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== Anime and Manga ==
* One arc of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' ends with a climactic battle in the Fuji TV station, which broadcast the show in Japan. It's mercilessly destroyed, although part of the architecture is used to destroy the [[Big Bad]]. The English dub just refers to "the TV station," which is a shame--the dub aired on Fox and everything!
* Speaking of the Fuji TV station, it also occurred in several ''[[Kochikame]]'' TV specials which the building was destroyed during the climaxes. One time, its architecture was used as a wrecking ball to knock a few stories off a skyscraper.
* The first episode of the [[OVA]] ''[[Dangaioh]]'' had the AIC building (''Dangaioh'''s production company) destroyed by the invading bad guys.
* With ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'', [[Sunrise]] figured out that the best way to make use of blatant [[Product Placement]] was to make fun of blatant [[Product Placement]].
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** Before he changed networks, Letterman did plenty of digs at [[NBC]] and their parent company, General Electric.
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_kY8n3KfEY The final segment of the last episode Letterman's ill-fated 1980 morning show] was a hilariously mean [[Take That]] to NBC and the game show that took over his timeslot.
** Jay Leno of ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' must have similar writers - he makes a lot of jokes at NBC's expense, too. He even makes jokes about how bad his jokes are.
* [[The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson|CBS cares.]]
* ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'' also can't seem to stop making fun of NBC and General Electric.
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{{quote|'''Director of show in show''': They better make great TV, okay? Because I sold this to NBC. NBC! They make classics like [[Friends]] and...uh...um...uh...}}
* The made-for-tv movie ''[[Special Bulletin]]'', which aired on NBC, featured a terrorist remarking "NBC would kill its mother for this footage!"
* ''Babylon 5'': At the start of season 2, Executive Meddling made the creators sex up Ivanova's appearance. She started wearing redder lipstick and had her hair loose instead of pulled back. When Garibaldi came out of his coma and returned to duty, he commented on her 'new look'. Ivanova snapped back "With everything that's been going on around here I'd think you'd have other things on your mind besides my look!" Take That, Executive Meddlers!
* An unusual case: ABC has been owned by The Walt Disney Company since 1995, and in the Tom Bergeron era of ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'' (which started at the [[Turn of the Millennium]]), the grand prizes each season are usually related to the [[Disney Theme Parks]] or the company's other vacation ventures. The show usually sends Bergeron to the venues in question to spend chunks of his host segments shilling them. Aside from those special episodes, however, Disney hasn't stopped the show from airing home videos that cast the parks in a less-than-ideal light (costumed characters falling off of parade floats or scaring toddlers, kids and adults being unpleasantly surprised by Epcot's famous "leapfrog fountains", etc.), and in one 2005 finale Bergeron joked that when his daughters are at Disney World, the three things they're most eager to see are "Mickey, Minnie, and Daddy's Wallet."
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* The [[Dead Kennedys]] turned this into a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] with their legendary performance of "Pull My Strings" at the Bay Area Music Awards in 1980.
* The back cover of The Replacements' ''Let It Be'' is a picture of graffiti the band members had written on a door, including "Twin/Tone eats slotty crap" (or possibly "...''sloth'' crap"). The Replacements were signed to the label Twin/Tone at the time, and what makes it even funnier is that the Twin/Tone logo is positioned directly beneath that message.
** The rarity "Lookin' For Ya" (which they would re-work into "Love Lines") ends with Paul Westerberg ad-libbing "Keep your riches, give me a Budweiser!". This is because it was originally recorded for ''Trackin' Up The North'', a compilation put together as part of a "Rags To Riches" battle of the bands co-sponsored by Miller High Life.
* Mr. Bungle were apparently doubtful as to whether or not their major label debut would even be released: In one line of "Carousel" they ask "Will Warner Brothers put this record on the shelf?" (although, possibly as a way of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], the liner notes make the blatantly false claim that the lyric is "[[Grease|look at me I'm Sandra Dee]])".
** [[Devo]] was also known to mock Warner Brothers, and the music industry in general. Their promotional videos included characters that embodied every record executive stereotype: Rod Rooter, a pimply manager who didn't get Devo ("I can forgive you guys for being artists, but I can't forgive you for being stupid!" "Look at the airplay charts! No, no Devo!") and Daddy-Know-It-All, the boss of Big Entertainment who orders Rod to keep Devo in line.
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== Video Games ==
* In the Los Angeles mission of the Japanese Campaign in ''[[Command
** ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'' was also filled with jokes directed at EA.
* The first thing one saw upon booting up ''[[
* Reggie Fils-Aime of Nintendo considers the ''[[Blur (video game)|Blur]]'' commercial, a [[Take That]] at ''[[Mario Kart]]'', to be this [http://www.nintendoeverything.com/43116/ on the basis] that the game's publisher [[Activision]] is also doing the new ''[[GoldenEye 007 (2010 video game)|GoldenEye]]'' game exclusively for Nintendo.
* [[Dragon Age]], Human Noble origin: [[Baldur's Gate|"Giant rats? It's like the start of every bad adventure tale my grandfather used to tell."]]
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* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2009/may/14/david-mitchell-soapbox This episode] of David Mitchell's Soap Box. (Originally the video went out as a podcast sponsored by Bulldog Natural Grooming.)
** Later episodes have a [[Running Gag]] that David can't remember the name of the company that is sponsoring his podcasts. Eventually Bulldog got in on the joke by announcing "Robert Webb's Soapbox".
* ''[[Psycomedia]]'' hosts Tim and Ben both attended [[Oxbridge|Oxford University]] but many episodes focus on the bizarre research of their teachers and other faculty members. Lovingly. And not libellously.
* According to [[Todd in the Shadows]], [[Lady Gaga]]'s "Telephone" has more advertisements than [[That Guy With The Glasses]].com. And "I've realised something about my new workplace. YOU ARE ALL A BUNCH OF NERDS! NERDS! ''NERDS!''"
** Continues in [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara's]] review of KISS comics. When asking Todd if he'd like to co-review after giving the history of KISS, he just laughs at the thought of him reviewing a comic. "I forget how nerdy this site is." Linkara didn't look pleased.
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and ''[[Family Guy]]'' both have histories of poking fun at the [[
** There is a list [http://www.snpp.com/guides/foxswipe.html here] of many of the jabs at Fox. Specific ''Simpsons'' examples:
*** ''The Simpsons'' reached a disturbing new nadir in its "MoneyBART" episode, its [[Couch Gag]] (storyboarded by subversive street artist [[Banksy]]) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX1iplQQJTo depicting] the production of ''Simpsons'' episodes and merchandise taking place in a toxic sweat shop within a bulding shaped like the 20th Century Fox [[Vanity Plate]]. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11510513 This BBC report] claims the sequence "led to delays, disputes over broadcast standards and a threatened walk out by the animation department."
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*** 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.
{{quote|'''King''':I'm your moderator, Larry King. Now, a word to our audience: even though we're being broadcast on...Fox, there's no need for obnoxious hooting and hollering.
'''*Cue obnoxious hooting and hollering*''' }}
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{{quote|'''Technician''': Oh my God. You knocked FOX off the air!
'''Fry''': Pfft, like [[Exact Words|anyone on Earth]] cares. }}
** The trope strikes again in the very first Comedy Central episode, which opens with a still of the Hypnotoad while a voiceover by Bender tells the viewer, on the count of three, to [[Canon Discontinuity|forget]] the show was ever cancelled by [[
*** This is something of an inversion of this trope, for instead of mocking their old network, they mock the one they are just picked up by. They don't have a single bad word to say about [[Cartoon Network]], and for good reason.
** Back when they were on Fox, the crew go on a tour of Hollywood, where the tour guide says the Fox logo spotlights are used to blind pilots so that they can film the resulting plane crashes.
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