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== [[Advertising]] ==
* A law firm company released several ads showing people hugely distraught over minor things, such as a paper cut or power going out during an intense video game session, and the "victims" demand justice for the parties responsible. The ads usually end with the number to call to firm and a disclaimer saying "But keep in mind that you really need to be injured."
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* ''[[Darker than Black]]'': The OVA (episode 26 of season 1), which chronologically occurs somewhere in the middle and comes with a convenient [[Reset Button]] that makes it not affect the rest of the series.
* ''[[Nurse Witch Komugi]]'': a spin-off/self parody of the ''[[Soul Taker (anime)|Soul Taker]]''.
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' had a [[Neon Genesis Evangelion/Funny|very funny]] radio play called
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJFMmNop0e4 This] trailer of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' has idiocies like [[Henshin Hero]] Setsuna F. Exia, Lockon's ghost freaking out Tieria and Allelujah, Haro playing [[Body Snatcher]] with Tieria, Sergei and Marie/Soma eating bamboo as pandas and Patrick getting shot in the ass by a UFO.
== [[Card Games]] ==
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has joke sets ''Unglued'' and ''Unhinged''. While a lot of the cards are just silly in general, many cards take potshots at both ''Magic'''s fans and its developers. For example, one card called "Look at Me, I'm the DCI" depicts a Wizards employee making banning decisions with a dartboard.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* ''[[Diamonds Are Forever]]'' remains one of the campiest [[James Bond]] films.
* ''[[Gremlins 2 The New Batch]]'' basically made fun of the first film and audience reactions to it.
* ''[[A Cock
* ''[[Snakes on a Plane]]'' seems to be well-aware that airline disaster movies are nearly impossible to take seriously anymore, by not even trying.
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* [[Xena: Warrior Princess]] had "A Day in the Life" in season 2 and "The Play's the Thing" in season 4.
* Every ''[[The X-Files]]'' that bordered on [[Deconstruction]] entered this at times (examples include "Jose Chung's From Outer Space", "X-Cops" and "Hollywood AD").
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'''s "The Stinson Missile Crisis" parodied itself via the setting of Robin in court-mandated therapy after a mysterious sequence of events, telling her therapist the story of How She Wound Up Assaulting A Woman And Getting Stuck In This Court-Mandated Therapy. She then proceeds to use an unnecessary level of detail and a ridiculous number of tangents that she insists are essential in order to understand the full story while her therapist waits impatiently and is repeatedly fooled into thinking that ''this'' moment is the one where she ''finally'' Assaults The Woman—basically, doing to her therapist exactly what the show has been doing to its viewers for seven years. The episode also takes advantage of the parody format to push its specific style of using [[Flash Forward]]s, [[Flash Back]]s, Flash-Sidewayses, imagine spots, cutaway gags, [[Internal Monologue
** Not only that, but her story leads both Kevin and the viewers to believe that the woman she assaulted is Nora, when in fact it turns out to be someone completely different, possibly referencing HIMYM's pilot episode, where both Ted's kids and the viewers were falsely led to believe that The Mother was Robin.
* The final clown segment in [[Cirque Du Soleil]]'s ''Dralion'' goofily reenacts all of the show's serious acts, complete with threadbare mockeries of key costumes and props.▼
* An accidental example of this is "Right Brain", a song from the 1994 New York Theatre Workshop version of Jonathan Larson's ''[[Rent]]''. Later becoming "One Song Glory", many fans who hear this old version of the inspirational song can hardly listen without feeling the need to vomit or burst into a fit of uncontrollable laughter.▼
* The tribute concert to Cameron Mackintosh, "Hey Mr Producer", features a pre-taped segment in which [[Stephen Sondheim]] and [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]] parody their songs "Send in the Clowns" and "Music of the Night", while ribbing Cameron Mackintosh at the same time. It can be called the highlight of the show.▼
== [[Music]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The Black Dog Game Factory in ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse]]'', a branch of [[Mega Corp|Pentex]], and the home of the ''Talespinner'' system (''Storyteller'') and ''World of Shadows'' setting (''[[Old World of Darkness|The World of Darkness]]''). Not only are all their games parodies of [[White Wolf]] products (''[[Vampire: The Masquerade|Revenant: The Ravishing]]''; ''[[Werewolf: The Apocalypse|Lycanthrope: The Rapture]]''; ''[[Mage: The Ascension|Warlock: The Pretention]]''; ''[[Trinity Universe (game)|Deviant]]'' etc. etc.), but the names and some characteristics of the staff were strangely familiar, albeit all evil and/or insane.
== Theatre ==
▲* The final clown segment in [[Cirque Du Soleil]]'s ''Dralion'' goofily reenacts all of the show's serious acts, complete with threadbare mockeries of key costumes and props.
▲* An accidental example of this is "Right Brain", a song from the 1994 New York Theatre Workshop version of Jonathan Larson's ''[[Rent]]''. Later becoming "One Song Glory", many fans who hear this old version of the inspirational song can hardly listen without feeling the need to vomit or burst into a fit of uncontrollable laughter.
▲* The tribute concert to Cameron Mackintosh,
* Although the cabaret show ''[[Forbidden Broadway]]'' is about parodying ''other'' shows, it does take the occasional potshot at itself and its playwright/lyricist Gerard Alessandrini.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** The episode "Butt Out" is a parody of the standard ''South Park'' formula, as Kyle points out in a moment of [[Genre Savvy]].
** [[Word of God]] confirms this in the case of Terrance and Phillip: When the [[Moral Guardians]] first started complaining about the show, they decided to make a show within their show that was [[Refuge in Audacity|even]] [[Refuge in Vulgarity|worse]].
** It goes meta in ''200'', in which Kyle and Cartman call each other "fat-ass" and
* ''[[
* ''[[The Superhero Squad Show]]'' could be said to be this for Marvel.
* ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'' had a monster filming Juniper's adventures and broadcasting them in a show named "The Battles and Brawls of Juniper Lee".
* At the end of the
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