Trope Name Injokes/Quotes

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"Something mildly related!"
Trope Overdosed: The Series
"Lampshade Hanging quote!"
Another Trope Overdosed series, probably a comedy
"Obligatory quote from Zero Punctuation!"
Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, having just mentioned a Video Game trope on last week's episode
"A very tangentially related quote originating from last week."
"Snarky quote that mentions this trope by name in a situation that is not actually an example!"
Some RPG that came out last week

"Song lyrics that are probably
Only tangentially

Related to this trope."
Artist whose version is best known (read: most recent), who probably wasn't the original artist, Songname in italics rather than double quotes

Badly formatted quote!

-- A three-days old webcomic which is read by two people in the world

"A quote with a lot of completely irrelevant details, most of which could be cut to make the quote easier to understand!"
An adult animated show
"Flavour Text or excerpt from a Warhammer 40,000 book"
Any given Warhammer 40k guidebook or novel
"Quote from a particularly noteworthy example of the trope."
—Quote from the main page repeated again for no adequately explored reason.
"Only.... ...of a quote... ...[troper] thought... ...long."
Actually not that long a sentence before being edited.
"Outré in-world quote from the narrator character."
Attributed to the author, who will now be locked up
A long paragraph in which the Lemony Narrator invokes the trope (or possibly a related one) at length, before explaining it won't be happening in this story, quoted in full[1].
  1. Complete with footnote