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* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': In "Nikki Heat", Natalie Rhodes, the actress cast as the lead in the movie based on Castle's first Nikki Heat novel, rode along with Beckett(much to her chagrin), and not only morphed into a Beckett clone, but completely deconstructed the UnresolvedSexualTension between Beckett and Castle. Later, in "To Love and Die in L.A.", Castle and Beckett visit the set of the Nikki Heat movie, and Nikki and the cast impersonate real cops to help Beckett with her investigation.

* ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'' did this with the episode "Go West Young Meowth", where Ash and friends travel to Hollywood to see the world premiere of Cleavon Schpielbunk's ''Pokémon in Love'' movie, which they had helped made in the previous episode. While the English dub implies this is the same Hollywood of California, the original Japanese version actually downplays by stating the Hollywood in this episode is just a local town that was named after the original Hollywood.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' did this in the season 1 episode "Go West Young Meowth."

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* ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'': "The Sweet Stench of Success", where Bloo becomes famous after becoming a deodorant mascot, though his manager treats him badly and won't let him see Mac. Famous for the {{Tear Jerker}}s.

* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldGoesHollywood'', one of the WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials, has Garfield, Odie, and Jon putting together an act for the talent show ''Pet Search'' that gets them to the national finals in Hollywood.

* ''Series/{{Degrassi}} Goes Hollywood'', a television special that is basically TheMovie of the series, where the gang visits Hollywood and some of the students even try out for a musical.

* The original ''{{Transformers}}'' series had "Hoist Goes Hollywood," which involved several of the Autobots getting hired to star in an action movie -- first as stunt vehicles, later as "evil alien robots."

** Issue 10 of ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' has [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] pretending to make a movie out of the Fantastic Four as a ruse to try to win Sue over.
** Issue 14 of ''[[ComicBook/SpiderMan Amazing Spider-Man]]'' [[note]](better known as the first appearance of the Green Goblin)[[/note]] has Spider-Man agreeing to star in a movie with [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk The Hulk]].

* Many ''[[{{ComicBook/Avengers}} Avengers]]'' stories involving Wonder Man drift into this territory, since Simon is an actor.
* Even the normally somber ''ComicBook/StrikeforceMorituri'' dipped into this with issue #6, "Foray For Holowood!"

* ''Garfield Goes Hollywood'', one of the WesternAnimation/GarfieldSpecials, has Garfield, Odie, and Jon putting together an act for the talent show ''Pet Search'' that gets them to the national finals in Hollywood.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': "Brian Does Hollywood", where Brian goes to Los Angeles to become a writer but ends up becoming a porn director.

* ''VideoGame/BrawlStars'': The whole point of Season 9, with the PunTitle of Brawlywood, featuring movie themed skins and a Hispanic actress brawler.

** ''Mickey's Gala Premiere'': A host of movie stars attend the premiere of MickeyMouse's newest cartoon, after which they offer congrats to Mickey himself, and Greta Garbo [[CoveredInKisses covering him in kisses]]. Turns out, Mickey was just [[AllJustADream dreaming]] of being a movie star on the same plane as the others in reality.