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** [[The Simpsons]] have also taken a jab or two at Mountain Dew, the most memorable of which being from "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson."
{{quote|'''Homer:''' That khlav kalash was pretty bad, do you have anything to drink to get rid of the taste?
'''Vendor:''' Mountain Dew or [[Squick|Crab Juice]]
'''Homer:''' Blech, ewwww! I'll take the Crab Juice! }}
** In another episode, Homer and Bart were offered a drink. As soon as they started drinking it, the man offering it said it was bear urine, which causes Homer and Bart to pause. The man then says it was really Fresca, wherein Bart and Homer spit it out.
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* The opening of the ''[[Futurama]]'' movie ''Bender's Big Score'' features a sequence where Planet Express had its delivery license [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|cancelled]] two years ago by executives from the Box Network, a load of brainless idiots... who were, as a result fired and badly beaten. Several died from their injuries, and they were then ground into a fine powder, putting Planet Express back in business. Just in case some of the viewers couldn't get it, when the Box Network building is shown, the sign is malfunctioning and flickers between reading "Box" and "Fox." Just to rub it in, the rest of the movie cited increasingly unpleasant uses for this "executive powder" as it went on in fake-ads, such as unclogging one's toilet.
** ''Bender's Game'' feature 3: First is George Takei's head ramming a ship into one driven by [[Star Trek: Enterprise|Scott Bakula]] and tells him "Thanks for [[Ruined FOREVER|ruining]] [[Star Trek|the franchise]]!". Second, there's the gratuitous take that to [[Robin Williams]] when they run into "[[Mork and Mindy|Morks]]" and kill them while telling them [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|they're not funny]] and need to shut up. Third, there's when they reach the kingdom of "Wipe Castle", where you can eat lots of burgers without gaining weight [[You Fail Biology Forever|because they give you diarrhoea]].
*** In general, ''Bender's Game'' vacillates between an [[Affectionate Parody]] of ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'', a mild and still affectionate Take That against some of the more egregious tropes of the game (such as the very Gygaxian use of multitudes of random-roll tables) and a flat-out Take That against the anti-D&D hysteria of the '80s (with Bender becoming an over-the-top parody of the "steam-tunnel gamer" urban legend—the gamers who supposedly lost their minds and grip on reality playing D&D). Of course, anyone who's played the game will be able to tell you that their portrayal of the game was hilariously innacurate, for the sole reason that the players were actually using the d12. Even whatever edition would exist a thousand years from now, the d12 will still have fewer uses than even the d3, which is both nonexistant AND geometrically impossible.
*** "Bender's Game" is also an [[Affectionate Parody]] of [[Lord of the Rings]], the series that D&D is based on.
** In one original episode they go down into the sewers. The mutants there can only use what people flush down the toilet. What do they have to read? Only crumpled up porn and copies of ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''.
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*** Which lead to the hilarious ending of ''Blue Harvest''. And it gets even better [[Actor Allusion|when you realize exactly which two people do the voices for the characters involved...]]
*** Echoed in ''Road To The Multiverse'', where Stewie and Brian's ''[[Sliders]]''-parodying universe tour includes a brief stop in the [[Robot Chicken]] world.
{{quote|'''[[Actor Allusion|Chris]]:''' Look! [[G.I. Joe]], [[Transformers]], [[Thundercats]], [[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe|He Man and The Masters of The Universe]]! [[Self-Deprecation|Yay! Those shows existed!]]
'''Stewie:''' How's it feel to be on a major network for 30 seconds?
'''Chris:''' FUCK YOU! }}
**** Made even funnier by the fact it was actually ''only 20 seconds''.
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** In "Blue Harvest," in the scene where Luke (Chris) finds Aunt Beru and Uncle Owen killed by the Empire, and the London Symphony Orchestra burned as well, he also complains that they'll have to listen to [[Danny Elfman]] music for the remainder of the movie. Cue [[Danny Elfman]] conducting his orchestra to the tune of the [[Desperate Housewives]] theme, only for Chris to proceed to decapitate him mid-song.
* In one episode, Chris says, "This is just like [[My Two Dads|that sitcom where there's two dads]], except no one's laughing. [[Oh, Wait!|No, wait]]. It's the same."
* ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' takes an obvious dig at ''[[Kim Possible]]'':
{{quote|'''Sam:''' What could be more embarrassing than WOOHP spies losing all their gadgets and having to hitch a ride from a pop star?}}
* The original title for ''[[Animaniacs]]'' was ''Bonkers'', but Disney already had a series by that name. Every so often, the characters made unflattering comments about ''Bonkers'', such as Slappy saying that her nephew is dumb from watching it, or one of the items on a scavenger hunt being a funny episode of it.
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* The [[Grand Finale]] of ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'' was axed because [http://www.micahwright.com/downloads/networkslam.mp3 it explicitly slammed] [[Nickelodeon]]'s re-re-re-re-rerunning practices and would have exposed them to the [[Viewers are Morons|ignorant children]]. How many slots do you think ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' would take on Nick's current schedule if the episode did air?
* Speaking of ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', SpongeBob had the episode "[http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/HVM4Q44uhyo/ KrabbyLand]", which was basically one long [[Take That]] at McDonald's.
* In one episode of ''[[The Fairly Odd ParentsOddParents]]'', a citizen of Atlantis states that the diet of his people consists of crabs, starfish and the occasional underwater squirrel. Take a wild guess [[SpongeBob SquarePants|which show they're mocking]].
** The very same episode has the people of Atlantis deciding that Cosmo sinking them was a good thing after viewing ''Wet Willy'', a fictitious movie starring a very thinly veiled [[Captain Ersatz]] for Aquaman, who is [[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman|primarily noted for sucking]].
** The episode "Shelf Life" they give many stabs to the state of Missouri.
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** A '''HUGE''' one toward [[Moral Guardians]] in "Quantam Boogaloo".
* ''[[The Boondocks]]'' has too many of these to count because it's based on a comic built around the trope.
* ''[[Freakazoid!]]'', in the episode "[[Candle Jack]]" :
{{quote|'''Freakazoid:''' The scariest thing in the world... would be if they gave Sinbad ''another'' TV show.
'''Kids:''' AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!! *run into cabin and hide* }}
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