Examples: Itchy & Scratchy from The Simpsons, The Scary Door from Futurama, or The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky.
Ballfondlers from Rick and Morty
Impotent Rage from GTA V
The Silver Shroud from Fallout 4
As far as other media within Rick & Morty, the Second Life-like “Roy” is something that I wish could exist. Immersive gameplay, accelerated time, tangible experiences, and endless possibilities.
Just throw a Mr. Meeseeks box at it, et voilà!
And assuming that human beings work on it imagine what skills and abilities you could acquire.
It’s kind of like the piccolo thing in Star Trek the next generation with picard. Like imagine playing a video game and then coming home and being a rockstar guitarist on par with Slash, or getting 50 years worth of meditation and monk training in before work on Monday on top of a second lifetime full of martial arts training.
Something like that would be so revolutionary it would dwarf any kind of nonlethal AI apocalypse in comparison.
There’s already a company looking to do just that, although they are focused on using it as a replacement for prison. i.e. instead of serving time in prison, the tech implants traumatic memories into your brain that are related to the crime. It wouldn’t be a far leap to implant desirable memories, though I’m not sure it would actually help you do something like learn an instrument, as muscle memory isn’t something you can implant (maybe?).
It’s kind of like the piccolo thing in Star Trek the next generation with picard.
I highly doubt the resemblance was coincidental.
That Baywatch show on friends looks good.
“Always running”
I seem to remember one of the GTA games (maybe San Andreas?) had a stand up set from I think Ricky Gervais as something that would play on the TVs.
Steel samurai from the ace attorney series.
Wormhole X-Treme! from Stargate SG-1
In-universe, creating that show was a genius move, if anything legit leaked they can just say it’s some fan fiction from the show and not from the real Stargate program.
Makes you wonder what the Stargate show was hiding :P
Well I grew up on a farm…
That’s the Wizard of Oz.
You got that from “I grew up on a farm”?
If you’re going to rip something off, choose something no-one knows.
Farscape flashback.
Gold.
“what do you mean it’s not a real show? Does my agent know? I still get paid with real money though right?”
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
by Douglas Adams is a book about a book called “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”
The hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy
“Well, that about wraps it up for God” by Oolon Colluphid
McGarnigle from the Simpsons
Binky the Clown and The Buddy Bears from Garfield and Friends
Reptar from Rugrats
Threshold Kids in the Video game control it was a kids TV series to teach kids in the game about the FBC it was kinda bonkers
yeah those were really fun/ disturbing
The lusty argonian maid
from morrowind :3 (and not skyrim >>:c)
“Sick, Sad World” from Daria
I just referenced that on Lemmy a couple of days ago
Came here to say.
Community has Inspector Spacetime and the Kickpuncher movie series.
If it’s just general media within media, that Ben folds five ass crack bandit song was fucking killer
I always wondered if that was supposed to be Dave Matthews (real fans call him Dave) but the whole plan fell apart.
Troy and Abed in the Morning!
Nights
The Abed Movie could have been great.
30 Rock has quite a few good ones:
- M.I.L.F Island
- Bitch Hunter
- TGS
- The satirized version of NBC in the show (lots of ‘biting the hand’ humor)
Celebrity Homonym
OMG I would love for that to be a real show. It would have to be hosted by the actor who did it in the show; he was perfect.
“It’s always the other one. Let me see the card.”
“No! Never!”
Can’t forget The Rural Juror
Apparently I will forget you, Rural Juror. 😆 But I’m still glad I met you.
Weirdly (or not, perhaps) MILF Island was turned into a real show (sort of) not once but twice. On The Cougar a 40-year-old woman was seeking a partner among male contestants who were all in their 20s. On the rather more disturbing MILF Manor a group of women between the ages of 40-60 stay in a villa seeking to pair up with a pool of younger bachelors, which turns out to be made entirely of the women’s sons. Wikipedia says in season 2 the ex-husbands were also added to the dating pool so the sons had to compete against their dads for the divorced moms.
My god. That… that’s enough reality tv, thank you
John Oliver sometimes runs random out of context clips of MILF Manor and I’m not sure actually watching them in context would make them any less ridiculous.
Loved MILF Manor. As weird as it sounds, MILF Manor season 2 was actually pretty touching at times. Season 1 was cringe overload. Both were great
I only saw a promo for it once and was pretty grossed-out, but had to at least look up the Wikipedia. I don’t think I was the target audience, other than it reminding me of 30 Rock.
It’s absolutely ridiculous garbage. But if you are like me and into that shit, it’s great.
Watched Asteroid City recently for the first time. I thought the play within the movie (and the intertwining back and forth of storylines) was really interesting and entertaining.
“Address Unknown”, a twilight zone/detective noir tv show within the universe of Max Payne.
Max Payne also has Lords and Ladies TV show.
Also “The Scary Door”, a twilight zone type show within the universe of Futurama.
How can you be so sure aliens aren’t already among us?!
Amogus
You’re taking a vacation from normalcy. The setting, a weird motel where the bed is stained with mystery, and there’s also some mystery floating in the pool. Your key card may not open the exercise room because someone smeared mystery on the lock, but it will open… The Scary Door.
This was the first one that came to my mind. I was like 17 when that game came out and it blew me away.
