List of fictional media

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

Contents 1 Advertising 1.1 Slogans 2 Internet 3 Movies 4 Publications 4.1 Newspapers 4.2 Comic books 4.3 Comic strips 4.4 Magazines 4.4.1 Pornographic 4.4.2 Other 5 Radio Shows 6 Television Shows 7 Theatre 8 See also 9 External links

[edit] Advertising

[edit] Slogans

• "A lawn savant, who'll lop a tree — no one beats Marquis de Sod!"- the jingle (to La Marseillaise) of the BDSM lawn service Marquis de Sod, from Thomas Pynchon's Vineland
• "All the News in Fits of Print!" - the slogan of The Daily Punctilio in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.
• "A Spare Hand When Needed" - We R Igors, Discworld
• "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
• "Explosion Sauce, it's good on its own!"- Explosion Sauce Metalocalypse
• "Life goes on. Texxon is there. Because Buckwheat would have wanted it that way." - Texxon, Saturday Night Live
• "For all you'll ever need."™ - The Goliath™ Corporation, Thursday Next novels
• "For the news you only hear about" - The Ankh-Morpork Inquirer, Discworld
• "For people who don't want to stink" - Ocean Breeze soap, The Muppets Take Manhattan
• "For Real" - presidential campaign, Tanner '88
• "For when the metal ones decide to come for you... and they will." - Old Glory Insurance, which offers coverage in the event of robot attack, Saturday Night Live
• "If it's a boot, it's a Blackbury" - Blackbury Boots, Johnny and the Dead
• "If you can find a better set of tires, screw you, pal!" - Screw You, Pal tires, Saturday Night Live
• "If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe?" - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• "Murderknobs, doorknobs for a new world."-Murderknobs, Metalocalypse
• "Ocean Breeze will get you clean" - Ocean Breeze soap, The Muppets Take Manhattan
• "Our Age Is Showing" - parody of an NBC's promotional campaign, Saturday Night Live
• "Nickels is money too, guys!"- Pickel's Nickels Metalocalypse
• "Recycling Nature's Bounty" - Harry King waste recycling, Discworld (after his wife had a word with him)
• "Share and Enjoy" - Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, Complaints Division The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• "Taking the Piss since 1961" - Harry King waste recycling, Discworld (originally)
• "The Truth Will Make You Free" (or sometimes "Fret") - The Ankh Morpork Times, Discworld
• "Tastes like chicken, if chicken were a candy."-Willard Wonky Hand Candy Metalocalypse
• "Our business is life itself" - Umbrella Corporation, Resident Evil series.
• "We bring you joy, we bring you strife!" - jingle used for ICS in The Running Man movie.
• "We report. You believe." - parody of Fox News slogan on Australian comedy CNNNN
• "We're Channel 6, Just Catch Us Now!" - parody of NBC's 1982-1983 promotional slogan "Just Watch Us Now", The Simpsons
• "We scare because we care" - Monsters Inc.
• "What the eye dosn't see. The buyer dosn't know". Fast Forward (L'iar-Deskonke)
• "Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With" - Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, describing androids The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[edit] Internet

See List of fictional online services

[edit] Movies

See List of fictional films

[edit] Publications

[edit] Newspapers

• Action Bulletin News - tabloid in Superman comics (with a logo similar to Action Comics)
• The Ankh-Morpork Inquirer - Discworld
• The Ankh-Morpork Times - Discworld
• The Arlen Bystander - King of the Hill
• The Borchester Echo - The Archers
• The Beast and The Daily Brute- Newspapers in Scoop (Novel by Evelyn Waugh)
• Bloom Picayune and Bloom Beacon - Milo Bloom's papers in Bloom County
• The Brentford Mercury - Robert Rankin novels
• The Boston Telegraph - The Dead Zone (TV series)
• Canley Evening News - Sun Hill's local newspaper in The Bill
• The Cardiff Gazette - Doctor Who episode "Boom Town"
• Central City Picture News - The Flash comics, Iris West's employer
• The Chicago Herald - Prison Break
• The Chronicle - Beyond the Mist
• COMLIFE -Metalocalypse
• The Comet - The Naked Truth
• 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 Granite - The Flintstones, was for a time Captain Caveman, Betty Rubble and Wilma Flintstone's employer; edited by Lou Granite
• The Daily Mole - Thursday Next novels
• The Daily Planet from Metropolis - Superman
• The Daily Prophet - Harry Potter series
• The Daily Punctilio - A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Daily Sentinel - The Green Hornet
• The Daily Slab - The Flintstones
• The Daily Star - newspaper from the earliest Superman comics; sometimes also appears in modern comics as a competing paper to the Daily Planet or a newspaper in superhero Green Arrow's Star City
• Daily Supernova - Futurama
• Daily Wisdom - Beyond the Mist
• DayFax - Spider Jerusalem's old employer in Transmetropolitan
• The Educationalist" - Beyond the Mist
• The Flash - Brenda Starr
• The Fordenian Heptadaily - Beyond the Mist
• The Gleddock Press - Beyond the Mist']
• Gotham Gazette - Batman comics, Vicki Vale's employer
• Gotham Globe - Batman (movie), Vicki Vale's employer
• Hill Valley Telegraph - Back to the Future
• Hooterville World Guardian- Petticoat Junction
• The Inquisitor - Zork Grand Inquisitor
• Lawndale Sun-Herald - Daria
• Liberty Tree - Liberty City Newspaper in the Grand Theft Auto series of video games.
• The Los Angeles Sun - My Favorite Martian television series, where Tim works
• The Los Angeles Tribune - Lou Grant
• The Manhattan Guardian - Seven Soldiers:Manhattan Guardian
• The Maycomb Tribune - To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Miami Record-Dispatch - Dave's World
• The New York Chronicle - Metalocalypse
• The New New York Post - Futurama
• The News of the Sun - The Goodies
• The Newspapes - Homestar Runner
• New York Daily Inquirer - Citizen Kane
• New York Herald - Oscar Madison's employer in The Odd Couple (named after a defunct real-life paper which was one of the ancestors of the New York Herald Tribune)
• New York Star - Sex and the City
• New Zork Times - Zork I games. "All the grues that fit, we print"
• Owl on Sunday - Thursday Next novels
• The Pickax Picayune - Cat Who... series by Lillian Jackson Braun
• The Pickford Penny Pincher - Phil of the Future (Disney Channel TV series).
• The Proud Crier - Beyond the Mist
• The Pseudopolis Herald - Discworld
• Quahog Informant - Family Guy
• The Quibbler - Wizarding world tabloid in Harry Potter
• The Red Dress Press - The Simpsons
• Sacramento Register - Eight is Enough
• The Seattle Courier - The 4400
• St. Louis Daily Inquirer - Citizen Kane
• The Springfield Shopper - The Simpsons
• The Squall - Beyond the Mist
• The Sto Plains Dealer - Discworld
• The Sulla Herald - Beyond the Mist
• The Sunday Comet - Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie
• The Tally Ho - The Prisoner
• The Toad - Thursday Next novels
• Tomorrow - owned by Elliot Carver, villain of Tomorrow Never Dies
• The Toronto Gazette - Law & Order
• The Walford Gazette - EastEnders
• The Tally Ho
• The Witness - Beyond the Mist
• The Word - major journal of The City (Transmetropolitan comics)
• Yadretsey - Red Dwarf (Backwards universe version of Today)
• Your Liberal Lip- Metalocalypse
• The Yriad Septdaily - Beyond the Mist
• USA Mouth - Metalocalypse

[edit] Comic books

• The Adventures of Dirk Drain-Head - Mario's favorite comic book in the Super Mario Bros. comics
• The Afterlife Avenger and Cherub - Impulse
• Amalgam Comics - many nonexistent comics (combining real DC and Marvel titles) were referenced in the backstories of Amalgam characters.
• Amazing Midget Radio Comics - The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
• Amazing Reality - Stan Lee Meets... Spider-Man
• Baby Dave - Chasing Amy
• Bluntman & Chronic - stoner comic based on Jay and Silent Bob, from Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
• Chasing Amy - semi-autobiographical comic by Holden McNeill in Chasing Amy
• Clang!! - Good Omens
• Creepy Comix - Whizzer and Chips
• Funny Bunny - Yu-Gi-Oh!
• Hyperman - Sandman
• Idiosyncratic Routine - Chasing Amy
• Just'a Lotta Animals - and other BC Comics titles in Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew
• Jungle Girl - JLApe (written and drawn by Sam Simeon from Angel and the Ape)
• Martin Miggs the Mad Muggle - Harry Potter
• Marvels Comics - Various semi-accurate comics about real superheroes in the Marvel Universe. In recent issues of She-Hulk, it's been stated that Comics Code Authority- approved comics issues are considered to be endorsed by a federal agency, so their contents are admissible in court.
• MegaVoid - Mad About You
• Normal Four - Stan Lee Meets... Spider Man
• Paragon of Painthorpe Street - Captain Britain
• The Penaliser - Animal Man
• Princess Paragon - and other Bang Comics titles in What They Did To Princess Paragon
• Quasar Quintet - and other Electric Comics titles in What They Did To Princess Paragon
• Radioactive Man - The Simpsons
• Rage - Queer as Folk
• Tales of the Black Freighter - Watchmen
• Warrior Angel - Smallville
• White Hating Coon - Black Power comic from Chasing Amy
• WhiZZ!! - Good Omens
• "True crime" comics based on the "real life" adventures of various superheroes (such as Superman, Batman, etc.) exist in the DC Universe. In addition:
  • Pre-Crisis, events and people on Earth-Two existed only as fictional comics on Earth-One
  • Pre-Crisis, events and people on Earth-C-Minus existed only as fictional comics on Earth-C
  • Pre-Crisis, events and characters of all parallel Earths existed only as fictional comics on Earth-Prime
  • Post-Crisis, events and characters of the DC Universe existed only as fictional comics in the Milestone Comics universe.

[edit] Comic strips

• Captain Tomorrow (published in Daily Planet) Superman
• Captain Goofball (cancelled comic strip) Foxtrot
• The Land of Whant (webcomic, written and drawn by Merlin Ambrosius) Arthur, King of Time and Space
• Mad about Ewe (webcomic, written and drawn by Rudy Dewclaw) Kevin and Kell
• Rondo and Viola (webcomic, written and drawn by Rudy Dewclaw) Kevin and Kell
• The Thing of Shapes to Come (webcomic, written and drawn by Arthur Pendragon) Arthur, King of Time and Space

[edit] Magazines

[edit] Pornographic

• American Breast Enthusiast - The Simpsons
• Bait - from the 1987 Dragnet movie
• Bender's Big Butt Fembots - indecent magazine published by Bender Futurama
• Big & Bouncy - a magazine kept under Adrian Mole's bed
• Big 'Uns - a magazine from Married... with Children (1980s and 90s)
• Booty - from the computergame Doom 3
• Butt Frenzy - Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• Cheek Week - The Simpsons
• Crack Whore - Eric Cartman's mom was once on the cover, South Park
• Gigantic Asses - The Simpsons
• Girls, Giggles and Garters - Good Omens and Discworld
• Granny Fanny - The Simpsons
• Holding Your Own Boobs - fictional ad from a Saturday Night Live episode featuring Sarah Michelle Gellar
• 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 and That 70's Show and Kyle XY)
• Rhode Island Slut - sex-based classifieds magazine, from the film Dumb and Dumber
• Sapphire - adult magazine, Monk
• Scurvy - Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• Spank - Beavis and Butt-head - 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

[edit] Other

• Ankh-Morpork Literary Gazette and Paradigm Shifters Monthly - Discworld
• Battle Call - Discworld, Omnian magazine, parodies War Cry
• Beaker & Electrode - Narbonic, a magazine for mad scientists
• Blue Pants Weekly - Simpsons
• Blush - Just Shoot Me!
• 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
• Donkey Punch- Metalocalypse
• Drumtastic - Metalocalypse
• Fretmagic Kids! - Lame guitar magazine, Homestar Runner
• GameHOG - Doom 3
• Global Weekly, later Global Community Weekly - Left Behind series
• Guns & Nachos - Doom 3
• Harpies Bizarre, Bewitched
• Hundredaire Socialite - Interviews with "hundredaires", Homestar Runner
• Hush-Hush - gossipy tabloid magazine, L.A. Confidential
• Jon - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
• Know Magazine - 1960s men's magazine, Down With Love
• Martian Science - Doom 3
• Men's Fatness - Simpsons
• Metropolitan - news magazine Sarah Jane Smith works for in Doctor Who
• MODE (Fashion), Hudson (Lifestyle) and MYW (Modern Young Woman) (Contemporary women/lifestyle) - All three monthies owned by Meade Publications as featured in Ugly Betty
• Mouth - 60s underground magazine, Hippies
• 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
• Pageant Scene Magazine - magazine for beauty contest enthusiasts in the "Hiccy Burp" episode of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
• SugarApe (or sugaRAPE) - Urban lifestyle magazine, Nathan Barley
• Teen Magazeen - the magazeens for teens, Dinosaur Comics
• Timber Maniacs - TimMani for short, flagship magazine of publishing house of the same name, Final Fantasy VIII. Stopped from being printed due to carrying articles from political dissidents.
• Top Goss magazine - Coronation Street
• Total Pins - and other magazines for pin collectors, Discworld
• UAC Today - Doom 3
• Unadorned Facts - Discworld, Omnian magazine, parodies The Plain Truth
• Warrior of Fortune - Discworld, a take-off on Soldier of Fortune
• The Weekend on Sunday - Nathan Barley
• Weekly Global Gumshoe - Metalocalypse
• What Gallows? - Discworld
• What's News - Blacksad
• Which Broomstick? - Harry Potter
• Witch Weekly - Harry Potter
• YouthQuake - Glamorama

[edit] Radio Shows

• The Bill and Marty Show - The Simpsons
• Chris in the Morning - Northern Exposure
• Danger Woman - TaleSpin
• Delicious Dish - NPR's show, Saturday Night Live
• Gabbin' About God - The Simpsons
• The Iodent Hour - Annie
• Moleman in the Morning - The Simpsons
• Pressing Issues - radio show from VCPR in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
• Witching Hour - Harry Potter, possibly parodies Woman's Hour

(See also List of fictional radio stations)

[edit] Television Shows

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

[edit] Theatre

• The Barber of Pseudopolis - opera in Maskerade, parodies The Barber of Seville
• Bloodaxe and Ironhammer - dwarf opera in The Fifth Elephant, part of the Koboldean Cycle
• Cinnamon Get Your Gun - musical in DC Comics, parodies Annie Get Your Gun
• Cosi Fan Hita - opera in Maskerade, parodies Cosi Fan Tutte
• The Courier's Tragedy - Richard Wharfinger's Jacobean revenge play in The Crying of Lot 49
• Dark Penguin, Geese Aplenty, and A Cyst For Gus, all fictitious plays written by tortured Kafkaesque playwrights in stories by Woody Allen
• Deathtrap - fictional play in the play and movie Deathtrap
• Hannibal- opera in The Phantom of the Opera, composed by Chalumeau.
• Il Muto- opera in The Phantom of the Opera, composed by Albrizzio
• Don Juan Triumphant - opera in The Phantom of the Opera based on the Don Juan legend and composed by the Phantom.
• Elephant! - A tasteless musical version of The Elephant Man featuring in The Tall Guy
• The Enchanted Hunters - Clare Quilty's play in Lolita
• The Enchanted Piccolo - opera in Maskerade, parodies Die Zauberflöte
• Die Fleiderliev - opera in Maskerade, parodies Die Fledermaus
• Greasier - parody of Grease, Lizzie McGuire
• The Good Soldiers - (derivative and not very good) play by Osterling in Doctor Who: Theatre of War, believed to be a lost classic
• 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
• Lohenshaak - opera in Maskerade, parodies Lohengrin
• Loveless - stage play in Final Fantasy VII currently showing in Midgar.
• Maine-ly Murder - stage adaption of Murder Comes to Maine by J.B. Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote
• Manhattan Melodies - The Muppets Take Manhattan
• Die Meistersinger von Scrote - opera in Maskerade, parodies Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
• 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
• Oh, Streetcar! - musical version of A Streetcar Named Desire in The Simpsons
• Peter Griffin Presents: The King and I - Peter Griffin's heavily rewritten version of the famous play in which Griffin plays A.N.N.A., a robot sent to overthrow the tyrannical King and his "all-female sex orgy." Family Guy
• 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
• The Ring of the Nibelungingung - opera in Maskerade, parodies Der Ring des Nibelungen
• Song of Shelbyville - The Simpsons
• 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
• The Taming of the Vole - play by Hwel in Lords and Ladies, the title parodies The Taming of the Shrew, but it's based on events similar to A Midsummer Night's Dream
• La Triviata - opera in Maskerade, parodies La Traviata
• Il Truccatore - opera in Maskerade, parodies Il Trovatore
• Vide Cor Meum - aria in Hannibal from a fictional opera based on La Vita Nuova by Dante, music by Patrick Cassidy [1]
• 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)

[edit] See also

• Archive of fictional things
• List of fictional brands
• List of fictional companies
• List of fictional electronic games
• List of fictional books
• List of fictional musical works

[edit] External links

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