Fake tv shows/movies as seen in a tv show or movie?!

He was rather too enthusiastic?

I wasn't going to mention Lin Ye Tang's Doorway To Hell.

Oops, sorry.

 

ha ha I forgot that one! great show...

 

that will never fade away! or did it?

 

I miss John Candy such a great comedian and had a great vibe .

 

missed that one...

 

I tried but never really got into the soap opera look...the video tape was too strange. It fit sort of for Dark Shadows...

 

man, that is still freaky after all these years

 

Real Families (WKRP in Cincinnati)

 

Gotta Dance (WKRP In Cincinnati)

 

He was Duke, the fat middle-aged perv who called her "Mrs. Fablo".

"It's you and I, Mrs. Fablo! Heh heh heh!"

I don't think I thought it was creepy in the 80s, but now... man, that's a pretty grim finale for a comedy sketch!

 

Terrance & Phillip on South Park.
The Grey Ghost on Batman - The Animated Series

 

The Red Ranger (Night Court)

 

Probably a bit of a cheat since the entire movie is numerous sketches, many of which are tv and movie take-offs, but I feel remiss in not mentioning perhaps the best of all, "Fistful Of Yen" from Kentucky Fried Movie:

 

How about a fake commercial (obviously based on the old Slinky commercials)?

 

We watched Detective Pikachu with our kids, and it was also playing in the background in an apartment in one scene. It was my favorite part of that movie

 

Idiocracy. We're pretty much there, folks.

 

The first one that comes to mind is "The Joker" with talk show host Murray Franklin.

Spoiler

 

The Running Man

 

The Alan Brady Show (The Dick Van Dyke Show

Undercover Woman (The Betty White Show)

The Happy Homemaker (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)

You Wanted to See It (Happy Days)

Vermont Today (Newhart)

The Jerry Langford Show (The King of Comedy)

Comedy Cavalcade (My Favorite Year)

Southwest General (Tootsie)

 

Galaxy Quest

 

“Name the Winner” in Star Trek.

 

I love it! It's as if he's saying to the whole thread, "Hey - I'm right here...!"

Brilliant idea for a thread, by the way.

 

I dunno if this counts, but it's got that "story-within-a-story" vibe to it.

"Tales Of The Black Freighter" is a comic book that characters in the comic series The Watchmen read. What elevates it to "show/movies" in a show/movie, is that originally Zack Snyder had the fictitious comic adapted into what eventually became a direct-to-video feature. Originally, he had wanted live action sequences inserted into the Watchmen feature, but for budgets' sake they cut it down to the animated format, and eventually still had to excise the segments from the finished film for time constraints.

So, even if the origin is a comic-book-within-a-comic book, it eventually became a show-developed-as-a-comic-book-developed-as-a-show-within-a-show...which ended up as an animated "show-without-a-show".

 

Professor Proton from The Big Bang Theory. Would Sheldon's Fun With Flags count?

 

Lucy's TV commercials were always a highlight (Aunt Martha's Old Fashioned Salad Dressing, too), to say nothing of Ricky's starring role in the fictitious MGM film "Don Juan" that took the gang to Hollywood for a season and a half.