Show Within a Show/Playing With

Basic Trope: A fictional TV show within an actual TV show.

• Played Straight: The characters in Alice and Bob love to watch a show called Troperz.
• Exaggerated: Every episode in Alice and Bob covers Troperz full-time, with the characters discussing its plot.
  • Troperz has its own Show Within A Show, which in turn has another Show Within A Show.
• Justified: Showing Alice and Bob being on all the time nicks Willing Suspension of Disbelief so in their down time they watch Troperz.
• Inverted: Alice and Bob is occasionally shown to be a TV show watched by people in the "real" world.
• Subverted: Troperz is a very popular show within the Alice and Bob universe, but only for one season.
• Double Subverted: ...However, in later seasons it gets good, so they watch it again.
• Untwisted: Show Within a Show Within A Recursive Reality.
• Parodied: The show is only mentioned/the viewers only see it once.
• Deconstructed: Troperz ends up popular enough to be defictionalized.
• Reconstructed: The characters in Alice and Bob try to keep Troperz on the air.
• Zig Zagged: The characters in Alice and Bob love to watch a show called Troperz. However, they end up addicted, so the show is cancelled. That is, until it gets defictionalized.
• Averted: Troperz is not shown/mentioned within the Alice and Bob universe, not even in a minor situation.
• Enforced: Alice and Bob is a Slice of Life show.
• Lampshaded: "How does this show air?"
• Invoked: See Enforced
• Defied: Alice and Bob try to avoid watching Troperz at all costs.
• Discussed:

Alice: Troperz is on in 5 minutes! I love that show!

• Conversed: "Hey, at least they're trying to be realistic for once..."