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* ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'': In an example of a JustifiedTrope, one of Conan's skits at one point featured a guy watching a "webcam manatee". Riffing a bit at the end, he joked that the man was at http://hornymanatee.com, unaware that he had just forced NBC to buy that domain name (to avoid some random person buying the site and putting on offensive material). Making the most of things, Conan's staff decided to actually put content on the webpage, and made it into an example of ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Since Conan got ScrewedByTheNetwork, the URL now redirects to NBC.com.
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* ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'': In an example of a JustifiedTrope, one of Conan's skits at one point featured a guy watching a "webcam manatee". Riffing a bit at the end, he joked that the man was at http://hornymanatee.com, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20071020101008/http://hornymanatee.com/ HornyManatee.com]], unaware that he had just forced NBC to buy that domain name (to avoid some random person buying the site and putting on offensive material). Making the most of things, Conan's staff decided to actually put content on the webpage, and made it into an example of ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Since Conan got ScrewedByTheNetwork, the URL now redirects to NBC.com.
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* ''Series/SquidGame'', which revolves around numerous people participating in a DeadlyGame to achieve a life-changing amount of cash, has been replicated a few times in real life, such as by WebVideo/MrBeast and Creator/{{Netflix}} themselves as ''Squid Game: The Challenge'' -- albeit for legal and practical reasons, none of the real life losers were actually killed.
* The [[ItWasHisSled famous]] TwistEnding to an episode of Series/TheTwilightZone1959, [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E24ToServeMan "To Serve Man"]], as well as the short story that thr episode was based on, is that the book accidentally left behind by one of the seemingly benevolent aliens with the title "To Serve Man" [[ImAHumanitarian is a cookbook]]. Amazon.com has a listing for ''[[https://www.amazon.com/Serve-Man-Cookbook-People/dp/1880448823?ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=31fb83ab-4630-4071-b816-cda89a1440e6#featureBulletsAndDetailBullets_feature_div To Serve Man: A Cookbook for People]]'' by Karl Wülf.
* The [[ItWasHisSled famous]] TwistEnding to an episode of Series/TheTwilightZone1959, [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E24ToServeMan "To Serve Man"]], as well as the short story that thr episode was based on, is that the book accidentally left behind by one of the seemingly benevolent aliens with the title "To Serve Man" [[ImAHumanitarian is a cookbook]]. Amazon.com has a listing for ''[[https://www.amazon.com/Serve-Man-Cookbook-People/dp/1880448823?ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=31fb83ab-4630-4071-b816-cda89a1440e6#featureBulletsAndDetailBullets_feature_div To Serve Man: A Cookbook for People]]'' by Karl Wülf.
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* ''Series/SquidGame'', which revolves around numerous people participating in a DeadlyGame to achieve a life-changing amount of cash, has been replicated a few times in real life, such as by WebVideo/MrBeast and by Creator/{{Netflix}} themselves as ''Squid Game: The Challenge'' -- albeit for legal and practical reasons, none of the real life losers were actually killed.
* The [[ItWasHisSled famous]] TwistEnding to an episode of Series/TheTwilightZone1959, [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E24ToServeMan "To Serve Man"]], as well as the short story thatthr the episode was based on, is that the book accidentally left behind by one of the seemingly benevolent aliens with the title "To Serve Man" [[ImAHumanitarian is a cookbook]]. Amazon.com has a listing for ''[[https://www.amazon.com/Serve-Man-Cookbook-People/dp/1880448823?ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=31fb83ab-4630-4071-b816-cda89a1440e6#featureBulletsAndDetailBullets_feature_div To Serve Man: A Cookbook for People]]'' by Karl Wülf.
* The [[ItWasHisSled famous]] TwistEnding to an episode of Series/TheTwilightZone1959, [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E24ToServeMan "To Serve Man"]], as well as the short story that
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** Inverted with several show locations: during the show, several businesses are or become criminal fronts, such as A-1 Car Wash, Laser Base, and Los Pollos Hermanos. During El Camino, after the empires fall apart, we see that the businesses are resold, returning to their real-life locations: Octopus Car Wash, Hinkle Family Fun Center, and Twisters, respectively. (Twisters still has the Los Pollos Hermanos mural inside.)
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** ''Series/TheColbertReport'' itself began as a series of [[RealTrailerFakeMovie fake trailers]] on ''Series/TheDailyShow''; they originally had no intention of actually making a spinoff. The trailers rip off ''Series/TheOReillyFactor'' even more than the actual show does. [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-15-2005/colbert---the-colbert-report---preview Jon was quite baffled.]]
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** ''Series/TheColbertReport'' itself began as a series of [[RealTrailerFakeMovie fake trailers]] on ''Series/TheDailyShow''; they originally had no intention of actually making a spinoff. The trailers rip off ''Series/TheOReillyFactor'' ''The O'Reilly Factor'' even more than the actual show does. [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-15-2005/colbert---the-colbert-report---preview Jon was quite baffled.]]
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* The [[ItWasHisSled famous]] TwistEnding to an episode of Series/TheTwilightZone1959, [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E24ToServeMan "To Serve Man"]], as well as the short story that thr episode was based on, is that the book accidentally left behind by one of the seemingly benevolent aliens with the title "To Serve Man" [[ImAHumanitarian is a cookbook]]. Amazon.com has a listing for ''[[https://www.amazon.com/Serve-Man-Cookbook-People/dp/1880448823?ref=d6k_applink_bb_dls&dplnkId=31fb83ab-4630-4071-b816-cda89a1440e6#featureBulletsAndDetailBullets_feature_div To Serve Man: A Cookbook for People]]'' by Karl Wülf.
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* ''Series/SquidGame'', which revolves around numerous people participating in a DeadlyGame to achieve a life-changing amount of cash, has been replicated a few times in real life, such as by WebVideo/MrBeast and Creator/{{Netflix}} themselves as ''Squid Game: The Challenge'' -- albeit for legal and practical reasons, none of the real life losers were actually killed.
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* Richard Castle's novels in the "Nikki Heat" series have been released (and made the ''New York Times'' bestseller list), along with a graphic novel "adaptation" of ''Deadly Storm''. He also has a [[http://www.richardcastle.net/ website]], [[http://twitter.com/#!/WriteRCastle Twitter feed]] and [[http://www.facebook.com/WriteRCastle Facebook account]]. The catch, of course, is that Richard Castle is the entirely fictional mystery-writer-turned-police-consultant on ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}''. The production team are clearly having fun with it, having put on the website an entire bibliography for a fictional author consisting of over twenty books, of which only three or four are actually 'real'. The "Nikki Heat" books get special mention; they're written entirely in character, including dedications, acknowledgements, interviews with the author, 'About the Author' sections, and back-cover blurbs, with pictures of actor Creator/NathanFillion used to represent the fictional author he plays.
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* Richard Castle's novels in the "Nikki Heat" "Literature/NikkiHeat" series have been released (and made the ''New York Times'' bestseller list), along with a graphic novel "adaptation" of ''Deadly Storm''. He also has a [[http://www.richardcastle.net/ website]], [[http://twitter.com/#!/WriteRCastle Twitter feed]] and [[http://www.facebook.com/WriteRCastle Facebook account]]. The catch, of course, is that Richard Castle is the entirely fictional mystery-writer-turned-police-consultant on ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}''. The production team are clearly having fun with it, having put on the website an entire bibliography for a fictional author consisting of over twenty books, of which only three or four are actually 'real'. The "Nikki Heat" books get special mention; they're written entirely in character, including dedications, acknowledgements, interviews with the author, 'About the Author' sections, and back-cover blurbs, with pictures of actor Creator/NathanFillion used to represent the fictional author he plays.
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* Richard Castle's novels in the "Nikki Heat" series have been released (and made the ''New York Times'' bestseller list), along with a graphic novel "adaptation" of ''Deadly Storm''. He also has a [[http://www.richardcastle.net/ website]], [[http://twitter.com/#!/WriteRCastle Twitter feed]] and [[http://www.facebook.com/WriteRCastle Facebook account]]. The catch, of course, is that Richard Castle is the entirely fictional mystery-writer-turned-police-consultant on ''Series/{{Castle}}''. The production team are clearly having fun with it, having put on the website an entire bibliography for a fictional author consisting of over twenty books, of which only three or four are actually 'real'. The "Nikki Heat" books get special mention; they're written entirely in character, including dedications, acknowledgements, interviews with the author, 'About the Author' sections, and back-cover blurbs, with pictures of actor Creator/NathanFillion used to represent the fictional author he plays.
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* Richard Castle's novels in the "Nikki Heat" series have been released (and made the ''New York Times'' bestseller list), along with a graphic novel "adaptation" of ''Deadly Storm''. He also has a [[http://www.richardcastle.net/ website]], [[http://twitter.com/#!/WriteRCastle Twitter feed]] and [[http://www.facebook.com/WriteRCastle Facebook account]]. The catch, of course, is that Richard Castle is the entirely fictional mystery-writer-turned-police-consultant on ''Series/{{Castle}}''.''Series/{{Castle|2009}}''. The production team are clearly having fun with it, having put on the website an entire bibliography for a fictional author consisting of over twenty books, of which only three or four are actually 'real'. The "Nikki Heat" books get special mention; they're written entirely in character, including dedications, acknowledgements, interviews with the author, 'About the Author' sections, and back-cover blurbs, with pictures of actor Creator/NathanFillion used to represent the fictional author he plays.
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** http://www.guyforceshiswifetodressinagarbagebagforthenextthreeyears.com, which is basically ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Along with being one of the longest of [[LongTitle Long URLs]].
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** http://www.guyforceshiswifetodressinagarbagebagforthenextthreeyears.com, which is basically ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Along with being one of the longest of [[LongTitle Long URLs]].[=URLs=].
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** The special edition of the "Hiyoko Ondo" DVD came with a real-life version of Super Wan's cape.
** The NHK character store sells gloves that resemble Wan Wan's Pakupaku-san and Pakuko hand puppets. Another version came with the special edition "Pachipachi Parade!" DVD.
** A real life Moufu blanket was made as an arcade prize.
** The special edition of the "Hiyoko Ondo" DVD came with a real-life version of Super Wan's cape.
** The NHK character store sells gloves that resemble Wan Wan's Pakupaku-san and Pakuko hand puppets. Another version came with the special edition "Pachipachi Parade!" DVD.
** A real life Moufu blanket was made as an arcade prize.
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** Creator/EddieIzzard has used a variant on this line in several of his shows; "Those doors from ''Franchise/StarTrek''? (He may, or may not, make the door-opening noise at this point) We've got them now!"
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** Creator/EddieIzzard has used a variant on this line in several of his her shows; "Those doors from ''Franchise/StarTrek''? (He may, (She may or may not, not make the door-opening noise at this point) We've got them now!"
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* In the ''Series/SchittsCreek'' episode "The Hospies", Alexis auditions for a local musical production by singing and dancing to "A Little Bit Alexis", her DoItYourselfThemeTune for a short-lived reality show within a show of the same title. The day after the episode first aired, Annie Murphy, who played Alexis, had a full studio version of the song released as a digital single, with some of the proceeds going to charity.
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* ''Series/{{UFO}}''. Funds were raised for "The Explorer Motor Company'' to produce a real-life version of the [[CoolCar futuristic, gull-winged car]] driven by Commander Straker in this British sci-fi series. A plastic mold of the vehicle was made (to be called "Quest"), but the company never got off the ground.
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* ''Series/{{UFO}}''. ''Series/UFO1970'': Funds were raised for "The Explorer Motor Company'' to produce a real-life version of the [[CoolCar futuristic, gull-winged car]] driven by Commander Straker in this British sci-fi series.Straker. A plastic mold of the vehicle was made (to be called "Quest"), but the company never got off the ground.
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* ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' was centered on Los Angeles County Fire Department Station 51. The number was chosen ''because'' the [=LACoFD=] didn't have one. (The one appearing on-screen was actually Station 127 in Carson.) In 1994, the County fire station at Universal City -- site of Universal Studios Hollywood -- was changed from 60 to 51 in honor of the show.
* The sitcom ''Series/{{Bob}}'' was a show about Bob [=McKay=], a man who created a Silver Age comic book character called "Mad Dog," which was revived and "reinvisioned" for the '90s. During the run of the show, Creator/MarvelComics published [[http://www.andymangels.com/maddog.html a double covered comic book called "Mad Dog"]] that was one half the 50s version, and the other half the 90s, with things like an "Ask Bob [=McKay=]" feature in the middle.
* ''Series/ICarly'', of course, has the website from the show itself; a recent addition to its list of merchandise is Sam's LaughTrack remote. In addition, [[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/dining/06tacos.html?ref=todayspaper some people]] have begun making their very own spaghetti tacos after seeing them on the show.
* In one episode of ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'', Lizzie was inspired to spend more time with her mother after reading a novel titled ''The Orchids and Gumbo Poker Club'' for a school assignment. Disney later published an actual novel with that title, with notes from Lizzie included in the margins.
* ''Series/HannahMontana'' had a real concert tour in the late 2000s. It was a sold out tour that actually lead to a couple lawsuits against ticket scalpers! The concert tied into the Hannah Montana show because some of the footage from the tour was used in the second season. The concert featured Hannah for the first half, and Miley Stewart (who had no problem revealing her secret in front of tens of thousands of people, but the audience knows that since they've seen the show) for the second half. The concert was released as a movie after the tour in 2008, and a real movie based on the show was made in 2009.
* ''Series/SonnyWithAChance'':
** ''Mackenzie Falls'', one of the [[ShowWithinAShow Shows Within A Show]] featured on ''Sonny'', later became real (though as a short series that aired between commercials).
** ''Series/SoRandom'' as a real life show happened as well. In fact, one commercial actually referred to it as The ShowWithinAShow that's now its own show.[[note]]In fairness, this was mostly because [[Music/DemiLovato Sonny's actor]] had to leave their own show to get treated for various psychological problems, thus ending the series proper... ''but with one thing that never got resolved (If Sonny and Chad ever reconciled and got back together)''.[[/note]]
** ''Sonny'' also had a HalloweenSpecial and a ChristmasSpecial, both of which were actual ''So Random'' episodes. (The only bit of the ''Sonny'' show was in the afformentioned Halloween episode when they try to find the guest host to show up on the said episode.)
* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
** ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' has the radio show ''Healing Princess'', which has actually been released on Creator/TVAsahi's website and has even been {{fansub}}bed. They are also marketing real-world copies of the heroes' clothing, complete with the Windscale designer's imprint. Naturally, the belts for all the riders can be bought. Some series even have a 1:1 scale replica made for adult fans under Bandai's "Complete Selection Modification" series of belts.
** ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' follows in its predecessor's footsteps with the [[http://p-bandai.jp/category/0002/c0034/item-1000006968/ flowery boxers]] that the titular Rider wears in-show.
** In ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'', the lead hero uses a video game called ''Mighty Action X'', a ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}''-esque platformer, as his TransformationTrinket. To promote the show, ''Mighty Action X'' was released on the Japanese Nintendo 3DS [=eShop=] as a downloadable title for players who purchased the 1st print of ''[[VideoGame/AllKamenRiderGenerations All Kamen Rider: Rider Revolution]]''. There's also a version of the Buggle Driver Zwei with [[spoiler:a trapped Bugster!Dan Kuroto]] in its display released [[NoExportForYou as a Premium Bandai exclusive]].
* Despite not having the in-show [=YouTube=] {{Expy}} Vuuugle defictionalized, you can watch the actual web videos from the ''Series/{{Bizaardvark}}'' Vuuugle channel (with some not seen on TV) as well as some from the other Vuuugle channels "Perfect Perfection with Amelia" and "DARE ME BRO!" on [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiv1IUQDVSNKwIRPNCnfXixEuZijEG6ok Disney Channel's official YouTube channel.]]
* ''Yay Me! starring London Tipton'', a web series that London did that was brought up a few times (and sometimes even shown!) in the third season of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', became a series of webisode tie-ins on the Disney Channel website in the past.
* You can buy an ebook version of Kathryn Kennish's book from ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth'' about the switch.
* In 2004, the American Creator/{{ABC}} and Wal-Mart teamed up to produce ''Enchantment'', a perfume that previously had existed only as a product of Erica Kane's cosmetic company on ''Series/AllMyChildren''.
** Kendall Hart's book, Charm!, was also released as a real book.
*** And in-universe, Kendall's book described a perfume made by her AuthorAvatar. A fan requested it at a book signing, and Kendall and her team set about to making it.
* Just about anything that can be defictionalized from ''Franchise/StarTrek'' has been, to the point that it arguably helped mold the world you live in today, though the line between simple replica prop and actual functional item can be blurred a bit more so for some iconic devices than others.
** In ''How Creator/WilliamShatner Changed the World'', Motorola chief engineer and inventor of the cell phone [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Cooper_%28inventor%29 Martin Cooper]] states that he invented the cell phone because he wanted a real life Franchise/StarTrek communicator.
*** Plus there's a [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/usb-gadgets/bd48/ licensed communicator replica]] that actually works as a VOIP phone.
*** Also, hackers have created and circulated [[https://makezine.com/2009/11/02/star-trek-bluetooth-communicator/ plans to turn a toy communicator into a working bluetooth phone]].
** Another example is the Klingon Bat'leth; a number of functional (read: ''deadly'') replica swords have been fashioned by amateurs and production companies. A replica Bat'leth was even famously turned in during the UK's many ''Knife'' amnesties.
** The Klingon language; it is an actual, legitimate constructed language, to the point where Oregon actually solicited Klingon interpreters for psychiatric hospital patients ([[CrazyPrepared for use in the unlikely event of a patient who insisted on speaking only in that language.]]). Also, a single quip about "enjoying ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' in its 'original' Klingon" in the sixth ''Film/{{Star Trek|VI The Undiscovered Country}}'' movie resulted in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', along with many of Shakespeare's other works, being translated into Klingon. Also, [[http://klv.mrklingon.org/ the Bible]] has been translated into Klingon, and in some places you can get married by a minister in full Klingon regalia with the vows delivered in Klingon.
** And for more Klingon fun, they've defictionalized the paq'batlh, or "Book of Honor", the epic tale of Kahless the Unforgettable.
** 3D-chess boards, played by characters in some of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series, are another item. An actual set of rules was created to make the game playable.
** You can buy six-packs of Romulan Ale. At first glance, it appears to come in blue bottles. After you pour it out, you discover that the bottles are transparent: the ''ale itself'' is blue.
** Also, while there may not be a ''Starship'' Enterprise yet, NASA did build a Space Shuttle which was named ''Enterprise'' due to a petition campaign spearheaded by ''Trek'' fans, though it never actually flew in space (it was only used for in-atmosphere tests, so they didn't bother including engines or a reentry-capable heat shield). [[CelebrityParadox Weirdly]], ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' implies that the starship was named at least in part after the shuttle. This is all due to real-life circular appreciation. Originally, the titular starship was to be named ''Constitution'', after the famous and undefeated US sailing ship, but they changed the ship name to ''Enterprise'' (also a series of honored naval vessels) and left "Constitution" as the ship's class name. The prototype Shuttle Orbiter was also to be named ''Constitution'' before the show's fans petitioned for a strangely similar renaming.
** Virgin Galactic's first commercial spacecraft was named ''VSS Enterprise''. Trek fans everywhere cried--first in joy, then in sadness-- when the prototype suborbital spaceplane was destroyed on October 31, 2014 due to pilot error. The sister ship was to be called ''VSS [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' but was renamed to ''Unity'' in 2016. Perhaps vessels with a MeaningfulName might have to live up to its real or fictional reputation to be entitled to wield it.
** This is actually an example of fictionalization and back again - the first ''Enterprise'' was the French ship ''L'Enterprise'', captured by the British and commissioned into the RN as HMS ''Enterprise'' way back in 1705. In the 1990s, the British named an ''Echo''-class survey ship ''Enterprise'', apparently inspired in part by the one in ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
** In the mid 1990s you could go out and buy yourself a functional [[http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0996September/Sparky/tricorder.html tricorder]]. There was a clause in Creator/GeneRoddenberry's contract that anyone who could make a working Tricorder was allowed to call it that; a now defunct Canadian company produced the "TR-107 Tricorder Mark I." It was about the size of a huge novelty universal remote, was done up to look like a TNG tricorder and loaded with the appropriate sound effects, and could detect EM fields, barometric pressure, temperature, light values and color values.
*** An Android smartphone developer known as [[http://code.google.com/p/moonblink/wiki/Tricorder moonblink]] made a Tricorder app which used the phone's built-in GPS, microphone, wifi, and other functionality to actually scan for and detect magnetic fields, sound levels, and so on. All was well and fans had defictionalized tricorders, until [[http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/cbs-demands-removal-of-moonblinks-android-tricorder-app-2011097/ CBS made them take the app down]].
*** Real tricorders are being [[http://dvice.com/archives/2012/03/this-is-a-real.php developed again.]]
** Creator/EddieIzzard has used a variant on this line in several of his shows; "Those doors from ''Franchise/StarTrek''? (He may, or may not, make the door-opening noise at this point) We've got them now!"
*** It's amazing how many people think the doors in the original 1960s show were real. In fact, they were worked by stage hands.
** "Far Beyond the Stars," a fictional 1950s scifi novel from the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode of the same name, was actually written and released after the fact as part of Paramount's TieInNovel line.
** Laser enthusiast Trekkies have put [[http://hackaday.com/2010/01/15/phaser-to-laser-mod-puts-out-465mw/ burning laser diodes into toy phasers]].
** [=QuickTime=] video [[WordOfGod began]] with some Apple developers admiring the windowed full-motion video seen on displays in Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration, and deciding to recreate it in real life.
** The official ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Technical Manual'' contained the assertion that thanks to the fluidity of the LCARS interface, a crewmember could theoretically fly the entire ship from a PADD (the little touchscreen gadgets everyone carried around) while walking down a corridor. [[http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/10/6829360-iphones-head-for-final-frontier There are now iPhones being customized for use on the International Space Station which include navigation software]]; theoretically astronauts could navigate the station through space with their iPhones.
*** And if they trade in the iPhones for iPads, Playbooks, Galaxy Tab, or some other tablet, they've now got a perfect real-life example of a PADD, right down to the size.
*** [[http://jefson.deviantart.com/?rnrd=220449 A German Trekker]] has made a Rainmeter skin that will turn your device into a semi-functional PADD in that, in addition to looking like a piece of Starfleet technology, it is a functional interface for using the device.
** 3D printer company [[http://makerbot.com MakerBot]] markets a line of printers called "Replicators."
** Scotty gave away the secret to creating "transparent aluminum" in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome.'' While we've long been able to create clear aluminum compounds that can act like, and are indeed much stronger and often lighter than glass, no material has yet lived up to Scotty's transparent aluminum. Guess [[http://phys.org/news167925273.html what Oxford University is working on]]!
** Star Trek: The Experience, in Las Vegas, featured a Quark's Bar prior to its closure.
** The theoretical [=FTL=] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive Alcubierre warp drive]] was inspired at least in name by the warp drives used by the Trek ships.
* In a double-layer case: Al Yeganeh, the stern soup-making chef that inspired ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'''s Soup Nazi, has packaged versions of his soup in stores under the "Original Soup Man" brand. So it's real soup, made fictional, and then defictionalized again. The tagline on the box is "Soup For You" -- an obvious callback to his fictional counterpart's belligerent "No soup for you!" CatchPhrase.
** Muffin tops are finally available for sale, in the frozen breakfast aisle. In fact, muffin top pans can be bought at many stores, and many bakeries also sell muffin tops as well.
** Aluminum poles to celebrate Festivus are available for sale as well (although selling them does seem to go against the spirit of the holiday).
* ''Sterling's Gold'', Roger Sterling's memoir from ''Series/MadMen'', was released as an actual book (although instead of a memoir, it contained quotes from the character).
* You can go into a real bookstore and purchase mystery novels "written" by J.B. Fletcher, Creator/AngelaLansbury's character from ''Series/MurderSheWrote''.
* Richard Castle's novels in the "Nikki Heat" series have been released (and made the ''New York Times'' bestseller list), along with a graphic novel "adaptation" of ''Deadly Storm''. He also has a [[http://www.richardcastle.net/ website]], [[http://twitter.com/#!/WriteRCastle Twitter feed]] and [[http://www.facebook.com/WriteRCastle Facebook account]]. The catch, of course, is that Richard Castle is the entirely fictional mystery-writer-turned-police-consultant on ''Series/{{Castle}}''. The production team are clearly having fun with it, having put on the website an entire bibliography for a fictional author consisting of over twenty books, of which only three or four are actually 'real'. The "Nikki Heat" books get special mention; they're written entirely in character, including dedications, acknowledgements, interviews with the author, 'About the Author' sections, and back-cover blurbs, with pictures of actor Creator/NathanFillion used to represent the fictional author he plays.
** They've also released three new Derrick Storm books which are set after ''Storm Fall'' (the book where Castle killed off Derrick). One of them is actually a crossover with Nikki Heat (called ''Heat Storm'' to fit with the the EpunymousTitle naming conventions used for both series).
** [[http://www.ew.com/article/2014/08/20/abc-castle-derrick-storm Plans are in place]] to adapt the Derrick Storm novel series as a TV series of its own, which takes the defictionalization to a whole new meta (defictionalizing a book that later gets adapted as its own fictional work on TV).
* You, too can own Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer[='=]s [[http://www.allmoviereplicas.com/Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer-Slayers-Scythe-Replica-Factory-X.html scythe]]! It slices, it dices, it even makes Julienned Vampire (right before they dust). You can also buy a [[http://www.amazon.com/Buffy-Vampire-Slayer-Angel-21-Inch/dp/B000FS9GRK Puppet]] Series/{{Angel}} (or Spike). There's also a published ''Slayer's Handbook'', and Fred's stuffed toy rabbit. On a different side of things, Lorne headlines a Las Vegas show in one episode. This was done by having Lorne headline a show in Las Vegas, and filming it.
* Creator/StephenColbert:
** ''Tek Jansen'' has been made into a real comic by Creator/OniPress, an independent comic company. One can argue that the original prose novel which served as the first appearances of Tek Jensen (with an [[ArtEvolution outdated character design]] of Colbert photoshopped in a spacesuit) has not been released, so there is no true defictionalization yet.
** ''Series/TheColbertReport'' itself began as a series of [[RealTrailerFakeMovie fake trailers]] on ''Series/TheDailyShow''; they originally had no intention of actually making a spinoff. The trailers rip off ''Series/TheOReillyFactor'' even more than the actual show does. [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-15-2005/colbert---the-colbert-report---preview Jon was quite baffled.]]
-->''It was a vehicle where Stephen Colbert would basically, in a megalomaniacal way, bring his opinions to the fore of the issue of the day. It was very funny... quite a joke... Anyway, Comedy Central ended up buying the show.''
* ''Series/BreakingBad'':
** Creator/VinceGilligan was asked, "Is there really such a thing as Blue crystal meth?" He responded, "There is now."
** [[http://www.savewalterwhite.com/ SaveWalterWhite.com]] is an actual website. The donation button at the bottom of the page once linked to the National Cancer Coalition's website where visitors could donate to them, but the link was replaced with one to the official ''Breaking Bad'' website after the NCC was named one of the worst charities in America.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
** The shows resident wacky guy/lech Barney proudly proclaimed that there was a written Bro Code, that all Bros must follow. An actual written version was released into book stores. Also available are "Bro on the Go" and "The Playbook".
** Pretty much every website that the show mentions [[LoggingOntoTheFourthWall has been set up before airing]] by the showrunners.
** Robin's music videos from her "Robin Sparkles" Canadian teen idol days were only seen in excerpts in the show, but are available in full online (and are awesomely bad) at Robin Sparkle's Website/MySpace [[http://www.myspace.com/robinsparkles page]].
** "[[http://www.tedmosbyisajerk.com Ted Mosby is a Jerk!]]", which includes a 22-minute song about how horrible Ted (actually, Barney using his name) was to the woman who made the webpage.
** [[http://www.barneysvideoresume.com/ Barney Stinson's Video Resume]] (sponsored by Barney's fictional employer Goliath National Bank), which is available in both "awesome" and "not-as-awesome" resolutions. They're not wrong. It's awesome!
** http://www.guyforceshiswifetodressinagarbagebagforthenextthreeyears.com, which is basically ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Along with being one of the longest of [[LongTitle Long URLs]].
** [[http://www.lilyandmarshallselltheirstuff.com Lily And Marshall Sell Their Stuff]] was a real-life charity auction of ''How I Met Your Mother'' swag. Sadly now defunct.
** [[http://www.canadiansexacts.org/ CanadianSexActs.Org]], which includes every single act mentioned in the show, complete with an age verification system, bilingual warnings from the Canadian government about content, and a disclaimer regarding "any possible physical or emotional trauma suffered as a result of undertaking any of the acts described". The links for each act are hilarious. [[spoiler:Every link is to a different picture of Alan Thicke (of ''Growing Pains'') captioned with a variety of "sorry, we're experiencing technical difficulties" explanations in exaggerated Canadian English]]
** There was a [[http://slapcountdown.org Slap Countdown]] too, counting down to the Slapsgiving episode, but honestly it was just a timer so it was pretty boring.
** [[http://www.itwasthebestnightever.com itwasthebestnightever.com]], which is ''hilarious''.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' has had a few examples:
** The novel ''Bad Twin'' is supposedly written by a passenger in the plane crash which occurred in the pilot episode. Remember the guy who got sucked into the airplane engine before it blew up? That's supposed to be him.
** Apollo Candy Bars were released in the real world.
** The show's fictitious band Geronimo Jackson had a single, "Dharma Lady", released on [=iTunes=].
** "You All Everybody" (the single that Drive Shaft, Charlie's band, wrote) and "Dharma Lady" have both been adopted into DLC for ''VideoGame/RockBand''.
** In a recent large multi-state lottery, over 26,000 players across the United States played Hurley's cursed winning lottery numbers, which while not winning the jackpot did match enough of the drawn digits [[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/01/thank-you-hurley-lost-numbers-pay-off-as-winning-mega-millions-numbers.html to win them each $150.]] Jorge Garcia, who played Hurley, good-naturedly congratulated the winners on their "cursed" winnings [[http://furtherdispatches.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/will-you-people-ever-learn/ on his blog]].
* An episode of ''Series/LALaw'' introduced the world to a sexual technique called "The Venus Butterfly", which Stuart uses to great effect on his wife, Ann. Or [[InformedAbility at least that's what we're told, afterward]]. Not only is the act or actions [[TakeOurWordForIt never described or shown on screen]], the writers made the whole thing up (and didn't even have a specific sex act in mind when they wrote the script). Despite this, the show's writers were flooded with requests to describe the technique. Dr. Sue Johnson finally officially put moves to the name in a 2005 book. (Google it, if you must know what it entails).
* ''Series/{{UFO}}''. Funds were raised for "The Explorer Motor Company'' to produce a real-life version of the [[CoolCar futuristic, gull-winged car]] driven by Commander Straker in this British sci-fi series. A plastic mold of the vehicle was made (to be called "Quest"), but the company never got off the ground.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' makes much use of the [[PardonMyKlingon fictional swear-word]] "frak", so the set designers gave Adama an actual IKEA [[http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/38006200 FRÄCK]] to use for shaving.
* ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'': In an example of a JustifiedTrope, one of Conan's skits at one point featured a guy watching a "webcam manatee". Riffing a bit at the end, he joked that the man was at http://hornymanatee.com, unaware that he had just forced NBC to buy that domain name (to avoid some random person buying the site and putting on offensive material). Making the most of things, Conan's staff decided to actually put content on the webpage, and made it into an example of ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Since Conan got ScrewedByTheNetwork, the URL now redirects to NBC.com.
* You can now buy ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' inspired scrubs in hospital uniform stores. They're ridiculously soft, too.
* The University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro opened in Plainsboro Township, NJ, in 2012--the ''final'' year that ''Series/{{House}}'', set at "Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital" (presumably also supposedly located in Plainsboro and affiliated with [[IvyLeagueForEveryone Princeton University]]), was on the air.
* The Australian sketch show ''Series/FullFrontal'' did a sketch in the early 1990s for an engine lubricant called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMUGjlV5HU Start You Bastard]]. Automotive supplier Nulon later picked up that ball and [[http://www.nulon.com.au/products/Aerosols/Start_Ya_Bastard_Instant_Engine_Starter ran with it]].
* Kids' TV show ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' was so popular in the UK it prompted real life versions of the characters' {{trademark favorite food}}s: Tubby Custard and Tubby Toast.
** Tubby Custard was available in the U.S. as well as part of a Burger King promotion for the show. It was pretty much just vanilla pudding with pink food coloring.
* The ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' diner "The Max" has been defictionalized in Chicago.
* Copies of the outlaw tags worn by the main characters in the BBC's version of ''Series/RobinHood'' were marketed. Since they served no practical purpose on the show, one suspects that this was the only reason why they were included at all.\\
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In the first season, they provided a plot point when Little John was captured and were rarely mentioned otherwise. In one of the earliest episodes of the second season, a bunch of kids help the gang, and are honored with tags... just like you can be, too! The tags came out between season one and two.
* Fans of ''Series/TrueBlood'' can now enjoy [[http://www.trubeverage.com/ the eponymous drink]]. Well, okay, it's not quite the blood substitute advertised in the show, but it has the same packaging. The drink is manufactured by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_Consumer_Products_(company) Omni Consumer Products]], a company that makes Defictionalization their business.
* Fans of ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'' and ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' can buy two police handbooks supposedly written by Gene Hunt, in which he explains what being a copper is ''really'' all about.
* Satirised in an episode of ''Series/TheDailyShow''. John Oliver announced that scientists were working on ComicBook/IronMan armor and using genetics to turn lizards into dragons.
** There ARE companies making powered exoskeletons in real life. The two leading models are Raytheon Sarcos' XOS, which deliberately played up the Film/IronMan connection by holding a press conference about the XOS-2 on the day ''Film/IronMan2'' was released to DVD, with a member of the movie's cast present, and Lockheed Martin's HULC. So far, they have been made with intent of aiding with heavy lifting, not direct combat, and cannot fly.
* The ''Series/{{Bones}}'' episode "The Gamer in the Grease" had the fictional retro arcade game ''Punky Pong'', which [[http://www.fox.com/bones/features/game/ actually exists]] on Fox's website.
* ''Series/TheAmandaShow'': "I have my own Amanda website you know, [[http://www.Amandaplease.com www dot amanda please dot com]]"
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Fans can buy a genuine (albeit smaller) ''Journal of Impossible Things'' (from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]]) with a whopping 78 pages of writings and illustrations (we only got to see a few of them in the show proper).
** In a reverse-defictionalization, the TARDIS key props used in the 1996 ''Series/DoctorWho'' TV Movie were licensed replicas of the classic series' TARDIS key in production at the time, which the production team bought from an American scifi memorabilia catalog.
** There was an [[http://www.petitiononline.com/Drwh2012/petition.html online petition]] to let Creator/DavidTennant light the Olympic cauldron for the 2012 Olympics as he did in the episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer "Fear Her"]]. In the end, he was not involved. However, it did partially become true, with [[TheNthDoctor Tennant's successor]], Creator/MattSmith, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120628193039/http://www.metro.co.uk/olympics/900154-matt-smith-set-to-carry-olympic-torch-in-echo-of-doctor-who-plot carrying the torch]] through Cardiff, where ''Doctor Who'' is filmed.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]], a character mentions having a T-shirt that says "The Angels have the phone box". Online retailers such as [=ThinkGeek=], Zazzle, and [=CafePress=] soon began selling versions of the T-shirt.
** The TARDIS prop itself is a convoluted example. Originally, the TARDIS design was meant to mirror the [=MacKenzie=]-Trench Police Call Box of 1923, which by the early '60s was a common sight on London streets. However, with the advent of communications technology, police boxes became less and less common, the last (save a few left standing either from historic preservation or through apathy) being dismantled by the late '80s. By that time, people who had never seen the [=MacKenzie=]-Trench Police Call Box only knew the blue box as the TARDIS, and by the 21st Century, a British court had taken the trademark rights for the box away from the Metropolitan Police and awarded them to the BBC, who were actually doing something with it. Both they, and many, MANY, determined fans, have built many [=TARDISes=], real in all ways save the understandable lack of being "bigger on the inside," and even a British newspaper heralded the decision of a British town to sell its remaining police box with a headline announcing you too could own your very own TARDIS.\\\
There have been (and probably still are) "speakeasies" in New York City that use a TARDIS replica as the entrance from a small storefront to a much larger back room where liquor is served. Semi-defictionalizing the "larger inside" aspect. For one example, [[http://doctorwho.tumblr.com/post/4447086647/getinthetardisweasley-me-in-the-tardis-at-the The Way Station bar in New York]] has designed the blue police box as the entrance to their restroom. It really is bigger on the inside, though still as cramped as a typical pub loo.
** ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Angels-Kiss-ebook/dp/B009KJ6DTO The Angel's Kiss]]'', the book the Doctor, Amy, and Rory were reading in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]], has been written as an ebook for the Kindle. Though it's not exactly the book from the episode -- it reads more like a prequel.
** Also available as an ebook is ''[[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BGC6GG8/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00BGC6GG8&linkCode=as2&tag=cosboonew-20 Summer Falls]]'', a novel published in the 1950s, written by Amelia Williams, and briefly mentioned in "The Bells of Saint John". Clara thought [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Chapter 11 was the best part of the book,]] saying, "You'll cry your eyes out. The good kind of crying."
** The website ''thinkgeek.com'' frequently features a number of defictionalized ''Series/DoctorWho'' items, including the Fourth Doctor's scarf and the Master's pocket watch from "Utopia".
** And of course, there are many Sonic Screwdrivers that fans can buy. One of them even can act as your TV remote!
* The Bull & Finch Pub, the real Boston pub that inspired ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', was renamed to Cheers and references the show prominently in its marketing. A replica bar opened in 2001 in Faneuil Hall that closed in August 2020. There was also a chain of airport bars.
** Also, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBazaWO03Fo "Screaming Viking"]] is now a [[http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink1819.html real drink.]]
* In 2003, ''Series/ChappellesShow'' had a sketch that parodied the Discovery Channel show "Trading Spaces". The sketch was called "[[http://www.metacafe.com/watch/329599/dave_chapelle_trading_spouses/ Trading Spouses]]" and it was about two families, one white, one black, who appear on a reality TV show in which they exchange husbands for a month. (Both husbands were played by Dave Chapelle.) Three years later, by what they insist is pure coincidence, Fox Network released ''an actual show'' called ''Trading Spouses'' with basically the same premise, except that the wives switch instead of husbands. (It came out a few months before the more successful [[DuelingShows ABC equivalent]] ''Series/WifeSwap'', but a whole year after the original British version.)
* [[BlandNameProduct "Mocny Full"]] beer from the Polish sitcom ''Swiat Wedlug Kiepskich'' was at one point defictionalized but it was discontinued due to copyright infringement -- the company had no rights for the mark and its logo.
* The producers of ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' defictionalized the 70s psychedelic rock album Seven Suns by Violet Sedan Chair (an anagram of [[spoiler:Olive Can Read This]]) that appears in an episode of season 3. The producers went to great effort to make the defictionalization authentic by releasing the album only in the form of beat-up [=LPs=] in the bargain bins of used record shops. More info at [[http://www.fringebloggers.com/fringe-violet-sedan-chair-seven-suns-album-unearthed/ Fringe Bloggers]].
* The medical drama-parody ''Series/ChildrensHospital'' included ads for a fake action-drama spoof in the vein of ''Series/TwentyFour'' called ''National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle::'' (or ''[[ColonCancer NTSF:SD:SUV::]]'').''NTSF:SD:SUV::'' would become its own series on Creator/AdultSwim.
* In ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'':
** Charlie's ridiculous stage play "The Nightman Cometh" proved so popular that the gang staged it in real life in 2009 and took it on a six city sold-out tour.
** People have also come up with recipes for Charlie's favorite foods, the Grilled Charlie and milk steak. And yes, there are also recipes to make Rum Ham (not to be confused with the existing recipe for wimpy rum-''glazed'' ham).
** Ladies and gentlemen,I present you with [[http://dicktowel.com/ Dicktowel.com]]. Very {{NSFW}}.
* There are a surprising number of ''Franchise/{{Degrassi}}'' related items for sale for fans. Most notably, you can [[http://www.bruzer.com/degrassi/index.php?option=com_shop&sf=2&task=viewItem&id=37 buy the t-shirt worn by employees]] at [[LocalHangout The Dot]]. Other items can be seen [[http://www.bruzer.com/degrassi/ here]] (some of which are unfortunately out of stock now).
* The quirky American ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry's has made ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'''s infamous Schweddy Balls into a flavor (it's chocolate and rum malt balls in vanilla ice cream). They did sell these in stores for a time, until MoralGuardians chased it off the shelves due to how vulgar the name was. They are still sold in Ben and Jerry's ice cream stands.
* Allegedly, during the run of the original ''Series/KnightRider'', Pontiac was deluged with requests for a Knight Rider edition Trans Am. Potential liability kept it from happening officially, but to this day there's a decent market for conversion parts of varying fidelity to the show to make KITT replicas. Some people have even worked to integrate various computer AI/bots into them, though naturally none is anywhere close to what was seen on the show.
* For the long running comedy ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', novelty items branded with the name and logo of fictional paper company ''Dunder Mifflin'' have been available for years, however in 2011 Staples announced it would begin to sell actual Dunder Mifflin branded paper products in its stores (which is rather ironic, considering that on the show, Staples was Dunder Mifflin's biggest competitor).
** Also, replicas of Michael's iconic "World's best boss" mug are sold by NBC as official merchandise.
** Dwight Schrute's bobble head figure of himself can be bought as well as bobble heads of the whole main cast.
** In the episode "The Chump", mention of a fictional video game, ''Rock Band: Billy Joel'', made one ''Entertainment Weekly'' reviewer comment that "let's hope that never gets made". In a TakeThat, Billy Joel contacted Harmonix Music Systems, the makers of ''Rock Band'', insisting they include his songs within the game, which Harmonix was very happy to oblige.
* The Canadian children's show ''Theodore Tugboat'' features anthropomorphic model tugboats and ships who work together in Halifax Harbour. A real tugboat, called [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:437_-_Halifax_NS.JPG#mediaviewer/File:437_-_Halifax_NS.JPG/ Theodore Too]], was decorated to look like Theodore and stationed in Halifax Harbour.
* The US Air Force enjoys ''Series/StargateSG1'', ([[Franchise/StargateVerse The franchise]] BackedByThePentagon to the of the Navy lending them a submarine) and the real life NORAD facility at Cheyenne Mountain has a door labeled "Stargate Command". (It leads to a broom closet. [[RealAfterAll Allegedly.]])
* In honour of one of Creator/{{Loriot}}'s birthdays, a German chain of bakeries produced a real-life version of the ''Kosakenzipfel'', an item of pastry that caused the bitter falling out of two families in one of his television sketches when there is only one of them left.
* A character in ''Series/FamilyAffair'' carried around a doll called Mrs. Beasley, which became so popular that Mattel produced Mrs. Beasley dolls for the mass market.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'' fans have banded together to create the video game [[Recap/CommunityS3E20DigitalEstatePlanning "Journey to the Center of Hawkthorne"]]. [[http://www.reddit.com/r/hawkthorne Project Hawkthorne can be found here.]]
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** The personal soundtrack shirt, the periodic table shower curtain, and Sheldon's The Flash t-shirt available on [=ThinkGeek=].
** Apparently, fans have also created [[http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/140609/mystic-warlords-of-kaa a real-life version of the "Mystic Warlords of Ka'a" tabletop game]] that was featured in a few episodes of the show.
* A Chinese fan of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' has cloned the gang's "Central Perk" cafe into [[http://foodbeast.com/content/2013/01/31/someone-opened-a-real-life-friends-central-perks-cafe-in-beijing/ a real cafe in Beijing]].
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': The book that Shawn and Gus wrote - "Psych's Guide to Crime Fighting for the Totally Unqualified" - [[http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/psychs-guide-to-crime-fighting-for-the-totally-unqualified-paperback/detail.php?p=443540 is a real book]].
* "Good Burger," home of the Goodburger, was a fictional fast food restaurant that appeared in a recurring sketch in ''Series/AllThat'' and a [[Film/GoodBurger spinoff movie]]. Today, [[http://www.goodburgerny.com/ you can eat at one in New York City]].
* The opening credits to two 1950s TV series, ''Kraft Television Theatre'' and ''The Kraft Music Hall'', showed a small, spinning, abstract figure of a studio cameraman and his camera, bearing the letter "K" for the sponsor, Kraft foods. When people began asking for copies of that figure, Kraft made it available through a special offer, involving lids and other proofs-of-purchase from products like Velveeta and Parkay Margarine. The Kraft Cameraman figure was plastic and is now highly sought after on eBay.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'':
** A ChristmasEpisode featured the characters drinking a beer called "Theakston's Christmas Ale." Theakston is a real brewery in England, but they never produced a specific Christmas beer - until fans of the show started ringing up trying to order it and they decided it would obviously make money.
** [[http://www.cbsstore.com/ncis-bert-the-farting-hippo/detail.php?p=262428&v=cbs-ncis-bertthefartinghippo&ecid=SMM-CBS-01285&pa=SMM-CBS-01285 Bert The Farting Hippo]].
* Through the 90s several companies made stuffed teddy bears exactly like the one ''Series/MrBean'' had as a friend.
* Recursive example: in ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'', an updated version of the old Comicbook/PatsyWalker comic [[https://65.media.tumblr.com/23d8cdbcac8e488bf7ac156a24b02842/tumblr_o0n3csghzg1qz4iigo1_500.jpg is featured]] as an adaptation of [[AdaptationNameChange Trish]] Walker's old sitcom. ''Comicbook/PatsyWalkerAKAHellcat'' [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/imgsrv/imglib/0/0/1/Patsy-Walker-aka-Hellcat-7-Tedesco-Variant-91277.jpg features this art as an alternate cover]] of the issue Patsy teams up with Comicbook/JessicaJones.
* ''Series/TheLostRoom'', a show about people trying to collect various ordinary-looking [[CapitalLettersAreMagic Objects]] with incredible powers, prompted a rush of fans trying to collect various replicas of the Objects (no powers though). The most popular were The Key to the titular Lost Room with the attached fob and Wally's Bus Pass to Gallup, New Mexico, as these were most prominently used in the show, although useable replicas such as The Pen, The Comb, and The Deck of Cards were also popular.
* The cabaret club 54 Below staged ''Hit List'' from the TV series ''Series/{{Smash}}'' for several shows, featuring Andy Mientus, Jeremy Jordan, and Krysta Rodriguez reprising the roles they had in the show.
* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Born_Beautiful Not Born Beatiful]]'', the [[ForeignRemake Russian remake]] of ''Series/YoSoyBettyLaFea'', had the main character working for a fashion company called Zimaletto. In 2006, Amedia (the producers of remake) sold the Zimaletto brand to SELA, an actual fashion company, who used it for their luxury clothing. There are a few Zimaletto shops, even.
* ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'': Matchbox Toys produced a full-size replica of Pee-Wee's puppet, Billy Baloney. There was also a child-sized version of his famous scooter.
* Music/TheMonkees - created for a TV series, the band recorded albums and did concert tours, and their career as a band continued past the end of the series. Singer/drummer Micky Dolenz will go on in ''every'' interview about how this was akin to "Creator/LeonardNimoy becoming a Vulcan."
* Volodymyr Zelensky played the president of Ukraine in the 2015 TV show ''Series/ServantOfThePeople''. In the 2019 presidential elections, he ran as a candidate under the Servant of the People party... ''and ended up winning and becoming Ukraine's president''.
* Part of the promotion for ''Film/BlackMirrorBandersnatch'' included a [[https://londonist.com/london/film/a-black-mirror-bandersnatch-shop-has-appeared-in-old-street real Tuckershop store]] and a downright playable ''Nohzdyve'' that even requires a ZX Spectrum emulator.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Lookinatchu, the chat roulette site in season 7's "Unfriendly Chat," was made real for a while.
* ''Series/GameShakers'': The games that the characters developed in the show were playable on Nickelodeon's website. Some of them, like ''Sky Whale'', were also made available as actual game apps for smartphones.
* ''The Legend of Greemulax'', the novel featured in the final season of ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'', wound up turned into a real book by author Sarah Mlynowski. [[Creator/EllieKemper Kimmy herself]] reads the audiobook.
* In ''Series/{{Snowpiercer}}'', Evelyne Brochu's "Copie Carbone" is used as one of Miss Audrey's records that Wilford plays on repeat. Lena Hall, the actress and singer who plays Miss Audrey, went on and recorded an actual CoverVersion of the song for her ''Snowpiercer''-inspired album, ''1001''.
* ''Series/{{Letterkenny}}'': Puppers, the staple beer of the show, was produced as a real-life beer by craft brewery Stack Brewing, then more recently by Labatt Breweries under the name Puppers Golden Lager.
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* The sitcom ''Series/{{Bob}}'' was a show about Bob [=McKay=], a man who created a Silver Age comic book character called "Mad Dog," which was revived and "reinvisioned" for the '90s. During the run of the show, Creator/MarvelComics published [[http://www.andymangels.com/maddog.html a double covered comic book called "Mad Dog"]] that was one half the 50s version, and the other half the 90s, with things like an "Ask Bob [=McKay=]" feature in the middle.
* ''Series/ICarly'', of course, has the website from the show itself; a recent addition to its list of merchandise is Sam's LaughTrack remote. In addition, [[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/dining/06tacos.html?ref=todayspaper some people]] have begun making their very own spaghetti tacos after seeing them on the show.
* In one episode of ''Series/LizzieMcGuire'', Lizzie was inspired to spend more time with her mother after reading a novel titled ''The Orchids and Gumbo Poker Club'' for a school assignment. Disney later published an actual novel with that title, with notes from Lizzie included in the margins.
* ''Series/HannahMontana'' had a real concert tour in the late 2000s. It was a sold out tour that actually lead to a couple lawsuits against ticket scalpers! The concert tied into the Hannah Montana show because some of the footage from the tour was used in the second season. The concert featured Hannah for the first half, and Miley Stewart (who had no problem revealing her secret in front of tens of thousands of people, but the audience knows that since they've seen the show) for the second half. The concert was released as a movie after the tour in 2008, and a real movie based on the show was made in 2009.
* ''Series/SonnyWithAChance'':
** ''Mackenzie Falls'', one of the [[ShowWithinAShow Shows Within A Show]] featured on ''Sonny'', later became real (though as a short series that aired between commercials).
** ''Series/SoRandom'' as a real life show happened as well. In fact, one commercial actually referred to it as The ShowWithinAShow that's now its own show.[[note]]In fairness, this was mostly because [[Music/DemiLovato Sonny's actor]] had to leave their own show to get treated for various psychological problems, thus ending the series proper... ''but with one thing that never got resolved (If Sonny and Chad ever reconciled and got back together)''.[[/note]]
** ''Sonny'' also had a HalloweenSpecial and a ChristmasSpecial, both of which were actual ''So Random'' episodes. (The only bit of the ''Sonny'' show was in the afformentioned Halloween episode when they try to find the guest host to show up on the said episode.)
* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
** ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' has the radio show ''Healing Princess'', which has actually been released on Creator/TVAsahi's website and has even been {{fansub}}bed. They are also marketing real-world copies of the heroes' clothing, complete with the Windscale designer's imprint. Naturally, the belts for all the riders can be bought. Some series even have a 1:1 scale replica made for adult fans under Bandai's "Complete Selection Modification" series of belts.
** ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' follows in its predecessor's footsteps with the [[http://p-bandai.jp/category/0002/c0034/item-1000006968/ flowery boxers]] that the titular Rider wears in-show.
** In ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'', the lead hero uses a video game called ''Mighty Action X'', a ''VideoGame/{{Kirby}}''-esque platformer, as his TransformationTrinket. To promote the show, ''Mighty Action X'' was released on the Japanese Nintendo 3DS [=eShop=] as a downloadable title for players who purchased the 1st print of ''[[VideoGame/AllKamenRiderGenerations All Kamen Rider: Rider Revolution]]''. There's also a version of the Buggle Driver Zwei with [[spoiler:a trapped Bugster!Dan Kuroto]] in its display released [[NoExportForYou as a Premium Bandai exclusive]].
* Despite not having the in-show [=YouTube=] {{Expy}} Vuuugle defictionalized, you can watch the actual web videos from the ''Series/{{Bizaardvark}}'' Vuuugle channel (with some not seen on TV) as well as some from the other Vuuugle channels "Perfect Perfection with Amelia" and "DARE ME BRO!" on [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiv1IUQDVSNKwIRPNCnfXixEuZijEG6ok Disney Channel's official YouTube channel.]]
* ''Yay Me! starring London Tipton'', a web series that London did that was brought up a few times (and sometimes even shown!) in the third season of ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody'', became a series of webisode tie-ins on the Disney Channel website in the past.
* You can buy an ebook version of Kathryn Kennish's book from ''Series/SwitchedAtBirth'' about the switch.
* In 2004, the American Creator/{{ABC}} and Wal-Mart teamed up to produce ''Enchantment'', a perfume that previously had existed only as a product of Erica Kane's cosmetic company on ''Series/AllMyChildren''.
** Kendall Hart's book, Charm!, was also released as a real book.
*** And in-universe, Kendall's book described a perfume made by her AuthorAvatar. A fan requested it at a book signing, and Kendall and her team set about to making it.
* Just about anything that can be defictionalized from ''Franchise/StarTrek'' has been, to the point that it arguably helped mold the world you live in today, though the line between simple replica prop and actual functional item can be blurred a bit more so for some iconic devices than others.
** In ''How Creator/WilliamShatner Changed the World'', Motorola chief engineer and inventor of the cell phone [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Cooper_%28inventor%29 Martin Cooper]] states that he invented the cell phone because he wanted a real life Franchise/StarTrek communicator.
*** Plus there's a [[http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/usb-gadgets/bd48/ licensed communicator replica]] that actually works as a VOIP phone.
*** Also, hackers have created and circulated [[https://makezine.com/2009/11/02/star-trek-bluetooth-communicator/ plans to turn a toy communicator into a working bluetooth phone]].
** Another example is the Klingon Bat'leth; a number of functional (read: ''deadly'') replica swords have been fashioned by amateurs and production companies. A replica Bat'leth was even famously turned in during the UK's many ''Knife'' amnesties.
** The Klingon language; it is an actual, legitimate constructed language, to the point where Oregon actually solicited Klingon interpreters for psychiatric hospital patients ([[CrazyPrepared for use in the unlikely event of a patient who insisted on speaking only in that language.]]). Also, a single quip about "enjoying ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' in its 'original' Klingon" in the sixth ''Film/{{Star Trek|VI The Undiscovered Country}}'' movie resulted in ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'', along with many of Shakespeare's other works, being translated into Klingon. Also, [[http://klv.mrklingon.org/ the Bible]] has been translated into Klingon, and in some places you can get married by a minister in full Klingon regalia with the vows delivered in Klingon.
** And for more Klingon fun, they've defictionalized the paq'batlh, or "Book of Honor", the epic tale of Kahless the Unforgettable.
** 3D-chess boards, played by characters in some of the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' series, are another item. An actual set of rules was created to make the game playable.
** You can buy six-packs of Romulan Ale. At first glance, it appears to come in blue bottles. After you pour it out, you discover that the bottles are transparent: the ''ale itself'' is blue.
** Also, while there may not be a ''Starship'' Enterprise yet, NASA did build a Space Shuttle which was named ''Enterprise'' due to a petition campaign spearheaded by ''Trek'' fans, though it never actually flew in space (it was only used for in-atmosphere tests, so they didn't bother including engines or a reentry-capable heat shield). [[CelebrityParadox Weirdly]], ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' implies that the starship was named at least in part after the shuttle. This is all due to real-life circular appreciation. Originally, the titular starship was to be named ''Constitution'', after the famous and undefeated US sailing ship, but they changed the ship name to ''Enterprise'' (also a series of honored naval vessels) and left "Constitution" as the ship's class name. The prototype Shuttle Orbiter was also to be named ''Constitution'' before the show's fans petitioned for a strangely similar renaming.
** Virgin Galactic's first commercial spacecraft was named ''VSS Enterprise''. Trek fans everywhere cried--first in joy, then in sadness-- when the prototype suborbital spaceplane was destroyed on October 31, 2014 due to pilot error. The sister ship was to be called ''VSS [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]]'' but was renamed to ''Unity'' in 2016. Perhaps vessels with a MeaningfulName might have to live up to its real or fictional reputation to be entitled to wield it.
** This is actually an example of fictionalization and back again - the first ''Enterprise'' was the French ship ''L'Enterprise'', captured by the British and commissioned into the RN as HMS ''Enterprise'' way back in 1705. In the 1990s, the British named an ''Echo''-class survey ship ''Enterprise'', apparently inspired in part by the one in ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
** In the mid 1990s you could go out and buy yourself a functional [[http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0996September/Sparky/tricorder.html tricorder]]. There was a clause in Creator/GeneRoddenberry's contract that anyone who could make a working Tricorder was allowed to call it that; a now defunct Canadian company produced the "TR-107 Tricorder Mark I." It was about the size of a huge novelty universal remote, was done up to look like a TNG tricorder and loaded with the appropriate sound effects, and could detect EM fields, barometric pressure, temperature, light values and color values.
*** An Android smartphone developer known as [[http://code.google.com/p/moonblink/wiki/Tricorder moonblink]] made a Tricorder app which used the phone's built-in GPS, microphone, wifi, and other functionality to actually scan for and detect magnetic fields, sound levels, and so on. All was well and fans had defictionalized tricorders, until [[http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/cbs-demands-removal-of-moonblinks-android-tricorder-app-2011097/ CBS made them take the app down]].
*** Real tricorders are being [[http://dvice.com/archives/2012/03/this-is-a-real.php developed again.]]
** Creator/EddieIzzard has used a variant on this line in several of his shows; "Those doors from ''Franchise/StarTrek''? (He may, or may not, make the door-opening noise at this point) We've got them now!"
*** It's amazing how many people think the doors in the original 1960s show were real. In fact, they were worked by stage hands.
** "Far Beyond the Stars," a fictional 1950s scifi novel from the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode of the same name, was actually written and released after the fact as part of Paramount's TieInNovel line.
** Laser enthusiast Trekkies have put [[http://hackaday.com/2010/01/15/phaser-to-laser-mod-puts-out-465mw/ burning laser diodes into toy phasers]].
** [=QuickTime=] video [[WordOfGod began]] with some Apple developers admiring the windowed full-motion video seen on displays in Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration, and deciding to recreate it in real life.
** The official ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Technical Manual'' contained the assertion that thanks to the fluidity of the LCARS interface, a crewmember could theoretically fly the entire ship from a PADD (the little touchscreen gadgets everyone carried around) while walking down a corridor. [[http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/10/6829360-iphones-head-for-final-frontier There are now iPhones being customized for use on the International Space Station which include navigation software]]; theoretically astronauts could navigate the station through space with their iPhones.
*** And if they trade in the iPhones for iPads, Playbooks, Galaxy Tab, or some other tablet, they've now got a perfect real-life example of a PADD, right down to the size.
*** [[http://jefson.deviantart.com/?rnrd=220449 A German Trekker]] has made a Rainmeter skin that will turn your device into a semi-functional PADD in that, in addition to looking like a piece of Starfleet technology, it is a functional interface for using the device.
** 3D printer company [[http://makerbot.com MakerBot]] markets a line of printers called "Replicators."
** Scotty gave away the secret to creating "transparent aluminum" in ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome.'' While we've long been able to create clear aluminum compounds that can act like, and are indeed much stronger and often lighter than glass, no material has yet lived up to Scotty's transparent aluminum. Guess [[http://phys.org/news167925273.html what Oxford University is working on]]!
** Star Trek: The Experience, in Las Vegas, featured a Quark's Bar prior to its closure.
** The theoretical [=FTL=] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive Alcubierre warp drive]] was inspired at least in name by the warp drives used by the Trek ships.
* In a double-layer case: Al Yeganeh, the stern soup-making chef that inspired ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'''s Soup Nazi, has packaged versions of his soup in stores under the "Original Soup Man" brand. So it's real soup, made fictional, and then defictionalized again. The tagline on the box is "Soup For You" -- an obvious callback to his fictional counterpart's belligerent "No soup for you!" CatchPhrase.
** Muffin tops are finally available for sale, in the frozen breakfast aisle. In fact, muffin top pans can be bought at many stores, and many bakeries also sell muffin tops as well.
** Aluminum poles to celebrate Festivus are available for sale as well (although selling them does seem to go against the spirit of the holiday).
* ''Sterling's Gold'', Roger Sterling's memoir from ''Series/MadMen'', was released as an actual book (although instead of a memoir, it contained quotes from the character).
* You can go into a real bookstore and purchase mystery novels "written" by J.B. Fletcher, Creator/AngelaLansbury's character from ''Series/MurderSheWrote''.
* Richard Castle's novels in the "Nikki Heat" series have been released (and made the ''New York Times'' bestseller list), along with a graphic novel "adaptation" of ''Deadly Storm''. He also has a [[http://www.richardcastle.net/ website]], [[http://twitter.com/#!/WriteRCastle Twitter feed]] and [[http://www.facebook.com/WriteRCastle Facebook account]]. The catch, of course, is that Richard Castle is the entirely fictional mystery-writer-turned-police-consultant on ''Series/{{Castle}}''. The production team are clearly having fun with it, having put on the website an entire bibliography for a fictional author consisting of over twenty books, of which only three or four are actually 'real'. The "Nikki Heat" books get special mention; they're written entirely in character, including dedications, acknowledgements, interviews with the author, 'About the Author' sections, and back-cover blurbs, with pictures of actor Creator/NathanFillion used to represent the fictional author he plays.
** They've also released three new Derrick Storm books which are set after ''Storm Fall'' (the book where Castle killed off Derrick). One of them is actually a crossover with Nikki Heat (called ''Heat Storm'' to fit with the the EpunymousTitle naming conventions used for both series).
** [[http://www.ew.com/article/2014/08/20/abc-castle-derrick-storm Plans are in place]] to adapt the Derrick Storm novel series as a TV series of its own, which takes the defictionalization to a whole new meta (defictionalizing a book that later gets adapted as its own fictional work on TV).
* You, too can own Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer[='=]s [[http://www.allmoviereplicas.com/Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer-Slayers-Scythe-Replica-Factory-X.html scythe]]! It slices, it dices, it even makes Julienned Vampire (right before they dust). You can also buy a [[http://www.amazon.com/Buffy-Vampire-Slayer-Angel-21-Inch/dp/B000FS9GRK Puppet]] Series/{{Angel}} (or Spike). There's also a published ''Slayer's Handbook'', and Fred's stuffed toy rabbit. On a different side of things, Lorne headlines a Las Vegas show in one episode. This was done by having Lorne headline a show in Las Vegas, and filming it.
* Creator/StephenColbert:
** ''Tek Jansen'' has been made into a real comic by Creator/OniPress, an independent comic company. One can argue that the original prose novel which served as the first appearances of Tek Jensen (with an [[ArtEvolution outdated character design]] of Colbert photoshopped in a spacesuit) has not been released, so there is no true defictionalization yet.
** ''Series/TheColbertReport'' itself began as a series of [[RealTrailerFakeMovie fake trailers]] on ''Series/TheDailyShow''; they originally had no intention of actually making a spinoff. The trailers rip off ''Series/TheOReillyFactor'' even more than the actual show does. [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-june-15-2005/colbert---the-colbert-report---preview Jon was quite baffled.]]
-->''It was a vehicle where Stephen Colbert would basically, in a megalomaniacal way, bring his opinions to the fore of the issue of the day. It was very funny... quite a joke... Anyway, Comedy Central ended up buying the show.''
* ''Series/BreakingBad'':
** Creator/VinceGilligan was asked, "Is there really such a thing as Blue crystal meth?" He responded, "There is now."
** [[http://www.savewalterwhite.com/ SaveWalterWhite.com]] is an actual website. The donation button at the bottom of the page once linked to the National Cancer Coalition's website where visitors could donate to them, but the link was replaced with one to the official ''Breaking Bad'' website after the NCC was named one of the worst charities in America.
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'':
** The shows resident wacky guy/lech Barney proudly proclaimed that there was a written Bro Code, that all Bros must follow. An actual written version was released into book stores. Also available are "Bro on the Go" and "The Playbook".
** Pretty much every website that the show mentions [[LoggingOntoTheFourthWall has been set up before airing]] by the showrunners.
** Robin's music videos from her "Robin Sparkles" Canadian teen idol days were only seen in excerpts in the show, but are available in full online (and are awesomely bad) at Robin Sparkle's Website/MySpace [[http://www.myspace.com/robinsparkles page]].
** "[[http://www.tedmosbyisajerk.com Ted Mosby is a Jerk!]]", which includes a 22-minute song about how horrible Ted (actually, Barney using his name) was to the woman who made the webpage.
** [[http://www.barneysvideoresume.com/ Barney Stinson's Video Resume]] (sponsored by Barney's fictional employer Goliath National Bank), which is available in both "awesome" and "not-as-awesome" resolutions. They're not wrong. It's awesome!
** http://www.guyforceshiswifetodressinagarbagebagforthenextthreeyears.com, which is basically ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Along with being one of the longest of [[LongTitle Long URLs]].
** [[http://www.lilyandmarshallselltheirstuff.com Lily And Marshall Sell Their Stuff]] was a real-life charity auction of ''How I Met Your Mother'' swag. Sadly now defunct.
** [[http://www.canadiansexacts.org/ CanadianSexActs.Org]], which includes every single act mentioned in the show, complete with an age verification system, bilingual warnings from the Canadian government about content, and a disclaimer regarding "any possible physical or emotional trauma suffered as a result of undertaking any of the acts described". The links for each act are hilarious. [[spoiler:Every link is to a different picture of Alan Thicke (of ''Growing Pains'') captioned with a variety of "sorry, we're experiencing technical difficulties" explanations in exaggerated Canadian English]]
** There was a [[http://slapcountdown.org Slap Countdown]] too, counting down to the Slapsgiving episode, but honestly it was just a timer so it was pretty boring.
** [[http://www.itwasthebestnightever.com itwasthebestnightever.com]], which is ''hilarious''.
* ''Series/{{Lost}}'' has had a few examples:
** The novel ''Bad Twin'' is supposedly written by a passenger in the plane crash which occurred in the pilot episode. Remember the guy who got sucked into the airplane engine before it blew up? That's supposed to be him.
** Apollo Candy Bars were released in the real world.
** The show's fictitious band Geronimo Jackson had a single, "Dharma Lady", released on [=iTunes=].
** "You All Everybody" (the single that Drive Shaft, Charlie's band, wrote) and "Dharma Lady" have both been adopted into DLC for ''VideoGame/RockBand''.
** In a recent large multi-state lottery, over 26,000 players across the United States played Hurley's cursed winning lottery numbers, which while not winning the jackpot did match enough of the drawn digits [[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2011/01/thank-you-hurley-lost-numbers-pay-off-as-winning-mega-millions-numbers.html to win them each $150.]] Jorge Garcia, who played Hurley, good-naturedly congratulated the winners on their "cursed" winnings [[http://furtherdispatches.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/will-you-people-ever-learn/ on his blog]].
* An episode of ''Series/LALaw'' introduced the world to a sexual technique called "The Venus Butterfly", which Stuart uses to great effect on his wife, Ann. Or [[InformedAbility at least that's what we're told, afterward]]. Not only is the act or actions [[TakeOurWordForIt never described or shown on screen]], the writers made the whole thing up (and didn't even have a specific sex act in mind when they wrote the script). Despite this, the show's writers were flooded with requests to describe the technique. Dr. Sue Johnson finally officially put moves to the name in a 2005 book. (Google it, if you must know what it entails).
* ''Series/{{UFO}}''. Funds were raised for "The Explorer Motor Company'' to produce a real-life version of the [[CoolCar futuristic, gull-winged car]] driven by Commander Straker in this British sci-fi series. A plastic mold of the vehicle was made (to be called "Quest"), but the company never got off the ground.
* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' makes much use of the [[PardonMyKlingon fictional swear-word]] "frak", so the set designers gave Adama an actual IKEA [[http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/38006200 FRÄCK]] to use for shaving.
* ''Series/LateNightWithConanOBrien'': In an example of a JustifiedTrope, one of Conan's skits at one point featured a guy watching a "webcam manatee". Riffing a bit at the end, he joked that the man was at http://hornymanatee.com, unaware that he had just forced NBC to buy that domain name (to avoid some random person buying the site and putting on offensive material). Making the most of things, Conan's staff decided to actually put content on the webpage, and made it into an example of ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Since Conan got ScrewedByTheNetwork, the URL now redirects to NBC.com.
* You can now buy ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' inspired scrubs in hospital uniform stores. They're ridiculously soft, too.
* The University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro opened in Plainsboro Township, NJ, in 2012--the ''final'' year that ''Series/{{House}}'', set at "Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital" (presumably also supposedly located in Plainsboro and affiliated with [[IvyLeagueForEveryone Princeton University]]), was on the air.
* The Australian sketch show ''Series/FullFrontal'' did a sketch in the early 1990s for an engine lubricant called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMUGjlV5HU Start You Bastard]]. Automotive supplier Nulon later picked up that ball and [[http://www.nulon.com.au/products/Aerosols/Start_Ya_Bastard_Instant_Engine_Starter ran with it]].
* Kids' TV show ''Series/{{Teletubbies}}'' was so popular in the UK it prompted real life versions of the characters' {{trademark favorite food}}s: Tubby Custard and Tubby Toast.
** Tubby Custard was available in the U.S. as well as part of a Burger King promotion for the show. It was pretty much just vanilla pudding with pink food coloring.
* The ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' diner "The Max" has been defictionalized in Chicago.
* Copies of the outlaw tags worn by the main characters in the BBC's version of ''Series/RobinHood'' were marketed. Since they served no practical purpose on the show, one suspects that this was the only reason why they were included at all.\\
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In the first season, they provided a plot point when Little John was captured and were rarely mentioned otherwise. In one of the earliest episodes of the second season, a bunch of kids help the gang, and are honored with tags... just like you can be, too! The tags came out between season one and two.
* Fans of ''Series/TrueBlood'' can now enjoy [[http://www.trubeverage.com/ the eponymous drink]]. Well, okay, it's not quite the blood substitute advertised in the show, but it has the same packaging. The drink is manufactured by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_Consumer_Products_(company) Omni Consumer Products]], a company that makes Defictionalization their business.
* Fans of ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}'' and ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' can buy two police handbooks supposedly written by Gene Hunt, in which he explains what being a copper is ''really'' all about.
* Satirised in an episode of ''Series/TheDailyShow''. John Oliver announced that scientists were working on ComicBook/IronMan armor and using genetics to turn lizards into dragons.
** There ARE companies making powered exoskeletons in real life. The two leading models are Raytheon Sarcos' XOS, which deliberately played up the Film/IronMan connection by holding a press conference about the XOS-2 on the day ''Film/IronMan2'' was released to DVD, with a member of the movie's cast present, and Lockheed Martin's HULC. So far, they have been made with intent of aiding with heavy lifting, not direct combat, and cannot fly.
* The ''Series/{{Bones}}'' episode "The Gamer in the Grease" had the fictional retro arcade game ''Punky Pong'', which [[http://www.fox.com/bones/features/game/ actually exists]] on Fox's website.
* ''Series/TheAmandaShow'': "I have my own Amanda website you know, [[http://www.Amandaplease.com www dot amanda please dot com]]"
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Fans can buy a genuine (albeit smaller) ''Journal of Impossible Things'' (from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]]) with a whopping 78 pages of writings and illustrations (we only got to see a few of them in the show proper).
** In a reverse-defictionalization, the TARDIS key props used in the 1996 ''Series/DoctorWho'' TV Movie were licensed replicas of the classic series' TARDIS key in production at the time, which the production team bought from an American scifi memorabilia catalog.
** There was an [[http://www.petitiononline.com/Drwh2012/petition.html online petition]] to let Creator/DavidTennant light the Olympic cauldron for the 2012 Olympics as he did in the episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer "Fear Her"]]. In the end, he was not involved. However, it did partially become true, with [[TheNthDoctor Tennant's successor]], Creator/MattSmith, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120628193039/http://www.metro.co.uk/olympics/900154-matt-smith-set-to-carry-olympic-torch-in-echo-of-doctor-who-plot carrying the torch]] through Cardiff, where ''Doctor Who'' is filmed.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]], a character mentions having a T-shirt that says "The Angels have the phone box". Online retailers such as [=ThinkGeek=], Zazzle, and [=CafePress=] soon began selling versions of the T-shirt.
** The TARDIS prop itself is a convoluted example. Originally, the TARDIS design was meant to mirror the [=MacKenzie=]-Trench Police Call Box of 1923, which by the early '60s was a common sight on London streets. However, with the advent of communications technology, police boxes became less and less common, the last (save a few left standing either from historic preservation or through apathy) being dismantled by the late '80s. By that time, people who had never seen the [=MacKenzie=]-Trench Police Call Box only knew the blue box as the TARDIS, and by the 21st Century, a British court had taken the trademark rights for the box away from the Metropolitan Police and awarded them to the BBC, who were actually doing something with it. Both they, and many, MANY, determined fans, have built many [=TARDISes=], real in all ways save the understandable lack of being "bigger on the inside," and even a British newspaper heralded the decision of a British town to sell its remaining police box with a headline announcing you too could own your very own TARDIS.\\\
There have been (and probably still are) "speakeasies" in New York City that use a TARDIS replica as the entrance from a small storefront to a much larger back room where liquor is served. Semi-defictionalizing the "larger inside" aspect. For one example, [[http://doctorwho.tumblr.com/post/4447086647/getinthetardisweasley-me-in-the-tardis-at-the The Way Station bar in New York]] has designed the blue police box as the entrance to their restroom. It really is bigger on the inside, though still as cramped as a typical pub loo.
** ''[[http://www.amazon.com/Doctor-Who-Angels-Kiss-ebook/dp/B009KJ6DTO The Angel's Kiss]]'', the book the Doctor, Amy, and Rory were reading in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan "The Angels Take Manhattan"]], has been written as an ebook for the Kindle. Though it's not exactly the book from the episode -- it reads more like a prequel.
** Also available as an ebook is ''[[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BGC6GG8/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00BGC6GG8&linkCode=as2&tag=cosboonew-20 Summer Falls]]'', a novel published in the 1950s, written by Amelia Williams, and briefly mentioned in "The Bells of Saint John". Clara thought [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Chapter 11 was the best part of the book,]] saying, "You'll cry your eyes out. The good kind of crying."
** The website ''thinkgeek.com'' frequently features a number of defictionalized ''Series/DoctorWho'' items, including the Fourth Doctor's scarf and the Master's pocket watch from "Utopia".
** And of course, there are many Sonic Screwdrivers that fans can buy. One of them even can act as your TV remote!
* The Bull & Finch Pub, the real Boston pub that inspired ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', was renamed to Cheers and references the show prominently in its marketing. A replica bar opened in 2001 in Faneuil Hall that closed in August 2020. There was also a chain of airport bars.
** Also, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBazaWO03Fo "Screaming Viking"]] is now a [[http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink1819.html real drink.]]
* In 2003, ''Series/ChappellesShow'' had a sketch that parodied the Discovery Channel show "Trading Spaces". The sketch was called "[[http://www.metacafe.com/watch/329599/dave_chapelle_trading_spouses/ Trading Spouses]]" and it was about two families, one white, one black, who appear on a reality TV show in which they exchange husbands for a month. (Both husbands were played by Dave Chapelle.) Three years later, by what they insist is pure coincidence, Fox Network released ''an actual show'' called ''Trading Spouses'' with basically the same premise, except that the wives switch instead of husbands. (It came out a few months before the more successful [[DuelingShows ABC equivalent]] ''Series/WifeSwap'', but a whole year after the original British version.)
* [[BlandNameProduct "Mocny Full"]] beer from the Polish sitcom ''Swiat Wedlug Kiepskich'' was at one point defictionalized but it was discontinued due to copyright infringement -- the company had no rights for the mark and its logo.
* The producers of ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' defictionalized the 70s psychedelic rock album Seven Suns by Violet Sedan Chair (an anagram of [[spoiler:Olive Can Read This]]) that appears in an episode of season 3. The producers went to great effort to make the defictionalization authentic by releasing the album only in the form of beat-up [=LPs=] in the bargain bins of used record shops. More info at [[http://www.fringebloggers.com/fringe-violet-sedan-chair-seven-suns-album-unearthed/ Fringe Bloggers]].
* The medical drama-parody ''Series/ChildrensHospital'' included ads for a fake action-drama spoof in the vein of ''Series/TwentyFour'' called ''National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle::'' (or ''[[ColonCancer NTSF:SD:SUV::]]'').''NTSF:SD:SUV::'' would become its own series on Creator/AdultSwim.
* In ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'':
** Charlie's ridiculous stage play "The Nightman Cometh" proved so popular that the gang staged it in real life in 2009 and took it on a six city sold-out tour.
** People have also come up with recipes for Charlie's favorite foods, the Grilled Charlie and milk steak. And yes, there are also recipes to make Rum Ham (not to be confused with the existing recipe for wimpy rum-''glazed'' ham).
** Ladies and gentlemen,I present you with [[http://dicktowel.com/ Dicktowel.com]]. Very {{NSFW}}.
* There are a surprising number of ''Franchise/{{Degrassi}}'' related items for sale for fans. Most notably, you can [[http://www.bruzer.com/degrassi/index.php?option=com_shop&sf=2&task=viewItem&id=37 buy the t-shirt worn by employees]] at [[LocalHangout The Dot]]. Other items can be seen [[http://www.bruzer.com/degrassi/ here]] (some of which are unfortunately out of stock now).
* The quirky American ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry's has made ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'''s infamous Schweddy Balls into a flavor (it's chocolate and rum malt balls in vanilla ice cream). They did sell these in stores for a time, until MoralGuardians chased it off the shelves due to how vulgar the name was. They are still sold in Ben and Jerry's ice cream stands.
* Allegedly, during the run of the original ''Series/KnightRider'', Pontiac was deluged with requests for a Knight Rider edition Trans Am. Potential liability kept it from happening officially, but to this day there's a decent market for conversion parts of varying fidelity to the show to make KITT replicas. Some people have even worked to integrate various computer AI/bots into them, though naturally none is anywhere close to what was seen on the show.
* For the long running comedy ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', novelty items branded with the name and logo of fictional paper company ''Dunder Mifflin'' have been available for years, however in 2011 Staples announced it would begin to sell actual Dunder Mifflin branded paper products in its stores (which is rather ironic, considering that on the show, Staples was Dunder Mifflin's biggest competitor).
** Also, replicas of Michael's iconic "World's best boss" mug are sold by NBC as official merchandise.
** Dwight Schrute's bobble head figure of himself can be bought as well as bobble heads of the whole main cast.
** In the episode "The Chump", mention of a fictional video game, ''Rock Band: Billy Joel'', made one ''Entertainment Weekly'' reviewer comment that "let's hope that never gets made". In a TakeThat, Billy Joel contacted Harmonix Music Systems, the makers of ''Rock Band'', insisting they include his songs within the game, which Harmonix was very happy to oblige.
* The Canadian children's show ''Theodore Tugboat'' features anthropomorphic model tugboats and ships who work together in Halifax Harbour. A real tugboat, called [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:437_-_Halifax_NS.JPG#mediaviewer/File:437_-_Halifax_NS.JPG/ Theodore Too]], was decorated to look like Theodore and stationed in Halifax Harbour.
* The US Air Force enjoys ''Series/StargateSG1'', ([[Franchise/StargateVerse The franchise]] BackedByThePentagon to the of the Navy lending them a submarine) and the real life NORAD facility at Cheyenne Mountain has a door labeled "Stargate Command". (It leads to a broom closet. [[RealAfterAll Allegedly.]])
* In honour of one of Creator/{{Loriot}}'s birthdays, a German chain of bakeries produced a real-life version of the ''Kosakenzipfel'', an item of pastry that caused the bitter falling out of two families in one of his television sketches when there is only one of them left.
* A character in ''Series/FamilyAffair'' carried around a doll called Mrs. Beasley, which became so popular that Mattel produced Mrs. Beasley dolls for the mass market.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'' fans have banded together to create the video game [[Recap/CommunityS3E20DigitalEstatePlanning "Journey to the Center of Hawkthorne"]]. [[http://www.reddit.com/r/hawkthorne Project Hawkthorne can be found here.]]
* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'':
** The personal soundtrack shirt, the periodic table shower curtain, and Sheldon's The Flash t-shirt available on [=ThinkGeek=].
** Apparently, fans have also created [[http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/140609/mystic-warlords-of-kaa a real-life version of the "Mystic Warlords of Ka'a" tabletop game]] that was featured in a few episodes of the show.
* A Chinese fan of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' has cloned the gang's "Central Perk" cafe into [[http://foodbeast.com/content/2013/01/31/someone-opened-a-real-life-friends-central-perks-cafe-in-beijing/ a real cafe in Beijing]].
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'': The book that Shawn and Gus wrote - "Psych's Guide to Crime Fighting for the Totally Unqualified" - [[http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/psychs-guide-to-crime-fighting-for-the-totally-unqualified-paperback/detail.php?p=443540 is a real book]].
* "Good Burger," home of the Goodburger, was a fictional fast food restaurant that appeared in a recurring sketch in ''Series/AllThat'' and a [[Film/GoodBurger spinoff movie]]. Today, [[http://www.goodburgerny.com/ you can eat at one in New York City]].
* The opening credits to two 1950s TV series, ''Kraft Television Theatre'' and ''The Kraft Music Hall'', showed a small, spinning, abstract figure of a studio cameraman and his camera, bearing the letter "K" for the sponsor, Kraft foods. When people began asking for copies of that figure, Kraft made it available through a special offer, involving lids and other proofs-of-purchase from products like Velveeta and Parkay Margarine. The Kraft Cameraman figure was plastic and is now highly sought after on eBay.
* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'':
** A ChristmasEpisode featured the characters drinking a beer called "Theakston's Christmas Ale." Theakston is a real brewery in England, but they never produced a specific Christmas beer - until fans of the show started ringing up trying to order it and they decided it would obviously make money.
** [[http://www.cbsstore.com/ncis-bert-the-farting-hippo/detail.php?p=262428&v=cbs-ncis-bertthefartinghippo&ecid=SMM-CBS-01285&pa=SMM-CBS-01285 Bert The Farting Hippo]].
* Through the 90s several companies made stuffed teddy bears exactly like the one ''Series/MrBean'' had as a friend.
* Recursive example: in ''Series/{{Jessica Jones|2015}}'', an updated version of the old Comicbook/PatsyWalker comic [[https://65.media.tumblr.com/23d8cdbcac8e488bf7ac156a24b02842/tumblr_o0n3csghzg1qz4iigo1_500.jpg is featured]] as an adaptation of [[AdaptationNameChange Trish]] Walker's old sitcom. ''Comicbook/PatsyWalkerAKAHellcat'' [[http://www.comicbookresources.com/imgsrv/imglib/0/0/1/Patsy-Walker-aka-Hellcat-7-Tedesco-Variant-91277.jpg features this art as an alternate cover]] of the issue Patsy teams up with Comicbook/JessicaJones.
* ''Series/TheLostRoom'', a show about people trying to collect various ordinary-looking [[CapitalLettersAreMagic Objects]] with incredible powers, prompted a rush of fans trying to collect various replicas of the Objects (no powers though). The most popular were The Key to the titular Lost Room with the attached fob and Wally's Bus Pass to Gallup, New Mexico, as these were most prominently used in the show, although useable replicas such as The Pen, The Comb, and The Deck of Cards were also popular.
* The cabaret club 54 Below staged ''Hit List'' from the TV series ''Series/{{Smash}}'' for several shows, featuring Andy Mientus, Jeremy Jordan, and Krysta Rodriguez reprising the roles they had in the show.
* ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Born_Beautiful Not Born Beatiful]]'', the [[ForeignRemake Russian remake]] of ''Series/YoSoyBettyLaFea'', had the main character working for a fashion company called Zimaletto. In 2006, Amedia (the producers of remake) sold the Zimaletto brand to SELA, an actual fashion company, who used it for their luxury clothing. There are a few Zimaletto shops, even.
* ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'': Matchbox Toys produced a full-size replica of Pee-Wee's puppet, Billy Baloney. There was also a child-sized version of his famous scooter.
* Music/TheMonkees - created for a TV series, the band recorded albums and did concert tours, and their career as a band continued past the end of the series. Singer/drummer Micky Dolenz will go on in ''every'' interview about how this was akin to "Creator/LeonardNimoy becoming a Vulcan."
* Volodymyr Zelensky played the president of Ukraine in the 2015 TV show ''Series/ServantOfThePeople''. In the 2019 presidential elections, he ran as a candidate under the Servant of the People party... ''and ended up winning and becoming Ukraine's president''.
* Part of the promotion for ''Film/BlackMirrorBandersnatch'' included a [[https://londonist.com/london/film/a-black-mirror-bandersnatch-shop-has-appeared-in-old-street real Tuckershop store]] and a downright playable ''Nohzdyve'' that even requires a ZX Spectrum emulator.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Lookinatchu, the chat roulette site in season 7's "Unfriendly Chat," was made real for a while.
* ''Series/GameShakers'': The games that the characters developed in the show were playable on Nickelodeon's website. Some of them, like ''Sky Whale'', were also made available as actual game apps for smartphones.
* ''The Legend of Greemulax'', the novel featured in the final season of ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'', wound up turned into a real book by author Sarah Mlynowski. [[Creator/EllieKemper Kimmy herself]] reads the audiobook.
* In ''Series/{{Snowpiercer}}'', Evelyne Brochu's "Copie Carbone" is used as one of Miss Audrey's records that Wilford plays on repeat. Lena Hall, the actress and singer who plays Miss Audrey, went on and recorded an actual CoverVersion of the song for her ''Snowpiercer''-inspired album, ''1001''.
* ''Series/{{Letterkenny}}'': Puppers, the staple beer of the show, was produced as a real-life beer by craft brewery Stack Brewing, then more recently by Labatt Breweries under the name Puppers Golden Lager.
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