Tropescilloscope: Show Within a Show

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

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