History TakeThat / LiveActionTV

** "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.]]

** Morrissey [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQR78U6zvGI Tupperware]].

* One of the later episodes of ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' featured a rather savage attack on ''Series/{{Friends}}'' (the fact that the episode was titled "Murder Among Friends" should have been enough of a hint) in the form of a ShowWithinAShow called "Buds", among whose cast there was, of course, the requisite murder. And murderer. This was because TPTB were angry that CBS executives had [[ExecutiveMeddling inexplicably moved the show ]] from it's comfortable Sunday-night timeslot where it had been a ratings powerhouse for nearly a decade, to Thursday nights, opposite ''Series/{{Friends}}'', where it was now being slaughtered.

** JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf are the anthropomorphic personifications of this trope. If they aren't being snide about the actors on stage, they're aiming at the (theater) audience. And got popcorn thrown at them a couple of times. There's a reason that them doing their schtick on a couch at home didn't works so well.

** JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf from are the anthropomorphic personifications of this trope.

* Creator/MorecambeAndWise had a long-running faux feud with Des O'Connor, with Take Thats on almost every show. (In a Julius Caesar sketch:

* The short-lived series ''Seires/TheBookOfDaniel'' was basically one long Take That on, well, practically everything, but mostly religion, as it concerned a priest named Daniel Webster (yes, really) who has visions of [[Literature/TheBible Jesus]] (yes, ''really''). You'd think that would be more than enough, but the show also gives the priest an alcoholic wife ''and'' a gay Republican son ''and'' a teenage druggie daughter ''and'' an adopted Chinese son who's dating a girl whose parents hate Asians ''and'' a brother-in-law who runs off with church funds and abandons his family ''and'' a lesbian sister-in-law ''and'' a female bishop who is sleeping with Daniel's married father ''and'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a mother with Alzheimer's disease.]] ...it was basically crystallized UpToEleven smoked through a TakeThat bong.

** "Who do you think I am, the Ghost Whisperer?" was also said on an episode of ''Series/{{CSI}}''.

** When Olbermann returned to TV with his self-titled ESPN2 program, the segment came back as "Worst Persons In The Sports World". Other than a few shots at the staff of WFAN radio in New York (a competitor to ESPN's New York radio station), Olbermann has avoided taking on other media personalities.

* The short-lived series ''The Book of Daniel'' was basically one long Take That on, well, practically everything, but mostly religion, as it concerned a priest named Daniel Webster (yes, really) who has visions of [[Literature/TheBible Jesus]] (yes, ''really''). You'd think that would be more than enough, but the show also gives the priest an alcoholic wife ''and'' a gay Republican son ''and'' a teenage druggie daughter ''and'' an adopted Chinese son who's dating a girl whose parents hate Asians ''and'' a brother-in-law who runs off with church funds and abandons his family ''and'' a lesbian sister-in-law ''and'' a female bishop who is sleeping with Daniel's married father ''and'' [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a mother with Alzheimer's disease.]]
** ...it was basically crystallized UpToEleven smoked through a TakeThat bong.

** ''The Waldo Moment'' is to the cynicism of modern politics and to populist politicians who rely more on public spectacle and personality than sound policy or ethics.

** ''The Entire History Of You'' and ''ArkAngel'' are attacks on insecure partners and overbearing parents.

* Music/DemiLovato claimed she was a victim of this after Disney made a joke about eating disorders on an episode of ''Series/ShakeItUp''. This was only shortly after Demi left Disney, partially due to her struggles with bulimia. Lovato took to Twitter to criticize the channel for its insensitive choice of humour. Whether it was actually a "take that" to her remains unclear as Disney refused to comment.

*** The Prime Minister in this episode Jo Patterson is a SleazyPolitician who works with the {{Trumplica }} Jack Robertson to help her political career and supports brutal security measures with his Dalek Drones. She can come across as an {{Expy}} of [[UsefulNotes/TheresaMay Theresa May]], who was the Prime Minister at the time this episode was written (though by the time it had aired she had been out of Office for well over a year).

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK "Arachnids in the UK"]] has American CorruptCorporateExecutive Jack Robertson, whose illegal business practices result in several deaths, and who is a BadBoss who throws other people under the bus to save himself and refuses to admit fault in the incidents of the episode. And he plans on running for president in 2020. However, he [[EvenEvilHasStandards hates the real person he's a skewering of]].

*** 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 ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' writer and BigNameFan Lawrence Miles, who was known for being [[DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER extremely negative]] about the revival series in general and Creator/StevenMoffat in particular.

* In ''Series/AgentsOfShield'' when the scientist Dr. Radcliffe creates an android that, [[AIIsACrapShoot surprise surprise]], goes rogue, we get this between Yo Yo and Mack:
-->'''Yo-Yo:''' Someone needs to make Radcliffe watch all the Franchise/{{Terminator}} movies.\\

** In "Joy Ride", Greg sarcastically asks Adrienne if she wants to vegetate like her mother and watch ''Series/{{Dynasty}}''.

** 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}}?

** During the second season episode "Rosemary's Baby," ''30 Rock'' also took a shot at the career of former ProductionPosse recurring guest star Creator/RachelDratch, whose film ''Film/SpringBreakdown'', about a group of 30-something women who go on spring break and attempt to relive their college experiences, was having trouble finding a distributor at the time. During the episode, a senile former comedy writer (played by Creator/CarrieFisher) pitches a film about... cougars going on spring break.

** ''30 Rock'' has also been happy to dance on the corpse of ''Studio 60'', most notably in their parody of the infamous episode which features Timothy Busfield's Director touring the studio with a writer from the "golden age." ''30 Rock'' cast Tim Conway as an aged and irrelevant old hand from 30 Rock's past, being led around by Kenneth the Page, while Conway spouts such lines as "We called that the Jew room!" in reference to the writers' room.
** During the second season episode "Rosemary's Baby," ''30 Rock'' also took a shot at the career of former ProductionPosse recurring guest star Creator/RachelDratch, whose film ''Film/SpringBreakdown'', about a group of 30-something women who go on spring break and attempt to relive their college experiences, was having trouble finding a distributor at the time. During the episode, a senile former comedy writer (played by Creator/CarrieFisher) pitches a film about... cougars going on spring break. Even for Creator/TinaFey, who's very well-respected but [[NiceCharacterMeanActor known to be kind of be a bitch]], that's just cold.

** During the second season episode "Rosemary's Baby," ''30 Rock'' also took a shot at the career of former ProductionPosse recurring guest star Rachel Dratch, whose film ''Spring Breakdown'', about a group of 30-something women who go on spring break and attempt to relive their college experiences, was having trouble finding a distributor at the time. During the episode, a senile former comedy writer (played by Creator/CarrieFisher) pitches a film about... cougars going on spring break. Even for Creator/TinaFey, who's very well-respected but [[NiceCharacterMeanActor known to be kind of be a bitch]], that's just cold.

** Season 3 seemed to be throwing these toward Creator/ShannenDoherty 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.
** The episode "Witch Wars" features a demonic reality game show of the same name, where the objective is to kill witches on television while a demonic audience watches. Naturally there are a few digs at reality shows in general, and ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' in particular.

--->'''Crowley:''' I only have one rule: make a deal, keep it. There's a reason we don't call our chits in early: consumer confidence. This isn't Wall Street this is Hell! ''We'' have a little something called integrity!

* In the third season of ''Series/BlueMountainState'' all of the college football team's litany of misdeeds (drugs, drinking, hazing, recruiting violations, bribery and more) finally come to roost as the NCAA launches a full investigation. In the middle of it all, one player openly asks why the NCAA cares so much about the school messing with their rules when their entire organization makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year off of college players who are legally prevented from getting any of that money for themselves.

* In an episode of ''Series/DogWithABlog'', the eponymous TalkingAnimal Stan says that he in order to be a celebrity, he will need an agent, sunglasses, and a political cause that he doesn't really understand. In which he is referring to Brian from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.

*** 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 Lawrence Miles (known for being [[DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER extremely negative]] about the revival series).