That meta stuff on Supernatural was pretty clever in the larger context of the show and that season's big story arc. (My wife kinda begged me into watching this show with her.)
― Unfrozen Caveman Board-Lawyer (WmC), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
even if i do like gilmore girls, i just can't find myself wanting to watch sn. the marty sue article on tvtropes also blew my mind and now makes me want to change my whole nanowrimo
― hoy orbison (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
also noticed they don't have an article on kayfabe or breaking kayfabe or 'breaking' kayfabe etc. in their sports storyline bit - may write to them if i get really bored.
― hoy orbison (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Zack in Saved By The Bell could not only break the Fourth Wall but stop reality at will. This raises questions about the nature of Zack's existence. Is he a character, an actor, a first-person narrator, or...a deity? He extended the point further years later by guesting on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to promote "his" show Raising The Bar and explain why he used the stage name Mark-Paul Gosselaar.
Something I've definitely given thought to --what is the nature of Zach on Saved by the Bell? He not only could stop reality at will but he also could dress up like a woman and -- despite appearing exactly like Zach to his entire audience -- fool the entire cast of the show. Borrowing a plotline from Fallout 3, I'd like to suggest that Zach is actually both a character and the figure running a broad simulation where he gets to live in high school forever (and then college, but that college was essentially high school with the word college slapped on so idk, ymmv). Also of interest to scholars are the episodes where the team goes to Hawaii (iirc? the Bahamas maybe?) and Zach falls in love with the future Carrie Heffernan.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Something I've definitely given thought to --what is the nature of Zach on Saved by the Bell?
― goole, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
this is a thread to embrace such thoughts and not to mock, goole
― hoy orbison (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Zach's always felt like kind of a Ferris Bueller ripoff and I feel like both of their addressing the camera works the same way -- for the most part it's just kind of a playfully elastic way to let them narrate their own story or provide their POV in a way that isn't voiceover but isn't really meant as part of the show's reality, just what's going on in their head. and there's an added layer of a Fonzie-type thing, they're so cool that they can stop time for a second and quip about what's going on.
― deej otm (some dude), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
also noticed they don't have an article on kayfabe or breaking kayfabe or 'breaking' kayfabe etc. in their sports storyline bit
That's because it listed under the category "professional wrestling", here's a direct link:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Kayfabe
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 9 November 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
oooh never saw that
― hoy orbison (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
One of maybe three Supernatural episodes I saw had the bros interacting with the writer of that very episode trying to direct the turn of events. I couldn't work out if this was supposed to be way-post-shark-jump or kinda cool.
* The title being a reference to a very Post Modern Sesame Street (!) book.
this book is awesome btw.
totally had this hate-crush on zach for all of the above.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 09:41 (thirteen years ago) link
In the movie Empire Records, there's a poster for Dazed and Confused taped to the cash register in the store. Renee Zellweger was in both movies.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, 2 January 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
omg yeah seriously - that show's pretty flawed but i thought they pulled this off remarkably well.
spoiler: the brothers become the protagonists of a book series called "Supernatural" which are written by a guy who turns out to be a prophet. in the last season, it's implied that the prophet is in fact God dictating events.
The books becomes immensely popular within the show's universe itself - at one point, the bros attend a Supernatural convention where they're mistaken for cosplay fanboys haha. Also there's the scene where they encounter Sam/Dean slashfic...
― Roz, Sunday, 2 January 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
lol me not reading anything above the last bookmark.
― Roz, Sunday, 2 January 2011 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
rory cochrane is also in dazed + confused and empire records!
― just sayin, Sunday, 2 January 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
(xxpost)
i don't think renee zellweger is in dazed & confused, are you thinking of joey lauren adams?
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 2 January 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
just sayin is otm though
In 'Dirty Harry', Eastwood's character is walking down a street and in the distance there's a cinema showing 'Play Misty For Me'.
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
naw she was in there n/a
http://eighties.weebly.com/uploads/7/4/6/1/746191/5882261.jpg
― zvookster, Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
I loved the Cosby Show but I hated that they sometimes did this shit too.
like B.B. King was on an episode playing fictitious famous blues musician "Riley Jackson", yet Cliff was also once surprised on his birthday with a private performance by Lena Horne, who was playing herself.
I guess it's cuz they actually made "Riley Jackson" a character who did more than play his instrument, while Lena just appeared for the performance, but WHY COULDN'T HE BE B.B. KING!!!
― O'Shea the Cubeman (San Te), Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
here's also something I don't get.
Doug Heffernan from King of Queens and Ray Barone from the godawful Everybody Loves Raymond were supposed to be friends, and occasionally made cameos on each others' shows.
However, in a 1998 episode, Kevin James (aka Doug Heffernan) played a completely different character, Kevin Daniels, for SIX fucking episodes, who was a Mets announcer.
He appeared as Doug in three episodes, all of which occurred less than a year after he'd just played Kevin Daniels.
This bothered me a lot until I realized I was giving more thought than deserved to two of the shittiest sitcoms in recent history.
― O'Shea the Cubeman (San Te), Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
One thing I love about those crossovers is that the King of Queens writers write Raymond's character so differently than the writers of Everybody Loves Raymond. He's so unfamiliar, but he's supposed to be this well known figure from a different sitcom.
― Mordy, Sunday, 2 January 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Zvookster I'm pretty sure that pic's of joey Lauren adams
― just sayin, Sunday, 2 January 2011 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
oh i think you're right, but well she's in there somewhere
― zvookster, Sunday, 2 January 2011 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
She's uncredited in Dazed and Confused. Which means it's possible that it's not Zellweger at all, but Zellweger's Empire Records character, and that's why the poster is in the store.
Did I just blow your mind?
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, 2 January 2011 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.moviemuser.co.uk/MovieImages/MAD-Dazed-and-confused/daz-renee-wellweger.jpg
― Kerm, Sunday, 2 January 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm not convinced that's her
― O'Shea the Cubeman (San Te), Sunday, 2 January 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
except then her character in Empire Records would have to be in her late 30s
― congratulations (n/a), Sunday, 2 January 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
I think Zellweger is the second girl who walks by.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo4kDrWBa6c
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 2 January 2011 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I watched Kick-Ass last night, and the movie's characters exist in a world where one of them can quote Jack Nicholson's Joker from the Tim Burton Batman, but none of them recognize Nicolas Cage.
― you think you're cool, but you read ick (Phil D.), Sunday, 9 January 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
xp
also jetpacks
― Dream impossible dreams (R Baez), Sunday, 9 January 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
nic cage was in batman?
― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 9 January 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
that would be the shittiest Batman ever
― mavisbeacon666 (San Te), Sunday, 9 January 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
who the hell wants to see a coked out looking batman w/ bugeyes
REALISM
― Dream impossible dreams (R Baez), Sunday, 9 January 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
last night I went to the movies and saw a trailer for Cedar Rapids, which includes a scene of the actor who played Clay Davis on The Wire making a reference to Omar from The Wire.
― some dude, Sunday, 9 January 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not suggesting that Empire Records and Dazed and Confused are in the same fictional universe. I'm suggesting that the extra in Dazed and Confused was *played by* "Gina" -- who, let's remember, wants to be a rock star and would probably jump at the chance to be in a movie.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, 9 January 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
So you're saying it's Renee as Gina as an extra in a film?
― Jean Hill as Gospel bus hijacker (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, 9 January 2011 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
That is kind of silly
yeah jaymc that makes zero sense, you're next level with this stuff now.
on the new show Episodes, Matt LeBlanc plays himself, but John Pankow plays a fictional character, which is a double violation because not only were Friends and Mad About You both NBC shows at the same time, but they existed in the same fictional universe via Lida Kudrow crossover twins
― some dude, Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah jaymc that makes zero sense
Heh, well, it was fun to think about.
― Zsa Zsa Gay Bar (jaymc), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
jaymc u r making perfect sense u r just so far ahead of the game it is ridiculous
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
don't let these H.A.M.s get you down
IN THE WORLD OF EMPIRE RECORDS gina played that extra
it is perfectly sensible and my mindstate is all bulhoone now
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
the solution to this riddle is to forget that the movie empire records was ever made
― plax (ico), Sunday, 9 January 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i for one will not be satisfied until we reconcile all fiction into one consistent universe.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 9 January 2011 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
It's been done already:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Westphall_Universe#The_Tommy_Westphall_Universe_Hypothesis
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~kwgow/crossovers.html
― Tuomas, Monday, 10 January 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Has anyone ever played both him/herself AND a fictional character in the show/series/film?
― Jean Hill as Gospel bus hijacker (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 10 January 2011 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Ben Affleck in Apatow-verse IIRC
― Mordy, Monday, 10 January 2011 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Ooops I forgot "same"
― Jean Hill as Gospel bus hijacker (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 10 January 2011 00:55 (thirteen years ago) link