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List of fictional media
This is a list of fictional media (films, magazines, television shows, etc) from various real media.
Advertising
Slogans
- "Big Brother is watching you" - George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
- "Catch Here!" (parody of NBC's 1983-1984 promotional campaign "Be There") - promotional campaign for NewsChannel 7, Lizzie McGuire
- "Do what we say, and nobody gets hurt." - Texxon, Saturday Night Live
- "For Real" - presidential campaign, Tanner '88
- "Our Age Is Showing" - parody of an NBC's promotional campaign, Saturday Night Live
- "We're Channel 6, Just Catch Us Now!" - parody of NBC's 1982-1983 promotional slogan "Just Watch Us Now", The Simpsons
Internet
See List of fictional online services
Movies
See List of fictional films
Publications
Newspapers
Magazines
Pornographic
- American Breast Enthusiast - The Simpsons
- Bait - from the 1987 Dragnet movie
- Bender's Big Butt Fembots - indecent magazine, published by Bender Futurama
- Big 'Uns - a men's magazine from Married with Children (1980s and 90s)
- Butt Frenzy - Aqua Teen Hunger Force
- Cheek Week - The Simpsons
- Gigantic Asses - The Simpsons
- Granny Fanny - The Simpsons
- National Pornographic - parody of National Geographic, Futurama
- Pentiumhouse - pornography for robots, parody of Penthouse magazine, Futurama
- Playbeing - a journal of sports, technology and gynecology (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
- Playbot - pornography for robots, Futurama
- Playdude magazine - The Simpsons- a take-off on Playboy
- Playpen - Married with Children- a take-off on Penthouse (also in Family Guy)
- Sapphire - adult magazine, Monk
- Spank - Beavis and Butthead - a parody of Swank adult magazine
- Stagman magazine - The Muller-Fokker Effect - a take-off on Playboy
- Taint magazine - Mr. Show with Bob and David
- Victoria's Circuit - pornography for robots, parody of Victoria's Secret catalog, so may just be a catalog, Futurama
- Zero-G Juggs - Futurama
Other
- Battle Call - Discworld, Omnian magazine, parodies War Cry
- Blue Pants Weekly - Simpsons
- Bows and Ammo - Discworld, a take-off on Guns and Ammo
- Business Shriek - Monsters, Inc., spoof of Business Week
- Chewing - a "high-gloss, literate and sophisticated" magazine for gum chewers, Calvin and Hobbes
- Composure - women's magazine similar to Cosmopolitan, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
- Doggy Style - Fashion magazine for dogs, Family Guy
- Hush-Hush - gossipy tabloid magazine, L.A. Confidential
- Know Magazine - 1960s men's magazine, Down With Love
- Men's Fatness - Simpsons
- Metropolitan - news magazine Sarah Jane Smith works for in Doctor Who
- National Tatler - tabloid in Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon and its sequels
- National Whisper - tabloid in Superman comics
- The New Frontiersman - right-wing news and opinion, Watchmen
- Newstime - news magazine in Superman comics owned by Colin Thornton
- Non-Threatening Threatening Boys magazine - The Simpsons
- Now Magazine - news magazine affiliated with the Bugle in Marvel Comics
- Nova Express - news tabloid, Watchmen
- Oceanographic Explorer - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
- SugarApe - Urban lifestyle magazine, Nathan Barley
- Total Pins - and other magazines for pin collectors, Discworld
- Teen Magazeen - the magazeens for teens, Dinosaur Comics
- Unadorned Facts - Discworld, Omnian magazine, parodies The Plain Truth
- Warrior of Fortune - Discworld, a take-off on Soldier of Fortune
- What Gallows? - Discworld
Radio Shows
(See also List of fictional radio stations)
Television Shows
See List of fictional television shows, List of fictional television stations, Troy McClure
Theatre
- The Courier's Tragedy - Richard Wharfinger's Jacobean revenge play (The Crying of Lot 49)
- Deathtrap - fictional play in the play and movie Deathtrap
- Don Juan Triumphant - The Phantom of the Opera
- The Enchanted Hunters - Clare Quilty's play in Lolita
- Greasier - parody of Grease, Lizzie McGuire
- Kickin' It! - celebrity drug rehab musical, The Simpsons
- The King in Yellow - play within the book The King in Yellow
- The King of Ankh - play by Hwel in Wyrd Sisters
- Lease: The Musical - Team America: World Police (parody of Rent)
- Leela: Orphan of the Stars - opera, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" episode of Futurama
- Manhattan Melodies - The Muppets Take Manhattan
- The Murder of Gonzago or The Mousetrap - the play in Hamlet which the Prince uses to "catch the conscience of the King".
- A Night of Kings, aka The Lancre Play - the propaganda play by Hwel in Wyrd Sisters which hews closer to Macbeth than the actual events, but inadvertently captures the conscience of the Duke.
- Nobody Said It'd Be Easy - Three-hour, one-man show by Mark Hentemann, Family Guy
- Nothing On - the play-within-a-play in Noises Off
- Nutrition and the Four Food Groups - an elementary school production in Calvin and Hobbes
- Prisoners of Love - the play in The Producers that the producers are creating at the end of the movie in prison.
- Pyramus and Thisbe - a "merry and tragical", "tedious and brief" work by Peter Quince, starring Bottom the Weaver - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Red, White and Blaine - the musical revue in Waiting for Guffman
- Springtime for Hitler - the play in The Producers that the producers are hoping will flop in their fraud scheme.
- Stop the Planet of the Apes: I Want To Get Off! - stage musical version of Planet of the Apes, starring Troy McClure from The Simpsons
- A Wizard of Sorts, or Please Yourself - play by Hwel in Wyrd Sisters
- The Wrinkled Old Family Retainer - Kilgore Trout's only drama (Timequake)
(see also Play within a play)
See also
External links
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