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| 12 | [[quoteright:349:[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/trapped_in_tv_land.jpg]]]] |
| 13 | [[caption-width-right:349:''"Dad, you've got to get us out of here! Use the remote!"'']] |
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| 15 | ->''"This is what I call a drive-in movie!"'' |
| 16 | -->-- '''Carlos''', ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'', "[[Recap/TheMagicSchoolBusS3E3SpinsAWeb The Magic School Bus Spins a Web]]" |
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| 18 | A group of characters, often a mix of heroes and villains, are trapped by some form of AppliedPhlebotinum inside the world of literature, video games or the like, but most often, television. Either they must learn to cope with their newfound environment until some way can be found to escape, or they will jump from channel to channel, hitting a multitude of clichéd worlds and thin parodies. |
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| 20 | A plot very much at home in a SuperHero spoof or other comedy show with a loose set of physical constraints. It's a wacky plot that allows the writers to have fun with the tropes this wiki catalogues, and [[AllJustADream make it all moot at the end]] without a {{Snapback}}. |
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| 22 | Most times, one of the cast members will be GenreSavvy, or even [[{{Otaku}} a fan]], and will use that knowledge to beat the system, and many times there is also a {{Genre Blind|ness}} character, that is too serious, sane and is not into that kind of entertainment, and insists in using real-world logic in a place where that doesn't apply, and becomes the victim, the ButtMonkey or TheMillstone. |
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| 24 | Most common in animation, where "building" all the new environments and sets is easy and cheap. Well, easy. Also common to FanficFuel. |
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| 26 | There's an unspoken rule that, somewhere in the universe, there is a show similar to ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. |
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| 28 | Overlaps sometimes with TheWorldAsMyth. This trope is infrequently connected with its opposites, the RefugeeFromTVLand and RealWorldEpisode. |
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| 30 | SubTrope of AnomalousArt and TrappedInAnotherWorld. |
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| 32 | Compare with PortalBook, which can trap characters in Book Land and is frequently paired with a ReadingIsCoolAesop, and MediaTransmigration, which is when the protagonist is permanently transported into the ShowWithinAShow, usually due to death. Compare and contrast IntrepidFictioneer, for when the travel is deliberate. See also FisherKingdom, if the channels change the visitors. |
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| 34 | !!Examples: |
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| 38 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 39 | * This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB2M9VXMhW8 1995 Pepsi commercial]] where Creator/ShaquilleONeal isn't necessarily trapped there, but travels across it to reach the screen that's playing a Pepsi commercial to grab a bottle. And returns in time to win the game with WesternAnimation/WoodyWoodpecker's help. |
| 40 | -->'''Shaq:''' ''(to the camera from inside the screen)'' Who says there's nothing good on TV? |
| 41 | [[/folder]] |
| 42 | |
| 43 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 44 | * The sixth ''Manga/CaseClosed'' movie, ''[[Anime/DetectiveConanFilm06ThePhantomOfBakerStreet The Phantom of Baker Street]]'', sees the main characters trapped in a virtual reality game controlled by a rogue AI, and featuring UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. |
| 45 | * HorrorComedy one-shot ''Manga/FinalGirl2019'' follows an overworked office worker who blacks out in front of a movie theatre showing a classic SlasherMovie, and wakes up not only within the story of the film itself, but also inhabiting the body of "Summer", [[SlashersPreferBlondes the sexy blonde cheerleader]] with [[ReallyGetsAround a healthy sex life]] that [[DesignatedVictim is all but stated to be the first to die by the slasher's hand]]. |
| 46 | * Invoked in ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemistTheConquerorOfShamballa'', which features characters from our world attempting to find a way into Amestris (the setting for ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003''). |
| 47 | * Chapter 17/Episode 26 of ''Manga/GhostSweeperMikami'' features a haunted video game which is an expy of ''VideoGame/DragonQuest''. Yokoshima and Okinu get trapped in it while Mikami uses her spiritual powers to participate in it from outside. |
| 48 | * ''Literature/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' episode 8 has the cast sucked into a cursed DatingSim (based mostly on ''VisualNovel/TokimekiMemorial'') with [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Mahiro]] as the PlayerCharacter; if he wants to return to reality, he has to pick a girlfriend ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg or]] [[GayOption Hasta]]) by the end of the school year. The whole thing plays out as an even longer chain of [[ReferenceOverdosed anime references]] than usual and culminates in Nyarko, Cuuko, and Hasta having a martial arts battle over him while dressed as [[VideoGame/VirtuaFighter Pai Chan]], [[VideoGame/FatalFury Mai Shiranui]], and [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Bridget]]. [[spoiler:Nyarko wins.]] |
| 49 | * ''Literature/{{Overlord|2012}}'' handles this in a unique way. While the protagonist is trapped as his VR MMORPG character, everything in the world he's trapped in (aside from his guild base and now-sentient NPC servants) is completely different from the game world, outside of a few suspicious holdovers (primarily, how magic works.) |
| 50 | * In ''Anime/PrincessTutu'', the main characters are characters from the book ''The Prince and the Raven'', which ended prematurely when its author, Drosselmeyer, died. While the characters have escaped from the book, the entire city is being controlled by a story, which in turn is controlled by Drosselmeyer's ghost. Some of the characters are GenreSavvy, while some aren't. |
| 51 | * The initial premise of ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' has online gamers trapped in a [[TheMostDangerousVideoGame dangerous virtual reality]] facing real-life death. |
| 52 | * While not in a television per se, the 2nd part of the 1993 ''Anime/TimeBokan'' OVA has ''Anime/{{Yatterman}}'''s Dorombo Gang enter a sewer and find a world entirely populated by Creator/TatsunokoProduction characters. While attempting to cause havok and expecting Yatterman-1 and -2 to show up, they don't count on the Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman, [[Anime/NeoHumanCasshern Casshern]], Anime/HurricanePolymar and Anime/{{Tekkaman}} arriving and trouncing them. Oh, and there's the obligatory Anime/SpeedRacer cameo too. |
| 53 | * The framing device for the anime exercise video (ItMakesSenseInContext) ''Anime/TrainingWithHinako'' has one shot of a girl in the real world being taken into a glowing TV set, where she apparently becomes an anime character. |
| 54 | [[/folder]] |
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| 56 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 57 | * ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': This is the basis of the plot for episode 7. Adu Du traps [=BoBoiBoy=] and Gopal in their ''Papa Zola'' game, and they have to WinToExit; otherwise, they'll be trapped forever. |
| 58 | * ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 10 episode 23, Big M. traps the Supermen in a video game, with the Supermen having to go through its [[LevelAte candy]], [[SlippySlideyIceWorld ice]], and [[LethalLavaLand lava]] worlds and WinToExit. |
| 59 | * The ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' episode "Magical Book" is about Motu inadvertently getting himself and his friends trapped in a magic book about {{Sentient Vehicle}}s. They wind up having to help a female car named Baby to save her sister from a few cars and trucks who are bullying her. |
| 60 | * ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': Invoked by Wolffy in ''Happy, Happy, Bang! Bang!'' episode 38, where he invents a portal that lets one travel into television and movie screens and enter the program or film they're playing. Wolffy uses the portal to trap Paddi in the film ''Dao Yang Kong Jian'' and chase after him. |
| 61 | * ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'': The premise of the episode "Khelo Samosa" involves Chatpata Nagar's inhabitants being stuck inside the "Pakwanman" arcade machine and being forcibly puppeteered to play the game's enemies. Samosa and friends go in to save them. |
| 62 | * Popo of ''Animation/{{TELEMONSTER}}'' can turn his mouth into a television and suck people into it, which he frequently does to the other characters to send them on adventures, or just get rid of them when they are being abusive to him. |
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| 65 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 66 | * ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' had a multi-part story where Archie Andrews is trapped inside the world(s) of his TV set, and he had to get out before his parents came home from their trip. |
| 67 | * ''ComicBook/CaballisticsInc'': When the team investigates a haunting at the derelict Luddgate film studio, they find themselves trapped inside various horror movies produced by the studio after a failed demonic extraction of Jenny. Turns out that the studio head was an occultist who built his own dimension to both play out his own fantasies and to trap people in an illusion so he could suck out their lifeforce to sustain himself. |
| 68 | * Ellie Dee gets transported into a video game in one issue of ''Cherry Comics'', where she has to WinToExit. |
| 69 | * The ComicBook/FantasticFour miniseries ''Fantastic Four: True Story'' does this in a homage to the ''Thursday Next'' books (see the Literature section below). |
| 70 | * ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': The story "Flash of Two Worlds" has a variation, in that Flash (Barry Allen) is transported to Earth-2, where the adventures of the old Flash (Jay Garrick) who Barry read about as a child took place, but it's less 'he goes into a comic book' and more 'he travels to the reality that those comics were depicting', so it's only this trope from Barry's perspective. |
| 71 | * What [[ComicBook/TheUnbelievableGwenpool Gwenpool]] claims happened to her: She lived an ordinary life in the real world but through some unexplained way was transported in the universe of her favorite fiction, Marvel comics. Other characters think she is crazy, which is certainly also an option. Doesn't help that she thinks since the world wasn't real where she came from, its people aren't real ''now'', and are [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse therefore expendable]], so she has no qualms against [[TheSociopath murdering them en masse]]. |
| 72 | * The off-beat comic book series ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles'' had an appropriately weird example where King Mob and Boy get caught in the mindscape of the Marquis de Sade (yes, really) during an attempt to pull him out of the past that goes somewhat pear-shaped. They end up having to witness the entirety of ''120 Days of Sodom'', which King Mob treats as a sick joke. |
| 73 | * One storyline in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeague'' involved the evil Queen of Fables trapping the League in a book of old fairy tales (the original bloody ones) and forcing them to live through the stories. |
| 74 | * An issue of ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' plays with this kinda sorta when Spider-Man and the Not Ready For Prime Time Players team up against Silver Samurai during the live airing of an episode of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. |
| 75 | * A two-part story from ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' has the ponies get trapped in ''book'' land since Equestria -- despite the occasional SchizoTech -- generally pre-dates things like TV and computers. The idea works fine for the ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and FilmNoir parodies, but it gets a little weird when the story starts parodying ''Franchise/StarTrek'', of all things. |
| 76 | * ComicBook/SheHulk met old ComicBook/HowardTheDuck foe Doctor Bong when he set about changing television shows' internal reality (just roll with it) and accidentally zapped her into them. Possibly the most infamously surreal Shulkie story ever. |
| 77 | * ''ComicBook/TheSimpsonsFuturamaCrossoverCrisis'': The first miniseries is about the Planet Express crew ending up inside of a ''Simpsons'' comic because of the Brain Spawn. |
| 78 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': The ''Superman Annual'' #9 had a secondary story in which Superman artist Creator/CurtSwan fell asleep while drawing a comic and woke up in Metropolis. It was AllJustADream, except that Curt found two bullets in his hand from when Superman stopped a crook. |
| 79 | * This is the power of ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'' baddie the Televillain - entering into a TV show's fictional world and drawing others into it as he pleases. And, of course, changing the channel to whatever premise fits his need. In one outing he killed Monica on an episode of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' to prove he wasn't kidding around. |
| 80 | * In ''ComicBook/TitansRebirth'' #25, Source energy send Nightwing and Miss Martian into a woman's TV and they skip between a ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''-esque FilmNoir, a {{Western}} and a vaguely ''Franchise/StarWars''-like sci-fi movie as she channel-hops. |
| 81 | * This is the entire premise of Creator/CaryBates' and Creator/KeithGiffen's mini ''ComicBook/VideoJack'' series, for Marvel imprint Creator/EpicComics. Due to a [[{{Magitek}} combination of magic and technology]], teen friends Jack Swift and Damon Xarnett are transported to a TV version of their hometown, which changes (as well as them) as they zap through the channels. |
| 82 | * ''ComicBook/WarOfTheGods'' has Creator/GrantMorrison's AuthorAvatar from their run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' appear as a recruit of the ComicBook/SuicideSquad during their tie-in to the event, bemoaning that they've been trapped within the DC Universe after the events of their ''Animal Man'' run and that they can't reliably use their ability to influence the story to defend themself from harm now that their fate is at the mercy of a different writer. Sure enough, they're [[DroppedABridgeOnHim abruptly killed off]] by getting a sudden case of writer's block while the team are fighting off Beastiamorphs. |
| 83 | * In ''ComicBook/YoungbloodImageComics'', the Televillain goes on a rampage using the miracle of [=TiVo=] and ends up trapping a recent addition to the team on the set of Oprah. Shaft and Cougar go after her and briefly end up on a number of different shows, including a rerun of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}''. |
| 84 | * ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'': In the 80-Page Giant where Arrowette, ComicBook/{{Impulse}}, ComicBook/RedTornado, ComicBook/{{Robin}}, Secret, ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, and ComicBook/WonderGirl fight the entity from which Bedlam gained his powers and it sends them through different genres of fiction— FilmNoir, SpaghettiWestern, [[HumongousMecha Giant Mecha Anime]], Silent Film Horror, etc. |
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| 87 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 88 | * In ''Fanfic/TheBlueDragon'' series, the two primary protagonists (Demex in the first, Josh in the second) get sent to the ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'' universe. |
| 89 | * The ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "Inside The Game", which is a [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurf]] adaptation of the plot of ''Film/{{TRON}}'' (see below in Film). "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" makes the Smurflings think they have been transported into the story of ''[[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz The Wizard Of Odds]]'', but it turns out to be AllJustADream. |
| 90 | * ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4505478/1 Kyle-091]]'' is about a ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' fanboy ending up (via [[SelfFulfillingProphecy sending himself there with Forerunner tech]]) on the ONI medical station orbiting Reach in the early stages of the Spartan program. Since he knows what's going to happen in the future, the ONI would've been after him had it not for Mendez and Halsey covering up the incident by giving him Spartan enhancements and sneaking him into the program. The sequel [[RefugeeFromTVLand turns this around]] by the Covenant trying to invoke a GrandfatherParadox. |
| 91 | * The fandom for ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' often ignores this trope. There are stories where a modern girl [[TrappedInAnotherWorld falls into Middle-earth]], as if fiction becomes real, but Middle-earth is not inside a book or movie. |
| 92 | ** This trope does happen if the girl falls through a TelevisionPortal into the movies. This happens in ''Fanfic/MagnoliaCinderellaCupcake''. |
| 93 | ** ''Fanfic/IAmNotAMarySue'' is a straight example of Trapped in Fan Fiction Land. A curse dumps main character Caroline into a bad fan fiction she reviewed and transforms her into the main character, an elf named Sornif. The fan author [=Leggieluver123=] has corrupted Middle-earth. Caroline, in the role of Sornif, intends to escape by restoring {{Canon}}, as Sornif is not a canon character. |
| 94 | * ''Fanfic/LockedInDigital'' is about [[Manga/MyHeroAcademia Izuku Midoriya]] being kidnapped by a MadScientist with a BodyUploading Quirk and digitized into a computer server. The teen must go through nine different simulations based on early 21st century Horror games, including ''VideoGame/BioShock'' and ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1'', and beat them all within a year before the server overheats and kills him. The story is told as a FlashbackBPlot with the "B" plot itself showing his runs. The "A" plot reveals the aftermath: The simulations have not only taught Izuku a lot of skills like swordmanship and gunmanship but has altered his body into that of borderline superhuman, despite being Quirkless. The downside is he suffers from severe PTSD with BloodKnight tendencies thanks to his struggles to survive which involve [[TheManyDeathsOfYou constantly dying]] and encountering multiple dangers within the games. Unfortunately, Izuku must also deal with going to UA, encountering similar events as his canon self [[PointOfDivergence with his kidnapping being the catalyst of the notable changes]]. |
| 95 | * ''Fanfic/MassVexations'', is one of the more notable examples of this trope. Another self-insert story, it shows Art, a quirky college guy, suddenly transported to the world of ''Franchise/MassEffect''. He doesn't gain super-powers, and it shows how a fan of the game could realistically interact with a fictional world, while trying to hide that he knows pretty much every single outcome from when he arrives (near the beginning of the first game) to the end of the second. |
| 96 | * ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20120617085236/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6930195/1/My_Little_Brony_Reality_vs_Fantasy My Little Brony: Reality vs Fantasy]]'' (a ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic) is about a brony who ends up in Equestria. The Equestrian natives are understandably freaked out, and he's forced to go live with Zecora and Apple Bloom. His arrival, however, is just in time for him to witness one of the great laws of Equestrian apocrypha: that which states that all shall go to shit. In this case, a mad scientist wants to get rid of the ponies, but it turns out that [[Series/DoctorWho the (ponyfied) Doctor]] and his companion [[EnsembleDarkhorse Derpy]] [[MemeticBystander Hooves]] are watching. |
| 97 | ** The fanfiction site Platform/FimfictionDotNet contains literally thousands of similar fics based on the same premise; a human in the real world, whether a brony, a normal guy, a celebrity, or a self-insert, somehow lands themselves in the MLP universe. HilarityEnsues. |
| 98 | * In ''Fanfic/MustLoveNedFlanders'', a fanfiction of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Naomi gets transported from this world to the ''Simpsons'' world. |
| 99 | * ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': The entire plot of Season 2 Episode 12 is that Zim, Dib, and Tak's teams get caught up in an explosion involving quantum energy from one of Zim's failed plans which sucks them into the TV dimension. They end up having to move between various TV shows and films trying to find a way out [[spoiler: and ultimately end up confronting the Scary Monkey, which is actually an EldritchAbomination feeding on the intelligence of its viewers]]. |
| 100 | * TD of ''Fanfic/TheNonBronyverse'', with the emphasis very firmly on "trapped". In a sharp contrast to most stories within the genre, he utterly despises being stuck in Equestria, and makes getting home his number one priority. |
| 101 | * Cyan in ''Fanfic/{{Perspective}}'', with a heavier emphasis on most than the trapped part and the emotional trauma that comes with it. Cyan is aware of the horrors of where he is in the ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' series, but hasn't a clue how he arrived. |
| 102 | * ''Fanfic/SleepingWithTheGirls'' is all about this, fused with semi-uncontrolled reality hopping. Before you ask, no, there's no sex, the title's just like that. A guy who is an anime fan in real life is, for unknown reasons, being teleported to the side of eight of his favorite anime characters. The problem? He is transported the instant he falls asleep, and the characters he likes are a) always asleep when he teleports to them, and b) they tend to run in the {{Tsundere}} category. One of the most realistic takes on a self-insert, he nearly dies several times because they can throw punches he can't survive, not to mention that he almost never gets enough sleep. He's cycling through eight separate worlds, each one one of his favorite anime/manga. Currently in the middle of its second of what the author claims is a three-volume story. See the trope page for more details. |
| 103 | * The famous ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fanfic ''Fanfic/VisitToAWeirdPlanet'' eventually spawned a sequel, ''[[http://members.optusnet.com.au/virgothomas/space/trek/weirdplanet.html Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited]]'', which appeared in one of the early Star Trek fanfic anthologies. While the characters were on set, the actors were struggling to deal with a crisis involving a Klingon ship. |
| 104 | * The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fandom has quite a few of these. One particularly popular story that spawned an array of RecursiveFanfiction is [[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/34702/why-am-i-pinkie-pie ''Why Am I Pinkie Pie'']], wherein a human from our world switches brains with the fictional character Pinkie Pie and must figure out a way to switch back. He-In-Pinkie's-Body goes on a grand adventure, while Pinkie-In-His-Body does nothing but watch television in his house her entire stay. |
| 105 | * ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3107822/1/The_Wild_Horse_Thesis The Wild Horse Thesis]]'' is a story about how, due to a magical spell, Ranma from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' is trapped inside a series of videotapes, which contain ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. He finds himself replacing the main character Shinji, but has all his abilities and techniques intact. Unlike some of the other examples, we see Ranma having his Tokyo-3 adventures from the viewpoint of Ranma's family and fiances, who are watching the tapes in the "real" world. The best part is seeing Ranma telling people in the show of his "previous" life, thinking no one knows what he's talking about, while the characters in the "real" world are subjected to his honest opinions of them. |
| 106 | [[/folder]] |
| 107 | |
| 108 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 109 | * ''Film/ABCsOfDeath2'': Two boys find themselves trapped in the world of the ads of their favourite action figures in "W [[spoiler:is for Wish]]". |
| 110 | * In the obscure flick ''Film/AdventuresInDinosaurCity'', where a trio of kids find themselves zapped into the world of their favorite cartoon after trying to watch the show on a screen in their dad's lab. |
| 111 | * Possibly first done in the "Murray in Videoland" sketches in the 1987 film ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon''. |
| 112 | * Might or might not be happening as part of the SurrealHumor in ''Film/TheAppointmentsOfDennisJennings''. In one scene Dennis discovers that the people on his TV can see him. And then the movie cuts to some redneck couple, the couple in Dennis's TV, who can see him on their TV. |
| 113 | * ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' is a borderline example. It doesn't feature characters that are trapped in a horror movie per se, but it does feature them trapped in a world of horror movie cliches. It's also implied that [[spoiler: the monsters seen in the last third inspired movie monsters.]] |
| 114 | * In the sex comedy ''Film/DeepInTheValley'', two friends get trapped in a world based on porn movie cliches, and find it's not all fun and games when a [[{{yandere}} lovesick stalker]] and a FairCop go after them. |
| 115 | * In ''Film/{{Delirious}}'', a soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character [[AuthorPowers inside his own show]]. |
| 116 | * A voluntary example is the German comedy ''Film/DieEinsteiger''. The duo Gottschalk/Krüger use a technobabble remote to jump into genres, mostly for trolling Nazis, vampires, gangsters, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Romans]] et al. (since they are GenreSavvy and their "victims" not) and merrily snark along. |
| 117 | * In ''Film/TheFinalGirls'', a movie theater showing an '80s SlasherMovie is accidentally set on fire, and the protagonists get trapped within the film when they try to escape through the movie screen. One of the protagonists, Max, is the daughter of one of the film's recently-deceased stars, and is hit by an emotional onslaught upon seeing her mother "alive" again -- especially knowing that her mother's character gets killed. By the end, [[spoiler:Max manages to escape the film, only for her and her friends to [[HereWeGoAgain end up in the sequel]]]]. |
| 118 | * ''Franchise/{{Jumanji}}'': |
| 119 | ** In ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', Alan spends 26 years in Jumanji. Unfortunately, it all happens offscreen. |
| 120 | ** ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'' instantly has the characters sucked into the Jumanji world once they start the game. |
| 121 | ** ''Film/JumanjiTheNextLevel'' has some of the same characters along with some new ones sucked into the game once again. |
| 122 | * ''Film/LastActionHero'' has a kid sucked into an action movie, and the characters [[RefugeeFromTVLand following him back to the real world]]. |
| 123 | * In ''Film/MaryPoppins'', Mary, Burt, and the children jump into a chalk pavement picture. |
| 124 | * Anyone murdered by the killer in ''Film/MidnightMovie'' becomes trapped in the black and white HillbillyHorrors film he originates from. |
| 125 | * The BigBad of ''Film/NineSevenSixEvil2TheAstralFactor'', seeking to frame the female lead, traps one of her friends inside a television program. It doesn't seem so bad at first, as she finds herself amongst the ending of ''Film/ItsAWonderfulLife''. Then the movie is mashed up with ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' which is playing at the next channel and she is killed by the CreepyChild zombie from it. |
| 126 | * Two American teens (brother and sister) are sucked into a black-and-white 1950s sitcom series in ''Film/{{Pleasantville}}'', where they inadvertently take the role of two of the main characters. |
| 127 | * ''Film/ThePurpleRoseOfCairo'': Played with. No one is ''trapped'' but it's clear that characters are meant to stay in their films and the audience is meant to stay in the real world. [[spoiler: Tom easily brings Cecilia back with him into the film for a date and they easily step back into the real world again]]. |
| 128 | * The Creator/BusterKeaton movie ''Film/SherlockJr'' can be considered an early example of this trope. Keaton plays a movie projectionist who dreams he walks into the movie he is showing, and at first has a hard time dealing with a series of jump cuts. |
| 129 | * Last chase scene in the horror film ''Film/{{Shocker}}'' has the protagonist and the villain fight their way through war documentaries, ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'', ''Film/{{Frankenstein|1931}}'', a boxing match, newscast and Music/AliceCooper music video. When the villain tries to escape by diving into the nearest TV, the hero pulls the plug, making the villain simply bash his head into the screen. |
| 130 | * ''Film/SmoshTheMovie'' revolves around Anthony and Ian finding [[InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube an embarrassing YouTube video of one of themselves]] they want to be removed, resulting in them going to [=YouTube=] headquarters and asking Steve [=YouTube=] to remove it. He then suggests that the two "change the video from the inside", resulting in them travelling through various videos. |
| 131 | * This was the plot of the 1992 film ''Film/StayTuned'', where couch potato Roy Knable (played by Creator/JohnRitter) and his wife Helen (played by Creator/PamDawber) get sucked into a Hell-spawned satellite TV network. In [[ActorAllusion an obvious nod to his TV career]], Ritter's character was briefly trapped inside a demonic version of ''Series/ThreesCompany'', complete with lookalikes of Chrissy and Janet coming in and asking him "''Where'' have you been?" He promptly fell over the sofa and screamed in horror. |
| 132 | --> ''"That's what I've been trying to tell you! Our Parents - Are Trapped - In Television!"'' |
| 133 | * In the slasher film ''Film/TheresNothingOutThere'', the main characters come to realize that they have literally wandered into a slasher film. There's even a scene where one of the characters swings off the boom mic. |
| 134 | * Some scenes in ''Film/{{Tron}}'' evoke this trope for video games. |
| 135 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5pQfOMkhmQ The "I'm sending you]] to cartoon land" -moment from ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie''. |
| 136 | * When things start going haywire at the party in ''Film/WeirdScience'', one of the party-goers gets trapped in an episode of ''Series/TheMunsters''. He remains trapped in the TV as people try changing the channel. |
| 137 | [[/folder]] |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 140 | * The ''Franchise/{{Doctor Who|Expanded Universe}}'' Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures novel ''The Crooked World'' sees the TARDIS crew trapped on a cartoon planet populated by thinly-veiled parodies of WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo, ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'', ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'', WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry, ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', and others. The Doctor's interference means that for the behavior of those parodies, SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs. |
| 141 | * In a 1943 short story "The Exile" by Creator/EdmondHamilton, four sci-fi writers are talking about their craft. One of them, Carrick says that one time, he got stranded in a world that he made up. He invented a cruel, barbarian planet with detailed history and geography, and started feeling that the planet actually exists now in a parallel universe. When he imagined himself on that planet, he was transported there. But he was unable to get back, so he eventually started to make a living by becoming a science-fiction writer, using his more civilized and peaceful homeland as a basis for his stories. When one other writer asks Carrick how did he get back, he responds: "I never got back home. [[EarthAllAlong I'm still here."]] |
| 142 | * ''Literature/Gameknight999'' begins with [=Gameknight999=] getting sucked into the game by one of his father's inventions. Later, his sister and father tag along as well. |
| 143 | * There's a Creator/RobertBloch story (found in the anthology ''Hollywood Nightmare'', edited by Peter Haining) about a woman who, after watching so many tv-horror-marathons that her brain melts (more or less), finds herself taking a walking tour of RKO Horror and the Universal Monsters canon. HilarityDoesNotEnsue. |
| 144 | * The humor book ''Literature/HowToSurviveAHorrorMovie'' tells how to recognize if you've become a victim of this trope, and how to stay alive once you're there. |
| 145 | * There is [[https://www.fangamer.com/products/im-stuck-in-a-video-game ''I'm Stuck in a Video Game'']], which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. |
| 146 | * ''The Incredible Umbrella'' and its sequel ''The Amorous Umbrella'', by Marvin Kaye. The protagonist acquires a magical umbrella that allows him to access fictional worlds. Or ''nearly'' access them -- he tended to be rather flighty and stray thoughts would often turn the realities he was visiting into {{fanfic}} universes. |
| 147 | * Creator/WoodyAllen's short story ''The Kugelmass Episode'' features a man launching himself into various classic novels. It being Allen, the protagonist enters ''Literature/MadameBovary'' just to have sex with female protagonist -- though unbeknownst to him the text changes to reflect his intrusion. In the end, when he tries to enter ''Literature/PortnoysComplaint'' the machine malfunctions and drops him into a Spanish textbook. |
| 148 | * The third part of ''Literature/MondayBeginsOnSaturday'' opens with a test of the theory that fictional universes exist in parallel to the real one. Sasha Privalov, the narrator, travels to a world made by the collective imagination of ScienceFiction authors. The world is split in two by a wall; one half is a spacefaring {{utopia}} populated by inventors {{infodump}}ing the technical details of their inventions, and the other is a dystopia split into segments where humanity is enslaved by something or other (aliens, TheVirus, etc). And in a subversion of LikeRealityUnlessNoted, almost everyone is near-naked, because writers tend to explicitly describe only small parts of their characters' wardrobes. |
| 149 | * ''[[Literature/MsWiz Ms. Wiz Goes Live]]'' has Ms. Wiz take Caroline and her little sister inside the TV. In a variation they go to an actual TV studio where the sister causes an uproar on a talk show, Ms. Wiz reads her own version of the news and Caroline does a guest spot on a drama. The book ends with a producer calling the house to see if Caroline wants a bigger role. |
| 150 | * Creator/TomHolt took a turn in ''My Hero'', in which it's revealed that when a novel is written, a number of "actors" are hired from among the teeming population of characters and have to act it out. The actual plot is driven by a Western writer ending up trapped into his own novel and then managing to get a message to an indifferently talented boilerplate fantasy author asking her to send the hero of her novels in to find him. The net result goes through everything from ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' to ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' to ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'', in much the same way that a wrecking ball goes through a brick wall. Of note, it's revealed that in-universe, there's a number of openings linking reality and fiction, including ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' and - due to its massive collection of fiction - the basement of the Library of Congress, a hole which permits the fantasy author to get an autograph from [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk]]. |
| 151 | * ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'': Halfway through the story, Bastian gets transported into the world of the book he was reading -- although it's really more of a realm of the human imagination in general. This seems like a great deal at first, since everything he wishes for becomes real, so he doesn't ''feel'' trapped. However, both BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor and PowerAtAPrice eventually come into full effect, and Bastian finds he needs to escape before he loses his humanity. To do that, he needs to find the wishes that will lead to CharacterDevelopment instead of WishFulfillment. |
| 152 | * In ''Literature/TheScumVillainsSelfSavingSystemRenZhaFanpaiZijiuXitong'', Shen Yuan, an anti-fan of trashy WishFulfillment HaremGenre web novel ''Proud Immortal Demon Way'' ends up transmigrated into said series after he dies. He is trapped in the role of SadistTeacher Shen Qingqiu for TheHero Luo Binghe's backstory. His very presence and different choices begins to drastically alter the course of the story. |
| 153 | * Jasper Fforde's ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' novels concern an invention called the "Prose Portal" which allows people to enter works of fiction. Later novels reveal a whole world of fiction, in which characters in books are like actors, and must "[[AnimatedActors act out]]" the events of a story every time it is read. |
| 154 | * One of the first examples (if not ''the'' first), from 1940: ''Literature/TypewriterInTheSky'' by Creator/LRonHubbard, a {{Deconstruction}} of swashbucklers with the main character having "fallen into" the role of the DesignatedVillain. |
| 155 | * In Creator/AndrewHussie's unfinished story ''Wizardy Herbert'', the title character and a few friends of his are trapped in a bad ''Literature/HarryPotter''-like novel. |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 159 | * ''Series/AmazingStories'' has a cross between BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor and this trope in "Welcome To My Nightmare". Complaining that real life is nothing like the movies, and wishing it was, he lands in the movie ''Film/{{Psycho}}'' -- as the woman who gets killed in the shower scene. It gets bonus points for having plot-relevant movie posters, such as "It's A Wonderful Life" when he escapes from the film. |
| 160 | * The [[RecycledTheSeries television adaptation]] of ''Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure'' has an episode where the guys use their time machine to travel into Bill's stepmom's favorite soap opera, as a nod to the preceding AnimatedAdaptation (see the "Western Animation" section). |
| 161 | * In ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': |
| 162 | ** The sisters are trapped in an old movie ("Kill it before it dies") in the episode "Chick Flick". Meanwhile, the handsome hero of that movie and villains from slasher movies [[RefugeeFromTVLand escape into the real world]]. |
| 163 | ** The episode "Charmed Noir" has Paige and Brody sucked into a 1930s ''MalteseFalcon'' spoof while investigating the murder of a teacher at the Magic School. Also, outsiders could write plot twists which were incorporated into the narrative. |
| 164 | * At the end of an episode of ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'', Clarissa fakes this happening to h as part of a ZanyScheme to get revenge on her brother. |
| 165 | * ''Series/DayByDay'': The best-known episode of this short-lived NBC sitcom of the late 1980s was "A Very Brady Episode," where teenager Ross Harper -- after being yelled at by his parents about goofing off and getting poor grades as a result -- falls asleep and imagines himself in an episode of ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' as "long-lost Brady son" Chuck Brady. A satire of the original series, Chuck interacts with several of the show's main characters and gets advice about his poor grades from Mike, and all is going well ... until the family begins to repeat their dialogue. "Chuck" wonders what's amiss, and Mike explains what he's seeing is a rerun. Everything becomes chaotic and Ross screams to be let free into the real world ... after which he wakes up and realizes it was AllJustADream. |
| 166 | * The ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber The Mind Robber]]" features the Second Doctor and companions getting stuck in the Land of Fiction, where characters from every story ever written are real (the ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' returns to the Land on a couple of occasions). |
| 167 | * In ''Series/{{Dramaworld}}'', American college student Claire is magically transported into her favorite Korean drama. She's supposed to be a 'facilitator' to help make sure that the stories stay on track... but things don't go quite according to plan. |
| 168 | * In the finale of ''Series/TheFamousJettJackson'', Jett actually switches places with Silverstone, the character he plays in the ShowWithinAShow. Now Jett has to save the world from a MadScientist, while Silverstone has to adjust to life as a normal teenager in a small town. Notably, his great-grandmother quickly realizes the truth, having known Jett all his life. Then Jett jumps back into the show in order to save Silverstone, whom the showrunners have decided to kill off, resulting in a SpotTheImposter scene with ''three'' identical-looking characters: Jett, Silverstone, and the shapeshifting BigBad. |
| 169 | * ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': "Revenging Angel" is a borderline case. Technically, it's all just a near-death hallucination of Crichton in a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' world, but all tropes, gags, and parodies are just the same as in any "true" example of this trope. |
| 170 | * New Zealand kids show ''Series/{{Freaky}}'' had an episode ("Sitcom") where a girl with troubles at home gets sucked into the TV and finds herself as part of perfect DomCom family. However, she quickly discovers that life in TV Land is not as carefree as she supposed. |
| 171 | * In a 1991 episode of ''Series/GrowingPains'', Ben is trapped in ''the show Series/GrowingPains'' -- that is, a world where his family life is the subject of a trope- and cliché-ridden SitCom. |
| 172 | * ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': In the episode "The One Where We're Trapped on TV", the Fates have [[VillainWorld taken over the world]]; in order to save the other Legends from her sisters, Charlie turns them into characters in in-universe TV shows. Zari, Behrad, and Nate end up in a ''Series/{{Friends}}''-style sitcom called ''Ultimate Buds'', Sara, Ava, and Mick end up in a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' spoof called ''Space Trip'', and Constantine and Astra end up on a ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' parody called ''Highcastle Abbey''. They all have their memories altered to fit their characters, but fortunately Zari's pre-CosmicRetcon self (long story) is able to take control of their body and start [[IntrepidFictioneer traveling between the shows]] to gather everyone together and restore their memories. They then start breaking from the scripts, forcing the shows to get cancelled so that they'll be deposited back in the real world. |
| 173 | * Reversed in ''Series/HiHoneyImHome!'', which featured a family from a [[TheFifties 50's]] sitcom that has been canceled. They are relocated to the [[RealLife Real World]], in a typical 90's suburb. [[ColdSleepColdFuture When overwhelmed by the complexities of the world in which they now live]], they seek comfort by using a device known as a [[AppliedPhlebotinum Turnerizer]], which causes themselves and their home environment to [[GoodOldWays revert]] to [[DeliberatelyMonochrome monochrome]]. The outside world (as seen through open doors, etc.), as well as anyone ''from'' the outside world, are [[SplashOfColor unaffected]]. |
| 174 | * The [[RecycledTheSeries live-action adaptation]] of ''Series/HoneyIShrunkTheKids'' has an episode where Wayne invents a remote control that picks up dead television waves for a bored Nick and Amy. However, when the kids bicker and accidentally spill juice on it, the remote causes Wayne, Nick, and Amy to be sucked into a vortex that lands them into various programs. |
| 175 | * This is the plot of an episode of ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' in which the heroes are plopped onto a literal "TV world," where they mysteriously transported onto the set of a show and are "rated" on their performance in whatever TV show they land in. High ratings lead to "primetime," whereas low ratings lead to gradually more degrading roles, ending with [[spoiler: being decapitated on a snuff show and having one's head added to the mostly offscreen "audience"]]. |
| 176 | * In ''Series/TheLibrarians2014'' episode "[[Recap/TheLibrariansS4E04AndTheSilverScreen And the Silver Screen]]", two of the characters get trapped in a movie. |
| 177 | * In ''Series/LostInAusten'', Amanda Price finds a door through her shower stall that leads to the world of ''Pride & Prejudice''. She accidentally trades places with Elizabeth Bennett and then promptly messes up the original storyline. |
| 178 | * ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' has a small subplot when Earl was in a coma, in which Earl was in the only place he felt happy; 'TV Land'. A few episodes detailed his life in a fifties television sitcom, while his friends tried to get him out of a coma. The older he got in the sitcom, the closer he was to dying in real life. |
| 179 | * ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' had a two-parter based around this concept with the BigBad and the MonsterOfTheWeek splitting up the Rangers and sending them through [[TheWestern westerns,]] [[{{Samurai}} Samurai films]], [[{{Wuxia}} Martial Arts Epics]], [[NatureHero Jungle Hero serials]], [[TheMusical Musicals]], and even a ''Film/MadMax'' parody! |
| 180 | ** ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' combines it with DreamWithinADream for the HalloweenEpisode "Trickster Treat". |
| 181 | * ''Series/RedDwarf X'' ramps this up when the crew realise they face having no independent existence outside a TV show. To avert this fate they visit Earth. Where Lister (Craig Charles) visits the set of a [[Series/CoronationStreet long-running TV soap opera]]. And ends up having a heartfelt chat with an actor playing a taxi driver (Craig Charles) who is nonplussed by it all, viewing Dave Lister as a previous role he played... |
| 182 | * Happens to the Twist kids in the ''Series/RoundTheTwist'' episode "TV or Not TV". While their parents are away, Pete, Bronson, and Linda get in a fight over what to watch on TV, and the power of them using their remotes simultaneously causes the trio to act like their favorite TV stars (a private detective named Jack Geddes, an Australian football player named Rick the Rock, and a female investigative news reporter named Mary Moore)...until the real Jack, Rick, and Mary enter the real world and trap the Twist kids into the TV world. |
| 183 | * Parodied in the episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', "My Life In Four Cameras," in which JD treats a patient who was a fictional writer for ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. JD imagines his day at the hospital as a multi-camera sitcom. The end of the episode showed what really happened: there wasn't a happy ending. |
| 184 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' justified this by using malfunctioning holodecks: the crew would go to enjoy an adventure based on classic film or literature, and find themselves trapped inside with the safety mechanisms turned off. ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' and ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' also used this plot device. |
| 185 | ** On ''TNG'' the Enterprise learned of an alien race that accidentally destroyed a twenty-first century space shuttle and tried to make the surviving astronaut comfortable by recreating his world. Since the only source of information they had about his home was an old book, he ended up spending the rest of his life inside the book's story. Unfortunately [[AndIMustScream the book sucked]]. |
| 186 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 187 | ** Used very nicely in the episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS05E08ChangingChannels "Changing Channels"]] when the Trickster does this to Sam and Dean, who are forced to perform in ''Series/{{CSI}}'' clones, cheesy '80s sitcoms, health commercials, and zany Japanese gameshows. Naturally, [[GenreSavvy genre savviness]], [[NoFourthWall breaking of the fourth wall]], and [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]] all ensue. Castiel's status as the EnsembleDarkhorse is likewise nicely lampshaded when he shows up during the '80s sitcom segment, then appears confused when an entire invisible studio audience begins cheering. |
| 188 | ** ''Supernatural'' then does the reverse in [[Recap/SupernaturalS06E15TheFrenchMistake "The French Mistake"]] in which [[NoFourthWall Sam and Dean are kicked out of TV Land and into the "real world"]]. HilarityEnsues. |
| 189 | ** The episode [[Recap/SupernaturalS13E16ScoobyNatural "ScoobyNatural"]] has Sam, Dean, and Castiel getting sucked into the ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' episode "A Night of Fright is No Delight" through a cursed TV that they took as payment for another job. Dean, having seen this episode before, tries to use his knowledge to solve the mystery early (and hook up with Daphne in the process), only for the ScoobyDooHoax to be very quickly -- and gruesomely -- subverted when a real ghost starts killing people, all while various elements of the show's world and characters are parodied. Notably, it was a full-fledged {{crossover}} between the two shows, with Creator/FrankWelker, Creator/MatthewLillard, Creator/KateMicucci, and Creator/GreyDeLisle all reprising their voice roles from the current ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' animated series. |
| 190 | * The Creator/DisneyChannel original movie ''Film/TeenBeachMovie'' is about two modern-day teenagers who get sucked into a '60s beach party movie. |
| 191 | * ''Series/ThatsSoRaven'' has an episode in which Raven has a dream that she and her friends are in various TV shows and movies (such as ''Series/ILoveLucy'', ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', etc.) |
| 192 | * ''Series/WandaVision'': The premise of the show is that Wanda Maximoff and Vision find themselves in an idealized retro sitcom world, with Vision somehow alive and well even after [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar being killed earlier]]. Cracks soon appear in this seemingly perfect facade, and Wanda and Vision eventually realize that everything is not as it seems, despite Wanda's best efforts to avoid realizing the true nature of this world. |
| 193 | ** Meanwhile, the residents of Westview are [[spoiler:literally trapped in TV Land. Wanda's [[RealityWarper reality-altering magic]] has transformed the town into her personal sitcom fantasy world, and forces the residents to act out their scripted roles while [[MindRape preventing them from even thinking about leaving]]. Even worse, if Wanda doesn't need them at any given time, [[AndIMustScream they're frozen in place, all the while fully conscious of what's happening to them]]]]. |
| 194 | * ''Series/WeirdScience'' had the boys explicitly thrown into a slasher movie and a soap opera, as well as into alternate universes modeled on ''Franchise/TheTwilightZone'' and ''Film/JamesBond'' movies. |
| 195 | [[/folder]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:Music Videos]] |
| 198 | * ''Music/NewCenturyUltramanLegend'', a 2001 music video made by Tsuburaya to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the Franchise/UltraSeries, has a young boy and his father being caught in a storm and unexpectedly transported into a television playing reruns of old Ultraman shows, with both father and son interacting with different Ultramen at different points in the franchise. |
| 199 | [[/folder]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 202 | * This is the case for Marche in ''Podcast/InterstitialActualPlay'', both before and during the adventure. He came from a world where ''Final Fantasy'' and ''Kingdom Hearts'' were games that he played, and already spent a significant amount of time [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance trapped in the former]]. Then he lands in a Sonic the Hedgehog world during the game and fanboys accordingly. |
| 203 | * Two examples pop up in the dimension-hopping Gemini Arc of ''Podcast/{{Sequinox}}''. One of them is a {{Zeerust}} sci-fi world where the elements of the TV set are clearly visible. The other is a standard sitcom where the girls can hear the canned laughter and are aware of going through the opening title. |
| 204 | [[/folder]] |
| 205 | |
| 206 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 207 | * In the ''Series/SesameStreet'' special ''Film/WhenYouWishUponaPickle'', a mysterious (and [[AnthropomorphicFood sentient) Wish Pickle]], which grants one wish per customer, is delivered to Sesame Street. Ernie's wish for Bert (who wants to be a weather man) to be on TV causes Bert to become physically trapped inside the television and get shuffled from show to show. |
| 208 | [[/folder]] |
| 209 | |
| 210 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 211 | * Ride/DisneyThemeParks: |
| 212 | ** ''[=CineMagique=]'' in Walt Disney Studios (Disneyland Resort Paris) is about a member of the audience (played onscreen by Creator/MartinShort) that, after rudely interrupting a silent film montage, gets poofed into the screen by a magician from a (fictional) film and from there travels through a potted history of cinema along with the leading lady from said film (Julie Delpy), incorporating actual scenes and sequences from films including but not limited to ''Film/SomeLikeItHot'', ''Film/Titanic1997'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Film/HenryV'' (1989), and ''Film/TheUmbrellasOfCherbourg''. Best described as a Disney theme park version of ''Film/DeadMenDontWearPlaid''. |
| 213 | ** The Disney's Hollywood Studios attraction ''Ride/MickeyAndMinniesRunawayRailway'' opens by "sending" guests through a movie screen showing a WesternAnimation/{{Mickey Mouse|2013}} cartoon. |
| 214 | * The premise of ''Anxiety in 3D'' from Ride/UniversalStudios' ''Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights'' 2000 was that the guests were trapped in Jack the Clown's malfunctioning virtual reality game. |
| 215 | [[/folder]] |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 218 | * The ''VideoGame/Action52'' game ''The Cheetahmen'' begins with the Action Gamemaster, while playing video games, suddenly sucked into the TV, where he is somehow transformed into a Cheetahman. |
| 219 | * In ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures'', [[WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd the titular Nerd]] is in Game Land and must go through various pastiches of various video games to get out. |
| 220 | * The sequel to the casual game ''Azada'' features puzzles embedded in books of fairy tales and of various literary classics. |
| 221 | * ''VideoGame/BangOnBallsChronicles'': The game's four main worlds are stated to be movies in-universe. PlayerCharacter Bob physically enters a tv in order to get to them. |
| 222 | * ''VideoGame/CityOfVillains'' has "The TV Invasion", a StoryArc of missions for characters level 45 to 50 that takes you into a monster movie, a gangster movie, and a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalypse]] movie, all at the bidding of Television itself. |
| 223 | * ''VideoGame/ComixZone'' features a BadassNormal comic book author trapped in his own comic. If he can't fight his way through the story (traversing the actual panels), the comic's villain will take his place in the real world. |
| 224 | * This trope is the premise for the first ''VideoGame/{{Gex}}'' game. In the next two sequels, he entered TV land(s) voluntarily. |
| 225 | * ''VideoGame/CreepTV'': Muriel and Eustace are trapped inside the TV by poltergeists, and Courage has to rescue them. |
| 226 | * In ''VideoGame/DisneysMagicalQuest 3'', Huey, Dewey, and Louie are pulled into Storybook Land by King Pete. Mickey and WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, with the assistance of the Guardian Fairy, have to rescue the trio by entering the book and defeat the evil ruler. |
| 227 | * In ''VideoGame/DokiDokiPanic'' (famously dolled up into ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2''), the game begins with two kids trapped into a storybook by King Wart, and a family of four has to get them back. |
| 228 | * In ''VideoGame/TheFairlyOddparentsShadowShowdown'', the absence of the Royal Jewel (the source of magic power for all fairies) has caused a strange signal to emit from [=TVs=] everywhere. The final two levels, "The Great Esc-ape" and "Vicky Strikes Back", are the result of fictional TV shows eclipsing reality. |
| 229 | * ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'': Week 6 sees The Boyfriend and The Girlfriend getting stuck in a 16-bit dating simulator. Their opponent for that week is The Senpai, the protagonist of the game. [[spoiler:"Thorns" reveals they are not the first people to get stuck in the game.]] |
| 230 | * The 1990's sidescroller ''VideoGame/GarfieldCaughtInTheAct'' plays this trope quite literally. |
| 231 | * ''VideoGame/HiddenCity'' features an event case where Violet invites her rival, Mr. Black, and his subordinate, Rayden, to play a board game under the pretext of a truce negotiation while intending to trap them in the game forever. Inside, they find another agent, Conrad, whom Violet has trapped years before and had been presumed dead. |
| 232 | * The plot of ''VideoGame/LandflixOdyssey'' is that Larry has been sucked into Landflix, and now has to traverse the various shows to find his way out. |
| 233 | * The Midnight Channel in ''VideoGame/Persona4'' is a mysterious alternate reality connected to the real world through [=TVs=], where multiple characters end up trapped in and need to be rescued by the Investigation Team. When trapped in the Midnight Channel, the world takes the form of sets for a TV show reflecting the victim's mind, ruled over by an EvilCounterpart of themselves representing their {{Fatal Flaw}}s and dark secrets. |
| 234 | * A variant is the old Amiga platform game ''VideoGame/{{Premiere}}'', where a guy finds himself trapped in the rival film studios. Every level is a stage that represents a different film genre, such as horror, sci-fi, western, historical epic and, [[FridgeLogic oddly enough]], cartoons. |
| 235 | * This is also the premise of another Amiga platformer from the Nineties, ''VideoGame/{{Oscar}}''. |
| 236 | * ''VideoGame/RadRodgers'' is about [[PlayerCharacter Ricardo "Rad Rodgers" Rodriguez]] getting sucked into a video game, and him trying to get out. |
| 237 | * This is part of ''VideoGame/RavingRabbids TV Party'': the Rabbids get sucked into VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'s TV set, and in the single-player mode they set out to annoy him into busting up the set and letting the Rabbids out. |
| 238 | * The ''VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries'' -- all two of them -- in which Sonic is pulled into classical storybooks. [[VideoGame/SonicAndTheSecretRings The first one]] is based on "Literature/{{Aladdin}}", and [[VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight the second]] on Myth/ArthurianLegend. Both featured Sonic the Hedgehog replacing the titled hero, along with the title itself. |
| 239 | * ''VideoGame/SeymourGoesToHollywood'', set in a film studio. Entering the various sets, Seymour would encounter actual characters from the films. Either that or the actors all followed The Method. |
| 240 | * The movie theater side quest in ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' has Murphy stepping into a horror movie after piecing together a film reel. The reward for this side quest is a powerful Golden Gun, "just like in the movie." |
| 241 | * ''VideoGame/SpotGoesToHollywood'' has the titular 7 Up mascot exploring levels based on movies. |
| 242 | * Happens to [[spoiler:the player]] at the end of ''VideoGame/StayTooned'', right after the inverted form of this trope is resolved. |
| 243 | * Yet another Amiga game: the protagonist of the shooter ''VideoGame/{{Videokid}}'' gets sucked into his VCR and must fight his way inside five tapes based on different film genres (fantasy, western, sci-fi, gangster drama, and horror). |
| 244 | * ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'' is basically ''Film/LastActionHero'', except it's a video game about {{Toku}} movies, and the main character ''becomes'' an action hero. It's also [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructed]] with [[spoiler:Captain Blue, who went insane because his life kept on going downhill, as even after an upside happened, fate would find some way to twist it into something he wouldn't want. His rise to fame as a movie director? Eventually forgotten. He gets sucked into his own movies as the hero? Eventually goes insane because he can't escape this transient Movie Land to meet his family and eventually tries to destroy everything]]. It shows a lot, and is probably what would happen if people really did get trapped in a "Movie Land". |
| 245 | * Possible in ''VideoGame/TheWhiteChamber'', trapping the player in an extremely low-resolution game world and containing one of the game's many deaths (via ExplosiveBarrel). |
| 246 | * ''VideoGame/WishboneAndTheAmazingOdyssey'': Book land, rather, via a virtual reality computer system, but the principle is the same -- Wishbone gets sucked into ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' and has to play his way through the story in order to escape. |
| 247 | |
| 248 | [[/folder]] |
| 249 | |
| 250 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 251 | * ''WebAnimation/HelloKittyAndFriendsSupercuteAdventures'': "Kuromi's Movie Madness pts. 1 & 2" see Kuromi, My Melody, and Badtz-Maru transported into the world of movies by Chococat's invention. They go through several genre films, including film noir, musicals, and a silent film. |
| 252 | * On the website ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'', in ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' #150, "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail150.html alternate universe]]", Strong Bad celebrates his big "sesquicentenn-email" by constructing an alternate universe portal and visiting the various alternate realities of the Homestar body of work, where he meets all of the various duplicates of himself. |
| 253 | * The ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/imp.html International Moron Patrol]]'' has the dubious honor of having two episodes featuring this trope; Episode 10 centered around characters Hentai Boy and H Hog being sucked into a videogame console. The 2007 Halloween episode 2-parter had Henrik being sucked into the TV, too. |
| 254 | * ''WebAnimation/KaizoTrap'' has a video game trapping the heroine's partner inside it, and she goes in to rescue him. Unfortunately, the game is a PlatformHell title, but after countless deaths and game overs, she eventually gets the skills of a speedrunner. |
| 255 | * One of the episodes of the surreal, nonlinear flash series ''WebAnimation/{{Sixgun}}'' revolves around a character who has been sentenced to a "maximum security sitcom," which apparently involves being forced to read corny one-liners and quips at gunpoint by robots. He gets his hands on the gun, tries to shoot his way out, and dies a happy man. |
| 256 | * ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'': |
| 257 | ** In an episode, Mario has to fix the pipes in Peach's Castle and ended up having a bad accident that leads him to a land full of Series/{{Teletubbies}}. [[spoiler:Turns out at the end that it was AllJustADream]]. |
| 258 | ** Another one involves Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog and Dr. Eggman in a similar Teletubby-driven situation as they travel through dimensions. |
| 259 | ** During the first half of Season 14, [[spoiler:the main cast get trapped in one thanks to Mr. Puzzles and are forced to act out his skits against their wills with the whole thing PlayedForDrama]]. |
| 260 | [[/folder]] |
| 261 | |
| 262 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 263 | * ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfGynoStar'' features a story arc in which the main character (feminist superhero Gyno-Star) gets trapped inside the world of beer commercials, and has to deal with sexist stereotypes and objectification of women. |
| 264 | * ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES'', a [[AdaptationExpansion vastly improved]] [[FanSequel fan sequel]] to the Captain N cartoon below, uses the same premise, where a person from the real world gets sucked into Videoland. |
| 265 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', John asks his Nanna if he got sent into SBURB when he enters the Medium. He did not. |
| 266 | * Rather savagely deconstructed in ''Webcomic/{{minus}}'', somewhat surprisingly considering the tone of the comic. In [[https://alopex.li/mirrors/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus/minus/www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus125.html this]] strip, minus brings [[VictimizedBystander a random boy]] into a [[StoryWithinAStory book]] for some reason, and, like with most Self-Insert characters, the boy makes himself into a {{God Mode S|ue}}tu, [[MagnificentBastard playing both the story's hero and villain like a violin]] [[OmnicidalNeutral without regard for the sake of the world]]. It's all fun and games until he realizes that he can't return to his own world, at which point he goes somersaulting over the DespairEventHorizon and [[OffscreenInertia is implied]] to [[RocksFallEveryoneDies destroy the world and everyone in it]], including [[DrivenToSuicide himself]]. |
| 267 | * The Neon Ice Cream from ''Webcomic/NeonIceCreamHeadache'' has the effect of "[[HandWave aligning your nervous system with a certain electromagnetic frequency]]", which corresponds to a certain TV channel, causing the user's body to be zapped into the world of the TV show being played on that channel. But what's more interesting is what happens when you come out of the TV world, as [[spoiler: if several television sets are tuned to the same channel, one copy of the person will come out of each one]]. |
| 268 | [[/folder]] |
| 269 | |
| 270 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 271 | * ''WebVideo/SevenSecondRiddles'': A girl gets pulled into a nightmarish horror-movie world by a MonsterClown, but is able to escape by [[RiddleMeThis solving his riddle.]] |
| 272 | * ''WebVideo/{{AFK}}'': All of the gamers, who find themselves waking up in a world like their computer game. Some are fine with this and even prefer it. Others though are desperate to get home, particularly Q as she left her daughter there alone. |
| 273 | * In [=S3EP2=] of ''[[WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan Mario and Luigi's Stupid and Dumb Adventures]]'', Mario attempts to go back to his home dimension after accidentally ending up in an AlternateUniverse, and along the way, he meets [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Dora]], [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob]] and [[ShowWithinAShow Charleyyy]] in their respective dimensions. |
| 274 | * This is the very premise of ''Music/NewCenturyUltramanLegend'', a young boy named Kanchi and his father getting dragged into a television set playing reruns of old ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' shows. And then helping various Ultras fight off monsters. |
| 275 | * ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': At the start of their review of ''Literature/TheRing'', Doug, Malcolm, and Tamara exploit the fact that [[StringyHairedGhostGirl Samara]] has to emerge from a TV set by switching the channel to ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', ''Film/TheWickerMan2006'' where she gets hit by a truck, and a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon where she gets blown up by Wily E. Coyote. |
| 276 | * WebVideo/PawDugan's Top 9 Video Game Composers has Paw and his friends [[Website/ChannelAwesome That Chick With The Goggles]], [[WebVideo/TheAngryJoeShow Angry Joe]] and [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] get trapped in video game land by Paw's SuperpoweredEvilSide. The worlds they travel to include ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'', ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}'', ''VideoGame/KingsQuestV'', ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'', ''VideoGame/RiverCityRansom'', ''VideoGame/Wolfenstein3D'', and ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon''. Worth noting, the lead-in to this video had Paw and company depicted as modified ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' sprites and fighting Dark Paw in the classic turn-based style. |
| 277 | [[/folder]] |
| 278 | |
| 279 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 280 | * ''WesternAnimation/The13GhostsOfScoobyDoo'' episode "That's Monstertainment" had Zomba trap Scooby, Shaggy, Scrappy, Daphne, Flim-Flam, and Vincent Van Ghoul inside the television airing of a movie called ''The Son of The Bride of The Ghost of Frankenstein''. |
| 281 | * Franchise/{{Barbie}} [[WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}} movies]]: |
| 282 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInThePinkShoes'', free-spirited ballerina Kristyn and her costume designer friend Hailey are transported into the stories of various ballets when Kristyn puts on the enchanted ballet flats. |
| 283 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieVideoGameHero'', Barbie gets trapped in the video game she was working on and has to help save it. |
| 284 | * The final season of the AnimatedAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventures'' added the capability to travel into TV shows, movies, and literature to the guys' time-travelling phone booth, leading to a series of cheap thinly-veiled pop-culture parodies. (This was also used once in the following [[RecycledTheSeries live-action series]], see the "Live-Action TV" section) |
| 285 | * ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' has the episode "Game Over", where Ben and Gwen get stuck in Ben's Sumo Slammer video game due to an accident with Upgrade and [[LightningCanDoAnything lightning]]. |
| 286 | * The cartoon ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' used a variation of this as its premise; California teenager Kevin Keene was trapped in Videoland, whose reality encompassed pretty much every Nintendo-licensed NES game. |
| 287 | * The first half of the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode [[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E40TwitchingChannels "Twitching Channels"]] follows Darkwing chasing his [[PsychoElectro electricity-themed enemy]] Megavolt through the fictional universes of many [[ShowWithinAShow TV shows]]. The second half of the episode becomes a RealWorldEpisode, as Darkwing and Megavolt both discover that they themselves are just TV show characters in our universe. |
| 288 | * ''WesternAnimation/DeadEndParanormalPark'': In episode 8, Pugsley, Barney, Courtney, and Norma find themselves in the world of Pauline Phoenix's shows and movies, where they are initially stuck playing various roles until they wake up or are woken up by one of the others. [[spoiler:It turns out that Norma was aware from the beginning, but wants to stay because going back to the real world would mean having to face the truth that she recently learned about Pauline not being as good as she'd believed]]. |
| 289 | * The ''WesternAnimation/DrZitbagsTransylvaniaPetShop'' episode "Telenightmare" had one of Dr. Zitbag's inventions cause Zitbag, Horrifido, and Officer Deadbeat to be beamed inside the television and chasing each other through different television shows. |
| 290 | * The premise of the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "[[Recap/DuckTales2017S3E2QuackPack Quack Pack!]]" is that the family is trapped in a 90s era domestic sit com tv show that turns out to be the result of a wish made by Donald on a magical genie's lamp. |
| 291 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' did a MadeForTVMovie, titled ''WesternAnimation/ChannelChasers'', wrapped around a combination of this trope (most examples being stuff you probably grew up with during the '90s) and TimeTravel. Some of the shows parodied in "Channel Chasers" include ''WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'', ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', ''Series/SesameStreet'', ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (complete with a blackboard gag: "This is the sincerest form of flattery"), ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsons'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'', ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', and ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}''; however, the movie was more centered on a parody show named "Maho Mushi", which was inspired by many anime shows such as ''Manga/DragonBall'' and ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''. |
| 292 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' did it with classic (and handily public-domain) ''books'' in one episode: ''Tom Sawyer'', ''Moby Dick'' and ''Pride and Prejudice''. |
| 293 | ** Also, in a comic, the main characters end up in a ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' comic. Both shows have the same creators. |
| 294 | * One [[ThreeShorts mini-episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' featured this plot, involving him mostly travelling through various commercials; at the end, it was AllJustADream ([[OrWasItADream although he kept the scarf of the shopping channel]]...). Another episode featured a variant on this, where Garfield woke up to find he was in the [[NoFourthWall wrong cartoon]], an odd cross between ''Anime/MazingerZ'' and ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''; eventually, he was shot into a forest of ''Bambi''-esque forest animals, and ran off into the distance, shouting that [[SickeninglySweet he wanted the giant robots back.]] |
| 295 | ** Garfield being trapped in a TV was also the main plot of the Sega Genesis video game ''VideoGame/GarfieldCaughtInTheAct'', which brought him through stages themed after Horror, Pirates, the Stone Age, a FilmNoir, an Egyptian pyramid, and the final level being called the "Season Finale". |
| 296 | ** This happened to Garfield again in ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'' episode "Virtualodeon"; Professor Bonkers created the titular channel to try and bring the characters on TV into the viewers' homes, but it sucked Garfield into the TV when he shut it down. Reversing the process also had the unintended side-effect of bringing all the TV characters that had been chasing Garfield out into the real world; this was reversed once the TV was unplugged. |
| 297 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}'' is a {{downplayed|trope}} example. Many episodes involve him and his friends walking into books and interacting with the characters, but Gumby & co. can leave at will. |
| 298 | * ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' anthologizes the Life with Loopy episode "Late Night Loopy" where Loopy enters worlds of TV. |
| 299 | * ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''. In the episode "Dimension Twist" Kim, Ron, Rufus, Dr. Drakken, and Shego are pulled into a dimensional vortex crossed with a TV cable signal. Shows they visit: ''Series/{{Friends}}'', rendered as ''Pals'', ''Space Passage'', a ''Star Trek'' sendup, with Kim as a RedShirt, ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' - in the Arctic, a kids' puppet show reminiscent of ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'', a ''Tom and Jerry''-style cartoon, ''Series/FearFactor'', ''Series/{{Alias}}'',[[note]]which KP has been accused of ripping off[[/note]] ''Series/That70sShow'', reimagined into the Salem era as ''That 1670s Show'', ''Series/{{ER}}'', ''Evil Eye for the Bad Guy'', a supervillain's version of ''Queer Eye For The Straight Guy'', ''The Fearless Ferret'', a parody of the old ''Series/Batman1966'' show and a ContinuityNod to a previous episode, ''Series/TheHollywoodSquares'' with triangles (which oddly enough seems reminiscent of ''Series/{{Battlestars}}'' from the [[Creator/MerrillHeatter same producer]], though they likely didn't know of that show), a commercial for Ron's favorite restaurant, "Bueno Nacho", Professional Wrestling, a cooking show, with Rufus as the secret ingredient; a talk show, and ''Animal Planet'', rerendered as ''Ape Island'', which is hell for Ron. |
| 300 | * Happens to Kevin in ''WesternAnimation/KryptoTheSuperdog'' season 2 episode 1B "Attack Of The Virtual Vegetables" where he ends up trapped in the video game in Krypto's rocket. Krypto, along with Streaky, joins him to help him win the game by catching the eggplant and earning a crown before dinner. |
| 301 | * ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': The 1990 short ''Box-Office Bunny'', in which Bugs Bunny gets chased around a movie theater, ends with Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd getting thrown into movie screen that just happens to be showing a slasher flick. |
| 302 | -->'''Bugs:''' It takes a miracle to get into pictures, and now these two jokers want to get out. |
| 303 | * ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'' does this in the episode "[[Recap/TheMagicSchoolBusS3E3SpinsAWeb Spins a Web]]", in which the class enters a [[TheFifties 1950s]] sci-fi flick about a town being terrorized by a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever 50-foot]] SlayingMantis. Oddly enough, the Topic of the Week is spiders. |
| 304 | * Happens to ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'', when he's sucked into his TV by villain The Channel Surfer, a former TV fanatic mutated by the combined radiation from a wall of televisions falling on him. Once inside, The Mask is exposed to sights that not even he can stand, such as a nauseating Franchise/CareBears parody, a Best Hits of the 70s CD ad, complete with The Mask freaking out over now wearing a polyester leisure suit, and ''Series/GilligansIsland''. |
| 305 | -->'''The Mask''': You've been here for 30 years. [[LampshadeHanging You've built a nuclear reactor out of coconuts.]] For the love of God, man! [[JustEatGilligan FIX THE HOLE IN THE BOAT!!]] |
| 306 | * The ''[[WesternAnimation/MightyMouse Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures]]'' episode "Don't Touch That Dial" had Mighty stuck in a television set, going from one parody cartoon show to another at the whim of a bored kid constantly changing channels. |
| 307 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E6PowerPonies Power Ponies]]", the ponies end up sucked into the comic book world of ''The Power Ponies'' and have to face the [[EvilIsHammy over-the-top]] villainess The Mane-Iac. Oddly enough, in Equestria, the industry of selling comics that can do this seems to be a completely normal and even thriving industry. |
| 308 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Mysticons}}'', Zarya gets sucked into a game on her cell phone, followed by Emerald and Piper. |
| 309 | * ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' gives us the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS3E2BTV B-TV]]", which involves Bogus getting trapped in the television set, as part of an elaborate plan devised by Baddus and his Meteor Goons, Ratty and Mole, and Jake and Butch to take their revenge out on Bogus, for all the times that he's defeated them. |
| 310 | * The premise that starts off Season 12 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' is that the video game "Prime Empire" is transporting its players into the world of the game once they reach a certain level. |
| 311 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': At the end of "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS1E3LostInCouchPatAThon Lost in Couch]]", [=GrandPat=] gets stuck inside the wall, and then finds his way into the TV. He winds up on a bowling show, but he has fun with it. |
| 312 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'', Oscar's attempt to fix the TV leads to him getting sucked into it. Every channel Oscar involves him getting hurt, like getting tackled by football players, getting pounded by a boxer, getting chased by a bull while only speaking Spanish, and getting interrogated/tortured by mobsters. |
| 313 | * One of the syndicated episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' "Who're You Calling Two-Dimensional?" had the team sucked into a cartoon dimension that, reasonably enough, ran on ToonPhysics. Another episode "Station Identification" works with a similar premise, the Ghostbusters have to fight a haunted TV station and are attacked by spooky versions of TV characters including He-Man and Star Trek. |
| 314 | * Has happened a couple of times on ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', most notably in "Go Viral", with the protagonists being pulled in as punishment trying to create one. |
| 315 | * A variation is used in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "Kid TV": When the television set breaks, the babies climb into a cardboard box and make their own shows, which they're randomly running in and out of by the end: a game show, a soap opera, a PerfumeCommercial, a ''Film/JamesBond''-esque show commercial, the news, and a COPS spoof. |
| 316 | * ''WesternAnimation/SheZow'': In "In She-D", [=SheZow=] starts losing her dimensions due to expired vanishing cream. She enters the ''Buttwipe 3D'' movie in an attempt to regain them, and then finds she can't leave. |
| 317 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 318 | ** A "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror" segment uses this plot, with Bart and Lisa sucked into ''The Itchy & Scratchy Show''. At one point they change channels, appearing in a ''live action'' snippet of ''Live with Regis and Kathie Lee''. |
| 319 | ** This trope gets inverted in another episode, as Homer is transported into the third dimension. |
| 320 | ** And the HypocriticalHumor of having Chief Wiggum mock [[TheAhnold Rainier Wolfcastle]] for an obvious parody of ''Film/LastActionHero''. |
| 321 | --->'''Chief Wiggum:''' Magic ticket ''my ass'', [=McBain=]". |
| 322 | * The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episodes set in Imaginationland. |
| 323 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'': Happens to the television-addicted Bud in "TV Connection". After initially trying to escape, Bud finds that he ''likes'' living inside the TV [[IChooseToStay and opts to stay]]. He even starts watching another TV through his television set. Unfortunately, the other aliens need to get Bud to the real world immediately once his television breaks and he's broadcast to ''every TV in the area''. |
| 324 | * ''Series/StrangeHillHigh'': In "Health & Safety", Mitchell, Becky, and Templeton get trapped inside an old safety film. |
| 325 | * The 70s ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' did it at least twice. In one episode, the Legion of Doom put them into random fairy tales, in the other Mr. Mxyzptlk put them in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' with Aquaman as the Scarecrow, Supes as the Tinman, and Wonder Woman as the Cowardly Lion. |
| 326 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}'' has the science fiction nerd/supervillain Control Freak (who is oddly enough ''not'' a ControlFreak) design a piece of tech to do this intentionally. Beast Boy was the couch potato/cliché expert. Control Freak explicitly did this to obtain various powerful gadgets and abilities from different series to use them against the Titans, [[NotSoHarmlessVillain and actually proves quite dangerous as a result]]. Shows they visit include: |
| 327 | ** A SoapOpera |
| 328 | ** An old [[UnabashedBMovieFan B movie]] |
| 329 | ** A ScienceFiction MartialArtsMovie show, where Control Freak gets some [[IKnowKarate training]] |
| 330 | ** The local [[NewsBroadcast news]] |
| 331 | ** A [[TheWestern Western]] with [[CattlePunk Robotic gunslingers]]. |
| 332 | ** A [[LawyerFriendlyCameo thinly-disguised]] cross between ''[[Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman Battle Of The Planets]]'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'' |
| 333 | ** A parody of one of Steve "The Crocodile Hunter" Irwin's nature shows |
| 334 | ** A ''[[Series/TheDukesOfHazzard Dukes of Hazzard]]'' parody |
| 335 | ** The first type of SideEffectsInclude commercial, with the side effect listing of the second type. |
| 336 | *** The name of the product in question was Zinthos, one of Raven's Magic words. It was also said to be blue (the color of Raven's outfit) and the side effects including what happens when she loses control of her emotions, such as extra eyes. |
| 337 | ** A Barney-esque EdutainmentShow |
| 338 | ** A WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes spoof with Beast Boy as Wile E. Coyote chasing after Control Freak acting like the Road Runner. |
| 339 | ** A Creator/DrSeuss style cartoon. |
| 340 | ** A black-and-white sitcom from TheFifties. |
| 341 | ** A French cooking show involving [[LethalChef chocolate and snails]]. |
| 342 | * Control Freak (again) in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' This time he shoves the team inside "Pretty Pretty Pegasus", a show Raven is obsessed with. She loves it but everyone else is weirded out by it. Control Freak also loves this show, apparently. |
| 343 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheTwistedTalesOfFelixTheCat'' also did a plot like this, and like KP, it included a ''Series/{{Friends}}'' sitcom called "Pals". |
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