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1	->''"Ever notice how the more successful observational comics become, the more their jokes focus on flying and hotels?"''
2	-->-- '''Randall Munroe, Webcomic/{{xkcd}}''' [[http://xkcd.com/785/ #785]] in the AltText
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4	SuperTrope index of all tropes having to do with referencing the nature of one's own medium, style and the almighty fourth wall to make a laugh or two.
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6	Insert joke about the FourthWall of the wiki here while I go about linking to tropes that don't exist, and adding examples to the SelfDemonstratingArticle list.
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8	!!Tropes involved:
9	[[index]]
10	[floatboxright:
11	Related Indexes:
12	+ RantComedy
13	+ ThisTropeNameReferencesItself
14	]
15	* AffectionateParody: A work parodies another work out of love for the source material.
16	* AsideGlance: Characters looking toward the audience briefly.
17	* AudienceWhatAudience
18	* BritishHumour
19	* {{Camp}} (occasionally)
20	* CompanyCameo: The work contains references to the companies that worked on and/or distributed it.
21	* DeconstructiveParody: A franchise installment handles the tropes and traditions of the series in a more realistic manner than usual.
22	* JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere (a quick self reference for a page here, that doesn't get in the way of the main description)
23	* EyebrowWaggle
24	* HowIWroteThisArticleArticle: Writing about not knowing what to write anymore.
25	* HypocriticalHumor: A gag involving a character making a hypocritical statement or otherwise demonstrating comically blatant hypocrisy.
26	* HypocrisyNod: A character acknowledges when they're being hypocritical.
27	* LampshadeHanging: A character acknowledges when a specific trope is occurring or has a tendency to happen.
28	* LeftItIn
29	* MediumAwareness: The character is aware that they are in a work of fiction.
30	* NoFourthWall: The fourth wall is broken so often that it's as if there never was a fourth wall to begin with.
31	** Some regions of the SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness
32	* PlayingWithATrope
33	* RageAgainstTheAuthor
34	* SatireParodyPastiche (and a little bit of all three)
35	* ScoldingTheFourthWallBreaker
36	* SelfDeprecation: The work makes fun of itself for laughs.
37	* SelfParody
38	* SpoofAesop
39	* SubvertedTrope (sometimes)
40	[[/index]]
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42	-->'''[[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Waldorf]]''': TV Tropes breaks the FourthWall soooo much...
43	-->'''[[ThoseTwoGuys Statler]]:''' [[Series/MatchGame How much do they break it?]]
44	-->'''[[Series/TheMuppetShow Waldorf]]''': They break it so much they're now a wholly owned subsidiary of The Home Depot!
45	-->'''Both''': Ho Ho Ho!

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