Tropescilloscope: Show Within a Show

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

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