Biting the Hand Humor: Difference between revisions
Rescuing 2 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9)
(update links) |
(Rescuing 2 sources and tagging 0 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9)) |
||
Line 225:
** ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'' was also filled with jokes directed at EA.
* The first thing one saw upon booting up ''[[Conker's Bad Fur Day]]'' for the N64 was the typical N64 logo...which is immediately ripped apart by Conker with a ''[[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]]'', to be replaced by the Rareware logo. In all fairness, this is probably a good first indicator of what someone seduced by the game's disarming appearances is actually in for...
* Reggie Fils-Aime of Nintendo considers the ''[[Blur (video game)|Blur]]'' commercial, a [[Take That]] at ''[[Mario Kart]]'', to be this [https://web.archive.org/web/20100824135627/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."]]
* Strong Bad does this quite often towards [[Telltale Games]] in ''[[Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People|Strong Bads Cool Game for Attractive People]]'' and its making-of mockumentary ''Behind The Bad'' (and eventually carried over in ''[[Poker Night At the Inventory]]''), usually complaining about how they never follow his idea of the "perfect" Strong Bad video game. This, however, is subverted near the end of "8-Bit Is Enough" when the developers [[Throw the Dog a Bone|finally made an albeit lo-res polygon render of a concept sketch from Strong Bad for the episode's final battle]], [["Hell Yes!" Moment|and Strong Bad couldn't be more happy about it.]]
Line 248:
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and ''[[Family Guy]]'' both have histories of poking fun at the [[FOX]] network. Probably the most striking example was [http://www.hulu.com/watch/41275/family-guy-canceled the first scene in the first episode of ''Family Guy'' after it had been revived from cancellation], where Peter recites the long list of every prime-time show that Fox cancelled after ''Family Guy''.
** There is a list [https://web.archive.org/web/20131108070159/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."
*** Planning to videotape an apparent alien visitor (and taking a swipe at Fox's [[Documentary of Lies|"Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction"]] broadcast), giving us the second page quote.
| |||