Biting the Hand Humor: Difference between revisions

***::* That particular example is more of a swipe at ''Family Guy'' than at Fox. The rivalry between those two shows is not particularly friendly.

***::* In that same episode at the end, someone calls in pledging $10,000, and Rupert Murdoch says "You've saved my network!" Bart, hanging up the phone, says "Wouldn't be the first time."

**::* This also ended up biting them back; in one episode they mock Butterfinger, a long-time sponsor of the show. Nestle responded by canceling their contract. Acknowledged in the next episode, where the [[Couch Gag|blackboard gag]] read "I will not bite the hand that feeds me Butterfingers."

**::* In a flash-forward episode, set <s>[[Comic Book Time|in 2010]]</s> 15 years from now, we find out that all the programs on Fox have become porn. This happened so gradually that Marge hadn't noticed until that point in time.

**::* The Road Rage episode ("Marge Simpson in: Screaming Yellow Honkers"). The family promotes NBC for its quality programming, ending with "How do we know if there's something good on now? Just change the channel", followed by Homer reading out a forced statement over the episode's credits that NBC sucks and Fox rules, under gunpoint, ending with him saying, "CBS: great," and being shot.

**::* "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" has Homer and company tangling with Rupert Murdoch, who refers to himself as "the billionaire tyrant". (Murdoch was [[Self-Deprecation|actually playing himself]].)

**::* Another example is when a promo for ''Joe Millionaire'' goes across the top of the screen. Homer then eats part of it, but disgustedly spits out the Fox logo.

**::* 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).

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

**::* 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''.

**::* In ''The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase'', Troy McClure says that FOX approached the Writers of ''The Simpsons'' to create "35 new shows" to fill a "few holes" in the schedule. Cue a poster of the FOX schedule: A slot each for ''The Simpsons'', ''[[The X-Files]]'', and ''[[Melrose Place]]'', All other slots are question marks.

**::* In "Simple Simpson", the family watches ''Promiscuous Idiots Island'' on Fox, the home of promiscuous idiots.

**::* Plus, there was a scene in a Sideshow Bob episode where Rupert Murdoch himself (speaking with a bad Australian accent) was in jail with Bob. They actually had to ask for and GOT permission from Murdoch himself for that one. His response was apparently "[[Self-Deprecation|I would be honored to be in jail in The Simpsons]]".

**::* In the episode where Lisa was petitioning to have Springfield turn off all its lights so she could see an upcoming meteor shower, she complained that the only thing she could see in her telescope was the Fox satellite. The screen then cuts to a broken, falling apart satellite that's only being held up by regular party balloons.

**::* And in the episode written by and guest starring Ricky Gervais, Fox is described as the home of the world's worst sitcoms, before Lisa points out that the show ''Mother Flippers'' (i.e. ''Trading Spouses'') is a rip-off of an [[Wife Swap|existing show]]. She is bribed with a Fox sweatshirt, but when she points out it's actually an ABC sweatshirt they throw her in the ''[[American Idol]]'' holding pen.

**::* Behind the Laughter: The only reason that "The Simpsons" got picked up as a show, was because Marge's hairdresser was also ''president'' of the Fox network.

**::* In the couch gag for "Elementary School Musical", the 22nd season premiere, a Fox executive appeared giving the Simpsons a cupcake with a candle on it to celebrate the beginning of the season. After Maggie blew out the candle, the executive took the cupcake and ate it himself.

**::* Subverted in another episode, when a media circus hits town, the Fox news van is very large and rolls into view while "We Are The Champions" plays.

**::* The show did a parody of ''[[The Island of Dr. Moreau]]'' called "The Island of Dr. Hibbert." In it, Dr. Hibbert has been turning the people of Springfield into half-men/half-beasts. He himself comes out wearing a fox stole which resembles Mr. Burns, prompting Bart to say, "Ooooh, he got the Fox treatment."

**::* In-universe example in one episode. Krusty bad-mouths a particular drug company (I think Percodan) while being taped, then mentions "a word from our sponsor", who also happens to be the same drug company he just criticized. Cue [[Oh Crap]] moment for him.

**::* In "Sideshow Bob Roberts" Larry King is moderating in a mayoral debate. Before the debate, he addresses the audience.