History LampshadeHanging / RealLIfe

** Which has since been changed to a two-child policy (starting in 2014, nationwide in 2016) and a three-child policy (in one province in 2016, nationwide in 2021). And China is now reportedly planning to drop ALL restrictions on birth rates by 2025.

* For pages about tropes, there will a folder section for Wiki/TVTropes, lampshading how this very wiki uses the trope explained on the page in some fashion. Very meta. Even more meta is the logo, though [[LampshadeWearing it could just be drunk]].

* A 1970 [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]] game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Oakland Raiders ended in a tie when the Raiders' then 43-year-old quarterback/placekicker [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeagueQuarterbacks George Blanda]] made a long field goal.[[note]]At the time, overtime was not used in regular-season games.[[/note]] Chiefs owner [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeagueNonPlayerFigures Lamar Hunt]] responded with this wisecrack:
-->''Why, this George Blanda is as good as his father, who used to play for Houston.''\\

-->''This is a (completely unfair) comparison between radare2, IDA Pro and Hopper. ''

-->'''Why, this George Blanda is as good as his father, who used to play for Houston.'''\\

* Before awarding [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Benavidez Roy P. Benavidez]] the Medal of Honor, President Ronald Reagan reportedly told the press "If the story of his heroism were a movie script, you would not believe it."

* RealRadioXS and Jack FM lampshade many, many radio cliches, with the voiceover artist attempting to be ManOfAThousandVoices.

* When the [[BigDamnHeroes Allies invaded Normandy]], UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler had taken a sleeping pill and was not to be awakened, full stop, meaning critical German reinforcements could not be ordered to the front. A German general mused on how improbable and absurd this would sound to future historians.
* In the English court case of [[http://www.bailii.org/cgi-bin/markup.cgi?doc=/ew/cases/EWCA/Crim/1972/1.html R v Collins]], Edmund Davies LJ commented that "This is about as extraordinary a case as my brethren and I have ever heard.... Were [the facts] put into a novel or portrayed on the stage, they would be regarded as being so improbable as to be unworthy of serious consideration and verging at times on farce."
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKRSYAuSNg&NR=1&feature=fvwp The Heart Attack Grill]] of Chandler, AZ. In addition to offering nothing but super-fatty burgers and fries, the owner dresses as a doctor and the waitresses dress as nurses to put the unhealthy nature of his food bluntly.
* UsefulNotes/{{China}} had the notorious "one-child" policy, which stated that parents could only bear one child per family or face a loss of social benefits. This shifted the birthrate towards the male side in China. This was lampshaded in a Chinese textbook published by the state with a discussion question saying "Imagine that in the future, you could only have one child. Would you like a boy or a girl?"
** Which has since been changed to a two-child policy (starting in 2014, nationwide in 2016) and a three-child policy (in one province in 2016, nationwide in 2021). And China is now reportedly planning to drop ALL restrictions on birth rates by 2025.

* RealRadioXS and Jack FM lampshade many, many radio cliches, with the voiceover artist attempting to be ManOfAThousandVoices.

* Radio commercials for Gold's Horseradish over the decades have used several different slogans punctuated by the ringing of a bell. For the last few years, the very Jewish-sounding announcer has been ending the commercials by demanding to know who is ringing the bell and why.
* Recent Newcastle Brown Ale commercials give us a few black and white clips of miners from Newcastle, England, followed by the line "Because nothing sells beer like old footage of people who had it way worse than you do."
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIzaM1VdVP0 This]] is a feminine product commercial by Kotex that make fun of traditional advertising techniques for pads and tampons.
* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr9EYfOkVrs#t=1m27s old newscast]] has an expert lampshade the {{Narm}}y Engrish of "Lightforce Dr. Hill's Spirulina Snake Bladder High".

* Whenever you say, "No pun intended." Especially when the pun was intended.
* Existentialism, sort of.

* [[RedChina China]] has the notorious "one-child" policy, which states that parents can only bear one child per family or face a loss of social benefits. This has shifted the birthrate towards the male side in China. This was lampshaded in a Chinese textbook published by the state with a discussion question saying "Imagine that in the future, you could only have one child. Would you like a boy or a girl?"

* When the [[BigDamnHeroes Allies invaded Normandy]], UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler had taken a sleeping pill and was not to be awakened, full stop. A German general mused on how improbable and absurd this would sound to future historians.

* When the [[BigDamnHeroes Allies invaded Normandy]], UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler had taken a sleeping pill and was not to be awakened, full stop. A German general mused on how improbable the situation was.

* When the [[BigDamnHeroes Allies invaded Normandy]], UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler had taken a sleeping pill and was not to be awakened, full stop, new paragraph. A German general mused on how improbable the situation was.

* For pages about tropes, there will a folder section for ''Wiki/TVTropes'', lampshading how ''Wiki/TVTropes'' uses the trope explained on the page in some fashion. Very meta. Even more meta is the logo, though [[LampshadeWearing it could just be drunk]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKRSYAuSNg&NR=1&feature=fvwp The Heart Attack Grill]] of Chandler, AZ. In addition to offering nothing but super-fatty burgers and fries, the owner dresses as a doctor and the waitresses [[HelloNurse dress as nurses]] to put the unhealthy nature of his food bluntly.

* [[http://www.soxlamps.com/lampposts_sub.htm This site lampshades]] LampshadeHanging, causing [[{{Recursion}} recursive Lampshade Hanging]] to happen.
** [[RunningGag Thank you for Lampshading that.]]
* Additionally, [[{{Recursion}} TV Tropes lampshades Lampshade Hanging itself, and lampshades the fact that it does so by this article, resulting in recursive Lampshade Hanging through itself,]] [[MindScrew QED being the fact that this entry exists.]]
** In other words, "Why does this entry exist?" one may ask: to give an example of itself through the fact it exists.
*** A purpose which was lampshaded recursively by this entry pointing out the fact that it exists, which it now points out itself, which can subsequently be pointed out by itself to an infinite iteration, which it currently points out, which is to be demonstrated by the fact that this clause points itself and the previous ones out (and would the next if the fact that it causes a {{Recursion}} hadn't already been mentioned, which already has, but is again already pointed out by this clause anyways, lampshading the fact that any additional lampshading that would exist would exist as well as the lampshading of itself even at this point), [[MindScrew and I no longer have any idea of where I'm going with this.]]
** Also see {{Recursion}}, which also gives an example of itself through the fact it exists.
** As does the RecursiveIndexIndex, which is an index of recursive indices containing itself and the only other recursive index (that being the IndexIndex) that [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] its own reason for existing, which it wouldn't need to lampshade (or exist for at all) if there hadn't been a {{Recursion}} that didn't need to exist in the first place, which this entry criticizes, and, [[{{Irony}} ironically, only exists to lampshade for no other purpose than to give an example of]] LampshadeHanging [[HypocriticalHumor while also lampshading itself recursively for reasons for which it also didn't need to be lampshaded.]]
*** The fact that it relies upon that article that didn't need to exist, using a reason for existing for which it didn't need to exist itself, isn't so much hypocritical as situationally ironic because it [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] the fact that it exists as well as the fact that, by doing so, it's being critical of a reason for which it didn't need to exist (which, as stated earlier, [[LampshadeHanging it acknowledges]]).
*** [[LampshadeHanging Although it did acknowledge the fact that, as a result of existing for a reason for which it didn't need to, it was being hypocritical,]] [[{{Irony}} so it doesn't matter, anyways.]]
*** DontExplainTheJoke, you little prick. [[note]][[SelfDeprecation Same]] [[LampshadeHanging troper.]][[/note]]

* There is [[TitleDrop one]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle hanging on the TV Tropes]] [[CaptainObvious Logo]].

->''' If our efforts to protect the security of personal information about our guests and team members are unsuccessful, we could be subject to costly government enforcement actions and private litigation and our reputation could suffer.''' \\

->This is a (completely unfair) comparison between radare2, IDA Pro and Hopper.

* The Lamborghini ''Sesto Elemento'' was revealed in the 2010 Paris Motor Show. "Sesto Elemento" means "sixth element" in Italian. Guess what's the car's primary construction material? [[note]]carbon fibre, in case you weren't a motorhead. A nerd would pretty much catch it quickly too. Carbon is number 6 on the Periodic Table of Elements.[[/note]]

* Creator/AdultSwim runs ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' reruns for about a year before announcing new episodes for the next Saturday block. The following week, this commercial was run: "Yes, it starts back with a filler arc, but at least it's not the Bounts."

** One of the major spokesmen, Blair River, actually died in 2011, not necessarily of a heart attack.