History TakeThat / LiveActionTV

*** Dan Harmon went above and beyond in Season 3, devoting an entire episode to parodying ''Glee''. Though it is surprisingly more subtle than one would expect with emphasis on smaller details (the ascending level of chairs, the never mentioned piano player, Mr. Rad's sweater vests, the clipped dialogue delivery, the constant mash-ups and remixes and an apparently endless supply of costumes and props that come out of nowhere), there are some more blatant moments (Jeff shouting "Not liking Glee club doesn't make us bullies and implying that is reverse bullying", characters constantly talking about regionals, the extreme seriousness with which they take the club).

* The "Avalanche" episode has Jonah and the Bots mocking movies like ''Film/{{Birdemic}}'' and ''Film/{{Sharknado}}'' by buying the rights to a LongList of names for "stupid-on-purpose hybrid B-movies" to keep them from being made.

'''Jeff:''' ''(sobbing)'' I hate it. I don't understand the appeal at all!\\

--->'''Jeff''': ''(sobbing)'' I hate ''Glee''. I just don't understand the appeal at all.\\
"Modern Warfare": '''Jeff''': Write some original songs!

* The creators of ''Series/InsideNo9'' stated publicly at a preview screening of the fifth series that a character in the episode "Speaking Out Loud" (an annoying, demanding vlogger) is based on Elle Darby, an Instagram influencer who was criticised online for asking for a free hotel stay in return for a review; which they considered very entitled.

* The creators of ''Series/InsideNo9''' stated publicly at a preview screening of the fifth series that a character in the episode "Speaking Out Loud" is based on Elle Darby, an Instagram influencer who was criticised online for asking for a free hotel stay in return for a review; which they considered very entitled.

** Also this line from "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]":

*** In a similar event, some have suggested that the pretentious, overly-analytical and unpleasant nerd in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Blink]]" was named Lawrence as a swipe at {{B|igNameFan}}NF Creator/LawrenceMiles (known for being [[DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER extremely negative]] about the revival series).

* On the episode "Charlie and Kate Battle Over A Patient" of ''Series/AngerManagement'', Charlie enters Patrick's workplace wearing a shirt similar to that of Charlie Harper from ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen''. They insult the shirt, and Charlie ends it by throwing the shirt away, saying how he'll '[[ChuckLorre chuck]] it'.

* An episode of ''Series/BeautyAndTheBeast2012'' (''Basic Instinct'') has this exchange-

* On ''Series/{{Castle}}'', Nathan Fillion 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.

* Interestingly, on ''Series/TheColbertReport'' during the Franchise/StarWars portion of the Colbert Green Screen Challenge, Star Wars [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] Jar-Jar Binks makes an appearance, asking who would represent democracy, and hopes it's not that annoying boy from the desert wasteland who later joined the empire. He then whispered [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush Darth W Vader]]. He even goes as far as poking fun at himself in the scene. Now why can't Jar-Jar be more of a DeadpanSnarker in Star Wars?
** And now "the new Crossfire''" - Jim Cramer. It's not an interview, [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=221516&title=Jim-Cramer-Unedited-Interview-Pt.-1 it's an execution]].

** In an episode where Ted imagines what the future will be like, when he imagines a good future he's reading a newspaper with the headline "Al Gore signs new bill into law." Later, when he imagines a horrible future, the headline says "Bush elected for surprise third term".

* On a 1980 episode of ''Real People'', one of NBC's few primetime hits in that era, one of the hosts, John Barbour, joked "If you base a TV show on another TV show, it's called a spinoff. Unless you work for ABC, in which case it's called a ripoff." "Oh, that's incredible!" responded Sarah Purcell, referring to that network's {{Dueling Show|s}}.

** "All Shook Up" 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, the ''Mr. Belvedere fan turns out to be the murderer]].

*** It's also worth noting that pretty much the entire second half of season two of ''Series/SportsNight'' is a series of {{TakeThat}}s against ABC, culminating in the line "Anybody who can't make money off ''Series/SportsNight'' should get out of the money-making business." Never mind the fact that ABC had actually stuck with ''Series/SportsNight'' for two full seasons and spent a great deal of money advertising and promoting the show, despite the fact that its ratings were consistently poor.
** Also at former ''West Wing'' writer Rick Cleveland, with whom Sorkin had a public feud over "In Excelsis Deo", an episode which the two co-wrote. Cleveland is written into ''Studio 60'' as Ricky Tahoe. Ricky is time and again characterised as a hack, a nasty little man who publically ostracised Matt over a controversial statement Matt had made. He ultimately leaves the show with a crappily written pilot script, petulantly taking the entire writing staff with him.
* Many people see the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "Malleus Maleficarum" as a TakeThat against ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'', since it includes The Book of Shadows and a group of witches who arguably looked and acted like the ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' girls.
** The episode "Hollywood Babylon", which is an ''AffectionateParody'' of the show itself, contains some {{Take That}}s aimed at different groups.

*** Jensen Ackles, who got his first break on Days of Our Lives, has his character Dean make a few jokes about how terrible daytime TV is.
** There are a few examples in the episode "Monster at the End of the Book."

** There's the episodes "Ghost Facers" and "Criss Angel is a Douche Bag", the latter of which has a Criss Angel {{expy}} with his own reality show.
** At the beginning of season five's "Free to Be You and Me", as Dean kills a vampire: "Eat it, Literature/{{Twilight}}!"
** "Changing Channels", the episode where the Trickster throws Sam and Dean into different TV shows, contains {{Take That}} to ''Series/CSIMiami''.

** In the season 6 mind bender "The French Mistake", the angel Balthazar transports the characters Sam and Dean to a parallel world where they are mistaken for two actors named Jared and Jensen, who star in a TV series called ''Supernatural''. So, the actors are playing characters who then assume the identities of the actors who are playing them. The big TakeThat comes though when one of that season's bad guys, Virgil, travels to the parallel world and "kills" actors who are portraying Eric Kripke and Robert Singer, Supernatural's producers, along with Misha Collins, the actor who plays the angel Castiel on the show.

** The episode "Live Free or Twihard" is basically one giant Take That to ''Twilight''.

** In "[[Recap/CommunityS2E11AbedsUncontrollableChristmas Abed's Uncontrollable Christmas]]", Abed goes on a [[JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind journey inside his own mind]] to find the meaning of Christmas. But all he finds in there is a DVD boxset of the first season of ''Series/{{Lost}}''.

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* The short-lived sitcom ''Series/SledgeHammer'' was filled to bursting with examples of Take That. Series creator and executive producer Alan Spencer had a deep-rooted contempt for other television sitcoms, and frequently expressed it with digs at ''Series/MrBelvedere''. Ironically, both programs aired on the same network, Creator/{{ABC}}.
** Nobody on ''Mr. Belvedere'' took it lying down, either. While series star Christopher Hewett kept relatively quiet on the matter, co-star Bob Uecker did several Take Thats of his own against Spencer when he guest starred on ''Series/TheTonightShow''.

*** 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]] ''[[DamnedByAFoolsPraise Mr. Belvedere]]'' [[DamnedByAFoolsPraise fan turns out to be the murderer]].]]

* ''Series/{{Community}}'', besides its frequent parodies of just about everything, has featured a couple {{Take That}}s against ''Series/{{Glee}}'':
-->'''Jeff''': ''(sobbing)'' I hate ''Glee''. I just don't understand the appeal at all.\\

** Jeff and Britta ''fondly remembered'' a time when they filled in for Greendale's Glee club, who ''died in a bus crash''. Their version consisted of melodramatically going "sing sing singaling ling ling" for several minutes. For which they apparently won "lots of awards".
** Dan Harmon went above and beyond in Season 3, devoting an entire episode to parodying ''Glee''. Though it is surprisingly more subtle than one would expect with emphasis on smaller details (the ascending level of chairs, the never mentioned piano player, Mr. Rad's sweater vests, the clipped dialogue delivery, the constant mash-ups and remixes and an apparently endless supply of costumes and props that come out of nowhere), there are some more blatant moments (Jeff shouting "Not liking Glee club doesn't make us bullies and implying that is reverse bullying", characters constantly talking about regionals, the extreme seriousness with which they take the club).
* ''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.

** This classic moment in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays The Parting of the Ways]]", where Creator/RussellTDavies expresses his ambivalent and nuanced feelings regarding the TV movie's claim that the Doctor was part human:

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem "The Sontaran Stratagem"]] has this moment early on where the Doctor is letting Donna fly the TARDIS[[labelnote:*]]The Doctor's response is so vague that it could reference any person involved with a negative 1980s event; it could be Creator/JohnNathanTurner, Eric Saward or Michael Grade in relation to the DWU; hell, it could even be a UsefulNotes/ColdWar joke, or a joke about the fashion and music. Given how weird this universe is, it might even be a NoodleIncident.[[/labelnote]]

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree World War Three]]" had aliens take over the British government and contrive a situation so they would be given access to nuclear launch codes under the pretense of stopping nonexistent "massive weapons of destruction".

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