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* [[Shouting Shooter]]: In the ''[[Rambo]]'' parody.
* [[Smug Snake]]: RJ Fletcher.
* [[Struggling Broadcaster]]: Struggling independent U-62 and its attempts to fill the entire schedule with [[No Budget]] original local programming. Most big-city independents would struggle but manage to fill most of their schedule with old movies, local/regional live sports coverage, "classic television" reruns or syndicated fare. U-62 doesn't even have the means to do that, so the operation basically runs ad-lib and hyperlocal.
* [[Styrofoam Rocks]]: Parodied. In the opening sequence, a rock bounces right off George Newman's head mid-fantasy and does nothing to him.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: The UHF band in general. The launch of [[FOX]] TV as a fourth US commercial network in 1986 meant twelve VHF TV channels (which had been enough for three stations in each major market) were no longer adequate; meanwhile the TV sets have improved. Many longtime [[NBC]] and [[CBS]] affiliates chose to stay on UHF for their digital HDTV when full-power analogue TV was phased out in 2009; their once-valuable low-VHF channels turned out to be too plagued with impulse noise to be useful digitally, leaving VHF 2-6 largely an over-the-air wasteland. The "U-62" frequency? Gone. UHF 52-69 were auctioned to mobile phone operators for billions in 2009-11. [[American Television Stations]] were moved down to DT51 or lower, only to be further repacked to DT36 or lower by 2021.
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