Anything is possible in moviemaking, but not everything is legal. You can film anything, but you couldn’t, say, bring a camera into an opening-night premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, film the screen, and then incorporate that into your TV show. Except, that’s exactly what Nirvanna the Band the Show did in 2017.
In the episode, Matt Johnson (playing a fictionalized version of himself) watches Star Wars for the first time way too close to the screen, rendering himself blind. What follows is a series of misadventures where his bandmate Jay McCarrol (again, playing himself) takes advantage of this fact, all wrapped up in a parody of Daredevil, including a pitch-perfect opening title. It may be multiple pop culture references all wrapped up in each other, but that’s just par for the course with these two.
