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* During coverage of [[Olympic Games|the Winter Olympic Games]] at Sochi (footage taken from "Putin's 15 years: A presidential retrospective (RT)"), Keith Olbermann of [[ESPN|ESPN2]] had this to say:
{{quote|(picture of a dog is shown) ''"The smiling dog to my right is not from the dog show, he's from Sochi, Russia. And he's probably dead now."''}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20120510055816/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]].
* WoTC released a few animated shorts before the release of 4th Edition ''[[Dungeons & 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]]''.
* After the Secret Service raid on their premises was [[wikipedia:Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service|deemed to have been unlawful,]] Steve Jackson Games printed a card for their ''Illuminati: New World Order'' CCG depicting a Secret Service agent wearing the insignia of [[Fun with Acronyms|the Nazi SS.]]
** A justification for the raid given was that the book whose manuscript they seized, ''[[GURPS]] [[Cyberpunk]]'', was a handbook on computer crime, especially hacking. The result? They made ''Hacker'' shortly afterward, a board/card game focusing on computer hacking.
* 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.]]
'''Second Runner''': What the hell have ''you'' been smoking? }}
* The bizarre Egg of Coot, a ruler in the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' Blackmoor setting, was a jab at Gr'''egg''' S'''cott''', an individual who'd previously given Dave Arneson some flak.
* 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.
* In the ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia XP]]'' rulebook there constant jokey references to a [[Dungeons & Dragons|certain other fantasy RPG]] being overly complicated, constantly calling it the ''Unfun RPG.''
== [[Theatre]] ==
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