Tropescilloscope: Show Within a Show

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

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