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list of television shows that have been made up in real television shows or other media:

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  • The $99,000 Answer - The Honeymooners
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  • Acorn Antiques - soap opera in Victoria Wood As Seen On TV; a parody of Crossroads
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  • Address Unknown - Television series within the Max Payne universe.
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  • The Adventures of Captain Proton - 1930s series adapted in the future as seen in Star Trek: Voyager
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  • The Adventures of Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy - An Aquaman/Batman-esque television program from Spongebob Squarepants.
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  • The Adventures of Mighty Plumber - The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3
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  • The Alan Brady Show - comedy/variety show from The Dick Van Dyke Show.
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  • All-Star Prehistoric Tag-Team Wrestling - From Super Mario World
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  • Amazing Discoveries - Friends
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  • The Amazing Presidential Race (spoof of The Amazing Race) - MADtv
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  • The Amazing Racist (spoof of The Amazing Race - Mad Magazine)
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  • Amor obsoleto (Obsolete Love) - Airbag
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  • A.M. Pet Party - American Dad!
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  • Androids - robot soap opera in Red Dwarf; a parody of Neighbours
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  • Anthrax Cat - children's cartoon in Transmetropolitan
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  • The "Arr"-Ons - 1960s Saturday morning children's cartoon parody of The Flintstones and The Jetsons in The Little Wolf and the Bad Little Girl (Also, SpongeBob SquarePants made a brief cameo on the TV set in the comic episode Television Trouble.)
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  • As the Stomach Turns - soap opera parody on The Carol Burnett Show
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  • Astro Force 5 (science fiction show) - That's So Raven
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  • Babe Watch - TV show starring Danny Dazzleduff and Belinda Bubblebutt in the Captain Planet cartoon.
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  • Badge of Honor - 1950s cop drama show, L.A. Confidential
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  • The Barbie Show - based on the Barbie doll toy line, The Little Wolf and the Bad Little Girl
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  • Bastard Squad - Program mentioned on The Young Ones, but never seen.
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  • Bear With Me - reality show in which the contestants live with a bear, Doctor Who episode "Bad Wolf"
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  • Beat the Time - Parody of the game show Beat the Clock from Sesame Street. Hosted by Guy Smiley.
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  • Best Buddiez - a game show on American Dad!
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  • The Binky the Clown Show - children's program starring a shrill, obnoxious clown, Garfield and Friends
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  • The Bionic Bunny Show - a superhero adventure program in Arthur
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  • The Bionic Duck - What's Happening!!
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  • Big Shot - a show in the anime Cowboy Bebop that showcases noteworthy bounties and features a cowboy motif.
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  • Bite the Big Apple - talent show in Bosom Buddies
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  • Blackmail! - Show in which random people are blackmailed in Monty Python's Flying Circus
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  • Blocky & Oxwinkle - parody of Rocky & Bullwinkle in Rugrats
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  • Bones & Kay - kids show c. 2010 which coined the word "cruk" in the Doctor Who novel Happy Endings
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  • Book Talk - A show in Newhart, where authors were interviewed, aired as a filler after football games.
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  • Both Father and Mother - Situation comedy in the film Americathon. The main character is a cross-dressing single father.
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  • Buds - parody of Friends in Murder She Wrote
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  • Buster Friendly and His Friendly Friends - talk show in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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  • Buzzline - Rent (and film)
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  • Caleb Rentpayer - Homestar Runner
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  • Call Me W***er - Inane gameshow on which The Slobs appear in Harry Enfield and Chums
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  • Capital Beat - The West Wing
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  • Captain Monty's Book Cavalcade, a children's book show on American Dad!
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  • Captain Pete and the Puppetman- Captain Kangaroo spoof from Power Rangers Zeo.
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  • Cherub - spin off from Wendy the Werewolf Stalker in Young Justice, parody of Angel
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  • Christmas With the Joker - the show nobody wants to watch, but everyone must see, from Batman: the Animated Series
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  • Chuckles the Clown - Children's show mentioned on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
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  • Climbing for Dollars - game show in the movie The Running Man
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  • CLOPS - parody of COPS in MADtv
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  • Clover and Daisy's Magic Train (children's show) -- Lizzie McGuire
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  • Cobbers - soap opera in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy; a parody of Neighbours
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  • The Creek - Dawson's semi-autobiographical (and self-referential) drama series in the finale of Dawson's Creek
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  • Crime Watch - a real-crime show from the sixth season CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "I Love To Watch"; it appears to be a parody of COPS.
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  • Dad and Son - Bonus Stage
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  • The Darcy Pennell Show - public-access talk show from The Kids in the Hall.
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  • Dark Memories - Soap opera in One False Move.
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  • The Dealers - "gritty urban drama" spoof about a pair of Cheech & Chong-esque dope dealers, from The Groove Tube
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  • Deep Powder - "Baywatch on skis" TV-series in Joey
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  • Deitrich's Half Hour - V for Vendetta
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  • Detective Forster, escape artist Milch wanted this show taped while he was in jail - Monster (manga)
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  • Double Bind - A drama series in Perfect Blue
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  • Dreams Can Come True - Dreams and wishes are granted on this program from Happy Days
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  • The Edison Carter Show - investigative news program in Max Headroom
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  • El Oro de Montezuma (Spanish-language game show) -- Lizzie McGuire
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  • Exposé - sexploitation drama, Lost
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  • Eyewitness Action News - news programme in Calvin and Hobbes (parody of Eyewitness News and Action News formats)
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  • Eyeball News, News Service from Australian sketch show Fast Forward.
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  • Family Food - a spoof of Family Feud, Sesame Street
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  • Father Ben - in Father Ted, a priest-based sitcom which bears a close resemblance to Father Ted itself.
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  • Fernwood 2Nite - talk show parody launched on Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and later spun off as separate program
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  • Firefight All Night Live! - civil insurrection-themed reality show in American Flagg!
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  • Friday Night Football - from The Last Boy Scout
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  • FunDead - a competitive game show pitting zombie against zombie in a mad scramble for flesh, from Shaun of the Dead
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  • FYI - news magazine show from Murphy Brown (except that it was real on CFPL-TV in London, Ontario)
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  • Garth Marenghi's Darkplace - supposedly a 1980s horror series, this is the show-within-a-show on the Channel 4 comedy of the same title.
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  • Gay As Blazes - a dramatic series on Queer as Folk
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  • Galaxy Quest - parody of Star Trek
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  • Galaxy Quest: The Journey Continues - revived version of the show, Galaxy Quest.
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  • Ghostwatch - show reporting ghost appearances in the Doctor Who episode Army of Ghosts
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  • Gekiganger-3 and Gekiganger V - anime series within the anime Nadesico
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  • Good Morning, Miami - show within the eponymous sitcom on NBC network in US
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  • Gold Case from 30 Rock - guess which model is holding a suitcase full of gold bricks (based on Deal or No Deal), hosted by John McEnroe.
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  • ''Goldrush - gameshow within Only Fools & Horses (based on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire)
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  • Good Morning Moscow/In Moscow Tonight - Skit On Fast Forward telling people about Life in Post-Communist Russia
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  • Grab That Dough - game show, The Golden Girls
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  • The Gray Ghost - parody of Batman (1960s TV series) in Batman: The Animated Series
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  • Hackidu - parody of Pokémon in Everybody Loves Raymond (The show was never seen as it was a card game, but Raymond mentioned a show)
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  • The Happy Homemaker Show - Sue Ann Nivens' cooking and household tips show from The Mary Tyler Moore Show
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  • The Harvey Garvey Show - Talk show hosted by Harvey Garvey on Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
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  • Here Is Your Life - Game show parodying This Is Your Life from Sesame Street. Hosted by Guy Smiley.
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  • Hero Boy - Freakazoid's favorite TV show
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  • Heroes - Reality TV program that The Tick and Arthur once starred in (no connection to the real-life TV series of the same name).
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  • Hit the Buzzer, Win A Cookie - game show, Garfield and Friends
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  • HoHo the Clown - children's show whose advertising is handled by McMann and Tate, Bewitched
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  • Hollywood Tonight - TV Show hosted by Cat Grant in Superman Comics
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  • The Howard Beale Show (aka The Network News Hour) - Network
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  • Hunch, Parody of Hinch Fast Forward
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  • I Love Janet (sitcom) - a take-off on I Love Lucy, on a Janet Jackson music video from the 1990s
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  • I Wouldn't Eat That if I Were You - game show on Pokémon Chronicles
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  • Impossible---But True - a show similar to Ripley's Believe It or Not hosted by Roy Raymond in DC Comics
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  • Invitation to Love - soap opera in Twin Peaks
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  • It's The Arts - Surreal talk show on Monty Python's Flying Circus
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  • The Jason Taverner Show - NBC variety show, Philip K. Dick's Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said
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  • The Johnny Nevada Show (also called The Midnight Show Starring Johnny Nevada) - a late-night talk show in the Superman comics; Johnny Nevada was the Superman comics' counterpart of Johnny Carson
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  • Jerry - Seinfeld
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  • Jules and Mimi - British romantic sitcom in Sex and the City
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  • Just the Five of Us - a family sitcom in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City; seemingly a parody of Married With Children, judging by the crude humor.
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  • Kira's Kingdom - a propaganda program run by followers of Kira in Death Note.
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  • Koopz Sez' - Exercise program from Super Mario World
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  • Kramp TV Kitchen - fictional cooking show from The Groove Tube
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  • The Lenny Little Show - a version of Nowhere Man, Nowhere Man (tv series)
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  • Let’s Hunt and Kill Billy Ray Cyrus - game show that Bill Hicks would say he had been commissioned to produce during his stand up routines
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  • Liberty City Survivor - a parody of The Running Man found in Grand Theft Auto III
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  • Lieutenant Krieger - The Muller-Fokker Effect
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  • The Life Aquatic - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
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  • Los Dias y las Noches de Monsigñor Martínez - Mexican action series, King of the Hill
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  • Love is Never a Stranger - melodramatic soap opera watched by Arnold Ziffel, Green Acres
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  • Lumpy's Proletariat - from the TV series Max Headroom, a play on the Marxist term "Lumpenproletariat"
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  • The Mad Real World - a parody of The Real World on Chappelle's Show
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  • Magical Truthsaying Bastard Spidey - Anime version of Spider Jerusalem's newspaper column in Transmetropolitan
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  • Manger Babies - public access Christian puppet show, King of the Hill
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  • Mantan: The New Millennium Minstrel Show - Bamboozled
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  • The Mao Tse-Tung Hour - Network
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  • Mark Thrust, Sexus Ranger - popular cop show in American Flagg!, formerly starring Reuben Flagg
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  • Mathnet - a parody of Dragnet, Square One
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  • Men on Films - Film critics on In Living Color
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  • Million $ Sticky - game show in the (book and?) movie Matilda
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  • Monster Man - TV show starring Simon Williams/Wonder Man in Marvel comics.
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  • Monsignor Martinez - a Spanish-language action show about a crime fighting Roman Catholic priest, and a favorite of the Hill family on King of the Hill
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  • Morning Chicago - Life with Bonnie
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  • Mr. Koopa's Neighborhood - From Super Mario World, parody of Mr. Roger's Neighborhood.
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  • The Muddy Mudskipper Show - afternoon kids' show from Ren and Stimpy
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  • Munchtime Sportscene - Parody of Sportscene Lunchtime in Only an Excuse?
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  • My Five Uncles, replaces Just the Five of Us, in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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  • Mysterious Mysteries of Strange Mystery - paranormal investigation show, Invader Zim
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  • Name That Fish - game show, Garfield and Friends, parody of Name That Tune
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  • The Ned Cook Show - current affairs and chat show hosted by reckless journalist Ned Cook in Thunderbirds
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  • NewsChannel 7 - news program, Lizzie McGuire (uses WPVI Philadelphia's Action News music theme Move Closer to Your World for its openings)
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  • The Niggar Family - a 1950s-era Leave it to Beaver-esque sitcom about a white family with the last name Niggar on Chappelle's Show
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  • Nightshade - homage to Quatermass in the Doctor Who novel of the same name
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  • Numberwang - spoof game show in That Mitchell and Webb Look
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  • Oh, Crikey! - classic British farce sitcom on The Young Ones
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  • On Your Own - one-time popular drama in Angel
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  • Ow, My Balls! - Idiocracy
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  • The Passing Parade - Nationwide - like current affairs show in the Doctor Who serial "The Daemons"
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  • Passion Avenue - a soap opera in Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror
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  • The Patty Winters Show - talk show in American Psycho and Glamorama.
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  • Peagram's Past - a show about the life of Nigel Peagram in Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
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  • Peeping Toms - a humorous Candid Camera-influenced game show, in the Brian DePalma thriller Sisters.
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  • Pelican's Island - parody of Gilligan's Island on Darkwing Duck
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  • People on the Toilet - a reality TV show on Monkey Dust
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  • Peripheral Vision Man - a serial sketch super hero sketch from Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip spun off from the fictional Studio 60 into its own series by a fictional Fox Network, rival to Studio 60's NBS Network.
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  • Pig In A Poke - game show from National Lampoon's European Vacation - it was similar to Family Feud, except the contestants wore pig costumes
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  • Pleasantville - Pleasantville
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  • Pokémon Master Chef - cooking show hosted by DJ Mary from Pokémon Chronicles
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  • Pointed Love - porcupine soap opera from Animal Crossing
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  • Probing the Membrane of Science - Science program hosted by Professor Membrane, mentioned in Invader Zim
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  • Professor X - version of Doctor Who in the Doctor Who universe
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  • Real Mother****ing Talk with Dollar Bill Montgomery - a forum-style talk show known for its excessive use of (comically censored) foul language, MADtv
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  • The Record with Robert McX - news and interview show in Transmetropolitan
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  • The Rex Reilly Show - daytime talk show, Twitch City
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  • Roy Raymond Jr: Manstalker - DC Comics
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  • The Running Man - game show in the novel and movie of the same name; hosted by Damon Killian, portrayed by Richard Dawson
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  • SBS Viewing Highlights - With SBS Lady (Marg Downey) On Fast Forward.
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  • Sailor V - an anime based on the "real-life" Sailor V, Sailor Moon
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  • Sabotage - 1970s police series, from the Beastie Boys music video of the same name.
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  • The Saturday Show - Feat Elanor Lagor (Gina Riley) On Fast Forward.
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  • Scandalmakers - Poorly narrated dramatised documentary on Arrested Development
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  • Secret Hearts - soap opera starring Linda Danvers in DC Comics
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  • The Sex Puppets - futuristic version of Sesame Street in Transmetropolitan
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  • The Shady Bunch - parody of The Brady Bunch, on an Eminem music video from the late 1990s
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  • Sick, Sad World - Daria
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  • Sneakin' in the Movies - movie review show, Hollywood Shuffle
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  • Space Trek 2022 - sci-fi show featuring Gar Logan, DC Comics
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  • Spell That Name - a game-show on Monkey Dust
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  • Sports Night - late night sports news show in Sports Night
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  • Sportscene Extra Whine - parody of Sportscene Extra Time in Only an Excuse?
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  • Stiffs - a CSI-style crime drama starring ditzi Kandi Harper as a forensic investigator, in Two and a Half Men
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  • Storm Saxon - racist science fiction action show set in a "nightmarish future England" in V for Vendetta
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  • Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip - Friday night sketch comedy show, similar to Saturday Night Live, on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
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  • The Sun Also Sets - soap opera from the movie Soapdish
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  • Super Terrific Happy Hour - Japanese comedy show, Seinfeld
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  • Supreme Folk - sitcom featuring the New Main Street Singers in A Mighty Wind
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  • Sweetknuckle Junction - children's show from Greg the Bunny
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  • Swingles - reality dating show from Leisure Suit Larry: Magna Cum Laude
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  • Take it and Stick It! - game show from C. M. Kornbluth's story The Marching Morons
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  • TGS with Tracy Jordan (formerly The Girlie Show) - comedy variety show produced by the characters on 30 Rock
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  • Teen Talk - Beavis and Butt-head
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  • That's Amazing! - pop-science program from The Fast Show
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  • There's a Bat in My House! - sitcom from Hollywood Shuffle
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  • Thirteensomething - a teen-oriented drama on Tiny Toon Adventures; a parody of Thirtysomething
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  • The Three Honorable Families - Oh! My Goddess
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  • Tiny House - a reality television show about two people who must live in a half size house for a year; featured in a Geico commercial
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  • The Tom Snide-Hare Show - a talk show in the comic Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
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  • Tool Time - Tim Taylor's show in Home Improvement
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  • Trading Spouses - a parody of Trading Spaces on Chappelle's Show (FOX eventually created a real show named Trading Spouses)
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  • Trick or Treat - Halloween-themed game show from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
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  • The Truman Show and its spin-off companion, Trutalk
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  • Turbo Man - parody of Power Rangers in the movie Jingle All the Way.
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  • Twenty Questions - news show hosted by Hector Ramirez in both GI Joe and The Transformers cartoons (Hasbro).
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  • The Valley - soap opera in The O.C.
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  • Vanilla Ice-Age - From Super Mario World, parody of Vanilla Ice.
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  • UltraLord - superhero in Jimmy Neutron
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  • Video Whoopsy - parody of You've Been Framed in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy
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  • Viking Quest - sci-fi series from Entourage.
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  • Venezuelan Prairie - You Can't Do That On Television
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  • Vermont Today - Dick Loudon's talk show on Newhart
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  • The Vigilantes - Network
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  • The Voice of London - V for Vendetta
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  • Wake Up Miami - local morning show on The Golden Girls
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  • Wake Up San Francisco - local morning show in Full House
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  • Wayne's World - TV Show in the movie of the same name
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  • Wendy the Werewolf Stalker - parody of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Young Justice
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  • Wessex Tonight - local news programme in ShakespeaRe-Told: Much Ado About Nothing
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  • Whacketts - addictive game show in Max Headroom
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  • What's My Part? - Game show parodying What's My Line? from Sesame Street. Hosted by Guy Smiley.
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  • The Whitty Banter Show - talk show in 1990s Superman comics
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  • The Whole Truth - political talk show on The West Wing
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  • Win, Lose or Kerplowie! - game show in Tiny Toon Adventures, a parody of Win, Lose or Draw
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  • Winter Storm - Oh! My Goddess
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  • World Dinosaur Wrestling Wrestling - Puppet show, from Super Mario World
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  • World Wrap - News Service Feat Kerri-Anne Kennel (Gina Riely) on Fast Forward.
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  • Wormhole X-Treme! - version of Stargate SG-1 in the Stargate universe
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  • You The Jury - judiciary game show in Max Headroom
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  • You Have to Laugh - insane britcom in V for Vendetta
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  • Your Continuous Drumbeat of Misinformation with Nick Cavuto - Gag on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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  • Your Money or Your Life - game show in Time Bandits (movie)

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