tv shows within tv shows: an ocd thread for jaymc and nabisco

HOLY SHIT!

btw ws

How about an entire TV station within a TV show?

wasn'ty there an episode of mork n mindy where mork met robin williams?

Watched Coming To America the other day and was unexpectedly perturbed when Eddie Murcpy's character hands over a bundle of money to a homeless Don Ameche. No sir, didn't like it.

Coming to America!!

"The X Files" and "Millennium" had a complicated co-existence. At first the shows seemed to be in separate universes and used a lot of the same actors as different characters. But then Jose Chung (Charles Nelson Reilly) showed up on Millennium a few years after appearing on X-Files--and in the same episode Duchovny was pictured as a famous Selfosophist actor. Then Millennium was canceled and had to finish its story on an X-Files episode.

It wasn't Don Ameche but actually the character he played in Trading Places, Eddie Murphy's previous movie.

In which Eddie Murphy played someone else entirely!

A character from whom his character in Trading Places tricked out of his fortune. Hence "Randolph, we're back!".

Duh, he was about to say "wasn't that that same guy from ..." but didn't want to seem like a "they all look alike"-type bigot

^^ a sign that he learned his lesson from trading places

i just thought of a realllly weird example -- that movie 'the wackness' has a scene in which method man plays a jamaican drug dealer w/ an (over the top) accent, and hes chilling listening to Biggie's "The What" and Method Man's verse comes on and the kid asks him about what it is -- really bizarre

― K DEF FROM REAL LIVE (deej), Saturday, December 20, 2008 9:38 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

yeah this was my favorite moment of the movie

So I was just flipping past Star Trek: Generations and dude who plays Tuvok on whatever series that was is just a random human background ensign type. IMDB informs me that he was also on Deep Space Nine. Whoever it was that seeded all that humanoid DNA through the universe in that one Next Generation episode went REAL heavy on the "actor Tim Russ" genes.

i never watched st enterprise, but i would be pretty sad if they never made a quantum leap joke.

and who knew that Al was a cylon the whole time

this reminds me of a review of the "psycho" remake i read that complained how unrealistic it was that the characters in the movie had apparently never seen "psycho."

did they mention specific horror movies in Scream or just general "horror movie" tropes?

It makes my head hurt when two programmes establish that the other exists in the world of each respective programme. For example, there's an episode of The Sopranos in which Junior and Bobby are watching Curb Your Enthusiasm, and an episode of Curb where Larry and Cheryl are looking for a Sopranos DVD. So is the fictional version of Curb within the fictional world of The Sopranos exactly the same as the real world version except that the Sopranos DVD is replaced by The Wire or something in that one episode, and vice-versa?

Oh god, it's 4 AM and this is quite possibly going to keep me awake.

Set theory to thread!

For any formal recursively enumerable (i.e., effectively generated) theory T including basic arithmetical truths and also certain truths about formal provability, T includes a statement of its own consistency if and only if T is inconsistent.

Any effectively generated theory capable of expressing elementary arithmetic cannot be both consistent and complete. In particular, for any consistent, effectively generated formal theory that proves certain basic arithmetic truths, there is an arithmetical statement that is true,[1] but not provable in the theory.

i.e. "This statement is false"

i.e. "I am not Fran Drescher"

in this roseanne episode, john popper of blues traveler plays a fictional musician named stingray who fronts a band that dan used to be in. however, jackie thinks that several of "stingray's" songs are about her, including one called "runaround." then when the band plays at the end, they play the blues traveler songs "runaround" and "the hurt."

I guess this is similar to Curb Your Enthusiasm, but I was just thinking about this w/r/t Altman's The Player, where we are asked to imagine a Hollywood full of dozens of real-life celebrities but not Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, Lyle Lovett, etc. Looking at IMDB, I see that Susan Sarandon is one of the many celebs who plays herself; in the world of the movie, who is she romantically involved with?

i remember "possible worlds" theory giving me the vocab/tools to talk about this sort of thing in a postmodern/meta lit course, vaguely

I just found this board, but I think I'm able to take in the subject of what you are all making posts about.

One obvious show that you all have missed -- Saturday Night Live! They do this all the time! From Alec Baldwin confusing Sarah Palin for Tina Fey (who is doing her fantastic impression in the next room) (10/18/08) to the real Alex Trebek making an appearance on his famed Jeopardy! game show (5/18/02). How can the IRL Alex Trebek explain that there is another Alex Trebek hosting his own Jeopardy! game show? (With outdated answer board from the Art Fleming days.)

Then there was last week's episode (1/31/09) when Steve Martin invites Kristen Wiig to an orgy in his dressing room, but later, as a member of "The Introverts", does not join Neil and Jean for their traditional threesome!

There are many instances of this occurring on Saturday Night Live through out its stories 33-year history.

Tim and Eric do this pretty much constantly.

I don't have a particularly high standard of coherent-world realism with comedy/variety shows, though.

I mean, I don't get weirded out that SNL cast members are in multiple sketches as different characters OMG, or anything like that.

T&E's stuff with Ed Begley Jr. and Jeff Goldblum is pretty out there tho'.

Big fan of the Jeff Goldblue Man Group.

Tracy: Make fun of me all you want Liz Lemon. Do you know that they ruin anybody who they think are making black people look bad? They tanked 50 Cent’s movie. They blew out Terrell Owens ankle. And they cancelled Eddie Murphy’s Oscar, ‘cause he had ran out on Scary Spice. And now they after Tracy Jordan!

so in 30 rock's world what show did eddie murphy get his start on?

Maybe SNL was canceled after Ebersol's last season.

so in 30 rock's world what show did eddie murphy get his start on?

Ray-Ray's Mystery Garage, duh

in freaks & geeks, sam weir has a "1941" poster on his bedroom wall. one of the stars of "1941" was joe flaherty, who plays sam weir's dad

so in 30 rock's world what show did eddie murphy get his start on?

― harry s tfuman (and what), Friday, February 20, 2009 5:48 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i always thought it was insane that in that studio 60 on the sunset strip show SNL actually existed

ooh good one xopst

slocks - they're competing shows, on different networks, on different coasts...

so studio 60 is actually about mad tv

slocks - they're competing shows, on different networks, on different coasts...

― go back to ur game of Croquette ye posho's (stevie), Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:20 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ya it just made no sense.

i think it only made sense in the sense that it was also a world that had a different network called NBS which I think occupied a niche somewhere between NBC and PBS

which would explain why they thought Gilbert and Sullivan parodies were some next level shit

haha

it just seemed to be it was so obv supposed to be about SNL that actually having real-SNL in there was dumb. i mean their show was supposed to have this big proud history going back years... it was just weird that there were supposed to be like TWO shows like that

guys it still bugs me that eddie murphy is famous in 30 rock's universe

i guess just because so many other famous people referenced on the show who maybe hosted snl once or whatever eddie murphy in my head is inseperable from snl

aw yeah no doubt - i mean, that was the least of the show's probs, to be honest. i did really love it though, for all its many faults.

xp to slocki

isnt there some episode where jack gets really into friends--and schwimmer and aniston have both been on the show

guys it still bugs me that eddie murphy is famous in 30 rock's universe

Maybe Rick James just took Eddie under his wing and he became famous for "Party All the Time".