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Line 57: == Literature == * In ''[[~~Discworld/Maskerade\|~~Maskerade]]'', Terry Pratchett manages a dig at the publishing industry and the morality of book publishers by having Nanny Ogg bilked over a publishing deal, in which her payment for a best-seller is the usual gratis author's copy of the book and nothing else. Granny Weatherwax plays catch-up on her friend's behalf and demonstrates that a publisher's worst nightmare is a cheated witch. They leave the offices with an advance payment of five thousand dollars. * 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. Line 310: {{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. }} :* In the ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' [[Spin-Off]], the opening song commented on [[Pinky, Elmyra ~~and~~& ~~The~~the Brain\|the addition of Elmyra]] with the lines "[[Executive Meddling\|It's what the network wants, why bother to complain?]]". At the end of the song, Brain also says "I deeply resent this", and, given the very real hatred of the idea by the show's own writers, it seems likely enough he was referring to more than just his in-story predicaments with Elmyra. This was itself preceded by the episode ''Pinky and the Brain and Larry'', with an intentionally lame and useless extra character inserted just to show how the show didn't need a third wheel... but it was railroaded through anyway. :* 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!" Line 352: * 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.}} * "Blooper Bunny" has [[Daffy Duck]] kvetching about his role in the Bugs Bunny 51~~-1/2~~½ anniversary special: {{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: Line 358: Treacherous Dogs.}} * ''[[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''. * 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: Line 373: '''Bullwinkle:''' Sure. "A bomb" is what some people call our show! '''Rocky:''' (''miffed'') I didn't think that was very funny. '''Bullwinkle:''' (''looking to camera'') Neither did ''they,'' apparently. }} * In one scene from ''[[Amphibia (TV series)\|Amphibia]]'' (a cartoon produced by [[Disney]]) Polly goes into a store in the mall where kids can construct their own stuffed animals. After perusing the available pieces, she finds a nose-mouth piece that resembles that of Mickey Mouse. "Eh, no thanks," she says and tosses it aside. ---- :[[Self-Demonstrating Article\|Oh look, another "witty" self-demonstrating]] [[The Stinger\|stinger]] to show that [[All The Tropes]] is dumber – more informal! – than [[The Other Wiki]]. [[Flat Joy\|Joy]].