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When on a comedy the characters make jokes at the expense of the studio or network funding their movie or TV show. In the US, the favorite target out of the Big Four Networks seems to be FOX, although all networks are [[Acceptable Targets]] at some point or another.

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* A dub example. If you play [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZlIcJbbm08&fmt=18 a scene] in episode 130 of [[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]] [[Subliminal Seduction|backwards]], you will hear James say "Leo Burnett and 4kids are the devil! Leo Burnett!" 4kids is the company that dubbed the series.

{{quote|'''Akiba:''' [[Gratuitous English|Its a Sony!]]}}

** Said show was produced by Aniplex, [[It Makes Sense in Context|so it's sponsored by Sony.]]

** "''Daily Lives of High School Boys'' was intermittently brought to you by these sponsors..."

** "''Daily Lives of High School Boys'' should have been brought to you by these sponsors..."

 

== Comic Books ==

* In the first ''[[Great Lakes Avengers]]'', [[Squirrel Girl]] and Grasshopper appear in an offstage prologue. Grasshopper says "The only people reading comics now are [[Take That, Audience!|overweight thirty-year-olds]] [[Basement Dweller|living in their mother's basement]]." [[Squirrel Girl]]'s sidekick replies in an inset: "Hey, fanboys, don't take that lying down! Write angry letters to [[Marvel]] today!"

* Hazmat in ''Avengers Academy'' #10: "Today's gonna suck as much as all the others... but just a little bit ''harder''. Because it's ''[[One More Day]]''... with ''no end in sight''."

 

== Film ==

* ''Babylon 5'': At the start of season 2, Executive Meddling made the creators sex up Ivanova's appearance. She started wearing redder lipstick and had her hair loose instead of pulled back. When Garibaldi came out of his coma and returned to duty, he commented on her 'new look'. Ivanova snapped back "With everything that's been going on around here I'd think you'd have other things on your mind besides my look!" Take That, Executive Meddlers!

* An unusual case: ABC has been owned by The Walt Disney Company since 1995, and in the Tom Bergeron era of ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'' (which started at the [[Turn of the Millennium]]), the grand prizes each season are usually related to the [[Disney Theme Parks]] or the company's other vacation ventures. The show usually sends Bergeron to the venues in question to spend chunks of his host segments shilling them. Aside from those special episodes, however, Disney hasn't stopped the show from airing home videos that cast the parks in a less-than-ideal light (costumed characters falling off of parade floats or scaring toddlers, kids and adults being unpleasantly surprised by Epcot's famous "leapfrog fountains", etc.), and in one 2005 finale Bergeron joked that when his daughters are at Disney World, the three things they're most eager to see are "Mickey, Minnie, and Daddy's Wallet."

 

== Music ==

* Mr. Bungle were apparently doubtful as to whether or not their major label debut would even be released: In one line of "Carousel" they ask "Will Warner Brothers put this record on the shelf?" (although, possibly as a way of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], the liner notes make the blatantly false claim that the lyric is "[[Grease|look at me I'm Sandra Dee]])".

** [[Devo]] was also known to mock Warner Brothers, and the music industry in general. Their promotional videos included characters that embodied every record executive stereotype: Rod Rooter, a pimply manager who didn't get Devo ("I can forgive you guys for being artists, but I can't forgive you for being stupid!" "Look at the airplay charts! No, no Devo!") and Daddy-Know-It-All, the boss of Big Entertainment who orders Rod to keep Devo in line.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

** Pastis has mocked his syndicate several times as well.

* Gary Trudeau, creator of ''Doonesbury'', has slapped at his employer several times for making him submit strips six weeks in advance, with characters saying things along the lines of "even though the election happened last week, we don't know who won because this strip was submitted six weeks ago."

 

== Radio ==

* Online game makers Nitrome did this and a bit of [[Self-Deprecation]] with their 100th game, ''Nitrome Must Die''. Example: in one level, the whiteboard in the background shows ideas for a new game... with a deadline of 8 hours.

 

** The ''OotS'' strip in the last three issues of ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' magazine had the Order discover the dragon from the cover of issue 1, whose subsequent career mirrored that of the magazine itself. The second of these strips was titled "Claw/Claw/Bite The Hand That Feeds Me".

 

** Continues in [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara's]] review of KISS comics. When asking Todd if he'd like to co-review after giving the history of KISS, he just laughs at the thought of him reviewing a comic. "I forget how nerdy this site is." Linkara didn't look pleased.

** In "The Sexual Awakening Of The Human Nerd" by [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s supporting cast, Dr. Tease interviews the other reviewers, describing them as "These creatures - I mean, humans - I mean, nerds".

 

== Western Animation ==

*** In another episode, the Flanders' kids have been infected with the "Osaka Flu" going around town. Ned then asks himself why God has "forsaken" them only to have a flashback to the one time they watched ''[[Married... with Children]]'' (complete with sinister lightning).

{{quote|'''Ned''': Oh Maude, the network slogan was true! "Watch Fox and be damned for all eternity!"}}

*** In "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy", the family criticizes Lisa's recent activism:

{{quote|'''Homer''': And we can't watch Fox because they own those chemical weapon plants in Syria.}}

*** In "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" you may remember Troy McClure from such Fox network specials as ''Alien Nose Job'' and ''Five Fabulous Weeks of "The Chevy Chase Show"''.

**** And in "[[Halloween Episode|Treehouse of Horror IX]]" Ed McMahon would like to remind you that the FOX special ''World's Deadliest Executions'' is brought to you by the producers of ''When Skirts Fall Off'' and ''Secrets of National Security Revealed''.

* "Blooper Bunny" has [[Daffy Duck]] kvetching about his role in the Bugs Bunny 51-1/2 anniversary special:

{{quote|'''Daffy:''' Who writes this slop?! (''Groans'') Warner Brothers doesn't have a creative bone in their...}}

* ''[[Duckman]]'' frequently made jabs at the USA Network.

* [[Eek! The Cat]] has an episode of Eek visiting his own production studio, to find out that series writers are treated as slaves, being forced to write to the point of getting crazy of it and haven't seen the outside world for a long time and that [[Executive Meddling|executives will do anything to get their way]], including ''riding them over with a steamroller''.

'''Rocky:''' (''miffed'') I didn't think that was very funny.

'''Bullwinkle:''' (''looking to camera'') Neither did ''they,'' apparently. }}

 

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