Surprised that no one has mentioned Vegemorphs from PBS's Arthur yet.
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Fillory in the magicians trilogy by Lev Grossman is fantastic.
Fillory and Further by Christopher Plover
within
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
As The Stomach Turns. It was a classic parody of soap operas on The Carol Burnett show, and as someone from that era i can vouch that it was a pretty spot on parody, at least from what i saw on tv when staying home sick from school.
Galaxy Quest the Show inside Galaxy Quest the Movie
Do the Justice Friends from Dexter's Lab count?
The lore books in The Elder Scrolls series, hands-down.
There is an entire universe of conflicting knowledge, personal bias, and unreliable narrators that leave Tamriel's history feeling very real, and very open to interpretation. The fun of it is piecing together the truth somewhere in the middle. But I'll die on the hill that the Arcturian Heresy is absolute horseshit written by a madman, and comparable to the scribbles of a paranoid schizophrenic on an anti-vax forum. Anyone who references that volume in regards to Tiber Septim and the forming of the empire is an impressionable dweeb.
I'm a big fan of fake brands/products in anime. I don't know why, but they bring me joy.
Interdimensional TV on Rick and Morty
Springtime for Hitler, The Producers https://youtu.be/1zY1orxW8Aw
Interesting! I didn't know there was a movie. The version I saw on stage was even more over-the-top (very stereotypical gay coded)
1967, dir Mel Brooks - I mean, who else? What a guy. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Producers_(1967_film)
Following up on that, I'd been trying to remember the song in Blazing Saddles, when they literally break the fourth wall and there's an anachronistic musical number being filmed - it's called "The French Mistake". https://youtu.be/FezOkjeNs5Y
If games count then all the radio stations in GTA
"Ow, My Balls" is a claaaassic.
There's so much in Infinite Jest, but I think my favourite would be "Blood Sister: One Tough Nun".
Crash Nebula and The Crimson Chin from Fairly Oddparents are both great
McBain in The Simpsons is a classic.
This video stitches the movie together somewhat.
Camp Pining Hearts from Steven Universe. Does Fiona and Cake from Adventure Time count?
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:
The book is brilliant, even if it's difficult to read and follow. The satire of art criticism is just so on point.
...And it's hard to know if the Navidson record and house never really existed or not (in the context of the book) because of the way Johnny is slowly unraveling. It's got strong elements of cosmic horror to it, along with razor-sharp satire, and the delineation in writings styles between Johnny's personal narrative, Zampano, and the various journal articles are written really sells the entire piece.
i love coming across playable arcade games inside other games.
the example that comes to mind is Klungo's Arcade in Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts.
Back in the day, when I fired up Mortal Kombat 3 for the snes, I'd usually end up spending more time in the space invaders game than playing MK itself, especially since the consoles kept the tuning intended to keep the quarters coming for the arcade version (first fight would be easy, next fight would be hard, then easy after continue, so it wasn't just pay to play for the arcade but pay to win).
I'm curious if I'd remember each of the codes required for the secret menus, one of which contained the mini game. Can't remember them offhand but it might be different with an snes controller in my hand.
Actually I think I do remember one of them (or maybe it's the Konami code, or maybe those two are the same code):
Up, up, down, down, left, right, A, B, A
Or maybe it was right then left. Lol I also remember usually needing to try several variations before I'd get each code correct.
I really like Fire and Blood.
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