Show-within-a-show

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A show-within-a-show is a fictional television show featured within the fictional universe of a real television show. It often features a frame story.

Historically, the idea of a play within a play is an ancient one, appearing in Ovid's Metamorphoses; William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet, etc. Many films also feature this idea, Singin' in the Rain and Pee-wee's Big Adventure being two examples.

List of TV shows within shows

• Capitol Beat within The West Wing
• Krusty the Clown, The Itchy & Scratchy Show, Bumblebee Man, Eye on Springfield, Smartline, and hundreds more[1] within The Simpsons
• The Valley within The O.C.. Additionally, after MTV launched Laguna Beach: The Real O.C. the O.C-verse's equivalent of MTV launched Sherman Oaks: The Real Valley
• several television series including cop drama Manhunt, variety program Big Night Out, and medical drama Mercy Flight within The Box
• The Brown Hornet within Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
• Jerry within Seinfeld
• Terrance & Phillip within South Park
• The Mouse Trap within Hamlet
• Invitation to Love within Twin Peaks
• Tomorrow's Another Day within Generations
• Psycho Dad within Married... with Children
• Wake Up, San Francisco, Mr. Egghead, Rigby the Rhino within Full House
• Mysterious Mysteries within Invader Zim
• Elmo's World within Sesame Street
• Rainbow Monkeys within Codename: Kids Next Door
• Los Días y Las Noches de Monsigñor Martínez within King of the Hill
• Sick Sad World within Daria
• Androids within Red Dwarf
• Hundreds of actual music videos within Beavis & Butt-head
• Gekigangar III within Martian Successor Nadesico
• Kujibiki Unbalance within Genshiken
• All my Circuits, Everybody Loves Hypno-toad, The Scary Door within Futurama
• Big Shots within Cowboy Bebop
• Revenge of the Babysitter within That's So Raven
• Real Mother****ing Talk with Dollar Bill Montgomery within MADtv'
• Wormhole X-Treme! within Stargate SG-1.
• Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy (and later The New Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy) within SpongeBob SquarePants
• The Gray Ghost within Batman: The Animated Series
• Numerous shows within Saturday Night Live, including Wayne's World, It's Pat!, and Weekend Update
• Various segments within WWE programming, the majority of which are talk shows.
• Emergency Pet Groomer, Pals, and Agony County within Kim Possible.
• Now Where They At? within Drawn Together.
• Reptar within Rugrats.
• Bionic Bunny, Dark Bunny, Terrific Turbo-Trooper Toy T-Bot Team, Mary Moo Cow, Vidiboobies, Love Ducks and many others in Arthur.
• Crash Nebula, Maho Mushi, and many other series shown in Channel Chasers within The Fairly OddParents.
• Dinobinoids', My Troubled Pony within The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
• Hip Hop Helicopter within The Proud Family
• Fister's Home for Weird Made-Up People within The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
• Miss Sally's Schoolyard, Up Your Ante within Oz

List of TV shows about TV shows

• Grosse Pointe within Grosse Pointe
• Tool Time within Home Improvement
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 within Mystery Science Theater 3000 (the "experiments" were sold to basic cable as a TV series)
• The Larry Sanders Show within The Larry Sanders Show
• The Alan Brady Show within The Dick Van Dyke Show
• Garth Marenghi's Darkplace within Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
• Good Morning, Miami within Good Morning, Miami
• Sports Night within Sports Night
• FYI within Murphy Brown
• The Sword of Damocles and Beaver Creek within Made in Canada
• KYTV A spoof of an entire fictional network.
• Frontline A spoof of a current affairs television show.
• 31 Minutos A spoof of a news program.
• The Red Green Show
• Drawn Together A sitcom set on a fictitious TV reality show.
• Silverstone within The Famous Jett Jackson
  • also, in Jett Jackson: The Movie, the "real" Jett Jackson and "fictional" Agent Silverstone switched realities
• The Bad Wolf television corporation in the 2005 series of Doctor Who

See also

• List of fictional television shows