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** Parodiedin ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' when Jay Sherman from ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' appears in "A Star Is Burns". When this aired, creator Matt Groening, took his name off the producers credits because he was against the crossover in the first place when Fox requested it, feeling it was a shameless ratings stunt. This joke is likely a reference to that.
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* ''Series/{{VIP}}'': In the episode "Hard Val's Night" Val is hired to protect the members of Music/{{Lit}} from a gang that's trying to steal A. Jay's lucky belt buckle. The whole episode has every (female) member of VIP, especially Val, fawning over them, obviously a little star struck, and features a few scenes of women all over them. At the end of the episode Val gets to guest star in the band's upcoming [[Music/{{Miserable}} music video]], and while they're watching it the female members of VIP debate amongst themselves which member of Lit is the cutest. Out of universe, this is a little justified because Creator/PamelaAnderson was already a fan of the band before she had them guest star on her show. Also somewhat ZigZagged in the music video at the end of the episode, which ends with the members of Lit rather humiliatingly [[spoiler: being hunted down one-by-one and ''eaten'' by a 90 ft version of Val.]]
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** It's rare for a celebrity to be play themselves on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', but when Robert Smith of Music/TheCure appeared in Season 1's "Mecha-Streisand," the main boys (who are all younger than the band's demographic) all gushed about his music, with Kyle remarking that "''Disintegration'' is the best album ever!" Even Jesus Christ himself refers to Smith as "our savior." Smith also turns into a {{kaiju}} and defeats the titular HumongousMecha version of Creator/BarbraStreisand after both Creator/LeonardMaltin and Sidney Poiter (neither of whom are voiced by the real people) fail to do so.
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* ''Series/JaneTheVirgin'': Celebrity guest stars are usually treated this way when they appear AsHimself -- Paulina Rubio (who appears in season one) is Xiomara's idol, and in seasons two and three respectively everyone is awed at Charo and Creator/GloriaEstefan. Writer Isabel Allende also makes an appearance in season four to aspiring writer Jane's delight. Inverted in the case of Music/BritneySpears's appearance in season two; she and Rogelio are apparently nemeses.
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* This is one of the more persistent criticisms about the post-SeasonalRot episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[FranchiseOriginalSin though it still happened in the show's "Golden Age" ]]. One of the most derided examples was "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E22LisaGoesGaga Lisa Goes Gaga]]", where Music/LadyGaga was portrayed in such a positive light and given such universal admiration by the characters that many criticized it as effectively being a half-hour commercial for her.
** Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' when Jay Sherman from ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' appears in "A Star Is Burns". When this aired, creator Matt Groening, took his name off the producers credits because he was against the crossover in the first place when Fox requested it, feeling it was a shameless ratings stunt. This joke is likely a reference to that.
** Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' when Jay Sherman from ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' appears in "A Star Is Burns". When this aired, creator Matt Groening, took his name off the producers credits because he was against the crossover in the first place when Fox requested it, feeling it was a shameless ratings stunt. This joke is likely a reference to that.
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* This is one of the more persistent criticisms about the post-SeasonalRot episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[FranchiseOriginalSin though it still happened in the show's "Golden Age" ]]. One of the most derided examples was "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E22LisaGoesGaga Lisa Goes Gaga]]", where Music/LadyGaga was portrayed in such a positive light and given such universal admiration by the characters that many criticized it as effectively being a half-hour commercial for her.
**Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' when Jay Sherman from ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' appears in "A Star Is Burns". When this aired, creator Matt Groening, took his name off the producers credits because he was against the crossover in the first place when Fox requested it, feeling it was a shameless ratings stunt. This joke is likely a reference to that.
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Simply put, when a guest star appears AsHimself, the characters will be huge fans of the character and gush about them. This can sometimes be extremely jarring if no one in the cast has expressed any interest in this celebrity beforehand and/or they're in unlikely demographic to be a fan. However, this can be completely justified if the characters are seeking out the celebrity precisely because of their fandom.
In addition to story-based purposes, there's likely a behind-the-scenes reason for this as well. Writers don't want to offend their celebrity guest star by acting like they're not universally beloved, and by hyping up the character InUniverse, it makes their guest appearance seem like an even greater deal. Compare CharacterShilling, which this may overlap with depending on what the guest actually does. When meeting the guest star, characters mind wind up StarstruckSpeechless.
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* In ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', everyone but the little girl are huge fans of Creator/BillMurray especially [[CoolOldGuy Tallahassee.]] This is something of a reference to the fact that Tallahassee's actor Creator/WoodyHarrelson is a huge Bill Murray fan and knows him personally.
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* As expected of a show with comic book HollywoodNerd geeks, ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has multiple examples. Amongst them is guest appearances by Creator/SummerGlau, Creator/LeonardNimoy and Creator/StanLee. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with the multiple appearances by Creator/WilWheaton (in full AdamWesting mode), because he's Sheldon's SitcomArchNemesis (and, well, it's not like [[CreatorsPet Wesley Crusher]] is beloved by ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fans).
* ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'': Creator/BobBarker has appeared on ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'' AsHimself three times since 2002, but it was his 2014 appearance in which he was quite heavily praised: the other characters spent their entire time on the episode talking about what a charitable man he is, his focus on promoting pet charities took up the whole show, and he concluded his appearance by [[BewareTheNiceOnes kicking Liam's ass and throwing him down a hill]].
* In ''Series/{{Community}}'', when Creator/LeVarBurton appears, multiple characters claim to be big fans. Justified as the reason he was called was because Troy is such a huge fan that a signed picture of [=LeVar=] Burton is his most desired thing in the world.
*Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'':
** In "'Twas the Night Before Christening", Will, feeling intimidated by Carlton's kiddie car gift he's set to give to Nicky at his Christening, sprouts out that he got Music/BoyzIIMen to come sing at it. Naturally his aunt is ecstatic that he did so and informs the rest of the family who gush about meeting them, but Will now has to convince the band to come do it for real.
** In "Eye, Tooth", Creator/WilliamShatner is set to be a guest on Hillary's show, Carlton is a major fan of his and gushes about meeting. Will a little indifferent but treats Willain cordially and tries to show him a good time. But Carlton, in his overzealousness, ends up breaking Willams tooth by accident.
* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'':
** In "[=iMeet=] Fred", everyone except for Freddie spends the episode gushing about how funny WebVideo/{{Fred}} is. The fact that Freddie dislikes his content is the whole conflict of the episode, and he ends the video being forced to admit the videos are funny.
** In the "[=iParty=] with ''Series/{{Victorious}}''" crossover episode, Creator/KenanThompson guest stars. Accordingly, everyone gushes about how awesome and rich he is, especially as its his house they're throwing the party at. It's slightly downplayed, however, in that his role is pretty minor.
* ''Series/JaneTheVirgin'': Celebrity guest stars are usually treated this way when they appear AsHimself -- Paulina Rubio (who appears in season one) is Xiomara's idol, and in seasons two and three respectively everyone is awed at Charo and Creator/GloriaEstefan. Writer Isabel Allende also makes an appearance in season four to aspiring writer Jane's delight. Inverted in the case of Music/BritneySpears's appearance in season two; she and Rogelio are apparently nemeses.
* ''Series/LukeCage2016'': In "Soliloquy of Chaos", Luke meets [[Music/WuTangClan Method Man]] while foiling a robbery and is quite thrilled about it. Method Man is equally in awe of Luke and recounts the story on a radio show.
* In the ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Miss Piggy would regularly do this with any male guest star. Sometimes for special guests like Creator/EdgarBergen, the whole gang would welcome them.
* ''Series/NewGirl''. An episode has Music/{{Prince}} guest star as himself. The sheer amount of excitement the entire cast has at meeting him is a bit surprising given none of the character's established musical tastes really seem to include Prince.
* ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' had a song bragging about how cool the character Jack Frost, who was played by Creator/GilbertGottfried, was.
* In one of the more shameless examples of this trope, one episode of ''Series/RoyalPains'' features a sudden guest appearance by Khloe Kardashian, with Hank's girlfriend enthusing over her, which is especially jarring given that the series usually makes fun of reality TV stars.
* Played with in the ''Series/ToastOfLondon'' episode "Hamm and Toast". Pop-culture oblivious Toast had never heard of Creator/JonHamm before the episode, but the whole plot revolves around how incredibly charismatic Hamm is and Toast's increasingly bizarre attempts to impress him.
* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': In "Ice Cream for Ke$ha", every character is eating gallons and gallons of ice-cream solely to get the chance to meet Music/{{Kesha}}, and get very excited when they even ''learn'' about the contest.
* ''Series/{{VIP}}'': In the episode "Hard Val's Night" Val is hired to protect the members of Music/{{Lit}} from a gang that's trying to steal A. Jay's lucky belt buckle. The whole episode has every (female) member of VIP, especially Val, fawning over them, obviously a little star struck, and features a few scenes of women all over them. At the end of the episode Val gets to guest star in the band's upcoming [[Music/{{Miserable}} music video]], and while they're watching it the female members of VIP debate amongst themselves which member of Lit is the cutest. Out of universe, this is a little justified because Creator/PamelaAnderson was already a fan of the band before she had them guest star on her show. Also somewhat ZigZagged in the music video at the end of the episode, which ends with the members of Lit rather humiliatingly [[spoiler: being hunted down one-by-one and ''eaten'' by a 90 ft version of Val.]]
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* Burt Reynolds appears AsHimself in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' where he is basically TheAce and Archer fanboys out at him. Justified, as Archer being a huge Burt Reynolds fanboy was already a well-established character trait beforehand.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' has the episode "Johnny Meets Farrah Fawcett", in which BrattyHalfPint Suzie is having a birthday party. Johnny declines to attend, until he learns that Creator/FarrahFawcett is Suzie's cousin, and she [[InkSuitActor appears in person]] to visit Suzie. Johnny is a huge fan of Farrah, being "the only person in the world whose hair is prettier than mine." Johnny goes to ridiculous lengths to attend Suzie's party and meet his idol.
* This is one of the more persistent criticisms about the post-SeasonalRot episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[FranchiseOriginalSin though it still happened in the show's "Golden Age" ]]. One of the most derided examples was "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E22LisaGoesGaga Lisa Goes Gaga]]", where Music/LadyGaga was portrayed in such a positive light and given such universal admiration by the characters that many criticized it as effectively being a half-hour commercial for her.
** Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' when Jay Sherman from ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' appears in "A Star Is Burns". When this aired, creator Matt Groening, took his name off the producers credits because he was against the crossover in the first place when Fox requested it, feeling it was a shameless ratings stunt. This joke is likely a reference to that.
-> Homer: Bart Simpson, meet Jay Sherman, the critic.
-> Jay: Hello.
-> Bart: Hey, man. I really love your show. I think ''all'' kids should watch it! ''[turns away]'' Eww, I suddenly feel so dirty.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** It's rare for a celebrity to be play themselves on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', but when Robert Smith of Music/TheCure appeared in Season 1's "Mecha-Streisand," the main boys (who are all younger than the band's demographic) all gushed about his music, with Kyle remarking that "''Disintegration'' is the best album ever!" Even Jesus Christ himself refers to Smith as "our savior." Smith also turns into a {{kaiju}} and defeats the titular HumongousMecha version of Creator/BarbraStreisand after both Creator/LeonardMaltin and Sidney Poiter (neither of whom are voiced by the real people) fail to do so.
** "Wing" features the titular singer Wing, based on New Zealand singer Wing Han Tsang in a rare "proxy" example; Wing's only vocal performances are musical recordings of the real Wing's songs, and everybody in the episode adores her music, with the main boys becoming her talent agents and Sylvester Stallone wanting her to sing at his son's wedding. Parker and Stone really are fans of Wing's singing and listened to it to relieve frustration, so the episode is a love letter to her. Wing approved of the music and her cartoon likeness, and thanked them for the ColbertBump her music got.
* ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' had plenty of guest stars for the live action segments, and almost inevitably, Mario and Luigi will be avid watchers of their show, consider them an inspiration, or whatever fits for the relevant star's claim to fame.
In addition to story-based purposes, there's likely a behind-the-scenes reason for this as well. Writers don't want to offend their celebrity guest star by acting like they're not universally beloved, and by hyping up the character InUniverse, it makes their guest appearance seem like an even greater deal. Compare CharacterShilling, which this may overlap with depending on what the guest actually does. When meeting the guest star, characters mind wind up StarstruckSpeechless.
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* In ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', everyone but the little girl are huge fans of Creator/BillMurray especially [[CoolOldGuy Tallahassee.]] This is something of a reference to the fact that Tallahassee's actor Creator/WoodyHarrelson is a huge Bill Murray fan and knows him personally.
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* As expected of a show with comic book HollywoodNerd geeks, ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has multiple examples. Amongst them is guest appearances by Creator/SummerGlau, Creator/LeonardNimoy and Creator/StanLee. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] with the multiple appearances by Creator/WilWheaton (in full AdamWesting mode), because he's Sheldon's SitcomArchNemesis (and, well, it's not like [[CreatorsPet Wesley Crusher]] is beloved by ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fans).
* ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'': Creator/BobBarker has appeared on ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'' AsHimself three times since 2002, but it was his 2014 appearance in which he was quite heavily praised: the other characters spent their entire time on the episode talking about what a charitable man he is, his focus on promoting pet charities took up the whole show, and he concluded his appearance by [[BewareTheNiceOnes kicking Liam's ass and throwing him down a hill]].
* In ''Series/{{Community}}'', when Creator/LeVarBurton appears, multiple characters claim to be big fans. Justified as the reason he was called was because Troy is such a huge fan that a signed picture of [=LeVar=] Burton is his most desired thing in the world.
*Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'':
** In "'Twas the Night Before Christening", Will, feeling intimidated by Carlton's kiddie car gift he's set to give to Nicky at his Christening, sprouts out that he got Music/BoyzIIMen to come sing at it. Naturally his aunt is ecstatic that he did so and informs the rest of the family who gush about meeting them, but Will now has to convince the band to come do it for real.
** In "Eye, Tooth", Creator/WilliamShatner is set to be a guest on Hillary's show, Carlton is a major fan of his and gushes about meeting. Will a little indifferent but treats Willain cordially and tries to show him a good time. But Carlton, in his overzealousness, ends up breaking Willams tooth by accident.
* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'':
** In "[=iMeet=] Fred", everyone except for Freddie spends the episode gushing about how funny WebVideo/{{Fred}} is. The fact that Freddie dislikes his content is the whole conflict of the episode, and he ends the video being forced to admit the videos are funny.
** In the "[=iParty=] with ''Series/{{Victorious}}''" crossover episode, Creator/KenanThompson guest stars. Accordingly, everyone gushes about how awesome and rich he is, especially as its his house they're throwing the party at. It's slightly downplayed, however, in that his role is pretty minor.
* ''Series/JaneTheVirgin'': Celebrity guest stars are usually treated this way when they appear AsHimself -- Paulina Rubio (who appears in season one) is Xiomara's idol, and in seasons two and three respectively everyone is awed at Charo and Creator/GloriaEstefan. Writer Isabel Allende also makes an appearance in season four to aspiring writer Jane's delight. Inverted in the case of Music/BritneySpears's appearance in season two; she and Rogelio are apparently nemeses.
* ''Series/LukeCage2016'': In "Soliloquy of Chaos", Luke meets [[Music/WuTangClan Method Man]] while foiling a robbery and is quite thrilled about it. Method Man is equally in awe of Luke and recounts the story on a radio show.
* In the ''Series/TheMuppetShow'', Miss Piggy would regularly do this with any male guest star. Sometimes for special guests like Creator/EdgarBergen, the whole gang would welcome them.
* ''Series/NewGirl''. An episode has Music/{{Prince}} guest star as himself. The sheer amount of excitement the entire cast has at meeting him is a bit surprising given none of the character's established musical tastes really seem to include Prince.
* ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' had a song bragging about how cool the character Jack Frost, who was played by Creator/GilbertGottfried, was.
* In one of the more shameless examples of this trope, one episode of ''Series/RoyalPains'' features a sudden guest appearance by Khloe Kardashian, with Hank's girlfriend enthusing over her, which is especially jarring given that the series usually makes fun of reality TV stars.
* Played with in the ''Series/ToastOfLondon'' episode "Hamm and Toast". Pop-culture oblivious Toast had never heard of Creator/JonHamm before the episode, but the whole plot revolves around how incredibly charismatic Hamm is and Toast's increasingly bizarre attempts to impress him.
* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': In "Ice Cream for Ke$ha", every character is eating gallons and gallons of ice-cream solely to get the chance to meet Music/{{Kesha}}, and get very excited when they even ''learn'' about the contest.
* ''Series/{{VIP}}'': In the episode "Hard Val's Night" Val is hired to protect the members of Music/{{Lit}} from a gang that's trying to steal A. Jay's lucky belt buckle. The whole episode has every (female) member of VIP, especially Val, fawning over them, obviously a little star struck, and features a few scenes of women all over them. At the end of the episode Val gets to guest star in the band's upcoming [[Music/{{Miserable}} music video]], and while they're watching it the female members of VIP debate amongst themselves which member of Lit is the cutest. Out of universe, this is a little justified because Creator/PamelaAnderson was already a fan of the band before she had them guest star on her show. Also somewhat ZigZagged in the music video at the end of the episode, which ends with the members of Lit rather humiliatingly [[spoiler: being hunted down one-by-one and ''eaten'' by a 90 ft version of Val.]]
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* Creator/BurtReynolds makes a cameo appearance AsHimself in the position of the Steelport mayor in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' and the [[PlayerCharacter Boss]] immediately starts fanboying/fangirling over him.
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* Burt Reynolds appears AsHimself in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' where he is basically TheAce and Archer fanboys out at him. Justified, as Archer being a huge Burt Reynolds fanboy was already a well-established character trait beforehand.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' has the episode "Johnny Meets Farrah Fawcett", in which BrattyHalfPint Suzie is having a birthday party. Johnny declines to attend, until he learns that Creator/FarrahFawcett is Suzie's cousin, and she [[InkSuitActor appears in person]] to visit Suzie. Johnny is a huge fan of Farrah, being "the only person in the world whose hair is prettier than mine." Johnny goes to ridiculous lengths to attend Suzie's party and meet his idol.
* This is one of the more persistent criticisms about the post-SeasonalRot episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[FranchiseOriginalSin though it still happened in the show's "Golden Age" ]]. One of the most derided examples was "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E22LisaGoesGaga Lisa Goes Gaga]]", where Music/LadyGaga was portrayed in such a positive light and given such universal admiration by the characters that many criticized it as effectively being a half-hour commercial for her.
** Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' when Jay Sherman from ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic'' appears in "A Star Is Burns". When this aired, creator Matt Groening, took his name off the producers credits because he was against the crossover in the first place when Fox requested it, feeling it was a shameless ratings stunt. This joke is likely a reference to that.
-> Homer: Bart Simpson, meet Jay Sherman, the critic.
-> Jay: Hello.
-> Bart: Hey, man. I really love your show. I think ''all'' kids should watch it! ''[turns away]'' Eww, I suddenly feel so dirty.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** It's rare for a celebrity to be play themselves on ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', but when Robert Smith of Music/TheCure appeared in Season 1's "Mecha-Streisand," the main boys (who are all younger than the band's demographic) all gushed about his music, with Kyle remarking that "''Disintegration'' is the best album ever!" Even Jesus Christ himself refers to Smith as "our savior." Smith also turns into a {{kaiju}} and defeats the titular HumongousMecha version of Creator/BarbraStreisand after both Creator/LeonardMaltin and Sidney Poiter (neither of whom are voiced by the real people) fail to do so.
** "Wing" features the titular singer Wing, based on New Zealand singer Wing Han Tsang in a rare "proxy" example; Wing's only vocal performances are musical recordings of the real Wing's songs, and everybody in the episode adores her music, with the main boys becoming her talent agents and Sylvester Stallone wanting her to sing at his son's wedding. Parker and Stone really are fans of Wing's singing and listened to it to relieve frustration, so the episode is a love letter to her. Wing approved of the music and her cartoon likeness, and thanked them for the ColbertBump her music got.
* ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' had plenty of guest stars for the live action segments, and almost inevitably, Mario and Luigi will be avid watchers of their show, consider them an inspiration, or whatever fits for the relevant star's claim to fame.
