Examples: Itchy & Scratchy from The Simpsons, The Scary Door from Futurama, or The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky.

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
    121·
    5 days ago

    The lore books in The Elder Scrolls series, hands-down.

    There is an entire universe of conflicting knowledge, personal bias, and unreliable narrators that leave Tamriel’s history feeling very real, and very open to interpretation. The fun of it is piecing together the truth somewhere in the middle. But I’ll die on the hill that the Arcturian Heresy is absolute horseshit written by a madman, and comparable to the scribbles of a paranoid schizophrenic on an anti-vax forum. Anyone who references that volume in regards to Tiber Septim and the forming of the empire is an impressionable dweeb.

  • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
    26·
    6 days ago

    Interdimensional Cable from Rick and Morty is outrageous. GTA’s radio stations (VCPR was the best) and TV shows are often really funny. The Pißwasser beer commercial from IV always gets me.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 days ago

        I like that someone figured out half assing things can be just as funny or even funnier than putting in the effort to make it look more professional.

        Now I’m curious about who first bottled that lightning.

        Maybe the makers of Aqua Teen Hunger Force? Half the characters in there seemed like they were making it up as they went and is the earliest one I can think of where that was a common theme.

        Home Movies came later but is the earliest where that’s applied to media produced “in-universe” that I can think of.

        Home Improvement was earlier than both and Tim was often out of his league on his show, but that was more of a “ill prepared but at least trying to be professional” act than “making it up as we go and not even trying to hide it”.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    44·
    7 days ago

    Angels With Filthy Souls

    The “adult” movie Kevin watches in Home Alone. Apparently the main dude who was supposed to be in those didn’t show up so they just had some janitor or tech fill in and he went full ham on that shit and made it something to remember.

    There’s also the McBane movie in The Simpsons that shows up in multiple episodes and if you connected them all together they actually make a coherent story line (it’s just riffing off Lethal Weapon anyway).

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
    36·
    7 days ago

    “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

    by Douglas Adams is a book about a book called “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

  • Eiri@lemmy.ca
    8·
    5 days ago

    I’m a big fan of fake brands/products in anime. I don’t know why, but they bring me joy.

    Marvelsoft Macindows

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 days ago

    I haven’t finished the book, but I have to give it to the “Navidson record” in “House of leaves”.

    House of leaves is a book about a guy who finds a manuscript about a movie that doesn’t exist. So there are multiple layers on the narrative, from near to far you have:

    • The editor who’s editing the book
    • The writer of the book (Johnny) who tells his story and what he finds in the manuscript
    • The person who wrote the manuscript (Zampano) and his views on the movie
    • The documentary “The Navidson record” which the manuscript is describing. Filmed by Navidson (who’s, as far as Johnny can tell, a fictional character in a fictional movie that never existed)

    The reason why I have to give it to that particular piece of media within media is that everyone else in the book is a pain in the ass that feels that you have to drag yourself to in order to get to the next chapter of the Navidson record. So in a way it’s a fictional media within a fictional media that’s better than the fictional media it belongs to.

    And in case you haven’t heard of house of leaves, I’ll leave you with a page from the book:

    • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
      1·
      5 days ago

      The book is brilliant, even if it’s difficult to read and follow. The satire of art criticism is just so on point.

      …And it’s hard to know if the Navidson record and house never really existed or not (in the context of the book) because of the way Johnny is slowly unraveling. It’s got strong elements of cosmic horror to it, along with razor-sharp satire, and the delineation in writings styles between Johnny’s personal narrative, Zampano, and the various journal articles are written really sells the entire piece.