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* The ''[[Saw]]'' film series seems to have a running subplot that is a Take That to everyone that John Kramer believes to have wronged him.

* ''[[Robin Hood Men in Tights]]'': "Because, unlike [[Robin Hood Prince of Thieves|some]] ''[[Robin Hood Prince of Thieves|other]]'' [[Robin Hood|Robin Hoods]], '''I''' can speak with an English accent..."

* ''[[Robin Hood Men in Tights]]'': "Because, unlike [[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves|some]] ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves|other]]'' [[Robin Hood|Robin Hoods]], '''I''' can speak with an English accent..."

* B-movie ''[[Laserblast]]'', about a white trash teenager who gets a laser gun that works like the One Ring, featured the main character randomly blowing up a ''[[Star Wars]]'' billboard and laughing about it. Everybody saw ''Laserblast'', right? Ya know, outside of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''...

** At the time ''Laserblast'' first came out, people actually ''compared'' it to Star Wars and discussed which film was better. For a brief time it looked like a serious rival. Hard to believe....

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** The movie also included an alien theme park called "Moron Mountain" -- possibly a self-parody of the Time-Warner owned Six Flags amusement parks, Magic Mountain.

** Seven years later, in ''[[Looney Tunes Back in Action]]'', [[Steve Martin]] does a bit near the climax where he unzips various disguises, one of them being [[Michael Jordan]] quoting "Let's do some drills" from this film. "This doesn't make a lick of sense," muses Daffy.

* The original ''[[The Evil Dead]]'' showed a torn poster of ''[[The Hills Have Eyes (Film)|The Hills Have Eyes]]'' in the background of one scene. [[Bruce Campbell]] reveals in the DVD commentary that [[Sam Raimi]] intended it as a sly dig at Wes Craven's film, as if to say: "If you thought ''that'' was scary..." Craven responded [[Shout Out|goodnaturedly]], by having ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street (Film)|A Nightmare On Elm Street]]'''s protagonists seen watching the trailer for ''[[The Evil Dead]]''. Raimi then answered back by showing Freddy Krueger's infamous glove hanging above a door in ''[[Evil Dead 2]]''. The whole thing was actually started by a scene in ''The Hills Have Eyes'' with a torn poster for ''[[Jaws (Film)|Jaws]]'' in the background, which Raimi took as a similar "If you thought that was scary" swipe.

* The original ''[[The Evil Dead]]'' showed a torn poster of ''[[The Hills Have Eyes (Film)|The Hills Have Eyes]]'' in the background of one scene. [[Bruce Campbell]] reveals in the DVD commentary that [[Sam Raimi]] intended it as a sly dig at Wes Craven's film, as if to say: "If you thought ''that'' was scary..." Craven responded [[Shout-Out|goodnaturedly]], by having ''[[A Nightmare On Elm Street (Film)|A Nightmare On Elm Street]]'''s protagonists seen watching the trailer for ''[[The Evil Dead]]''. Raimi then answered back by showing Freddy Krueger's infamous glove hanging above a door in ''[[Evil Dead 2]]''. The whole thing was actually started by a scene in ''The Hills Have Eyes'' with a torn poster for ''[[Jaws (Film)|Jaws]]'' in the background, which Raimi took as a similar "If you thought that was scary" swipe.

** Also, Freddy Krueger is named after a kid who bullied Craven at school. Craven's earlier film, ''Last House on the Left'', features a [[Department of Redundancy Department|villainous rapist]] named Krug, also after that same bully. So congratulations, Mr. Frederick Krueger: if you weren't such a little asshole in grade school, we might have all been spared millions of extra nightmares!

* The 1998 ''[[Godzilla (Film)|Godzilla]]'' movie had the mayor of New York and his assistant as ''very'' obvious parodies of [[Roger Ebert|Ebert]] and Siskel, respectively, and Ebert was shown as a glutton with no work ethics. This was in response of their negative criticism of ''[[Independence Day]]'' and ''[[Stargate (Film)|Stargate]]'', made by the same [[Roland Emmerich|director]]. It backfired; Ebert and Siskel merely remarked that they'd been parodied much better in the past and would have hoped for something a lot more savage, like at ''least'' being crushed to death by Godzilla or eaten, then went on to trash the film anyway.

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** In ''[[Godzilla]] 2000: Millenium'', the aliens' flying saucer attack could be seen as a subtle [[Take That]] against Devlin and Emmerich's ''[[Independence Day]]''. And in the final act, one of the forms adopted by the alien [[Kaiju]] Orga is an obvious [[Expy]] of GINO.

* In the [[B-Movie]] ''Orca'', which is about a killer whale that actually kills people, there's a scene where the titular orca kills and devours a great white. Gee, I wonder [[Jaws (Film)|what]] that could refer to...

** May also be a [[Shout Out|reference]] to the fact that the boat used to kill <s> Jaws</s> [[I Am Not Shazam|the shark]] was called ''Orca''.

** May also be a [[Shout-Out|reference]] to the fact that the boat used to kill <s> Jaws</s> [[I Am Not Shazam|the shark]] was called ''Orca''.

** The movie ''Jaws 2'' fires right back as one of the shark's early victims is none other than... you guessed it, a killer whale.

*** Ironically enough, the former would be far more likely to happen in real life as Killer Whales eat pretty much anything in the sea and have been known to attack Sharks.

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*** It could just as easily be about the tens of thousands of loudly screaming girls at any Beatles concert.

* In turn, ''[[Help]]'' would appear to be a savage (or at least [[Affectionate Parody|affectionate]]) parody of [[James Bond]] movies.

* In ''[[Kung Fu Hustle]],'' [[Stephen Chow]] did a Take That which might also have been a [[Shout Out]] and subversive [[Affectionate Parody]] at the same time to his older film ''[[Shaolin Soccer]]'' in which his character stops a child's stray soccer ball... and stomps it flat, saying '''[[Memetic Mutation|"NO MORE SOCCER!"]]'''.

* In ''[[Kung Fu Hustle]],'' [[Stephen Chow]] did a Take That which might also have been a [[Shout-Out]] and subversive [[Affectionate Parody]] at the same time to his older film ''[[Shaolin Soccer]]'' in which his character stops a child's stray soccer ball... and stomps it flat, saying '''[[Memetic Mutation|"NO MORE SOCCER!"]]'''.

** This could also be seen as a swipe at the fans that kept asking for a sequel to ''[[Shaolin Soccer]]''.

*** Or a neat way of pointing out his character's primary motivation in this movie - whereas in Shaolin Soccer he was, despite his flaws, a sweetly stupid hero who just wanted to promote Shaolin Kung-Fu, this time around, his character wants to be an evil Mook.

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* The direct-to-video sequel of the ''[[George of the Jungle (Film)|George of the Jungle]]'' film had a jab at Brendan Fraser for not appearing in the film, but it got followed up by the new replacement explaining the studio's too cheap to hire Fraser again.

* In ''[[Shrek]]'' virtually ''everything in the movie'' is a giant [[Take That]] to the Disney Corporation, right down to the main villain's facial features being a caricature of Michael Eisner's. Even the theme music that plays when they enter Lord Farquaad's castle is a parody of "It's A Small World After All".

** Complete with commemorative picture and [[Wasn't That Fun|"Let's do that again!" reaction.]]

** Complete with commemorative picture and [[Wasn't That Fun?|"Let's do that again!" reaction.]]

** ... to which Shrek reacts with appropriate horror.

* ''[[Willow]]'' featured a "take that" to Ebert and Siskel in the form of the two-headed monster that guarded an important castle. The monster was known as the "Ebersisk".