In the **Buffy the Vampire Slayer ** episode Once More With Feeling, where everyone is cursed to behave as if they were in a musical, Anya says something like “There was a wall missing in our apartment! Like there was not a fourth wall!”
I guess I don’t get the refereance here.
But Boy Meets World had a couple other moments:
Twice the producers removed a character from the show. One was just a classmate in the first one or two seasons. They brought him back for the graduation episode and the other characters all went up and hugged him. It was a nice scene for those of us who watched the show from the beginning and wondered what happenedd to him.
The second was funnier. It was the daughter (Cory’s little sister.) Again, she was on the first one or two seasons, then gone…until either the last season he was in high school or when he started college. Either way, the first time she comes back down the stairs, someone asks where she’s been all this time, to which whe replies:
“I was in my room…i was in my room for a looooong time.”
::Snorts and pounds the table, roaring with laughter.
If the episode was made after the movie, then it is bending the wall. To those who don’t know, Johns Adams was a famous person in the American revelution. Just how, I forgot. I wikied it, but didn’t find much, somehow. By serving as principle of a school named after his character, it bends that there wall.
Sorry. William Daniels played the character of John Adams in the stage musical (and movie) 1776. Adams, the main character in the show, was one of the leading agitators, pushing for the break with England and the creation of the United States. (this was referenced in previous posts by Baker about Mr. Daniels singing lines from 1776 in an episode of St. Elsewhere.)
Daniels also played Dustin Hoffman’s character’s father (I think) in the movie The Graduate. According to IMDb, Boy Meets World occasionally had shots that mirrored scenes from that movie.
"Are you trying to seduce me, Ms. (Insert name of best friend’s mother here, from that show, here)?
From an episode of the Honeymooners:
Ralph Kramden & Ed Norton are sitting in a hotel lobby. Ed asks Ralph if he’s ever watched “that show on the television that they call 'the Honeymooners?” Ralph says he has. Ed states that he & every one he knows thinks that Art Carney is a lot funnier than Jackie Gleason. Ralph becomes belligerent and they argue about it for a moment or two. Finally, they ask the man at the desk to settle their argument. Ralph asks him who’s funnier, Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? “I wouldn’t know,” the desk clerk tells him “I watch the ‘Perry Como’ show.”
In the movie Dave the title character is a look-alike for the U.S. president. When the president falls into a coma, the evil chief of staff hires Dave to impersonate him.
In one scene, the characters are watching a TV talk show. The guest? Oliver Stone, spouting some crackpot conspiracy theory about the president being replaced by a look-alike.
Isn’t there another episode where Ralph tries to meet Jackie Gleason, who, for whatever reason, is in town. I think it ends with Gleason telling Alice, “Your husband is a very handsome man.”
In Disney’s Aladdin, the genie starts his “Friend Like Me” song with:
A bit of a joking self-reference, since both Ali-baba and Aladdin are part of said thousand tales (although in the original, I believe Aladdin was Chinese).
Excel Saga’s first episode features our intrepid heroine sent off to murder a certain comic book artist - Rikudo Koshi. (She gets chewed out by the Great Will of the Macrocosm as a result. Heck, that entire anime is one huge joke on anime and Japanese pop culture.)
In Slayers Try, the group becomes separated during a storm, and Amelia gets rescued by a fish-girl voiced by Lina’s seiyuu. Said fish-girl is dating a boy voiced by Xellloss’ seiyuu.
In an episode of Lizzie McGuire that originally aired in 201, David Carridine aguested as himself to give Lizzie’s brother Matt martial arts lessons. Seems Lizzie and Matt’s dad Sam McGuire, was very close to the Kung Fu star. Toward the end of the episode, Sam is recalling fondly how close they were when Sam was growing up. “He was almost like a brother to me,” he says.
For people who need everything spelled out for them:
The role of Sam McGuire was played by David Carradine’s brother, Robert “Revenge of the Nerds” Carradine.
Uh, yeah, I guess I’m one of those people, since I’ve never seen Lizzie McGuire.
There’s a Japanese anime called “Detective Conan”, which is about this detective who’s turned into a little boy and who solves crimes. The title character, Conan, is voiced by Japanese voice actor and pop singer, Minami Takayama. In one of the episodes, the characters meet Takayama, then later, tease Conan about how his voice sounds like hers.
Also, in Isaac Asimov’s “Black Widowers” stories (about a dinner club that solves mysteries), one of the characters would sometimes talk about “my good friend Isaac Asimov” who, he says, is a hack writer.
Don’t think this quite qualifies as bending the fourth wall, though. It doesn’t hint that what we’re seeing is fictional.
There was an episode of Newhart in which Dick ran into Mr. Carlin at a psychologist’s office.
And, of course, there was that final episode.
The only bit I remember from this show is when there’s a clichéd plot point and a character sarcastically comments “This isn’t a movie!” and Parker replies “No, it’s TV.”
In another scene during the Sarah Chalke period, Roseanne was ranting about something and then added “And then Becky came back home, and we hardly recognized her!”
[sub]Lecy Goranson in Boys Don’t Cry…did anyone else experience cognitive dissonance at that?[/sub]
In the movie O Lucky Man, Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) has stopped somewhere to check to see how many customers he has left on his round selling coffee. One of the customers is “Alex DeLarge” from A Clockwork Orange.
There’s an episode of the show Home Improvement that sort of bends the fourth wall. I saw it a long time ago and I don’t even remember exactly how it went, but it was one of those “halloween special” episodes. Some trick-or-treaters come to the door. One of them is in a costume of Simba, from The Lion King. Johnathan Taylor Thomas’ character (what was his name, Randy? I don’t remember) passes out candy to the trick-or-treaters and says “one for you, one for you, and seven for the kid in the cute little lion costume!”
Totally uncalled for. Poor form.
Me, or Him? Or both?
Sorry if it wasn’t clear.
Him.
Your post was clearly intended to be humourous, if read all the way to the end.