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* [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s ''[[The Great Dictator]]'', in which the entire closing monologue is a statement of Chaplin's anti-war beliefs. |
* [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s ''[[The Great Dictator]]'', in which the entire closing monologue is a statement of Chaplin's anti-war beliefs. |
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* Parodied in [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Bullets Over Broadway]]'', in which David Shayne simply cannot help but write what he thinks is "important dialogue", but everyone else thinks is turgid. |
* Parodied in [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Bullets Over Broadway]]'', in which David Shayne simply cannot help but write what he thinks is "important dialogue", but everyone else thinks is turgid. |
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{{quote|'''Cheech:''' "A maze beset by brutal pitfalls!" Hey, Olive, ''I'' memorized it, and I'm tellin' ya, it comes to me all the time, and it stinks on fuckin' hot ice!}} |
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* In the last 10 minutes of ''[[Clerks]]'' [[Kevin Smith]]'s voice hops from one character to another basically every time someone opens their mouth. In fact, this tends to be the method by which he concludes all his films. |
* In the last 10 minutes of ''[[Clerks]]'' [[Kevin Smith]]'s voice hops from one character to another basically every time someone opens their mouth. In fact, this tends to be the method by which he concludes all his films. |
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* During a flashback scene in ''[[Saw]] VI'', Jigsaw is standing in the office of William, an executive at a health insurance company who had just denied him an experimental treatment for his cancer (and who is the subject of the film's main trap). This causes Jigsaw to go into a rant attacking the health insurance industry, saying that they do the very same thing that conservatives fear socialized medicine will do -- namely, take life-and-death decisions away from doctors and their patients by denying them coverage. He doesn't say "conservatives" or "socialized medicine," but the message is clear, and is repeated throughout the film, especially with the way that {{spoiler|William gets killed}}. |
* During a flashback scene in ''[[Saw]] VI'', Jigsaw is standing in the office of William, an executive at a health insurance company who had just denied him an experimental treatment for his cancer (and who is the subject of the film's main trap). This causes Jigsaw to go into a rant attacking the health insurance industry, saying that they do the very same thing that conservatives fear socialized medicine will do -- namely, take life-and-death decisions away from doctors and their patients by denying them coverage. He doesn't say "conservatives" or "socialized medicine," but the message is clear, and is repeated throughout the film, especially with the way that {{spoiler|William gets killed}}. |
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== Western Animation == |
== Western Animation == |
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* ''[[Family Guy]]'' has done a lot of this in its post-revival episodes to express the writers' generally left-wing views, usually without any self-parody. There is one example of a parodical usage in the episode "Boys Do Cry", however. The message itself is completely sincere, but the way it's delivered is comedically heavy-handed, infused with [[Reality Subtext]]: |
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' has done a lot of this in its post-revival episodes to express the writers' generally left-wing views, usually without any self-parody. There is one example of a parodical usage in the episode "Boys Do Cry", however. The message itself is completely sincere, but the way it's delivered is comedically heavy-handed, infused with [[Reality Subtext]]: |
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{{quote|"Like, for instance, if you're watching a TV show and you decide to take your values from that... you're an idiot. Maybe you should take responsibility for what values your kids are getting. Maybe you shouldn't be letting your kids watch certain shows in the first place if you have such a big problem with them, instead of blaming the shows themselves. [long pause] Yeah."}} |
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** That is subtle [[Lampshade Hanging]] of [[Author Filibuster]] in ''[[Family Guy]]''. [[Clueless Aesop|If the line was intended to have a go at people taking morals from TV without irony]] then... |
** That is subtle [[Lampshade Hanging]] of [[Author Filibuster]] in ''[[Family Guy]]''. [[Clueless Aesop|If the line was intended to have a go at people taking morals from TV without irony]] then... |
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*** One particularly egregious example has an entire episode defending OJ Simpson and in the closing scenes there's an explanation about how it's wrong to judge others and it end with OJ stabbing three people. The [[Broken Aesop]] infuriated many viewers who felt that they had just had a half hour of time stolen from them. |
*** One particularly egregious example has an entire episode defending OJ Simpson and in the closing scenes there's an explanation about how it's wrong to judge others and it end with OJ stabbing three people. The [[Broken Aesop]] infuriated many viewers who felt that they had just had a half hour of time stolen from them. |
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