Animated characters watching live-action in animation

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Now in some live-action movies, we often see one person or two watching a clip from an animated short or a movie. And in some cases this works the other way around in animation, the animated character is not watching a animated sequence but a live-action sequence{like say from a movie or something}. So what are tv shows or movies that you know that have an animated character watching a live-action sequence? And on the sidenote this isnt hybrids... I only know two of this.

In Osmosis Jones there is a movie theater that shows the white blood cells watching a bit of a nightmare that frank was having, and in the Ralph Bakshi film Heavy Traffic Michael is watching a piece of a live-action movie. Which I dont know the title of...
 
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Courage: Images come on the TV that mostly Eutice watches.

Ed Edd n' Eddy have something called 'fish bowl' television.

Spongebob: Actually has more snippits of LA in it then on TV. Example: Plankton sees a real crab instead of Mr. Krab's mother in the episode where Plankton sees Mr. K's mother as a way to get the krabby patty formula.
 
"SpongeBob" uses live action a lot. In fact, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie pretty much confirmed that everything outside of Bikini Bottom is live action - nearly the entire third act of the film is an animated/live action hybrid.
 
In Lilo & Stitch, there's a scene where Stitch is walking by a store window with a scene from the live action 50's sci-fi movie Tarantula playing (Stitch later emulates the scene in Lilo's room).
 
There was an animated Far Side special called "Tales From the Far Side". In one scene there's a glimpse of an airline run by bugs and they're showing "The Fly" (complete with clip) as an in flight movie.
 
South Park does this a lot. One notable example is the news flashes during "Cartoon Wars" that depict terrorists retaliating to the Mohammed cartoon.
 
That's actually Earth vs. the Spider. I recognized it from "Mystery Science Theater 3000", thus reaffirming my level of geekhood.
 
This used to happen sometimes on the Muppet Babies, at least I think so. It's kind of hard to have fresh memories of the Muppet Babies because the live action prevents them from releasing it on DVD and I haven't seen it in more than 10 years.

Speaking of South Park and live action, I thought it was weird but kind of neat how Mr. Adler's dead girlfriend in "Tweek Vs. Craig" was live-action.
 
South Park is the first series that sprung to my mind. As someone already mentioned above, SpongeBob SquarePants tends to use a lot of live action clips in their episodes, as well.
 
^ Yes ATHF counts. Although some would argue that puppetry is a form of animation.

The characters on Kenny the Shark watch live action stuff on every episode if I'm not mistaken.
 
One of The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror" episodes have Bart and Lisa inside TV world, and everything's animated up to the point where they appear in a cooking show that's live-action. That's kind of a hybrid scene, but it's on TV.
 
In the movie Igor, the monster is forced to watch live-action footage of horror movies in hopes that it will turn her evil. However, an incident with the remote control causes her watch live-action footage of James Lipton talking about acting instead.

Last year, MTV aired a cartoon called DJ and the Fro, which was about a couple of guys who worked at some office. Every few minutes they would watch a real, live-action web video and make jokes about it.
 
In the Conja episode of Stroker and Hoop, a scene from the live action version of Alf was airing.

Bobby's World had live action guest stars like Little Richard and Kathy Ireland appear on the show.

The Olympics episode of Fairy Oddparents had Scott Hamilton in live action scenes.
 
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