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** From [http://www.cracked.com/article_20556_5-animal-rights-campaigns-that-managed-to-screw-over-animals.html 5 Animal Rights Campaigns That Managed to Screw Over Animals], about the dogs rescued from Michael Vick's dogfighting ring:

{{quote|One of the survivors was put in a program called Paws for Tales, where kids too shy to read aloud to human audiences practice their reading skills in front of dogs. No, really. That's not a sarcastic fake program we made up. (And that's not a stock image. That's Jonny Justice, the actual dog we're talking about.)}}

** Early in "[http://www.cracked.com/article_21674_5-movies-kids-that-stole-their-plot-from-adult-movies_p2.html 5 Movies For Kids That Stole Their Plot from Adult Movies]", Mark Hill and JM McNab intentionally switch the setups of ''[[The Santa Clause]]'' and ''[[An American Werewolf in London]]'', assuming that readers will get the joke. But later, when comparing Wizard from ''[[Taxi Driver]]'' to Clyde from ''[[Wreck-It Ralph]]'', they comment on the former's video-game-character-like name and feel the need to point this out:

{{quote|(No, we didn't get the names mixed up -- Clyde is the video game villain, Wizard is the cabbie. Go figure.)}}

* GameCentral's [http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/games/878649-coronation-street-the-mystery-of-the-missing-hotpot-recipe-review-readers-feature review] of ''[[Coronation Street]]: The Mystery of the Missing Hotpot Recipe'' begins

{{quote|''This is a real game that exists. Don't say it isn't... it is!''}}