I was half-listening to Stargate SG-1 on hulu while working earlier and it occurred to me how useful their show title actually was. The name of the show itself, the name of the most prominent object in the show AND the whole overarching government program the main characters are involved with has the name stargate in it.

This presents the opportunity for a lead character to mention a stargate trifecta (consisting of alternate realty, alternate dimension and time travel), on one hand referring to events occurring in-story, while surreptitiously breaking the third wall and humorously referencing the series itself.

This is not something that could be done easily (or with any regularity) in properties such as Star Trek or Star Wars. For obvious reasons.

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