GTA Radio: Difference between revisions

''[[GTA Radio]]'' is an extensive [[Show Within a Show]] within the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' universe. Although an [[Early Bird Cameo|early form]] existed in ''[[Grand Theft Auto II]],'' it started when radio personality Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio shows for the series. Starting with ''[[Grand Theft Auto III (Video Game)|Grand Theft Auto III]]'', he created a whole series of fake stations, with the only thing real being the music (either originally produced for the games or licensed). Otherwise, the commercials, DJs, and shows are spoofs of those on actual radio (including where he spoofs ''himself'').

* [[Defictionalization]]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazlow Lazlow], radio scriptwriter for most GTA games from ''III'' onwards, has an actual XM radio show, in large part because of his resurgent popularity stemming from his involvement with the series, including, but not limited to, hosting a radio show in each game. He directly references it in IV, when he uses lines about remembering a time "when 16-year-olds could drink, smoke at bars, listen to heavy metal, and get into high-speed accidents" which was lifted directly from the opening to his show.

* [[Hey It's That Voice]]: ''Tons''. The series has featured such people as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funkmaster_Flex Funkmaster Flex], [[Iggy Pop]], [[Juliette Lewis]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_Yankee Daddy Yankee], [[Saturday Night Live|Jason Sudeikis, Bill Hader]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Campbell Luther Campbell (of 2 Live Crew fame)], [[Guns N' Roses (Music)|Axl Rose]], [[George Clinton]], [[Public Enemy|Chuck D]], [[Wil Wheaton]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sly_and_Robbie Sly and Robbie], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Cee Mister Cee], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Premier DJ Premier (of Gang Starr fame, whose song "B.Y.S." was featured on ''San Andreas'')], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruslana Ruslana (2004 Eurovision Song Contest winner)], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_G Julio G] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Dick Andy Dick] playing DJs, talk show hosts, guests, and newscasters. There are also cameos by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick Kevin Mitnick], once the most wanted computer hacker in America (who even made a [[Shout Out]] to his former activity), and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opie_and_Anthony Opie and Anthony] among others.

* [[In Game TV]]: Starting with ''IV''. In past games, there were also ads for various TV shows, although you couldn't watch them.

* [[Rated M for Manly]]: The TV show ''The Men's Room'' in ''IV'', featuring [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man|MMA fighter Bas Rutten (as himself) and his metrosexual co-host, Jeremy St. Ives]].

* [[Values Resonance]]: Invoked [[In Universe]] by the "Moorehead Rides Again" radio drama from [[Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories|Vice City Stories']] Vice City Public Radio (VCPR), a parody of hard-boiled [[Private Detective|Private Detectives]] such as ''[[Mike Hammer]]''. While the show was said to have originally aired near the end of [[World War Two]], back when [[Red Scare|fear of communism creeping into America]] is slowly giving way to the [[Witch Hunt|social nightmare that was McCarthyism]], it resonates with American sentiments around forty years later (i.e., 1984, the setting of the game), in light of intensifying tensions between America and the Soviet Union (one that began with the latter's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979), long before [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] came in and [[The Great Politics Mess Up|the USSR dissolved]].

* [[What the Fu Are You Doing]]: A "Dragon Stance" cannot turn a desk into "two half-desks".

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