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What are your favorite examples of 'media within media' (e.g., shows, stories, or movies inside of other shows or books)? (lemmy.world)

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Examples: Itchy & Scratchy from The Simpsons, The Scary Door from Futurama, or The Grand Inquisitor from Dostoevsky.

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[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Weirdly (or not, perhaps) MILF Island was turned into a real show (sort of) not once but twice. On The Cougar a 40-year-old woman was seeking a partner among male contestants who were all in their 20s. On the rather more disturbing MILF Manor a group of women between the ages of 40-60 stay in a villa seeking to pair up with a pool of younger bachelors, which turns out to be made entirely of the women’s sons. Wikipedia says in season 2 the ex-husbands were also added to the dating pool so the sons had to compete against their dads for the divorced moms.

[-] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago

My god. That… that’s enough reality tv, thank you

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

John Oliver sometimes runs random out of context clips of MILF Manor and I'm not sure actually watching them in context would make them any less ridiculous.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Loved MILF Manor. As weird as it sounds, MILF Manor season 2 was actually pretty touching at times. Season 1 was cringe overload. Both were great

[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I only saw a promo for it once and was pretty grossed-out, but had to at least look up the Wikipedia. I don’t think I was the target audience, other than it reminding me of 30 Rock.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

It's absolutely ridiculous garbage. But if you are like me and into that shit, it's great.

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