Tropescilloscope: Show Within a Show

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

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