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