History TakeThat / LiveActionTV

* In the ''Series/IZombie'' episode "Grumpy Old Liv", Liv ends up temporarily saddled with the personality of a rude, cantankerous old man. At one point, she refers to a lab rat (which BollywoodNerd Ravi has nicknamed [[Film/ANewHope "New Hope"]]) as "Final Hope": Ravi responds that if he'd wanted the rat to have a ''depressing'' name, he'd have gone with [[Film/ThePhantomMenace "Phantom Menace"]].

** The Series 3 finale also features Martha suggesting the Master could be the Doctor's brother, only for the Doctor to shoot down the idea as silly and suggest she's been "watching too much television". This could be a Take That at the proposed storylines for a potential US Doctor Who series from the early 1990s in which the Master would have been the Doctor's "evil brother".

'''Mork''': Don't look at me, I didn't give him that smutty name!\\

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And later...\\
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'''Mork''': He looks like he does his hair with a cuisinart! Man, he's got a road map for eyes! You could pack a family in that nose, man! I mean, look at that mouth, "Duuurrr...". They had to airbrush his entire face, are you kidding? I mean, I'm bright and cheery and this guy's got big problems!

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* Adam Buxton's SketchShow Mee BOX has a sketch involving [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0DJnR5OT9UQ an interview with a fictional actor "Famous Guy"]] which has several Take Thats within. The first and most obvious is a jab at the popularity of actors, as Famous Guy is referred to as a "pretending man" and "the best at pretending". It also parodies the movie industry's constant rehashing of the same ideas with nondescript movie titles like "Horse Chase", "The Exploding Car" and "They Came From Space There". American actors trying to duplicate a UsefulNotes/{{British Accent|s}} is sent-up with Famous Guy's bad attempt at a Cockney accent. There's a more subtle jab at men's magazines in the first part of the sketch: if you pause at the "Man Magazine" you can read headlines such as "Articles about sex inside here" and "Are all feelings homosexual? Why the answer is yes". This is perhaps aimed at [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers the Daily Sport]], which has relaunched itself as being about nothing but "Sports, girls and funny stuff".

*** As well as another jab at ''Miami Vice'', this episode contains another jab at ''Mr. Belvedere'' with an exchange between the Japanese janitor and Sledge: the janitor says he wants to get home to watch ''Mr. Belvedere'', to which Sledge replies "I guess ''somebody'' has to." [[spoiler: Just to ram the point home, [[DamnedByAFoolsPraise the ''Mr. Belvedere'' fan turns out to be the murderer]].]]

* ''Series/KnightRider'' had a HUGE one on ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' in the episode "Give Me Liberty... Or Give Me Death." In a race with alternative-fuel powered cars, there is one car run on moonshine and driven by Bo and Luke Duke {{exp|y}}ies - the brothers are even named Prince (a higher rank than a duke) - and while other contestants are threatened, the Prince brothers are the only ones killed. For good measure, their car, which is the General Lee without the Confederate flag (same orange color) is blown up with them in it!

* An episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'', "Mr. Monk and the TV Star," has a a scene where Monk and Sharona are on the set of a ''Series/{{CSI}}'' stand-in called ''Crime Lab: SF'' while investigating their lead actor. We later see a summation bit from the show being redubbed. What we see of the scene demonstrates many of CSI's distinctive visual effects where the killer of the episode in question ''took out his own blood and froze it into a bullet mold, just so that it would melt without a trace later''.
** Another TakeThat moment happens in "Mr. Monk and the Really, ''Really'' Dead Guy," where Monk outwits the FBI's state-of-the-art computer technology, just to demonstrate that it is actual thinking and thought processing that closes cases, not computers and flashy technology.

*** In a similar event, some have suggested that the pretentious, overly-analytical and unpleasant nerd in "Blink" was named Lawrence as a swipe at {{BNF}} Lawrence Miles (known for being [[RuinedFOREVER extremely negative]] about the revival series).

** Let's not overlook this line from ''The Christmas Invasion'':

* In-Universe example in ''LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': in the episode "Authority", Elliot Stabler arrests Merrit Rook for tricking a fast food restaurant worker to tie-up and sexually assault a female co-worker. Rook is found not guilty, then the following day, appears on a talk show about his campaign for people to not be subservient sheep, bring a live sheep on the show named "Elliot".

** It's mentioned that San Diego got nuked in a terrorist attack sometime in the past, and a covert governement group has a base in its ruins. WordOfGod has that JMS picked the city because he had been mugged and almost killed there.

* A third season episode of ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' actually has [[CelebrityParadox Mork meeting]] Creator/RobinWilliams, but before he actually meets him, Mork spends most of the episode being horrified that people think he looks like Robin, making the first part of this episode Robin doing a Take That at himself.
-->'''Mork''': Do you know what "Robin" means on Ork?\\

* ''Series/CommanderInChief'', the show with Geena Davis as the country's first female president, did this pretty blatantly in one episode. There was an episode where a coastal city was hit by a hurricane. Within hours, the president was there helping oversee the relief effort. Gee, I wonder who that was a swipe at? The president was later shown ''reading to children'' when an aide came up and told her something important was happening. She immediately handed the book to one of the kids to continue reading, got up, and walked away.

** In season 5, Creator/ParisHilton plays a God pretending to be herself. Dean tells her that he is not a fan of Paris Hilton and has never even seen ''Film/HouseOfWax2005'', to which Sam gives him an odd look. (Jared Padalecki was actually in House of Wax with Paris Hilton.)

* The "lemonlyman.com" subplot in ''Series/TheWestWing'' episode "The U.S Poet Laureate" -- in which White House Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman stumbles upon a web-forum dedicated to him and posts on it only to be widely mocked and told he doesn't know anything about politics -- is considered something a of a TakeThat to popular online community TelevisionWithoutPity, and is reportedly based on ''West Wing'' creator Aaron Sorkin's experiences when posting on it. The members of the community are described as "hysterical", and the forum administrator as dictatorial and petty.

* Adam Buxton's SketchShow Mee BOX has a sketch involving [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0DJnR5OT9UQ an interview with a fictional actor "Famous Guy"]] which has several Take Thats within. The first and most obvious is a jab at the popularity of actors, as Famous Guy is referred to as a "pretending man" and "the best at pretending". It also parodies the movie industry's constant rehashing of the same ideas with nondescript movie titles like "Horse Chase", "The Exploding Car" and "They Came From Space There". American actors trying to duplicate a UsefulNotes/{{British Accent|s}} is sent-up with Famous Guy's bad attempt at a Cockney accent. There's a more subtle jab at men's magazines in the first part of the sketch: if you pause at the "Man Magazine" you can read headlines such as "Articles about sex inside here" and "Are all feelings homosexual? Why the answer is yes". This is perhaps aimed at [[BritishNewspapers the Daily Sport]], which has relaunched itself as being about nothing but "Sports, girls and funny stuff".

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' has given us the [[ShowWithinAShow Show Within The Show]] ''[=MILF=] Island'', which is basically a gigantic spoof of ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' that takes LowestCommonDenominator to new lows. Coincidence that ''Survivor'' comes on at the same time as ''30 Rock'' and regularly slaughters it in the UsefulNotes/{{ratings}}?

* ''Series/{{Medium}}'' does this to ''Series/GhostWhisperer'' when Allison investigates [[spoiler: what seems to be the spirit of a dead author going into an injured man to reunite with his wife. It turns out the "new" husband is a fraud who found the dead man's unpublished autobiography.]]

* More of a loving parody, but the ''Series/SesameStreet'' feature "Monsterpiece Theater" parodied Beckett's much celebrated ''Theatre/WaitingForGodot'', calling it a "play so modern and so brilliant, that it makes absolutely no sense." Even the tree gets fed up with the play by the end of the sketch, and walks off the stage, muttering about how he wanted to be in ''Oklahoma'' instead.

** Something bad always happen when the characters drink ("Beer Bad" and "A New Man").

* ''Series/MADtv''

** The parody song "What's on TV" (a take-off on Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Without Me") is one long-winded "Take That!" against pretty much every television series of the late 90s and early 2000s. The targets are ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''Series/DawsonsCreek'', ''Series/{{Friends}}'', ''Series/{{ER}}'', ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'', ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', ''Series/{{Becker}}'', ''Series/JustShootMe'', ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'', ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', ''Series/{{ED}}'', ''Series/YesDear'', ''Series/JudgingAmy'', ''Series/ThePractice'', ''Series/TheView'', ''Series/SeventhHeaven'', ''Series/{{JAG}}'', ''Series/BigBrother'', ''Series/AccordingToJim'', ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', ''Series/CrossingJordan'', and the channels that show them. It's capped off with "Em" declaring that ''[=MADtv=]'' is the best show on TV. [[GreenEyedMonster Wow]].

* In response to being [[ExecutiveMeddling horrifically dicked around by NBC]], Creator/ConanOBrien responded by making the last episodes of his tenure on ''Series/TheTonightShow'' almost nothing ''but'' Take Thats. [[http://tv.gawker.com/5448615/the-late-night-war-reaches-its-boiling-point-all-the-clips-you-missed Just check out the clips in this Gawker article.]]

* Speaking of ''Series/WheelOfFortune'', host Pat Sajak is fond of Take Thats. Most of them are to the puzzle writers if they come up with something absurd like I LOVE MY PASSPORT PHOTO, or occasionally to the subject of the puzzle (for instance, saying after the puzzle I WANT MY MTV that MTV is a network that used to show music videos. He also hated the short-lived Megaword category, and was quick to let everyone know.

** The first season of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' had the episode "Mighty Morphin Mutants," a TakeThat against rival show ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''. They later made up when the Saban-produced ''Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation'' had a crossover early on in ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''.

** And the producers of ''Homicide: Life on the Street'' had good reason to do a take that against ''ER''. Originally, ''Homicide'' was supposed to replace ''Series/LALaw'' on Thursday nights at 10:00 PM in the fall of 1994, which at the time was one of the best time slots on NBC. However, ''ER'' tested so well though that NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield decided to give that series the prized Thursday slot. The producers of ''Homicide'' felt that if ''they'' had been given that time slot instead of ''ER'', the show would not have had to constantly deal with ratings struggles which, in their minds, were the prime reasons why the show was constantly dealing with ExecutiveMeddling throughout the run.

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' has given us the [[ShowWithinAShow Show Within The Show]] ''[=MILF=] Island'', which is basically a gigantic spoof of ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' that takes LowestCommonDenominator to new lows. Coincidence that ''Survivor'' comes on at the same time as ''30 Rock'' and regularly slaughters it in the {{ratings}}?

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

*** Another funny thing about that is that there's a studio called Creator/{{Dingo|Pictures}} ''[[Creator/DingoPictures Pictures]]'' that steals ideas from Disney.

*** Disney seems to have fired back. Notice ''Series/SoRandom'''s resemblance to ''Series/AllThat'' in ''Series/SonnyWithAChance''. The resemblance is because one of the creators of ''Series/AllThat'' is the creator of ''Series/SonnyWithAChance''.

** Heh. Series/{{ER}} even took a swipe at ITSELF. An episode that had a doctor who worked with a news crew hovering outside the hospital and giving incorrect information to the public had a character commenting, "Ugh. TV doctors."

* An episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'' ended with the characters and suspects describing in detail how useless and unreliable luminol is; luminol is one of the most popular pieces of ForensicPhlebotinum on ''Series/{{CSI}}''. Pretty funny given the ridiculous stuff the Bones lot occasionally get up to solve a case - their magical computer thingy is legendarily absurd.
** Yes, but the magical computer thingy is only used to demonstrate scenarios instead of flashbacks or just talking about it, or use as a just a regular - albeit, expensive and absurd - computer; they never rely on the computer or what it produces as evidence or in any court case, it's always physical evidence. CSI just takes luminol as straight "if it's there, it's a solid nail in the coffin".

* ''MST3K'' does this all the time.

** Show creator Joel Hodgson considered fellow prop comic Gallagher something of an arrogant dick after a pre-[[Series/MysteryScienceTheatre3000 MST3K]] encounter, and would regularly drop Take Thats on him.

* This is pretty much the basic format of Joel [=McHale's=] hosting on ''TheSoup'', particularly that of his fellow shows on the GuiltyPleasures-saturated E! (especially ones featuring [[Creator/KimKardashian a certain gluteally-blessed Armenian-American socialite]]). The fact that he clearly has so much fun doing it as opposed to sounding bitter or jaded helps him avoid the usual traps.

** The show was also a fan of doing episodes where they mocked existing shows, ranging from "TheRealWorld" (cast member kills another cast member, manipulated by a corrupt MTV executive), ''Series/RescueMe'' (two episodes were done that criticized that show's take on firefighters), Nip/Tuck (plastic surgeon accidentally kills a patient), and the various TLC shows about families with large numbers of kids.

** The series took a big swing at ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' this way[[note]]''Deep Space 9'' was alleged by some to have been plagiarised from an early ''B5'' pitch[[/note]], when Ivanova complained about a gift shop on the station: "This isn't some deep-space franchise, this station is ''about'' something!" For added humor, the line was written by PeterDavid, best known as one of the most talented ''Franchise/StarTrek'' tie-in writers, and he was surprised that Creator/JMichaelStraczynski was actually going to use it.

* Most of ''Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'' was a TakeThat directed to ''everyone'' who annoyed [[WriterOnBoard Aaron Sorkin]], but ''SelfDeprecation'' drove the show as much as TakeThat.

* [[Series/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann Keith Olbermann]]'s ''Worst Person In The World'' segment on {{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.

* One episode of ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'' featured a Werewolf-Slayer named "Muffy". Three guesses [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer who]] she's supposed to be poking fun at.

* When you blend improv and network-to-network taunting, you get this: For the suggestion "trivial reasons to hold news conferences" in [[Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway Scenes From A Hat]], Wayne Brady said that he would announce UPN's Fall-season lineup.[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrnu2Uh9Mwc&feature=channel_page]]
** As opposed to all the times they like flinging it at each other, or the host. Or at the director. A fabled Website/YouTube item shows Wayne and Brad about to sing the theme tune for a sitcom. An audience member suggested 'Cosby and Hitler'. This was rejected. During the actually-used song, Ryan (as Cosby!) throws a Nazi salute and goosestep; Colin shakes his head no.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJfeTAm65NE

* Creator/JimHenson's ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' delivered one to ''UnsolvedMysteries'', which played in the same timeslot on another network. After being asked how they keep their material so fresh, the host of "Mysteries Which Haven't Been Solved Yet" answers that they have four mysteries that they show over and over again. "Luckily, nobody seems to notice."
--->'''Earl''': "Why are we even watching this show anyway? I wanna watch the puppet show on the other channel!"
--->'''Fran''': "That's a kid's show."
--->'''Earl''': "Not so! They do some very sophisticated juxtapositions of reality!"
--->'''Fran''': "It'll last a year."

* As much SelfDeprecation as a TakeThat: On a crossover episode with ''PicketFences'', ''Series/ChicagoHope'' gave a bitter nod to then-ratings powerhouse ''Series/{{ER}}''. When Kathy Baker's guest-star character became frustrated at what Chicago Hope's doctors were telling her, she irately declared, "We could have gone to the ''other'' one!" The hospital director's reply? "We ''never'' mention the other one." Mentioned or not, ''ER'' eventually buried its onetime head-to-head Thursday night competitor.

* Jeremy Clarkson on ''Series/TopGear'' cannot resist a Take That against Al Gore's movie ''AnInconvenientTruth'' (about global warming causing the polar ice to thin) after he and co-presenter James May have successfully ''driven'' across the sea ice to the North Pole. But Clarkson is about as un-PC as they come, and it's part of his charm.

** He also has a very poor opinion of Twilight's male lead, Edward Cullen, as he stated earlier on that very same episode.

** Werewolves are mostly extinct except in "books and really bad movies." Another Twilight dig.

* An episode of ''Series/MADtv'' had SantaClaus (played by Michael [=McDonald=]) erasing a kid's memories of himself. Santa remarked that while he was erasing memories, he wanted the audience to forget about a show called ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''. In another sketch, Martin Short (who guest starred on ''Series/MADtv'' and was a cast member on ''SNL'' in the mid-1980s), "Live from New York!" and is told that that's another show.
** In an episode cold opening, George W. Bush (played by Will Sasso) calls for a manhunt against Chris Kattan after seeing ''Film/CorkyRomano''. ''And'' in another episode cold opening, Nicole Parker insults an old man who only came on ''Series/MADtv'' because he thought Creator/JimmyFallon was a cast member on the show.

* During a late season episode of ''Series/TheCosbyShow'', a young member of the Huxtable family approaches Heathcliff wearing a [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] mask, and Cliff snaps at her to take it off. At the time, ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' was losing its ratings battle with ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', and Bart Simpson was considered a bad role model for young children.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' took aim their former time-slot rival ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' when "Bleeding Gums" Murphy does a cameo on the show. The children complain that wedging him in as a grandfather makes no sense, and Cosby degenerates into nonsensical ramblings instantly while Bleeding Gums just looks around nervously.

* One episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' has Prentiss explaining that the poor preservation of a crime scene was due to "the crime scene investigators" who "all want to play cop instead of just being scientists". And where exactly were they working the case? Yes, [[Series/{{CSI}} Las Vegas]].
** The episode ''JJ'' [[spoiler: was intended to be JJ's last episode and is a TakeThat to CBS for trying to get rid of AJ Cook (The actress who plays JJ). They transfer JJ, making it beyond everyone's control. Then the quote at the end spoken by JJ talks about "taking the high road" and "not wanting to be angry" and just about leaving family, like the team (and the cast) so obviously were. Fortunately JJ returned to the show after all]].

* When Ronnie Barker of ''TheTwoRonnies'' complained that ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'' was full of {{Filth}}, the ''NTNOCN'' team responded with a glorious sketch that showed what a typical ''Two Ronnies'' episode would be like if they actually ''said'' what they meant, rather than the constant {{Double Entendre}}s. The best bit? It was written by a disgruntled ''Two Ronnies'' scriptwriter. Barker wasn't amused; Ronnie Corbett ''was''.

** The episode "Guilty Pleasures" in which Jake wants to perform a song by ChrisBrown, and upon learning this the girls of the Glee Club (even shy girl Marley) corner him to change his mind because of how much they hate him, particularly Tina, who states with a yell "the dude is a psychopath!" (Ironically, they don't have a problem with his doing "My Prerogative" by ''another'' singer called Brown known for beating up his partner.)

-->'''Josh Pendry''': ''StevenSeagal in Under Siege. He got the Pentagon on a satellite radio from a life boat.''

** In a little longer sketch, Dan Rowan and [[ItMakesSenseInContext Sammy Davis, Jr.]] are Mexican stag film producers talking about the recent slump in the stag film economy and that they're stuck with their first full-length film. As the sketch ends, Sammy suggests that [[spoiler: they sell it to California school boards under the title LeaveItToBeaver]]. Dan quips "Makes no difference. We put it on ABC, nobody gonna watch it, anyway."
* Sketch show ''Series/{{MADtv}}'''s parody song "What's on TV" (a take-off on Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Without Me") is one long-winded "Take That!" against pretty much every television series of the late 90s and early 2000s. The targets are ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', ''Series/DawsonsCreek'', ''Series/{{Friends}}'', ''Series/{{ER}}'', ''Series/TheKingOfQueens'', ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'', ''Series/{{Becker}}'', ''Series/JustShootMe'', ''Series/TouchedByAnAngel'', ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', ''Series/{{ED}}'', ''Series/YesDear'', ''Series/JudgingAmy'', ''Series/ThePractice'', ''Series/TheView'', ''Series/SeventhHeaven'', ''Series/{{JAG}}'', ''Series/BigBrother'', ''Series/AccordingToJim'', ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', ''Series/CrossingJordan'', and the channels that show them. It's capped off with "Em" declaring that ''[=MADtv=]'' is the best show on TV. [[GreenEyedMonster Wow]].
* In season 3 of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'', they seemed to be throwing these toward Shannen Doherty as Prue is PutOnABusToHell. In "Sin Francisco", she was possessed by the Deadly Sin of Pride, turning her into a raging egomaniac. "Look Who's Barking" turns her into a literal female dog, and she also was responsible for destroying Piper's wedding in "Just Harried." It seemed like everybody was grateful to see her leave.

* ''Series/HorribleHistories'' 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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** In season 1, Dean asks Sam, "Who do you think is the hotter psychic: Patricia Arquette, Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt, or you?" This is a TakeThat towards the two other psychic shows running at the time (''{{Medium}}'' and ''Series/GhostWhisperer'' respectively).

** Don't forget all the Take Thats aimed at British politicians in specific ("Number 26: Margaret Thatcher's brain") and in general ("It was never our intention to imply that politicians are weak-kneed, political time-servers who are concerned more with their personal vendettas and private power struggles than the problems of government...").

** The Season 8 episode, "The Fortress", has Barney explaining his feelings to Robin by using the [[SupermanTheMovie first]] [[Film/SupermanII two]] Franchise/{{Superman}} movies as an analogy. Then, he disregards ''Film/SupermanIII'' by calling it "a complete trainwreck".

* The last episodes of ''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 [[http://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'''".

** ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' had a deleted scene (filmed, but not included) in "Miller's Crossing" where Sheppard and Ronon are watching TV in a motel when ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' (the version running concurrently with ''Atlantis'' in RealLife) comes on. Ronon watches it for a bit, and then tells Sheppard "We need to help those people." Sheppard tells him it is just a TV show and people write TV shows to make life more exciting, then jabs at them by saying their lives are more interesting than those of the ''Galactica'' characters.

** The character of Harriet is partly a TakeThat on Kristen Chenoweth, Aaron Sorkin's ex-girlfriend. They devoted an entire episode to recreating Chenoweth's photo shoot for ''FHM'', and having the male senior writers lambast her for it. Sorkin also uses the trope to get the final word on an argument regarding Chenoweth's decision to appear on ''The 700 Club'' ([[http://web.archive.org/web/20080302113916/http://www.kristincanada.com/library/magazines.php which she later regretted]]) by recreating the scenario with Matt and Harriet, but he stepped it up several notches in the episode '4am Miracle' when Harriet was blamed for Matt's drug problem (which began after she rejected his advances because he was acting like a stalker) and later has a breakdown on a film set out of guilt for how mean she has been to Matt. It is worth noting, however, that Harriet is also portrayed as a balanced, caring woman that Sorkin's alter ego never fell out of love with.