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* Done briefly in a cutaway in ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', where, under the rule that driver of the car gets to choose the music and coversation topic, the pre-teen girl Little Rock puts ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' on the soundtrack, and tries to explain the premise of ''Series/HannahMontana'', much to Tallahassee's dismay.

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* Done briefly in a cutaway in ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', where, ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'' cutaway; under the rule that the driver of the car gets to choose the music and coversation conversation topic, the pre-teen preteen girl Little Rock puts ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' on the soundtrack, and tries to explain the premise of ''Series/HannahMontana'', much to Tallahassee's dismay.
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* The ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "One Life To Lose" features a murder of the head writer of a soap opera, and gleefully embraces, lampshades, parodies and otherwise plays with this trope. Castle himself spends most of the episode imagining increasingly over-the-top and ludicrous soap opera plots for the crime, only to be disappointed by the [[WrongGenreSavvy inevitable mundanity of what's actually going on]]; Beckett's revealed to be a closet fan of the soap (and Lanie a less-closeted fan) by revealing too much information about the absurd plots, and even Esposito recounts the crazy plot of a Latino 'telenovela' he used to watch with his grandmother. Castle's mother also relates when she was acting in the soap, in the three weeks that she was on the show her character was kidnapped, buried alive, trapped in a cave with bears, kidnapped again, and held hostage.

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* The ''Series/{{Castle}}'' ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'' episode "One Life To Lose" features a murder of the head writer of a soap opera, and gleefully embraces, lampshades, parodies and otherwise plays with this trope. Castle himself spends most of the episode imagining increasingly over-the-top and ludicrous soap opera plots for the crime, only to be disappointed by the [[WrongGenreSavvy inevitable mundanity of what's actually going on]]; Beckett's revealed to be a closet fan of the soap (and Lanie a less-closeted fan) by revealing too much information about the absurd plots, and even Esposito recounts the crazy plot of a Latino 'telenovela' he used to watch with his grandmother. Castle's mother also relates when she was acting in the soap, in the three weeks that she was on the show her character was kidnapped, buried alive, trapped in a cave with bears, kidnapped again, and held hostage.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E2BerryItchyDayHerringEggsOrBust Herring Eggs or Bust]]," Oscar explains what the characters in ''The Butler of Finicky Manor'' are saying to Auntie Midge, because she broke her hearing aid.
-->'''Man on TV''': I am not requesting you leave, my lady. I am requesting you stay.
-->'''Oscar''': What?!
-->'''Midge''': Did he kick her out?
-->'''Oscar''': No! He wants to marry her!
-->'''Midge''': What?! She doesn't love you, she loves Percy Adderfish!
-->'''Oscar''': I know!
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* A ''male'' frequenter Of ''Frank's Place'' would update the other patrons on soaps on a regular basis. The audio of this was used on morning radio.

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* A ''male'' frequenter Of ''Frank's Place'' ''Series/FranksPlace'' would update the other patrons on soaps on a regular basis. The audio of this was used on morning radio.

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* The ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "One Life To Lose" features a murder of the head writer of a soap opera, and gleefully embraces, lampshades, parodies and otherwise plays with this trope. Castle himself spends most of the episode imagining increasingly over-the-top and ludicrous soap opera plots for the crime, only to be disappointed by the [[WrongGenreSavvy inevitable mundanity of what's actually going on]]; Beckett's revealed to be a closet fan of the soap (and Lanie a less-closeted fan) by revealing too much information about the absurd plots, and even Esposito recounts the crazy plot of a Latino 'telenovela' he used to watch with his grandmother.
** Castle's mother also relates when she was acting in the soap, in the three weeks that she was on the show her character was kidnapped, buried alive, trapped in a cave with bears, kidnapped again, and held hostage.

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* The ''Series/{{Castle}}'' episode "One Life To Lose" features a murder of the head writer of a soap opera, and gleefully embraces, lampshades, parodies and otherwise plays with this trope. Castle himself spends most of the episode imagining increasingly over-the-top and ludicrous soap opera plots for the crime, only to be disappointed by the [[WrongGenreSavvy inevitable mundanity of what's actually going on]]; Beckett's revealed to be a closet fan of the soap (and Lanie a less-closeted fan) by revealing too much information about the absurd plots, and even Esposito recounts the crazy plot of a Latino 'telenovela' he used to watch with his grandmother.
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grandmother. Castle's mother also relates when she was acting in the soap, in the three weeks that she was on the show her character was kidnapped, buried alive, trapped in a cave with bears, kidnapped again, and held hostage.

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