List of fictional media

This is a list of fictional media (films, magazines, television shows, etc) from various real media.

Advertising

Slogans

• "Big Brother is watching you" – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
• "Catch Here!" (parody of NBC's 1983–1984 promotional campaign "Be There") – promotional campaign for NewsChannel 7, Lizzie McGuire
• "Do what we say, and nobody gets hurt." – Texxon, Saturday Night Live
• "For Real" – presidential campaign, Tanner '88
• "Our Age Is Showing" – parody of an NBC's promotional campaign, Saturday Night Live
• "We're Channel 6, Just Catch Us Now!" – parody of NBC's 1982–1983 promotional slogan "Just Watch Us Now", The Simpsons

Internet

See List of fictional online services

Movies

See List of fictional films

Publications

Newspapers

• The Ankh-Morpork Inquirer – Discworld
• The Ankh-Morpork Times – Discworld
• The Borchester Echo – The Archers
• The Beast and The Daily Brute- Newspapers in Scoop (Novel by Evelyn Waugh)
• The Brentford Mercury – Robert Rankin novels
• Central City Picture News – The Flash comics, Iris West's employer
• The Daily Bugle – Marvel Comics, especially Spider-Man
• The Daily Comet- a British tabloid owned by Derek Leech in Kim Newman's fiction
• The Daily Fluxion – Cat Who... series by Lillian Jackson Braun
• The Daily Fourth Gradian – Springfield Elementary School newspaper, The Simpsons
• The Daily Glob – Monstropolis, Monsters, Inc., tabloid
• The Daily Globe – Rival paper to the Daily Bugle in the Marvel Universe
• The Daily Planet from Metropolis – Superman
• The Daily Prophet – Harry Potter series
• Daily Sentinel – Green Hornet
• Daily Supernova – Futurama
• DayFax – Spider Jerusalem's old employer in Transmetropolitan
• Gotham Gazette – Batman comics, Vicki Vale's employer
• Gotham Globe – Batman (movie), Vicki Vale's employer
• Hill Valley Telegraph – Back to the Future
• The Inquisitor – Zork Grand Inquisitor
• Lawndale Sun-Herald – Daria
• The Los Angeles Tribune – Lou Grant
• The New New York Post – Futurama
• New York Daily Inquirer – Citizen Kane
• The Pickax Picayune – Cat Who... series by Lillian Jackson Braun
• The Pseudopolis Herald – Discworld
• Quahog Informant – Family Guy
• The Red Dress Press – The Simpsons
• The Seattle Courier – The 4400
• St. Louis Daily Inquirer – Citizen Kane
• The Springfield Shopper – The Simpsons
• The Sto Plains Dealer – Discworld
• The Tally Ho – The Prisoner
• Tomorrow – owned by Elliot Carver, villain of Tomorrow Never Dies
• The Walford Gazette – EastEnders
• The Word – major journal of The City (Transmetropolitan comics)
• Yadretsey – Red Dwarf

Magazines

Pornographic

• American Breast Enthusiast – The Simpsons
• Bait – from the 1987 Dragnet movie
• Bender's Big Butt Fembots – indecent magazine, published by Bender Futurama
• Big 'Uns – a men's magazine from Married with Children (1980s and 90s)
• Butt Frenzy – Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• Cheek Week – The Simpsons
• Gigantic Asses – The Simpsons
• Granny Fanny – The Simpsons
• National Pornographic – parody of National Geographic, Futurama
• Pentiumhouse – pornography for robots, parody of Penthouse magazine, Futurama
• Playbeing – a journal of sports, technology and gynecology (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
• Playbot – pornography for robots, Futurama
• Playdude magazine – The Simpsons- a take-off on Playboy
• Playpen – Married with Children- a take-off on Penthouse (also in Family Guy)
• Sapphire – adult magazine, Monk
• Spank – Beavis and Butthead – a parody of Swank adult magazine
• Stagman magazine – The Muller-Fokker Effect – a take-off on Playboy
• Taint magazine – Mr. Show with Bob and David
• Victoria's Circuit – pornography for robots, parody of Victoria's Secret catalog, so may just be a catalog, Futurama
• Zero-G Juggs – Futurama

Other

• Battle Call – Discworld, Omnian magazine, parodies War Cry
• Blue Pants Weekly – Simpsons
• Bows and Ammo – Discworld, a take-off on Guns and Ammo
• Business Shriek – Monsters, Inc., spoof of Business Week
• Chewing – a "high-gloss, literate and sophisticated" magazine for gum chewers, Calvin and Hobbes
• Composure – women's magazine similar to Cosmopolitan, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
• Doggy Style – Fashion magazine for dogs, Family Guy
• Hush-Hush – gossipy tabloid magazine, L.A. Confidential
• Know Magazine – 1960s men's magazine, Down With Love
• Men's Fatness – Simpsons
• Metropolitan – news magazine Sarah Jane Smith works for in Doctor Who
• National Tatler – tabloid in Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon and its sequels
• National Whisper – tabloid in Superman comics
• The New Frontiersman – right-wing news and opinion, Watchmen
• Newstime – news magazine in Superman comics owned by Colin Thornton
• Non-Threatening Threatening Boys magazine – The Simpsons
• Now Magazine – news magazine affiliated with the Bugle in Marvel Comics
• Nova Express – news tabloid, Watchmen
• Oceanographic Explorer – The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• SugarApe – Urban lifestyle magazine, Nathan Barley
• Total Pins – and other magazines for pin collectors, Discworld
• Teen Magazeen – the magazeens for teens, Dinosaur Comics
• Unadorned Facts – Discworld, Omnian magazine, parodies The Plain Truth
• Warrior of Fortune – Discworld, a take-off on Soldier of Fortune
• What Gallows? – Discworld

Radio Shows

• The Bill and Marty Show  – The Simpsons
• Chris in the Morning – Northern Exposure
• Delicious Dish – NPR's show, Saturday Night Live
• Gabbin' About God – The Simpsons
• Moleman in the Morning – The Simpsons

(See also List of fictional radio stations)

Television Shows

See List of fictional television shows, List of fictional television stations, Troy McClure

Theatre

• The Courier's Tragedy – Richard Wharfinger's Jacobean revenge play (The Crying of Lot 49)
• Deathtrap – fictional play in the play and movie Deathtrap
• Don Juan Triumphant – The Phantom of the Opera
• The Enchanted Hunters – Clare Quilty's play in Lolita
• Greasier – parody of Grease, Lizzie McGuire
• Kickin' It! – celebrity drug rehab musical, The Simpsons
• The King in Yellow – play within the book The King in Yellow
• The King of Ankh – play by Hwel in Wyrd Sisters
• Lease: The Musical – Team America: World Police (parody of Rent)
• Leela: Orphan of the Stars – opera, "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings" episode of Futurama
• Manhattan Melodies – The Muppets Take Manhattan
• The Murder of Gonzago or The Mousetrap – the play in Hamlet which the Prince uses to "catch the conscience of the King".
• A Night of Kings, aka The Lancre Play – the propaganda play by Hwel in Wyrd Sisters which hews closer to Macbeth than the actual events, but inadvertently captures the conscience of the Duke.
• Nobody Said It'd Be Easy – Three-hour, one-man show by Mark Hentemann, Family Guy
• Nothing On – the play-within-a-play in Noises Off
• Nutrition and the Four Food Groups – an elementary school production in Calvin and Hobbes
• Prisoners of Love – the play in The Producers that the producers are creating at the end of the movie in prison.
• Pyramus and Thisbe – a "merry and tragical", "tedious and brief" work by Peter Quince, starring Bottom the Weaver – A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Red, White and Blaine – the musical revue in Waiting for Guffman
• Springtime for Hitler – the play in The Producers that the producers are hoping will flop in their fraud scheme.
• Stop the Planet of the Apes: I Want To Get Off! – stage musical version of Planet of the Apes, starring Troy McClure from The Simpsons
• A Wizard of Sorts, or Please Yourself – play by Hwel in Wyrd Sisters
• The Wrinkled Old Family Retainer – Kilgore Trout's only drama (Timequake)

(see also Play within a play)

See also

• Archive of fictional things
• List of fictional brands
• List of fictional companies
• List of fictional electronic games

External links

• Invisible Library – fictional books mentioned in real books
• Rocklopedia Fakebandica – fictional musical acts from literature, screen, and other media