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*** Many [=InVid=} shows are mentioned in the text. The two that get the most attention (or at least a write-up of the fandom) are the space opera ''Starburst Station'' and the Arabian technofantasy ''The Golden Jihad''. ''Starburst'' fans (described in ''High Frontier'') have created a replica of the station in Earth orbit, where they live according to the (poorly defined) philosophy of the lead characters. Jihadis (described in ''Toxic Memes'') are more into creating [[FanWorks fanvids]] (which the original copyright holders encourage) and are slightly contemptuous of the Starbursters and their devotion to The Original Work.

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*** Many [=InVid=} [=InVid=] shows are mentioned in the text. The two that get the most attention (or at least a write-up of the fandom) are the space opera ''Starburst Station'' and the Arabian technofantasy ''The Golden Jihad''. ''Starburst'' fans (described in ''High Frontier'') have created a replica of the station in Earth orbit, where they live according to the (poorly defined) philosophy of the lead characters. Jihadis (described in ''Toxic Memes'') are more into creating [[FanWorks fanvids]] (which the original copyright holders encourage) and are slightly contemptuous of the Starbursters and their devotion to The Original Work.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}''
** ''GURPS Magical Items 3'' includes a brief description of a setting where TheFairFolk battle with {{Magitek}} HumongousMecha in the chapter describing such mecha. The vignette for an earlier chapter on magic toys suggests that this setting is a popular kids' TV show in the world of ''TabletopGame/GURPSTechnomancer'', with its own line of living action figures.
** The opening vignette of ''[[TabletopGame/GURPSTechnomancer Technomancer]]'' has a police mage channel-surfing while on stakeout. What she finds are mostly news and commercials, but there's a trailer for a show where [[Series/TheXFiles FBI agents Cat Morrigan and Dara Skuld]] investigate rumours of TheFairFolk.
** A ''Pyramid'' magazine article on combining ''Technomancer'' with ''GURPS Action'' has a worked example called ''El Paso Vice'', with an explanation that in the regular ''Technomancer'' verse it was a popular cop show in the 80s.

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''GURPS Magical Items 3'' includes a brief description of a setting where TheFairFolk battle with {{Magitek}} HumongousMecha in the chapter describing such mecha. The vignette for an earlier chapter on magic toys suggests that this setting is a popular kids' TV show in the world of ''TabletopGame/GURPSTechnomancer'', ''Technomancer'', with its own line of living action figures.
** *** The opening vignette of ''[[TabletopGame/GURPSTechnomancer Technomancer]]'' ''Technomancer]]'' has a police mage channel-surfing while on stakeout. What she finds are mostly news and commercials, but there's a trailer for a show where [[Series/TheXFiles FBI agents Cat Morrigan and Dara Skuld]] investigate rumours of TheFairFolk.
** *** A ''Pyramid'' magazine article on combining ''Technomancer'' with ''GURPS Action'' has a worked example called ''El Paso Vice'', with an explanation that in the regular ''Technomancer'' verse it was a popular cop show in the 80s.80s.
** ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'':
*** Many [=InVid=} shows are mentioned in the text. The two that get the most attention (or at least a write-up of the fandom) are the space opera ''Starburst Station'' and the Arabian technofantasy ''The Golden Jihad''. ''Starburst'' fans (described in ''High Frontier'') have created a replica of the station in Earth orbit, where they live according to the (poorly defined) philosophy of the lead characters. Jihadis (described in ''Toxic Memes'') are more into creating [[FanWorks fanvids]] (which the original copyright holders encourage) and are slightly contemptuous of the Starbursters and their devotion to The Original Work.
*** The ''Pyramid'' article on combining ''Transhuman Space'' with ''GURPS Action'' uses the characters from ''Personnel Files: Martingale Security'' as an example. As with the ''Technomancer'' equivalent, it's explained that you can think of this as an action-adventure [=InVid=] series called ''Martingale!''
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** A ''Pyramid'' magazine article on combining ''Technomancer'' with ''GURPS Action'' has a worked example called ''El Paso Vice'', with an explanation that in the regular ''Technomancer'' verse it was a popular cop show in the 80s.
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For the pre-television history of this trope, [[JustForFun/ZerothLawOfTropeExamples once again]] we must go back to Creator/WilliamShakespeare, who featured plays within plays both in comedy -- ''The Most Lamentable Comedy, and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe'' within ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', and ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' actually ''is'' one by means of a FramingDevice -- and in tragedy (''[[CatchTheConscience The Murder of Gonzago]]'' within ''{{Hamlet}}'').

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For the pre-television history of this trope, [[JustForFun/ZerothLawOfTropeExamples [[JustForFun/TheZerothLawOfTropeExamples once again]] we must go back to Creator/WilliamShakespeare, who featured plays within plays both in comedy -- ''The Most Lamentable Comedy, and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe'' within ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', and ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' actually ''is'' one by means of a FramingDevice -- and in tragedy (''[[CatchTheConscience The Murder of Gonzago]]'' within ''{{Hamlet}}'').
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* Wrestling/RingOfHonor has had ''Things That Piss [[Wrestling/TheWorldsGreatestTagTeam Charlie Haas]] Off'', ''Public Silas Announcement'', and ''Story Time With Wrestling/AdamCole'', among others.
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For the pre-television history of this trope, [[ZerothLawOfTropeExamples once again]] we must go back to Creator/WilliamShakespeare, who featured plays within plays both in comedy -- ''The Most Lamentable Comedy, and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe'' within ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', and ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' actually ''is'' one by means of a FramingDevice -- and in tragedy (''[[CatchTheConscience The Murder of Gonzago]]'' within ''{{Hamlet}}'').

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For the pre-television history of this trope, [[ZerothLawOfTropeExamples [[JustForFun/ZerothLawOfTropeExamples once again]] we must go back to Creator/WilliamShakespeare, who featured plays within plays both in comedy -- ''The Most Lamentable Comedy, and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe'' within ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', and ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' actually ''is'' one by means of a FramingDevice -- and in tragedy (''[[CatchTheConscience The Murder of Gonzago]]'' within ''{{Hamlet}}'').
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-->-- '''ExpositoryThemeTune''' for ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[note]]''The Itchy and Scratchy Show'' is actually a segment on ''The Krusty the Klown Show''. ''The Simpsons'' was once a segment on ''The Tracy Ullman Show''. So, technically, that makes it a [[UpToEleven Show Within A Show, within a former Show Within A Show]]. Or [[Film/{{Inception}} Showception]], for short.[[/note]]

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-->-- '''ExpositoryThemeTune''' for ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[note]]''The Itchy and Scratchy Show'' is actually a segment on ''The Krusty the Klown Show''. ''The Simpsons'' was once a segment on ''The Tracy Ullman Show''.''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow''. So, technically, that makes it a [[UpToEleven Show Within A Show, within a former Show Within A Show]]. Or [[Film/{{Inception}} Showception]], for short.[[/note]]
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SuperTrope to SchoolPlay and SoapWithinAShow. SisterTrope with FictionalDocument and FictionalVideoGame.

Compare with FramingDevice, MutuallyFictional, PlotParallel, PostModernism, PushedInFrontOfTheAudience, RecursiveFiction, RecursiveReality (of the "nested stories" variety), and WhoWouldWantToWatchUs. See also SetBehindTheScenes, where The Show is actually this trope.

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SuperTrope to SchoolPlay and SoapWithinAShow. SisterTrope with FictionalDocument and FictionalVideoGame. \n\n Overlaps with SetBehindTheScenes.

Compare with FramingDevice, MutuallyFictional, PlotParallel, PostModernism, PushedInFrontOfTheAudience, RecursiveFiction, RecursiveReality (of the "nested stories" variety), and WhoWouldWantToWatchUs. See also SetBehindTheScenes, where The Show is actually this trope.
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actually, not sure if that's under Art or Toys, moved back


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* The smallest-scale model train is in the window of a toy store--[[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222496/Pictured-The-worlds-smallest-working-train-model-thats-tinier-fingernail.html which is in a model village that's part of a model train.]]
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* The smallest-scale model train is in the window of a toy store--[[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222496/Pictured-The-worlds-smallest-working-train-model-thats-tinier-fingernail.html which is in a model village that's part of a model train.]]
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Supertrope of SchoolPlay and SoapWithinAShow. Sister trope to FictionalDocument. Also compare with WhoWouldWantToWatchUs, FramingDevice, RecursiveFiction, RecursiveReality (of the "nested stories" variety), MutuallyFictional, PushedInFrontOfTheAudience, PostModernism, PlotParallel. If producing the show is important to the plot, see HeyLetsPutOnAShow. If the story baits the audience into thinking the Show Within a Show is the actual show, brace yourself for the ProsceniumReveal. See also FictionalVideoGame, a related Trope. If the Show Within a Show ends up being produced in reality as a SpinOff, see {{Defictionalisation}}.

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Supertrope of SchoolPlay and SoapWithinAShow. Sister trope to FictionalDocument. Also compare with WhoWouldWantToWatchUs, FramingDevice, RecursiveFiction, RecursiveReality (of the "nested stories" variety), MutuallyFictional, PushedInFrontOfTheAudience, PostModernism, PlotParallel. If producing the show is important to the plot, see HeyLetsPutOnAShow. If the story baits the audience into thinking the Show Within a Show is the actual show, brace yourself for the ProsceniumReveal. See also FictionalVideoGame, a related Trope. If the Show Within a Show ends up being produced in reality as a SpinOff, see {{Defictionalisation}}.
{{Defictionalisation}}.

SuperTrope to SchoolPlay and SoapWithinAShow. SisterTrope with FictionalDocument and FictionalVideoGame.

Compare with FramingDevice, MutuallyFictional, PlotParallel, PostModernism, PushedInFrontOfTheAudience, RecursiveFiction, RecursiveReality (of the "nested stories" variety), and WhoWouldWantToWatchUs. See also SetBehindTheScenes, where The Show is actually this trope.



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* The smallest-scale model train is in the window of a toy store--[[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222496/Pictured-The-worlds-smallest-working-train-model-thats-tinier-fingernail.html which is in a model village that's part of a model train.]]
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* The smallest-scale model train is in the window of a toy store--[[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222496/Pictured-The-worlds-smallest-working-train-model-thats-tinier-fingernail.html which is in a model village that's part of a model train.]]
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* ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': This is actually the basic premise: the main cast films episodes of a TV show (not all of which we get to see) for a pair of network executives. However, what this show is or even its genre is different in every episode.
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Shows-within-a-show are [[StylisticSuck usually of low quality]]. This is intentional: the low quality of the show is part of the joke or the misery of the characters involved. As a general rule, the more central the Show Within A Show is to the actual show, the better -- or at least higher-gloss -- it will be.

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Shows-within-a-show are [[StylisticSuck usually of low quality]]. This is intentional: the low quality of the show is part of the joke or the misery of the characters involved. As a general rule, the more central the Show Within A Show is to the actual show, the better -- or at least higher-gloss -- it will be.
be. On the other hand, FinaglesLaw dictates that TheShowMustGoWrong, so don't expect to get through it without at least one catastrophe.
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* Mention is made of a popular holoseries in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'' called [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Arbitrator Foreboding]], a member of the Adeptus Arbites who hunts down mutants and heretic with relish and a very big gun.

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* Mention is made of a popular holoseries in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'' ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' called [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Arbitrator Foreboding]], a member of the Adeptus Arbites who hunts down mutants and heretic with relish and a very big gun.
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For the pre-television history of this trope, [[ZerothLawOfTropeExamples once again]] we must go back to Creator/WilliamShakespeare, who featured plays within plays both in comedy -- ''The Most Lamentable Comedy, and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe'' within ''AMidsummerNightsDream'', and ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' actually ''is'' one by means of a FramingDevice -- and in tragedy (''[[CatchTheConscience The Murder of Gonzago]]'' within ''{{Hamlet}}'').

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For the pre-television history of this trope, [[ZerothLawOfTropeExamples once again]] we must go back to Creator/WilliamShakespeare, who featured plays within plays both in comedy -- ''The Most Lamentable Comedy, and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe'' within ''AMidsummerNightsDream'', ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'', and ''Theatre/TheTamingOfTheShrew'' actually ''is'' one by means of a FramingDevice -- and in tragedy (''[[CatchTheConscience The Murder of Gonzago]]'' within ''{{Hamlet}}'').
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Compare with SchoolPlay, SoapWithinAShow, WhoWouldWantToWatchUs, FictionalDocument, FramingDevice, RecursiveFiction, RecursiveReality (of the "nested stories" variety), MutuallyFictional, PushedInFrontOfTheAudience, PostModernism, PlotParallel. If producing the show is important to the plot, see HeyLetsPutOnAShow. If the story baits the audience into thinking the Show Within a Show is the actual show, brace yourself for the ProsceniumReveal. See also FictionalVideoGame, a related Trope. If the Show Within a Show ends up being produced in reality as a SpinOff, see {{Defictionalisation}}.

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Compare Supertrope of SchoolPlay and SoapWithinAShow. Sister trope to FictionalDocument. Also compare with SchoolPlay, SoapWithinAShow, WhoWouldWantToWatchUs, FictionalDocument, FramingDevice, RecursiveFiction, RecursiveReality (of the "nested stories" variety), MutuallyFictional, PushedInFrontOfTheAudience, PostModernism, PlotParallel. If producing the show is important to the plot, see HeyLetsPutOnAShow. If the story baits the audience into thinking the Show Within a Show is the actual show, brace yourself for the ProsceniumReveal. See also FictionalVideoGame, a related Trope. If the Show Within a Show ends up being produced in reality as a SpinOff, see {{Defictionalisation}}.
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* Mention is made of a popular holoseries in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'' called [[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Arbitrator Foreboding]], a member of the Adeptus Arbites who hunts down mutants and heretic with relish and a very big gun.
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-->-- '''OpeningNarration''' for ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[note]]''The Itchy and Scratchy Show'' is actually a segment on ''The Krusty the Klown Show''. ''The Simpsons'' was once a segment on ''The Tracy Ullman Show''. So, technically, that makes it a [[UpToEleven Show Within A Show, within a former Show Within A Show]]. Or [[Film/{{Inception}} Showception]], for short.[[/note]]

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-->-- '''OpeningNarration''' '''ExpositoryThemeTune''' for ''WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[note]]''The Itchy and Scratchy Show'' is actually a segment on ''The Krusty the Klown Show''. ''The Simpsons'' was once a segment on ''The Tracy Ullman Show''. So, technically, that makes it a [[UpToEleven Show Within A Show, within a former Show Within A Show]]. Or [[Film/{{Inception}} Showception]], for short.[[/note]]
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* ''TabletopGames/{{GURPS}}''

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* ''TabletopGames/{{GURPS}}''''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}''
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Compare with SchoolPlay, SoapWithinAShow, WhoWouldWantToWatchUs, FictionalDocument, FramingDevice, RecursiveFiction, RecursiveReality (of the "nested stories" variety), MutuallyFictional, PushedInFrontOfTheAudience, PostModernism, PlotParallel. If producing the show is important to the plot, see HeyLetsPutOnAShow. See also FictionalVideoGame, a related Trope. If the Show Within A Show ends up being produced in reality as a SpinOff, see {{Defictionalisation}}.

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Compare with SchoolPlay, SoapWithinAShow, WhoWouldWantToWatchUs, FictionalDocument, FramingDevice, RecursiveFiction, RecursiveReality (of the "nested stories" variety), MutuallyFictional, PushedInFrontOfTheAudience, PostModernism, PlotParallel. If producing the show is important to the plot, see HeyLetsPutOnAShow. If the story baits the audience into thinking the Show Within a Show is the actual show, brace yourself for the ProsceniumReveal. See also FictionalVideoGame, a related Trope. If the Show Within A a Show ends up being produced in reality as a SpinOff, see {{Defictionalisation}}.
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Compare with SchoolPlay, SoapWithinAShow, WhoWouldWantToWatchUs, FictionalDocument, FramingDevice, RecursiveFiction, RecursiveReality (of the "nested stories" variety), MutuallyFictional, PushedInFrontOfTheAudience, PostModernism, PlotParallel. See also FictionalVideoGame, a related Trope. If the Show Within A Show ends up being produced in reality as a SpinOff, see {{Defictionalisation}}.

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Compare with SchoolPlay, SoapWithinAShow, WhoWouldWantToWatchUs, FictionalDocument, FramingDevice, RecursiveFiction, RecursiveReality (of the "nested stories" variety), MutuallyFictional, PushedInFrontOfTheAudience, PostModernism, PlotParallel. If producing the show is important to the plot, see HeyLetsPutOnAShow. See also FictionalVideoGame, a related Trope. If the Show Within A Show ends up being produced in reality as a SpinOff, see {{Defictionalisation}}.
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* Music/SelenaGomez's ''Love You Like A Love Song'' has a video where she is in a karaoke bar, with her singing in and out of the bar's TV.
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* ''Up Late with Miss Piggy'' on ''Series/TheMuppets''.
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* In the bonus rounds of SonicTheHedgehogSpinball, Sonic operataes an actual pinball table. You can see his reflection in the glass, and his eyes even move as you play.
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* The former ''Ride/{{Disaster}}'' attraction at [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal Studios Florida]] was based around the fictitious Disaster Studios, which created "films" such as "Apocageddon", "Das Schurke", "Baboon!", and "300 Knots Landing"; with their upcoming production being "Mutha Nature".
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* "Guapos University" and "Fitness con Dark Angel" were among Wrestling/{{CMLL}}'s. Five episodes of the latter were put on Youtube in 2014.

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* "Guapos University" and "Fitness con [[Wrestling/SarahStock Dark Angel" Angel]]" were among Wrestling/{{CMLL}}'s. Five episodes of the latter were put on Youtube in 2014.
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Compare with SchoolPlay, SoapWithinAShow, WhoWouldWantToWatchUs, FictionalDocument, FramingDevice, RecursiveFiction, RecursiveReality (of the "nested stories" variety), MutuallyFictional, PushedInFrontOfTheAudience, PostModernism, PlotParallel. If the Show Within A Show ends up being produced in reality as a SpinOff, see {{Defictionalisation}}.

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Compare with SchoolPlay, SoapWithinAShow, WhoWouldWantToWatchUs, FictionalDocument, FramingDevice, RecursiveFiction, RecursiveReality (of the "nested stories" variety), MutuallyFictional, PushedInFrontOfTheAudience, PostModernism, PlotParallel. See also FictionalVideoGame, a related Trope. If the Show Within A Show ends up being produced in reality as a SpinOff, see {{Defictionalisation}}.

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