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== Miscellaneous ==

* Type the word "Santorum" into Google. Go on. (NSFW)

** Dan Savage also tried to create a definition for "[[Technical Virgin|saddlebacking]]" (in reference to the Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, owned by Rick Warren) with considerably less success.

* Uwe Boll's online video in response to the [http://www.petitiononline.com/RRH53888/petition.html petition to stop him forever] contains completely unwarranted attacks on directors [[Michael Bay]], Eli Roth, and George Clooney. Say what you will about their directing skills, but Uwe Boll has no right to criticize them. This is also the video in which he claims to be "ze only genius in ze whole fucking business".

* [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>

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Wqy1R0Ve8 This video.] "The work ethic of music majors is often disappointing."

* In early 1979, NBC was falling behind in the ratings war against CBS and ABC. In an attempt to get back those ratings, NBC initiated its "Proud as a Peacock" campaign. One of those was a song telling about how great NBC was. However, they knew how bad they were in the ratings and ended up making [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8id3o-BPbM&feature=related this parody] to mock the network and its-then current owner.

* 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]]s—which, by extension, is probably an indicator of [[Fan Hater|fan-hating]].

* 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]]''.

* 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:

'''Second Runner''': What the hell have ''you'' been smoking? }}

* Palladium Books include a description of an alignment system which includes a statement against neutral alignments, a feature of the Dungeons and Dragons based games. One sentence reads: No neutrals is one of the very few definitive, unbending rules of the game.

* A [[My Species Doth Protest Too Much|good-aligned]] [[Exclusively Evil|drow]]? In [[Pathfinder|Golarion]]? He wouldn't last long—no matter ''how'' [[Forgotten Realms|badass of a ranger]] he was.

 

== [[Theatre]] ==

** 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".

** At one point, their article about [[TV Tropes]] pretty much claimed that they [[Jumped the Shark]] after the changes that include giving YMMV its own section.

* The South Sydney [[Rugby League]] team's theme song lists all the teams Souths have beaten in grand finals:

 

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