# Fake TV Shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878 "2007-02-12T17:27:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/21 "2007-02-12T22:13:19Z")
Mysterious Mysteries (Dib’s favourite show on Invader Zim) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/22 "2007-02-12T23:00:24Z")
[QUOTE=Tengu] Mysterious Mysteries (Dib’s favourite show on Invader Zim) [/QUOTE] Well, if we’re going there…the full title of the show is “Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mystery”, as given in a couple of shows. **Invader Zim** also features “The Scary Monkey Show”, which Gir watches whenever possible. And Dib’s dad hosts “Probing the Membrane of Science”. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/23 "2007-02-12T23:21:41Z")
**Smartline, with Kent Brockman.** Also, **Eye on Springfield** , also with Kent Brockman. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/24 "2007-02-12T23:38:37Z")
And from _Kim Possible_, **The Fearless Ferret** , starring Timothy North (voiced by Adam West). ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/25 "2007-02-13T00:27:27Z")
[QUOTE=NicePete] **Ethel the Frog Who Cares Blackmail! It’s the Arts The Money Programme Stake Your Claim The Mind Up Your Pavement The Bishop World Forum** [/QUOTE] Actually, [The Money Programme](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0229908/) is real. ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/26 "2007-02-13T00:37:11Z")
George Burns had a very strange TV show within his TV show. He would be inside his house set and the TV would be on and he would see his neighbor approaching and go to answer the door. It was very clever self-referencing. His “part” of course was that he was playing himself at home but with asides to the audience. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/27 "2007-02-13T01:31:23Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] **Sick Sad World** [/QUOTE] Oh, yes, that’s the one I first though of… 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/28 "2007-02-13T03:28:41Z")
What, you remember **The Happy Homemaker with Sue Ann Nivens** but you forget **Chuckles the Clown**??? ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/29 "2007-02-13T03:32:58Z")
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip TGS (The Girly Show) with Tracy Jordan ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/30 "2007-02-13T03:35:22Z")
_You Bet Your Ass,_ from _Contact_ When I first read that novel, I laughed out loud. As if a show would ever have a name like that! These days no one would bat an eye. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/31 "2007-02-13T03:37:42Z")
[QUOTE=NicePete] The Bishop [/QUOTE] This is a movie, not a television program. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/32 "2007-02-13T03:49:16Z")
SCTV: The _Bobby Bitman Show_ with Sammy Maudlin The _Sammy Maudlin Show_ featuring Bobby Bitman Then there’s _Real People_ from WKRP. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/33 "2007-02-13T04:26:33Z")
I always come up mostly blank in these things. Although I do remember (with a little looking up for he right title) _Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mystery_ from _Invader Zim_. Too bad we’re restricted because I also have a movie that people would assume is a fake made-up one but is actually a real movie and some radio shows that are completely fake. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/34 "2007-02-13T04:29:55Z")
**Invitation to Love Would You Buy it for a Quarter? Eerie, Indiana** (in the episode “Reality Takes a Holiday,” where Marshall discovers he’s in a TV show named Eerie, Indiana) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/35 "2007-02-13T04:30:08Z")
Didn’t Captain Qwark have a TV show in the Ratchet & Clank video game? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/36 "2007-02-13T05:06:14Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] This is a movie, not a television program. [/QUOTE] There was a _Monty Python_ episode involving a television character called “The Bishop,” which was a parody of _The Saint_. The running gag was that whenever anyone would say “The Bishop,” the show’s opening credits would run. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/37 "2007-02-13T05:59:55Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] There was a _Monty Python_ episode involving a television character called “The Bishop,” which was a parody of _The Saint_. The running gag was that whenever anyone would say “The Bishop,” the show’s opening credits would run. [/QUOTE] But, if you pay attention in that bit, the first time the credits repeat, we hear the comment “this is the part where we came in”, and see a couple of the Pythons leaving a movie theater. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/38 "2007-02-13T13:40:53Z")
SCTV: _The Johnny LaRue Show_ _Monster Chiller Horror Theater_ with Count Floyd ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/39 "2007-02-13T13:50:12Z")
Springfield also has “New York Nookie” and whatever show The Bumblebee Man appears on. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-tv-shows/391878/40 "2007-02-13T14:54:28Z")
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