Tropescilloscope: Show Within a Show

A program that the characters in-universe are watching. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Leave the Camera Running Foil Mama Bear Took a Level in Jerkass Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Music Stories Instant Death Bullet Biopic Hell Is That Noise Genre Throwback Sole Survivor "Well Done, Son!" Guy Bury Your Gays Intrepid Reporter Adaptational Badass Distracted by the Sexy Getting Crap Past the Radar Asshole Victim Thriller Red Oni, Blue Oni Deliberately Monochrome Dying Moment of Awesome Arranged Marriage Crucified Hero Shot No OSHA Compliance Those Two Bad Guys Evil vs. Evil Evil Is Petty Shown Their Work Mythology Gag Pyrrhic Victory Ungrateful Bastard I Need a Freaking Drink Cruel and Unusual Death Friend to All Children Film Series Narrator Spiritual Successor Not Quite Dead Kill 'em All Dressing as the Enemy Alpha Bitch Wham Line Dramatic Irony All Girls Want Bad Boys Heterosexual Life-Partners Taking the Bullet Sequel Hook Those Two Guys Mercy Kill Evil Brit Fatal Flaw In Name Only Beauty Is Never Tarnished Totally Radical Almost Kiss Jitter Cam The Faceless Skewed Priorities Cowboy Cop Rewatch Bonus Shoot the Shaggy Dog And the Adventure Continues Evil Counterpart Sir Swears-a-Lot Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas From Bad to Worse Cold-Blooded Torture Not So Different The Stoic Let's Get Dangerous! Major Injury Underreaction Redshirt Army Adaptation Dye-Job Fake Shemp Never Found the Body Destination Defenestration Unspoken Plan Guarantee Beware the Nice Ones Manly Tears Dies Wide Open Training Montage Superhero Deus ex Machina Market-Based Title Arch-Enemy Punch-Clock Villain Becoming the Mask Loophole Abuse Video Credits Ripped from the Headlines Offscreen Teleportation Adaptation Distillation Manipulative Bastard Accidental Misnaming Bunny-Ears Lawyer Truth in Television Pretty in Mink Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Death Glare Nothing Is Scarier Irony I'm a Humanitarian Woman Scorned Lighter and Softer Good Is Not Nice The '70s Room Full of Crazy Precision F-Strike The Hero Dies Shower Scene Plot Hole Rule of Cool Neck Snap Aluminum Christmas Trees Light Is Not Good Left the Background Music On Guile Hero Foreshadowing Rape as Drama Defiant to the End Crazy-Prepared Framing Device Black Comedy Rape And Starring Final Girl Plucky Comic Relief The Stoner Animal Motifs Have a Gay Old Time What Happened to the Mouse? Would Hit a Girl Frame-Up Humans Are Bastards Eureka Moment Fish out of Water Eagleland Adapted Out Damsel in Distress Zombie Stories The Lost Lenore Manic Pixie Dream Girl Curb-Stomp Battle Rousing Speech In the Back My Greatest Failure Woman in White Sci-Fi Horror Parental Abandonment Mistaken for Gay The Cameo Deconstruction My Beloved Smother Abusive Parents Corrupt Corporate Executive Deadpan Snarker Badass in a Nice Suit Papa Wolf Dark Is Not Evil Meaningful Echo Award-Bait Song Dutch Angle Non-Indicative Name Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Apocalypse How Butt-Monkey Our Vampires Are Different Parental Neglect Made of Iron Aside Glance Face–Heel Turn What the Hell, Hero? The Cavalry And I Must Scream Fantasy Films Cool Shades Anti-Villain Gainax Ending Daddy's Girl Honor Before Reason Boom, Headshot! Storming the Castle Brainless Beauty Historical-Domain Character No Antagonist Psychopathic Manchild Blood from the Mouth Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience As Long as It Sounds Foreign Leaning on the Fourth Wall Documentary B-Movie Peek-a-Boo Corpse Smoking Is Cool Advertised Extra Sealed Evil in a Can Affectionate Parody I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Unusual Euphemism Police Brutality Stealth Hi/Bye Spiteful Spit Psycho for Hire Military and Warfare Films Never My Fault Antagonist Title Dull Surprise Yandere The Oner The Bad Guy Wins Vampire Fiction All There in the Script Bring My Brown Pants Villain Protagonist He Knows Too Much Dramatic Gun Cock Coming-of-Age Story Drives Like Crazy Token Minority Facial Horror Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Unresolved Sexual Tension Idiot Ball Babies Ever After Cool Old Lady Psychological Thriller Shell-Shocked Veteran Sanity Slippage Character Development Only Known by Their Nickname Comically Missing the Point The Mole The Ditz Jerk Jock Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Hong Kong Films Dumb Blonde Contrived Coincidence The Dreaded Bottomless Magazines Straight Gay The Alleged Car Pay Evil unto Evil Does Not Like Shoes Foregone Conclusion Exactly What It Says on the Tin Five-Man Band Actually Pretty Funny Reality Has No Subtitles Freeze-Frame Bonus Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Male Frontal Nudity Only a Flesh Wound Agony of the Feet Evil-Detecting Dog Laughing Mad Chekhov's Skill Red Right Hand More Dakka Demoted to Extra Chiaroscuro Bi the Way Dark Action Girl Early-Bird Cameo Famous Last Words Crazy Jealous Guy Fanservice Maybe Ever After Line-of-Sight Name Bad Boss Wounded Gazelle Gambit Japanese Films Artistic License – Physics Tranquil Fury Obviously Evil Spanner in the Works Casting Gag The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Gilligan Cut Canon Foreigner Hollywood Darkness Retired Badass It Can Think Ironic Echo Pretty Little Headshots Translation Convention Curse Cut Short Daylight Horror Call-Forward Title Drop Older Than They Look Author Appeal Conspicuous CG For the Evulz Setting Update The '80s Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Ambiguous Ending Bad "Bad Acting" Married to the Job Male Gaze The Stinger The Brute The Big Guy Jerk with a Heart of Gold Grey and Gray Morality Too Dumb to Live Insult Backfire Love Triangle Evil Is Hammy Fourth Date Marriage A Father to His Men Call-Back Artistic License – History Determinator aka: The Determinator Sinister Minister Time Skip Soundtrack Dissonance The Lancer War Is Hell Expository Hairstyle Change Bar Brawl Reality Ensues "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Badass Grandpa Flashback Car Fu La Résistance Failed a Spot Check Vitriolic Best Buds Credits Gag He Who Fights Monsters Would Hurt a Child Anguished Declaration of Love Anachronic Order Abhorrent Admirer Madness Mantra Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Hooker with a Heart of Gold Random Events Plot Mind Screw Off-into-the-Distance Ending A God Am I Hidden Depths Interrupted Suicide Brother–Sister Incest Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Insistent Terminology Show Within a Show Karma Houdini Here We Go Again! Blackmail No Name Given Bond One-Liner This Is Gonna Suck Martial Arts Movie Composite Character Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Hypocritical Humor A.I. Is a Crapshoot Unusually Uninteresting Sight Scary Black Man Noodle Incident Naïve Newcomer Death by Irony Undying Loyalty Villain Opening Scene Hoist by His Own Petard MacGuffin Love at First Sight Heel–Face Turn Meaningful Name Crapsack World Chewing the Scenery Broken Pedestal Made of Explodium Red Shirt I Have Your Wife Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Smart Guy Faking the Dead Race Against the Clock Extreme Doormat Kick the Dog Names to Run Away from Really Fast You Have Failed Me Product Placement Corpsing The Hero Captain Obvious Mexican Standoff Red Herring Works Set in World War II Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Silent Movie Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Gratuitous English A Date with Rosie Palms I Just Shot Marvin in the Face The Dragon In Medias Res She's Got Legs Dirty Cop There Is No Kill Like Overkill Half the Man He Used to Be Gory Discretion Shot I Did What I Had to Do Monumental Damage Big Eater Didn't Think This Through Shout-Out Vacation Films Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Pragmatic Adaptation Creepy Child Silence Is Golden Historical Hero Upgrade Kubrick Stare Ominous Latin Chanting All There in the Manual Never Trust a Trailer Shipper on Deck Wicked Cultured As You Know Wham Shot Needs Wiki Magic Love Overprotective Dad Protagonist Title Killed Mid-Sentence She Cleans Up Nicely Eye Scream Shut Up, Hannibal! Bland-Name Product Same Language Dub Extremely Short Timespan Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Parental Substitute Central Theme Real Life Writes the Plot Australian Movies No Celebrities Were Harmed Rule of Three Black Comedy Ms. Fanservice Unwitting Instigator of Doom Bound and Gagged Accidental Murder Fainting The Dog Bites Back Posthumous Character Shirtless Scene The Un-Reveal After the End Black Best Friend Ambiguously Gay Deliberate Values Dissonance Batman Gambit Greater-Scope Villain Vomit Indiscretion Shot Eiffel Tower Effect Wretched Hive Disney Villain Death Dwindling Party Well-Intentioned Extremist O.O.C. Is Serious Business Wrong Genre Savvy Television Movie Index The Remake Country Matters Dark Reprise Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Drill Sergeant Nasty Mood Whiplash Black and Gray Morality Action Survivor Green-Eyed Monster Rasputinian Death Ghost Fiction Off with His Head! Mystery and Detective Films Establishing Character Moment Diabolus ex Machina Death by Adaptation Worthy Opponent Stock Footage Air-Vent Passageway British Films Hollywood Law Developing Doomed Characters Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Sacrificial Lion Karmic Death Belligerent Sexual Tension Last-Name Basis Death by Sex Even Evil Has Standards Adaptational Attractiveness Amusing Injuries Everyone Has Standards Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Trailers Always Spoil Easily Forgiven Age Lift Improbable Weapon User Kill It with Fire The Power of Love Slap-Slap-Kiss Suddenly SHOUTING! Kick the Son of a Bitch Badass Longcoat Big "NO!" Take a Third Option Serial Killer Beard of Evil Break the Cutie Soft Glass Stealth Pun Russian Films Artistic License – Geography All Men Are Perverts Large Ham Only in It for the Money Actor Allusion Drugs Are Bad Spell My Name with an "S" Cat Fight Recycled IN SPACE! Historical In-Joke Celebrity Paradox Bond Villain Stupidity Awesome, but Impractical Hero of Another Story Earn Your Happy Ending Meet Cute Action Prologue Italian Films Chase Scene Very Loosely Based on a True Story Laser-Guided Karma Dramedy Empathic Environment True Companions As the Good Book Says... Fatal Family Photo Epic Fail Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Properly Paranoid Mundane Made Awesome Sadistic Choice Homage Politically Incorrect Villain It's Personal Big Brother Instinct Due to the Dead Stalker with a Crush Nice Guy Hate Sink Match Cut Spared by the Adaptation Animal Title Index Combat Pragmatist Word of God Fiery Redhead Roaring Rampage of Revenge Bloodier and Gorier Suspiciously Similar Substitute No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Eyepatch of Power Adult Fear Reality Is Unrealistic Fingore Captain Ersatz The Film of the Book Up to Eleven Jerkass The Chessmaster Anyone Can Die Broken Bird Mooks Those Wacky Nazis Scare Chord Ascended Extra Heel Realization Obstructive Bureaucrat Better to Die than Be Killed Manchild Blood Knight Retcon The Ghost Action Genre Offscreen Moment of Awesome Artistic License – Gun Safety Not What It Looks Like Nice Hat Depraved Bisexual Catapult Nightmare Men Are the Expendable Gender One Steve Limit Bait-and-Switch Break the Haughty The Casanova Expy Jump Scare Chekhov's Gun Dual Wielding Big-Bad Ensemble Parental Incest The Musical Amoral Attorney Romantic Comedy Adorkable Domestic Abuse Badass Normal Creative Closing Credits Back from the Dead Deal with the Devil Betty and Veronica Badass Boast Retirony Fire-Forged Friends Rich Bitch Evil Sounds Deep Villain with Good Publicity Heroic BSoD Romantic False Lead Gold Digger It Will Never Catch On Happily Married Immune to Bullets One-Word Title Not Even Bothering with the Accent Whole Plot Reference Not So Above It All Disproportionate Retribution Driven to Suicide Darker and Edgier The Atoner Camp Gay Public Domain Feature Films Police are Useless Poor Communication Kills Stepford Smiler An Aesop Rule of Funny Race Lift Improvised Weapon Disappeared Dad Hero Antagonist Film Noir Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil The Alcoholic Punny Name The Mafia Children Are Innocent Mad Scientist Throwing Your Sword Always Works Take That! Film Noir Index As Himself Moment Killer French Films Informed Ability You Killed My Father Big Damn Heroes Fan Disservice My God, What Have I Done? Refuge in Audacity BFG The Chick Reckless Gun Usage Stylistic Suck Guns Akimbo Book-Ends Bullying a Dragon Bittersweet Ending Reasonable Authority Figure Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Sequel Escalation Camera Abuse Improbable Aiming Skills The Great Depression Impaled with Extreme Prejudice An Axe to Grind German Films Death of a Child Really Gets Around Dissonant Serenity Villain Song The Load Be Careful What You Wish For A Minor Kidroduction Your Head A-Splode Meaningful Background Event Decoy Protagonist Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Slashed Throat Morality Pet folderlabel Cluster F-Bomb Blatant Lies Bare Your Midriff Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Ass Shove Bloodless Carnage Kids Are Cruel Artistic License – Law Creator Cameo The Starscream The Bully The '50s Early Installment Weirdness Big Fancy House The Reveal Brutal Honesty World of Ham Star-Crossed Lovers Dogged Nice Guy Heroic Sacrifice Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Pet the Dog Darkest Hour Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Knife Nut Broken Aesop Despair Event Horizon Re-Cut Toplessness from the Back Bolivian Army Ending Did Not Get the Girl Scenery Porn Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Taking You with Me Logo Joke Adaptation Expansion Vomit Discretion Shot Sassy Black Woman All for Nothing Only Sane Man Index of Film Westerns Body Horror One-Man Army Anachronism Stew Knight Templar Dropped a Bridge on Him Alliterative Name Gorn Paper-Thin Disguise "The Reason You Suck" Speech The Sociopath Not So Stoic The Ace All Just a Dream Implacable Man Obfuscating Stupidity Bowdlerise Disney Death Auto Erotica Together in Death The Quiet One Enemy Mine '80s Hair Tempting Fate Mr. Exposition Leitmotif The '60s Authority Equals Asskicking Big Applesauce Breaking the Fourth Wall Pragmatic Villainy Evil Laugh Hypocrite Cool Old Guy Flipping the Bird Brick Joke Our Zombies Are Different Black Dude Dies First Oh, Crap! Ax-Crazy Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking "Awesome McCool" Name Villainous Breakdown Drowning My Sorrows Funny Background Event Groin Attack Calling the Old Man Out For Want of a Nail Naked People Are Funny Catch-Phrase Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Scenery Gorn Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Jerkass Has a Point Christmas Movies Index Pimped-Out Dress Science Fiction Films Tagline Face Death with Dignity Double Entendre Alas, Poor Villain Eldritch Abomination Adaptation Name Change Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold The Vamp Canadian Movies "Shaggy Dog" Story Intergenerational Friendship Suspiciously Specific Denial Red Eyes, Take Warning Make It Look Like an Accident Lampshade Hanging Cool Car You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Big Bad No-Sell Hair-Trigger Temper Card-Carrying Villain Death Seeker Ship Tease Cloudcuckoolander Annoying Younger Sibling Gender Flip Armor-Piercing Question Action Girl Adaptational Villainy Every Car Is a Pinto Victoria's Secret Compartment Exact Words Revenge The '90s Stuff Blowing Up Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Bald of Evil NO INDOOR VOICE Not Using the "Z" Word Dark and Troubled Past Bavarian Fire Drill Self-Deprecation Chekhov's Gunman Get Out! Imagine Spot Only One Name Redemption Equals Death Slasher Movie Horror Comedy Berserk Button Epic Movie Man on Fire Took a Level in Badass Smug Snake Malevolent Masked Men Cat Scare Missing Mom Anti-Hero Overly Long Gag Fat Bastard Henpecked Husband Based on a True Story Lock and Load Montage Mighty Whitey Villain Ball 20 Minutes into the Future Closed Circle Heroes Want Redheads Pre-Mortem One-Liner Humiliation Conga Double-Meaning Title Department of Redundancy Department Four-Temperament Ensemble Small Name, Big Ego Badass Bookworm Hope Spot The Smurfette Principle Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Mugging the Monster Gone Horribly Right May–December Romance Sports Stories Genre Shift Femme Fatale How We Got Here Funny Foreigner Adults Are Useless Serious Business Beta Couple Does This Remind You of Anything? The Voiceless No Ending Historical Villain Upgrade No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Fanservice Extra Slasher Smile Grievous Bottley Harm Rated M for Manly Covers Always Lie Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Author Avatar Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Rule of Symbolism Once More, with Clarity! An Arm and a Leg Handicapped Badass Bilingual Bonus Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Cassandra Truth Your Cheating Heart Insane Troll Logic Downer Ending Fate Worse than Death Visual Pun Sexy Discretion Shot Real Life Artistic License – Biology Big Bad Duumvirate The X of Y From Nobody to Nightmare Evil Plan Put on a Bus Demonic Possession Horror Films Attempted Rape Animated Credits Opening The End... Or Is It? Neck Lift Novelization Dirty Old Man The Place It's All About Me Super Strength Fantastic Racism Costume Porn Disguised in Drag Affably Evil Genre Savvy Say My Name Defrosting Ice Queen timeperiod Cain and Abel Dirty Coward Running Gag Adaptational Heroism Fun with Acronyms Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Mr. Fanservice What You Are in the Dark Twist Ending Determinator N-Word Privileges Playing Gertrude Important Haircut Bloody Hilarious Loads and Loads of Characters Faux Affably Evil Cool Guns Artistic License – Military Riddle for the Ages Ambiguous Disorder Outrun the Fireball Motor Mouth Arc Words Tap on the Head Danny Peary Cult Movies List Freudian Excuse Unreliable Narrator Continuity Nod