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* Showing an uncharacteristically pointy side, radio comedy team [[Bob and Ray|Bob & Ray]] reacted to ''New York Magazine'' critic [[wikipedia:John Simon (critic)|John Simon's]] negative review of their stage show by incorporating him into their skits as "The Worst Person in the World" -- a character who never spoke, just made rude noises while other characters commented loudly on his uncouth manners. Broadcaster [[Keith Olbermann]] later picked up the concept, ''sans'' specific attack, and used it in his ''Countdown''.
** And Olbermann has used several Take Thats in his feud with [[Bill O Reilly]]. A classic was when O'Reilly announced he was starting an online petition to get Olbermann's show off the air. Olbermann had a segment showing the entire production crew and staff of ''Countdown'', including himself, cheerfully signing the petition to show how seriously they took it. And MSNBC's other shows got in on the act as well: Dan Abrams and Tucker Carlson are shown signing it.
{{quote| '''[[Big Ham|Keith]]:''' ''"[[Crowning Moment of Funny|Tucker?!?]] [[Big No|NOOOOOOOOOO]]!!!"''}}
** Olbermann's impression of [[Rush Limbaugh]] (often heard during the Worst Persons segment) also owes a lot to the Bob & Ray character, particularly the slurping noises.
* Try typing "Google" into Yahoo!'s search engine. On top of your search results, which obviously and inevitably would include a link to Google itself, is the message "You could go to Google. Or get straight to your answers here" along with another search bar for Yahoo.
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*** Gallo publicly wished Ebert would get cancer again. Ebert did. Gallo, not apologizing, said he wished for a different cancer than Ebert got. Ebert's reply was that he had no time for this- he just got back from an exam where an image of his colon was on a TV for 90 minutes- "which was still better than ''The Brown Bunny''."
** Ebert also commented about a feud between Rob Schneider and another critic, Patrick Goldstein. After Patrick made a remark about Columbia Pictures financing ''Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo'' while having turned down every single one of that year's Best Picture nominees, Rob Schneider took out full-page ads in two magazines insulting Patrick Goldstein, for [[Let's See You Do Better|not having won anything himself.]] Ebert's comment is, once again, priceless:
{{quote| ''But Schneider is correct, and Patrick Goldstein has not yet won a Pulitzer Prize. Therefore, Goldstein is not qualified to complain that Columbia financed ''Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo'' while passing on the opportunity to participate in ''Million Dollar Baby'', ''Ray'', ''The Aviator'', ''Sideways'' and ''[[Finding Neverland]].'' As chance would have it, I '''have''' won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.''}}
** Of course, Schneider then went on to invert this trope entirely by sending Ebert flowers and a get-well-soon card while he was in hospital.
*** And Ebert said that while Schneider may make terrible movies, he's a nice guy.
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* The numerous Red Box kiosks, scattered throughout multiple grocery store chains in the US, advertise $1.00 overnight rentals, but Red Box will charge the customer's card an additional $1.00 for each additional day the item is kept. In response, the movie rental chain ''Hollywood Video'' introduced a program called ''True Dollar,'' to their existing Powerplay rental program, that offers $1.00 rentals with ''no due dates.''
* The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith:
{{quote| "6. That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine, into the substance of Christ's body and blood, commonly called transubstantiation, by consecration of a priest, or by any other way, [[Take That|is repugnant not to Scripture alone, but even to common sense and reason,]] overthroweth the nature of the ordinance, and hath been, and is, the cause of manifold superstitions, yea, of gross idolatries." This is an attack on Catholics. }}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSweVjWOVf0&feature=related This] video of [[Australian Rules Football]] team the West Coast Eagles' theme song includes the Eagles mascot giving cross-town rival the Fremantle Dockers' mascot a wedgie.
** A famous one happened when Carlton played Essendon in 1991. The previous year, Essendon had lost to the much-hated Collingwood in the grand final, giving Collingwood their first premiership since 1958. During that time, Carlton had beaten Collingwood in grand finals in 1970, 1979 and 1981. Carlton rubbed it in by having their banner read, "If you lose to Collingwood in a grand final, you're a bloody idiot." <ref>A riff on Essendon sponsor TAC's slogan "If you drink, then drive, you're a bloody idiot."</ref>
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** Ironically, a lot of Nickelodeon's shows aren't really like that. (Shows like that are on [[Cartoon Network]].) But then again, [[Focus On The Family]] isn't on very good terms with Nickelodeon...
* In [[Rugby League]] the South Sydney Rabbitohs' song goes as far as to list all the teams Souths beat in grand finals:
{{quote| (To the tune of "Glory, Glory, Hallelujah"):<br />
They mauled the Balmain Tigers,<br />
Slew the Dragons from St. George,<br />
The Seagulls and the Mounties next<br />
Were crushed with mighty force<br />
They humbled Parramatta<br />
And the Berries in due course<br />
They wear the RED & GREEN<br />
 
<br />
 
(CHORUS)<br />
<br />
 
They plucked the Western Magpies,<br />▼
 
Slashed the Newtown bag of blue<br />▼
▲They plucked the Western Magpies,<br />
The Eastern Suburbs rooster crowed,<br />▼
▲Slashed the Newtown bag of blue<br />
And then was conquered too<br />▼
▲The Eastern Suburbs rooster crowed,<br />
The greatest name in any game<br />▼
▲And then was conquered too<br />
Within South Sydney grew<br />▼
▲The greatest name in any game<br />
▲Within South Sydney grew<br />
They wear the RED & GREEN \\ }}
 
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* Another, less malicious, Steve Jackson Games example, [[Vehicular Combat|''Car Wars'']] featured an America that was mildly post-apocalyptic, having survived a limited nuclear engagement with Communists. The worst hit spot in Central United States? Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, where main rival game designer TSR games had their headquarters.
* The ''[[Shadowrun]]'' [[Sourcebook]] ''Runner Havens'' has the following gem during a discussion of Hong Kong pirates:
{{quote| '''Runner''': I heard that if they catch a ship, [[Firefly|they rape everyone aboard to death, eat their flesh, and sew their skins into their clothing -- and if you're lucky, they do it in that order.]]<br />
'''Second Runner''': What the hell have ''you'' been smoking? }}
* The bizarre Egg of Coot, a ruler in the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' Blackmoor setting, was a jab at Gr'''egg''' S'''cott''', an individual who'd previously given Dave Arneson some flak.
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* Occurred during the 2008 Tony Awards broadcast, when the winner for Best Play, in his acceptance speech, thanked the producers for funding "an ''American'' show with ''theater'' actors!" This would have been much less remarkable had his award not [[Biting the Hand Humor|been presented to him by]] [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341743/ Richard Griffiths] and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0705356/ Daniel Radcliffe.]
* The lyrics to "You're The Top", a song by Cole Porter from the musical ''Anything Goes'', contains the following jab at the Republican party of the 1930s:
{{quote| "I'm the nominee of the G.O.P., or "Gop,"<br />
But if baby, I'm the bottom, you're the top!" }}
* "Everyone's a little bit racist" From [[Avenue Q]] is a [[Take That]] to [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|Political Correctness]].
** Also, a minor example during "Mix Tape":
{{quote| '''Kate''': I loved ''[[Titanic]]''!<br />
'''Princeton''': It was all right... }}
** Also, during the 2004 Presidential debate they mentioned that they would need to end the debate soon because there was going to be "A Vice Presidential debate held by Red Lobster"
** In An interview, Princeton implied that [[Phantom of the Opera|Sarah Brightman]] sings like a goose {{supersecretspoiler| she does}}
* Since it's ''about'' theater:
{{quote| '''Antonio Banderas''', being asked if he'll do a live-action 3-D movie after being in the animated 3-D movie ''[[Shrek]] 4'': I've been doing 3-D for a long time. [[Take That|It's called theater.]] It was invented 3,000 years ago. (Actually, theatre was invented [[Older Than Feudalism|2,530 years ago,]] but he was close.)}}
* In [[Angels in America]], when {{spoiler|Joe his Louis}}, he compares it to a [[Rape Is Love|love scene]] from an [[Ayn Rand]] [[The Fountainhead|novel]].
 
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** While both of these are now gone, Tropers can take comfort in the fact that TOW's page on [[Deus Ex Machina]] now links to (their page on) [[Alien Space Bats]].
* The Transformers Wiki tends to throw these at the elitist fandom, being that it's not a Wiki restricted by [[Serious Business]], you can see how, they basically ''[[Trope Namer|named]]'' the [[Ruined FOREVER]] Trope, and even [[Shout-Out|link to our Ruined FOREVER page]]. There are other Take Thats, mostly bordering on the idiotic logic of the Transformers fanbase, on one of the timeline pages, they put the beginning of the universe, and it says:
{{quote| The Big Bang creates the universe as we know it. The protons, neutrons, and electrons that will eventually compose Transformers are formed, thereby [[Ruined FOREVER|ruining]] the Transformers franchise forever. A Thursday.}}
** Beyond fandom, there are plenty of Take Thats directed at certain people involved in Transformers, notably Pat Lee, Shane McCarthy and Andy Schmidt.
** That quote was edited to not include the "Ruined Forever" part, now.
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