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''Series/TheMuppetShow'': Creator/LyndaCarter's appearance in one episode inspires Scooter, Gonzo, Link, Fozzie, and Lew Zealand to take a correspondence course on "How to Be a Superhero". The course's instruction manual, ''Invincibility Made Easy'', has a chapter on flying. It states that all they need to do is believe that they can fly. Scooter, reading this aloud, encourages the others to "step off the ladder and float to the ceiling". [[EpicFail Cue all four Muppets falling flat on the ground.]]

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': The WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail [[Recap/StrongBadEmailE79TheProcess "the process"]] pokes fun at the occasionally-formulaic nature of [=SBEmails=] as Strong Bad shows the viewers how to "answer emails like a true Strong Bad".

* ''Wiki/{{Uncyclopedia}}'' has [[http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Category:HowTo its own series of these]]. Including how to saw your own head off with a chainsaw.

[[{{Satire}} Satirical]] "How To" guides. The [[TheBlindLeadingTheBlind instructions are faulty]], or the person following them does it horribly, or the instructions are loaded with {{irony}} about how ''not'' to do it. One sure thing, [[RuleOfFunny the point is to laugh]], not to teach.

* The main schtick of Mark Erickson's [[https://www.youtube.com/user/infinitesolutions Infinite Solutions videos]]. They're all played just straight enough that the occasional [=YouTube=] comment will still ask if the Empire State Building really ''does'' offer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvF_nxXJO5s Firearm Fridays]], or correct his assertion that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brdmnUBAS00 electrical tape conducts electricity.]]

* [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-make-sushi How to Make Sushi,]] as depicted by Molg H, where an unseen narrator viciously rips into the sushi-making character. Variants pertaining to different fandoms were quick to op up (and even some FixFic ones where the sushi gets made correctly).

'''2.''' ''(instructed character sadly looks at mess)'' Damn! You spoiled it! [[BlackComedy Like everything you do.]]
'''3.''' ''(character starts crying)'' This sushi is like your life. You're always fucking up.
'''4.''' ''(character crawls under table)'' You start lots of things but never finish them.

* ''Fanfic/HalloweenUnspectacular'': The first story in ''Terror Australis Incognita'' is a sarcastic how-to guide on writing ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' fanfic. Among other things, it "advises" ignoring everyone outside of a select few characters, exaggerating Sam's gothic traits into suicidal tendencies, writing [[DracoInLeatherPants Vlad]] as being a better parental figure for Danny than his actual parents "by dint of looking more bishie", and to only write romance plots wherein Danny rescues a heavily [[{{Chickification}} chickified]] girl, all without having to care about proper spellin,g, punctuation, formatting, etc.