Tropescilloscope: Show Within a Show

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

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