I’ll Buy That For A Dollar and Would You Like To Learn More? in Robocop and Starship Troopers. They were commercials, so do they count?
Oh yeah. Nothing was as awesome as that.
But…Hypno Toad!
A TASTE FOR LOVE, in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
“Die . . . Die . . . I can’t.”
Show within a show has long been a staple of the movie musical: the excuse for why there’s singing and dancing in the movie was, “Hey! Let’s put on a show!”
The Master of this was Busby Berkeley, where musical numbers began with the stage curtain opening, but then moved into sets and crowds and events that couldn’t possibly be staged (trip down a subway line in “I Only Have Eyes for You”)
The great finale of SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (the “Gotta Sing, Gotta Dance” Broadway Rhythm number) has Gene Kelly describing the musical number that they envision for their movie. And the end, he says to the studio producer, “Well, what do you think?”
A couple of “if it counts”:
Channel 9, from the Fast Show - “boutros, boutros gali!”
The ads during Ren and Stimpy - “LOG!” - all of them, “Pretty Kitty Litter” - with Mr. Horse!
I’ll raise you “MILF Island.”
BUT! Geeky nitpicking ahead…
We never actually saw an episode of Sick, Sad World. We only saw commercials advertising it.
And while I don’t know if I’d call it “the best”, but I love the Channel 5 News segments on Family Guy.
What?
Judge’s Ruling: “Show within a Movie - outside the terms of the OP. XXX”
(Link contains both “episodes”)
Both? Surely they’ve done more than two!
It’s true that Kujibiki Unbalance seems to be even more popular than the show that spawned it, but I can’t figure out why because it’s really not that good.
The funniest show within a show has to be “Brown Hornet” from “The Fat Albert Show”
Two questions:
(1) How can there possibly be any debate on this?
(2) How did it take 19 posts to get the correct answer?
The Muppet Show.
In the movies, but only two in the TV show.
Objection! The OP didn’t limit it to TV. Movies are sometimes called shows: “What time’s the show?” “Where’s it showing?”
Do fictional radio programmes from TV shows count?
If so, then BBC2 presents the Death of Mary, Queen of Scots.
“The Boring World of Niels Bohr” and “When Buildings Fall Down.”
Fighting round the world with russell crowe.