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{{quote|''"By the way, I'm aware of the irony of [[Do Not Adjust Your Set|appearing on TV]] in order to [[New Media Are Evil|decry it]], so don't bother pointing that out."''

|'''Sideshow Bob''', ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}

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{{quote|''"By the way, I'm aware of the irony of [[Do Not Adjust Your Set|appearing on TV]] in order to [[New Media Are Evil|decry it]], so don't bother pointing that out."''~~|'''Sideshow Bob''', ''[[The Simpsons]]''}}~~

So, you want to criticize something, and you could be viewed as [[Hypocrite|hypocritical]] for doing so, since some of the criticism would apply to you, as well. How do you avoid being called a hypocrite? Quite simply, by saying, or implicitly noting, the hypocrisy of what you're saying.

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* ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'': The movie version played this straight by having an announcer read the opening credits instead of putting them on-screen. In a very stylish moment, at the end when Montag is among the Book People, words appear on the screen for the first time to say ''The End''.

* ''[[Coraline (animation)|Coraline]]'' has the Other Mother telling Coraline that she loves her...even though the Beldam had already gone through three children before her and had drained the life out of them. Coraline, who was in danger of having the Other Mother sew buttons into her eyes, remarks that the witch has an unusual way of expressing her love.

*''[[Harry Potter]]'': In the film version of Order of the Phoenix, in an effort to prevent centaurs from harming her, Dolores Umbridge demands the title character tell them she means them no harm. Harry Potter, knowing Dolores is a racist towards sentient magical creatures (and having previously been made by her to write I must not tell lies in his own blood) , apologizes to her, saying that he was told not to be a liar.

*''[[Harry Potter (film)|Harry Potter]]'': In the film version of ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'', in an effort to prevent centaurs from harming her, Dolores Umbridge demands the title character tell them she means them no harm. Harry Potter, knowing Dolores is a racist towards sentient magical creatures (and having previously been made by her to write "I must not tell lies" in his own blood), refuses and apologizes to her, saying that he was told not to be a liar.

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

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* ''[[Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!]]''. Tim and Eric recruited David Liebe Hart, a down-on-his-luck California public access TV icon, and they make fun of the acts he takes seriously by putting them in the context of a show on [[Adult Swim]]. Later on, during the fake [[Distant Finale]], another actor impersonates David Liebe Hart and makes fun of this very practice.

* On ''[[Good Eats]]'', Alton will note when the advice he's giving contradicts something that he's said in a previous episode, and explain the reasons for the change. The most notable example is his [[Running Gag|"stuffing is evil" stance]]; he originally decried stuffing as being a horrible cooking method, and since has multiply clarified his views to mean specifically that stuffing turkeys is a bad idea, while it works quite well with some other foods. And then he did an entire episode devoted to finding a non-evil method of stuffing turkeys.

* On ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', John Paxton is an extremist who seeks to drive all alien influence from Earth. His idol is a man from Earth's post-~~[[WW 3]]~~ period who arranged for the mass execution of people who were supposedly genetically-damaged by radiation from the recent war. Paxton himself is suffering from a genetic condition which can only be treated by freely-shared alien medical knowledge, meaning his idol would have had him put to death. He admits that he fails to live up to his own standards.

* On ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', John Paxton is an extremist who seeks to drive all alien influence from Earth. His idol is a man from Earth's post-WW3 period who arranged for the mass execution of people who were supposedly genetically-damaged by radiation from the recent war. Paxton himself is suffering from a genetic condition which can only be treated by freely-shared alien medical knowledge, meaning his idol would have had him put to death. He admits that he fails to live up to his own standards.

== [[Music]] ==

* During the introduction to Tom Lehrer's "National Brotherhood Week," he stated "I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I ''hate'' people like that."

* During the introduction to [[Tom Lehrer]]'s "National Brotherhood Week," he stated "I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another and I know there are people in the world that do not love their fellow human beings and I ''hate'' people like that."

== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==

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== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', Heaven's Feel: Played for drama (and technically after the fact). {{spoiler|After berating Shirou the entire route and the two before it for being too soft to kill, Tohsaka realizes she is too as she can't bring herself to stab Sakura and is nearly killed instead. 'I guess I can't get mad at Shirou anymore.'}}

* Yuri Lowell in [[Tales of Vesperia]] openly admits his {{spoiler|[[Vigilante Man|vigilante actions]]}} are quite hypocritical when he's [[What the Hell, Hero?|called out on them]] {{spoiler|(and continues his vigilantism anyways since the law isn't effective).}}

* Yuri Lowell in ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' openly admits his {{spoiler|[[Vigilante Man|vigilante actions]]}} are quite hypocritical when he's [[What the Hell, Hero?|called out on them]] {{spoiler|(and continues his vigilantism anyways since the law isn't effective).}}

* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]] II'', the [[Big Bad]] despises [[The Force]] and those who are reliant on it. However, all the Big Bad's attacks are Force-reliant, and she's too frail to fight with anything but the Force. If the player calls her out on this, she'll attempt to explain her behavior. However, she'll also admit the player makes a very good point, and it's possible that the explanation she just gave is just an excuse.

* ''[[Saints Row: The ~~Third|Saints Row the~~ Third]]'' seems to be an elaborate parody of the commercialised glorification of "gangsta life" in modern culture. The Saints, originally a street gang led by the player character with increasingly omnicidal tendencies, have become an established brand name complete with clothing stores, an energy drink, a movie about their life, and random fangirls asking for your autograph or snapping pictures of you after you turn a busy intersection into a pile of corpses and burning car wrecks. Even the Saints themselves realise they sold out. Of course, the game itself is a commercialised glorification of gangsta life and provides you with weaponry specifically intended to express your own omnicidal tendencies. This duality seems to be intentional.

* ''[[Saints Row: The Third]]'' seems to be an elaborate parody of the commercialised glorification of "gangsta life" in modern culture. The Saints, originally a street gang led by the player character with increasingly omnicidal tendencies, have become an established brand name complete with clothing stores, an energy drink, a movie about their life, and random fangirls asking for your autograph or snapping pictures of you after you turn a busy intersection into a pile of corpses and burning car wrecks. Even the Saints themselves realise they sold out. Of course, the game itself is a commercialised glorification of gangsta life and provides you with weaponry specifically intended to express your own omnicidal tendencies. This duality seems to be intentional.

== [[Web Original]] ==

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* ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' did it twice, both times in a [[Credits Gag]] line amounting to, "I'm aware of the hypocrisy of this."

** One instance was his complaint about death in an [[Adventure Game]] (''Zack & Wiki'') and overzealous dependency on inventory-based puzzles and the items needed to solve them in [[Adventure Game]]s in general, since he himself had made [[Chzo Mythos|an adventure game where the player could get killed and puzzles were solved in this exact way]].

** The other instance was his critique of [[Web Comic~~|webcomics~~]], since he himself [[Old Shame|has had several series over the years]] (which [[Creator Backlash|"came out of a dark time in his life from which he has determinedly moved on without a backward glance"]]).

** The other instance was his critique of [[Web Comic]]s, since he himself [[Old Shame|has had several series over the years]] (which [[Creator Backlash|"came out of a dark time in his life from which he has determinedly moved on without a backward glance"]]).

* [[The Spoony Experiment|The Spoony One's]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130914094754/http://spoonyexperiment.com/2009/02/19/fanboys-are-mine-to-toy-with-old-man/ response] to Roger Ebert's [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090204/REVIEWS/902049987/1001 review] of the movie [[Fanboys]] involves acknowledging his own pot-shots at various geek fandoms (not the least of which is the Final Fantasy crowd) but ends with a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|rousing speech]] telling geeks not to be ashamed of who and what they are.

* [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/File:MPost16057I-Hypocrisy%2Ejpg This] poster shows us Hasbro doing a Hypocrisy Nod in one of its [[Take That/Advertising|ads]] and then... ''slipping''.

* [[The Spoony Experiment|Dr Insano]]'s review of ''[[Ferris Bueller's ~~Day Off|Ferris Buellers~~ Day Off]]''. "I may be evil, but at least I'm not full of shit!"

* [[The Spoony Experiment|Dr Insano]]'s review of ''[[Ferris Bueller's Day Off]]''. "I may be evil, but at least I'm not full of shit!"

== [[Web Comics]] ==