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* ''[[RecycledTheSeries Ferris Bueller]]'''s pilot episode opens with the title character trashing [[Film/FerrisBullersDayOff the film his show is based on]] as a heavily fictionalized account of his real adventures, even going so far as to take a chainsaw to a cutout of Creator/MatthewBroderick. This evidently left a ''very'' foul taste in fans' mouths, as ratings were pretty good for the show's sneak preview but then dropped like a rock afterward, and the show was cancelled at only one season. If there were a guidebook on adapting films into TV shows, "Immediately set the tone for fans of the wildly popular and successful source material by denigrating and attacking it within the first few minutes!" would surely be found in the "DON'T" column.

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* ''[[RecycledTheSeries Ferris Bueller]]'''s pilot episode opens with the title character trashing [[Film/FerrisBullersDayOff [[Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff the film his show is based on]] as a heavily fictionalized account of his real adventures, even going so far as to take a chainsaw to a cutout of Creator/MatthewBroderick. This evidently left a ''very'' foul taste in fans' mouths, as ratings were pretty good for the show's sneak preview but then dropped like a rock afterward, and the show was cancelled at only one season. If there were a guidebook on adapting films into TV shows, "Immediately set the tone for fans of the wildly popular and successful source material by denigrating and attacking it within the first few minutes!" would surely be found in the "DON'T" column.

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* ''Series/FeelGood'': James Bond as a role model is brough up by the addict Mae relapses with, and by George's immature dad.

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* ''Series/FeelGood'': James Bond as a role model is brough brought up by the addict Mae relapses with, and by George's immature dad.dad.
* ''[[RecycledTheSeries Ferris Bueller]]'''s pilot episode opens with the title character trashing [[Film/FerrisBullersDayOff the film his show is based on]] as a heavily fictionalized account of his real adventures, even going so far as to take a chainsaw to a cutout of Creator/MatthewBroderick. This evidently left a ''very'' foul taste in fans' mouths, as ratings were pretty good for the show's sneak preview but then dropped like a rock afterward, and the show was cancelled at only one season. If there were a guidebook on adapting films into TV shows, "Immediately set the tone for fans of the wildly popular and successful source material by denigrating and attacking it within the first few minutes!" would surely be found in the "DON'T" column.
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* ''Series/OnTheHouse'': In "Take Me to Your Leader", Arnold rudely calls Dr. Stanley "Malcolm Muggeridge on wheels".
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** The entirety of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E85ShowdownWithRanceMcGrew Showdown with Rance McGrew]]" against [[TheWestern the TV westerns]] of the time. It also serves as a deconstruction of sorts. Serling hated the Westerns of the time, deeming them too unrealistic and predictable, and later went on to make a Western series (''Series/TheLoner'') himself. Furthermore, Rance [=McGrew=] is a parody of arrogant, conceited and temperamental actors in general.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E111PrintersDevil Printer's Devil]]", Mr. Smith, who is really the Devil, tells Douglas Winter that he is not the first editor that he has helped. The writer Charles Beaumont intended this as a reference to William Randolph Hearst.

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** The entirety of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E85ShowdownWithRanceMcGrew "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E20ShowdownWithRanceMcGrew Showdown with Rance McGrew]]" against [[TheWestern the TV westerns]] of the time. It also serves as a deconstruction of sorts. Serling hated the Westerns of the time, deeming them too unrealistic and predictable, and later went on to make a Western series (''Series/TheLoner'') himself. Furthermore, Rance [=McGrew=] is a parody of arrogant, conceited and temperamental actors in general.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E111PrintersDevil "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E9PrintersDevil Printer's Devil]]", Mr. Smith, who is really the Devil, tells Douglas Winter that he is not the first editor that he has helped. The writer Charles Beaumont intended this as a reference to William Randolph Hearst.
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--->'''The Doctor:''' Getting a little too close to [[TheEighties the 1980s]].\\

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--->'''The Doctor:''' Getting a little too close to [[TheEighties [[The80s the 1980s]].\\



* The last episodes of ''Series/LateNight'' hosted for Creator/DavidLetterman are full of ''Take That'' moments against Creator/{{NBC}}, but the finale include a subtle one: "The World's Most Dangerous Band", led by Paul Shaffer, played as a musical interlude the song titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3AjfobLpws&feature=related#t=07m51s We Gotta Get Out Of This Place]]. The lyrics of this [[TheSixties sixties']] song say: "We gotta get out of this place / If it's the last thing we ever do / We gotta get out of this place / Girl, '''there's a better life for me and you'''".

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* The last episodes of ''Series/LateNight'' hosted for Creator/DavidLetterman are full of ''Take That'' moments against Creator/{{NBC}}, but the finale include a subtle one: "The World's Most Dangerous Band", led by Paul Shaffer, played as a musical interlude the song titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3AjfobLpws&feature=related#t=07m51s We Gotta Get Out Of This Place]]. The lyrics of this [[TheSixties [[The60s sixties']] song say: "We gotta get out of this place / If it's the last thing we ever do / We gotta get out of this place / Girl, '''there's a better life for me and you'''".
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* On ''Series/{{Castle}}'', Creator/NathanFillion mocks ''Series/CSIMiami'' almost every week. ''CSI: Miami'', of course, is their main timeslot competition. He also got in a good shot during the 2009 Emmys, during his appearance as Captain Hammer.

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* On ''Series/{{Castle}}'', ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'', Creator/NathanFillion mocks ''Series/CSIMiami'' almost every week. ''CSI: Miami'', of course, is their main timeslot competition. He also got in a good shot during the 2009 Emmys, during his appearance as Captain Hammer.
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* The Heritage Trust in ''Series/CharleysGrants'' was intended to be a piss-take of organisations such as arts councils that distribute taxpayers' money to nourish creativity of one kind or another, the joke being that someone as un-artistic as Lord Charley could be able to take them for all they were worth.
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** In [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S05E12Mitchell "Mitchell"]], Joel escapes from the Satellite of Love on a single-seat escape pod because it was [[DiscouragingConcealment hidden in a crate labeled "Hamdingers"]], which Gypsy comments that no one likes.
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* A poster for the showings of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' season 4 on Sky said in big letters ANSWERS ARE COMING and underneath in much smaller letters [Unless you have Virgin Media or Freeview]! To clarify, {{Creator/Sky1}}, the channel that premiered seasons 3-6 of ''Lost'' in the UK, was pulled from Virgin Media between 2007 and 2008 after a dispute between Sky and Virgin.

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* A poster for the showings of ''Series/{{Lost}}'' season 4 on Sky said in big letters ANSWERS ARE COMING and underneath in much smaller letters [Unless you have Virgin Media or Freeview]! To clarify, {{Creator/Sky1}}, [[Creator/{{Sky}} Sky One]], the channel that premiered seasons 3-6 of ''Lost'' in the UK, was pulled from Virgin Media between 2007 and 2008 after a dispute between Sky and Virgin.
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** "The Sunmakers" has a villain who taxes people to death with large eyebrows, as a caricature of then-Chancellor Denis Healey.

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** "The Sunmakers" has a villain with large eyebrows who taxes people to death with large eyebrows, death, as a caricature of then-Chancellor Denis Healey.
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* ''Series/OddSquad'':
** Soundcheck, a generic boy band whom Otto loves, is a jab at other generic boy bands like One Direction. In "Disorder in the Court", they treat claims of them having "manufactured sound and meaningless lyrics" as compliments by remarking that that's what they do best. Likewise, the Villain People, featured in the Season 3 episode "Music of Sound", is a jab at girl groups.
** The episode "Oscar the Couch" has a ColdOpen of Delivery Debbie being unable to deliver her Hawaiian pizza because the house she needs to deliver to is in a "No Hawaiian Pizza Zone", referencing the ongoing debate about pineapple as a topping on pizza.
** In "O is Not For Over", Olive and Otto take a potshot at the people in the fandom who ship them by way of Otto asking Olive if they have to be married now that they are Mr. O and Ms. O, and Olive responding in shock and horror before telling Otto not to make things weird.
** Oprah's justification as to why Party Pam isn't selling any sandwiches with her marketing tactic in "First Day" ends with a clapback at the show's critics, who often berate Oprah for yelling too much at other characters even though she's a parody of real-life bosses. At the end of the episode, she yells her catchphrase at Olympia and Otis, stating that she still has one yell per day.
--> '''Oprah:''' If you're always yelling, that's all people think you do, and they don't see that there's a lot more to your character.
** The ColdOpen in "The O Team" has Dustin call Mr. Fonts a sellout for expressing his desires to turn his newly-written novel into a movie.
** Similarly, the ColdOpen of "O is for Opposite" takes a potshot at businesspeople by having its starring client laugh with someone on the phone, suddenly say "stocks", and then hang up on them.
** In "Agent Orchid's Almost Half-Hour Talent Show", Olympia suggests that Orchid make her talent show longer, giving 30 minutes as a duration. Orchid fires back by saying that no one likes shows longer than 20 minutes, which is a dig at Creator/PBSKids and all of their shows, most of which are a half-hour in duration. Doubles as BitingTheHandHumor, since PBS Kids is the network where the show airs.
** "The Ninja Situation" is one entire episode-long jab at the {{MacGuffin}} trope and its use in various works.
** The show has taken two potshots at Segways and their poor popularity -- first in "Oscar of All Trades", where Oscar tells Olive that he simply drove a Segway around Headquarters as a job, and "Nature of the Sandbeast" where Omar refers to the machine as a "strange two-wheeled scooter".
** The stoic sound operator that helps Oppola out in "Welcome to Odd Squad" mentions how cynical he is and how he has lost all hope for the world, which is a Take That at people who feel the same way due to the COVID pandemic.
** One scene in "Monumental Oddness" slams tourists by painting them as people who refuse to be smart and run away from danger because they dismiss it as not important and want to see the sights instead.
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* ''Series/{{Swarm}}'':
** The ''very'' white-passing Hailey's fandom of Music/{{Halsey}} might be one to Halsey in general, and the fact that she's also white-passing (it could also apply to Creator/ParisJackson, who's also white-passing).
** At an afterparty, Dre meets a light-skinned actor called [[Creator/JesseWilliams Jesse]] from ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' who claims to have invented the term "black girl magic".
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* ''Series/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann'': Keith Olbermann's ''Worst Person In The World'' segment on Creator/{{MSNBC}} — an, ah, ''enthusiastic'' expansion of an old Radio/BobAndRay routine -- consisted of nothing but {{Take That}}s. Unsurprisingly, the most frequent "winner" of the title was Olbermann's arch-rival in political commentary shows, Bill O'Reilly of Fox News.

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* ''Series/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann'': Keith Olbermann's ''Worst Person In The World'' segment on Creator/{{MSNBC}} MSNBC — an, ah, ''enthusiastic'' expansion of an old Radio/BobAndRay routine -- consisted of nothing but {{Take That}}s. Unsurprisingly, the most frequent "winner" of the title was Olbermann's arch-rival in political commentary shows, Bill O'Reilly of Fox News.

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' gets on the "mock ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''" fad right in the first episode when Oliver and Tommy are eyeing a girl at a party.

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* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' gets on the "mock ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''" ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''" fad right in the first episode when Oliver and Tommy are eyeing a girl at a party.



* ''Series/AttackOfTheShow'' got a pretty good one in against ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' when it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8HOyoIGv58 points out the stupidity of dating a vampire]]!



* ''Series/GhostWhisperer'' had an entire episode dedicated to knocking ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' in general and the StalkingIsLove aspect of it in particular. In it, Melinda has to help out a teenage girl who believes one of her classmates is a vampire, because of the weird stuff that's been happening around her. This being ''Series/GhostWhisperer'', it of course turns out that she's actually being haunted by the ghost of a friend who'd died after they'd lost contact and was [[ChildhoodFriendRomance upset that they'd never be able to have a relationship]].

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* ''Series/GhostWhisperer'' had an entire episode dedicated to knocking ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' in general and the StalkingIsLove aspect of it in particular. In it, Melinda has to help out a teenage girl who believes one of her classmates is a vampire, because of the weird stuff that's been happening around her. This being ''Series/GhostWhisperer'', it of course turns out that she's actually being haunted by the ghost of a friend who'd died after they'd lost contact and was [[ChildhoodFriendRomance upset that they'd never be able to have a relationship]].



** Took a shot at ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' in the episode "Theatricality", where Principal Figgins informs Tina that she must abandon her Goth look due to the pseudo-vampirism caused by the popularity of the book series.
** Also a barrage of Take Thats in "The Sue Sylvester Shuffle" in the top ten losers of the year.
** ''Glee'' also took shots at Music/BritneySpears and Creator/LindsayLohan ("You have Britney and her shaved head, Lindsay Lohan looks like something out of lord of the rings" - Emma Pillsbury, season 1, episode 14) before having them both guest star on the show in later seasons!
** Even after Britney appeared, they took shots at her in season 4, having a whole episode dedicated to parodying her depression back in 2007.

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** Took The series took a shot at ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' in the episode "Theatricality", where Principal Figgins informs Tina that she must abandon her Goth look due to the pseudo-vampirism caused by the popularity of the book series.
** Also a barrage of Take Thats in "The Sue Sylvester Shuffle" has a barrage of Take Thats in the top ten losers of the year.
** ''Glee'' also The show took shots at Music/BritneySpears and Creator/LindsayLohan ("You have Britney and her shaved head, Lindsay Lohan looks like something out of lord of the rings" - Emma Pillsbury, season 1, episode 14) before having them both guest star on the show in later seasons!
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seasons! Even after Britney appeared, they took shots at her in season 4, having a whole episode dedicated to parodying her depression back in 2007.



* In the ''Series/{{Haven}}'' episode "Shot in the Dark", Jennifer comments that she read a book called ''Unstake My Heart'' and it is even worse than ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.

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* In the ''Series/{{Haven}}'' episode "Shot in the Dark", Jennifer comments that she read a book called ''Unstake My Heart'' and it is even worse than ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''.''Literature/{{Twilight|2005}}''.



** The show got in on the "mock ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''" fad; their sketch about Lord Byron included some lines based on the movie, and was ended with a bumper reading "twit light" in the same font as the movie titles.

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** The show got in on the "mock ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''" ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga''" fad; their sketch about Lord Byron included some lines based on the movie, and was ended with a bumper reading "twit light" in the same font as the movie titles.



* The ''Series/LandOfTheLost'' episode "Hurricane" includes a line from visiting Texan astronaut Beauregard Jackson, “That [[SwirlyEnergyThingy shimmer]] just took off [[LastSecondWordSwap like a bat out of]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} Philadelphia!]]”

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* The ''Series/LandOfTheLost'' ''Series/LandOfTheLost1974'' episode "Hurricane" includes a line from visiting Texan astronaut Beauregard Jackson, “That [[SwirlyEnergyThingy shimmer]] just took off [[LastSecondWordSwap like a bat out of]] [[UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}} Philadelphia!]]”



** At the beginning of season five's "[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E03FreeToBeYouAndMe Free to Be You and Me]]", as Dean kills a vampire: "Eat it, Literature/{{Twilight}}!"

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** At the beginning of season five's "[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E03FreeToBeYouAndMe Free to Be You and Me]]", as Dean kills a vampire: "Eat it, Literature/{{Twilight}}!"Literature/{{Twilight|2005}}!"



* The vampire romance ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' made these against ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' into an art form:

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* The vampire romance ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'' made these against ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' into an art form:
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*** Later, to cheer up Vincent when he's painting ''The Church at Auvers'', the Doctor puts down Michelangelo for agreeing to paint the Art/SistineChapel while being acrophobic and Picasso for needing to be reminded that people have two eyes.

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*** Later, to cheer up Vincent when he's painting ''The Church at Auvers'', the Doctor puts down Michelangelo for agreeing to paint the Art/SistineChapel while being acrophobic and Picasso Creator/PabloPicasso for needing to be reminded that people have two eyes.
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** ''Fifteen Million Merits'' is one to reality TV culture and consumerism. People in this dystopian future do pointless work to earn pointless money to buy pointless things and the only distraction is tedious games and reality television.
** ''White Bear'', ''Shut Up And Dance'' and to an extent ''Hated In The Nation'' is one to the concept of "justice porn". The protagonists are no saints themselves (the protagonist of ''White Bear'' [[spoiler:abetted in a gruesome child murder]] and the protagonist of ''Shut Up And Dance'' is [[spoiler:a pedophile]]), but it's made very clear that [[HumansAreBastards Humans Are]] {{Knight Templar}}s.
** ''The Waldo Moment'' is a take that to the cynicism of modern politics and to populist politicians who rely more on public spectacle and personality than sound policy or ethics.
** ''Nosedive'' is one to social media stars like Instagram models and Facebook personalities.
** ''The Entire History Of You'' and ''[[Recap/BlackMirrorArkangel Ark Angel]]'' are attacks on insecure partners and overbearing parents.

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** ''Fifteen ''[[Recap/BlackMirrorFifteenMillionMerits Fifteen Million Merits'' Merits]]'' is one to reality TV culture and consumerism. People in this dystopian future do pointless work to earn pointless money to buy pointless things and the only distraction is tedious games and reality television.
** ''White Bear'', ''Shut ''[[Recap/BlackMirrorWhiteBear White Bear]]'', ''[[Recap/BlackMirrorShutUpAndDance Shut Up And Dance'' and Dance]]'' and to an extent ''Hated In The Nation'' ''[[Recap/BlackMirrorHatedInTheNation Hated in the Nation]]'' is one to the concept of "justice porn". The protagonists are no saints themselves (the protagonist of ''White Bear'' [[spoiler:abetted in a gruesome child murder]] and the protagonist of ''Shut Up And and Dance'' is [[spoiler:a pedophile]]), but it's made very clear that [[HumansAreBastards Humans Are]] {{Knight Templar}}s.
** ''The ''[[Recap/BlackMirrorTheWaldoMoment The Waldo Moment'' Moment]]'' is a take that to the cynicism of modern politics and to populist politicians who rely more on public spectacle and personality than sound policy or ethics.
** ''Nosedive'' ''[[Recap/BlackMirrorNosedive Nosedive]]'' is one to social media stars like Instagram models and Facebook personalities.
** ''The ''[[Recap/BlackMirrorTheEntireHistoryOfYou The Entire History Of You'' of You]]'' and ''[[Recap/BlackMirrorArkangel Ark Angel]]'' Arkangel]]'' are attacks on insecure partners and overbearing parents.



* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'':

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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': During his time on SNL, Creator/DavidSpade had the recurring "Weekend Update" segment "Spade In America", where he'd make wisecracks about celebrities. His most infamous one was in 1995, when he mocked former SNL superstar Creator/EddieMurphy, saying "Look, children, it's a falling star! Make a wish!". [[BerserkButton This]] ''[[BerserkButton really]]'' [[BerserkButton enraged Murphy]], who then refused to have anything to do with SNL for over 20 years.

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* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': During his time on SNL, Creator/DavidSpade had the recurring "Weekend Update" segment "Spade In America", where he'd make wisecracks about celebrities. His most infamous one was in 1995, when he mocked former SNL superstar Creator/EddieMurphy, saying "Look, children, it's a falling star! Make a wish!". [[BerserkButton This]] ''[[BerserkButton really]]'' [[BerserkButton enraged Murphy]], who then refused to have anything to do with SNL for over nearly 20 years.
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* ''Series/FeelGood'': James Bond as a role model is brough up by the addict Mae relapses with, and by George's immature dad.
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** A sketch about a comedian making a cup of tea for everyone in Belgium as the result of a bet, and as a result writing a bestselling book about his exploits, was a dig at comedians who did similarly unlikely things [[TheBet supposedly as the result of bets]], such as Tony Hawks (played the entire Moldovan football team at tennis, hitchhiked round Ireland with a fridge) David Gorman (flew around the world meeting [[NamesTheSame people called Dave Gorman]]), and Danny Wallace ([[Film/YesMan spent a year saying yes to everything]]).

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** A sketch about a comedian making a cup of tea for everyone in Belgium as the result of a bet, and as a result writing a bestselling book about his exploits, was a dig at comedians who did similarly unlikely things [[TheBet supposedly as the result of bets]], such as Tony Hawks (played the entire Moldovan football team at tennis, hitchhiked round Ireland with a fridge) David Gorman (flew around the world meeting [[NamesTheSame people called Dave Gorman]]), Gorman), and Danny Wallace ([[Film/YesMan spent a year saying yes to everything]]).
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** A sketch about a comedian making a cup of tea for everyone in Belgium as the result of a bet, and as a result writing a bestselling book about his exploits, was a dig at comedians who did similarly unlikely things [[TheBet supposedly as the result of bets]], such as Tony Hawks (played the entire Moldovan football team at tennis, hitchhiked round Ireland with a fridge) David Gorman (flew around the world meeting [[NamesTheSame people called Dave Gorman]]), and Danny Wallace ([[Film/YesMan spent a year saying yes to everything]]).
** They delightfully skewer Film/JamesBond in their "Friends of Moneypenny" sketch:
--->Remember that drinks do I had just before Christmas, Moneypenny brings James along - Oh God, but Christmas spirit and all that. So I said, "hi James there's some mulled wine and I think there's some beer in the fridge." Cock asked for a martini...what does he think it is? 1973?
** There's also a sketch about how ''Series/TheApprentice'' was created. "So, it's coverage of idiots behaving idiotically for an audience of idiots?"
*** Not to mention the very concept of ''The Apprentice'' is skewered, with the Alan Sugar-stand in pointing out how impractical firing one-fifteenth of his staff every week would actually be.
---->'''Businessman:''' This is a complete departure from normal. I wouldn't be a millionaire if I fired one-fifteenth of my staff every week. Just to help out, does anyone want to lie pointlessly or take credit for something they didn't do?\\
''(the contestants shake their heads)''\\
'''Businessman:''' Worth a try...
** "[[FishOutOfWater Fishmonger out of Watermonger]]" mocks every aspect of {{Reality Show}}s like ''Faking It'', with a fishmonger trying to produce a reality show in 2 days. "Tim has just five minutes to come up with his arbitrary deadline". His end result is also apparently good enough for Channel 5, but not good enough for Dave.
** "My Shags as a Whore," a series by the incompetent screenwriting duo that refuse to do research or make any kind of an effort, is an adolescent male fantasy where being a prostitute is sexy, empowering, and consequence-free. It's also pretty clearly aimed at ''Series/SecretDiaryOfACallGirl''.
** "Coverage Of People Buying A House And Then Living In It" skewers ''Location, Location, Location'' and similar property programmes. Both the host and the prospective buyer clearly believe there is nothing exciting about watching complete strangers buying houses and then living in them, and make no effort whatever to appear interested in making a television programme about the process.
--->So, to sum up, Geoff, who you don't know, has bought a house and is now living in it, having put up some shelves, and I think we can agree that that's basically a good thing.
** The "Identity Killer" skit is a TakeThat to overly dramatic police procedural shows which insist on making cases that would, in RealLife, be resolved in a few days to be dragged out as long as possible.
** The "Sunday Chill-Out DVD" claims it has all the establishing scenes of ITV's ''Kingdom'', but with "nothing as jolting as the plot".
** Several sketches in series 3 and 4, "Late Night Dog Poker" especially, take shots at the channel ''Dave''. The "Dog Poker" sketch has the line "Rejected by the BBC, chosen by Dave", spoofing the "Chosen by Dave" slogan it adopted when its lineup was mostly wall-to-wall BBC panel games and Series/TopGear.
** The "every TV show has a behind-the-scenes garden, not just ''Series/BluePeter''" sketches reveal that the only reason that ''Series/TwoPintsOfLagerAndAPacketOfCrisps'' avoided cancellation was because it had a beautiful garden that the BBC didn't want to get rid of.
--->'''David:''' I think if people knew how nice the ''Two Pints'' garden was, they wouldn't mind the show at all.\\
'''Robert:''' They'd see it as a necessary evil.
** A sketch where David Mitchell plays a historian who has to be restrained because he's waving his arms too much is a parody of James Burke on Series/{{Connections}}, right down to using phrases similar to his most famous ones.
** Two different sketches mock alternative medicine and quack nutritionists. In the latter, homeopathy specifically gets skewered, with the two doctors getting homeopathic beers (two drops in water) after explicitly discussing how one kills all but the most healthy patients. The nutritionists meanwhile are (unlike the alt med doctors) knowing con artists who string people along with expensive, impossible diets.

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