Tropescilloscope: Show Within a Show

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

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