer Donald P. Bellisario actually served with Oswald in the Marines and had this confrontation, meaning that Donald P. Bellisario exists in some fashion the ''Quantum Leap'' universe. |
| 508 | *** This one is also a twofer: the real Bellisario appeared in one episode playing a leapee's reflection, though it's doubtful Sam or Al would have recognized him anyway. |
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| 512 | * ''Series/RaisingHope'' contains multiple ways for ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' throughout the series (Both shows created by Greg Garcia). Not only was My Name is Earl a show in universe (Burt even kicks a Creator/{{NBC}} excutive in the groin for cancelling it), characters from Earl show up in Raising Hope (like Pattie the daytime hooker) suggesting they happen in the same universe ''and'' several actors from Earl appear as recurring characters or guest stars on Raising Hope complete with {{Actor Allusion}}s. |
| 513 | ** In a Season 2 episode, Barney refuses to arrest Sabrina during a protest because he doesn't want to miss a new episode of "Burn Notice". Garret Dillahunt, who plays Burt Chance, appeared in seasons 3, 4 and 7 of Burn Notice as Simon Escher. |
| 514 | ** The parent show itself has a bit of an CelebrityParadox, in that Timothy Stack, one of the series producers, is a featured character, AdamWesting. He's an alcoholic, washed-up comedian still using his costume from ''Series/SonOfTheBeach''. |
| 515 | * ''Series/RedDwarf'' plays with it. [[spoiler:The plot of ''Back to Earth'' has Rimmer, Kryten and Cat encounter Creator/CraigCharles (Lister) on the set of ''Series/CoronationStreet''. Of course, Craig assumes it's a joke and that they're simply his fellow actors -- until ''Lister'' arrives.]] And it's explained at the end--[[spoiler:they were in a false reality where ''Series/RedDwarf'' is fiction]]. |
| 516 | ** Straight example in ''Back in the Red''. The ''Alien'' series is alluded to in a game of charades early in the story. A few minutes later, Creator/MacMcDonald --Commander Simpson in ''Aliens''--is reintroduced as Captain Hollister. |
| 517 | * In the 1997 TV-movie, ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'': Shoot-Out at the Golden Pagoda, Angel Martin claims to be developing a movie deal with Creator/ClintEastwood. Did Angel or Jim Rockford ever see the 1959 ''Series/{{Maverick}}'' episode “Duel at Sundown,” which guest-starred a young Eastwood? And what about the resemblence of Bret Maverick to Jim Rockford? |
| 518 | * ''Series/TheRoyleFamily'': |
| 519 | ** In the 1999 Christmas Special, Nana asks what time ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'' is on. Creator/LizSmith, the actor who played Nana, also played Letitia Cropley in the show. |
| 520 | ** Liz Smith (Nana), Ricky Tomlinson (Jim), Ralf Little (Antony), Creator/SheridanSmith (Emma), John Henshaw (Roger) and Sharon Duce (Valerie) all appeared in ''Series/TheBill'', another show watched by Nana. |
| 521 | ** Nana watches ''Series/{{Heartbeat}}'', which featured Creator/GeoffreyHughes, who played Twiggy in ''The Royle Family''. |
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| 525 | * ''Series/SanfordAndSon'' has Fred G. Sanford winning a Redd Foxx lookalike contest. The prize was to meet the real Foxx, but the "real" Redd Foxx never showed up. |
| 526 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': |
| 527 | ** In a sketch from the 2008 U.S. election with Creator/TinaFey playing UsefulNotes/SarahPalin, UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton mocks her "Tina Fey glasses". Proving that Tina Fey exists in the same universe as Sarah Palin. |
| 528 | ** Subverted for a gag in the Season 48 Creator/AubreyPlaza episode, where former ''Weekend Update'' anchor Creator/AmyPoehler returns to ''Update'', now in character as [[Series/ParksAndRecreation Leslie Knope]] (with Plaza reprising her role as April). She mentions that she used to watch the show back when Creator/SethMeyers did it with ''no one else''. |
| 529 | * In ''Series/TheSandman2022'', Jed Walker was estabished to be a fan of DC Comics -- the company that published [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 the original series]] and said comic series was set in Franchise/TheDCU, even featuring characters from it in guest spots. Even putting that aside, there's the fact that [[Creator/KirbyHowellBaptiste Death]] and [[Creator/DavidThewlis John Dee]] (the ''Justice League'' villain Dr. Destiny) sound (and in Dee's case, looks) like ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' villains [[WesternAnimation/CatwomanHunted the Cheetah]] and [[Film/WonderWoman2017 Ares]] respectively; [[Creator/PattonOswalt Matthew the Raven]] sounds like [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman the Toymaker and Marty Slack]]; and [[Creator/MarkHamill Merv Pumpkinhead]] sounds like (among others) [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the Joker]], [[Franchise/TheFlash the Trickster]], [[Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse Solomon Grundy, Ferris Boyle, Jordan Pryce]], [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman Tony Zucco]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold the Spectre]], and [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction Swamp Thing]]. |
| 530 | * ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': |
| 531 | ** One episode has J.D. mentioning that he thought he noticed the Janitor in the movie version of ''Film/TheFugitive''. Neil Flynn, who plays the Janitor, was indeed in that film, where he played the transit cop that Frederick Sykes kills on the 'L' train. The Janitor later implies that it was indeed him in the movie. Whether this means that all of Neil Flynn's roles in the Scrubsverse are played by The Janitor or if this was a one off is unclear. Of course, nothing the Janitor says can be taken seriously. It is perfectly plausible that in the Scrubsverse, the Janitor just happens to look like Neil Flynn and was messing with JD/the Audience's head(s). Or the Janitor ''is Neil Flynn'', fallen on hard times. |
| 532 | ** The cast of ''Scrubs'' frequently make references to ''Series/{{Friends}}'', including repeated comparisons of J.D. and Elliot to Ross and Rachel, but don't recognize Creator/MatthewPerry when he makes his cameo, or even Courtney Cox who becomes a recurring character. |
| 533 | ** There were a few jokes made that, with a certain facial expression, Elliot (Creator/SarahChalke) looks similar to Gary Busey. In one episode with the hospital staff being told to take a group picture, Elliot declines saying she doesn't photograph well and looks like Gary Busey on her drivers license. The camera pans and an unnamed, never before seen doctor ''played'' by Gary Busey mentions he has the same issue. |
| 534 | ** ''Scrubs'' also [[SharedUniverse shares a universe]] with ''Series/CougarTown'', as shown with Ted Buckland appearing in an episode, but Zach Braff also exists in the universe. Also, Creator/CourteneyCox plays a role in both shows, yet Ted didn't even notice how much Jules looked like Dr. Maddox. Also, Creator/ChristaMiller plays both Jordan on ''Scrubs'' and Ellie on ''Series/CougarTown''. |
| 535 | ** And the season 2 premiere (I believe? Anyway, it happened) showed Jules watching TV--it was ''Scrubs''. That makes Ted Buckland's existence (as well as other shared actors, such as her best friend and creepy neighbor) a little mind-bending. |
| 536 | *** The mindscrew continues at the end of a season 2 episode when Sam Lloyd (as Ted Buckland) is commenting on how much Sarah Chalke (as Angie) and Christa Miller (as Ellie) resemble people from his old job. Cue Bob Clendnin (Tom/Dr Zeltzer) popping in the window. Ken Jenkins (Chick/Dr Kelso) wanders in, causing Ted to attempt to run through a glass door. Zach Braff asks him if he ordered a pizza, and Rob Maschio offered him an "are you ok?" five. |
| 537 | * ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': |
| 538 | ** InUniverse, ''Series/MadAboutYou'' exists, but characters from ''Seinfeld'' have appeared on ''Series/MadAboutYou''. Some sort of ''Seinfeld'' series also exists on ''Series/MadAboutYou'', but it's unclear whether the series in question is the one from [[RealLife the real world]], starring real Jerry Seinfeld, or the fictional sitcom ''Jerry'', starring the real Jerry Seinfeld's character portraying a character named Jerry Seinfeld ([[WildMassGuessing who might himself be the real Jerry Seinfeld]]). |
| 539 | ** Paul Reiser's ''Series/MadAboutYou'' character, Paul Buchman, has never seen the movie ''Aliens'', which co-starred Paul Reiser. |
| 540 | *** Specifically, a friend of his (Mark) is discussing {{chest burster}}s, and asks Paul if he's ever seen the movies. Paul quickly replies, "Just the first one." |
| 541 | ** Reiser questions why the movie actor game "Back to Bacon" doesn't use Creator/MickeyRourke instead. This change would have minimal impact in real life since Mickey Rourke appeared in ''Diner'' with Kevin Bacon, so any connection to Bacon would have at most only one more connection. But since Reiser also appeared in ''Diner'' maybe that movie didn't exist on ''Series/MadAboutYou''. |
| 542 | ** In the Seinfeld episode "The Boyfriend," when Kramer and Newman express ire at Keith Hernandez having spit at them, Jerry reconstructs their story in a direct parody of the "magic bullet theory" scene from the movie JFK. Later in the episode, Keith Hernandez suggests seeing the movie JFK to Elaine, continuing the joke. The paradox lies in the fact that Wayne Knight, who plays Newman, also appears in the aforementioned scene in JFK. One can only wonder what would have happened had Keith and Elaine actually seen the movie... |
| 543 | *** Even better, his character in the film has the last name "Numa." And in the same episode, there's a direct ActorAllusion as Knight plays the same role in the "magic loogie" reconstruction as he did in the "magic bullet" reconstruction in the film. |
| 544 | * Related to a literature example up above, modern adaptations of Franchise/SherlockHolmes can be subject to this trope. |
| 545 | ** ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' contains a very minor but completely headwrecking reference to Creator/ArthurConanDoyle, when a tabloid article about Franchise/SherlockHolmes contains the line "in a twist worthy of a Conan Doyle novella..." This implies that in-universe ACD wrote stories that had the same cultural impact as Sherlock Holmes but couldn't possibly have been Sherlock Holmes, or even anything too similar or it would surely have been referenced more often in the detective's rise to fame. |
| 546 | *** In a real-life version of this trope, Steven Moffat admitted on one of the commentary tracks that he couldn't actually film on the ''real'' Baker Street at least in part due to the massive amounts of real-world Sherlock Holmes memorabilia and tourist markers. |
| 547 | *** It also namedrops Spock, which, considering Spock himself referenced Sherlock Holmes, makes you wonder. Not only that, but Creator/BenedictCumberbatch would play [[spoiler:Khan]] in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness''. Further complicated by the fact that Spock references the famous "If you eliminate the impossible..." line that he attributes to his ancestor without specifying whether he means Spock is descended from Sir Arthur or Sherlock which presents a problem either way. |
| 548 | ** ''{{Series/Elementary}}'', [[FollowTheLeader following in]] ''Sherlock'''s footsteps (although [[GenderFlip Watson is a woman this time]]), has Holmes specifically refer to one of Arthur Conan Doyle's books and allude to many others. So either Doyle's work isn't nearly as [[PopCulturalOsmosis ubiquitous]] in their dimension, or he used alternative names for his characters, otherwise the protagonists [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore would never hear the end of it]]. |
| 549 | * ''Series/ShakeItUp'': Between the two of them, Creator/BellaThorne and Creator/{{Zendaya}} have five songs that have been played on the show during dance numbers, yet no one in the ''Series/ShakeItUp'' universe wonders why [=CeCe=] and Rocky look like them. Could be explained by the fact that the singers of those songs are only heard and never seen, so there's no reason to believe anyone in-universe actually knows what they look like. Also, the song "Show Ya How" is by Adam and Kenton (Deuce and Gunther respectively) in "Protest It Up" |
| 550 | ** Like Bella and Zendaya, Caroline Sunshine (Tinka) has a song that has been played during a dance number (specifically during the opening ''Shake it Up Chicago'' segment in "Embarass it Up") but at least this one could be a "pass" as her singing voice isn't exactly identifiable as Tinka's. |
| 551 | * ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' contains an example on a more metatextual ''character'' level than a literal ''actor'' level. In every other incarnation of the Superman mythos (comics, TV, movies, radio etc.) Superman is, by the very nature of his existence, a world-famous figure, probably the most famous person on Earth. Therefore all the kinds of nicknames, catchphrases and allusions to the fictional character in the real world (e.g. "Faster than a speeding bullet", "The Man of Steel", etc.) are equally well known in the various fictional realities where Superman is actually real (with the exception of "And who, disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter..."). But in ''Smallville'', a {{prequel}} show set explicitly in the present day, the viewer is faced with the bizarre dissonance that these characters exist in an early 21st century version of America whose popular culture has '''''not''''' been irrevocably impacted by the existence of Superman (real ''or'' fictional), who originated the entire superhero genre and flooded the lexicon with all manner of specific phrases and ideas. |
| 552 | ** This is rendered even more head-numbingly dissonant by the show's sheer volume of [[FourthWall sly references]], homages, and [[ShoutOut shout-outs]] to the Superman mythos ''that has yet to actually take place'', with constant winking deployment of terms that contextually shouldn't have been coined yet, like "Man of Steel," "Faster than a speeding bullet," "mild-mannered" etc. etc. They have even shown that words/concepts like "superhero" are already in common parlance, despite their actual existence not yet being known to the wider public. |
| 553 | *** Most examples are organic: someone sees bullets bounce off Clark and calls him "a man of steel" (not "THE"), etc. We're seeing the in-universe origins of these phrases, not the common use of them. |
| 554 | *** Partly justified, since superhero ''comics'' do exist in the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' universe, since Lex was shown to have been a fan of one such comic (featuring a bald protagonist) growing up, called ''Warrior Angel'' -- ironically a very historically-accurate [[AudienceAlienatingEra '90s style]] archetype. This leads one to wonder who was the first superhero character to be published in the ''Smallville'' universe, since it obviously wasn't Superman... |
| 555 | *** It's since been revealed to be...Warrior Angel, which slots nicely into the same real-world slot as Superman, as well as having some blatant similarities to him characterwise, as well. |
| 556 | *** The episode "Thirst" establishes Zorro as a franchise in the show's setting (a Zorro outfit is seen). |
| 557 | *** Another episode intimated the same situation for Luke Skywalker (who derives from Flash Gordon). |
| 558 | *** Well, with the precedent of Zorro, the Phantom, the Shadow, Doc Savage, the Green Hornet, the Lensmen, the Baron, Blackshirt, the Saint (Simon Templar), Bulldog Drummond, the Baron, the Ringer (Edgar Wallace novels), the Phantom (Curtis Van Loan), the Four Just Men, John Carter, Tarzan, the Lone Ranger, the Gray Seal, Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Spring-Heeled Jack, the Spider, Mandrake, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Hugo Danner, Dick Tracy, etc. it may have resulted independently. In fact, in one episode, Zorro explicitly receives mention. |
| 559 | *** Batman was also a very popular character inspired by the above listed characters made by DC before they even owned Superman so it could be that Batman is the inspiration for most modern super heroes and Bruce Wayne has never appeared in ''Smallville''. |
| 560 | *** Actually, prior to [[Series/Batman1966 the Adam West show in the 1960's]], Bruce Wayne did not stand as especially well-known. |
| 561 | *** However, there are numerous references in Smallville to Gotham City, and a few indirect references to Batman (Waynetech, and the line that Chloe "met a billionaire with high-tech toys" on her search for other superheroes). |
| 562 | *** "Kryptonite" has become a common replacement for the expression AchillesHeel in real life. So it fits that in "Rush" Pete refers to the "Meteor Rocks" as Clark's AchillesHeel. |
| 563 | ** An odd corollary to the fact that Creator/DCComics don't exist in the ''Smallville'' universe is the fact that, apparently, Creator/MarvelComics don't exist either. (It's never directly stated that they don't, for obvious reasons, but the fact that characters are constantly discussing superheroes and super powers and frequently talk about comic books and make pop culture references while describing super-powered mutants without ever once mentioning the ComicBook/XMen, ComicBook/SpiderMan, etc., would seem to imply that they don't exist, even as fictional characters.) |
| 564 | *** Odder still, in the Marvel continuity both Marvel Comics ''and'' DC Comics exist. It's sometimes mentioned that the Marvel books feature retellings of the heroes' "real-life" exploits ([[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica Steve Rogers]] even draws his), to the point where ComicBook/SheHulk has used them as evidence in court. How the Marvel continuity's DC comics stack up is more of a mystery. (An ''[[ComicBook/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl Unbeatable Squirrel Girl]]'' novel of unknown canonicity implies that Batman and Superman are completely fictional characters.) |
| 565 | *** According to ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'', DC Comics exist in Franchise/TheDCU... but at least part of their output is comics about "fictional" superheroes, who actually exist on [[AlternateUniverse alternate Earths]] in TheMultiverse. Marvel Comics' [[FictionalCounterpart DC equivalent]] is Major Comics, who produce analogues of Marvel's characters (with said characters actually being inspired by the heroes of Earth-7 and Earth-8). |
| 566 | *** The old 50's B-movies may have still managed to exist in-universe, along with older Golden Age titles; these would provide a basis for the super-powered mutant meme. |
| 567 | ** There's an episode where Lex Luthor goes into a facility and meets a beautiful woman, he asks for the Chief Engineer and she answers that it's her. Lex gets all surprised, while asking "are you the engineer?" and she replies "were you expecting a guy with long hair, wearing a ''Franchise/StarWars'' t-shirt and playing Playstation?". So, as stated above about Luke Skywalker, there's Star Wars in the Smallville universe, probably with [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic music score]] by John Williams, but he didn't compose the music for the Superman films because those films don't exist. Also, no Playstation games about Creator/DCComics. |
| 568 | * ''Series/SonnyWithAChance'': Played with when Sonny (Music/DemiLovato) meets Selena Gomez, as Selena Gomez, who apparently no longer has a BFF named Demi Lovato, or if she does probably would have mentioned "Hey, my BFF looks so exactly like you it's uncanny." At the end, they tease the idea that Sonny would become Selena's new BFF. It was a very strange episode. |
| 569 | * ''Series/TheSopranos'': |
| 570 | ** In at least one episode, Christopher mentions Creator/QuentinTarantino. Tarantino wrote ''Film/TrueRomance'', which features Creator/JamesGandolfini (Tony Soprano) as Virgil. |
| 571 | ** ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' is also mentioned at least once. ''Goodfellas'' stars Creator/FrankVincent (Phil Leotardo) as Billy Batts and Creator/LorraineBracco (Dr. Melfi) as Karen Hill, respectively. Creator/MichaelImperioli (Christopher) also has a minor role as the poor busboy who gets blown away by Tommy, Tony Sirico (Paulie Walnuts) plays Tony Stacks, and Creator/VincentPastore, who plays Big Pussy, is briefly onscreen. Other '''Goodfellas''' cast members appearing on '''The Sopranos''' include Creator/SuzanneShepherd, Frank Pellegrino, Tony Darrow, Paul Herman, Frank Adonis, Chuck Low, and Creator/TobinBell. |
| 572 | *** Creator/RayLiotta, who played Henry Hill in ''Goodfellas'' and whom David Chase initially wanted in the role of Tony Soprano, plays Christopher's father and uncle in the {{prequel}} movie ''Film/TheManySaintsOfNewark''. |
| 573 | *** [=S1E2=] features a very brief cameo by Creator/MartinScorsese, director of ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}''. Christopher yells at him that he enjoyed his film ''Film/{{Kundun}}''. As mentioned above, Michael Imperioli, who plays Christopher, had a minor role in ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}''. |
| 574 | ** An episode of ''Series/TheSopranos'' has a character watching ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm''. [[MutuallyFictional Conversely]], characters on ''Curb'' have mentioned ''The Sopranos'' and HBO. |
| 575 | ** In season 2's "House Arrest", when Tony is reminded by his lawyer about the Matt Bevilaqua murder, he says, "I told you, I was home alone", to which Mink replies "You and Creator/MacaulayCulkin", a clear reference to ''Film/HomeAlone1''. Tony doesn't comment on the fact that [[Creator/JohnHeard Vin Makazian]], his police contact in season 1, resembles Peter [=McCallister=]. |
| 576 | ** In one Season 3 episode, Noah Tenenbaum's father (a big-name entertainment lawyer in Hollywood) impresses Meadow by claiming that he's met the actor Creator/TimDaly before. Daly would later join the cast of ''The Sopranos'' in Season 5, as the recurring character J.T. Dolan. |
| 577 | ** Since the show takes place in UsefulNotes/NewJersey, various characters (understandably) reference the music of Music/BruceSpringsteen quite frequently, yet never seem to notice that Silvio Dante looks like a doppelganger for "Miami Steve" Van Zandt, the guitarist of the E Street Band. |
| 578 | ** There's also numerous mentions of ''Film/TheGodfather'' despite the fact that Dominic Chianese, who plays Uncle Junior, appeared in ''Part II'' as Johnny Ola. Also, Vittorio Duse, who played the Camorra boss [[TheDanza Zi Vittorio]] in [=S2E4=], appeared in ''Part III'' as Don Tommasino. |
| 579 | ** No-one also seems to notice that [[Music/FrankieValliAndTheFourSeasons Frankie Valli]], who plays Lupertazzi capo Rusty Millio in the 5th and 6th seasons of the show, was mentioned earlier in the season 4 episode "Christopher" as someone who the owner of a casino Tony visits wants to play at the casino as payment. Also makes you wonder who the frontman of The Four Season's was in ''The Sopranos'' universe. |
| 580 | ** Tony watches ''Film/TheFugitive'' in his home cinema, a movie that features Creator/JoePantoliano (Ralph Cifaretto) in a supporting role as Cosmo Renfro. |
| 581 | ** AJ hands ''Film/TheMatrix'' on DVD to Carmela as a birthday present. Both her and Tony don't react to the cover, which features Creator/JoePantoliano as Cypher. [[note]]In fairness, Cypher and Ralph look vastly different.[[/note]] |
| 582 | ** And of course the resemblances between Tony's situation and ''Film/AnalyzeThis'' doesn't go unnoticed, but no one notices that Max Casella (Benny Fazio), Tony Darrow ("Larry Boy" Barese), and Elizabeth Bracco (Marie Spatafore) have parts in it. Nor do they comment on the sequel, where De Niro's character becomes a consultant on a show obviously modeled on ''The Sopranos''. |
| 583 | * Aversion: Both ''Series/SpinCity'' and ''Series/JustShootMe'' have celebrities appear in regular roles as well as themselves, though no celebrity has ever done both. |
| 584 | * ''Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming'' is a TV biopic about Franchise/JamesBond creator Creator/IanFleming, played by Jason Connery, whose father, Creator/SeanConnery, had been the first actor to play Bond in [[Film/JamesBond the cinematic series]]. |
| 585 | * In ''Series/SquidGame'', Ji-yeong specifically namedrops Creator/LeeByunghun and cites his famous line from ''Film/InsideMen'': "Let's have a drink of Maldives at mojito." [[spoiler:Lee Byung-hun plays the Front Man.]] |
| 586 | * In the first episode of ''Series/StargateSG1'', star Richard Dean Anderson's previous series ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'' is brought up. ("It was difficult, but we were able to {{MacGyver|ing}} a solution.") |
| 587 | ** ''SG-1'' got even more confusing by having a guest appearance by Creator/DanCastellaneta while ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had a guest appearance by Richard Dean Anderson. In ''SG-1'', Jack is a fan of ''The Simpsons'', but doesn't seem to recognise Dan, even though they specifically bond over ''The Simpsons''. In ''The Simpsons'', Anderson plays himself. |
| 588 | ** The Franchise/StargateVerse has yet another circular dependency: with ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''. Dr. Lee is a fan of the game (and curiously claimed to have a level 75 character, which was impossible at the time the episode supposedly took place)... while the Champions' Hall in ''[=WoW=]'' contains [=NPCs=] named after ''SG-1'' characters. |
| 589 | ** In another interesting case, Carter tells O'Neill that they can't call the first X-303-class spaceship "Enterprise" in homage to ''Franchise/StarTrek''. Given that NASA has ''already named a spaceship after the fictional Enterprise'', were this not a television show -- whose creators would certainly be sued by Paramount for their insolence -- there would be absolutely no reason not to name the ship Enterprise. Realistically speaking, it would in fact be a virtual ''certainty''. |
| 590 | *** Although, if we're really overthinking this, they would be unlikely to do so until the current ''USS Enterprise'' was retired, freeing up the name for military use. Unless the US Air Force, who run the starships, did it deliberately just to annoy the US Navy, who have the aircraft carrier. |
| 591 | ** Speaking of ''Star Trek'', the penultimate episode of ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' has Richard Woolsey mention that ''Franchise/StarTrek: The Experience'' in Las Vegas had closed. One wonders if ''[[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' got made in the Stargate verse, and if so, whether anyone's ever told Richard Woolsey that he looks just like the Doctor, who appeared in said ride. |
| 592 | ** The episode [[Recap/StargateSG1S10E6200 "200"]] suggested that Vala is familiar with ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' despite her being played by Claudia Black and Cameron by Ben Browder. |
| 593 | * In the real world, the first (test) Space Shuttle was named "Enterprise" in honor of ''Franchise/StarTrek''. That Enterprise does appear among the drawings of earlier ships to bear the name that Captain Archer keeps in his ready room, the recreation deck in ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'', and appears in the montage during the opening credits to ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', though the reason for its name is presumably different (presumably, the same reason as Kirk's ''Enterprise'': "Enterprise" is a name with a long naval history)[[note]]In the ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'' novel ''A Flag Full of Stars'', one of the project managers on the shuttle lost a brother on the WWII aircraft carrier ''Enterprise''[[/note]]. In other words, in ''Star Trek'', the Enterprise is named after the space shuttle, while in real life, the space shuttle was named after the Enterprise from ''Star Trek''. |
| 594 | ** In ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', the second Warp-5 ship was named the Columbia by the show's writers in tribute to the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia who had recently died in the Columbia disaster. The in universe reason given for this name was that it was taken from the second space shuttle, with the implication that the Starship Enterprise is supposed to be named for the space shuttle. |
| 595 | ** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hra0I-w3XBY this]] Comic Relief special, the cast of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' notices a similarity between Creator/WhoopiGoldberg and Guinan. |
| 596 | ** A subtle example in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E13FarBeyondTheStars Far Beyond The Stars]]": One of the writers Benny mentions by name in the September, 1953 issue of ''Galaxy'' is Creator/TheodoreSturgeon, who wrote two episodes of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries.'' As a bit of ShownTheirWork, Sturgeon actually wrote the ''cover story'' of that issue of ''Galaxy'' in real life. |
| 597 | ** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "Qpid", Picard is writing his speech in his ready room, where his volume of ''Annotated Shakespeare'' is [[http://tng.trekcore.com/hd/albums/season-4/4x20/qpid-hd-015.jpg opened at a page]] showing [[http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/database/shakespeare/anno-354-355.jpg a photo from a production]] of ''Theatre/AsYouLikeIt'' in which Creator/PatrickStewart (Picard) played Touchstone. |
| 598 | ** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': |
| 599 | *** [[{{Bookends}} The series opens - and the first season closes - with the song "Blue Skies" playing]], specifically, the rendition sung by Music/BingCrosby, who was the grandfather of Creator/DeniseCrosby, who starred as Tasha Yar in the first season of TNG. |
| 600 | *** After years of [[KirksRock California's Vasquez Rocks]] portraying a hefty portion of the alien planets on TOS and TNG, Picard goes to visit Raffi at her home in California... at the in-universe Vasquez Rocks. The title card even reads "Vasquez Rocks." |
| 601 | *** In "Two of One," at the astronauts' reception, Jean-Luc tells Renée that "Dr. Jemison" is going to give a toast. This is apparently the real-world astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison -- who had a cameo appearance on the TNG episode "Second Chances." |
| 602 | * ''Series/StElsewhere'': |
| 603 | ** Sort of. In the Season 2 episode "Hello, Goodbye", Morrison takes his son to "the bar that inspired ''Series/{{Cheers}}''", but then in the Season 3 episode "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Cheers]]", Dr. Craig and Dr. Westphall visit the bar from ''Cheers'' where they interact with the characters from the show! |
| 604 | ** Warren Coolidge, who previously appeared as a main character in ''Series/TheWhiteShadow'', is an orderly at St. Eligius. However, "Close Encounters" establishes that ''The White Shadow'' is a television show. |
| 605 | ** In "Dr. Wyler, I Presume", Dr. Craig mentions his old Army buddy B.J. from UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar, a reference to ''Series/{{MASH}}'' character Captain B.J. Hunnicutt. In "Close Encounters", Dr. Auschlander chooses Trapper John, a main character on ''M*A*S*H'' and later the protagonist of the dramatic spin-off ''Series/TrapperJohnMD'', as the fictional character whom he would most like to be. B.J. replaced Trapper John in ''M*A*S*H'' after Wayne Rogers' departure. |
| 606 | * In ''Series/StepByStep'', Carol is played by SuzanneSomers, who also played Chrissy. Carol was watching ''Series/ThreesCompany'' and laughing, saying that Chrissy was her favorite, and tried to "imitate" Chrissy's trademark laugh. Nobody pointed out the resemblance, though. |
| 607 | * In the fourth season of ''Series/StrangerThings'', one of the new characters is heavily scarred alleged murderer Victor Creel, being played by Creator/RobertEnglund. For a brief moment, in the video store where Steve and Robin now work, one can see a cardboard cutout of [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]], Englund's most famous and iconic role, and a later episode has Dustin comparing Vecna to the character. |
| 608 | ** According to the Duffer Brothers, the show's timeline will have to end before 1988 to avert this with Winona Ryder, who became a widely-known actress with the release of the film ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'' that year. |
| 609 | --->'''Ross Duffer:''' That's the final scene: the kids go to see ''Beetlejuice'' and [[YourHeadASplode their heads explode]]. |
| 610 | * Played with in ''Series/Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'': Creator/AllisonJanney of ''Series/TheWestWing'' appears as herself, guest hosting the eponymous ShowWithinAShow. Timothy Busfield plays the director of said show. Busfield formerly played Janney's character's love interest/husband on ''The West Wing'', and their interactions in the ''Studio 60'' episode play this up. Note that ''The West Wing'' exists in the ''Studio 60'' universe, and fictional Janney was in it, while fictional Busfield apparently wasn't, since he doesn't exist. Confused yet? |
| 611 | ** This becomes even ''more'' confusing when you think about how many other actors were in both shows. |
| 612 | ** Be glad that the guy who played Josh wasn't in that episode. |
| 613 | ** Adding another layer of confusion, the fictional Janney is annoyed at being confused with Christine Lahti. The reporter played by Christine Lahti wasn't in that episode, but she hadn't been gone long. |
| 614 | ** It gets worse: the law firm that Sam worked for on ''Series/TheWestWing'' also exists on ''Studio 60''. |
| 615 | *** That's not really a paradox, though. Assuming ''Studio 60'' is the "real" world, a fictional show within that world, such as ''The West Wing'', would be perfectly capable of referencing a real-life law firm. |
| 616 | *** Fans of ''The West Wing'' used to speculate that the show existed in the Bartlet universe, but featured an incompetent Republican president and nobody watched it. |
| 617 | *** There are also a few backstage shots where, along with all the other set pieces one might use on a sketch comedy show, you can clearly see a "Bartlet For America" campaign poster hanging on the wall. |
| 618 | * The title character in ''Series/SuddenlySusan'' finds herself unable to remember Andre Agassi's first wife -- because it was Brooke Shields herself. |
| 619 | * One episode of ''Series/SueThomasFBEye'' had Sue (the character) meeting Sue (the real FBI agent that sparked the series); IIRC, one of them said she'd always wanted to be an FBI agent while the other said she'd always wanted to be an actress. |
| 620 | ** Sue the Character is an actress playing an FBI agent who said she always wanted to be an actress. Sue the Real Person is an FBI agent who's character on the show is an actress who said she always wanted to be an FBI agent. |
| 621 | * ''Series/{{Suits}}'' acknowledges the existense of ''Series/GameOfThrones'' yet no-one notices that Conleth Hill (Varys) and now Michelle Fairley (Catelyn Stark) are in their universe. This actually gets played up in the season 3 "Game of Suits" promos. |
| 622 | * Similar to the above, one of the live action segments of ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' guest starred Wrestling/CaptainLouAlbano (who also played Mario). Mario says that Lou Albano is his favorite wrestler and he can't wait to meet him, but it turns out the two keep missing each other and are never in the same room together. |
| 623 | ** In another singer Cyndi Lauper visis the plumbers. Cyndi Lauper appears in videos featuring actor Lou Albano, who played Mario in the live action segments and voiced the cartoon character. Further, in the episode, Cyndi indicates that she is searching for Lou, who appears at the end of the episode after Mario leaves to go buy pizza. |
| 624 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' contains multiple examples, both straight and inverted: |
| 625 | ** Inverting this trope, within the continuity of the show, there exists a series of novels written by [[spoiler:the Judeo-Christian God pretending to be]] a prophet starring the Winchester brothers and depicting the events of actual episodes from the first 5 seasons of the show. [[FandomNod And, yes, there is Internet slashfic]]. |
| 626 | ** Sam and Dean are taking a movie studio tour at the beginning of season 2's "Hollywood Babylon". When the tour guide mentions that the next stop is the set for ''Series/GilmoreGirls'', Sam looks uncomfortable and hops off the tram. No one on the tour seems to notice that the guy who just jumped off looks ''exactly'' like Rory Gilmore's first- and second-season boyfriend, Dean Forrester (who was also played by Creator/JaredPadalecki). |
| 627 | *** In the season 5 episode "Fallen Idols", a shape-shifting god takes the form of Paris Hilton. As Dean rants at the shifter about how shallow idolizing Hilton is--to which Hilton's character seems to agree--he says that he has never seen the recent remake of the horror film ''Film/{{House of Wax|2005}}''. At this news Sam looks startled, and a bit disappointed. Both Jared Padalecki (who plays Sam) and Paris Hilton were in ''House of Wax''. |
| 628 | ** An even more odd inversion occurs in season six's "The French Mistake", where the Winchesters are cast into a parallel universe where the actors who play them do exist, but ''Supernatural'' is a TV show and the Winchesters are fictional characters. HilarityEnsues, at least until [[spoiler:a [[LightIsNotGood douchebag]] [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel]] follows them and proceeds to start killing the cast and crew]]. Although some people still found that pretty funny. |
| 629 | *** To further add to the confusion, during the initial airing of this episode, Creator/MishaCollins tweeted the exact same things that "he" tweets in the episode, at the exact same time. |
| 630 | *** This episode [[FridgeBrilliance also pretty much confirms]] that Creator/JaredPadalecki and Creator/JensenAckles do not exist in Sam and Dean's world (or Sam and Dean haven't heard of them, which, given their vast knowledge of pop culture, is possible but unlikely) as, upon learning who they're being played by, they simply refer to Jared and Jensen as "some guys". |
| 631 | ** Also played straight. Dean is a fan of ''Series/TheXFiles'', yet he does not recognize the guy from "Scarecrow" as Cigarette Smoking Man, his grandfather Samuel Campbell as Mulder and Scully's boss, or Crowley as the character "Bob the Caretaker" from the ''X-Files'' episode "Fire". |
| 632 | ** Likewise, ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' has been mentioned on the show, yet, despite the fact that several of its actors and actresses such as Creator/JamesMarsters, Creator/CharismaCarpenter, Harry Groener, Mercedes [=McNab=], Creator/AmberBenson, Creator/JulieBenz, and Creator/FeliciaDay have guest-starred on it, absolutely no one has come up to any of their respective characters and commented on the fact that [[YouLookFamiliar they look familiar]]. |
| 633 | ** In one episode, Dean jokes, "Oh look, it's [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody The Suite Life of Zack and Cas]]." Kim Rhodes, who played Zack and Cody's mom, also plays the recurring character Jody Mills on ''Supernatural''. |
| 634 | ** Dean references ''Film/GirlInterrupted'', in which Creator/MishaCollins (Castiel on ''Supernatural'') had a small role. |
| 635 | ** In the episode "Gimme Shelter," a cop mentions "Baby Yoda" from ''Series/TheMandalorian'', which features recurring ''Supernatural'' actress Creator/EmilySwallow as the Armorer. |
| 636 | * In ''Series/Supergirl2015'', one episode features Querl Dox/Brainy (played by Creator/JesseRath) talking to Lena Luthor (played by Creator/KatieMcgrath) and he uses the story of King Arthur, Merlin, and Morgana as an example to make a point of how they could defeat one of the Legion of Super Heroes' new enemies. While talking to her about it, he mentions the British TV series ''[[Series/Merlin2008 Merlin]]'', and talks to Lena about how he loves how they brought the story to life. This implies that the TV show ''Merlin'' exists in the fictional DC Comics universe, but he doesn't seem to recognize that Lena looks ''a heck of a lot'' like Morgana from the Merlin TV series, since Katie Mcgrath played as Morgana in ''Merlin.'' |
| 637 | * ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': |
| 638 | ** ''Series/KikaiSentaiZenkaiger'': "Colourful", the shop where the characters live, has some Bandai Gashapon machines. Bandai is the company that makes Super Sentai toys. |
| 639 | [[/folder]] |
| 640 | |
| 641 | [[folder:T]] |
| 642 | * ''Series/That70sShow'': |
| 643 | ** Characters are shown to be watching ''Series/TheBradyBunch''. Later, Christopher Knight and Barry Williams appear not as themselves, but as a gay couple. To be fair, it would be hard for them to appear as themselves since they are kind of too old for the part. Granted, that didn't stop [[Series/ThePartridgeFamily Shirley Jones]], Creator/{{Charo}}, and [[Series/{{MASH}} Jamie Farr]] but those were in fantasies. |
| 644 | ** Creator/BillyDeeWilliams played a priest who established a rapport with Eric through their shared love of ''Franchise/StarWars''. |
| 645 | * ''Series/{{Taxi}}'': In one episode, Jim turns on the jukebox and plays a song from the original Broadway run of ''Film/{{Grease}}'', which had Marilu Henner and Jeff Conaway in the cast. How odd that nobody noticed that Marty looked like Elaine or that struggling actor Bobby never complained about that lookalike that snagged the role of Tony. |
| 646 | * In ''Series/TeenWolf'', Scott [=McCall=] tells Liam Dunbar to think of being seen in his werewolf form as [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] being caught with his glasses off. Dylan Sprayberry, who portrays Liam, played the young Clark Kent in ''Film/ManOfSteel''. |
| 647 | ** Liam isn't the only Clark Kent in the series either - Derek Hale is portrayed by Creator/TylerHoechlin, who would later be cast as Superman in ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'' and the Series/{{Arrowverse}}. |
| 648 | * ''Series/TheThickOfIt'': |
| 649 | ** A DeletedScene reveals Peter Mannion MP's wife's dowdy appearance has been mocked on ''Series/HaveIGotNewsForYou''. A number of actors from ''The Thick of It'' have appeared in episodes of ''Have I Got News For You'', including Rebecca Front (Nicola Murray MP) Chris Addison (Olly Reader) and Miles Jupp (John Duggan). Presumably those episodes in TheVerse feature a different array of comedians cracking jokes about the politicians of ''The Thick of It''. |
| 650 | ** The scenes in Malcolm Tucker's house have the blink-and-you'll-miss-it detail that Malcolm owns boxsets of ''The Thick Of It''. Not surprising, but who are the cast in the in-universe version? |
| 651 | ** ''Series/DoctorWho'' exists in the universe of ''The Thick Of It'', with Olly complaining about a bunch of water cooler bottles that "this is like something out of fucking ''Doctor Who''", and Malcolm Tucker himself referencing it in ''The Missing [=DoSAC=] Files'' (suggesting TheTelegraph print "[[MyNameIsNotShazam Dr. Who]]'s assistant in a ''Film/StTrinians'' uniform" instead of a coke scandal he wants to bury), and a BBC executive suggesting he have a chat show where he can interview a Dalek. Fortunately, the series ended before Malcolm was forced to witness a version of the Doctor who looked exactly like him... |
| 652 | ** At one point, Malcolm insults his assistant Olly by calling him "Creator/BonnieLangford", the actress best known for playing the [[Series/DoctorWho Sixth/Seventh Doctor]] assistant Mel. |
| 653 | * ''Series/{{Thirtysomething}}'', in its final season, featured a copy of John Updike's ''Literature/RabbitAtRest'' as stage dressing. Guess what show the characters in ''Rabbit at Rest'' watch frequently. |
| 654 | * ''Series/ThirdWatch'': Co-created by ''Series/{{ER}}'' Executive Producers John Wells and Chris Chulack, season 3 would see a crossover, where Susan Lewis from ER would travel to New York to find members of her family who go missing. In an episode from the prior season however, we see TV footage of Creator/GeorgeClooney being interviewed. |
| 655 | * In the first season of ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}'', [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] sees [[ComicBook/{{Raven}} Rachel Roth]] watching an episode of ''Series/GameOfThrones''. Dick's mentor [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] appears in the following season portrayed by Creator/IainGlen, who was one of ''Game of Thrones''[='=] principal cast members. |
| 656 | * ''Series/ToastOfLondon'': Both Creator/PeterDavison and Creator/TomBaker are recurring characters - the former played by himself as an old man, and the latter played by a lookalike as the way he was in 1976, down to [[Series/DoctorWho the scarf]]. In fact, considering this, a CutawayGag of Toast's presence on ''Doctor Who'', and the RetroUniverse of the show, Baker might actually just be the incumbent Doctor in 2014 - which raises a lot of questions about Davison's career. |
| 657 | * In the second season of ''Series/TrialAndError'', a character names his goat "John Lithgoat". Creator/JohnLithgow was a main character the previous season. |
| 658 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': |
| 659 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E20Static Static]]", Vinnie mentions listening to Ed Wynn on the radio in 1940. Wynn previously played Louis J. Bookman in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E2OneForTheAngels One for the Angels]]" and would later play Sam Forstmann in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E12NinetyYearsWithoutSlumbering Ninety Years Without Slumbering]]". |
| 660 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E15TheIncredibleWorldOfHoraceFord The Incredible World of Horace Ford]]", Jackie Cooper's name can be seen on the ''O'Shaughnessy's Boys'' film poster in 1935. Cooper later played Jonathan West in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E28CaesarAndMe Caesar and Me]]". |
| 661 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S2E7 The Road Less Traveled]]", Jeff and Denise [=McDowell=] watch ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld'' on television. Its star Kenneth Tobey, who previously played Sheriff Haskin in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E24 A Day in Beaumont]]", is seen in the featured clip. |
| 662 | * In a 2010 episode of ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'', Charlie goes to his psychiatrist (played by Jane Lynch). As he and Alan later watch ''Glee'', he says "that tall blonde in the red tracksuit (played by Jane Lynch) is freaking me out." |
| 663 | ** Another intentional: In the Season 10 episode "Big Episode. Somebody Stole a Spoon", as Walden walks hungover down the stairs of his house, he sees that it is in disarray and says that it looks like Charlie Sheen's house. |
| 664 | ** In the Season 12 premiere, "The Ol' Mexican Spinach", Alan dresses up as Duckie from the film Pretty in Pink and says he could be considered the real star of the film. Duckie was played by Jon Cryer, who plays Alan. |
| 665 | ** In the same episode, Walden says that he'd be okay with being married to Mila Kunis. Mila Kunis is engaged to Ashton Kutcher and had his baby in October 2014 Further, she appeared the previous April as a free-spirit Vivian. |
| 666 | [[/folder]] |
| 667 | |
| 668 | [[folder:U]] |
| 669 | * In ''Series/UglyBetty'', the PosthumousCharacter Fey Sommers of ''Mode'' is clearly based on the real-life Anna Wintour of ''Vogue'' (even their names pun: summer/winter). But later episodes mention Wintour as a separate person. |
| 670 | * In ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'', Kimmy frequently references ''{{Series/Friends}}'' but at the end of the second season [[spoiler: Kimmy's mom shows up]] and is played by Creator/LisaKudrow, who played Phoebe Buffay on ''Friends''. |
| 671 | ** Earlier in the season the trope is played with when Joshua Jackson plays a convenience store clerk, and Kimmy notices the resemblance. The clerk tries to play off the resemblance, but it is implied that the clerk actually is Jackson. |
| 672 | ** Also in Season 2, the opening scenes of "Kimmy Meets a Celebrity!" has her talking to Titus' photo of Creator/GeenaDavis. The fictional celebrity of the episode's title, talk show host Dr. Dave, is played by Creator/JeffGoldblum. Goldblum and Davis not only co-starred in three films together ([[Film/TheFly1986 two of]] [[Film/EarthGirlsAreEasy which]] paired off their characters romantically) but were married for several years. |
| 673 | ** In Season 4, Titus has deluded himself into thinking he's a star due to a bit part in an episode of ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' that hasn't even aired yet, and plays it up during a lunch date. His date is played by Creator/JonBernthal, who appeared in that show as The Punisher before reprising the character in his own [[Series/ThePunisher2017 show]]. |
| 674 | [[/folder]] |
| 675 | |
| 676 | [[folder:V]] |
| 677 | * ''Series/VeronicaMars'': |
| 678 | ** Veronica Mars says she gets nightmares when she watches Creator/ParisHilton movies. Quite understandable, as there was a girl at her school played by Paris Hilton. |
| 679 | ** She also once snarked at her friend Wallace by asking which Gilmore girl he was, even though ''Series/GilmoreGirls'' came on right before ''Veronica Mars'' on the CW that season. One wonders what show filled that slot in Veronica's world. |
| 680 | ** From the episode "Charlie Don't Surf", Veronica makes a reference to ''Series/TheWire'' ("So, Bubbles. You feel like doing me a solid? Hm?"), but no one comments about there being a teacher in season 2 that looks like Brianna Barksdale (Michael Hyatt), and the recurring season 2 character of Mr. Pope looks like Maurice Levy (Michael Kostroff). |
| 681 | ** Also in "Charlie Don't Surf", Keith uses the name "[[Series/{{Monk}} Adrian Monk]]" [[CharacterNameAlias as an alias]]. Enrico Colantoni, Keith's actor, had previously guest-starred on an episode of ''Monk'' as a former partner of the titular detective, making one wonder how Keith would react if he ever saw that episode and noticed a guy looking a lot like him. |
| 682 | * ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley'': Alice prefers the ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' Christmas episodes to Geraldine's Christmas sermon. Did Alice notice that a regular ''Only Fools'' character, Trigger (Creator/RogerLloydPack), has a striking resemblance to her fellow churchgoer Owen (also Lloyd-Pack)? |
| 683 | [[/folder]] |
| 684 | |
| 685 | [[folder:W]] |
| 686 | * WordOfGod says that the world of ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'' is a world that lacks the entire history of zombie fiction, which is why zombies are referred to as "walkers" and other euphemisms. In season two Glen offhandedly mentions that he used to play ''Videogame/{{Portal}}'', which suggests that in the world of ''Walking Dead'' Creator/{{Valve}} exists, but the ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' series does not. |
| 687 | ** Or for that matter ''VideoGame/HalfLife'', which is a little more jarring considering the amount of references ''Portal'' makes to it. |
| 688 | * In ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}'' there are tons of {{Shout Out}}s to ''Franchise/StarTrek'', and yet one of the main characters, Artie, is played by Saul Rubinek. Rubinek appeared as the villain in a ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode. |
| 689 | ** Armin Shimerman (appeared once) and Rene Auberjonois (recurring), aka Quark and Odo from ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''. |
| 690 | ** Brent Spiner (recurring) aka Commander Data from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. Interestingly, his appearance on the show is adversarial to Rubinek's character Artie. Rubinek's single appearance on ''Star Trek'' had him face off against Data. |
| 691 | ** Kate Mulgrew and Jeri Ryan (both recurring) aka Captain Janeway and 7 of 9 from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. Just to name a few. |
| 692 | * UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is the most recent RealLife president to be referenced in ''Series/TheWestWing''. All of the presidents between Nixon and Bartlett, as well as Bartlett himself, are fictional. This begs the question, then, of who was Nixon's vice-president, who presumably assumed office upon his resignation? Did this fictional president then pardon Nixon, which led to this fictional president losing reelection to another fictional president two years later? |
| 693 | ** Alternately, given that presidential elections in ''Series/TheWestWing'' are two years out of sync with the real world, it's possible that Nixon's resignation prompted a special election in 1974, with a regular four year cycle resetting and picking up at that point. |
| 694 | ** Outside the realm of politics, in the episode "20 Hours in LA," Donna notices Creator/MatthewPerry at a party. A few seasons later, Matthew Perry was on the show in a fairly significant guest role. |
| 695 | * On ''Series/WillAndGrace'', Music/BritneySpears is referenced many times by the characters, particularly Jack, who has memorized her dance moves and even swears on her name ("Britney Spears Federline!"). Yet when she appears as a [[StuntCasting special guest star]] as Jack's new co-host, he doesn't comment on how much she looks like his idol. |
| 696 | ** Similarly, Jack says, "Me digs Taye Diggs," in one episode. When Grace later [[CitizenshipMarriage married]] Will's boyfriend James, Jack never noted the resemblance. |
| 697 | ** On the other hand, when he meets Cher, he initially assumes she's a drag queen dressed as Cher. |
| 698 | ** Also there's the paradox presented by Bernadette Peters. One episode opens with Jack holding up a lock of her hair that he recently acquired for a "Broadway Diva Wig" ([[HilarityEnsues leading to a confrontation with Patti LuPone]]), but then in a later episode she plays Karen's sister Gin. |
| 699 | ** In one episode, Grace says she knows that Will is pouting because she watches ''Series/AllyMcBeal'' and knows what pouting looks like. Before ''Will & Grace'', [=Eric McCormack=] appeared on ''Ally [=McBeal=]'' (as a lawyer, no less!). |
| 700 | ** Many of the show's guest stars were mentioned/referenced on the series but didn't appear as themselves, such as Woody Harrelson, Madonna, Rosie O'Donnell, Demi Moore, Minnie Driver and Matt Damon. |
| 701 | ** In season 5, when Jack sees Lorraine at Stan's funeral, he says, "We hate her even more than the know-it-all daughter on the Series/GilmoreGirls." Two of Grace's one-time romantic interests (Campbell, played by David Sutcliffe and John Gregorio, played by Scott Patterson) were on that show as Lorelai Gilmore (the know-it-all daughter's mother)'s main romantic interests, Christopher and Luke. |
| 702 | ** One episode has Jack and Karen upset that ''Series/{{Friends}}'' and ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' are ending. Janice from ''Friends'' (Maggie Wheeler) appeared as one of the guests at Danny's wedding, Polly, while later Charlotte from ''Sex and The City'' (Kristin Davis) appeared as Vince's FagHag, Nadine. |
| 703 | ** In the revival, ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' and its main character, Archie, are mentioned. Luke Perry, who plays Fred Andrews (Archie's father) in that show, guest-starred in the original series as one of Jack's crushes. |
| 704 | * ''Series/{{Wings}}'': Helen once gave Fay a Creator/DebbieReynolds exercise video. Reynolds later appears as Helen's mother. |
| 705 | * On ''Series/TheWire'': |
| 706 | ** Music/WuTangClan songs have been heard playing on stereos, and yet Method Man has a recurring role on the show as Cheese Wagstaff. |
| 707 | ** The infamous RealLife Baltimore drug dealer "Little Melvin" Williams (who was the partial inspiration for Avon Barksdale) is also acknowledged as a real figure at one point, when Avon ponders how future generations in Baltimore will remember him. Williams, who served prison time and reformed after being released, and who was the basis for Avon, had a small recurring role as Bunny Colvin's friend [[NoNameGiven the Deacon]], but no one comments on his resemblance to Little Melvin. |
| 708 | ** ''Music/TupacShakur'' existed in ''The Wire'' universe, yet he and Wood Harris (who plays Avon Barksdale) both appeared in ''Film/AboveTheRim''. Furthermore, in the 2016 biographical film ''All Eyez on Me'', Tupac's stepfather is played by Jamie Hector (Marlo Stanfield). |
| 709 | ** The reference to former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke in Season 5 is this because Schmoke made a cameo appearance in Season 3, playing a health official. |
| 710 | ** In one episode, [=McNulty=] pontificates that the core cop cast of the show are among maybe ten or twenty truly good cops in Baltimore. One of the cops that he names is Ed Burns, one of the show's co-creators who is indeed a former cop. Burns was many years retired from police work when he began working on this show, so the cop in question would have to be a ''different'' Ed Burns. |
| 711 | ** Two Jay Landsmans are in the show: the real Jay Landsman plays Lt. Dennis Mello. There's also the character of Sgt. Jay Landsman, played by Delaney Williams and named in tribute to the real guy. This causes a very surreal scene in "Took" where Lt. Mello, Jay Landsman, and [[Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet Detective]] [[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit John]] [[JustForFun/JohnMunch Munch]] (who was ''based'' on Landsman) all appear in a bar. |
| 712 | ** John Munch's appearance creates another set of paradoxes as many members of ''The Wire'' main cast [[http://www.imdb.com/search/name?roles=tt0306414,tt0106028 have appeared in at least one episode]] of ''Homicide: Life on the Street'', with some (like Clark Johnson and Peter Gerety) having been ''Homicide'' main cast members. |
| 713 | ** Omar is a fan of HBO's ''Series/{{Oz}}'', a show that has featured ''Wire'' cast members like Dominick Lombardozzi (Herc), Seth Gilliam (Ellis Carver), John Doman (Bill Rawls), Lance Reddick (Cedric Daniels), JD Williams (Bodie), Clarke Peters (Lester Freamon), and Method Man (Cheese). |
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| 717 | * In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Hollywood A.D.", Scully is played by Téa Leoni, who is Creator/DavidDuchovny's wife in real life. |
| 718 | ** Another episode has Alex Trebek play an [[TheMenInBlack M.I.B.]] agent, who is described as looking "like Alex Trebek." |
| 719 | *** The paradox is averted by this second example, though, as the character underwent extensive plastic surgery for the sake of looking like Alex Trebek. This was so anyone who saw him doing M.I.B. type things (i.e., trying to cover up the evidence of aliens a witness claimed to see) wouldn't be believed. And everything about the character we only get through the testimony of people claiming to have seen UFO's. |
| 720 | ** Crossing with MutuallyFictional: In TheMovie, Mulder relieves himself on a poster for ''Film/IndependenceDay'' as a TakeThat, as Creator/ChrisCarter loathed the film. In ''Independence Day'', a character mentions that ''The X-Files'' exists as a TV Show. |
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| 724 | * In the pilot episode of ''Series/TheYoungOnes'', Rick is shown rocking out to the show's theme song, [[DiegeticSoundtrackUsage which is being played on the radio]]. In real life, the song was sung by the series' four principal actors (including the one who portrayed Rick), so ''who'' exactly was singing on the radio? |
| 725 | ** Averted in ''Series/TheYoungOnes'', where the characters are quite aware they are in a sitcom which is being broadcast. In fact, in one episode Neil's parents upbraid him for appearing in such an offensive sitcom and asked why he couldn't be in something nice like ''Series/TheGoodLife''. |
| 726 | * ''Series/YoungSheldon'': |
| 727 | ** Creator/WallaceShawn appears as Dr. John Sturgis. Shawn's most famous roles are in ''Film/ThePrincessBride'' and ''Franchise/ToyStory'', both of which have been mentioned many times on ''The Big Bang Theory''. |
| 728 | ** Missy mentions the TV show ''Series/{{Blossom}}'' in "A Race of Superhumans and a Letter to Alf". The title character was played by Creator/MayimBialik, who plays Sheldon's wife Amy on ''The Big Bang Theory''. (''Blossom'' was also mentioned on ''The Big Bang Theory'', in the episode "[[Recap/TheBigBangTheoryS1E13TheBatJarConjecture The Bat Jar Conjecture]].") |
| 729 | ** Like its parent show before it, ''Franchise/StarTrek'' is frequently referenced and featured. One must wonder if Sheldon ever noticed that Dr. Sturgis sounds eerily similar to [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Grand Nagus Zek]]. |
| 730 | * ''Series/YumisCells'': At one point in the second season, Rational Cell goes around looking for fan clubs. The Minho Choi (from Music/SHINee) club advocates for calling him "''Oppa''" (an affectionate term for a slightly older man). In the first season, Minho portrayed Wu Gi, Yumi's first crush and ''hubae'', five years her junior. While it isn't directly commented upon, the effect is most likely intentional because the [[Webcomic/YumisCells source webcomic]] talked about a different man. |
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