History TakeThat / LiveActionTV

* One episode of ''CriminalMinds'' has Prentiss explaining that the poor preservation of a crime scene was because of {{CSI}} workers thinking they're cops instead of scientists and trampling all over everything.

* ''VengeanceUnlimited'' did the episode "Critical", which, during the course of the episode, pretty much took as many lines from all the critics that bashed it and put them in the characters' mouths. Gina's rant at Chapel? Pretty much lifted straight from newspapers.

* On ''{{Castle}}'', Nathan Fillion mocks ''{{CSI}}: Miami'' almost every week. ''CSI: Miami'', of course, is their main timeslot competition.

** YourMileageMayVary depending on your perception of both [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edward and Bella's]] relationship and Stefan and Elena's, but the latter is arguably one big Take That to the former, given the rather more healthy way they have of dealing with similar situations and the near-{{Anvilicious}} emphasis placed on Elena's right to make her own choices.

* On the ComedyCentral game show ''[[{{ptitledmwucmzk}} Win Ben Stein's Money]]'', whenever a contestant [[Series/{{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.

* In response to being [[ExecutiveMeddling horrifically dicked around by NBC]], ConanOBrien responded by making the last episodes of his tenure on ''TheTonightShow'' almost nothing ''but'' Take Thats. Just about everyone feels this is [[JustifiedTrope entirely justified]].

* In response to being [[ExecutiveMeddling horrifically dicked around by NBC]], [[{{ptitle4i13s514}} Conan O'Brien]] responded by making the last episodes of his tenure on ''TheTonightShow'' almost nothing ''but'' Take Thats. Just about everyone feels this is [[JustifiedTrope entirely justified]].

* ''[[{{Ptitlek0cxnuus}} Beakman's World]]'' took friendly jabs at the competition on occasion. Beakman, on letting his mom do a challenge: "But none of the other TV [[BillNyeTheScienceGuy science guys]] let their moms do stuff!" His mom replies with the JumpOffABridgeRebuttal.

* ''{{Scrubs}}'' has a pretty mean TakeThat against ''[[{{Ptitlespennt48}} Grey's Anatomy]]'' disguised as a compliment.

* A TV movie about the making of ''[[{{Ptitle0k5nsks4}} Gilligan's Island]]'' was narrated by the original show's cast: except for Tina Louise, who was the only surviving cast member to not participate. It's probably not a coincidence that she's portrayed as a bitchy, slutty moron in stark contrast to the downright saintly portrayals of everyone else.

* ''[[{{Ptitle0k5nsks4}} Gilligan's Island]]'' creator Sherwood Schwartz named the Castaways boat The Minnow after Newton Minow made his famous "vast wasteland" speech.

* During the 1990s, the late Jeremy Beadle hosted several popular game shows and comedy programmes on British TV. He was the original presenter of ''You've Been Framed'', a TransatlanticEquivalent to ''[[{{Ptitlec4t5pd4m}} America's Funniest Home Videos]]''. Later, he moved onto a short-lived show called ''Beadle's Hotshots'', where the public would film their own parodies of popular television and send them to him to broadcast. One of the best remembered of these was "You've Fallen Over", a TakeThat which implied that ''You've Been Framed'' consisted mostly of stupid clips of people falling over, and that the "home videos" sent in were all staged.

-->'''Both''': Doh-ho-ho-ho-ho!

* The last episodes of ''{{Late Night}}'' hosted for David Letterman are full of ''Take That'' moments against {{NBC}}, but the finale include a subtle one: "The World's Most Dangerous Band", leaded 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]].

* Jim Henson's ''Dinosaurs'' delivered one to [[Unsolved Mysteries]], 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."

* ''Law and Order: Criminal Intent'' features as a recurring character an obnoxious, loudmouthed, blond cable news anchor named "Faith Yancy", which the writers no doubt thought was ''brilliantly'' subtle.

* A lot of CraigFerguson's jokes on ''[[TheLateLateShow The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson]]'' are (admittedly mostly joking) {{Take That}}s towards CBS and TV in general. He has also said a direct TakeThat to ''[[{{Ptitleg61am70o3b3w}} M*A*S*H]]'', saying that his upcoming Robot Skeleton Sidekick will be the "the most awesome thing not just in late-nite television, but in all television, ever!"

** Inverted with a yet another nice {{actor allusion}}. "No one was making fun of [[TheAndyGriffithShow Andy Griffith]]. I can't emphasize that enough.

** "Who do you think I am, the Ghost Whisperer?" was also said on an episode of ''{{CSI}}''.
* ''GhostWhisperer'' itself 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 ''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 [[UnluckyChildhoodFriend upset that they'd never be able to have a relationship]].

** 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."

** Made even more hilarious when you realize that the actor who plays Henry (Kevin Schmidt) is the older brother of Kendall Schmidt, who is one fourth of NICKELODEON'S premier boy band, and one of the stars on the show ''BigTimeRush''--which is, of course, Nick's answer to JONAS.

* ''CriminalMinds'': 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 will be returning to the show after all]]
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* ''{{iCarly}}'' did a take that to its 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}}.

** And another episode took place on the set of ''Danger Doctor'' - an obvious ''DiagnosisMurder'' spoof. Jessica became involved because the writers had ''stolen one of her stories''.

* ''DiagnosisMurder'' once had a TakeThat against the game show ''Twenty One'', where Dick Van Dyke's character went on a corrupt game show called Thru The Roof, featuring soundproof booths. He noted that it was difficult to breathe in the booths. And someone probably got murdered in there or something, it's been a while since I've seen it.