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5	[[caption-width-right:350:Hollywood feels so good.]]
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7	A sub-trope of VacationEpisode, where the characters visit Hollywood in UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, {{UsefulNotes/California}}.
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9	This trope frequently involves at least one of the characters getting a (usually temporary) gig in the entertainment industry[[note]]Usually a role in a movie or a TV-show (or both in some cases)[[/note]], it's likely a case of the writers [[WriteWhatYouKnow writing what they know]]. Other stuff than can happen with this trope:
10	* It allows for potential celebrity cameos ''and'' advertising for the studio or network.
11	* Since most American movies and TV-shows are filmed and/or recorded within Southern California, primarily in the Greater Los Angeles Area[[note]]Or, at the very least, the companies that make them are based in Southern California, including within the Los Angeles-area[[/note]], this trope allows the show to use actual locations not only in the Greater Los Angeles Area (including those within Hollywood), but other parts of Southern California [[CaliforniaDoubling instead of just faking other parts of the United States.]]
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13	Sister trope of VivaLasVegas, another major touristy areas in the USA. Compare WhoWouldWantToWatchUs for the inverse situation (Hollywood comes to the characters to adapt their adventures into an in-universe movie or TV show).
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15	!!Examples:
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20	* ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' did this with the episode "Go West Young Meowth", where Ash and friends travel to Hollywood to see the world premiere of Cleavon Schpielbunk's ''Pokémon in Love'' movie, which they had helped made in the previous episode. While the English dub implies this is the same Hollywood of California, the original Japanese version actually downplays it by stating "Hollywood" is just a local town named after the original Hollywood.
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24	* Surprisingly popular in old [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comics, especially Marvel.
25	** ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Issue #10 of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour1961'' has [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] pretending to make a movie out of the Fantastic Four as a ruse to try to win Sue over.
26	** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Issue #14 of ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManLeeAndDitko'' [[note]](better known as the first appearance of the Green Goblin)[[/note]] has Spider-Man agreeing to star in a movie with [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk The Hulk]].
27	* The 10th arc of ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'', in which a movie is made about Spider-Man without his consent (and featuring several [[TheCameo celebrity cameos]]).
28	* Issue #10 of Marvel's ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'' series takes place at CBS studios in Hollywood where a typical episode of the Bakshi series (including a caricature of Bakshi as the director) is presumably being made. The story takes place in Hollywood where a mysterious figure is stealing the "hipness" out of prominent talk show hosts (all caricatured as funny animals).
29	* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': Many Avengers stories involving ComicBook/WonderMan drift into this territory since Simon is an actor.
30	* ''ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri'' : The normally somber dipped into this with issue #6, "Foray For Holowood!"
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34	* ''Fanfic/TheBoltChronicles'': In “The Cameo,” Penny and Bolt return to Los Angeles to film a brief ContinuityCameo role in the movie version of their old TV show, which becomes a blooperfest. Along the way, the pair does extensive sightseeing in the city, Bolt is reunited with his father, and the 16-year-old girl has her [[TheirFirstTime first sexual experience]] with a teen heartthrob she has long had a crush on (this last turns out to be a bad one-night-stand experience for her).
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38	* ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'' is this for the Film/TheViewAskewniverse.
39	* ''BostonBlackie Goes Hollywood''.
40	* Film/TheThreeStooges short ''Movie Maniacs'' has the boys wreaking havoc at a movie studio.
41	* The plot of ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' is how Kermit and the gang went to Hollywood to become rich and famous and make millions of people happy.
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44	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
45	* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'': "The Trip"
46	* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'': "Eric Hollywood"
47	* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': "Kelly Does Hollywood"
48	* ''Series/{{CSI}}'', oddly enough, in "Hollywood Brass"
49	** Likewise, "Two and a Half Dead," where the death of an actress on a popular sitcom results in the investigators being called in and the show's writers taking a look around the lab.
50	* ''Series/HappyDays'': the three-parter "Hollywood" where the infamous JumpingTheShark happened.
51	* ''Series/ILoveLucy'' had a season-long arc set in Hollywood where Ricky gets a part in movie.
52	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': [[Recap/SupernaturalS02E18HollywoodBabylon "Hollywood Babylon"]].
53	* ''Series/KenanAndKel'': "Aw, Here It Goes to Hollywood"
54	* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' Go Hollywood.
55	* ''Series/{{Degrassi\|TheNextGeneration}} Goes Hollywood'', a television special that is basically TheMovie of the series, where the gang visits Hollywood and some of the students even try out for a musical.
56	* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' has "The One After the Superbowl".
57	* ''Series/{{Bones}}'': In "The Suit on the Set", Bones and Booth visit the set of [[TheFilmOfTheBook the film of one of Bones' novels]], where they discover an actual dead body that is mistaken for a prop dead body.
58	* ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'' has the episode "The Suite Life Goes Hollywood"
59	* ''Series/CougarTown'': Season 4 finale "Have Love Will Travel", where the gang tries to make Jules' father's fantasy of meeting Tippi Hedren come true.
60	* ''Series/{{Castle\|2009}}'': In "Nikki Heat", Natalie Rhodes, the actress cast as the lead in the movie based on Castle's first Nikki Heat novel, rode along with Beckett(much to her chagrin), and not only morphed into a Beckett clone, but completely deconstructed the UnresolvedSexualTension between Beckett and Castle. Later, in "To Love and Die in L.A.", Castle and Beckett visit the set of the Nikki Heat movie, and Nikki and the cast impersonate real cops to help Beckett with her investigation.
61	* ''Series/TheXFiles'': "Hollywood A.D."
62	* ''Series/WonderWoman'': "Wonder Woman in Hollywood" ended the first season and the adventures during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. As an added bonus [[KidSidekick Wonder Girl]] protects pre-Airplane Robert Hayes from [[{{Mooks}} malt shop mooks]]
63	* ''Series/ElleryQueen'': "The Adventure of the Sinister Scenario" has Ellery and a vacationing Inspector out west on the set of an Ellery Queen movie.
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67	* The ''{{Film/Dick Tracy}}'' movie came out during Max Allan Collins's celebrated run as writer on the [[{{ComicStrip/DickTracy}} comic strip,]] and he accordingly did a storyline involving a studio making a movie based on Tracy's life. Ex-actor-turned-psychopath [[MasterOfDisguise Putty Puss]] shows up on the set, and HilarityEnsues.
68	** Also, any story involving long-time supporting character Vitamin Flintheart is likely to involve his job as an actor.
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72	* ''VideoGame/BrawlStars'': The whole point of Season 9, with the PunBasedTitle of Brawlywood, featuring movie themed skins and a Hispanic actress brawler.
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76	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS3E2BrianDoesHollywood Brian Does Hollywood]]", where Brian goes to Los Angeles to become a writer but ends up becoming a porn director.
77	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' have done this several times. One example is "Beyond Blunderdome".
78	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': "That's Lobstertainment!"
79	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' had a few episodes where they go to [[FlintstoneTheming Hollyrock]], including the television special "Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby" (which includes Bamm-Bamm pursuing a career as a screenwriter).
80	* ''WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat'' had a short film where he goes to Hollywood.
81	* ''WesternAnimation/FlipTheFrog'' has a Hollywood episode.
82	* The WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short "Film/YouOughtToBeInPictures."
83	** Also, "A Star Is Hatched," "Daffy Duck In Hollywood," "What's Cookin', Doc?" "Hollywood Daffy," "The Scarlet Pumpernickel," and "A Star Is Bored."
84	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has had several: The episode "AWESOME-O" has a third act in Hollywood. In another episode Cartman, pursued by Kyle, went there to try and get ''Family Guy'' canceled. In another, the boys went there as talent agents to try and get their client on ''American Idol''.
85	* The television special ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo Goes Hollywood''.
86	* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode "And He Does His Own Stunts" involves the heroes visiting Hollywood, while they're on a mission to stop the latest MonsterOfTheWeek (another one of [[BigBad Shendu]]'s brothers) from showing up in that town. Unsurprisingly, there's multiple [[ShoutOut pop-culture references]] in this episode, including allusions to the movie career of [[CelebrityParadox the real-life]] Creator/JackieChan.
87	* ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'' has one called "The Star System Syndrome", where Agents J and K visit Hollywood to investigate the disappearances of several alien actors ([[FictionAsCoverUp who play roles in Earth movies while undisguised in their true forms]]). Meanwhile, [[PluckyComicRelief the Worms]] secretly tag-a-long, and they try to [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall pitch a film script about]] [[Film/MenInBlack a secret government organization that deals with aliens on Earth]].
88	* A few WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts:
89	** ''WesternAnimation/MickeysPoloTeam'': Mickey and his fellow cartoon stars Goofy, Donald Duck, and the Big Bad Wolf play polo against a team composed of Creator/LaurelAndHardy, [[Creator/TheMarxBrothers Harpo Marx]], and Creator/CharlieChaplin.
90	** ''Mickey's Gala Premiere'': A host of movie stars attend the premiere of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse's newest cartoon, after which they offer congrats to Mickey himself, and Greta Garbo [[CoveredInKisses covering him in kisses]]. Turns out, Mickey was just [[AllJustADream dreaming]] of being a movie star on the same plane as the others in reality.
91	** ''WesternAnimation/MotherGooseGoesHollywood'': A [[WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies Silly Symphony]] in which various movie stars are cast in the roles of various nursery rhyme characters (i.e., Katherine Hepburn as Little Bo Peep, W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, Laurel and Hardy as Simple Simon and the Pieman, etc.).
92	** ''The Autograph Hound'': WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck sneaks into a Hollywood studio lot in order to get autographs of movie stars. He runs into the likes of Creator/MickeyRooney, Creator/SonjaHenie, the Ritz Brothers, and Creator/ShirleyTemple, the last of whom [[CelebrityParadox gives him an autograph in exchange for his own]].
93	* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': "[[Recap/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriendsS2E10TheSweetStenchOfSuccess The Sweet Stench of Success]]", where Bloo becomes famous after becoming a deodorant mascot, though his manager treats him badly and won't let him see Mac. Famous for the {{Tear Jerker}}s.
94	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': "Film Flam". Shortly after the episode first aired, TheMovie was announced.
95	* WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers in "Hooray for Hollywood Planet".
96	* The Bakshi WesternAnimation/MightyMouse episode "A Star Is Milked."
97	* The last season of ''[[{{WesternAnimation/Gargoyles}} Gargoyles]]'' had "Broadway Goes Hollywood." (One wonders why they never made "Broadway Goes Broadway." Oh well.)
98	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' had "Hoist Goes Hollywood," which involved several of the Autobots getting hired to star in an action movie -- first as stunt vehicles, later as "evil alien robots."
99	* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', "The Last Angry Moose" arc involved Bullwinkle producing a movie for director Alfred Hitchhike ([[PaperThinDisguise who bore a striking resemblance to Boris Badenov]]).
100	* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldGoesHollywood'' has Garfield, Odie, and Jon putting together an act for the talent show ''Pet Search'' that gets them to the national finals in Hollywood.
101	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' has the guys travelling to Hollywood to be consultants on the filming of a movie based on their adventures (which turns out to [[RecursiveCanon be actual original]] ''Film/Ghostbusters1984'' film) and dealing with a ghost infestation on the set (although having some trouble at first because an assistant mixes their Proton Packs with the film prop ones).
102	* ''WesternAnimation/WowWowWubbzy'' has the four-part special "Wubb Idol" in which popular girl group the Wubb Girlz visit Wuzzleburg where they hold a talent show contest that has the grand prize: a chance to perform with them in Wuzzlewood. Wubbzy wins the contest by [[BeYourself being himself]] and later suffers PerformanceAnxiety so the Wubb Girlz help him feel better by having his friends perform with him, making the concert a success.
103	* Inverted with the ''WesternAnimation/HeckleAndJeckle'' cartoon "Messed Up Movie Makers." A movie studio leases the two birds' hotel so they can film a TV series there. The collateral damage the studio causes prompt Heckle and Jeckle to find a way to get rid of them.
104	** "Movie Madness" (an earlier cartoon) has the two gatecrashing a movie studio and getting chased by Chesty the guard.
105	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'''s partially L.A.-set Season 3 has "Hollywood Hop Pop", in which Hop Pop accidentally stars in a commercial.
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