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''[[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]]'', 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'').
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* [[California Doubling]]: Of a sort. [[Stock Footage]] from ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' (then still in development) is used in a Weazel News segment to stand in for [[Qurac|the Middle East]].
* [[Can't Hold His Liquor]]: In ''[[The Lost and Damned]]''...
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* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Axl Rose voices Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith in ''San Andreas's'' classic rock station K-DST, yet [[Guns N' Roses]] clearly exists in the game's continuity, since the song "Welcome to the Jungle" plays on modern rock station Radio X. Adding to the humor, Sage, the station's host whom Tommy publicly dislikes, claims to have slept with the entire band before ''Appetite for Destruction'' was released.
* [[Cluster F-Bomb]]: Jimmy Gestapo, DJ of ''IV's'' LCHC (Liberty City Hardcore). Luke (voiced by the man of the same name from 2 Live Crew) on ''Vice City Stories''' Fresh 105 FM is this as well, as is Iggy Pop of ''IV's'' Liberty Rock Radio.
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** Arguably the basis for ''[[Manhunt]]''.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The female station announcer of ''San Andreas's'' WCTR seems to be this, particularly in ''WCTR News'' intros.
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''(WCTR News #03):'' "Next up, we've got the news. This time, some of it's true! Who are we kidding?"
''(WCTR News #04):'' "Next up, it's sensationalist propaganda. I mean, the news."
''(WCTR News #06):'' "Is the world ending? We hope so -- we need the ratings. The news is next!" }}
* [[Defictionalization]]: [[wikipedia: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.
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** ''III'' also has ads for ''Pogo the Monkey'', which is later referenced by a ''Pogo the Monkey'' arcade in the cab firm from ''Vice City''.
* [[Frivolous Lawsuit]]: In ''San Andreas'', there is a news story of a man suing the Renaissance Fair because a replica catapult he purchased didn't have a label warning him not to fire it at his insurance agent's house, accidentally setting the entire neighborhood on fire.
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* [[Genki Girl]]: [[Deconstruction|Deconstructed]] by Jenny, a guest on VCPR in ''Vice City''. She's all happy, upbeat and genki because she was prescribed heavy anti-depressants ever since her family was gruesomely murdered.
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Pepe of GTAVC's Radio Espantoso.
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** Also, according to ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas|WCTR News]]'', these new shiny compact-discs are turning your kids into killers!
* [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]]: Mary-Beth Maybell of ''San Andreas's'' [[Country Music]] station K-ROSE.
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* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: The host of Heartland Values with Nurse Bob on LCFR in ''Liberty City Stories'' is a pretty clear parody of [[Dr. Phil]].
* [[Not Even Bothering with the Accent]]: The lead actor in ''Dragonbrain''.
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* [[Nothing but Hits]]: In ''Vice City'', ''San Andreas'' and ''Vice City Stories''.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: VCPR's Maurice Chavez in ''Vice City'' and ''Vice City Stories'''. Mostly.
** Lazlow also serves as this in ''III''.
* [[Parental Incest]]: Played for laughs with Nurse Bob.
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* [[Police Procedural]]: Parodied in ''IV'' with ''The Science of Crime'' ("It's forensically boring!"), complete with an obvious [[CSI: Miami|Horatio Caine]] parody dropping [[Quip to Black|bad one-liners]] and noting how "my acting sucks ass", as well as the [[The Jimmy Hart Version]] of the [[Big Yes]] in [[The Who]]'s ''Won't Get Fooled Again''. It has fifteen spinoffs, including ones in [[Grand Theft Auto Vice City|Vice City]], [[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas|Las Venturas]], Ohio, Djibouti, Fairbanks, Panama City and Santiago.
* [[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]].
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** This also extends to how the radio itself is implemented - while a radio station in previous games was simply one long audio file, ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas|San Andreas]]'' stored the audio and DJ chatter separately, allowing the game to randomise what you heard. ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV|IV]]'' takes this even further, with a dynamic radio system that changes shows, adverts, DJ chatter and news [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|depending on the weather, time of day or how far along the storyline you are]].
* [[Serenade Your Lover]]: Fernando references this.
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* [[Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll]]: Jimmy Gestapo, DJ of ''IV's'' punk station Liberty City Hardcore, rants at length about the extremely hard-drinking, hard-partying lifestyle that he feels punk ''should'' be. Also, [[The Stooges|Iggy Pop]], DJ of ''IV's'' classic rock station Liberty Rock Radio, talks about how a lot of the best music was made on drugs, and bemoans the fact that fewer rockers nowadays use them.
** Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith of ''San Andreas's'' classic rock station K-DST is fond of this trope as well. Hell, the station's identifications are all narcotic plays on its nickname of "The Dust".
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'''Station ID''': "When all your drinking friends have gone to rehab, we encourage you to stay on... The Dust." }}
** Sage of the modern rock station Radio X very much counts as well.
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* [[Show Within a Show]]: One of the most elaborate ever made, stretching across every game in the series.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Lazlow (the in-series character) has seemingly turned into this come ''IV''.
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* [[Strawman Political]]: Many times, directed against both sides.
** Peyton (liberal) and Mary (conservative) Phillips, husband-and-wife hosts of the "I Say, You Say" segment of ''San Andreas's'' WCTR, are a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] version of James Carville and Mary Matalin, political consultants for [[Bill Clinton]] and [[George HW Bush|George H. W. Bush]], respectively, who started dating while working on their behalf during the 1992 Presidential elections.
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** [[Corrupt Church|Pastor]] [[Religious Stereotype|Richards]] and [[Sleazy Politician|Alex Shrub]] from ''Vice City''.
** ''IV'' gives us Richard Bastion, a [[Patriotic Fervor|jingoistic]], mean-spirited conservative talk radio host (any similarities to [[Rush Limbaugh]] and Sean Hannity [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|are purely coincidental]]), and Brandon Roberts, a left-wing actor whose progressive activism is strongly implied to be more about improving his public image than anything else (any similarities to [[George Clooney]] and Sean Penn [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|are purely coincidental]]). There's also John Hunter and Michael Graves, two gubernatorial candidates who spend more time [[Attack of the Political Ad|attacking each other]] than explaining their policies, to the point where it's tough to tell who is meant to represent which end of the political spectrum... [[Fridge Brilliance|which makes sense]] [[Not So Different|when you think about it]].
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* [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]]: [[Rich Bitch|Alex Chilton]], one of the [[Dating Sim|girlfriends]] you can pick up in ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV|IV]]'''s in-game Internet runs a blog. Whenever you take her out on a date, she blogs about what you did afterwards, including your "sexcapades".
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: After Jack Howitzer accidentally shoots Billy Dexter:
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* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Implied in the ''San Andreas'' commercial for "Herr Gruber's Spa."
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'''Herr Gruber''': "Haf you not read ze book? Strength good, veakness bad, ''badbadbad!'' }}
* [[Trash Can Band]]/[[Everything Is an Instrument]]: ''IV'''s Banging Trash Can Lids For an Hour.
* [[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]].
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'''Molly:''' Yes!
'''Moorehead:''' That's right, Molly -- [[A Real Man Is a Killer|means he's a sissy]]. I imagine when he hears his daughter is dead he'll cry.<br />
'''Molly:''' [[Men Don't Cry|What kind of a man cries]], Gordon?!<br />
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* [[Vapor Wear]]: Sage, host of ''San Andreas's'' Radio X, notes she has freed herself from the tyranny of society by not wearing underwear.
* [[What Did I Do Last Night?]]: A between-song banter by Tommy Smith:
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** And one of the promos on Bounce FM.
* [[What the Fu Are You Doing?]]: A "Dragon Stance" cannot turn a desk into "two half-desks".
* [[Who Writes This Crap?]]: Parodied in ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories|Vice City Stories']]'' "Bait and Switch" segment of Vice City Public Radio (VCPR).
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'''Assistant:''' "Tits!"<br />
'''Announcer:''' "Yeah, that's more like it. And tits!" }}
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