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== Live Action TV ==
* A variant of this happened where Bob Murray sent a Cease and Desist letter to John Oliver from talking about his scandalous conduct. John, clearly offended that someone would apparently try to stop him through exercising his free speech (although the Cease and Desist letter claims otherwise) gave extra attention to Bob Murray in John's segment on coal after having lawyers vet the script and tried to stick to the script as closely as he could so they would win any subsequent legal action. Unsurprisingly HBO, who greenlit the segment (as evidenced by having lawyers vet the script instead of pulling the plug), stood by John when Murray made good on his threat to take legal action. John then did a segment on SLAPP suits, which ended in a 'Fuck You' towards Murray, in song.
* ''[[Fawlty Towers]]'' and its main character Basil Fawlty was based on Donald Sinclair, an eccentric and irascible Torquay hotelier whom [[John Cleese]] had observed during a stay in his hotel during a ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' shoot. Years after the success of the show, Sinclair's widow contacted the newspapers to complain about the depiction of the character based on her husband, claiming that Cleese had unfairly exaggerated his eccentricity, incompetence and foul temper. Far from salvaging her husband's reputation, however, all it did was provoke a lot of independent witnesses to ''also'' contact the papers with a lot of anecdotes that suggested that not only was Cleese not too far off the mark, if anything he'd actually been rather generous. His widow kept silent after that.
** [[John Cleese]] ended up using the name "Donald Sinclair" for his character in ''[[Rat Race]]''.
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