History HypocriticalHumor / LiveACtionTV

* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':
** Rather than watch the show, JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf opt to watch television through a set installed in the box, and upon flipping through the channels, find...
--->'''Statler:''' What is THAT?!\\
'''Waldorf:''' Looks like two ancient old guys sitting in a theatre box watching television!\\
'''Statler:''' That's crazy! [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs No one would watch junk like that]]!
** On a ''Tales from the Vet'' section of ''Series/MuppetsTonight'' Dr. Van Neuter warns the guests not to overdo it on the eggnog at the Christmas party. HilarityEnsues when he [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsBIjhBBPx8 doesn't follow his own advice...]]
** Another episode, in a Muppet Labs segment, had Dr. Bunsen Honeydew describe his assistant Beaker as a "short stubbly person". Beaker is actually ''taller'' than Bunsen.
** And ''then'' there's Miss Piggy, who will tie Kermit into a knot for even looking at another woman in one episode, then go out of her way to hit on any male guest star in the next.

* In ''Series/TheOffice'' episode "Business School", a bat is loose in the office, Creed suggests killing it, Kelly tells him not to kill it because it's a living thing with feelings and a family, seconds later when it flies toward her she yells "Kill it! Kill it!".

* In “TheChecks” while trying to pitch a pilot to Japan, Kramer asks Jerry why anyone would want to watch a show about four single people and their failed dating lives, that is a description of the show itself.

** At the end of "The Perfect Lunch", Olive, Oscar and Otto are tasked with hosting a dinner for the [[MoleMen mole people]] next week, and it just so happens that the precinct an agent who knows all about them. Olive believes it's Obfusco and complains about having to endure more of his WordSaladPhilosophy, but Obfusco tells her that it's not him -- it's his sister, Obfuscolina, whom he complains about by saying that he can't understand a word she says.

--> (Sybil takes his arm to calm him; he jumps)
--> '''Sybil:''' Oh Basil, why are you so nervous?
--> '''Basil:''' I'm not nervous, I'm just saying "take it easy".
--> '''Sybil:''' What's got into you?
--> '''Basil:''' (Frantically) Nothing's got into me, I'm just saying take it easy. All of us, just take it easy. (With increasing mania) Can't I say take it easy without starting a panic?
--> '''Terry:''' (Amusedly) Mr Fawlty, take it easy.
--> '''Basil:''' Look, let's get one thing straight. You don't tell me to take it easy. I don't pay you to tell me to take it easy. I pay you to take it easy. No, I pay you to tell you to take it easy, so take it easy, right?

* ''Series/ShaunMicallefsMadAsHell'' has a few of these from [[TheAhnold Darius Horsham]], whose performance is an exaggeration of Senator Mathias Cormann's European accent turned into an Creator/TheArnoldSchwarzenegger impression:

* ''Series/ShaunMicallefsMadAsHell'' has a few of these from [[TheAhnold Darius Horsham]]:
** In response to Shaun's joke about Senator Mathias Cormann that "[[LaymansTerms Plain English]] isn't his first language", Darius tells him, "You shouldn't make fun of the way people talk, Shaun."

** And probably the best example yet, the opening scene of season 3:

** 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, was up five points.

* ''Series/ADifferentWorld'': The students are volunteering at a community center in a poor neighborhood when Whitley' s wallet is stolen. When she makes a snarky comment about she should have expected it from "people like that", Dwayne blasts her for her elitist attitude--then hurries off, having just realized that he forgot his computer at the center.

--->"The human race. Brainless sheep, being fed on a diet of– Mind you, have they still got that program where three people have to live with a bear?"

** In a season five episode, Ross is annoyed by Chandler's frequent flirting with a delivery girl even though he is dating Monica. Chandler says it's no big deal — until Monica says she does it all the time.

** 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]]. Wilson 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."

* ''Series/JessicaJones2015'': Jeri Hogarth's intro scene in season 2. She gives a rah-rah girl power speech to an audience of female lawyers, then after sitting down at a table to talk to her partners in private, claims that Pam lured her into a relationship by dressing provocatively.

** In "Mr. Monk and the Voodoo Curse", Randy cites his astrological sign - Pisces - as the reason he isn't superstitious.

* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', when [[WesternAnimation/{{Brave}} Merida]] is introduced in season 5, she has a very thick Scottish accent, which Rumplestiltskin makes fun of, asking Emma "What's she saying? I mean, the accent, it's a bit much, isn't it?" Rumplestiltskin's actor, Creator/RobertCarlyle, has a noticeable Scottish accent himself, though it's perhaps not quite as thick as Merida's (or rather, Enchanted Forest Rumple has such a weird-sounding voice that the accent isn't what you notice.)

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': Root seems fond of this. When [[EvilCounterpart Martine]] shows up having changed from blonde hair to brown, Root lampshades it by commenting "I liked you better as a blonde" while [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown trying to choke Martine to death]]. Three guesses who else is a natural blonde, and the first two don't count. Also, from the season two finale, when a man mentions the death of a woman a year previously (who Root had actually murdered).

** In season 2's episode "The Wall", Reba has this with Barbara Jean while returning Elizabeth's blanket:

* The first episode of season 2 of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' gives us this:

-->'''Adam:''' If you don’t want to date me that’s fine – I get that. But you’re wrong and I hate you.\\

* ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' is the king of this. Among countless other examples:

** The examples from this show could fit a whole page.

** In the ForWantOfANail episode, [[TheOneWith "The One That Could Have Been"]], Rachel wishes her and her husband Barry were [[CallBack "on a break"]] so that she could sleep with Joey.

-->'''Donna''': (fishing through her purse for handkerchiefs) Oh, for Heaven's sake, Mary! This is supposed to be (sniffle, sniffle) a happy moment!

* A TV sprecial highlighing the best acts from the 1990 ''Just For Laughs'' Montreal Comedy Festival had Creator/RowanAtkinson provide linking material in the form of Canadian Tourist Board representative Casey Rogers, [[DamningWithFaintPraise damning the country with faint praise]]. The finale of the special was Casey's big musical number, "Staple Me to a Maple Tree", in which he acknowledged that other countries were better in many, many ways, but that nonetheless, he personally would never leave Canada. He continued singing this as he entered the airport and showed his boarding pass, did the big finish ("Carry me back to my lumberjack shack, for Ca-na-da's my HOOOOME!") as he got on the plane, and the last thing we hear is him saying "Oh, thank God!" as it takes off.

* A TV sprecial highlighing the best acts from the 1990 ''Just For Laughs'' Montreal Comedy Festival had Rowan Atkinson provide linking material in the form of Canadian Tourist Board representative Casey Rogers, [[DamningWithFaintPraise damning the country with faint praise]]. The finale of the special was Casey's big musical number, "Staple Me to a Maple Tree", in which he acknowledged that other countries were better in many, many ways, but that nonetheless, he personally would never leave Canada. He continued singing this as he entered the airport and showed his boarding pass, did the big finish ("Carry me back to my lumberjack shack, for Ca-na-da's my HOOOOME!") as he got on the plane, and the last thing we hear is him saying "Oh, thank God!" as it takes off.

** In "3XK", when Montgomery's profiling the murderer Castle remarks that [[NotSoDifferent he shares several similarities with Montgomery's profile]]. When Montgomery gets to "has a menial, unimportant job", Beckett (slightly snidely) points out that this means the killer is "''definitely'' you." Quick as a flash, Castle casually remarks that in that case, [[InsultBackfire he'll base his next bestselling mystery novel on Esposito instead]]. Beckett looks genuinely shocked and insulted. You were saying something about "menial and unimportant", Beckett?

-->'''Freddie''': You still live with your parents? That's so...''[[notices hypocrisy]]'' normal.

** At the end of "The Perfect Lunch", Olive, Oscar and Otto are tasked with hosting a dinner for the [[MolePeople mole people]] next week, and it just so happens that the precinct an agent who knows all about them. Olive believes it's Obfusco and complains about having to endure more of his WordSaladPhilosophy, but Obfusco tells her that it's not him -- it's his sister, Obfuscolina, whom he complains about by saying that he can't understand a word she says.

* A quick little pre-fab joke on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' would come in the form of a character in a given opening a sentence with a qualifying statement, only for the riffers to crowbar in an ImmediateSelfContradiction: