Name that fictional fiction!

Cafe Society
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Last one today. Below is a list of fictional fiction — fictional movies, TV shows, and plays — whose names are mentioned in a variety of real movies, real TV shows, real books, etc. Can you identify where they came from?

Battle of the Network Space Krakens
Leave it to Bigfoot
The Howard Beale Show
The Merchant of Venus
The Mutants of 2051 AD
The Salt Flats
E. Henry Thripshaw’s Disease
The Muddy Mudskipper Show
The King of Ankh
Habeus Corpus
La Cocina
You’re in the Matrix, Charlie Brown
Blackmail!
Oh, Crikey!
Maine-ly Murder
Burninge Passiones
Manger Babies
Supreme Folk
Dental School
Mohawk Over the Moon
Reptar the Movie
Animals Close-up With a Wide-Angle Lens Wearing Hats
Badge of Honor
Pyramus and Thisbe
Mr. Lovejoy
Nothing On
Fast Animals, Slow Children
Jules and Mimi
Friday the Thirteenth, Part One Thousand, Six Hundred and Forty-Nine
Return to the Love Canal
Your Money or Your Life
Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mystery
The Six Million Peso Man
Asses of Fire
The Making of the Making of Titanic
Dangeresque 2: This Time It’s Not Dangeresque 1
Venusian Vampire Vixens
Beat the Sundial
Speed 3: Glacier of Doom
In the Future, There Will Be Robots
The Edison Carter Show
Siskel and Ebert: The Movie
See You Next Wednesday
Tool Time
Die, Scum-Sucking Pig, Die
The Nightmare Before Hanukah
Meet Pamela
Tied To A Bear
As the Stomach Turns
Attack of the Killer Fish (in 3-D)

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Asses of Fire is a Terrence and Phillip show from Southpark.

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Futurama

Rugrats

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Battle of the Network Space Krakens - Futurama

The Muddy Mudskipper Show - Ren & Stimpy (Stimpy’s favourite show)

You’re in the Matrix, Charlie Brown - Simpsons

Blackmail! - Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Reptar the Movie - Rugrats

Animals Close-up With a Wide-Angle Lens Wearing Hats - South Park

Pyramus and Thisbe - Not really fictional. Plays a part in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mystery - Dib’s favourite show on Invader Zim.

Speed 3: Glacier of Doom - Family Guy

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Mohawk Over the Moon, Movie starring Ginger Grant of Gillian’s Island.

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“The Howard Beale” show is from Network.

“You’re in the Matrix, Charlie Brown” is a movie poster in the Simpsons. There’s also “A Matrix Christmas.”

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Pyramus and Thisbe :

My life. Which I’m pretty sure is fictional.

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“Tool Time” is the fictional home improvement show from “Home Improvement.”

I’m surprised “Sick, Sad World” isn’t on the list.

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The Salt Flats - Fictional movie in V For Vendetta, the movie version. I don’t know if it was in the graphic novel or not.

Nothing On - Fictional play from the play and movie Noises Off.

Friday the Thirteenth, Part One Thousand, Six Hundred and Forty-Nine - The Simpsons?

Siskel and Ebert: The Movie - Might be the Animaniacs.

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Terry Pratchett’s Moving Pictures

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E. Henry Thripshaw’s Disease - Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Manger Babies - King of the Hill

The Edison Carter Show - Max Headroom

See You Next Wednesday - The billboard the police car is hiding behind (on the chase from Bob’s Country Bunker) in The Blues Brothers. (This phrase shows up in other John Landis movies, too.)
And a new one, Box of Puppies.

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The King of Ankh - Obviously Discworld … I think it was one of Hwel’s plays in Wyrd Sisters.

Manger Babies - Luanne’s puppet show, King Of The Hill.

Nothing On - The play being performed in Noises Off.

Return to the Love Canal - play written by Dustin Hoffman’s buddy in Tootsie.

The Edison Carter Show = Max Headroom

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Blackmail! is from Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Jules and Mimi is from Sex in the City
As the Stomach Turns is from the Carson-era Tonight SHow

New one: Church Windows

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Badge of Honor - I seem to recall that being the name of a cop show in L.A. Confidential

Friday the Thirteenth, Part One Thousand, Six Hundred and Forty-Nine - Red Dwarf I think

Dangeresque 2: This Time It’s Not Dangeresque 1 - This one I do know. It’s from Homestar Runner.

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“Maine-ly Murder” is from “Murder, She Wrote,” I think.

I don’t think so. “As the Stomach Turns” is from “The Carol Burnett Show.” You may be thinking of Carson’s “The Edge of Wetness.”

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Mr. Lovejoy is from “Get Shorty.”

New one: Jaws 19.

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Animals Close-up With a Wide-Angle Lens Wearing Hats - southpark
jaws 19 - back to the future part 2

My adition:

Psycho Dad

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Another vote for adding “Sick Sad World” (from Daria) to the list. And another from the Carol Burnett Show: “Went With The Wind”.

“Pyramus and Thisbe” shouldn’t be on the list. It isn’t “fictional” fiction any more than The Iliad is. It’s a tale from Greek mythology.

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Tool Time is the name of the show that Tim Allen character hosts on Home Improvement.
Pyramus and Thisbe is the play performed by the mechanicals at the end of A Midsummers Night’s Dream.

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Oh, Crikey! - I think this one was from Sluggy Freelance?