History TakeThat / LiveActionTV

* The series ''{{Millennium}}'' was apparently the subject of so much ExecutiveMeddling from the Broadcast Standards and Practices that series writer Darin Morgin parodied him in the episode "Somehow, Satan Got Behind Me," with a segment about how a demon drives a Broadcast Standards & Practices guy insane. This eventually results in the hilarious line, "You will not get away with this! The final scene is gratuitously violent! Aliens would not carry an Uzi! They are a superior race and they would not carry or utilize automatic weapons! I will not approve this! ''[[ThisIsSparta I am Broadcast Standards and Practices!]]''"

* On the ComedyCentral game show ''[[{{ptitledmwucmzk}} Win Ben Stein's Money]]'', whenever a contestant [[{{Jeopardy}} phrased an answer in the form of a question]], Ben would force that contestant to wear a DunceCap for the remainder of the show.

** Sledge is once shown shooting a TV set in response to the announcement of a Miami Vice episode.
** "It must be bad to be between a man from {{Dallas}} and a man from [[MiamiVice Miami]]."

* ''[[{{Ptitlelzof8tzd}} Attack of the Show!]]'' got a pretty good one in against ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' when it [[http://g4tv.com/videos/41784/Kevin-Pereira--Olivia-Munns-Twilight-Spoof/ points out the stupidity of dating a vampire]]!

* In ''{{Special Unit 2}},'' one of the main characters explain to the newbie that every monster legend she has ever heard of is true -- [[BuffyTheVampireSlayer except vampires, they're complete fiction]].

* The ''{{Angel}}'' episode "Harm's Way" starts off with a video apparently made to introduce new Wolfram & Hart employees to the firm. It lists off three companies that are clients of Wolfram & Hart: [[BuckarooBanzai Yoyodyne]], [[{{Aliens}} Weyland-Yutani]]... and News Corp, parent corporation of FOX, the network that [[ScrewedByTheNetwork screwed]] ''{{Firefly}}'' a year earlier.

* When Fox executives complained that ''{{Firefly}}'' should have aliens because it was a sci-fi show, Joss gleefully inserted a carnival barker claiming that "aliens are among us!" It turned out to be a mutated cow fetus. Note this was in [[RefugeInAudacity the last filmed episode of the series.]]

* In ''{{Special Unit 2}},'' one of the main characters explain to the newbie that every monster legend she has ever heard of is true -- except vampires, they're complete fiction.

* Near the end of ''RemingtonSteele'', there was an episode with an elderly British spy who said "We in [=MI5=] thought James Bond was a sissy."
** It helps though, that Pierce Brosnan was in the running to play James Bond when Roger Moore left the role, but had to back out due to commitments to ''Remington Steele''. [[{{Goldeneye}} It all worked out in the end...]]

* ''CriminalMinds'': The episode ''JJ'' [[spoiler: is JJ's last episode and is a TakeThat to CBS for getting 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 are.]]

** Pretty funny, considering ''iCarly'' is no better than any sitcom Disney's ever come up with.

* ''Commander-in-Chief'', 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? As if that weren't {{Anvilicious}} enough, 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. Take That, Mister 20%!

* The short-lived sitcom ''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 ''MrBelvedere''. Ironically, both programs aired on the same network, ABC.

** ''StargateAtlantis'' had a deleted scene (filmed, but not included) in "Miller's Crossing" where Sheppard and Ronon are watching TV in a motel when ''BattlestarGalactica'' (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" and Sheppard tells him it is just a tv show and people write TV shows to make life more exciting, Sheppard jabs at them by saying their lives is more interesting than the Battlestar Galactica's.

** ''StargateAtlantis'' had a deleted scene (filmed, but not included) in "Miller's Crossing" where Sheppard and Ronon are watching TV in a motel when ''BattlestarGalactica'' (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 jabs at them by saying their lives is more interesting than the cast of Galactica's.

** ''StargateAtlantis'' had a deleted scene (filmed, but not included) in "Miller's Crossing" where Sheppard and Ronon are watching TV in a motel when ''BattlestarGalactica'' (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", making fun of the completely dysfunctional ''Galactica'' crew and how they are a bigger threat to themselves than the Cylons.

* The short-lived sitcom ''SledgeHammer!'' was filled to bursting with examples of Take That. Creator and producer Alan Spencer had a deep-rooted contempt for other television sitcoms, and frequently expressed it with digs at ''Mr Belvedere'' and ''Designing Women''. There was also an early reference to the Jack Palance series ''RipleysBelieveItOrNot''... a show which was canceled to make room for ''Sledge Hammer!'' on ABC's prime-time schedule.

** StargateAtlantis had a deleted scene (filmed, but not included) in Miller's crossing where Sheppard and Ronin are watching TV in a motel when nBSG comes on. Ronin watches it for a bit, and then tells Sheppard "We need to help those people", making fun of the completely dysfunctional cast of nBSG and how they are a bigger threat to themselves than the Cylons.

* ''{{iCarly}}'' did a take that to it's own fans during the episode ''iStart A Fan War'', by showing them as crazy losers who don't care about the show itself, only about the {{Shipping}}.

* ''DoctorWho'' delivered a Take That to their entire fanbase once; the character of Whizzkid in "The Greatest Show In The Galaxy", a whining, stereotypical nerd who didn't show any hesitation in telling the producers of the aforementioned show that their work was unwatchable rubbish directly to their faces. And then killed him. Horribly. Whether or not this little shot was justified, it seemed that contemporary outspoken criticism about the recent poor quality of the show had hit a nerve...

*** Fandom is divided on whether the episode "Love and Monsters" is an AffectionateParody and loving tribute to the things that make ''DoctorWho'' fandom special, or just a huge TakeThat to its fans. The truth is it's kind of both; the 'good' fans are presented as being slightly geeky and socially awkward but fundamentally decent and good people who come together, make connections, are inspired creatively and even fall in love as a result of their fandom, whereas the 'bad' fans are humourless jobsworths who treat fandom as a joyless ritual, establishing pecking orders and sucking all the life and creativity out of the whole thing for the sake of their own ego-fulfillment. It might not be coincidental that it is sometimes suggested that the Absorbaloff is based on Ian Levine, a well-known fan who [[SmallNameBigEgo arguably represents more than a few of these negative traits]].

---> '''Dalek Emperor:''' [[ThisIsSparta THOSE WORDS ARE]] ''[[ThisIsSparta BLASPHEMY]]''!]]

---> '''Dalek Emperor:''' [[ThisIsSparta THOSE WORDS ARE ''BLASPHEMY''!]]

---> '''Dalek Emperor:''' [[ThisIsSparta Those words are BLASPHEMY!]]