Best References to Non-Existent Films/TV Shows Within Films/TV Shows

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  1. RayS

    RayS A Little Bit Older and a Little Bit Slower Thread Starter

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    Started thinking of some of these today:

    "Bastard Squad" - Vyvyan's favorite show on "The Young Ones"

    "Sappy Pappies" - an apparently lost Three Stooges short that a crazy old woman claims to have appeared in on an episode of "Seinfeld"

    "Wha' Happened?" - Mike LaFontaine's failed 1970's sitcom that led him to becoming a manager in "A Mighty Wind". Noted for it's TWO memorable catch phrases - "I can't do my work!" and, of course, "Wha' happened?"

    "Dead Men Tell No Tales" - While there was a film with this title, it didn't feature Humphrey Bogart, as Ed Norton claims it did in a Honeymooners episode.

     
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  2. Oatsdad

    Oatsdad Oat, Biscuits, Abbie & Mitzi: Best Dogs Ever

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    Does "Itchy and Scratchy" from "The Simpsons"?

    Or "The Krusty the Klown Show"?

    Or the "McBane" movies?

    Or the "Space Mutant" movies?
     
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  3. Culpa

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    Twin Peaks had a soap opera, "Invitation To Love".
     
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  4. RayS

    RayS A Little Bit Older and a Little Bit Slower Thread Starter

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    Now we're talking more "shows within shows" ("Itchy & Scratchy" even being a show within a show within a show).

    I'd go with "When The Whistle Blows" from "Extras".

    And the fictional "Seinfield" reunion episode on "Curb Your Enthusiasm".

    And "The Zombo Show" on "The Munsters".
     
  5. Oatsdad

    Oatsdad Oat, Biscuits, Abbie & Mitzi: Best Dogs Ever

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    Yeah, I thought "I&S" was dodgy because it actually DOES kinda exist since they show the I&S shorts on the episodes!

    What about references to non-existent movies like "Look Who's Oinking" or "Star Trek XII: So Very Tired"?
     
  6. Spaghettiows

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    Did they ever name that show in Robocop where the host would repeat the catchphrase "I'd buy that for a dollar!"
     
  7. RayS

    RayS A Little Bit Older and a Little Bit Slower Thread Starter

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    If there's a "clip", it "exists", I guess.

    "Rochelle, Rochelle" exists on "Seinfeld" - as a movie and a musical. And certainly "The Alan Brady Show" exists on "Dick Van Dyke", though we very rarely SEE it.
     
  8. Oatsdad

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    So by that standard, "Star Trek XII" exists because we see a clip, but "Look Who's Oinking" doesn't - IIRC, Homer mentions the title but we don't see any of it.

    I don't think we ever see the "Rochelle" movie on "Seinfeld", but I think we HEAR it as they watch it. I believe the same goes for "Sack Lunch"...
     
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  10. RayS

    RayS A Little Bit Older and a Little Bit Slower Thread Starter

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    Yes, "Rochelle" is heard but not seen.
     
  11. RayS

    RayS A Little Bit Older and a Little Bit Slower Thread Starter

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    And the winner for Best fictional film mentioned, but not made, within a fictional film is .... :)

    At least we got to see "Man Getting Hit By Football" (aka "Football In The Groin") on "The Simpsons". The entire film, in fact.
     
  12. Third Walt

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    "The Pickle" - a movie that I like a lot, most people who've seen it don't. I think it's a very warm, personal film with great performances. Scenes from the fictional movie (also called "The Pickle") is intentionally cheesy and stupid which seems to put some off.

    The fun little movie "Drive-In" (1976) has very amusing scenes from the imaginary "Disaster '76" throughout the second half of the film.

    "My Favorite Year" has the fictional "King Kaiser Show" (modeled closely on "Your Show of Shows" of course).

    Lynch and Frost's "On the Air" featured things going wrong on a live TV show; I watched the first episode and thought it was ponderous. Now I wish I'd watched the few other episodes that aired before it was cancelled.

    In a similar vein, it's not a TV show or film, but the play-within-the-play of "Noises off" is "Nothing on". I saw a performance of this featuring Noel Harrison as the directory at the Fox Theater in Atlanta sometime in the 1980s. Very amusing.
     
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  13. Roland Stone

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    30 ROCK had plenty of fictional NBC shows, some more prominent than others. Definitely one of my favorite parts of this late, great comedy:

    BITCH HUNTER (inexplicably renewed target of protests of network misogyny)
    MILF ISLAND (Survivor-like contest starring fit mothers and 12 year-old boys)
    AMERICA'S KIDZ GOT SINGING (talent shows for innocent kids to get insulted by Jenna)
    GOD COP (procedural starring God as a cop)
    HOT BOX (financial news show)
    HOMONYMS (game show where contestants futilely attempt to guess which meaning of a homonym is the right answer)
    ALFIE & ABNER (Amos 'n Andy style comedy featuring white actor in blackface and a furious African-American)
    LOVEBIRDS (Honeymooners-style comedy with over-the-top threats of violence)
     
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  14. R. Totale

    R. Totale The Voice of Reason

    The hit TV series "Oww, My Balls!" in Idiocracy. We do see a commercial for it, though.
     
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  15. RayS

    RayS A Little Bit Older and a Little Bit Slower Thread Starter

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    I actually went to see "Drive In" in the theater in 1976 (I believe it was 90 cents). Don't think I've seen it since, but I vaguely remember the disaster film within, during the height of the disaster film era.
     
  16. konut

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    You May Remember Troy McClure From Such Films As:
    • The Boatjacking of Supership '79
    • Calling All Quakers
    • The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel
    • Cry Yuma
    • David versus Super Goliath
    • Dial M for Murderousness
    • The Electric Gigolo
    • The Erotic Adventures of Hercules
    • Give My Remains to Broadway
    • Gladys the Groovy Mule
    • Good-Time Slim, Uncle Doobie, and the Great 'Frisco Freak-Out'
    • The Greatest Story Ever Hulaed
    • Here Comes the Coast Guard
    • Hitler Doesn't Live Here Anymore
    • Hydro, the Man With the Hydraulic Arms
    • Leper in the Backfield
    • Make-Out King of Montana
    • Meet Joe Blow
    • The Muppets Go Medieval
    • "P" is for Psycho
    • Preacher With a Shovel
    • The President's Neck is Missing
    • The Revenge of Abe Lincoln
    • The Seven-Year Old Bitch
    • Sorry, Wrong Closet
    • Suddenly Last Supper
    • They Came to Burgle Carnegie Hall
    • Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die
    • The Verdict Was Mail Fraud
    • The Wackiest Covered Wagon in the West
    • Jagged Attraction
    • Look Who's Still Oinking
     
  17. Vidiot

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    I'd pay to see that.

    I'm reminded of how Albert Brooks did a very funny 10-minute short for SNL back in 1975, and he had fake promos for the following fake NBC shows:

    Medical Season - a hopelessly generic, slap-happy medical show with every cliche of Medical Center, Marcus Welby, and all the other doctor shows of that era

    The Three of Us - "one man's fantasy is now a situation comedy!" It totally predicted Three's Company, how a single man winds up in an apartment with two knockout women (one of whom is his wife), and he's constantly trying to lure both into bed with him

    Black Vet - Dr. Bowman, "a young black veteran from the Vietnam War returns and takes up practice as a veterinarian in a small southern town." One scene has a redneck telling the doc that his dog Duke "doesn't want to operated on by a black doctor.

    These fake shows are funnier than about 97% of the sitcoms NBC has aired in the last decade.
     
  18. MLutthans

    MLutthans That's my spaghetti, Chewbacca! Staff

    Newhart/The Bob Newhart Show
     
  19. Ken_McAlinden

    Ken_McAlinden MichiGort Staff

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    Also within the scope of this thread, the nigh-unpronounceable legal drama feature film "The Rural Juror"
     
  20. keef00

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    Many mentioned in Seinfeld, most notably Rochelle, Rochelle.

    Firestorm
    Death Blow
    Cry, Cry Again
    The Other Side of Darkness
     
  21. JamieC

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    See You Next Wednesday. In most John Landis films, especially Thriller.
     
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  22. Commander Lucius Emery

    Commander Lucius Emery Forum Resident

    Al Bundy's favorite TV show "Psycho Dad"
     
  23. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    "Expose", on "LOST".
     
  24. Encuentro

    Encuentro Forum Resident

    Angels with Filthy Souls from Home Alone.
     
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  25. mmars982

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    Good one. I thought this was a real movie for years.
     
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