| 1 | ->''"You're listening to ''Chatterbox'', hosted by me, Lazlow, with open ears and a closed mind."'' |
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| 3 | ''GTA Radio'' is an extensive ShowWithinAShow within the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' universe. Although an [[EarlyBirdCameo early form]] existed in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto2,'' it started when radio personality Lazlow Jones was hired to produce the radio shows for the series. Starting with ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'', he created a whole series of fake stations, with the only thing real being the music (either originally produced for the games or, more commonly, licensed). Otherwise, the commercials, [=DJs=] and shows are spoofs of those on actual radio (including where he spoofs ''himself''). |
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| 5 | The variety of stations in each game alone is enormous, covering talk radio, rock, rap, electronica, country, reggae, dance, and others. The [=DJs=] are just as colorful. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', this even expanded to full TV shows and the Internet, parodying {{reality TV}}, [[UsefulNotes/NewsNetworks Fox News]], Creator/{{PBS}}, talk shows, {{anime}}, {{friending network}}s, [[{{Ponzi}} get-rich-quick pyramid schemes]], and more. |
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| 9 | Now included with [[{{Characters/GTARadio}} character sheet]] in the works. |
| 10 | ---- |
| 11 | [[folder:Radio Stations]] |
| 12 | !!!''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoClassic Grand Theft Auto]]'' |
| 13 | ->'''Brooklyn Underground 77.7''' -- Neurofunk, Breakbeat, Jungle\ |
| 14 | '''The Fix FM''' -- Deep House, Tech House\ |
| 15 | '''The Fergus Buckner Show FM''' -- Country\ |
| 16 | '''Head Radio FM''' -- Techno, Rock\ |
| 17 | '''It's Unleashed on 93.5 FM''' -- Alternative Rock, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Big Beat, Industrial Rock\ |
| 18 | '''N-CT FM''' -- Hip Hop, Rap\ |
| 19 | '''Radio '76 (on 197.6 FM)''' -- Funk, Retro |
| 20 | !!!''Grand Theft Auto: London 1969/1961 (the first in the series to have licensed music)'' |
| 21 | ->'''Bush Sounds''' -- Reggae\ |
| 22 | '''Heavy Heavy Monster Sounds''' -- Reggae, Ska\ |
| 23 | '''Blowup Radio''' -- Beat\ |
| 24 | '''Kaleidoscope''' -- Pop, Beat\ |
| 25 | '''Sounds of Soho''' -- Jazz\ |
| 26 | '''Radio Penelope''' -- Pop, Soul ''(Only radio in GTA London with a named DJ, Docter Peter Pants-On)''\ |
| 27 | '''Radio Andorra''' -- Pop, Beat\ |
| 28 | '''Westminster Wireless''' -- Soul, Jazz\ |
| 29 | '''Radio 7''' -- Beat, Funk\ |
| 30 | '''GTA Pomp''' -- Classical\ |
| 31 | '''GTA Spy Theme''' -- Jazz\ |
| 32 | '''Austin Allegro Chase''' -- Funk |
| 33 | !!!''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto2'' |
| 34 | ->'''Head Radio''' -- Electronic Music, Rock\ |
| 35 | '''Rockstar Radio''' -- Pop, Rock\ |
| 36 | '''KREZ''' -- Hip Hop, Rap\ |
| 37 | '''Lo-Fi FM''' -- Oldies, Pop\ |
| 38 | '''Futuro FM''' -- Dance, Jazz-Pop, Funk\ |
| 39 | '''Funami FM''' -- Drum and Bass Acid Techno\ |
| 40 | '''Lithium FM''' -- Oldies, Dance, Classic Rockabilly, Christian-Pop\ |
| 41 | '''KING 130.7 (Rebel Radio)''' -- Hard Rock, Alternative Rock, Punk Rock, Electronic Rock\ |
| 42 | '''Osmosis Radio''' -- Modern Dance, House, Nu-Disco\ |
| 43 | '''Heavenly Radio''' -- Christian-Pop, Soft Rock\ |
| 44 | '''KGBH''' -- Classic Rock |
| 45 | !!!''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'' |
| 46 | ->'''Double Clef FM''' -- Classical, opera\ |
| 47 | '''Flashback 95.6''' -- 1980s Pop [[note]]All tracks from the {{Film/Scarface|1983}} soundtrack[[/note]]\ |
| 48 | '''Game Radio FM''' -- Underground Hip-hop\ |
| 49 | '''Head Radio''' -- Pop and adult contemporary\ |
| 50 | '''K-Jah''' -- Dub reggae[[note]]All tracks from the album ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientist_Rids_the_World_of_the_Evil_Curse_of_the_Vampires Scientist Rids The World of The Evil Curse of The Zombies]]''[[/note]]\ |
| 51 | '''Lips 106''' -- Pop\ |
| 52 | '''MSX FM''' -- Drum and bass [[note]]Mix is an abbreviated version of [[http://www.discogs.com/Timecode-011/release/5879 01.1]] by DJ Timecode from Moving Shadow Records[[/note]]\ |
| 53 | '''Rise FM''' -- Trance\ |
| 54 | '''Chatterbox FM''' -- Call-in talk radio (first appearance by Lazlow [host] and Fernando Martinez [guest]) |
| 55 | !!!''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' |
| 56 | ->'''Emotion 98.3''' -- Power ballads\ |
| 57 | '''Radio Espantoso''' -- Latin music\ |
| 58 | '''Fever 105''' -- Funk and R&B\ |
| 59 | '''Flash FM''' -- 80s pop music\ |
| 60 | '''V-Rock''' -- 80s Hard rock and heavy metal (hosted by Lazlow)\ |
| 61 | '''Wave 103''' -- New Wave, Post Punk\ |
| 62 | '''Wildstyle Pirate Radio''' -- 80s hip-hop and electro\ |
| 63 | '''K-CHAT''' -- Celebrity talk radio\ |
| 64 | '''Vice City Public Radio (VCPR)''' -- Talk radio, dominated by ''Pressing Issues'' political debate show hosted by Maurice Chavez |
| 65 | !!!''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' |
| 66 | ->'''Bounce FM''' -- Funk and R&B\ |
| 67 | '''Contemporary Soul Radio (CSR) 103.9''' -- 90s R&B and new jack swing\ |
| 68 | '''K-DST''' -- Classic rock\ |
| 69 | '''K-Jah West''' -- Reggae\ |
| 70 | '''K-Rose''' -- Classic Country\ |
| 71 | '''Master Sounds 98.3''' -- Rare groove, songs sampled in hip-hop\ |
| 72 | '''Playback FM''' -- East Coast hip hop\ |
| 73 | '''Radio Los Santos''' -- West Coast hip hop and gangsta rap\ |
| 74 | '''Radio X''' -- 90s alt rock and grunge\ |
| 75 | '''San Fierro Underground Radio (SF-UR)''' -- house\ |
| 76 | '''West Coast Talk Radio (WCTR)''' -- Talk radio, divided into eight segments:\ |
| 77 | ''WCTR News'' (hosted by Lianne Forget, with reporting by Richard Burns)\ |
| 78 | ''The Tight End Zone'' (sports, hosted by Derrick Thackery)\ |
| 79 | ''The Wild Traveler'' (travel, hosted by James Pedeaston)\ |
| 80 | ''Entertaining America'' (showbiz; initially hosted by Billy Dexter, then after his [[DeadlineNews on-air death]] during an interview, replaced by Lazlow)\ |
| 81 | ''Gardening with Maurice'' (gardening, featuring the "Maurice" first mentioned in ''III'')\ |
| 82 | ''I Say[=/=]You Say'' (political debate, hosted by Peyton and Mary Phillips)\ |
| 83 | ''Lonely Hearts'' (love advice, hosted by Christy [=MacIntyre=] at first, hijacked by Fernando Martinez in the third segment)\ |
| 84 | ''Area 53'' (conspiracy theories, with Marvin Trill) |
| 85 | !!!''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'' |
| 86 | ->'''Double Clef FM''' -- Opera\ |
| 87 | '''Flashback 96.6''' -- Italo disco [[note]]All tracks by Music/GiorgioMoroder[[/note]]\ |
| 88 | '''Head Radio''' -- Pop and adult contemporary\ |
| 89 | '''K-Jah''' -- Reggae [[note]]All tracks from the compilation ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_How_the_People_Dancing:_Unity_Sounds_from_the_London_Dancehall_1986%E2%80%931989 Watch How the People Dancing: Unity Sounds from the London Dancehall 1986-1989]][[/note]]''\ |
| 90 | '''The Liberty Jam''' -- Late 90s east coast hip hop (original incarnation of ''III''[='=]s Game Radio FM)\ |
| 91 | '''Lips 106''' -- Pop\ |
| 92 | '''MSX 98''' -- Drum and Bass, Jungle\ |
| 93 | '''Radio del Mundo''' -- South Asian and Middle Eastern music\ |
| 94 | '''Rise FM''' -- 90s dance\ |
| 95 | '''Liberty City Free Radio (LCFR)''' -- Talk radio, divided into five segments:\ |
| 96 | ''The Electron Zone'' (technology, hosted by "Bill" and "Steve")\ |
| 97 | ''Chatterbox'' (call-in talk show, hosted by Lazlow; his show would later take over the entire station in 2001)\ |
| 98 | ''Heartland Values with Nurse Bob'' (counseling)\ |
| 99 | ''Breathing World'' (spiritual enlightenment, hosted by Melissa Chowder, with Crow as guest)\ |
| 100 | ''Coq o Vin'' (cooking, with Richard Goblin) |
| 101 | !!!''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'' |
| 102 | ->'''Emotion 98.3''' -- Power Ballad (first chronological appearance of Fernando Martinez)\ |
| 103 | '''Espantoso''' -- Latin music\ |
| 104 | '''Flash FM''' -- 80s pop\ |
| 105 | '''Fresh 105 FM''' -- Oldschool hip-hop and electro (original incarnation of ''Vice City''[='=]s Fever 105)\ |
| 106 | '''Paradise FM''' -- Post-disco\ |
| 107 | '''VCFL''' -- Funk and R&B\ |
| 108 | '''V-Rock''' -- Hard rock and heavy metal (first chronological appearance of Lazlow)\ |
| 109 | '''Wave 103''' -- New Wave\ |
| 110 | '''Vice City Public Radio (VCPR)''' -- Talk show, divided into five segments:\ |
| 111 | ''Pressing Issues'' (political debate, hosted by Maurice Chavez; this segment would later take over the entire channel in 1986)\ |
| 112 | ''New World Order'' (conservative-oriented foreign affairs and call-in talk radio, hosted by Dwayne Thorn)\ |
| 113 | ''Bait and Switch with Larry Joe and Bobby Ray'' (fishing advice)\ |
| 114 | ''Moorehead Rides Again'' (hard-boiled detective radio drama)\ |
| 115 | ''The Time Ranger'' (superhero radio drama) |
| 116 | !!!''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned The Lost and Damned]]'', and ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony The Ballad of Gay Tony]]'' |
| 117 | ->'''The Beat 102.7''' -- Contemporary hip-hop\ |
| 118 | '''The Classics 104.1''' -- Classic hip hop (''IV''-exclusive)\ |
| 119 | '''Electro-Choc''' -- Electro house and club hits\ |
| 120 | '''Fusion FM''' -- Jazz fusion (''IV''-exclusive)\ |
| 121 | '''[=IF99=] (International Funk)''' -- Funk and afrobeat (''IV''-exclusive)\ |
| 122 | '''JNR (Jazz Nation Radio) 108.5''' -- Jazz (''IV'' only)\ |
| 123 | '''The Journey''' -- Ambient, chillout (''IV''-exclusive)\ |
| 124 | '''K109 (The Studio)''' -- Disco\ |
| 125 | '''LCHC (Liberty City Hardcore)''' -- New York hardcore and crossover (''IV''), Extreme metal (''EFLC'')\ |
| 126 | '''Liberty Rock Radio 97.8''' -- Classic rock\ |
| 127 | '''Massive B Sound System 96.9''' -- Dancehall (''IV''-exclusive)\ |
| 128 | '''Radio Broker''' -- Alternative/dance punk\ |
| 129 | '''San Juan Sounds''' -- Reggaeton and Latin American music\ |
| 130 | '''Tuff Gong Radio''' -- Reggae and dub from the [[Music/BobMarley Marleys]] (''IV''-exclusive)\ |
| 131 | '''The Vibe 98.8''' -- R&B (''IV''-exclusive)\ |
| 132 | '''Vladivostok FM''' -- Eastern European music (''IV'') Western European dance music (''EFLC'')\ |
| 133 | '''[=RamJam=] FM''' -- Reggae, dub (''EFLC'' only)\ |
| 134 | '''Self–Actualization FM''' -- Ambient and chillout (''EFLC''-exclusive)\ |
| 135 | '''Vice City FM''' -- 80s Pop (''EFLC''-exclusive; hosted by Fernando Martinez)\ |
| 136 | '''Independence FM''' -- User music (Exclusive for PC version)\ |
| 137 | '''Integrity 2.0''' -- Live talk radio (hosted by Lazlow). Unusually, in ''IV'' the station is not available from the start, it is unlocked after the bridges to Algonquin are opened\ |
| 138 | '''PLR (Public Liberty Radio)''' -- Liberal-oriented talk radio, divided into three segments:\ |
| 139 | ''The SĂ©ance'' (call-in psychic, hosted by Beatrix Fontaine)\ |
| 140 | ''Pacemaker'' (healthcare debate, hosted Ryan [=McFallon=])\ |
| 141 | ''Intelligent Agenda'' (political debate, hosted by Mike Riley)\ |
| 142 | '''WKTT (We Know the Truth) 1066''' -- Conservative-oriented talk radio, divided into three (with two ''EFLC''-exclusive) segments:\ |
| 143 | ''The Richard Bastion Show'' (call-in talk show)\ |
| 144 | ''Just or Unjust'' (radio court, hosted by Judge Grady)\ |
| 145 | ''Fizz!'' (showbiz news, hosted by Jane Labrador, Marcel [=LeMuir=] and Jeffron James)\ |
| 146 | ''The Martin Serious Show'' (call-in shock jock; ''The Lost and Damned''-exclusive)\ |
| 147 | ''Conspire'' (conspiracy theories, hosted by "John Smith"; ''The Ballad of Gay Tony''-exclusive) |
| 148 | [[AC:Television Shows -- CNT]] |
| 149 | ->'''''A History of Liberty City''''' Two-part historical documentary (second half is ''EFLC''-exclusive)\ |
| 150 | '''''I'm Rich''''' -- Celebrity reality show, based on ''Creator/{{MTV}} Cribs''\ |
| 151 | '''''Princess Robot Bubblegum''''' -- Parody of {{seinen}} {{anime}} (''EFLC''-exclusive)\ |
| 152 | '''''The Serrated Edge''''' -- QVC-esque {{infomercial}} show selling knives |
| 153 | [[AC:Television Shows -- Weazel]] |
| 154 | ->'''''The Men's Room''''' -- Low-brow men's chat show, based on ''Series/TheManShow''\ |
| 155 | '''''Republican Space Rangers''''' -- Saturday morning cartoon parodying UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror (with ''EFLC''-exclusive episodes)\ |
| 156 | '''''Split Sides''''' -- Stand-up comedy\ |
| 157 | '''''Venturas Poker Challenge''''' -- Competitive poker program, that desperately tries to invoke MundaneMadeAwesome |
| 158 | !!!''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoChinatownWars'' |
| 159 | ->'''Prairie Cartel''' -- Alternative Rock\ |
| 160 | '''Truth[=+=]Soul''' -- Jazz, Funk\ |
| 161 | '''[[{{Music/deadmau5}} Deadmau5]]''' -- [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin House]]\ |
| 162 | '''Ticklah''' -- Reggae and Dub\ |
| 163 | '''Alchemist''' -- Hip Hop\ |
| 164 | '''Tortoise''' -- Post-Rock (PSP/[=iOS=]/Android-exclusive)\ |
| 165 | '''Anvil''' -- Heavy metal (PSP/[=iOS=]/Android-exclusive)\ |
| 166 | '''DJ Khalil''' -- Hip Hop (PSP/[=iOS=]/Android-exclusive)\ |
| 167 | '''[=SinoWav=] FM''' -- Traditional Chinese (PSP/[=iOS=]/Android-exclusive)\ |
| 168 | '''Turntables on the Hudson''' -- Worldbeat (PSP/[=iOS=]/Android-exclusive)\ |
| 169 | '''DFA''' -- Dance-Punk (PSP/[=iOS=]/Android-exclusive) |
| 170 | !!!''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' and ''Grand Theft Auto Online'' |
| 171 | [[AC:Radio Stations]] |
| 172 | ->'''The Blue Ark''' -- Reggae of various genres\ |
| 173 | '''blonded Los Santos 97.8 FM''' -- PBR&B, hip hop and soul (Added in The Doomsday Heist update)\ |
| 174 | '''Channel X''' -- Hardcore punk\ |
| 175 | '''East Los FM''' -- Mexican music \ |
| 176 | '''[=FlyLo=] FM''' -- Experimental electronic music and IDM\ |
| 177 | '''[=iFruit=] Radio''' -- Hip-hop, grime and afro fusion (Added in the Diamond Casino Heist update)\ |
| 178 | '''K.U.L.T. 99.1 FM''' -- GenreRoulette (Added in the Cayo Perico Heist update)\ |
| 179 | '''The Lab FM''' -- Original tracks of various genres (Initially exclusive to PC version, added to consoles in the Ill Gotten Gains Part 2 update)\ |
| 180 | '''Los Santos Rock Radio''' -- Classic AOR\ |
| 181 | '''Los Santos Underground Radio (LS-UR)''' -- Techno, house (Added in the After Hours update)\ |
| 182 | '''The Lowdown 91.1''' -- Classic soul\ |
| 183 | '''Media Player''' -- Not exactly a station per se, but houses sets which are unlocked by finding media sticks around Southern San Andreas (Added in the Los Santos Tuners update)\ |
| 184 | '''MOTOMAMI Los Santos''' -- Latin and electronic music (Added in The Contract update)\ |
| 185 | '''Music Locker Radio''' -- House, disco, techno (Added in the Cayo Perico Heist update)\ |
| 186 | '''Non-Stop-Pop FM''' -- Pop\ |
| 187 | '''Radio Los Santos''' -- Hip hop\ |
| 188 | '''Radio Mirror Park''' -- Indie\ |
| 189 | '''Rebel Radio''' -- Country\ |
| 190 | '''Self Radio''' -- User music (Exclusive for PC)\ |
| 191 | '''Soulwax FM''' -- Techno and house\ |
| 192 | '''Space 103.2''' -- Funk and R&B\ |
| 193 | '''Still Slipping Los Santos''' -- Modern club music (Added in the Cayo Perico Heist update)\ |
| 194 | '''Vinewood Boulevard Radio''' -- Garage Rock\ |
| 195 | '''West Coast Classics''' -- Oldschool West Coast hip hop\ |
| 196 | '''[=WorldWide=] FM''' -- Ambient and chillout\ |
| 197 | '''Blaine County Talk Radio (BCTR) 96.5''' -- Conservative-oriented talk radio, divided into three segments:\ |
| 198 | ''Blaine County Radio Community Hour'' (conspiracy theories, hosted by Ronald "Nervous Ron" Jakowski)\ |
| 199 | ''Beyond Insemination'' (agricultural advice, hosted by Duane Earl)\ |
| 200 | ''Bless Your Heart'' (cooking and politics, hosted by Bobby June)\ |
| 201 | '''WCTR (West Coast Talk Radio) 95.6''' -- Liberal-oriented talk radio, divided into three segments:\ |
| 202 | ''Chakra Attack'' (alternative medicine, hosted by Dr. Ray [=DeAngelo=] Harris)\ |
| 203 | ''The Fernando Show'' (current affairs, hosted by Fernando Martinez)\ |
| 204 | ''Chattersphere'' (call-in celebrity talk show, co-hosted by Lazlow and Michelle Makes) |
| 205 | [[AC:Television Shows -- CNT]] |
| 206 | ->'''''Impotent Rage''''' -- Saturday morning cartoon, parody of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' and [[BourgeoisBohemian limousine liberals]]\ |
| 207 | '''''Moorehead Rides Again''''' -- Animated hard-boiled detective show, based on the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era radio drama first heard in ''Vice City Stories''\ |
| 208 | '''''The Underbelly of Paradise''''' -- Crime documentary, hosted by Steven Haines ([[spoiler:replaced by Dave Norton after he is killed in Ending C]])\ |
| 209 | '''''Princess Robot Bubblegum''''' -- Parody of {{seinen}} {{anime}} (returning from ''IV''; [=PS4=]/Xbox One/PC only) |
| 210 | [[AC:Television Shows -- Weazel]] |
| 211 | ->'''''Fame or Shame''''' -- Exploitative talent show loosely based on ''Series/AmericanIdol'', ''Series/AmericasGotTalent'' and ''Series/TheXFactor'', hosted by Lazlow\ |
| 212 | '''''Jack Howitzer is Jack Howitzer in Jack Howitzer''''' -- Reality TV fame vehicle for the titular washed-up celebrity and Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger {{expy}}\ |
| 213 | '''''Kung Fu Rainbow Lazer Force''''' -- Saturday morning cartoon, parodying ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' and the [[TheMoralSubstitute evangelical Christian media]]\ |
| 214 | '''''Republican Space Rangers''''' -- Saturday morning cartoon parodying UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror (returning from ''IV'') |
| 215 | [[AC:Films]] |
| 216 | ->'''''Capolavoro''''' -- Italian art film, parody of LeFilmArtistique\ |
| 217 | '''''The Loneliest Robot in Great Britain''''' -- Parody of dark British animation\ |
| 218 | '''''Meltdown''''' -- Thriller about the Great Recession, parody of Hollywood blockbusters [[spoiler: co-produced by Michael de Santa]] |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
| 220 | ---- |
| 221 | !!This Show in a Show provides examples of: |
| 222 | |
| 223 | * AccidentalMisnaming: Nobody ever gets Lazlow's name right. |
| 224 | * AdamWesting |
| 225 | ** Lazlow is written and voiced by real-life radio host Lazlow Jones, who delights in making his character as reprehensible as possible. |
| 226 | ** Lazlow's real-life colleague and friend, Michael "Couzin Ed" Andrews, first appeared in ''Vice City'' as the previous host of ''V-Rock'' who crank calls his replacement, Lazlow. |
| 227 | --->'''Ed''': So you're calling me a "burnout," is that what you're saying?!\ |
| 228 | '''Lazlow''': Well, I heard you applied for this job with a resume written on [[TheStoner rolling papers]]. I mean, ''come on''!\ |
| 229 | '''Ed''': "Oh yeah, and you sent yours in [[BribingYourWayToVictory hand-written calligraphy with a bouquet of flowers]]! That's not rock and roll, man!" |
| 230 | ** In ''San Andreas'', Forth Right MC, the self-righteous MalcolmXerox host of Playback FM, is voiced by Chuck D of Music/PublicEnemy, a band famous for its militant lyrics. |
| 231 | ** In ''IV'', the host of Studio K109 is "DJ Karl", an arrogant eurotrash {{Cloudcuckoolander}} constantly ranting about fashion. He is voiced by fashion legend Karl Lagerfeld. |
| 232 | ** In the PC version of ''V'', The Lab is hosted by "Dr. No and The Chemical Bro", who are voiced by Oh No and The Alchemist, two of the people behind ''GTA V''[='=]s original soundtrack. |
| 233 | * TheAhnold: Many of the Jack Howitzer films are Schwarzenegger movie parodies, such as ''Film/{{Commando}}'' (''Evacuator Part II''; both are soldiers with their families kidnapped), ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' (''Annihilator'', possibly in name only) and ''Film/KindergartenCop'' (''Special Needs Cop''). |
| 234 | * AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles: The ''Princess Robot Bubblegum'' anime on ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV IV's]]'' CNT, which parodies many JapaneseMediaTropes. There's also a trailer for a separate HumongousMecha show with an equally WordSaladTitle, ''Full Hickey Hurry Robo Mech Battlesuit''. |
| 235 | -->'''Princess Robot Bubblegum:''' ''[Smiling]'' Oh-oh! Monster, monster, rapey time! |
| 236 | * AllNaturalSnakeOil: Waylon Mason, who appears on the ''Pacemaker'' segment of ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV IV's]]'' liberal talk radio station Public Liberty Radio (PLR), promotes his "home remedies" and attacks the other two guests -- Sheila Stafford and Wilson Taylor, Sr. -- as agents of big pharmaceutical and insurance companies, respectively. The show ends with him giving both of them [[YourHeadASplode involuntary trepanations]] in order to remove the "demons that are controlling them." |
| 237 | * AllPartOfTheShow: Spoofed with one of Lazlow's callers, along with TheNewRockAndRoll. A staunchly anti-video game mother claims that her very young game-addicted son witnessed his dog get run over in real life, only to look around for a reset button. |
| 238 | * AlternateContinuity: Averted. Even as ''IV'' jettisoned the established canon and started from scratch, ''GTA Radio'''s continuity went on, with Lazlow making a return and several gags and characters from previous games (Love Fist, the Epsilon Program, Marvin Trill) being referenced. The radio is arguably the only point of continuity between the 3D and HD universes. |
| 239 | ** Although ''V'' suggests that this may in fact be the case, and that the changes for the lives of the radio hosts are simply less major than the changes in continuity for the rest of the world. Notably, Fernando Martinez states in ''V'' that he's an illegal immigrant, where as in the ''III'' continuity, he was from upstate Liberty, putting on a faux foreign persona. |
| 240 | ** Lazlow’s appearance in ''V'' however would raise a few questions if he indeed was the very same Lazlow from all the way back TheEighties in ''Vice City'', someone who has been in the business for almost 30 years would have shown visible aging by 2013, yet he doesn’t look quite old in ''V''. Then again, it's Vinewood. Plastic surgery is par for the course. |
| 241 | * AmbiguouslyBi: The Blind Swordsman gets even more flamboyant in the ''Princess Robot Bubblegum'' sequel for ''V'', striking poses all the time, lisping more than ever, worrying about his hair getting messed with, liking boybands… and with that came the fact that he and Bubblegum became a couple; Hentai Master points out that Princess Robot Bubblegum’s fans are not happy with her dating this kind of guy, saying that he “plays at both sides of the sushi bar”. |
| 242 | * AnachronismStew: Although the radio does a good job of being strict when it comes to keeping to the years the games are set in, there are occasionally a few examples of this trope: |
| 243 | ** On Wildstyle, Mr Magic claims that he is playing a world premiere of "More Bounce to the Ounce", a song which came out in 1980. |
| 244 | ** San Andreas also has two songs by Music/IceCube which were released in 1993. In addition, both "It Was A Good Day" and "[[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine Killing in the Name]]" were created in response to the 1992 LA Riots, [[spoiler:the GTA equivalent of which doesn't occur until just before the penultimate mission, "Los Desperados"]]. |
| 245 | ** Episodes From Liberty City uses many songs created in 2009 despite taking place in 2008. |
| 246 | ** The Platform/PlayStation4, Platform/XboxOne and PC versions of ''GTA V'' contain various songs created in 2014 onwards, despite the game taking place in 2013. This extends to the stations added in the Doomsday Heist, After Hours, Diamond Casino Heist and Cayo Perico Heist updates for ''Online'', which is even more blatant since the Doomsday and Casino Heist updates move ''Online'''s timeline forward. |
| 247 | ** The mobile version of Liberty City Stories adds songs from the 2000s despite the game being in 1998. |
| 248 | ** The 2018 update to Vladivostok FM includes songs made after 2008. |
| 249 | ** Since GTAIV and V takes place between 2008 and 2013 respectively, there's nothing stopping you from playing songs from 2014 and onwards, especially if it's a bought song you inserted into the User Music folder. |
| 250 | * AncientAstronauts: Mentioned occasionally by Nervous Ron in ''V'' when he mentions the "Anunnaki" mentioned by the Sumerians in their ancient tablets. |
| 251 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: One station ID for Rebel Radio says it's "the home of gun control, progressive politics and... breakdancing... yeah." |
| 252 | * AsHimself: Lazlow and Couzin Ed, although the two are much friendlier in real life. Creator/BasRutten, though, is not much of an exaggeration. |
| 253 | ** Most of the music radio [=DJs=] in ''IV'' and ''V'' are real-life musicians or involved in the industry as a DJ or producer, up to and including Music/IggyPop on Liberty Rock Radio in the former and [[Music/CaptainMurphy Flying Lotus]] on [=FlyLo=] FM in the latter |
| 254 | * AssShove: A caller leaves a message on Ron Jakowski's radio show that he followed his advice on preparing for an alien invasion by storing various rations in his ass.[[labelnote:*]]Items include a pound of rice, two energy bars, a commemorative plate, a tiny saw, a deck of cards, a tiny radio, loose change, a prophylactic, a masonry bit, a first-aid kit, a nudie magazine, cigarettes, chewing tobacco, a copy of his medical records, and a mammogram pillow.[[/labelnote]] |
| 255 | * AttackOfThePoliticalAd: John Hunter and Michael Graves run these in ''IV'', as do Jock Cranley and Sue Murry in ''V''. |
| 256 | * AuthorAppeal: |
| 257 | ** A disproportionate number of radio tracks were also featured on the 80s TV series ''Miami Vice'' - not only in ''Vice City'', obviously, but in subsequent games such as ''San Andreas'' and ''V''. Notably, these even include Creator/DonJohnson's largely forgotten song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CR4lSORZ_Q Heartbeat]]. This reflects the fact that the very first GTA game was at least partly inspired by the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR8YU1QWfjg 1986 licensed video game]] of ''Miami Vice''. |
| 258 | ** Being that Rockstar is from Britain (more specifically, UsefulNotes/{{Scotland}}), Non-Stop-Pop features a disproportionate amount of British artists, even when it doesn't make much sense. While some of them are feasible as they have following stateside (Gorillaz, M.I.A., Naked Eyes, Wham!, Pet Shop Boys), quite a few are considered {{One Hit Wonder}}s across the Atlantic (Dirty Vegas, All Saints[[note]]half of whom are Canadian, but the point still stands[[/note]]), but others are almost completely unheard of despite being popular back home (Living in a Box, Moloko, Morcheeba, N-Joi, Music/{{Jamiroquai}}, Music/RobbieWilliams, Sneaker Pimps, Bronski Beat, Mis-Teeq, Blow Monkeys). With the next-gen version, the British artists outnumber the Americans. The fact that it's hosted by the British Creator/CaraDelevingne adds to this. Moreover, many of the non-British artists are also European, which leaves Americans in an even bigger minority despite being a pop station set in the US. |
| 259 | * BadBadActing: The second claimant in the Crimson Spouse Indemnity Executive Service is clearly reading his statement out. |
| 260 | * BerserkButton: Jack Howitzer proves to be a very paranoid guest. |
| 261 | -->I heard what you've been saying about me. You think steroids shrunk my genitals! |
| 262 | ** Mrs. Cipriani hates being called "grandma", as when she called into Lazlow's ''Chatterbox'' program in ''Liberty City Stories'' and was called "grandma" by him, she threatened to put a hit on Lazlow. |
| 263 | * BestialityIsDepraved: Referenced and PlayedForLaughs. |
| 264 | ** In ''Vice City'''s K-Chat, one of Amy's guests is Pat "Mr. Zoo" Flannerdy, an Australian biologist with an unusual love for animals. |
| 265 | ** In ''San Andreas'' the CountryMusic station K-ROSE makes reference to it on some station [=IDs=]. |
| 266 | --->K-ROSE -- because if you spend more time with farm animals than your wife, you'll have a lonely heart and a nasty infection! ''[Sound of goat bleating]'' |
| 267 | ** In ''IV'', one of the commercial spots for call-in psychic show "The SĂ©ance" has this spiel from host Beatrix Fontaine: |
| 268 | --->Find out if you're going to die. Or make love. Or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs die making love]] [[BreadEggsMilkSquick with a horse]]. |
| 269 | ** ''V'''s ''Beyond Insemination'' has Duane Earl getting getting a call from a guy who wants advice on cows so he can jerk off to them more easily. Earl is [[EveryoneHasStandards outraged at this]] and complains about his show attracting sexual deviants. |
| 270 | ** One of ''V'''s commercials for PiĂźwasser lager takes this trope up to eleven, showing an obviously drunken man implicitly ''raping a pig''. |
| 271 | * BlatantLies: Mr. Magic of Wildstyle says the radio station has no advertisements, since it's a pirate station. However, a commercial for "Complete the Look" can be heard on the station. |
| 272 | ** Likewise, the robotic voices in SF-UR claim the station is commercial-free, which is obviously false. Though in this case it's because all stations in ''San Andreas'' are shuffled rather than mixed together. |
| 273 | * BleepDammit: The censorship with the dialogue starts becoming nonexistent from ''San Andreas'' onwards, with radio hosts and [=DJs=] liberally swearing and talking about inappropriate subject matter uncensored on live broadcast radio and television. |
| 274 | * BlindIdiotTranslation: Parodied in ''Princess Robot Bubblegum''. |
| 275 | * BlindWeaponmaster: Averted to the point of parody in ''Princess Robot Bubblegum''. The blind swordsman can only manage to hit [[StealthPun a handicapped sign]] with his {{BFS}}. |
| 276 | * BourgeoisBohemian: Parodied in the ''Impotent Rage'' cartoon show. |
| 277 | * {{Bowdlerise}}: Spoofed in ''Princess Robot Bubblegum’s'' segment in V, when numbering their revenue alternatives for saving their home, Master Hentai and Bubblegum talk about how their [=DVDs=] have been censored in the West, not selling very well ever since. |
| 278 | * BreadEggsMilkSquick: A caller on Chatterbox phones in to gush about the internet, saying it's good for her hobbies like jazz, cooking, and bestiality. |
| 279 | * BrickJoke: Due to the nature of the medium, which part is the setup and which is the punchline varies. |
| 280 | ** On [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII III's]] "Chatterbox FM", a man calls in to talk about eating wildlife, especially pigeons, noting that some of them have "little notes attached, like a fortune cookie with wings". Later, a woman from anti-technology pressure group Citizens Raging Against Phones [[Main/FunWithAcronyms (CRAP)]] calls in, mentioning the difficulty of organizing meetings without phones, resorting instead to using carrier pigeons and noting that they keep disappearing. |
| 281 | ** Another part of the show has a disturbed British immigrant calling in to tell Lazlow about how he was spanked by his nanny as a child and that he needs one again because he's "been a very naughty boy". A few minutes later, a woman calls to complain about how rude people around her tend to be, mentioning that she's told her hired nanny to teach her kids manners- the very next caller is the British man again, still going on about nannies for five seconds before Lazlow cuts him off. |
| 282 | ** Also on ''III'', a caller calls Lazlow about Killer Bees. On ''LCFR'', a caller who is disgusted about honey because it contains "bee shit" warns Lazlow about the killer bees. |
| 283 | ** One caller to Chatterbox in ''III'' calls to claim "everyone knows that women are made from sand". Nine years earlier in ''San Andreas'', Marvin Trill opens the first "Area 53" segment on WCTR with several questions, including "are women made from sand?" |
| 284 | * ButtMonkey |
| 285 | ** On a human level, we've got plenty to choose from GTA Radio's numerous characters, but Lazlow takes the cake. |
| 286 | ** On a national level, Australia gets this treatment, mostly as a dig to its infamous censorship laws (of which both the ''III'' and ''IV'' sagas were affected, due to the presence of prostitution). With the loosening of restrictions by the time ''V'' rolls out, however, the mockery is somewhat relaxed in favor of turning to France for national jokes. |
| 287 | * TheCameo: Some celebrities have made short appearances on the radio, such as [[Music/CypressHill B-Real]] voicing a station ident on Radio Los Santos in SA, or Music/BustaRhymes calling into The Beat in EFLC. |
| 288 | * CantHoldHisLiquor: In ''The Lost and Damned''... |
| 289 | -->'''Max Cavalera''': "[[PrecisionFStrike Fuck you]], Jimmy [Gestapo], you left puke all over the studio last night!" |
| 290 | * CardCarryingVillain: The Clucking Bell adverts from ''San Andreas'' are all about their horrific treatment of their chickens, mix with gloating that no-one can stop them because they're a massive corporation. |
| 291 | -->''Cock-a-doodle-doo, we're a huge corporation!''\ |
| 292 | ''Cock-a-doodle-doo, and we can't be stopped!''\ |
| 293 | ''All you protestors can go to Hell!''\ |
| 294 | ''It's time for Clucking Bell!'' |
| 295 | * CastingGag: Mike Whitely, one of the more notable radio announcers of ''IV's'' Weazel News, is voiced by an actual radio veteran, John Montone of CBS' New York City-based 1010 WINS AM (the ''originator'' of all-news radio). |
| 296 | * CelebrityParadox: |
| 297 | ** Axl Rose voices Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith in ''San Andreas's'' classic rock station K-DST, yet Music/GunsNRoses clearly exists in the game's continuity, since the song "Welcome to the Jungle" plays on modern rock station Radio X. Adding to the humor, Sage, the station's host whom Tommy publicly dislikes, claims to have slept with the entire band before ''Appetite for Destruction'' was released. |
| 298 | ** Played with on The Beat 102.7 in ''IV''. The station features real-life Hot 97 [=DJs=] Funkmaster Flex, who claims Liberty as his hometown. Flex also implies that the universe's version of Music/{{Nas}} is from Dukes. |
| 299 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Fernando Martinez is not heard or mentioned in any of the radio stations of ''Liberty City Stories'' or ''Chinatown Wars'', despite being on the radio stations in every other game since ''III''. |
| 300 | * ClusterFBomb: Jimmy Gestapo, DJ of ''IV's'' LCHC and Luke Campbell on ''Vice City Stories''' Fresh 105 FM are quite fond of firing off four letter words, as is Iggy Pop of ''IV's'' Liberty Rock Radio. |
| 301 | * ComicallyMissingThePoint |
| 302 | ** At one point, ''The Wild Traveler'' receives a phone call from an obviously suicidal man. |
| 303 | --->'''Suicidal Man:''' I'm gonna jump!\ |
| 304 | '''James Pedeaston:''' Yes, I know what you mean. Jump into the unknown! How can it be a sin if it feels good? |
| 305 | ** Ron in his show tends to take his submitted messages out of context to fuel his InsaneTrollLogic. One example is him interpreting a message from a guy performing South American rituals that involves the killing of virgins to better fit with his Illuminati bank theories. |
| 306 | * ConspiracyKitchenSink: This is the world according to Ron Jakowski in ''V'''s "Blaine County Radio Community Hour" segment of BCTR, and even calling it that is quite an understatement. |
| 307 | * ConspiracyTheorist: |
| 308 | ** Marvin Trill, host of the ''Area 53'' segment of West Coast Talk Radio (WCTR) in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]]'', a parody of ''Radio/CoastToCoastAM''. |
| 309 | ** "John Smith" in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV IV's]]'' conservative talk radio We Know The Truth (WKTT), a parody of [[RightWingMilitiaFanatic right-wing/libertarian]] {{conspiracy theorist}}s. |
| 310 | ** Continued in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV V]]'' with Ron's Blaine County Radio Community Hour podcast, focusing on Creator/DavidIcke-style [[ReptilianConspiracy Lizard People]] conspiracies and "Big Pharma." |
| 311 | * ConceptsAreCheap: {{Parodied|Trope}} when a guy by the name of "Jeff" calls in, advertising a rally at Liberty City Park. However, when the show's host asks what the rally's actually about, Jeff responds with an escalation of otherwise meaningless phrases and appeals, including "for justice", "for the future", and "for hope". The host continues asking, only to be met with more cheap concepts and pleas for attendance, until it turns out the guy doesn't know what it's about. |
| 312 | * ContractualPurity: InUniverse -- come ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]]'', Jimmy, the precocious young star of ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]]'''s ''Just the Five of Us'', has become a drunken mess. |
| 313 | * ContinuityNod: Sometimes tiny off-hand mentions get expanded upon later. In ''GTA III'' Lazlow mentions he started hosting talk radio after he got kicked off the rock station, and comments to one caller that his show isn't Gardening with Maurice. In ''Vice City'' he is indeed hosting the rock station, and the soundtrack album for that station has a bonus track which tells what exactly Lazlow did that got him fired. As for Gardening with Maurice, that is on the air in ''San Andreas''. |
| 314 | * CrossOver: [[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce Carl Brutananadilewski]] calls [=FlyLo=] FM to complain about the music. |
| 315 | * CutShort: An in-universe example with ''"The Time Ranger"'', which was cancelled for obvious reasons. |
| 316 | * DeadlyGame: ''Liberty City Survivor'', advertised in ''III''. The ad, complemented with fan footage from ''IV'', can be listened to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwRera2ig9k here]]. Arguably the basis for ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}}''. |
| 317 | * DeadpanSnarker: The announcer for ''San Andreas'''s WCTR News snarks quite a lot in news intros. |
| 318 | -->''(WCTR News #01):'' Next up on WCTR -- the news. We tried to make it interesting and not depressing.\ |
| 319 | ''(WCTR News #03):'' Next up, we've got the news. This time, some of it's true! Who are we kidding?\ |
| 320 | ''(WCTR News #04):'' Next up, it's sensationalist propaganda. I mean, the news.\ |
| 321 | ''(WCTR News #06):'' Is the world ending? We hope so -- we need the ratings. The news is next! |
| 322 | * [[DifferentWorldDifferentMovies Different World, Different Songs]]: Averted. Some licensed songs reference real-world locations or intellectual properties are used, despite the fact that fictional counterparts are used for some of them in the GTA universe, and no attempt is made to alter the lyrics. For example, ''Vice City'''s Wave 103 features "Kids in America" by Music/KimWilde, which mentions New York and California, despite the fact that Liberty State and San Andreas have respectively replaced those states in the GTA universe. ''Grand Theft Auto V'' features "Glamorous" by Fergie, which explicitly mentions Taco Bell, despite the fact that Taco Bell doesn't exist in GTA, although a similarly named fast food chain exists called Cluckin' Bell. There are also several songs with real-world locations in their names, and [=DJs=] themselves have brought up New York City a couple times. |
| 323 | * DisproportionateRetribution: |
| 324 | ** One of the guests in ''Vice City's'' rendition of VCPR, Jan Brown mentioned she beat her son "to an inch of his life" for using slang words in front of her. |
| 325 | ** Also from ''Vice City's'' version of VCPR, Michelle Montanious hopes Fran from Little Havana "dies an agonizing death" for making a $10 pledge. |
| 326 | * DistractedByTheLuxury: ''San Andreas's'' [=DeKoch=] Ice commercial claims that "Diamonds can [[ItMakesSenseInContext chill that bitch out]]". |
| 327 | * TheDitz: Amy Sheckenhausen from ''Vice City's'' K-Chat fits this trope perfectly, flirting with her famous or attractive guests and, until the end of an interview, being completely oblivious to the fact that one of her guests was promoting [[BestialityIsDepraved bestiality]]. |
| 328 | * TheDungAges: "A History of Liberty" from ''IV[='s=]'' in-game TV station Public Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) sees this trope applied from the [[UsefulNotes/TheThirteenAmericanColonies founding of America]] up to the [[TheGreatDepression early 20th century]]. This [[{{Mockumentary}} "documentary"]] also dabbles in AnachronismStew, having made mention of porno magazines, subways, roller coasters, convenience stores and a ProductPlacement or two inserted as being part of [[HollywoodHistory "American history"]] anywhere from decades to centuries before they became prolific. |
| 329 | %%* DumbassDJ: Most of the [=DJs=] count. |
| 330 | * {{Eagleland}}: The Republican Space Rangers are representatives from the Boorish version of this trope, [-[[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]-] |
| 331 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: All of the [=DJs=] in Vice City have artwork to accompany them, which is useful as without it we would not know what they look like. In every other game there is no artwork of the [=DJs=], with the odd exception of Karl Lagerfeld in IV. In general, ''III'' made heavy use of original tracks, something that was largely phased out but still present in ''Vice City'' (''Liberty City Stories'' returned to using original tracks as a throwback). Additionally, stations in ''III'' and ''Vice City'' used [[{{Bowdlerization}} clean tracks]], most apparent with Game Radio but also cropped up in Wave 103 with the song "Love Missile F-11" by Sigue Sigue Sputnik (though the uncensored version of "Never Say Never" by Romeo Void is played on the station) and [=DJs=] would chastise callers for using harsher swears on the airwaves. This was dropped by the time the [[ClusterFBomb profanity laden]] ''San Andreas'' came out. |
| 332 | ** In terms of characters, those who listened to the Lazlow of ''IV'' and ''V'' where he was really full of himself who then go on to hear his debut in ''III'' will likely be taken aback by how much of the OnlySaneMan he was back then. Almost any of his responses to the Chatterbox callers' weirdness (or his two guest stars) is endless snarking or pure disbelief compared to how he'd be in later games. |
| 333 | * ExecutiveMeddling: Invoked InUniverse on Fernando Martinez's show on WCTR in ''V'' is heavily constrained by this, as the station's standards department forces him to cover up his lecherous LatinLover attitude and run a dull political/current events talk show. Going by his frequent {{Freudian slip}}s, it's not working. |
| 334 | * ExpyCoexistence: |
| 335 | ** ''Vice City'' features Love Fist playing alongside the HairMetal bands they parody on V-Rock. |
| 336 | ** [[http://westcoastraplegends.com/ A promotional site]] for ''San Andreas'' implies there's a Ganton's Most Wanted, AKA a Compton's Most Wanted for the in-game equivalent. The actual Compton's Most Wanted plays on this game's radio as well as ''V'' 's. |
| 337 | ** ''Liberty City Stories'' features Sunshine Shine, a blatant parody of late 90s [[BoyBand boy bands]] such as the Music/BackstreetBoys and Music/{{NSYNC}}. The actual Backstreet Boys can be heard on the radio in ''V'' 's UpdatedRerelease. |
| 338 | * FakeBand: A staple in early ''GTA'' games, it was mostly dropped by the time ''III'' came around with all but two music stations (Head Radio and Lips 106) playing licensed music. In ''Vice City'', HairMetal parody band Love Fist had two original songs -- "Dangerous Bastard" and "Fist Fury" -- on V-Rock (the game's rock station), and Unaesta, Tres Apenas Como Eso and Alpha Banditos had one each on the Espantoso station. ''Liberty City Stories'' was the last game in the series to have original music, though ''V'' would include a musical score and songs commissioned for the game. |
| 339 | * {{Fanservice}}: Parodied and lampshaded as much as possible in ''Princess Robot Bubblegum''. |
| 340 | -->'''Master Hentai:''' Remember your training... Submitting to bizarre male fantasies of women in a [[BlatantLies completely non-misogynistic and sexually healthy way]]! |
| 341 | * FictionalVideoGame: |
| 342 | ** ''Vice City'' has commercials on its radio stations for the Degenetron game system, which features such titles as ''Defender of the Faith'' ("Destroy the blue dots with your powerful red square!"). In ''San Andreas'', they appear on retro arcade machines. You can't play them, but you can play the "emulator" on the [[{{Defictionalization}} defictionalised]] [[http://www.rockstargames.com/degenatron/ Degenatron "fansite."]] |
| 343 | ** ''III'' also has ads for ''Pogo the Monkey'', which is later referenced by a ''Pogo the Monkey'' arcade in the cab firm from ''Vice City''. |
| 344 | ** ''IV'' has ''Civil Service'', a parody of ''VideoGame/SimCity'' which encourages the player to favor big business and keep down minorities. ''Episodes from Liberty City'' also has ads for ''Deity'', a [[AGodIsYou god game]] in the vein of ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite''. |
| 345 | ** ''V'' takes this trope full circle with ''Righteous Slaughter 7'', a parody of [[UltraSuperDeathGoreFestChainsawer3000 video game violence]] of the sort that ''GTA'' itself had long indulged in, as well as FranchiseZombie sequels and derivative FPS games. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAJG8tF5MQM gameplay footage]] we see is essentially ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' meets ''VideoGame/{{Postal}}''. While it doesn't [[MurderSimulators turn those who play it into murderous psychopaths]], it ''does'' seem to turn them into [[InternetJerk foul-mouthed, bigoted assholes]], judging by what we see of the people who play it. There's also ''Pride Not Prejudice'', a DeepSouth-themed FPS advertised on the radio. |
| 346 | ** The Diamond Casino Heist update for ''GTA Online'' added a VideoArcade as a new hideout, and as part of the [[AnEntrepreneurIsYou business management minigame]], you can purchase and install a slew of fictional arcade machines based on various games from the '80s and '90s, all of them fully playable. |
| 347 | * FollowTheLeader: Thanks to the success of GTA Radio, most open world crime games now include car radios which play licensed music, whether through a radio format (''VideoGame/SaintsRow'', VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012) or a playlist ([[VideoGame/TrueCrimeStreetsOfLA True Crime]]). Even the [[VideoGame/ForzaMotorsport Forza Horizon]] games and ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime Ratchet & Clank]]'' have had them! |
| 348 | * FrivolousLawsuit: In ''San Andreas'', there is a news story of a man suing the Renaissance Fair because a replica catapult he purchased didn't have a label warning him not to fire it at his insurance agent's house, accidentally setting the entire neighborhood on fire. |
| 349 | -->I don't wanna work very hard so I've hired a lawyer. I'm gonna be rich! |
| 350 | * FunWithAcronyms: |
| 351 | ** ''III[='s=]'' anti-technology pressure group '''C'''itizens '''R'''aging '''A'''gainst '''P'''hones. |
| 352 | ** From ''Vice City'', '''C'''onsider '''O'''ur '''K'''ids '''E'''veryday. |
| 353 | ** From ''Liberty City Stories'', CRAP's predecessor '''C'''itizens '''U'''nited '''N'''egating '''T'''echnology '''f'''or '''L'''ife '''a'''nd '''P'''eople's '''S'''afety. |
| 354 | ** Also from ''Liberty City Stories'', '''L'''iberty '''C'''ity '''F'''ree '''R'''adio (LCFR) -- as in "[[{{Satan}} LuCiFeR]]". |
| 355 | ** In ''San Andreas'', '''B'''an '''I'''mmigration '''G'''reen Cards '''O'''utright '''T'''oday. |
| 356 | ** In ''IV'', '''A'''sian '''S'''tereotypes '''S'''icken '''F'''amilies, '''U'''nity, '''C'''ommunities and '''K'''arma. A Weazel article on the in-game internet namedrops in relation to a border security bill a group called '''B'''order '''A'''gents '''L'''ove '''L'''and '''S'''ecurity. |
| 357 | ** In ''IV: Episodes from Liberty City'', '''C'''itizens '''U'''nderstand '''M'''edieval '''G'''ames '''U'''ndermine '''L'''oving '''P'''arents. |
| 358 | ** [[ConMan Jeremy Robard]]'s "self-help" programs in ''Vice City'' include: |
| 359 | *** '''T'''hink, '''H'''old That Thought, '''C'''omplete |
| 360 | *** '''L'''earn, '''S'''tart '''D'''oing |
| 361 | *** '''M'''otivate, '''D'''emonstrate, '''M'''otivate '''A'''gain |
| 362 | ** The internet of ''V'' brings us the '''A'''theist '''S'''ociety '''S'''erving '''M'''ankind '''U'''nder '''N'''oteworthy '''C'''oordinated '''H'''umanism. |
| 363 | * GainaxEnding: Parodied in the ending of the ''Princess Robot Bubblegum'' episode in ''V'', in which the tentacle monster from the ''IV'' episode bursts in and sings a song about how the production staff was out of ideas and didn't know how to end the episode. |
| 364 | * GenkiGirl: [[{{Deconstruction}} Deconstructed]] by Jenny Louise Crab, a guest on VCPR in ''Vice City''. She's all happy, upbeat and energetic because she was prescribed heavy anti-depressants ever since her family was gruesomely murdered. |
| 365 | * GenreRoulette: Some stations play a wide variety of music under the same banner. |
| 366 | ** Non-Stop-Pop FM is a pop station that alternates between '80s pop, '00s R&B, eurohouse, trip-hop, '10s electro-pop, and alternative rock. |
| 367 | ** [=WorldWide=] FM is whatever it feels like being. It plays "world music", but that's a blanket term for eclectic music consisting of jazz, chillout, electronica, post-dubstep, alternative hip-hop, post-rock, and minimal. |
| 368 | ** Ditto for blonded Los Santos, as the station plays a mixture of funk, alternative R&B, rap, IDM, techno, grime and indie rock. |
| 369 | ** [=FlyLo=] is an IDM station, but it also mixes it with trap, soul, glitch, and hip-hop. |
| 370 | ** [=iFruit=] Radio plays a mixture of contemporary (circa 2019 when the station was added) trap and hip-hop, UK drill, drum and bass, bassline, electro, grime, dancehall and afrobeats. |
| 371 | ** Kult FM focuses primarily on post punk and new wave, but throws in some oddball genres like dub, east coast hip hop, EBM, traditional pop and even a proto-acid house track, like a cross between Wave 103, The Classics 104.1, Electro Choc and Liberty Rock Radio. |
| 372 | * GenreShift: Most of the stations that return from ''IV'' in ''Episodes From Liberty City'' go through this, some in more subtle ways than others: |
| 373 | ** Vladivostok FM went from playing a variety of Eastern European music in ''IV'' to playing Western HouseMusic in ''EFLC'', making the name of the station an ArtifactTitle. This is especially pronounced in the Complete Edition version of the station, where both sets coexist. |
| 374 | ** Electro-Choc changed from playing somewhat more underground electro house, EBM, and Post-Punk to more mainstream (in 2009) fidget house, bloghaus and even some DubStep. |
| 375 | ** LCHC went from HardcorePunk to DeathMetal. |
| 376 | ** K109 The Studio went from underground disco and early HouseMusic to focus on mainstream disco hits. |
| 377 | ** San Juan Sounds has diversified beyond reggaeton, playing a variety of latin genres such as bachata and merengue. |
| 378 | ** Liberty Rock Radio and Radio Broker, with the former taking a more hard rock and heavy metal direction while the latter goes for more harder edged post punk revival and industrial rock influenced sound and drops the DancePunk side of its playlist (unless playing on the GFWL/Xbox Live or Steam/RGSC Complete Edition versions) |
| 379 | * GratuitousEnglish: Pepe of ''GTA VC[='s=]'' Radio Espantoso, as well as Don Cheto and Mexican Institute of Sound of V's East Los FM. |
| 380 | * GroinAttack: Pastor Richards shoots nudist Barry Stark in the genitals towards the end of the Morality segment on Pressing Issues, as evidenced by Maurice Chavez saying "There is blood and pubic hair all over the studio!" and Barry saying he needs a proctologist. |
| 381 | * HangingJudge: Judge Grady, host of court show parody "Just or Unjust" segment of ''IV[='s=]'' right-wing talk station We Know the Truth (WKTT). The show's introduction has him fining a man a million dollars for "wasting the court's time," and he uses [[DuelToTheDeath duels]] and [[BloodSport gladiatorial combat]] between plaintiff and defendant as a means of settling disputes. |
| 382 | * {{Hipster}}: Parodied in ''IV[='s=]'' Indie-AlternativeRock radio station Radio Broker, complete with host Creator/JulietteLewis letting off some [[SelfDeprecation self-aimed barbs]]. Same also applies with ''V[='s=]'' Indie-NewWaveMusic-SynthPop radio station Radio Mirror Park, with host George Lewis Jr. (Twin Shadow) riding penny-farthing bikes. |
| 383 | * HostileShowTakeover: Pastor Richards and Jack Howitzer briefly take over the show by the end of their segments. |
| 384 | ** Also done in the last segment of "Lonely Hearts" in ''San Andreas'' by none other than Fernando Martinez. |
| 385 | * HummerDinger: Parodied with the Maibatsu Monstrosity. |
| 386 | -->I live alone, so of course, I needed a car that seats twelve and is equipped to drive across Arctic tundra!\ |
| 387 | So what if it only gets 3 miles to the gallon? I'm a mom, not a conservationist! |
| 388 | * HypocriticalHumor: Donald Love's station ident. |
| 389 | -->Our new satellite in [[ChinaTakesOverTheWorld China]] is something all Americans can be proud of. |
| 390 | ** In Liberty City Stories, Morgan Merryweather calls in on Double Clef FM's then-DJ Sergio Boccino and complains that he plays too much music by Italian composers, despite playing the same amount of music by Italian composers 3 years later. |
| 391 | ** The [[FunWithAcronyms Citizens Raging Against Phones]] caller, whom Lazlow is quick to call out. |
| 392 | -->'''Lazlow:''' What kind of moron are you? You want to round people up for using the phone, but you're calling up ''on'' a phone to tell the world about it! |
| 393 | * IAmNotSpock: In-Universe. ''Vice City''[='=]s Claude Maginot, a [[ClassicallyTrainedExtra classically-trained actor]] who is incredibly dismayed about how he is best known as the star of the {{sitcom}} ''Just the Five of Us'', which he calls "commercial dross". In an interview on K-Chat, he tries to steer the subject toward his interpretive dance show ''In the Future, There Will be Robots'', and [[CreatorBreakdown breaks down into a rant]] when [[TheDitz Amy]] keeps trying to push the subject toward his show. |
| 394 | * IdleRich[=/=]UpperClassTwit: Many celebrities featured in ''IV'' are nothing more but directionless heirs with absolutely nothing to do but waste money on ostentatious stuff. Cloe Parker, Jill Von Crastenburg, January Natasha Vasquez, Samantha Muldoon, and Kerry [=McIntosh=] are direct {{Exp|y}}ies of Nicole Richie, Creator/ParisHilton, Creator/KimKardashian, Music/{{Madonna}}, and breakdown-era Music/BritneySpears, respectively. |
| 395 | * IHaveYourWife: Parodied in a commercial for the action movie ''Exploder'' in ''Vice City''. |
| 396 | -->'''Commander:''' Tim, they've got your wife!\ |
| 397 | '''Tim:''' But I'm not married!\ |
| 398 | '''Commander:''' You are now... to ''America!'' |
| 399 | * IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: In ''San Andreas'', [[TheAhnold Jack Howitzer]] accidentally shoots and kills interviewer Billy Dexter, first host of WCTR's ''Entertaining America'' segment (he was replaced by Lazlow after a long hiatus), while they're both on the air. It's implied that he was sentenced to death after doing this. ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony The Ballad of Gay Tony]]'' reveals that he was eventually paroled. |
| 400 | * ImAHumanitarian: Strongly implied by Jerry, the very first caller on Ron's show, complete with namecalling the actual TropeNamer for "NoPartyLikeADonnerParty". |
| 401 | -->'''Jerry:''' Some liberal doctor gonna tell me I have diabetes? I call bullshit! Goddamn liar, I eat what I want, motherfucker! Just like my great-grand-pappy. He was in the Donner Party! Now that's some American ingenuity right there! |
| 402 | * InGameTV: Starting with ''IV''. In past games, there were also ads for various TV shows, although you couldn't watch them. |
| 403 | * InsaneTrollLogic: Ron Jakowski's stock in trade. At one point, he's convinced that Pluto no longer "being" a planet is a conspiracy, believing that this indicates the government [[{{Unperson}} either purged it from existence or destroyed it]]. |
| 404 | * IsntItIronic: On VCFL, "Nightshift" is dedicated to someone's wife for working at night. It's actually a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson, who passed away in 1984, the same year Vice City Stories takes place in. |
| 405 | * IsThisThingStillOn: During a commercial break on VCPR, the announcers end up referring to Maurice Chavez as a useless, talentless asshole while the mic is still on. |
| 406 | * JapanTakesOverTheWorld: To go along with [[TheEighties the time period]] the game is set in, a radio advert in Vice City parodies this, promoting American made cars that help American families over Japanese imports. |
| 407 | * JerkassHasAPoint: Maurice Chavez is frequently established to be a self-involved asshole, but he's also usually the OnlySaneMan on any of his radio shows. |
| 408 | * KentBrockmanNews: All over the place, particularly ''San Andreas''' WCTR News and Weazel News in ''IV'' and ''V''. |
| 409 | * LargeHam: Among others, most notable are Lazlow and radio news anchors Richard Burns (''San Andreas'') and Mike Whitely (''IV''). |
| 410 | ** LargeHamRadio |
| 411 | * LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: This is how the ''GTA III'' mix of Rise FM ends. |
| 412 | * MedicalDrama: Parodied in ''IV'' with the ads for ''Medicate Me''. |
| 413 | * MediumAwareness: Played with; Ron's paranoia has convinced him that the instant you "open an account", a virtual cyberspace replica of yourself, who you must continuously level up and buy stuff for, is created, and there's even a doppelganger of himself out there somewhere. Rather than discussing ''V'''s Online Mode, though, he thinks this what happens when you invest with a bank. And then there's ''Meltdown'', which is BetterThanABareBulb ''personified''. |
| 414 | * MerchandiseDriven |
| 415 | ** The film ''Dragonbrain'' in ''IV'', a parody of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies and especially [[FollowTheLeader their copycats]]. |
| 416 | ** Heavily and mercilessly parodied and lampshaded in ''Princess Robot Bubblegum''. The end of the second episode lists all the merchandise based off the series. |
| 417 | * {{Metaphorgotten}}: Lampshaded by Ron when he tries to explain the low bee population with a tangent about getting a semen sample from a horse and giving TooMuchInformation about it. |
| 418 | * MoodWhiplash: All stations in San Andreas have a completely different set of scripts and reactions that play [[spoiler: during the riots]]. Most of them are [[CerebusSyndrome deadpan serious]] though. K-DST's Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith even shows genuine concern for the citizens and urges them to try to stay out of harm's way. The scripts return to normal once it ends, and due to the open ended nature of the game, [[PermanentlyMissableContent cannot be accessed again]] unless you start a new game and go through the whole story all over again. |
| 419 | * MotorMouth: MC Codebreaker, the DJ for MSX FM in ''III'' and ''Liberty City Stories''. Once he starts freestyling, it can be very difficult to understand what he's trying to say. |
| 420 | * MundaneMadeAwesome: ''San Andreas'' has ''Law'', a police procedural entirely around the paperwork - "Because paperwork is dramatic" |
| 421 | * MummiesAtTheDinnerTable: Pet Stuffers... "for when you just can't let go." |
| 422 | ** "And coming soon, [[RefugeInAudacity Grandparents Forever]]!" |
| 423 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: One of the guests on ''Vice City's'' "Pressing Issues" is Barry Stark, a nudist whom Maurice keeps behind a screen (the other guests on the episode are TheFundamentalist Pastor Richards and soccer mom Jan Brown). When Barry insists on coming out from behind the screen, [[spoiler:Richards shoots him in the genitals and Jan faints]]. |
| 424 | ** ''III'' has a nudist caller on Chatterbox FM. He's implied to be the same guy. |
| 425 | * NetworkDecay: InUniverse: In ''The Lost and Damned'' Liberty City Hardcore has started playing extreme metal instead of hardcore punk, though the ident at the beginning of the radio stream implies that it's a show on LCHC. |
| 426 | ** In ''The Ballad of Gay Tony'' Vladivostok FM has started playing American & European dance music instead of Russian pop music, which is strange, considering that the ID says that it's broadcasting from Hove Beach, and the next few minutes, it's from Bahama Mamas. |
| 427 | ** V's own punk station, Channel X, has a more mild case of this. It originally had bands that originated from southern California, yet the enhanced version adds songs from the Canadian band D.O.A. and the Texas bands D.R.I. and {{Music/MDC}}. |
| 428 | ** [=WorldWide=] FM, from GTA V again, originally had worldbeat music, electro, ambient & chillout music, with a bit of jazz thrown in. While the [=PS4=], Xbox One & PC versions added a few foreign language songs, they also added hip-hop & rap, which doesn't really belong to a worldbeat radio station. |
| 429 | ** As of ''The Contract'', West Coast Classics occasionally plays east coast hip-hop as well. {{Justified|Trope}} in that all songs on this version of the station were produced by Music/DrDre. |
| 430 | * NeverTrustATrailer: "Heartland Values with Nurse Bob" features a "Coming up next" segment that does not play after the commercial break. |
| 431 | * NewMediaAreEvil |
| 432 | ** Parodied by a caller on Chatterbox FM in ''GTA III'', who expresses concern about how her son runs around looking for gold coins to steal. |
| 433 | ** And with Jan Brown, a guest on Vice City Public Radio in ''Vice City'', who doesn't let her children watch cartoons or slasher movies. |
| 434 | ** Also, according to ''San Andreas''' WCTR News, [=CDs=] are turning children into killers. |
| 435 | ** ''Liberty City Stories''[='=]s [[FunWithAcronyms Citizens United Negating Technology For Life And People's Safety]] takes this and the MoralGuardian trope to its logical extreme. |
| 436 | * NewNeoCity: Futurist Tokyo in ''Robot Princess Bubblegum''. |
| 437 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Mary-Beth Maybell of ''San Andreas's'' CountryMusic station K-ROSE. |
| 438 | -->'''Mary-Beth''': That's the difference. I don't have ex-husbands, [[BlackWidow I just have a lot of widowers]]. I own a ''lot'' of black dresses. I ''love'' funerals; I get shit-faced every time... |
| 439 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed |
| 440 | ** Nurse Bob, host of the "Heartland Values" segment of ''Liberty City Stories''' LCFR, is a fairly ruthless parody of Series/DrPhil. |
| 441 | --->Now you just gotta [[RhymesOnADime get happy in that nappy you just got crappy]] in! |
| 442 | ** From ''Vice City's'' K-Chat, Pat "Mr. Zoo" Flannerdy is a transparent [[Series/CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]] parody with an unconventional "[[BestialityIsDepraved love]]" for animals. He is later removed from the studio by his doctor who reveals to Amy that he is just a mentally sick man and is dragged to a mental clinic. The game was released ''before'' Irwin's death. |
| 443 | ** Similarly, Crow's single name, activism, and love of tantric sex means he is likely a parody of rock star Sting. He used to be the lead singer of "[[Music/ThePolice Ambulance]]" and describes his music as a "power pop reggae afro-beat". |
| 444 | ** Bobbi June, the uber-Southern host of the cooking show ''Bless Your Heart'' in ''V'', is a vicious parody of Paula Deen. |
| 445 | ** Also from ''V'', Hugh Harrison and Anita Mendoza, two of the three smarmy judges of the talent search TV show ''Fame or Shame'', are obviously based on Simon Cowell and Music/PaulaAbdul, respectively. Lazlow's job as the host of the show is also reminiscent of Ryan Seacrest. |
| 446 | * NostalgiaFilter: Samantha Muldoon's song "I Like Things Just the Way They Are" in ''V'' is a DeconstructiveParody of this trope, particularly its use in contemporary (late '00s/early '10s) CountryMusic. It attempts to invoke America the Beautiful with its idealization of EverytownAmerica, but instead becomes the very definition of America the Boorish with its display of all manner of viciously bigoted sentiments. |
| 447 | * NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: The lead actor in ''Dragonbrain'' provides a LampshadeHanging. |
| 448 | -->I'm just a humble blacksmith with a Californian accent! How am I supposed to save the world and [[MerchandiseDriven sell franchise rights to theme parks]]? |
| 449 | * NoIndoorVoice: Dr. Ray [=DeAngelo=] Harris doesn't seem to think of anything related to silence whenever he talks. |
| 450 | * NothingButHits |
| 451 | ** In ''Vice City'', ''San Andreas'', and ''Vice City Stories''. However, it's averted in ''III'', ''Liberty City Stories'', and the HD-era games, where Rockstar went out of their way to get independent/underground artists for many stations. They also used original music for some stations in ''III'', ''Liberty City Stories'' and, to a lesser extent, ''Vice City''. The classic rock and oldies stations, of course, are a justified example; even in ''III'', Flashback FM's playlist was composed entirely of songs from the ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}'' soundtrack. |
| 452 | ** This is lampshaded by the bumpers for Non Stop Pop FM in ''V'', which is composed of pop hits from TheEighties through the TurnOfTheMillennium, saying that it's the music that will last forever. Even then, though, it's an aversion of sorts, as its playlist includes a number of artists who have already faded into obscurity (does anybody remember Amerie or Jane Child?), as well as a few who only had hits in the UK (like Music/MisTeeq, [=N-Joi=], and All Saints). Possibly also justified, since Cara Delevigne, the DJ of Non-Stop-Pop FM, is British. |
| 453 | * NutritionalNightmare: All the food Bobbi June cooks and bakes in her show ''Bless Your Heart''. |
| 454 | * OddCouple: ''I Say/You Say'', a political debate show hosted by husband-and-wife team of Peyton and Mary Phillips. Peyton is a borderline communist while Mary plays the greedy capitalist. For example, when dealing with a caller who has recently buried corpses of illegal immigrants in his backyard, Mary advises him to use them to evade taxes while Peyton mentions recycling and organ donation. Their irreconcilable polarity inspired WCTR's station announcer to quip in the outro to their first segment... |
| 455 | -->"Boy, I can't imagine [[BelligerentSexualTension what those guys are like in the bedroom]], but I'm sure it's a bit like the [[UsefulNotes/BayOfPigsInvasion Bay of Pigs]]!" |
| 456 | * OddballInTheSeries: Due to having to fit on a 512MB Platform/NintendoDS card, ''Chinatown Wars'' lacks any [=DJs=], imaging, or commercials for its radio stations much like ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoClassic GTA1]]'', and the soundtrack is fully instrumental. The only song in the game ''with'' lyrics is the theme song remix with [[Music/WuTangClan Ghostface Killah]] and Music/MFDoom, and that's only in the Platform/PlayStationPortable and mobile ports! Additionally, most stations are dedicated to and named after either a single artist, such as Music/Deadmau5 or Alchemist, or to a record label like DFA or Truth + Soul. The outliers are Turntables on the Hudson, a music festival, and [=SinoWav=] FM, a fictional station playing traditional Chinese music. |
| 457 | * OnlySaneMan: Lazlow and his Vice City counterpart, Maurice Chavez. Over time, Lazlow became less of a StraightMan and was unmasked as something of an attention whore, whose current job on ''Chattersphere'' in ''V'' is [[LaserGuidedKarma richly deserved]]. |
| 458 | ** The second caller's wife on Ron's Blaine County Radio Community Hour podcast is easily the only grounded person on the podcast. She mentions that her husband's children are disabled not from vaccines, but because he [[DrunkDriver drives under the influence]]. |
| 459 | * OurFounder: The "Pastor Richards Salvation Statue Organization", which promises salvation (in the form of a radiation-proof giant living space/effigy of Richards) to all those who pay him large donations. He later reveals that he was actually planning on using the money to build himself a mansion in Hawaii. |
| 460 | * OwMyBodyPart: Pastor Richards snaps, and, disgusted by Barry Stark's nudism, pulls a gun on Stark and shoots him. Barry survives and "is in need of a proctologist". |
| 461 | * ParentalIncest: Played for laughs with Nurse Bob. |
| 462 | -->'''Nurse Bob''': Now, remember what my daddy said: "Don't you tell nobody 'bout me coming in here at night!" |
| 463 | ** Derrick Thackery on ''The Tight End Zone''. He seems to be in deep denial about it. |
| 464 | * ParodyCommercial: The ads spoof loads of things, from trendy clothes to public service announcements. |
| 465 | * ParodyNames: Besides the aforementioned Schwarzenegger films, there is also: |
| 466 | ##''[[Film/TheThirdMan The Third Leg]]'' |
| 467 | ##''[[Creator/MichaelJFox The Secret of My Shortness]]'' [[labelnote:*]]''The Secret of My Success[[/labelnote]] |
| 468 | ##''[[Film/TheMatrix The Mainframe]]'', which is fully lampooned on ''The Electron Zone'' and in ads. |
| 469 | --->"IMHO ''The Mainframe'' is the greatest movie ''of all time''! Partially because it's so close to reality, especially the robot that defecates, and the bit about [[Creator/KeanuReeves the dork]] that saves everyone!" |
| 470 | * PhonyPsychic: ''IV'''s "The SĂ©ance" segment in left-leaning Public Liberty Radio (PLR) is strongly implied to be nothing more but a vessel for the show's host, Beatrix Fontaine, to embezzle money from callers. Fontaine herself is also implied to be a former Romanian prostitute who slept her way to a radio slot. |
| 471 | * PoliceProcedural: Parodied in ''IV'' with ''The Science of Crime'', complete with the tagline "It's forensically boring". Specific segments also parody ''Series/CSIMiami'', complete with an obvious Horatio Caine parody dropping [[QuipToBlack bad one-liners]] and noting how his acting "sucks ass", down to a barely-disguised version of Music/TheWho's "Won't Get Fooled Again" and its trademark BigYes. It has fifteen spinoffs, including ones in [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity Vice City]], [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas Las Venturas]], Ohio, Djibouti, Fairbanks, Panama City, and Santiago. |
| 472 | * ProductPlacement |
| 473 | ** From IV onwards, many radio stations have been based on real stations right down to their DJ's. Examples include [[http://www.massiveb.com Massive B Soundsystem 96.9]], Tuff Gong Radio (which exclusively plays music by Music/BobMarley and his sons) and V's [[{{Music/Soulwax}} Soulwax FM]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Lotus FlyLo FM]]. |
| 474 | ** blonded Los Santos from ''V'' was based on an online radio show on Apple Music hosted by Music/FrankOcean, while Worldwide FM was influenced by Gilles Peterson's real life show ''Worldwide'' on [[Creator/{{BBC}} Radio 1]]. |
| 475 | ** The stations of ''Chinatown Wars'' are named after and consist entirely of songs by the eponymous artists or from the label the station is named after. |
| 476 | ** InUniverse, the characters of ''Moorhead Rides Again'' all smoke Redwood Cigarettes, and the show takes every opportunity it can to remind us of this. |
| 477 | * PunctuatedForEmphasis: During Lazlow's interview with OG Loc in ''San Andreas''. |
| 478 | -->''Are! You! Dissing! My! Hos, bitch?!'' |
| 479 | * PunnyName: One of the radio stations from GTA IV is called "Electro-Choc", a pun on the phrase "electro shock", which is how the DJ pronounces the station's name. |
| 480 | * RatedMForManly: The TV show ''The Men's Room'' in ''IV'', featuring [[SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan MMA fighter Bas Rutten (as himself) and his metrosexual co-host, Jeremy St. Ives]]. |
| 481 | * RedOniBlueOni: This is very distinct on both the music and the hosts of every radio station. |
| 482 | ** In the first GTA game, consisting of just music genres: Rock and hip hop is red whilst country, electronic, funk and dance is blue and chart and techno is purple. |
| 483 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto2'': Phanny Joe Styles (blue) and Johnny Riccaro (purple) of Head Radio (blue); Venus Ordellia (purple) of Heavenly Radio (blue); Richie T of KREZ (purple); Jimmy Starrock of Rockstar Radio (blue); [[DeepSouth Marshall Nash]] of Rebel Radio (red); Dai (purple) of Lo-Fi FM (blue); Mama Doc of Osmosis Radio (blue); [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Spaz Funbags]] of Lithium FM (red); [[HuskyRusskie Bombatumba]] (red) of KGHB (purple) and [[NoIndoorVoice Teriyaki-chan]] (red) of Funami FM (blue). |
| 484 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII'': Michael Hunt (red) of Head Radio (purple); Morgan Merryweather of Double Clef FM (blue); Toni of Flashback FM (purple); Horace Walsh of K-Jah (blue); Andee (purple) of Lips 106 (blue); Andre the Accelerator of Rise FM (red); Stretch Armstrong (red) and Lord Sear (purple) of Game FM (blue); [[MotorMouth MC Codebreaker and Timecode]] (purple) of MSX FM (blue); [[OnlySaneMan Lazlow]] of Chatterbox (blue). |
| 485 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'': [[OnlySaneMan Maurice Chavez]] of VCPR (Vice City Pressing Issues); [[TheDitz Amy Sheckenhausen]] of K-Chat (purple); Pepe (red) of Espantoso (purple); Mister Magic of Wildstyle (blue); Oliver "Ladykiller" Biscuit of Fever 105 (blue); Toni of Flash FM (purple); Adam First of Wave 103 (blue); Lazlow (blue) of V-Rock (purple). |
| 486 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': [[ConspiracyTheorist Forth Right MC]] (red) of Playback FM (purple); [[AsHimself Julio G]] of Radio Los Santos (blue); Funktipus (red) of Bounce FM (purple); Mary-Beth Maybell (red) of K-ROSE (blue); [[GermanicDepressives Hans Oberlander]] of SF-UR (blue); Marshall Peters and Johnny Lawton of K-Jah West (blue); Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith of K-DST (blue); Philip "PM" Michaels of CSR-103.9 (blue); Johnny "The Love Giant" Parkinson (purple) of Master Sounds 98.3 (blue); [[{{Goth}} Sage]] of Radio X (blue); WCTR - [[ConspiracyTheorist Marvin Trill]] (blue) of Area 53, [[CaringGardener Maurice]] (red) of his gardening show, Billy Dexter (purple) and Lazlow (blue) of Entertaining America, Christy [=MacIntyre=] (red) and Fernando Martinez (purple) of Lonely Hearts, Mr. Philips (blue) and Mrs. Philips (red) of I Say, You Say, James Pedeaston (purple) of The Wild Traveler and [[DeadpanSnarker Lianne Forget]] (blue) and [[LargeHam Richard]] [[KentBrockmanNews Burns]] (red) of WCTR News. |
| 487 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoLibertyCityStories'': Sergio Boccino (purple) of Double Clef FM (blue); Reni Wassulmeier (red) of Flashback FM (blue); Natasha Walsh of K-Jah (blue); [[GenkiGirl Andee]] (red) and Cliff of Lips 106 (blue); [[AsHimself DJ Clue]] of The Liberty Jam (blue); LCFR - Nurse Bob (red), Bill (blue) and Steve (red) of The Electron Zone, Melissa Chowder (blue) and Crow (red) of Breathing World, Richard Goblin of Coq 'O' Vin (purple) and [[OnlySaneMan Lazlow]] of Chatterbox (blue); Boy Sanchez (blue) of Rise FM (purple); MC Codebreaker (purple) of MSX FM (blue); Panjit Gavaskar (purple) of Radio Del Mundo (blue). |
| 488 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories'': VCPR (Vice City Public Radio) - [[DeepSouth Bobby Ray (red) and Larry Joe (purple)]] of Bait And Switch, Chris Murney (blue) of New World Order, [[OnlySaneMan Maurice Chavez]] (blue) of Pressing Issues; [[SirSwearsALot Luke Campbell]] (red) of Fresh 105 (purple); Hector Hernandez (red) of Espantoso (purple); Trish Camden (red) and [[IAmVeryBritish Adam]] [[TheStoic First]] of [[Music/NewWave Wave 103]] (blue); Teri (red) and Toni of [[{{Pop}} Flash FM]] (purple); Paradise FM (blue); [[TheEeyore Lionel Makepeace]] (blue) and Fernando Martinez (purple) of Emotion 98.3 (blue). |
| 489 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'': Ruslana of Vladivostok FM (blue); Carl Bradshaw of [[{{Reggae}} Tuff Gong Radio]] (blue); Bobby Konders of Massive B Soundsystem 96.9 (purple); Premier (purple) of The Classics 104.1 (blue); Mister Cee, The Evil Genius (purple) and Green Lantern of The Beat 102.7 (red); Vaughn Harper of The Vibe 98.9 (blue); Music/DaddyYankee (red) of San Juan Sounds (purple); The Journey (blue); [[{{Jerkass}} Lazlow]] (red) of Integrity 2.0; WKTT Radio - Richard Bastion (purple); Public Liberty Radio - Beatrix Fontaine (blue) of The SĂ©ance; [[{{Hipster}} Juliette]] [[Creator/JulietteLewis Lewis]] of Radio Broker (blue); Roy Haynes of Jazz Nation Radio (blue); Karl Lagerfeld of K 109 The Studio (purple); Jimmy Gestapo of HCHC (red); Music/IggyPop of Liberty Rock Radio 97.8 (red); Roy Ayers (purple) of Fusion FM (blue); Femi Kuti of [=IF99=] (blue); Francois K of Electro-Choc (purple). |
| 490 | ** ''Grand Theft Auto: [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheLostAndDamned Episodes From]] [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIVTheBalladOfGayTony Liberty City]]'': [[Music/{{Sepultura}} Max Cavalera]] of LCHC (red); Funk Flex and Statik Selektah of The Beat 102.7 (red); Fernando Martinez (purple) of Vice City FM (blue); Paul Martin (red) of Vladivostok FM (purple); Henry Santos Jeter of San Juan Sounds (purple); Crookers of Electro-Choc (purple); David Rodigan of Ramjam FM (blue); Audrey of Self-Actualization FM (blue). |
| 491 | ** ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'': DJ Pooh (blue) of West Coast Classics (purple); Big Boy (blue) of Radio Los Santos (purple); Bootsy Collins (red) of Space 103.2 (purple); ''Flying Lotus'' of [=FlyLo=] FM (blue); Lee "Scratch" Perry of The Blue Ark (blue); Cara Delevingne (red) of Non-Stop Pop; Gilles Peterson of [=WorldWide=] FM (blue); [[{{Hipster}} Twin Shadow]] of Radio Mirror Park (blue); WCTR - [[NoIndoorVoice Dr. Ray DiAngelo Harris]] (red) and Cheryl Fawkes (blue) of Chakra Attack, Fernando Martinez (purple) and Jo (blue) of The Fernando Show and Michelle Minx (purple) and [[{{Jerkass}} Lazlow]] (red) of Chattersphere; Pam Grier (purple) of The Lowdown 91.1 (blue); Music/KennyLoggins of Los Santos Rock Radio (blue); Soulwax of Soulwax FM (blue); Don Cheto (red) and Camillo of East Los FM (purple); Jesco White (blue) of Rebel Radio (purple); Nate Williams (purple) and Stephen Pope of Vinewood Boulevard Radio (blue); Creator/KeithMorris (blue) of Channel X (red); Blaine County Talk Radio - Bobby June (purple) of Bless Your Heart, Duane Earl (red) of Beyond Insemination and [[ConspiracyTheorist Ron Jakowski]] (blue) of Blaine County Radio Community Hour; Doctor No and the Chemical Bro (purple) of The Lab; Frank Ocean (blue) on Blonded Los Santos 97.8 FM; Los Santos Underground Radio (Purple); Danny Brown (red) of [=iFruit=] Radio. |
| 492 | * RelationshipUpgrade: The Blind Swordsman and Princess Robot Bubblegum apparently became a couple in their new episode for ''GTA V'', although that is only mentioned by others and they don’t act the part, Master Hentai mentions Bubblegum is still sleeping around and the Blind Swordsman is too busy caring for his looks to give a damn, that is till a Tentacle Rape Plant starts singing about how it is going to tap Bubblegum, getting chopped off by the Blind Swordsman as a result. |
| 493 | * RepetitiveAudioGlitch: In GTA 2, Spaz Funbags, the DJ of Lithium FM, notices this during the second song that was playing ("The Diner" by Tammy Boness & The Swingin' Mammaries) and immedeately switches it off with a yodeling sound effect before the commercial break. |
| 494 | * RightWingMilitiaFanatic: "John Smith" in ''IV'''s DLC episodes. |
| 495 | * RoleEndingMisdemeanor: An InUniverse example with Jack Howitzer, who was arrested for murdering Billy Dexter during his interview on the radio and spent several years in prison before getting a reality show in 2013. |
| 496 | * SadBattleMusic: This can happen depending on what happens to be playing on the radio, most notably some of the songs on Emotion 98.3. |
| 497 | * SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Inverted with on ''Chakra Attack''. Dr. Ray de Angelo Harris is the loud and brash guy while Cheryl Fawkes is the calm, laid back girl. |
| 498 | * SchmuckBait: In ''IV'', just try visiting the Little Lacy Surprise Pageant website. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gaC1aJIb6g We dare you.]]'' [[spoiler:You will get a message from the police telling you that the website has been shut down and that your IP address has been logged. Oh, and you get [[OhCrap a five-star wanted level]], with the police scanner mentioning "a sexual deviant attempting to access explicit images."]] |
| 499 | * {{Sellout}}: In the five years between ''IV'' and ''V'', Samantha Muldoon has gone from a Music/{{Madonna}} {{expy}} known for adopting foreign children and flaky religious beliefs to a right-wing {{country|Music}} singer. Apart from a CreatorBreakdown, it's strongly implied that her switch in genre and politics was motivated by nothing more than [[OnlyInItForTheMoney money and pandering to the conservative, country-listening demographic]] that spares no expenses in buying whatever they want, even as America is still reeling from the recession. |
| 500 | * SequelEscalation: ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoClassic GTA 1]]''[='=] tiny handful of radio stations had around three songs each. By the time the ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV IV]]'' saga rolls out, it had expanded to several hours' worth of licensed music, dedicated chat shows, celebrity [=DJs=], advertisements, websites, and TV channels. This also extends to how the radio itself is implemented -- while a radio station in previous games was simply one long audio file, ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]]'' stored songs, DJ chatter, and commercials separately, allowing the game to randomize them. ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV IV]]'' takes this even further, with a dynamic radio system that changes shows, songs, advertisements, DJ chatter, and news depending on the weather, time of day, or how far along the storyline you are. |
| 501 | * SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll |
| 502 | ** Jimmy Gestapo, DJ of ''IV''[='=] punk station Liberty City Hardcore, rants at length about the extremely hard-drinking, hard-partying lifestyle that he feels punk ''should'' be. Also, [[Music/TheStooges Iggy Pop]], DJ of ''IV''[='=] classic rock station Liberty Rock Radio, talks about how a lot of the best music was made on drugs, and bemoans the fact that fewer rockers nowadays use them. |
| 503 | ** Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith of ''San Andreas''[='=] classic rock station K-DST is fond of this trope as well. Hell, the station's identifications are all narcotic plays on its nickname of "The Dust". |
| 504 | --->'''Station ID''': If the police can't stop you... (*police siren and gunshots*) you must be on... The Dust.\ |
| 505 | '''Station ID''': When all your drinking friends have gone to rehab, we encourage you to stay on... The Dust. |
| 506 | ** Sage, the host of the {{grunge}}[=/=]alt-rock station Radio X, very much counts as well. |
| 507 | --->'''Sage''': I smoke! I smoke cigarettes, I smoke cloves, I smoke anything that can go up in flames! I'm crazy! That was Danzig. Slept with the whole band. |
| 508 | ** In addition to his wild, likely drug-induced mood swings, Hans Oberlander of house music station SF-UR frequently references his habits between songs: |
| 509 | --->'''Hans''': It's getting dark out there. Kind of like in my lungs. Come, we party for ten more years, then we all go to rehab. Cool?\ |
| 510 | '''Hans''': Has that dealer turned up yet? Where is he? Andreas? Andreas, where are you?\ |
| 511 | '''Hans''': Daddy, please, don't make me go to rehab, I beg you! Everyone takes these pills, it looks worse than it is! YOU! Okay, I learned it from watching you! |
| 512 | ** Direct references aside, Boy Sanchez' (of Rise FM circa ''Liberty City Stories'') speech patterns sound like he's high while on the air. |
| 513 | --->'''Boy Sanchez''': I hope you're all having fun out there, but not as much fun as me. In here, by myself, with a plate full of drugs...again. |
| 514 | * ShapedLikeItself: Quoth a possible serial killer who calls in to BCR's Community Hour: |
| 515 | -->"H-hi, Ron! Yer show is great! I listen t' it when I'm out metal detectin'! 'Case y' don't know, metal detectin' is huntin' fer metallic objects... usin' a detector? I find all kinds a' stuff! Mostly made a' metal." |
| 516 | ** Also, ''Jack Howitzer is Jack Howitzer in Jack Howitzer''. |
| 517 | * ShoutOut: |
| 518 | ** The Republican Space Rangers' suits are a pretty blatant ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' reference. An actual Halo Installation appears in one episode. |
| 519 | ** Flashback FM in ''III'' has Toni mentioning that she once woke up on the Music/DuranDuran tour bus. This is only in the radio preview, as the final version has the name of the band covered in static for a second. ''Vice City'' lampshades this when Toni mentions being on a tour bus, but she can't say with who. Interestingly, in addition to being mentioned by name in ''Vice City'' (during the intro cutscene of "Psycho Killer") and aside from a DummiedOut song ("''Serious''") in V, Music/DuranDuran has never had a song in a ''GTA'' game. |
| 520 | * ShowWithinAShow: One of the most elaborate ever made, stretching across every game in the series and multiple (in-universe) media. |
| 521 | * ShownTheirWork: As mentioned above, Anunnaki from Sumerian mythology is part of real-world lore regarding AncientAstronauts. |
| 522 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Sage and Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith on their respective radio stations in ''San Andreas''. |
| 523 | * SpaceMarine: The Republican Space Rangers. |
| 524 | * StandardSnippet: Averted on Double Clef FM, which avoids the obvious classical songs for the most part. |
| 525 | * StealthPun: "Fizz!", the celebrity gossip show from WKTT, the right-wing talk radio station in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV IV]]'' is hosted by Jane '''Labrador''', who mentions field correspondent Susan '''Retriever''' by name. |
| 526 | * StockFootage |
| 527 | ** Shots from ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]]'', ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', and ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' are used in the TV shows in ''IV'' when they have to represent places outside of Liberty City. |
| 528 | ** The foreign film in ''V'' uses character models and set pieces from ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption''. |
| 529 | * StrawmanNewsMedia: The news is portrayed, to a man, as a bunch of ass-clowns who are either trying to push an agenda or are too vapid and air-headed to do so. |
| 530 | * StrawmanPolitical: Many times, directed against both sides. |
| 531 | ** ''Vice City'' brings us Pastor Richards and Alex Shrub. The former is a {{corrupt|Church}} televangelist with [[SmallNameBigEgo an outsized ego]] who rails against moral degeneracy while, going by his {{Freudian slip}}s, keeping multiple mistresses and embezzling money from his church to build himself a mansion in Hawaii (any similarities to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker Jim Bakker]] or [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Swaggart Jimmy Swaggart]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial are purely coincidental]]). The latter is a thinly-veiled TakeThat at "Reaganomics", an empty suit who uses [[SleazyPolitician blatant spin]] to cover up Vice City's decline under his term, supports stripping away regulations and legalizing dangerous consumer products proven to kill their users, and calls for a ban on pornography while [[StrawHypocrite simultaneously engaging]] in [[CreepyCrossdresser cross-dressing]] and an affair with famous porn star Candy Suxxx. |
| 532 | ** ''San Andreas'' has Peyton (liberal) and Mary (conservative) Phillips, husband-and-wife hosts of WCTR's "I Say/You Say" segment, are a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Carville James Carville]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Matalin Mary Matalin]], political consultants of opposing beliefs who started dating (and eventually married) while working on behalf of UsefulNotes/BillClinton and [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush George H.W. Bush]], respectively, during the 1992 Presidential elections. |
| 533 | ** ''IV'' gives us Richard Bastion, a [[PatrioticFervor jingoistic]], mean-spirited conservative talk radio host who believes in establishing an American PoliceState and pursuing a psychopathic foreign policy (any similarities to Radio/RushLimbaugh and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Hannity Sean Hannity]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial are purely coincidental]]), and Brandon Roberts, a left-wing actor whose progressive activism is strongly implied to be more about improving his public image than anything else (any similarities to Creator/GeorgeClooney and Sean Penn [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial are also purely coincidental]]). The TV, meanwhile, gives us the cartoon ''Republican Space Rangers'', a parody of right-wing American jingoism, UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, and conservative stereotypes of liberals (especially in the episode "Homecoming", where [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything aliens have literally taken over America and are systematically destroying its values]]). Finally, there's John Hunter and Michael Graves, two gubernatorial candidates who spend more time [[AttackOfThePoliticalAd attacking each other]] than explaining their policies, to the point where it's tough to tell who represents which end of the political spectrum (apart from professed allegiances -- Hunter a Democrat, Graves a Republican -- which seem more like {{Informed Attribute}}s)... which makes them similar reinforced by the fact that both sides accuse the other of supporting a retreat from UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror. |
| 534 | ** In ''Episodes from Liberty City'' there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi9DuHmJYKw "John Smith"]], a parody of Alex Jones and right-wing {{conspiracy theorist}}s in general. He entertains, and often voices, [[ConspiracyKitchenSink every single crazy conspiracy theory]] and bit of general paranoia and racism his listeners phone in with, and only hangs up on an obvious neo-Nazi not because [[EveryoneHasStandards he has any standards]], but because he doesn't want another fine -- the keyword being "another", implying that this has happened before, which speaks volumes about his target audience. He also interviews Abigail Grayson, a CrazySurvivalist soccer mom with [[CloudCuckoolander extra emphasis on the "Crazy"]]. |
| 535 | ** ''V'' continues this tradition with Jock Cranley and Sue Murry, the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor of San Andreas, respectively. And just like Hunter and Graves before them, [[AttackOfThePoliticalAd they spend time attacking each other in campaign ads]], but this time they at least care enough to explain their agendas (which brutally parodies extremes of the American political spectrum). Also, as seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smqKPeuc_Cg this trailer]], cartoons airing include ''Impotent Rage'', a parody of ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' and the [[BourgeoisBohemian "limousine liberal"]] stereotype, and ''Kung Fu Rainbow Lazer Force'', a parody of [[MoralGuardians conservative Christian]] [[TheMoralSubstitute Moral Substitutes]] and the Religious Right in the vein of ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', both parodying hypocritical moralizing on both sides. There's also a new episode of ''Republican Space Rangers'' that acts as a TakeThat towards the Tea Party movement. |
| 536 | * StylisticSuck |
| 537 | ** The entirety of KGBH in ''GTA 2''. Its constant technical problems are PlayedForLaughs. |
| 538 | ** In ''Vice City Stories'' the public radio station has a couple of old radio plays from the 1930s and '40s which take the [[DeliberateValuesDissonance sexism and racism of the era]] up to eleven. The host even apologizes for them and explains that they are only playing them because they didn't have the budget to fill the airtime with all original content, and are forced to fill the time with old PublicDomain radio plays. |
| 539 | * SummerBlockbuster: The film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vDu2se24TA Meltdown]]'' in ''V'' is a scathing parody of both these sorts of films (especially ''Film/WallStreet'' and, to a lesser extent, its sequel) and of [[MediaNotes/TheBlockbusterAgeOfHollywood modern Hollywood filmmaking]] in general. It's a thriller about the Great Recession... mutated, by the Hollywood machine, into a shallow [[BlackAndWhiteMorality good vs. evil tale]] about two rival yuppies in Liberty City. It's shot entirely on green screen for no good reason, it features a SatelliteLoveInterest who only appears once before she completely disappears (until the end, at least), late '00s buzzwords like "subprime" and "derivatives" are thrown around with little understanding as to what they mean, and it has an action-packed finale that comes out of nowhere. It also has a talking chimp, because... hey, why not? Furthermore, through Michael's connections to Solomon Richards, we get to witness first-hand how this hot dog is made. The kicker is that, going by news reports after it comes out, it was apparently [[CriticalDissonance a smash hit with audiences nationwide, even though critical reception was mixed]]. |
| 540 | * SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: ''Vice City's'' Amy Sheckenhausen, host of K-Chat, is a ditz who gushes over her celebrity guests; they usually prove to be perverted or deranged or both. Her avatar in ''Liberty City Stories'' is Melissa Chowder of LCFR's ''Breathing World'', a hyperactive GranolaGirl. |
| 541 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: |
| 542 | ** A repeated part of ''San Andreas'' newscasts is ''WCTR'' dealing with the government denying what they're up to, including a place that isn't on the map. |
| 543 | -->'''Lianne Forget:''' A government spokesperson who refused to be named said "the place that doesn't have a name doesn't exist, and if it did, we would name it something". |
| 544 | ** The Crimson Executive Service has a man talking about how his wife was killed, but he was nowhere near at the time. His phone-record proves it. |
| 545 | ** Courtesy of Toni: |
| 546 | -->'''Toni''': "(On [[Music/ElectricLightOrchestra "Four Little Diamonds"]]) This one's really good, and I'm not getting any special treatment or action on the tour bus to say that." |
| 547 | * SweetHomeAlabama: Bobbi June, the host of ''Bless Your Heart'' in ''V'', tries to give off this air, but between her thinly-veiled racism and her right-wing, Tea Party-esque politics, she's a lot closer to [[DeepSouth the other end of the spectrum]]. |
| 548 | * TakeThat: |
| 549 | ** Many of the radio stations in ''III'' have sound bites that parody or are plain potshots at how corporate controlled and commercialized radio as a whole has become since the Telecommunications Act of 1996. |
| 550 | ** The ''Episodes From Liberty City'' iteration of San Juan Sounds does not seem to be in favour of the US being involved with Latin American countries: |
| 551 | --->'''Henry Santos:''' If there is one thing America cannot take from us it's a sense of rhythm. |
| 552 | --->'''Henry Santos:''' Did you know that the Dominican Republic was one vote away from becoming a part of the United States?. Man, we could have been just like Alaska! |
| 553 | * TakeThatAudience: Independence FM, a station exclusive to the PC version of ''IV'' that plays songs off from the player's computer, has station [=IDs=] that hint at the songs being stolen. Similarly, Self Radio, another PC-exclusive station in ''V'' that serves the same purpose, has station [=IDs=] that mock the player, calling them [[SmallNameBigEgo egotistical]], [[ItsAllAboutMe narcissistic, and selfish]]. |
| 554 | * TaxmanTakesTheWinnings: One guy in ''III'' calls Chatterbox to complain about how his dad won the lottery, only for the state to want him to pay taxes on the money that he won; the caller saying that the state should "buy [their] own lottery ticket". Lazlow calls this "a lesson to us all". |
| 555 | * TemptingFate: The advert from Grin, a drug that makes users feel happy and de-stressed, notes there couldn't ''possibly'' be anything habit forming about a drug that makes you feel good all the time. |
| 556 | * TheGreatOffscreenWar: Apparently in the 3D universe, there was an Australian-American war with the US as the implied victors. One Chatterbox caller claims to be a veteran of it and the ''Vice City'' Ammu-Nation commercial references it. This seems to have carred over in the HD universe, with the babiesovernight commercial advertising a "funny, but militarily-inept Australian baby". |
| 557 | * ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: After Jack Howitzer accidentally shoots Billy Dexter: |
| 558 | -->'''Jack:''' Oh, there's only one thing to do -- I gotta defend freedom! No time to cry, only time to die! <three gunshots> '''[[PatrioticFervor WELCOME TO THE LAND OF FREEDOM, BITCHES!!!]] ''YAAAAAAHHHHH!!!''''' <starts firing his gun into the air; the station then goes static> |
| 559 | * ThoseWackyNazis: Implied in the ''San Andreas'' commercial for "Herr Gruber's Spa". |
| 560 | -->'''Narrator''': "After running residential facilities in Germany, Switzerland, and then [[ArgentinaIsNaziland Brazil]]..."\ |
| 561 | '''Herr Gruber''': Haf you not read ze book? Strength good, veakness bad, ''badbadbad!'' |
| 562 | * TokenMinority: Parodied in ''Kung Fu Rainbow Lazer Force'', where the black team member's name is "Quota". |
| 563 | * TookALevelInJerkass: Though he was fairly sympathetic in the beginning, Lazlow grows more loathsome in each incarnation. |
| 564 | * TotallyRadical: [[invoked]] Parodied with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFeZoLSaOsE Ego Chaser energy bar]] in ''V''. Its advertising showcases extreme sports like BMX, off-roading, and base-jumping, yet it is marketed to middle-aged schlubs who want to feel like "warriors". |
| 565 | * TrashCanBand[=/=]EverythingIsAnInstrument: ''IV'''s Banging Trash Can Lids For an Hour, a parody of ''Stomp''. |
| 566 | * TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In ''V'', one of the movies you can watch is ''Capolavoro'', a staggeringly awful Italian subtitled art film with incredibly {{Mind Screw}}y visuals, a barely-coherent plot, constant [[BreakingTheFourthWall breakage of the fourth wall]], and actors that speak French and Spanish. Emanuelle Pasorelli, the director, [[CreatorCameo appears at the end]] to outright declare that it's incomprehensible on purpose. |
| 567 | * UnfortunateImplications: InUniverse; Jack Howitzer's recent film Special Needs Cop really offended the disabled community. |
| 568 | -->'''Billy Dexter''': ''Wow!'' That's terrible! No wonder our studios got surrounded by protesters. |
| 569 | -->'''Jack Howitzer''': How could anybody find that offensive? |
| 570 | -->'''Billy Dexter''': No, Jack, it's appalling. Your insensitive portrayal of disabled people made me physically sick. And the idea you calling someone slow-witted is, frankly, laughable. |
| 571 | * ValuesResonance: Invoked InUniverse by the ''Moorehead Rides Again'' radio drama from ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories Vice City Stories]]''[='=] Vice City Public Radio (VCPR), a parody of hard-boiled {{Private Detective}}s such as ''Literature/MikeHammer''. While the show was said to have originally aired near the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, back when [[RedScare fear of communism creeping into America]] is slowly giving way to the [[WitchHunt social nightmare that was McCarthyism]], it resonates with American sentiments around forty years later (i.e., 1984, the setting of the game), in light of intensifying tensions between America and the Soviet Union (one that began with the latter's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979), long before UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev came in an the USSR dissolved. |
| 572 | -->'''Moorehead:''' Before she was tragically killed, the daughter said her father was unarmed and never wore a gun. You know what that means?\ |
| 573 | '''Molly:''' Yes!\ |
| 574 | '''Moorehead:''' That's right, Molly -- [[ARealManIsAKiller means he's a sissy]]. I imagine when he hears his daughter is dead he'll cry.\ |
| 575 | '''Molly:''' [[MenDontCry What kind of a man cries]], Gordon?!\ |
| 576 | '''Moorehead:''' I don't know. One that loses wars, I think. Probably the kind of man who raises a $2 tramp for a daughter, Molly. A very ''sick'' individual... and probably a [[DirtyCommunists communist]].\ |
| 577 | '''Molly:''' I don't like to express strong emotions, but I think I ''hate'' this fisherman, Gordon!\ |
| 578 | '''Moorehead:''' Don't hate him, Molly -- pity him. [[KnightTemplar And help me kill him]].\ |
| 579 | '''Molly:''' [[LadyMacBeth Oh, I shall]]! |
| 580 | ** By the 2010's, the show's subsequent AnimatedAdaptation is now airing on the in-universe AMC analogue "CNT", and is advertised as being from a time when misogyny and racism was cool -- parodying AMC's occasionally tone-deaf promos for ''Series/MadMen'', where the sexist nature of Don Draper and his associates is completely glossed over in favour of romanticizing TheSixties. |
| 581 | * VaporWear: Sage, host of ''San Andreas''[='=] Radio X, notes she has freed herself from the tyranny of society by not wearing underwear. |
| 582 | * VeryFalseAdvertising: World of Tomorrow warns that owning the latest and greatest technology can mean the difference between fulfilling your dreams... and not. |
| 583 | -->"Hey, I just won the Nobel peace prize!"\ |
| 584 | "I didn't upgrade my personal organizer, and two days later I was diagnosed with a terminal illness!" ''(hacking cough)'' |
| 585 | * WhamLine: Generally, no DJ has ever appeared physically in the games. That all changed when [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV Trevor]] said this during a story mission: |
| 586 | -->'''Trevor:''' [[spoiler: Where the fuck is Lazlow?!]] |
| 587 | * WhatDidIDoLastNight |
| 588 | ** A between-song banter by Tommy Smith: |
| 589 | --->"For those of you just coming to consciousness next to an ugly chick in a strange bed with beer cans and underwear across the floor, run the hell out and get to the clinic." |
| 590 | ** And one of the promos on Bounce FM. |
| 591 | * WhatTheFuAreYouDoing: A "Dragon Stance" cannot turn a desk into "two half-desks". |
| 592 | * WhoWritesThisCrap: Parodied in ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCityStories Vice City Stories]]''[='=] "Bait and Switch" segment of Vice City Public Radio (VCPR). |
| 593 | -->'''Announcer:''' "''Bait and Switch'' -- Vice City's only radio show devoted to water sports, power boats, water skiing, free flounder fishing, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and dialectical]] [[DirtyCommunists materialism]]." Ugh, wrong script. Who wrote this shit?!" |
| 594 | -->'''Assistant:''' Tits! |
| 595 | -->'''Announcer:''' Yeah, that's more like it. "And tits!" |
| 596 | * WordSaladPhilosophy: Much of what's said by the DJ of The Journey, which is a computer, can range from existential crisis fuel, to complete and utter nonsense. |
| 597 | -->'''Computer:''' You are listening to the Journey but you have tuned it out. In your minds are a million seeds filled with hope. Seeds that cry out in unison and die as reality shifts. Is your mind madness or the Messiah? |
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