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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!
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* ''[[The Soup]]'' takes sooooooooo many jabs at [[Main/Ptitle 4 hhloid 7|E!]] They even have a segment dedicated to mocking E! shows called "Let's take some E!"
** Also a staple of ''[[Chelsea Lately]]''. Chelsea Handler frequently ridiculed the network president, even while she was dating him.
* An episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'' had Carl passive
* In ''[[Talkin Bout Your Generation]]'', host [[Shaun Micallef]] makes unkind remarks about the Ten network a few times; once, he [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] this by miming biting his hand afterwards.
* When he was a panelist on ''[[Match Game]]'', Richard Dawson used to quip that his ''[[Family Feud]]'' was the most popular show in Guam.
* The [[Too Good to Last]] game show ''Clash'' (Ha!/Comedy Central) had Billy Kimball addressing a discrepency "because if we don't, we're going to get a letter from our viewer."
* A 1971 episode of ''The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour'' featured an opera version of ''[[All in The Family]]'' with a completely different cast playing the Bunkers and Stivics, with the plotline having the CBS censor being invited for dinner. The CBS censor was played by Carroll O'Connor.
* Satirical BBC panel game ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' does this a lot. One of the most notable occasions was in the late 1990s when the BBC director-general John Birt banned BBC programs from discussing rumours that politician [[Peter Mandelson]] (a close friend of Birt) was gay; this act by Birt was widely regarded as an abuse of Birt's position and clear bias towards a friend who was otherwise an obvious target for satirists. Viewers eagerly awaited the first show after this became public, to see if the show would break the BBC's rules. Early on, guest Jackie Mason made a reference about Mandelson, and soon everyone else was at it, so the entire show became an attack on Mandelson's hypocrisy and Birt's attempt to get the BBC to cover for his friend.
* [[Eric Idle]]'s post-''[[Monty Python]]'' sketch show ''[[Rutland Weekend Television]]'' was un-necessarily crippled by a miniscule budget
{{quote|''Hello, I bet you're wondering why we're here/Sitting on our bums, without a stitch of gear/For as it happens, the budget has expired/And everything's gone back to the place from whence it's hired...''}}
* An episode of ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'' (made by the BBC) has Howard watching a bland, seven-hour documentary about an obscure film director and his [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|incomprehensible]] [[Le Film Artistique|works]]... on BBC Four. They got to use the real BBC Four logo.
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'''Topanga:''' But it's 9:30, I know you don't stay up past nine.
'''Kid:''' It used to be on at 8:30 but this year they moved it to 9:30, those idiots.
'''Cory:''' Wait a minute, they moved that show to 9:30
'''Kid:''' No one knows!
'''Cory:''' Well was it doing badly at 8:30?
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'''Cory:''' Well why didn't they leave it alone?
'''Kid:''' There're trying to kill it! There're trying to kill it!
'''Cory:''' Those are bad, bad people. }}
** ABC took notice and changed the timeslot back not long after this.
* One of the reasons ''The [[Dana Carvey]] Show
* The 2011 episode of ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' with guest host [[Miley Cyrus]] had a sketch called "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZdIFRKeSso&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL19B7160BD391FE59 Disney Channel Acting School]", where Miley (dressed in an exaggerated [[Hannah Montana]] costume and poofy hair) and [[Raven-Symone]] (played by [[Kenan and Kel|Kenan Thompson]]) host an infomercial for the school. The sketch parodies the writing, wardrobe and comedic devices [[Disney Channel]] [[Kid Com|Kid Coms]] such as ''[[Hannah Montana]], ''[[That's So Raven]]'' and ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' use regularly.
* [[Psych]], which airs on USA (an NBC affiliate) had this gem:
{{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...}}
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*** Peter closes the episode "Three Kings" with "Now stay tuned for whatever Fox is limping to the barn with".
*** They've even made fun of TBS in "Hell Comes to Quahog":
{{quote|'''Announcer:''' We now return to [[Fan Service|Showgirls]]...
'''Peter:''' Yeah!
'''Announcer:''' ...[[Nipple-and-Dimed|on]] [[Edited for Syndication|TBS]].
'''Peter:''' Aww. }}
* In an ''[[Animaniacs]]'' Wheel of Morality segment, Wakko's response to Yakko's "It's that time again!" is "[Time] to [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|make the Fox censors cry?]]"
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