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What are your favorite examples of 'media within media' (e.g., shows, stories, or movies inside of other shows or books)? (lemmy.world)

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

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was trying to remember the name and am so glad you brought Angels w Filthy souls.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

IIRC the movie from Home Alone 2 was the sequel: Angels with Even Filthier Souls.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Oh my, I haven't watched the second one since, oh, November 2016, completely forgot that. Thank you, that's amazing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I was thinking of the Home Alone movie as well, they made that fake movie just for the movie.