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** Wesley's 'pull of divided loyalties' speech in That Old Gang of Mine
* After the actor that plays one of the main characters [[The Other Darrin|is replaced]] in ''Game On'', the next episode closes with everyone watching TV and someone saying "You know what I hate? When they replace the actor on a show, and just pretend it never happened!"
* In the ''[[Malcolm in The Middle]]'' episode "Malcolm Dates a Family", Malcolm engages in a bit of Lampshade Hanging when he realizes he's scheduled [[Two
** He even considered how [[Family Matters|Urkel]] handled the problem.
* In an episode from one of ''[[Mork and Mindy]]'''s later seasons, an exasperated Mindy exclaimed, "Oh, Mork, what Earth concept have you misunderstood ''this'' week?"
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* ''[[Criminal Minds]]''
** In "The Fisher King" (Part 1), when the team sets up a sundial in a crime scene with a spotlight set to find a hidden spot on a wall, Elle says "What is this? An Indiana Jones movie?"
* ''[[Boy Meets World (TV)|Boy Meets World]]'' also engaged in quite a bit of this, particular with respect to the character played by William Daniels. Mr. Feeny served as the [[Two
** Said character also makes reference to an offscreen character who also mysteriously disappeared seasons earlier.
** In a season three episode, Morgan, who hadn't been on the show for about a season, returns as a different actress who was notably older than than the actress who initially played Morgan. Morgan's absence is lampshaded when Cory is telling Eric and their mother, "You know, why can't you guys learn from Morgan? She is a great sister. I mean, she stays in her room, you don't hear from her, you don't see her, and best of all, she stays out of my personal life." Morgan then comes down stairs and Cory says to her, "Morgan, long time no see." Morgan responds with, "Yeah, that was the longest time out I've ever had."
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** Many times in the new series, various companions comment on the inordinate amount of running that goes on whilst adventuring with the Doctor, most notably in "The Doctor's Daughter".
** The Sixth Doctor's companion Peri said "All these corridors look the same to me" in nearly every story she appeared in, lampshading Doctor Who's public reputation as a campy runaround in corridors.
** "[[Timey
** [[Tom Baker|The Fourth Doctor]] gave us [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS0bCSLx8JI this little beauty] in regards to suspiciously similar-looking locations: "Oh look! [[BBC Quarry|ROCKS!]]"
** Pretty much the entirety of the episode 'The Hand of Fear.' They saw fit to lampshade ridiculous wardrobes, the number of times Sarah Jane has been hypnotized, AND the [[BBC Quarry|BBC's overuse of quarries]].
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* In the ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Quarantine", Lister, Cat, and Kryten are running from a deranged hologram who is shooting at them with "hex vision". Lister runs past the camera, surrounded by wild shots and explosions, and shouts, "Why don't we ever meet anyone nice?" Cat runs past behind him and says, "Why don't we ever meet anyone who can [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|shoot straight]]?"
** In early ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' episodes the gang are all seen using cassette and VHS tapes (sometimes normal, sometimes triangular). In the 2009 story ''Back to Earth'' they are in a store selling DVDs where Kryten noted that DVDs eventually die out and are replaced by VHS because they are "just too big to lose".
* ''[[
** The episode "Jack-Tor" has a scene where Liz starts to decry using [[Product Placement]], but is promptly interrupted by the other characters talking about how much they love Snapple (one of the sponsors of ''30 Rock'' at the time).
** When Tracy is desperately trying to shed his A-list celebrity status, Jack gives him the advice to go back on the show, telling him "no one takes you seriously anymore if you do television!"
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** "Bread and Circuses" contained some choice lampshades about television production and sportscasting. "You bring this network's ratings down, Flavius -- and we'll do a ''special'' on you!"
** "Heisenberg compensators" are used to explain how [[Teleporters and Transporters|transporters]] work in spite of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
** Someone asked ''Star Trek'' scientific advisor Michael Okuda how the Heisenberg compensators worked. He replied, "[[
** In the episode "Operation Annihilate," a [[Red Shirt|red shirt]] stares at [[Special Effects Failure|the mutant alien brain cells killer pancakes]] and cries "They don't even look real!" Took the words right out of my mouth, honey.
* ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'':
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* ''[[I Carly]]'' lampshades in 2 main ways, firstly when a character clings hard onto the [[Idiot Ball]] to progress the plot, and when they use or subvert common sitcom tropes.
** The episode 'iEnrage Gibby' - Carly is playing the ukelele and confirms she's always played it when asked by Freddie. On this Freddie hangs his lampshade retort with "Wow, that's never been established".
* ''[[Scrubs]]'' points out the constant [[Will They or Won't They?]] between Elliot and J.D, as evidenced by the quote on that trope's front page.
** The show seems to be doing a lot of lampshade hanging in season 8, from things like [[Heterosexual Life Partners|J.D. and Turk's bromance]] to [[Imagine Spot|J.D's often useless (but entertaining) fantasies.]]
** Also, in episode 7x10:
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** One of the greatest examples of lampshading came in the tenth season, during which Joel (who had been [[Put On a Bus]] mid season-five) visited the Satellite of Love in order to do some repairs. Mike becomes jealous of Joel, whom he considers to be a better man, to which Tom Servo replies: "Don't compare yourself, man, it ain't healthy." When Mike replaced Joel in season five, it started a massive [[Flame War]] over which of them was the better host.
** There was a minor one in "Terror from the Year 5000", when the characters decide to go see a movie and Mike says: "So what, we're going to watch people watch a movie? What's up with that?"
* The title hero in the show ''[[Kamen Rider Hibiki]]'' receives his first major [[Super Mode]] near the midpoint of the series. The in-universe reasoning behind needing the power-up is that monsters get stronger during the summer months, and Hibiki wants to be able to save time by blowing them up in one hit. Replace "Hibiki" with "the producers" and you have one of the out-of-universe reasons this is done in ''every'' season of ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' (the other reason being [[Merchandise
* In related lampshading, the third episode of ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' has a character, Dillon, who is being recruited by the team. When their mentor, Dr. K, introduces the suits as the ''Ranger'' Prototype Series Covert Infantry Bio-Suits, he quips, "Right, because nothing says 'covert' like bright red, yellow, and blue spandex." Dr. K gets [[Berserk Button|very angry]] when somebody calls it spandex.
** ''RPM'' looks like it'll make a habit of this. The fifth episode alone has [[Big Bad]] Venjix's generals commenting on the ridiculousness of a spray-nozzle robot, asking "do you want to [[Make My Monster Grow|super-size the bot]] before or ''after'' the Rangers beat it?" (Venjix blasts the general for this one) and wondering aloud why they never do a [[Zerg Rush]] while the city's defenses are down (Venjix: blasts the general, then [[Glad I Thought of It|orders a Zerg Rush]]).
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{{quote| '''Stephen:''' Ohh, that fire looks fake. It IS fake!}}
* ''[[Murder She Wrote]]''; the episode "Deadpan" closes with Jessica Fletcher in an empty theater, confronting a theater critic whom she had proven had murdered a rival critic. As the police emerge to arrest him, the critic haughtily comments, "The policeman in the wings? I should have expected a climax so cliche."
* In ''[[Diagnosis Murder]]'', when Dr. Mark Sloan manages to inconvenience a group of domestic terrorists who had kidnapped him, a FBI agent assigned to the case comments, "Some people you shouldn't kidnap! I swear, if Dr. Sloan is your enemy, [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?|just shoot him in the head!]] Otherwise he will find a way to make you suffer!"
* ''[[The OC]]'' occasionally referenced the rapid plot developments in between episodes, such as when Summer's therapist comments on how much she's improved, "and just in one week!"
** Kaitlin once disapproves of how serious her mom has gotten with a new love interest, reminding her "You've only been dating for a week."
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