In jokes slipped onto TV shows

Just before Ben departed EE for Borstal Phil remarked ''He'll come back a new man'' as indeed he will because they've changed the actor.

There was an episode of EE where Steve McFadden and Ross Kemp referred to each other by their real names but I suspect it wasn't an in joke, no-one spotted it.
 
In episode of 'The Sopranos' Christopher arrives late for a meeting with Silvio and Tony, and as an excuse tells him that 'the highway was jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive', lyrics from 'Born To Run' by Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. Silvio is played by Steven Van Zandt, who is guitar player in said band.
 
There was an episode of FrienRAB where Phoebe met a cop and she had his id card and was impersonating a cop at the time. She pretended to be working for a department from another tv show. I don't know the name of the other show it was my husband that pointed it out. It might have been nypd blue? She mentions a character and that his partner had just died which he had in the tv show i believe.

Maybe someone else knows this better!
 
Names of producers and crew often get co-opted for minor characters or newspaper headlienes etc.

In the Prison Break DVD Movie when Sara Tancredi gets into a fight in the prison showers (not as much fun as you're thinking :D) and Gretchen enRAB up killing one of the attackers, this is later reported as "Agatha Warren is dead" - Agatha Warren was a co-producer on the show.

In the opening two episodes of the new V series, the secret meeting and massacre at the end of episode 1 takes place in a warehouse whose location is 4400 Pier Avenue - Executive Producer and 'showrunner" Scott Peters produced and co-created returning alien abductees drama The 4400 - in which V's Joel Gretsch also starred.

Smallville, of course, plays notable and regular homage to the Superman canon and it's dramatic forebears by the casting of such luminaries as Annette O'Toole, Margot Kidder, Christopher Reeve, Terence Stamp, Helen Slater Dean Cain, Teri Hatcher in various roles.
 
Supernatural - Chuck's pen name was Carver Edlund - 2 surnames of producer/directors on the show

Also the number plate on The Impala was had 2Y5 on the end which means 2005 when it first aired.
 
(1) In Third Rock from the Sun when Bill Shatner guest starred and was met at the airport by John Lithgow, reference was made to something strange being seen on the wing of the plane - a reference to the fact that both actors had played the same role in different Twilight Zone series (Nightmare at 20,000 feet).

(2) In an episode of NCIS when Jethro was asked what the character Ducky looked like when he was younger, he said Ilya Kuryakin (a character from The Man from Uncle TV series). Both characters were played by the lovely David McCallum.

I love it when they do things like that :)
 
There was a good one in the 2009 season of CSI:NY.
Outside establishing shot of the exterior of the crime lab, and a New York police cop car pulls up with text showing that it was based and belonged to 'Precinct 13'.

Precinct 13 was the station where that other famous New York dectective, Kojak, was based.
 
I seem to remember it was shown virtually every time someone was watching the TV! I remember once being highly amused when they showed Jimmy Corkill watching it once.

Of course the other soaps aren't much better- in The Bill it was nearly always Danger Mouse, and in Corrie it seems to be Don't Eat The Neighbours (they showed Adventures of Treasure Island recently too), though they are at least real programmes. Though clearly there's a very limited amount of TV shows in existance in the soaps!
 
1) In an episode of Frasier, he was reunited with his first wife who was a children's entertainer, Nanny..something. She made a comment about having to play the same character for 20 years and Frasier said he could imagine how she felt (the Frasier character having been around for nearly this long, Cheers, then Frasier.) Cue knowing laughter from the audience:)
2) In an episode of Ellen, Ellen was watching televison with frienRAB and one remarked that she hoped the programme did not contain anything shocking. Ellen said they would have put up a warning triangle if that was so (the Ellen show featuring Ellen coming out was shown in the US with such a warning, much to Ellen DeGeneres's annoyance). Cue knowing laughter from the audience.:)
 
I think there's an episode of the A-Team where the guys are at a TV movie studio, and a bloke dressed as a Cylon from the original Batllestar Galactica walks past Face *Dirk Benedict), who promptly does a surprised 'Deja Vu' double take look at him, as if to say 'i know you from somewhere'.

The gag here is that BSG was the series in which Dirk Benedict previously starred.
 
I remember that one, they were on the haunted movie set in 'Hollywood Babylon' and the tour guide said something like "Gilmore Girls is filmed here" & the look on Sammy (Jared's) face is really cute.
I think this was the one where Dean makes a joke about the wheather being 'practically Canadian' - they were supposed to be in LA but they film in Vancouver :D

There's also one from the X-Files where Scully has a theory that a guy is made of metal and Dogget (Robert Patrick) say's something like "A guy made out of metal? Things like that only happen in the movies Scully!" Obviously refering to his roll in Terminator 2 :D
 
David Hyde Pierce did a guest on The Simpsons as Sideshow Bobs' brother Cecil. At one point Bart jumps on his back and covers his eyes and asks 'guess who' to which Cecil replies' Maris!'
 
Back
Top