Examples: Itchy & Scratchy from The Simpsons, The Scary Door from Futurama, or The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky.

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        OMG I would love for that to be a real show. It would have to be hosted by the actor who did it in the show; he was perfect.

        “It’s always the other one. Let me see the card.”

        “No! Never!”

    • jqubed@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Weirdly (or not, perhaps) MILF Island was turned into a real show (sort of) not once but twice. On The Cougar a 40-year-old woman was seeking a partner among male contestants who were all in their 20s. On the rather more disturbing MILF Manor a group of women between the ages of 40-60 stay in a villa seeking to pair up with a pool of younger bachelors, which turns out to be made entirely of the women’s sons. Wikipedia says in season 2 the ex-husbands were also added to the dating pool so the sons had to compete against their dads for the divorced moms.

        • booly@sh.itjust.works
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          2 months ago

          John Oliver sometimes runs random out of context clips of MILF Manor and I’m not sure actually watching them in context would make them any less ridiculous.

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        Loved MILF Manor. As weird as it sounds, MILF Manor season 2 was actually pretty touching at times. Season 1 was cringe overload. Both were great

        • jqubed@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          I only saw a promo for it once and was pretty grossed-out, but had to at least look up the Wikipedia. I don’t think I was the target audience, other than it reminding me of 30 Rock.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Angels With Filthy Souls

    The “adult” movie Kevin watches in Home Alone. Apparently the main dude who was supposed to be in those didn’t show up so they just had some janitor or tech fill in and he went full ham on that shit and made it something to remember.

    There’s also the McBane movie in The Simpsons that shows up in multiple episodes and if you connected them all together they actually make a coherent story line (it’s just riffing off Lethal Weapon anyway).

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        IIRC the movie from Home Alone 2 was the sequel: Angels with Even Filthier Souls.

        • Lauchs@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Oh my, I haven’t watched the second one since, oh, November 2016, completely forgot that. Thank you, that’s amazing.

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I haven’t finished the book, but I have to give it to the “Navidson record” in “House of leaves”.

    House of leaves is a book about a guy who finds a manuscript about a movie that doesn’t exist. So there are multiple layers on the narrative, from near to far you have:

    • The editor who’s editing the book
    • The writer of the book (Johnny) who tells his story and what he finds in the manuscript
    • The person who wrote the manuscript (Zampano) and his views on the movie
    • The documentary “The Navidson record” which the manuscript is describing. Filmed by Navidson (who’s, as far as Johnny can tell, a fictional character in a fictional movie that never existed)

    The reason why I have to give it to that particular piece of media within media is that everyone else in the book is a pain in the ass that feels that you have to drag yourself to in order to get to the next chapter of the Navidson record. So in a way it’s a fictional media within a fictional media that’s better than the fictional media it belongs to.

    And in case you haven’t heard of house of leaves, I’ll leave you with a page from the book:

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

    by Douglas Adams is a book about a book called “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

  • Aedis@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I didn’t see this one in the list, but UNN newscast from Starcraft 2 is one of my favorites! Particularly Donny Vermillion.