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{{quote|''"BBC bastards."''|'''Steve''', ''[[Coupling]]'' (a show financed by [[The BBC]])}}
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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
* Speaking of the Fuji TV station, it also occurred in several ''[[Kochikame]]'' TV specials which the building was destroyed during the climaxes. One time, its architecture was used as a wrecking ball to knock a few stories off a skyscraper.
* The first episode of the [[OVA]] ''[[Dangaioh]]'' had the AIC building (''Dangaioh'''s production company) destroyed by the invading bad guys.
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* ''[[Married... with Children]]'' had an episode in which the cast assumed "Fox viewing positions," which involved grabbing onto the rabbit ears, standing on one foot, balancing pots on their heads, etc. For you youngsters who've always had cable, the Fox network originally used mostly UHF stations, which were sometimes hard to tune in depending on weather, etc. This was just one of many, many pokes at Fox's programming reputation.
** Several episodes had a family member watching TV and hearing/listening to the promo for some utterly awful-sounding show, like "Psycho Dad" or "Psycho Mom". The promo would always conclude with the phrase, "On Fox!", to which the family member would reply, "Naturally."
* ''[[Seinfeld]]'' did this trope as well, by having Jerry and George pitch a [[Show Within a Show]] to [[NBC]]. The
* ''[[True Blood]]'' does this with one of their sponsors: Nintendo. There have been at least two episodes where characters were shown playing the Nintendo Wii and having a good, wholesome time. Finally, near the very end of season two they had a clearly deranged stay-at-home mom flailing the Wii remote around as she killed in psychopathic glee...suddenly those previous scenes don't seem so wholesome.
** Then season three started: No Wii.
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** The Kate Jackson episode has a running gag revealing that Silverman (played by John Belushi) was sent to NBC by [[Charlie's Angels|Charlie]] to ruin the network.
** The 1979 Christmas show has a running gag of promos hyping Gary Coleman appearances on every other NBC show and special, since ''[[Diff'rent Strokes]]'' was one of the network's only hits at the time, along with ''SNL''.
** The "Limo for the Lame-O" [[wikipedia:Al Franken#Saturday Night Live|affair]]: Al Franken encouraged viewers to send letters to NBC asking that Franken get the use of a company
** Then there was the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3JLKw0q4kY "Conspiracy Theory Rock"] short from the 1998 season, which is about major corporations like General Electric controlling the media. It was banned from re-airing, but would appear on a TV Funhouse "Best Of" DVD.
** In an installment of ''Weekend Update'':
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** ABC took notice and changed the timeslot back not long after this.
* One of the reasons ''The [[Dana Carvey]] Show'' was cancelled was because Dana mocked his sponsors so much that they stopped backing his 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
* [[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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