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* 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 ==

 

== Literature ==

* Sci-fi author [[Philip José Farmer]], in his ''[[Riverworld]]'' series where all the Earth's population is resurrected into a wholly unexpected afterlife, has the character who is his [[Marty Stu]] in the book (legitimate, as we are ''all'' characters on the Riverworld) meet a publisher who once cheated him. Near-lethal vengeance is administered. The publisher is given the name Sharko.

 

{{quote|'''Pilgrim:''' Give me the bird!

'''Yakko:''' [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|We'd love to, really]], but the Fox censors won't allow it. }}

:* The most notable example would be the episode "You'll Never Eat Food Pellets In This Town Again", which features the titular lab mice as the stars of a hit TV show [[Executive Meddling|being heavily meddled with by network executives, who think heavily altering the show's premise will increase ratings]].

:* After being forced to switch from FOX to The WB, they proved to not be the type who played favorites. Practically every episode of ''Animaniacs'' used the [[Couch Gag|rotating gag credit]] at the end to bash their new network: "Be The First Kid on Your Block To Actually Watch The WB!"

{{quote|Babs: "It takes a group of highly-paid network executives YEARS to come up with a TV show!"

Buster: "Which means it should take US... about as long as this next commercial break!" }}

{{quote|'''Buster:''' And one guy who does nothing except sign his name on it! ''[Steven Spielberg falls onto the top of the pile.]''}}

* Yet another Fox example occurred from J Jonah Jameson on ''[[Spider-Man: The Animated Series]]'': "All the networks are laughing at me. Even FOX!"

* In the "Cartoon Wars" episodes of ''[[South Park]]'', the creators had a very public disagreement with Comedy Central over their right to visually portray the Islamic prophet Mohammad in their show, after a French satirical magazine was fire-bombed by terrorists for doing just that. The episode is essentially an extended debate between freedom of speech (in regards to comedy and satire) and censorship in the name of political correctness. During the scene where Mohammad was supposed to appear, South Park inserted a neutral title card stating (truthfully) that Comedy Central had ultimately refused to allow Mohammad to be show. The irony was that South Park had featured Mohammad as a character in the episode "Super Best Friends" and had him hidden in the title sequence of the show for the last two seasons.

{{quote|'''Reducto:''' No! [pulls out a complicated schematic] There is no government, just a few multi-national corporations that run everything.

[The words "An AOL/Time Warner Co." appear on the bar's sign in the background.] }}

** A filmstrip that makes its point by showing the incorrect and then the correct way ''[[Crosses the Line Twice|to blow a nun's head off]]''.

** Another example in the one hundredth episode has Shake trying to push the show's merchandise at the Adult Swim Shop, saying they "sell all our stuff for more than you can buy in other places."

* The beginning of "Tortoise Beats Hare" has Bugs Bunny reading the credits out loud. He blows his top after seeing the cartoon title:

{{quote|'''Bugs:''' ''(angrily)'' Why dese guys don't know what they're talkin' about, the big buncha joiks! (''smugly'') I oughta know. I woik for 'em.}}

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

* After ''[[ReBoot]]'' was dropped by ABC the show retroactively dubbed [[Big Bad|Megabyte]]'s forces "'''A'''rmored '''B'''inome '''C'''arriers. Which leads to the line:

Treacherous Dogs.}}

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

* The years when ''[[Daria]]'' was on the N! network... whose other shows oozed the same dumb popularity-obsessed teen attitude that Daria mocked.

* ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' has been known to poke fun at their producers on occasion. Example:

'''Rocky:''' I'm not talking about the Bullwinkle Show.

'''Bullwinkle:''' You had better; we could use the publicity. }}

{{quote|'''Rocky:''' They said A-bomb! Do you know what that means, Bullwinkle?

'''Bullwinkle:''' Sure. "A bomb" is what some people call our show!

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

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