The TV show Stargate SG-1 has mentioned The Simpsons many times, it is Richard Dean Anderson’s faviorate show, which also makes it Jack Oneill’s faviorate show. There was even an episode that stared the guy who does Homer’s voice. There was also an episode where they were talking about that alien invation movie where the aliens can’t stand water (signs or somesuch?).
Speaking of Murphy Brown, all of CBS’s real programming at the time existed within the MB universe (along with a number of non-existent programs).
Speaking of The Simpsons, McGyver exists in the Simpsons-verse. The Simpsons as a TV show apparently exists within the world of King of the Hill since Bobby Hill has a Bart Simpson doll, but the Hills actually appear in an episode of The Simpsons. This (and the Simpsons memorabilia that shows up on Futurama) has been fanwanked as being from Bart’s stint as the “I Didn’t Do It Boy” on Krusty’s show, which would of course mean that the Krusty the Clown Show exists in HOTH-verse and Futurama-verse.
Speaking of Jeopardy!, Dorothy from The Golden Girls tried out for the show.
Douglas Brachman from L.A. Law appeared on Wheel of Fortune and dated Vanna White, until she got married in real life during a summer hiatus and was written out.
Oh, and speaking of Davy Jones, The Monkees exists within the world of The Brady Bunch.
Susan was also making George watch “Mad About You.” This despite the fact that Paul was renting his apartment to Kramer.
Tho aware of the major influence of TV in the past, Star Trek has none. Implied in TOS tho arguments for the opposite could be made based on several different episodes, but stated as fact in TNG.
Firefly has some sort of broadcasting system(s). Not much info to go by other the very existance of Mr Universe and little snippits thru out the series and movie.
X-Files showed Mulder watching TV, but I can’t remember what his fix was.
Happy Days and The Love Boat were both mentioned on Married With Children when they went to a TV based amusement park (Ted McGinley was in all three shows) Also, they once went to a play based on the Jeffersons.
on Green Acres, they once did a play based on an episode of The Beverly Hillbillies and on The Beverly Hillbillies, Mr. Drysdale mentioned the TV character Arnold the Pig.
This becomes more interesting when you know that Beverly Hillbillies crossed over with Petticoat Junction which also crossed over with Green Acres.
On EMERGENCY Gage and Desoto once spent an episode trying to watch ADAM-12, forgetting the earlier episode where they met Mallory and Reed.
Aunt Bee went on The Price is Right in The Andy Griffith Show.
I’ve always admired RDA for loving the Simpsons even though constantly make fun of him.
“He’s not a genius Selma, he’s an actor. And he’s not a very good actor.”
When Futurama first came out there was a website that had episode recaps from the Simpsons 2999/3000 season.
Another show that existed in the Seinfeld universe was the CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, which Kramer mentioned a time or two and apparently watched.
Meanwhile, on a mid-'80’s episode of The Young and the Restless (created by the same team that later launched Bold & Beautiful, the character Lauren (who was married at the time to Paul, a private detective) made a reference to feeling as if she were living with Sonny Crockett of Miami Vice.
Darn you, Chuck, that’s what I came in here to mention. How may self-referential sitcoms have there been?
They had commercials, which probably means they also had programs.
Jack O’Neill from Stargate SG-1 is very disappointed when the US Military refuses to name the first ever Earth-owned spaceship ‘Enterprise’.
Unless, in the future, network TV has descended into commercialisation to the point where it was determined that the programs were getting in the way of the advertisements, and were phased out, leaving a broadcast system consisting of nothing but commercials.
I think people would still watch.
For what it’s worth, NBC News exists within the Simpsons universe - Homer and Bart, after obtaining a satellite dish, watch the unedited feed and see the newscaster (whose name escapes me, he’s not on over here) purging during the commercials.
Heh, that’s ace. Dr Who is also apparently in the same universe as dour cockney soap opera, Eastenders, because (or was it a Children In Need thing?) he turned up in Albert Square – and in the same universe as Transformers, because apparently the Transformers met a bounty hunter by the name of Death’s Head, who also met the Doctor in the Doctor Who comics.
This means that Transformers is in the same universe as Eastenders. Beat that!
In one episode of Taxi, Latka set up some of the other drivers with dates, including one with Marcia Wallace, who was stated to be the same one who’d played the receptionist Carol on “The Bob Newhart Show” (which, of course, she did.)
Third Watch and ER had a weird thing several years ago.
On an episode of Third Watch, they introduced a new firefighter character. As they came up on the scene of an injured subject, the new firefighter (who was previously a medic) spouted off in medical terminology what he needed, as the medics arrived. One of the medics snidely remarked, “Sounds like someone’s been watching too much ER.”
There was another episode that showed them watching ER, so it’s obviously a TV show in their world.
A few years later, they did a crossover episode where Susan Lewis, a character from ER, and came to New York and enlisted the help of several cops on Third Watch to help find her missing sister and niece.
This Old House existed on Cheers – one episode involved the people at the bar watching one of their friends on TV, while keeping it secret from Carla (? I think). So they kept switching to This Old House when she came into the room.
The non-existent cartoon, The Brown Hornet, existed in the fictional universe of Fat Albert.