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** Ebert strikes again by thanking Bill O'Reilly for including the Chicago Sun-Times in his "Hall Of Shame", claiming to be in a Bill O'Reilly Hall of ''Fame'' [[Your Approval Fills Me with Shame|would be a cruel blow to any newspaper.]] He goes on to compare him to "Squeaky The Chicago Mouse" in response to the latter's claim he was more powerful than any politician, and such an eloquent [[Take That]] has to be [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090407/COMMENTARY/904079997 seen to be believed].
* Archaeologists have found ancient Greek sling shots with "[[Take That]]" written on them.
** This survived until at least after [[World War 2]] when bomber crews would paint messages on the their explosive payloads.
* Ubiquitous in political campaigning - any specific examples would either double the size of this page fairly quickly or lead to a massive [[Edit War]].
* In ''Häxornas försvarare'' by Jan Guillou, a book about the witch processes in seventeenth-century Scandinavia, the author explains that while at one point the study of witches was considered a credible science, all the information that went into scholarly treatises on the subject had been uncovered by the scholar a) reading what other people had previously written on the subject and b) making stuff up. He further states that understandably, no modern field of science uses this odd form of research, "except of course for national economics."
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* Most unsubtle and unwitty example ever: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTldxSdAHuM This] video, which is the full match of the first clip you see in the infamous '''"[[Capcom vs. Whatever|MAHVEL]] [[Memetic Mutation|BAYBEE!]]"''' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZUMjoxfZA video], manages to throw in a random "FUCK [[Arcana Heart|AR-CAY-NAH HEART]], NIGGER! FUCK ARCANA HEART!" at the end of its utterly non-sensical commentary.
* PC Gamer regularly takes cheap shots at console gamers. One was when they recommended the [[Xbox]] 360 controller for Games For Windows games, with the hasty disclaimer "[[Freud Was Right|don't worry, no one will think you're a console gamer]]". When a reader wrote in and called them on it, they said it was a "friendly rivalry".
** If this is PC Gamer of Future Publishing then it definitely is a friendly rivalry, since Chandra Nair, one of their writers, used to work for Cubed, a [[Game Cube]] magazine.
*** Not to mention that Chandra Nair went on to also become editor of Official Nintendo Magazine before leaving the industry completely.
** Not to mention that Future owns Official Xbox Magazine, as well as [[Nintendo Power]]. And speaking of Future, they own both [http://www.maclife.com/ MacLife] and [http://www.maximumpc.com/ Maximum PC]. They love taking pot shots at each other.
* Matthew Wright, presenter of Channel Five's ''The Wright Stuff'' is fond of making gags toward presenter Jeremy Kyle, such as calling him "Jeremy Vile" and getting out of the house whenever his show comes on.
* The creators of [[Demoscene]] productions are typically very direct about their Take Thats, often outright saying "fuck you" to the people and companies they don't like.
* [[Adult Swim]] often runs bumps that are derogatory towards its viewers.
** There also seems to be a long running gag about the network's [[Screwed by the Network|simmering contempt towards their Anime block]]. Bumps regularly criticize it, commercials show their [[Narm]] moments and episode descriptions on their website tend to read like "Vampires, robots, big hats!".
*** There's a division in staff between Adult Swim's western-styled comedy department, writers of all the bumps since the action programming stopped featuring them (and producers of ''PHF'''), and the Action department, who programs Adult Swim's anime and are anime fans.
* Whether intentional or not, the Library of Congress filing system (using two letters, then numbers) lists any books on, about, or including the Bible under the letters "BS."
** The Library of Congress Classification system was first developed in 1897. The earliest citation in the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' for "BS" meaning "bulls--t" is 1969. Unless you're accusing then Librarian of Congress Herbert Putnam of psychic powers, it's purely a coincidence.
*** It's actually cited from as early as 1912 now. And in 1884 the initials "B.S" were used colloquially to the emulsion of little value that results from petroleum oil evaporating and leaking through roof of the tank.
* 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. }}
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* In both ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle|Warhammers]]'', the entire Ork race are a [[Take That]] at football hooligans even though fans [[Too Funny to Be Evil|tend to think of Orks as really funny]] but its kind of obvious its a take that when you realize they are to bricks what dumb as a brick is to normal people.
* The expanded [http://pw1.netcom.com/~shagbert/pages/munchkins.html Real Men, Real Roleplayers, Loonies, and Munchkins] list is littered with Take Thats directed at the likes of ''[[Star Trek]]'', comic books, [[Gary Gygax]], and whatever else the contributor wasn't personally fond of by attributing them to [[Munchkin|Munchkins]] -- which, by extension, is probably an indicator of [[Fan Hater|fan-hating]].
* WoTC released a few animated shorts before the release of 4th Edition ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', they focused on very specific monsters and races in terms of how 4th Edition would affect them. One of the shorts was about the red dragon and contained a very amusing reference to the "Edition Wars" in which traditionally whiny fanboys ranted about the suckiness and evil of 4th Edition. Said reference showed a forum being trolled by an actual troll that was promptly buried under a large pile of dragon excrement by the red dragon as it flew overhead.
* From a supplement to White Wolf's ''[[Mage: The Ascension]]'': "This same century also sees the birth of many of the modern 'gypsy' stereotypes, which... lead to the fanciful romanticization of 'True Romany' as singing, dancing, scarf-wearing vagabonds. This stereotyping is perpetuated throughout the 20th century through works of popular fiction, cheap horror movies, 'medieval' or 'Renaissance' re-enactment societies, and badly researched role-playing game supplements." The same company had earlier released ''World of Darkness: Gypsies'', a supplement playing on exactly those stereotypes, considered [[Fanon Discontinuity]] by everyone who's read it for [[Unfortunate Implications]].
** A whole chapter of a Vampire sourcebook was a giant [[Take That]] to the infamous ''[[Dirty Secrets Of The Black Hand]]''.
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*** As a response to that, Miller wrote ''[[A View from the Bridge]]'', which portrays an informer negatively.
* In the musical version of ''Merrily We Roll Along'', the protagonist is a musical theatre songwriter who in one scene says, "I saw ''[[My Fair Lady]]'' -- I sort of enjoyed it."
* The musical ''[[1776]]'' features an extended [[Take That]] against New York's government: the delegate from New York spends the entire musical having to "abstain--courteously," because, as he finally explains, the members of the legislature "speak very fast and very loud and nobody pays any attention to anybody else with the result that nothing ever gets done."
** Like much of the rest of the play...TruthInTelevision. Even for the time period. (It's truly scary when you realize how much of [[1776]] is all lifted directly from period documents (if somewhat out of context at times.)
* 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.]
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* Amiright and Whatfreaks seem to both be [[Take That|Take Thats]] to music in general.
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** That quote was edited to not include the "Ruined Forever" part, now.
** Their page on [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wolverine Wolverine] describes him as "A completely unlikable asshole".
** Their Original Page on [[Dan Di Dio]] called him Satan. Now he's just called [[Doctor Phil|Dr Phil]].
* [[Rational Wiki]], being what it is, will very frequently take pot shots at various crank beliefs. Almost every article about a pseudoscience is a [[Take That]].
** Currently, their article about [[This Wiki]] pretty much claims that we [[Jumped the Shark]] after the changes that include giving YMMV its own section.
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