History CelebrityParadox / WesternAnimation

* In ''WesternAnimation//HarleyQuinn2019'', Catwoman takes Creator/TimBurton as her date to Poison Ivy and Kite Man's wedding. Burton directed ''Film/Batman1989'' and ''Film/BatmanReturns'', the latter of which featured Catwoman.

* In ''WesternAnimation//{{HarleyQuinn (2019)}}'', Catwoman takes Creator/TimBurton as her date to Poison Ivy and Kite Man's wedding. Burton directed ''Film/{{Batman (1989)}}'' and ''Film/BatmanReturns'', the latter of which featured Catwoman.

* In ''WesternAnimation//{{HarleyQuinn2019}}'', Catwoman takes Creator/TimBurton as her date to Poison Ivy and Kite Man's wedding. Burton directed ''Film/{{Batman1989}}'' and ''Film/BatmanReturns'', the latter of which featured Catwoman.

* In ''WesternAnimation//{{HarleyQuinn}}'', Catwoman takes Creator/TimBurton as her date to Poison Ivy and Kite Man's wedding. Burton directed ''Film/{{Batman1989}}'' and ''Film/BatmanReturns'', the latter of which featured Catwoman.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania}}''. The creators have generally ShownTheirWork in regards to Romanian history, accurately naming cities and rivers, but the royal family of Wallachia are unnamed. Why? Because in real life, UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, who lent his patronymic to the literary ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', ruled Wallachia. Presumably, having a villain named Dracula Vlad Tepes and a barely-mentioned ruler named Vlad Dracula/Vlad Tepes would be [[OneSteveLimit too confusing]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndGuessWho'' episode "A Haunt of a Thousand Voices" has Creator/FrankWelker, Creator/GreyGriffin, Creator/MatthewLillard & [[Music/GarfunkelAndOates Kate Miccuci]] as the guests of the week. Otherwise known as the '''main voice actors for the show''' meaning Mystery Inc is meeting people who sound just like them. Talk about meta.

* The ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndGuessWho" episode "A Haunt of a Thousand Voices" has Creator/FrankWelker, Creator/GreyGriffin, Creator/MatthewLillard & Creator/KateMiccuci as the guests. Otherwise known as the ''main voice actors for the show'' meaning Mystery Inc is meeting people who sound just like them. Talk about meta.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'', a blind woman mistakes Duckman for Creator/JasonAlexander.

* A variation occurs in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' when Sergeant Hatred holds a party for his supervillain friends and they play the parlor game "Who am I?". Doctor Girlfriend is confused as to who she's been assigned because it seems to match ''herself'' almost perfectly, and when the game is over she looks at who she was supposed to guess and incredulously asks, "Who the hell is Jacqueline Onassis?!" (In the early seasons, her costume was based on Jackie Kennedy, and Doctor Girlfriend is intelligent enough to know that kind of thing.)

** The impersonators of the gang were caricatures of their voice artists--Frank Welker, Mindy Cohn, Grey Delisle, and Casey Kasem.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "A Head in the Polls," Leela, Fry, and Bender visit the Head Museum, where the [[BrainInAJar preserved, living heads]] of various famous people are kept. The head of Katey Sagal (Leela's voice actor) is briefly shown in the TV stars section.

* In one episode of ''Series/ThisIsAmericaCharlieBrown'', the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' gang visit the Smithsonian Institution. Among other things, Charlie Brown and Lucy discover the lunar and command modules from Apollo 10 (nicknamed "Snoopy" and "Charlie Brown," respectively), and a ''Peanuts'' Sunday strip.

* In one episode of ''This Is America, Charlie Brown'', the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' gang visit the Smithsonian Institution. Among other things, Charlie Brown and Lucy discover the lunar and command modules from Apollo 10 (nicknamed "Snoopy" and "Charlie Brown," respectively), and a ''Peanuts'' Sunday strip.

** Season 31's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS31E14BartTheBadGuy Bart the Bad Guy]]" introduces the Marble Cinematic Universe, and no prizes for guessing [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse what it's a parody of]]. Trouble is, Creator/MarvelComics has already been established to exist in the ''Simpsons'' universe, as shown in the episodes guest-starring the late Creator/StanLee, plus the real Thanos appeared during a CouchGag in last season's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS30E12TheGirlOnTheBus The Girl on the Bus]]".

* The ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' episode "Present Tense" shows Sprig from ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' as a stuffed toy inside a crane machine. Said episode came out the year after the Amphibia episode "A Night At The Inn", where Cricket Green is shown as a wooden statue.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', Jay is to be a fan of Creator/JonLovitz (who happens to provide the voice of Jay), and he even appears after a shooting of a ''Saturday Night Live'' parody.

* In the final arc of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'', Spidey visits several alternate universes each with their own Spider-Man. In one of those, Spider-Man doesn't exist -- but the comics and films do, and its "Spider-Man" is an unnamed actor who plays him. Spidey then meets Creator/StanLee and talks to him until Madame Webb arrives to take Spidey back. When he sees Webb, Lee remarks "Who is that exotic woman?". Madame Webb was voiced by Joan Lee, Stan Lee's wife.

** Creator/MattGroening definitely exists in the ''Simpsons'' universe, as he appears at a sci-fi convention in the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E17MyBigFatGeekWedding "My Big Fat Geek Wedding"]], voiced by himself. He is excitedly proclaimed by Lenny as "the creator of ''Futurama''". Still paradoxical since ''The Simpsons'' is a fictional show in ''Futurama's'' universe, and that ''Futurama's'' characters would later appear on the show.

** Another episode has Homer getting barred from Moe's Tavern and having to find a new bar. At one point he wanders into ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', the same bar containing the same characters from the show. One of the characters shown (though not in a speaking role) is Frasier Crane, played on ''Cheers'' by Kelsey Grammer, who also plays Sideshow Bob on ''The Simpsons'' (this would also seem to indicate that [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Springfield is somewhere near Boston]] ([[JustForFun/SeparateSimpsonsGeographyThing though probably not]])).

** Matt Groening definitely exists in the ''Simpsons'' universe, as he appears at a sci-fi convention in the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E17MyBigFatGeekWedding "My Big Fat Geek Wedding"]], voiced by himself. He is excitedly proclaimed by Lenny as "the creator of ''Futurama''". Still paradoxical since ''The Simpsons'' is a fictional show in ''Futurama's'' universe, and that ''Futurama's'' characters would later appear on the show.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E15CoDependentsDay Co-Dependent's Day]]" introduces the ''Cosmic Wars'' franchise, an obvious spoof of ''Franchise/StarWars'', complete with a blatant Jar-Jar Binks potshot in the form of Jim-Jam Bonks. Trouble is, those movies have already been referenced by name in-series several times before, most prominently in the episode [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E09MayoredToTheMob "Mayored To The Mob"]], where Creator/MarkHamill even guest stars as himself.

** Matt Groening is known in The Simpsons as the creator of ''Futurama''. Truly paradoxical since ''The Simpsons'' is a fictional show in ''Futurama's'' universe, and that ''Futurama's'' characters would later appear on the show.

** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E15CoDependentsDay Co-Dependent's Day]]" introduces the Cosmic Wars franchise, an obvious parody of ''Franchise/StarWars'', complete with a blatant Jar-Jar Binks potshot in the form of Jim-Jam Bonks. Trouble is, those movies have already been referenced by name in-series several times before.

** Matt Groening is known in The Simpsons as the creator of ''Futurama''. Truly paradoxical since ''The Simpsons'' is a fictional show in ''Futurama'''s universe, and that ''Futurama'''s characters would later appear on the show.

* An ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' spoof of ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' cast the Tasmanian Devil as Beast. In a gag similar to the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scene in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'', the Warners recognize him and ask him to do "that thing he does," besides Beast vehemently insisting that "me not Taz."

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' is fond of featuring CaptainErsatz or parody characters, while also implying the originals exist in-universe, while also implying the originals are just pop culture characters. For instance, Hank asks Captain Sunshine, a BatmanParody, whether he knows Batman - depending on how one interprets this, either Batman is fictional and Hank is dumb, or Batman is real but there are still Batman comics, and either way, Captain Sunshine hasn't noticed the similarities.

*** In ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'', Jay happens to be a fan of Creator/JonLovitz (who happens to provide the voice of Jay).

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Stripperella}}'', the titular heroine gets to meet Creator/PamelaAnderson, who happens to look exactly like Stripperella, the character that she voices.