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

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
    121·
    6 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.

  • Eiri@lemmy.ca
    8·
    6 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

  • hihi24522@lemm.ee
    181·
    7 days ago

    “Scary door” from Futurama

    It’s a play on the twilight zone and it’s quite something.

    “A casino where I’m always winning? This must be heaven!” “A casino where I always win… I must actually be… IN HELL!”

    “No Mr. smith. You’re not in heaven or hell. You’re on an airplane!”

    “Help! There’s a gremlin destroying the plane! You’ve gotta believe me!”

    “Why should I believe you?! You’re Hitler!”

    For those interested: The Scary Door

  • Mac@mander.xyz
    4·
    6 days ago

    i love coming across playable arcade games inside other games.
    the example that comes to mind is Klungo’s Arcade in Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 days ago

      Back in the day, when I fired up Mortal Kombat 3 for the snes, I’d usually end up spending more time in the space invaders game than playing MK itself, especially since the consoles kept the tuning intended to keep the quarters coming for the arcade version (first fight would be easy, next fight would be hard, then easy after continue, so it wasn’t just pay to play for the arcade but pay to win).

      I’m curious if I’d remember each of the codes required for the secret menus, one of which contained the mini game. Can’t remember them offhand but it might be different with an snes controller in my hand.

      Actually I think I do remember one of them (or maybe it’s the Konami code, or maybe those two are the same code):

      Up, up, down, down, left, right, A, B, A

      Or maybe it was right then left. Lol I also remember usually needing to try several variations before I’d get each code correct.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 days ago

    Once (I liked it so much I saw it twice…my apologies to Ted Lasso)

    I don’t know if that fits the definition, but it’s an album being written within a movie which sounds like “media within media” to me.