History HypocriticalHumor / LiveACtionTV

* In ''LarkRiseToCandleford'', Dorcas Lane has a tendency to describe whatever vice / indulgence she's about to enjoy -- fine food, fine baths, clothes, etc -- as "my one weakness."
* Robbie is one of the most active people in ''LazyTown'' due to his schemes...despite said schemes revolving around making the tow's citizens lazy and unhealthy. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in one of the episodes where Sportacus points out how active the villain really is.

** In the episode "Mr. Monk and the Leper". When Monk overreacts to shaking hands with a leper (who turns out to have been a phony), Natalie has to talk him out of lighting his hand on fire, acting all calm and reasonable. Cut to later in the episode, when Natalie makes out with Dr. Aaron Polanski, an expert on leprosy, who knows the disease well because he reveals that he had the disease. She freaks out, drinking hot water directly out of her house faucet and telling Julie to fill a bathtub with Listerine. The next day, when Monk and Natalie go to Mandy Bronson's house to investigate, Monk is somewhat unsettled to see Natalie drinking a bottle of mouthwash:

'''Adrian Monk:''' Where’s the woman who’s been lecturing me all week about compassion and tolerance?\\

'''Natalie Teeger:''' Your leper wasn’t even a real leper! ''My'' leper was the real deal!\\
'''Adrian Monk:''' I thought he was real! That’s what counts. You know the old saying, “There is no heart so black as the black, black heart of the Phony Leper”?\\

* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'' episode "Flash vs. Arrow", [[Series/{{Arrow}} Oliver Queen]] visits Central City to ask for the help of Star Labs with some analysis. While that's happening, he decides to train Barry to be a better superhero. Before said training, he tells Barry that they'll have discuss his use of "silly code names" for his enemies. This is coming from the guy who regularly uses similar code names for his own enemies. Barry [[LampshadeHanging points this out]] by asking if the aforementioned discussion will be "over tea with Deathstroke and The Huntress."

* ''Series/{{MADtv}}'': There's a sketch spoofing ''Series/LawAndOrder'' where the ColdOpen of random people finding a corpse is either nonsensical or [[{{Filler}} unnecessarily elaborate]]. It includes a mafia hit man interupting one of his kills (strangling someone who ratted on his employers to death with a cord) because he's shocked to find a nearby corpse he wasn't aware of.

--->'''Trina''': Some people are so crude!

* The {{ITV}} documentary ''A-Z of Comedy'' had Ian Hislop doing S is for Satire, concluding that ultimately the message of satire is that nobody is above ridicule. His ''Series/SpittingImage'' puppet then pops up and his reaction is "That's pathetic! It doesn't even ''look'' like me!"

* In the first time presenting a show on commericial television Andrew Denton pretends to ring up the head of the network to complain about how often the ad breaks are. He was formally on the Australian government-run ABC which has no ad breaks. We only hear his part of the conversion and it ends like this:

* In episode of the [[Made in Canada]] a.k.a. "The industry" Richard Strong tells the star of their most popular show to get hair replacement surgury in Mexico, where it's much cheaper. Cut to a report of him dying of post-operative infection "I begged him not to get those hair implants.".

* ''Night Stand With Dick Dietrick'', in an issue about anger:

** When the mayor is showing Faith around her apartment:
--->'''Faith''': Thanks, Sugar Daddy.
--->'''Mayor Wilkins''': Now, Faith, I don't find that sort of thing amusing. I'm a family man. Now, let's kill your little friend.

-->'''Zoe:''' Proximity alert. Must be coming up on something.
-->'''Wash:''' Oh my god. What can it be? We're doomed! WHO'S FLYING THIS THING?
-->[[{{Beat}} *beat*]]
-->'''Wash:''' Oh. Right. That'd be me.
* In his debut episode of ''Series/TheFlash'', the Trickster is about to chainsaw a woman in half in front of an "audience" of mannequins.
-->'''Megan Lockhart''': Go to hell!
-->'''Trickster''': Watch your language--this is a family show!
-->''(The Flash runs in and pushes her out of the way at superspeed)''
-->'''Trickster''': ... the hell are ''you''?
* The ''Cheers'' SpinOff ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' also uses this a lot.
-->'''Roz''': Frasier's a good guy, he's smart, he's sweet, and way too good for you. Why don't you just leave, nobody here likes you anyway.\\
'''Julia''': Frasier seems to.\\
'''Roz''': Well he's an idiot.
** In the ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' episode where the ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' regulars show up, the lazy bar-fly Norm hits it off with Marty. When time comes for them to part company, Marty invites Norm to catch up if ever Norm's in Seattle:
---> '''Marty''': It's only six hours flying time from Boston to Seattle.
--->'''Norm''': Six hours...you know sittin' there in one place, never movin'. That's, that's just not me, you know?

--->'''Frasier''': I am so tired of your exaggeration! You always make things sound 50,000 times worse than they really are!
** ''Frasier'' runs on this trope, in both it's one-liner and more subtle forms. The very premise of the show is a form of this trope — a brilliant psychiatrist who is always giving people advice on how to fix their problems, but [[TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes can't figure out his own neuroses or relationships to save his life]].

--> '''Kim''': Are you calling me irrational? Because I'll tear your head off, Daniel. I'll tear it off and throw it over that fence.

-->'''Ramsay:''' Nooooo. Pork sausage. Do you think I'm some sort of savage?

-->'''Benny''': That's just like white people, taking one group and saying they're all the same!

--->'''Klinger:''' It was all just a misunderstanding; I would never try to bribe an officer! ''(pause)'' Ten bucks to forget the whole thing.

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' has one in its signature meta-joke style, where Liz and Jack are discussing ''America's Kidz Got Singing'', a singing competition show NBC is airing:

* Done rather [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesomely]] by ''Sheldon'' of all people, during ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' episode "The Nerdvanna Annihilation". After Penny derides Leonard for his toy collection, driving him into such a depression that he gives them all away, Sheldon [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFaDGg1ySgE gives her]] a well-deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:

** Of course, [[InsufferableGenius Sheldon]] is most often on the "hypocrite" side of these:

** Martha walks in on Castle and Alexis playing poker.

*** Note that this is also a ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''.
*** Similarly, in the episode "Double Down", Beckett is upset to learn that Castle made a bet that he and Beckett could solve their case before Ryan and Esposito could solve theirs. After getting a lead on their case, Beckett tells Castle, "One hundred dollars on us."

* One of the most popular types of joke on the sitcom ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. Examples:

** In another episode the guys see recurring FrenchJerk Henri walk into the bar:

* In an episode of ''Series/TheColbertReport'', Creator/StephenColbert briefly shared a story about how he once found one of his teenage staff members out back smoking with his friends while wearing an anti-smoking T-shirt. When questioned, he replied that he "thought it was funny."
** In another episode, Stephen, distraught over the loss of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, looks up the FiveStagesOfGrief. "Stage One... Denial. I've ''never'' had that."

* ''Series/{{Community}}'': After Senor Chang has ordered the class to 'turn on' Britta, resulting in her being pelted with paper.

** Also when they're all panicking about Britta's psych test showing one of them is a potential murderer (turns out it's all of them except Abed):

* On ''Series/CornerGas'', in which the following exchange occurs:

* In ''Series/TheDailyShow'', Jon Stewart criticized the 2010 British election debates, saying: "Your moderator is named Alastair Stewart! What kind of last name is Stewart?"

** Also pointed out and derided via an "epithet ticker" when UsefulNotes/SarahPalin defended Dr. Laura Shlesinger's career (a hasty retirement after using the N-word) in a Website/{{Tw|itter}}eet - mere months after calling for Rahm Emanuel's job for using the word "retard"... which, incidentally, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny was up five points]].
*** Actually averted in Palin's case: Emanuel used 'retard' as an intentional and malicious insult, while Dr. Laura was quoting, and railing against, the numerous African-American rappers and pop culture icons who use the n-word prolifically. The caller [[JustIgnoreIt ignored her entire argument]], and took offense with her use of the n-word, even though [[ComicallyMissingThePoint it was okay for the original speaker to do so]].
*** Except it was the ''media'' controversy that focused on the N-Word - as ''Series/TheDailyShow'' pointed out, the rest of Dr. Laura's discussion with the caller (summarized as "Lighten up about racist jokes your husband's friends make or get out of the relationship") showed a huge amount of callousness. However, it still fits hypocritical humor since the pundits on the show were debating which one was worst while using said terms.

* Sally on ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey'' is often guilty of this, to the point where her colleagues made a montage of her saying "I'm not one to complain, but..."
** And she responded to this by turning to George and saying...

* ''Series/{{House}}'': When Greg House puts speed in Wilson's coffee to test if Wilson is on anti-depressants, Wilson is rather livid. Later in that episode comes the revelation that Wilson has been [[NotSoAboveItAll dosing House with anti-depressants]]. In fairness to Wilson, he may have actually been angry at House for deliberately putting him at risk of dangerous medication interactions- but ''that'' becomes HypocriticalHumor when he follows up his rant with "give me a Vicodin before I have a stroke."

* The FramingDevice of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' is an older Ted telling his children how he met his current wife, and so far he's been telling this story for six seasons to his eternally bored looking kids. One of his stories has Ted finding out that he can't stand his new girlfriend anymore because she just won't shut up.

* This was half of Maya's repertoire in ''Series/JustShootMe'', aside from [[SoapboxSadie shrill activism]]. Oddly enough, there were other times where they didn't seem to be playing it as a gag, she just was... hypocritical. (For instance, deriding Elliot for his nerdy looks back in high school.) In fact there were times where this seemed to be a FamilyUnfriendlyAesop, implying that others were being ''unreasonable'' in asking her to stop berating someone over their looks or social status, or for her to apologize for doing so.

* ''Series/{{MASH}}'', in its first couple of seasons, would often show [[StrawHypocrite Majors Burns and Houlihan]] spying on and expressing disgust at the sexual dalliances of the other characters... which would get the Majors so horny they'd immediately start fooling around themselves.
** In a lesser example from a later season, Hawkeye and B.J. start riffing on famous Shakespearean phrases ("Friends, Romans and Countrymen, lend me your ears, I promise to return them.") Winchester counters with a straight reading of the ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' line, "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hawkeye replies, "Man, if there's one thing I hate it's someone who butchers Shakespeare."

* This bit from ''Series/TheMuppetShow''. Rather than watch the show, StatlerAndWaldorf opt to watch television through a set installed in the box, and upon flipping through the channels, find...

* More like humor based off of hypocrisy, but in ''Series/RedDwarf'', Rimmer finds out Lister is using illegal learning drugs to study for his Chef's Exam. Rimmer demands names, places, and dates. "Arnold Rimmer, his locker, this morning."

*** Lister is turned off by his female counterpart [[TheLadette drinking six pints of lager and belching the whole of "Yankee Doodle Dandy."]] Rimmer points out the irony of this situation, as Lister is a complete slob himself.
*** Rimmer is disgusted by his female counterpart groping him and making sexual advances on him. Earlier in the episode, Lister was chiding Rimmer on his chauvinistic sexual advances on various women.
*** Rimmer's opposite makes the aforementioned sexual advances on Rimmer. When she finds out that the two Listers got drunk enough to [[ScrewYourself get in bed together]], she questions why one would make love to oneself.
* In the April 14, 2000 episode of ''Radio/RoyalCanadianAirFarce'', Vera asks her friends at the donut shop if they got their Lotto 649 tickets for the week. Charlie gets upset and says that lotteries are a tax on the stupid, people have a better chance of getting hit by a bus than winning, and lotteries are for "lazy unmotivated people who don't want to do an honest day's work." Al asks how many tickets he bought, and Charlie replies, "The usual, six."

* In the ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' episode "The Jimmy", Jerry asked Kramer "Do you really feel the need to use a lot of obscenities at the dentist's office?" It's interesting because Jerry once used a [[Franchise/StarTrek colorful metaphor]] to describe how good his yogurt was.

* Possibly unintentional example: In an episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', Kirk is told "Your old titles mean nothing here, Captain."

* An unintentional one that combines with an accidental TakeThatScrappy: In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Datalore", Wesley Crusher is told by Captain Picard to shut up when Wes is trying to warn the crew that something was off about Data[[note]]He'd been swapped with his identical EvilTwin, Lore[[/note]], which takes him and his mother, Beverly, off-guard. When Wes tries to protest ''again'', this time it's Beverly who's telling him to shut up, though this was more of a fearful thing as everyone thought Wesley was being paranoid over nothing.

* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'':
** In ''Wi-Fi in the Sky'', when Trina asks the dad to don't let his son kick her seat, but he doesn't care.

* ''Series/TheWestWing'' sometimes PlayedForLaughs the fact that much of the US population engages in this. At one point they quoted two opinion polls that demonstrated at least 14% of Americans think contributions to the UN are too high, and at the same time think it shouldn't be cut.
** This is actually very easily duplicated, and is not as much a matter of hypocrisy as it is the result of asking leading questions. It's TruthInTelevision, as many polls are designed to get certain results to be used as propaganda.
** Then there's the sixth season's Democratic convention negotiations.

* One episode of ''Series/WillAndGrace'' has Jack develop an addiction to coffee while dating someone from a coffeehouse, and then ends up trying to squeeze coffee out of the used filters from a coffee-maker after said boyfriend quits. Karen then proceeds to lecture him about dealing with the problem... [[ImmuneToDrugs while washing down a pill with a martini]].

*** This one's a bit of a subversion though, as the man ''doesn't'' just say "No it isn't," - the moment the laughter dies down he gives an actual argument.
*** He only does this ''after'' he notices what he just said.
*** But then, the only reason he had time to stop and notice it instead of just pressing on with his argument was because he had to pause for laughter.

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* Kate in ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' complained about Tony's porn obsession but looked at porn sites herself off-work and moaned about sexual objectification of women just before finding a bunch of shirtless men being photographed highly attractive. We'll put the Wet T-Shirt contest in her college days as something that occurred when drunk.
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* From ''Series/YesMinister'': "In politics you have to learn to say things with tact and finesse, you berk."
* Rick from ''Series/TheYoungOnes'', at the top of his lungs: '''''"I AM NOT GETTING AGGRESSIVE!!!!"'''''
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'''Andrew Denton''' They make how much money?
<turns to camera>''' And we'll be back after these important messages'''

* In ''Series/BreakoutKings'', in the episode "Cruz Control," the team is chasing a terminally ill escaped convict who is killing other criminals, and the team of {{BoxedCrook}}s discusses whether they really should bother to catch him.

* In ''Series/Breakout Kings'', in the episode "Cruz Control," the team is chasing a terminally ill escaped convict who is killing other criminals, and the team of {{BoxedCrook}}s discusses whether they really should bother to catch him.