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* Film/ForrestGump met Music/ElvisPresley before "The King" became famous and directly inspired his hip swaying dance moves. He also met three American presidents -- UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy, UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson, and UsefulNotes/RichardNixon (and inadvertently blew the whistle on the whole "Watergate" thing).

** In Season Nine's "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E5TheCartridgeFamily The Cartridge Family]]", when buying a gun, the store owner notes that Homer once beat up [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush President Bush]] (Homer angrily says "''former'' President Bush). He still gets a gun.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': As a best-selling crime novelist, Richard Castle is friends with several real-life members of the profession. Several episodes feature poker games held at his apartment featuring Creator/JamesPatterson, Creator/StephenJCannell, and Creator/MichaelConnelly. He's also apparently on a first-name basis with baseball great Joe Torre, and another episode sees him call Creator/WesCraven for advice when he thinks he's the victim of a curse.

* ''Series/{{Frasier}}'': In "[[Recap/FrasierS7E7ATsarIsBorn A Tsar Is Born]]", Frasier and Niles excitedly think an old family heirloom is proof that they are descended from the Romanov dynasty. It turns out the heirloom came to them from their great-great grandmother, a kitchen maid who stole it from a royal princess, escaped to America and [[DisappointingHeritageReveal worked as a prostitute in New York before marrying their great-great grandfather]]. They take what solace they can from theorizing that their great-great grandmother might have been the same Russian prostitute who had an affair with Creator/HenryJames.

** It's revealed in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E22KrustyGetsKancelled Krusty Gets Kancelled]]", Krusty's half-brother is Luke Perry, and he once co-owned a race horse with Creator/BetteMidler.
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E4Rosebud Rosebud]]", Mister Burns is showed as being a sibling of Creator/GeorgeBurns.

** When buying a gun, the store owner notes that Homer once beat up President Bush (Homer angrily says "''former'' President Bush). He still gets a gun.

* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': Adrian Monk once helped NBC's Bob Costas out with a matter involving a demented cat salesman and thus, in "Mr. Monk Makes the Playoffs", Costas repays the favor with press box tickets. His wife Trudy was a fan of Music/WillieNelson, and a season 1 episode is about Monk clearing Nelson himself of a murder accusation.

* An early episode of ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' reveals that Robert Hawkins (the father of the TitleCharacter and his older sister) is friends with [=NBA=] Superstar, Shaquille O'Neil. After Robert's kids question how the two know each other, Shaq and Robert (who Shaq refers to as "Mr. H") explain that when Shaq was around Virgil's age, he was enrolled at a basketball camp where Robert was working as a counselor, and the two have been good friends ever since.

* ''ComicBook/SensationalWonderWoman'': The orderlies taking care of the elderly woman Katie in ''Ultimate Fangirl'' think she's just an aged Franchise/WonderWoman fangirl, but she turns out to have been friends with Wonder Woman since WWII.

* ''Series/WhatWeDointheShadows'' has Donal Logue (who played a vampier on screen) acknowledging himself as an actor, but also as someone who played an actual vampire

** After Ted makes a reference to ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'', Roy reveals that he actually once dated Creator/GinaGershon.

Moira: I heard Creator/{{Peter|Bogdanovich}} Fundraiser! Bogdanovich loved a mink.