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Fan conventions: Where the line between reality and fabrication becomes blurry. And very long.

Rupert: Hobbits will be mustering under Gandalf as was common in the Ops Room. Esoterica with the Master Mage is in a dimension yet to be fixed...Filking testament beryllium in Home Universe this year...Stan, who are these people?

Stan: Ordinary people having fun, I expect.

Or simply Rule Beaver State Con. This is where fans of a picky franchise, creator operating theatre work all meet together, discuss it and ask questions to the stars. A number turn up in costume.

Frequently parodied in the event of a Show Within a Show. The fans will often be portrayed as being geeky immature Man Children who are so obsessed with a certain franchise that they seem to represent unfashionable of touch with reality. Ordinarily they will be seen gawking over rare valuable collector items that they buy to make them component part of their unhealthy too large appeal of junk. They push together at Q&A panels to see their favorite stars and ask them the near in(s)ane questions, usually about persistence errors or scenes in the dealership that destroyed their Suspension of Disbelief. Also common is fans rejoicing because the stars aforesaid or shouted a meme or a catchphrase, especially if they requested it themselves.

Most of the clock time the unique feel of having several creators or cast members in collaboration in one place will personify wasted because the fans keep asking questions in which they tailor every possible meme, running gag, catchphrase or pop polish reference they can think of and want to swan their extended knowledge of all outcome, record, episode, game and/or film in the dealership. Some Loony Fans pride oneself in announcing themselves to be "the stars' biggest fan." A crazy lover theory will be verbalised to which the stars answer: "No that's non trustworthy", leaving the devotee disappointed because he believed in it so much. Hardly any questions about the stars' creative process testament be asked. Most of the time IT just involves In-Cosmos questions, equally if the franchise is a collection of true, historic events. Many a audience members have a tendency to cause remarks that show polish off their own lack of imagination, for exemplify: "Where do you guys get all your ideas?" or "If that character from that enfranchisement fought that particular character from this franchise: who would gain ground?". Also expect one star to get infuriated with some of the fans and tell them to puzzle a life!

One careful conventionalism which is frequently featured in Japanese works (or at least a version of it with the name slightly changed) is Comiket, a biannual doujinshi fair in Tokyo which is easy the largest fan rule in the world.

Truth in Television, unluckily and sometimes even off This Nonstarter Is You. Contrast and comparison barter shows for the amusement industries same the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

Examples:

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    Zanzibar copal and Manga

  • Dramacon is set at the fictional gum anime convention "Yatta!convict". The timeframe of each volume takes place during the three years the conventionalism is held for.
  • The cast of YuruYuri attend Comuket twice, during which the girls cosplay as Mirakurun characters and Kyouko is revealed as a touristy Doujinshi writer.
  • Seiji from Midori Years ends up crowned an "otaku god" after he helps his Secret-Custodian sell minidolls (of Midori) at a convention and refusing to deal his extremely advanced epitome (y'do it... the girl whose body has been transferred to his hand).
  • In Lucky Star Konata visits Comiket in the first uncomplete of Episode 12, bringing Kagami and Tsukasa along with her. She takes it very seriously (which is lampshaded by Kagami), having mapped out the best routes and determined which lineups are crucial to get into before copies of their doujinshi liquidize. While Konata is able to navigate the result easily, poor Tsukasa gets hopelessly doomed and Kagami runs across some Full Metal Panic! Yaoi doujinshi which she finds a snatch "too much" for her.
  • Genshiken makes a star deal out of the golf-club's (both current and then members) visits to Comiket. Similarly to Lucky Star, their visits involve flesh out plans requiring multiple people, maps of the convention, and carefully laid timetables to have in line for and obtain a variety of promotional items and specific-edition releases by doujinshi authors (WHO sell primarily at these conventions) before the supply is sold prohibited.
  • The cast of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maidservant attend Comiket 90. Tohru and Kobayashi are both helping Makoto sell his doujin, but Tohru later attracts gobs of care from cosplay photographers with her meido outfit and wings and buttocks showing. Lucoa, on the other hand, is removed from site because her outfit was too skimpy. Fafnir tries his hand at selling a doujin full of actual working curses, but walks away without selling even a single written matter. Makoto and Fafnir later pay heed Comiket 91, simply no attention is focused since they comment that it's the middle of winter. Fafnir once again fails to sell regular a single copy.
  • Episode 11 of Wasteful Years of High School Girls mainly involves a fan convention of Vocaloid producers.
  • Wotakoi: Love is Erect for Otaku has several chapters that hap at Comiket, since Narumi draws doujinshi to sell there.
  • Otaku no Telecasting features Comiket and other fan gatherings, it being just about Otaku attractive along the industry themselves, after completely.
  • Little Witch Academe: In episode 4, Akka, Sucy, and Lotte go to a fan assemblage for Lotte's favorite author, with signings, trivia, and cosplay recovered featured.
  • Ah... and Millimeter... Are Every last She Says has an arc focusing on Toda and several other mangaka creating a doujinshi compilation to sell at Comiket. She and Tanaka cosplay the characters to advertise their Booth, and Toda also sells some of her own work.
  • Aoi Sign has an arc where everyone goes to Hatsu-Con, and meets the rival Uri Home.

    Comic Books

  • In the Sandman series, a hotel puts on just such a convention... for serial killers. IT's beaked as a "Cereal Convention".
  • Captain Cultivated carrot and the Final Arc opens at the Sandy Eggo Comic Con, a parody of the San Diego Comic Con which gives the writer the chance to role every single Punny Name for an Animal Superhero he's ever come up with.
  • In 1 Angel: After The Drop off arc ("Boys and Their Toys"), Angel and Spike go to Sci-Fi Fest San Diego where citizenry come out turning into the characters they're cosplaying as.

    Comic Strips

  • One and only It's Grim Up North London undress in Private Eye has Quinn and Jez talking most how much they're looking at onwards to cosplaying at a convention. Poppy asks what the theme is, suggesting Doctor World Health Organization, Anime operating theater Steampunk. It turns resolute live a Bloomsbury Group con, and they'atomic number 75 dressed as E. M. Forster and Bulwer-Lytton Strachey.
  • The summer 2022 storyline in Crack Off (Howard) involves the Forths going to a science fiction rule, because the vox actress who played the main fictitious character in Sortie's loved childhood cartoon, which she recently rediscovered, is one of the guests.
  • A 2022 Dick Tracy plot line active a convention called Cosplay Con being run by three women onymous Margie as part of a complicated insurance scam that didn't all make sentience.

    Winnow Whole kit and boodle

  • In the Skyhold Academy Yearly serial, it's established that Solas is the secret indistinguishability of popular Lets Player "The Dread Wolf." In the twelfth installment, Love is a Mystery, helium gets invited to be a speaker at one of these in Denerim, suggestion the eponymous school's staff to host a sort of illumination convention for its students so they give the axe all experience some of the playfulness.
  • The New Adventures of Encroacher Zim has had a some examples:
    • Episode 12 of Flavor 1 features a formula for Sunset, a parody of the Twilight franchise, while Episode 18 has Gamer Con (a taxon formula for video games in the main).
    • Episode 9 of Time of year 2 has Fantasy Hustle, a convention for the fantasy musical style as a wholly.

    Film

  • Such of the plot of The Gamers: Manpower of Fate takes place at GenCon, a Real Animation gaming convention.
  • Galaxy Quest had a major, more often than not affectionate, parody of this.
  • The documentary Trekkies touched on the theme.
  • The Bag Witch Protrude, a Blair Witch parody short shoot by Unhealthful Bag Productions, tells the sorry tale of deuce-ac attendees at GenCon, WHO produce hopelessly lost in the hallways of the Milwaukee convention center.
  • Fanboys: In Las Vegas, the protagonists — dedicated Virtuoso Wars fans who have trolled Trekkies earlier in the film — finish awake running into a Star Trek convention out of all possible events.

    Literature

  • Sharyn McCrumb's fresh Bimbos of the Death Sun sets a murder mystery at a con, where a popular but volatile author is murdered piece writing his stylish novel.
  • Well-nig of the Diana Wynne Mary Harris Jone book Deep Secret takes place at a sci-fi/fantasy convention. Of naturally, there are proper wizards there.
  • Night of The Living Trekkies is a book about a zombie spirit irruption at a Star Trek convention; at that place is a trailer for the book here.
  • Lost at the Con is almost a Unconventional Journalist conveyed to covert Griffon*Con, a thinly-indistinct Expy of Dragon Con. Every bit very much a non-geek, his articles (which emphasise the act breaks) initiate out being very disparaging of the fans, the guests and the con itself, but eventually he winds up defending them against the kind of Jerk Jocks World Health Organization weft on people that just want to have merriment and atomic number 4 themselves.
  • Geek Tragedy, the first of Nev Fountain's whodunnits about former Vixens From The Annul script editor Mervyn Stone, is settled at Vixcon 15.
  • Alternate Worldcons and Over again, Alternating Worldcons, two anthologies of Alternate Account stories edited by Mike Resnick, all set at that history's version of the World Science Fable Convention.
  • Shatnerquake is a bizarro novel do at a William Shatner convention where, due to a engagement betwixt Shatner fans and Bruce Campbell fans, entirely of Shatner's characters are incidentally summoned into the real world, hellbent connected killing the real number Shatner attending the nobble.
  • Such of the action in Evidenced Guilty takes place at SplatterCon!!!, a horror moving-picture show convention with a focus on slasher films. It gets invaded by shapeshifting fae who feed upon fear.
  • The Lamia Con Series by Kate Paulk takes place in a world where the unearthly is historical. Where act they go to pay heed out/meet up? Sci-Fi/Fantasy Cons of course. Sadly, adventure gets in the way of their plans to just let a blast.
  • In "Northwestward", Mr Mad Anthony Wayne isn't feeling considerably sufficient to take care as a Edgar Guest for a convention in Minneapolis, so he sends his honest Butler Mr Pennyworth, instead.
  • One Leverage tie-in novel, The Con Job, involves the team's hacker and resident geek Hardison taking the wind connected infiltrating Comic-Con International after a customer is fleeced out of thousands of dollars in valuable comic books.
  • "Quezalcon" aside Kim Newman is a momentary story in the vogue of the events programme for the eponymic sf convention, organised away Derek Leech, which is strongly implied to be some kinda ritual in which the guest of honour is sacrificed so another writer can gain his abilities. All we're told is that dinner is "good heart", just has no vegetarian option.
  • John Ringo's Special Circumstances does this twice: In "Princess of Wants" they visit a small literature convention to feel the daemon WHO has been killing fans, and in "Queen of Wands" they visit what is expressly Tartar Con, along with dozens of thin disguised historical figures and both John R. Major and minor deities.
  • Donald A. Wollheim's "The Man From The Future day": The two protagonists are fans of Skill Fiction, and convince a gnome they meet to attend a convention and make to be a Time Traveller from the far future. During their board, a badgerer interrupts the game and the dwarf shoots him with a flashlight to quiet him so that they can resume the panel.
  • Stranger Than Fanfiction begins with citizenry waiting for the opening of WizCon, a convention in Santa Clara, California dedicated to Champion Kids.
  • The InCryptid short story "Tattle the Amusing-Con Blues" features Antimony, Sarah, Artie, and Verity (the lone non-wonk) going to Emerald City Comic-Con in Seattle to find a enchantress who's been causation deaths at other conventions.

    Unfilmed-Sue TV

  • CSI: The season 4 episode "Fur and Detestation" involved a Hirsute normal.
    • Vanity Fair and MTV also had hilariously misinformed "documentaries" on the Furry fandom, thorough with supposed explorations into a haired convention.
    • Conventions and CSI seem to go well together; excursus from the Furry Pattern, they also had episodes involving a convening for dwarves ("A Little Murder" from season 3) and combined for Big Beautiful Women ("Hulky Center" from temper 5).
    • "A Space Crotchet" from season 9 had one for Astro Quest, the Literary work Counterpart to Star Trek.
  • Community has an sequence set at an Inspector Spacetime (fictional Doctor World Health Organization-like show) convention.
  • The episode "The Sincere Ghostbusters" of Supernatural has Sam and Dean in attendance a convening for fans of the novel series based on their lives, which most fans feign is fabrication. Hilarity Ensues.
  • Dag: Injury, Mac and Bud stay at a motel in "Father's Day" where a Quantum jump convention is held.
  • Cruise of the Gods, a 2002 one-unsatisfactory BBC Two dramedy about a convention for a long-cancelled sci-fi show called Children of Castor taking place on an ocean line drive (the unmistakable comparability existence the annual "World Health Organization Cruise").
  • In the Castle episode "The Terminal Frontier", the dupe of the workweek is found dead at a Nebula-9 see (an expy of Star Trek) in a normal that the form of address character is, coincidentally, doing a signing at. Later in the instalment, helium encounters Alexis in a precise insufficient cosplay outfit, which they agree to never sing about.
  • The Outer Limits (1995): "Downbound to Earth" takes place at the 10th Yearbook North American UFO Pattern in 2000.
  • Schitt's Creek: In Temper 5, Alexis convinces a reluctant Moira to expend an afternoon signing autographs at a soap opera rooter convention. Moira eventually embraces the opportunity after speech another onetime soap diva, who supports herself lavishly through convention appearances, even going and then far As to sell pictures of her feet to fans at an exorbitant price.
  • The Smallville episode "Warrior" opens at a comics convention, where Clark and Zatanna try to chase down a magic comic book. With Lois in what's basically a Xena: Warrior Princess costume in Wonder Woman colours.
  • Supernatural: In matchless of the show's infamous meta episodes, Sam and Dean shoot the breeze a fan convention for the In-Universe of discourse books about their lives. The merchandise, panels, games and unrefined fans all muse actual Supernatural cons, merely when Doyen tries to out himself as the real James Byron Dean to a fan, helium's not believed.
  • Psych has had cardinal episodes set at Comic-Con, and ane where the con didn't actually come along simply a Closet Geek explains that the weekend he aforesaid he was on a business trip information technology was really Comic-Con. (His wife was really pissed polish off at him...for non bringing her.)
  • Wonder Woman, episode "Spaced Out": Rene Auberjonois plays a stealer who steals three "crystal lenses", but has to conceal them in a crateful bound for a science fiction convention.
  • In an installment of ICarly, Sam, Freddy, and Carly are guests at a conventionalism and are the main attraction to an "ICarly" control panel. Most of the time, fans continually try to ship either Carly with Freddy ("Creddy") or Surface-to-air missile with Freddy ("Seddy"). It gets so bad that when the boy Carly is geological dating shows up, Sam blames him for "Freddy and Carly not being happy together." The Creddy shippers keep to beat him up and bind with the microphone electric cord. (Interestingly, no one mentioned "Sarly".)
  • Expropriated: In "Francois Jacob and Jesse", Sortie Clarke often brings her son Jacob to ballistic capsule conventions where Dr. Peter Quarrington negotiation about his quaternate trips to Venus. The attendees of these conventions refer to themselves as contactees as they conceive that they have made liaison with aliens. It is unclear how many of them else than Wisecrack herself hold actually done so.
  • An episode of Saturday Night Live in 1986, with William Shatner as the node legion, famously spoofed a Star Trek convention where afterward ever more inane questions, Shatner begs them all to "Get A Lifetime!"
  • The Temper 5 episode of BrooklynNineNine, "Return to Skyfire", has Jake and Terry attend a fantasy convention where they help D.C. Parlov, the author of their favorite book serial publication, The Skyfire Oscillation, find the stolen manuscript of his succeeding Koran, and they impart Rosa with them.

    Occupational group Wrestling

  • Although it does have a championship trophy defended in statute title matches, Nimbus is non known for lengthwise shows indeed very much like stressful to get wrestlers it deems worthy on shows entrenched past other people. The one outcome it is known for running most closely resembles a women's pro wrestle devotee convention and is appropriately dubbed "GLORY Con".
  • The Women's Hand-to-hand struggle Convention is technically an amateurish wrestling similitude to GLORY, with about of the matches being of such a style or few variation of competitive submission grappling. But professional wrestlers(sometimes even male ones provided they have a adult female wrestler spouse) are still receive and often steal the show if there is time for a "in favor style" match(though don't expect many cheers if you'Ra a guy).
  • WrestleReunion, a reunification show for pro wrestlers started in 2005, which fans are also invited to attend, which also tends to host the shows of several self-reliant promotions during its annual runs in various regions around the USA.
  • WrestleCon, which too started in 2005 Eastern Samoa a more straight wise convention that also features shows of several fencesitter promotions from the USA and Mexico.
  • The Missouri Wrestling Revival, which started in 2008, which doubles as an award show for Midwest USA wrestlers and promotions.
  • Masters Of The Ring Amusement hosts fan expos that double as tributes to various subjects relating to business grappling. They also host the shows of Sporty Cause Affirmative Wrestling, whose ticket sales go to charity.

    Puppet Shows

  • In Sesame Street episode 4504, the street hosts Quantitative Con, the convention for fans of Book of Numbers which is strangely similar to Comic Goldbrick, making number-paronomasia references to pop culture like Fiverine, Doctor Two, Princess Three-a and The Green Four-ultimate, with Elmo cosplaying as The Dark Nine.

    Television Games

  • In Metal Pitch, Dr. Hal "Otacon" Emmerich's moniker comes from the tangible-life Otakon formula.
  • Randal's Monday: One chapter takes set during a comic convention.
  • In Fate/Grand Order, the 2022 summer event revolves round ServaFes, a very self-explanatory mockery of Comiket. Jeanne Alter's goal is to make up a doujinshi that will outsell everyone else's.

    Visual Novels

  • Bachelor girl Party has the Girl Scouts determination themselves at a "Pretty Panda Princess" convention while chasing after the Howdy-technical school Bag. Patc they're at the gaolbird, there's a premium choice to have the chemical group bard in show appropriate cosplay to blend in with the fans.
  • Comic Company is every about making rooter doujins, thus a Comiket parody called "Comic Party" features intemperately.
  • In the DLC for Nekojishi Liao brings the three cat spirits (in outwardly human forms) to a furry convention. Unbeknownst to those in attending Liao is smuggling three anthropomorphous cicada-like spirits in unvarnished whole sle.

    Web Comics

  • El Goonish Shive had a non-canon side story that took place at San Diego Comic Con.
  • Insecticomics includes several instances of characters (actually, the generator cosplaying) attendance the real-lifetime BotCon.
  • Narbonic glorious both literary work and real-life examples.
    • Within the comic, Dave Davenport travels to Dave-Con, the yearbook convention of the Dave Cabal (all member wearing a badge that reads, "Hello, my nominate is DAVE").
    • A later storyline is set at the North American Unrestrained Science Symposium.
    • In Proper Life, the readers of the comic unionized Narbonicon, an annual event celebrating the comic and its author, Shaenon Garrity. Information technology was held during the six years of the comic's original run, but discontinued once the "Director's Cut" version (*cough up*reruns*cough*) began.
  • The initiatory Umlaut House comic had Monstrous Con, for mad scientists.
  • In The End, a landed alien starship passes for being All Part of the Show referable existence parked honorable outside one of these.
  • Roomies! managed to stray into "a transforming robot convention" during a Roadworthy Activate storyline. BotCon is in conclusion mentioned by name in Shortpacked!, which is Interahamw more bold-moon-faced about its nerdiness and consistently has both related plotlines and material-aliveness tales of convention mayhem from David Willis each year like clockwork.
  • A plot line in Kevin & Kell is set at a Virtuoso Trek convention. Once Rudy's webcomic close to "humans" becomes popular we acquire the opposite of a furry convention.
  • The webcomic Spacey is about the staff of a village fandom convention, and much of the comic takes place at both their con and others.
  • General Protection Fault features a sci-fi fan convention at unmatched point — a welcome opportunity for Fooker to pull off off multiple tricks to get Nick and Ki to finally snitch up.
  • Since Hang In Thither Kogasa San is pretty much an embellished journal of a doujinshi creative person and his friends, conventions are a common occurrence—every bit part of their job is to deal out self-published comics at these. One of the recurring characters, tired American Samoa Kyubey, is a convention organizer.
  • Niels erstwhile snuck into a furry convention to yield out a target. No one noticed he was dead for two hours because the dupe wore a fursuit, and Niels couldn't be known anyway because he was tiring a fursuit himself (a fox one, and considering there were around 200 foxes at the convention...).

    Wolf down Girlfriend: Now that I think about it, the person could as wel have been dressed as a wolf.
    Tiger Boy: Then make it 700.
    Niels: Easiest collide with-job ever!

  • The majority of the And Shine Heaven Now storyline 'Eurekon' takes place at the legal right formula for Mad Scientists, where Doc presents his opening a hellmouth and summoning Sett, Nina, and Incognito to flack Tokio to an unimpressed crowd. Afterwards information technology blows up in his face off when they're all defeated past magical girls, Doc dies an unceremonious death when atomic number 2 trips on a cord and the idiot box waterfall on him.
  • In the present-day arc of Arthur, King of Meter and Space, Arthur and his friends often accompanied conventions (especially formerly Morgan became a religious cult Television receiver actress). Along one occasion, their preperation for San Diego was compared to their baseline and blank space selves preparing for the Roman War.

    Web Originative

  • That Guy with the Glasses runs into a normal (Nashville's Eccentric Media Expo, to be specific) in pursuit of Casper the Friendly Ghost during the Nostalgia Critic's review of the movie Casper. Variously-costumed conventiongoers help him with the chase.
    • Chester A. Bum and 90s Kid attended Youmacon once, where Chester discusses yaoi with a Chester cosplayer, 90s Kid has a 'Buster-forth' with a 90s Kid cosplayer, and they interact with separate gyp-goers.
    • In a by and by video, Chester and Lester A. Dirty dog meet con-goers at Daisho Con 2010 to Ra-enact Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows Start out One.

    "RUN! AAAAAAAA!"

    • Nostalgia Critic also ties certain cons into his reviews. They usually goal in either his fans going on a rampage against him, or vice versa.
  • The Atop the Fourth Wall up live shows are through from conventions.
  • The Guild season five takes place alone at the fancied MegaGame-O-RamaCon. Codex playtests a future upgrade of The Game at its booth and inadvertently drives the Divine to sell information technology with her complaints; Vork and Bladezz set up a stall for fans to go custom videos of Bladezz's internet-meme persona; Zaboo sets upwardly a organisation that allows him to visit unlimited panels; Tink uses her cosplaying skills to evade her family; Clara tries to gain acceptance at a steampunk booth. Celebrity cameos and hijinks ensue.
  • Fenspace combines this figure of speech and an period of time opinion summit meeting where the leaders of all the important factions fall in and hammer out treaties and international laws and other serious government-type hooey in between panels and screenings. Information technology sounds ridiculous to most the great unwashe back happening Earth, but somehow IT seems to work.

    Web Video

  • From Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series:

    Florence: I activate Dark Sanctuary! Now the affaire d'honneur will pass in a twisted and horror-filled surroundings where just the bravest souls dare to speculation.

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    Western Spiritedness

  • The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Charming installment "Stranger Than Fan Fiction" features Rainbow Dash attendant a convention for her favorite book series, Daring Practice. There, she meets a Sports fan Hater named Quibble Bloomers (sonant past Patton Oswalt) WHO hates the books (or at least the later o, more than action-packed ones) as much as Dash loves them. The convention itself is clearly modeled after the San Diego Comic-Con and fan conventions generally, complete with cosplayers of the books' characters, at least ane intellectual nourishment vendor, and various trade booths.
  • In an American Dad! sequence, the Villain of the Week is concealment in a convention, and the only style to get at him is using Steve's technique in elven language.
  • Freakazoid! pursued Caveman and was chased by Fanboy during a convention.
    • The Caveguy episode was renowned, Eastern Samoa Freakazoid talks to the fans in lieu of his God Almighty, and scares Caveguy off by public speaking Klingon to him.
    • In an earlier episode, while stressful to escape from Fanboy (WHO was trying to become his sidekick), Freakazoid felled seam into a sci-fi convention. He then finally got Fanboy off his back by pointing out Mark Hamill and seductive Fanboy with the more glamorous prospect of Jedi Knighthood.
  • Non to be outdone, Animaniacs as wel had a convention supported instalment in their later time of year. The Warner Trio found themselves being chased done the formula halls (musical piece doing so) by rabid fans led past Elmyra of all people. It only stopped when Yakko made a Call and invited/tricked Pinky and the Psyche to the Gaolbird... and promptly threw the mice under the bus.
  • The Simpsons:
    • "Mayored to the Mob" had Homer saving Commemorate Hamill from psychotic fans at the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Yard bird.
    • In "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show", he attended an Itchy & Scratchy convention (Set at the Comic Book Guy's shop) as the spokesperson of Poochie.
    • "Treehouse of Horror X": The second segment, "Desperately Xeeking Xena", had Lucy Lawless phonation herself answering obsessive nitpicky questions past nerdy fans about Xena: Warrior Princess, leading to the Trope Namer A Wizard Did IT.
    • The Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con makes a return during the thirdly act of "My Self-aggrandizing Fertile Geek Wedding", which is where the Comic Book Guy attempts to marry Edna Krabappel (who ultimately declines to marry him).
  • The battle in Robot Chicken betwixt Star Trek and Star Wars fans at a scifi convention.
  • Phineas and Ferb has an episode set at a "Sci-Fi and Fantasy Rule," with Phineas being a Sci-Fi winnow, Ferb being a Phantasy fan, and Candace being an Otaku for cutesy Japanese character Darling Momo. The Sci-Fi and Fantasy sides actually get into a war, until Phineas and Ferb come up with a plan to remind them that that they're all nerds at that place, and that Hate Dumb is poor fish.
  • Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness had Po attend a kung fu festival (operating theatre, as they predict IT, "The Fest"), where fans reenact illustrious battles and trade action figures. Shifu forbids him from going, but that's only because he's going away there overly and doesn't deficiency Po to watch. Gleefulnes Ensues when Po accidentally paralyzes Mantid and he gets mistaken for an action figure.
  • Connected one episode of Dexter's Laboratory, Dex and his friends go to a Star Trek convention, simply land up at a chick collectors convention as an alternative.
  • The Cleveland Show off had an episode when Cleveland goes to San Diego Mirthful-Con with his family to advertize his new comic. An early episode had Cleveland fetching his Logos to a fan convention to show the horrors of not losing your virginity, only to come home with a bunch of merchandise.
  • Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon takes plaza at an Expy for Comic-Con, where the trailer for a Darker and Edgier feature-shoot adaptation of Blue Falcon is set ahead to premier.
  • Bob's Burgers - daughter Tina is a big fan of "The Equestranauts", a My Little Trot expy and gets her family to take her to a formula - where she's thunderstruck to find the other fans are altogether middle-aged men. They're generally a unobjectionable bunch, thither for the get it on of the show and the community - then in that location's the guy who's the self-appointed leader of his little crowd, who swindles Tina out of her beloved toy pony.
  • Mission Hill - Andy scoffs at his geeky brother Kevin and his friend going to a sci-fi normal, until he meets the friend's cute sister who is also going.
  • The Family Roast episode "Not Completely Dogs Get ahead to Heaven" opens at a sci-fi convention, where fans of Adept Trek: The Next Generation call for cat members about...the most mundane things, without ever touch on anything about the series, practically to Stewie's alarm. One much question was "Does this tone like dry scrape or a rash?"
  • The first episode of Daria shows a UFO convention happening near Lawndale. Using her school-imposed self-esteem row and its "lessons" as fire, Daria manages to drag the rest of her syndicate to it just to annoy them.
  • The Day My Butt Went Psychotic!: In "Comic Butt Convention", Zack and Deuce go to a pattern where Zack is given a laughable that proclaims him to The Chosen Indefinite, but turns out to be part of a plot away the Great White March. Meanwhile, most the butts, including 2, are going away crazy over a Television show about Vikings. This turns out to live a different plot past the Swell White Butt.
  • The Hero Elementary episode "AJ's Spare Superpower" has Sparks Crew getting ready to go to Citytown Hero Con. The last half of the episode emphasizes this more, with AJ trying to return an gasbag to his hero Jetman Jones, which has his refreshing drama reserve.
  • Celebrity Deathmatch: The installment "Deathcon 2001" takes put on at a sci-fi convention, and as such, all the fights are themed about scientific discipline fiction. The first fight is a struggle between Alien star Sigourney Weaverbird and Terminator prima Linda Sir William Rowan Hamilton. The second fight is a ending of the season-long "Freak Fight" story arc, which involves scientifically-created Mix-And-Match Men called the Ace Freaks (beings created by science existence a common theme in sci-fi), and it pits the winners of the previous 2 Super Freak fights against each new to see who is truly the strongest of the Ace Freaks. And the headline equalize is the "War of the Star Wars Stars": a showdown between original trilogy genius Harrison Ford and prequel trilogy star Samuel L. Jackson. And since the episode takes place at a sci-fi convention, all the typical things that unrivalled power ascertain at a fan formula can be seen: bespectacled, nasally-voiced geeks, Devotee Boys demanding autographs from the fighters and crew, stands selling merchandise, scantily-togged Cosplay Otaku Girls, and, of course, lots of hoi polloi in elaborate costumes (which allows an foreign with a score against Nick Adamant to sneak in unnoticed).

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Source: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FanConvention