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See also: [[Self-Deprecation]], [[Take That]], [[Who Would Want to Watch Us?]]. Often a symptom of [[Better Than a Bare Bulb]] -- they're knocking the trope, but they're still ''using'' it...
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* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', [[Meta Guy|Chisame]] is vocally annoyed by the lack of foreshadowing for {{spoiler|Zazie's appearance in the Magic World.}}
* In ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'', when Lawrence tells the (slightly edited) story of how he and Holo first met, Abe remarks that it "sounds like the kind of meeting a cheap poet would write about."
* HOLY agent [[Gratuitous English|Mad Script (okay, "Sprict", but come on)]] from ''[[S-Cry-ed]]'' had the ability to [[Rewriting Reality|forcibly rewrite]] [[More Than Mind Control|someone's perception]], so long as everyone around them follows his script. Unfortunately, he's a little too in love with his own maudlin "genius", so when he tries to rewrite rogue Alter [[Anti
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* ''Cat's Eye'': A character played by James Woods complains "Who writes this crap?" while watching David Cronenberg's ''The Dead Zone'' on TV. ([[Stephen King]] wrote the screenplay for ''Cat's Eye''.)
* In the highly self-referential indie film ''Killer Flick'', the main characters, who are making the film itself as they go along, try to audition a woman to be [[The Chick]]. Looking at the script, she gets into an argument with them about the film's sexist and adolescent writing. In the end, the guys cheer and give her the role, since their whole argument was actually written in the script.
* ''[[My Name Is Bruce]]'' starring [[Captain Obvious|Bruce]]... [[Bruce Campbell|Campbell]], to [[Adam Westing|self-deprecating effect]] has a kid coming to the drunken "[[Small Name, Big Ego|star]]" and extolling his need for help and explaining what is effectively the movie's plot. Bruce takes it as an indie film pitch, tells him to keep the budget under $500,000 and get one named actor, then gives himself an aside saying it's the [[Stupidest Thing Ive Ever Heard|stupidest pitch he's ever heard]].
* ''Delirious'' has a show-within-a-show example: the repairman fixes John Candy's cable, allowing them to see the lurid soap opera his TV producer character spends the movie [[Trapped in TV Land|trapped in]], prompting this exchange: "You watch this crap?" "No, I write this crap."
* ''[[Singin in The Rain (Film)|Singin in The Rain]]'': At the test screening of the [[Show Within a Show|movie within the movie]], when in a love scene the leading man makes a romantic speech consisting of saying "I love you" over and over again, one viewer sarcastically remarks, "Did somebody get paid for writing that dialogue?"
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'''Smiley:''' I'm "[[A Date With Rosie Palms|used to grabbing poles]]"? Who writes this stuff?!<br />
'''Star:''' [[Vitriolic Best Buds|Someone awesome!]] }}
* One of Eggman's PA announcements in ''[[Sonic Colors (Video Game)|Sonic Colors]]'' has one too many "ocean" puns for his taste, leading him to wonder "who writes this drivel?". [[To Make a Long Story Short|As it turns out]], ''[[Hypocritical Humor|he]]'' [[Absent
* From ''[[Outlaw Golf]] 2'', this was one of [[Insomniac With Dave Attell (TV)|Dave Attell's]] quips.
{{quote| "That ball is really moving! Is there a urologist in the house? [[Don't Explain the Joke|I guess they work well with fast-moving balls]]...whadda...who writes this?!"}}
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* In episode 7 of ''[[Four Swords Misadventures|4 Swords Misadventures]]'', during the "obligatory filler time", Purple Link exclaims this after Green Ljnk does the ant speech from ''[[Naruto]]''.
* In ''[[Asdfmovie]] 4'', one character's reaction to [[Piano Drop|getting a piano dropped on his head]] is to shout "Whose idea was this?!"
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] and combined with [[Self
{{quote| '''Linkara:''' I am...[[What Do You Mean
'''Spoony:''' Oh my God, I wrote that! }}
* In his Virus review, the [[Joueur Du Grenier]] (Basically [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'s French equivalent) had this reaction after saying a cringe-inducingly lame pun about evil in a fake movie trailer for Virus 2.
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'''Timmy:''' ''([[Medium Awareness|indicates own speech bubble in previous panel]])'' [[This Is Sparta|Lives. With. His. Mom.]] }}
* ''[[Ed, Edd n Eddy]]'': In "Brother, Can You Spare An Ed?", after Edd goes on a dramatic, guilt-ridden monologue about Eddy convincing Ed to buy jawbreakers with Sarah's money (instead of fudge, like she asked), Eddy responds with "Who writes this guy's stuff?"
* ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'': As listed on the [[Who Writes This Crap?/Quotes|quote page]], Dr. Robotnik demands to imprison the cartoonist who made fun of him in his comic book.
* On ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'', we ''know'' Fry writes this crap. ("I am the greetest. Now I will leave Earth for no raisin!") But there's also this, as part of his opera that was crashed by the Robot Devil:
{{quote| '''Farnsworth:''' I can't believe the devil would be so unforgiving.<br />
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