Line #58 TakeThat/Film


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15	%%* The entire film ''Film/AnAmericanCarol'' was meant to be one big long TakeThat against Creator/MichaelMoore.
16	* The movie premiere that Stacks takes Film/{{Annie\|2014}} and friends to is ''[=MoonQuake=] Lake'', an obvious shot at the ''Film/{{Twilight}}'' movies. In a twist, though, people (or at least the girls, Stacks, and Grace) seem to generally like it.
17	* One of the opening scenes of ''Film/Armageddon1998'' has a dog chewing on a toy Godzilla. ''Film/{{Godzilla\|1998}}'' was another big blockbuster the same summer.
18	* Biff Tannen, the brutish villain of the ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture'' films, was named in "[[SarcasmMode honor]]" of an executive Creator/RobertZemeckis and Bob Gale worked with on ''Film/IWannaHoldYourHand''. WordOfGod later revealed, during the 2016 presidential election, that the characterization of Biff in Part 2 was based on UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump.
19	* ''Film/TheBeastmaster'': ''Beastmaster 2'' mildly mocks Cold War politics as Arklon calls the whole "balance of terror" idea deliciously barbaric and wants in on the whole sweet nuclear weapon action (he's also the villain, if you didn't already guess).
20	* ''Film/TheBigLebowski:'' Included in the narrator's opening comments:
21	-->"..And even if he's a lazy man, and the Dude was certainly that: quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide.."
22	* ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans\|1981}}'' is a widely regarded classic, but [[Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010 the 2010 remake]] couldn't resist making a joke at the expense of Bubo the mechanical owl (Perseus's sidekick from the original):
23	-->'''Perseus:''' ''[picking up a robot owl]'' What is this? \
24	'''Solon:''' Just leave it!
25	* Matrix's PreAssKickingOneLiner to Cooke in ''Film/{{Commando}}'' is quite possibly one to ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'', as he, like Cooke, was also a Green Beret.
26	-->'''Matrix:''' I eat Green Berets for breakfast. And right now I'm very hungry!
27	* In ''Film/CrazyStupidLove'', Emily says she went to the theater and watched ''Film/{{Twilight}}'', and it was really bad.
28	* In ''Film/{{Daredevil}},'' the film opens with a rapist getting turned loose by the courts thanks to a mob lawyer's intervention. Daredevil hunts the rapist down, breaks his bones and lets him fall to the train tracks, and as the subway approaches, Daredevil coldly states "That light at the end of the tunnel? Guess what? That's not Heaven. That's the 'C' train!" And what is the name of this rapist who has earned a Marvel superhero's damnation? [[Creator/JoeQuesada José Quesada]].
29	* One of the tidal wave scenes from ''Film/DeepImpact'' shows the water wiping out an offshore oil drilling rig, which was a TakeThat against ''Armageddon''. As mentioned earlier, ''Armageddon'' didn't consider ''Film/DeepImpact'' enough of a threat to TakeThat; they took their shot at ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'' instead.
30	* In George Romero's ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead'', there are two occasions in which Jason chides Ridley about his ZombieGait citing ''"Dead things don't run!"'' This seems to be a TakeThat To the remakes of Romero's own movies, ''Dawn of the Dead'' and ''Day of the Dead,'' where zombies are depicted as being fast and agile, unlike the slow-moving zombies of the original.
31	* Creator/SachaBaronCohen's film ''Film/TheDictator'' has multiple ones, but a lengthy one against G.W. Bush and co. stands out at the end:
32	--> '''Aladeen''': Imagine if America was a dictatorship. You could let 1 percent of the people have all the nation’s wealth. You could help your rich friends get richer by cutting their taxes and bailing them out when they gamble and lose. You could ignore the needs of the poor for health care and education. Your media would appear free, but would secretly be controlled by one person and his family. You could wiretap phones. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could have rigged elections. You could lie about why you go to war. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group, and no one would complain. You could use the media to scare the people into supporting policies that are against their interests.
33	* ''Film/DoctorInTrouble'': After seeing Dr. Burke's UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar costume, Basil scoffs and asks if he's supposed to be Creator/{{Twiggy}}.
34	* TheStinger of ''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory'' is basically a TakeThat to the studio executives who forced him to change the ending from a DownerEnding to a HappyEnding, as well as American audiences for not being able to handle sad endings or any complexity in their movies.
35	-->[[spoiler: '''White Goodman''': "Yep, I hope you're all happy now. Good guy wins, bad guy loses. Big freakin' surprise! I love happy endings. You know, that's the problem with the American cinema. Can't handle any complexity in it, you know, 'Don't make me think, I just want to be entertained!'"]]
36	* ''Film/DontLook'': In the car at the start of the movie, the group take part in a thought experiment: how would they each kill Music/JustinBieber?
37	* The original ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'' showed a torn poster of ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977'' in the background of one scene. Creator/BruceCampbell reveals in the DVD commentary that Creator/SamRaimi intended it as a sly dig at Creator/WesCraven's film, as if to say: "If you thought ''that'' was scary..." Craven responded [[ShoutOut goodnaturedly]], by having ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'''s protagonists seen watching the trailer for ''Film/TheEvilDead1981''. Raimi then answered back by showing Freddy Krueger's infamous glove hanging above a door in ''Film/EvilDead2''. The whole thing was actually started by a scene in ''The Hills Have Eyes'' with a torn poster for ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' in the background, which Raimi took as a similar "If you thought that was scary" swipe.
38	* ''Film/ExMachina'' has Nathan's quip about the cell phone companies not being able to complain that he hacked their networks because that would be admitting they were spying on their own customers too. This is clearly a dig at how the major phone and Internet companies in RealLife retain people's personal data for their own use and sale to third parties, or disclose that information to government surveillance programs.
39	* The 2014 [[TheFilmOfTheBook film adaptation]] of ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'' added an opening voiceover in which Hazel disparages the sort of movie in which "[[Film/SayAnything everything is fixed with a Peter Gabriel song]]".
40	* ''Film/FrightNight2011'' has Charlie, after being told Jerry is a vampire, accuses Ed of reading too much ''Twilight''. Ed's response?
41	-->'''Ed''': That's fiction, okay? This is real. He's a real monster and he's not brooding or love sick or noble. He's the fucking shark from ''Jaws''. He kills, he feeds, and he doesn't stop until everybody around him is dead. And I am seriously so angry you think I read ''Twilight''.
42	* ''Film/FunnyGames'', an attempted {{Deconstruction}} of the [[{{Gorn}} Torture Porn]] genre, consists of an extended TakeThat directed at ''[[YouBastard its own audience]]'' for being the kind of people who would like that kind of movie.
43	* The direct-to-video sequel to the ''Film/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' movie had a jab at Brendan Fraser for not appearing in the film, but it got followed up by [[TheOtherDarrin the new replacement]] [[PoorMansSubstitute explaining the studio's too cheap to hire Fraser again.]]
44	* ''Film/GhostLab2021'': When trying to record a video of the ghost Dr. Wee and Dr. Gla see in the waiting room, the latter denotes that it's not showing up on the video, unlike the ghosts in ''Film/{{Shutter}}'', which Gla derides as not very good.
45	* The indie movie ''Film/GodBlessAmerica'' is one big Take That to the American culture and people. The teenage girl also makes a very harsh and mean Take That toward ''Film/{{Juno}}'' at one point.
46	* ''Film/{{Godzilla\|1998}}'': Apart from the film's TakeThatCritics dig at Siskel and Ebert, its trailer has Godzilla step on a Tyrannosaurus rex as a dig at ''Film/JurassicPark''.
47	* Franchise/{{Godzilla}}:
48	** During ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'', the Japanese Godzilla has an encounter with "Zilla", the monster from the infamous America ''Film/{{Godzilla\|1998}}'' movie made in 1998, and [[CurbStompBattle dispatches it rather easily]]. The bad guy even growls out "I knew that tuna-eating monster was useless!"
49	** In ''Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack'', a student asks his teacher if Godzilla attacked the United States recently. The scientist responds with "That's what the Americans say, but Japanese scientists believe differently."
50	*** The main impetus behind the film is that this version of Godzilla is practically a zombie, animated by the wrath of those who died during World War II, not just the Japanese victims, mind you, but all of them. Japan’s tendency towards historical revisionism, and their tendency to downplay, if not straight-up deny, the atrocities committed by the Japanese forces during the conflict is called out specifically as the driving force behind Godzilla’s fixation on destroying Japan in particular.
51	** In ''Film/{{Godzilla 2000}}: Millennium'', the aliens' flying saucer attack could be seen as a subtle TakeThat against Devlin and Emmerich's ''Film/IndependenceDay''. And in the final act, one of the forms adopted by the alien {{Kaiju}} Orga is an obvious {{Expy}} of GINO.
52	** Mark Cerasini's ''Godzilla 2000'' includes a sequence where the titular monster walks into and apparently stands down a tornado; maybe it's coincidence that director Creator/JanDeBont released ''Film/{{Twister}}'' the prior year, after leaving the American Godzilla project in DevelopmentHell ...
53	** ''Godzilla: The Half Century War'' has a villain named Dr. Deverich. In the fourth issue, he inadvertently summons [[EvilTwin SpaceGodzilla]] and [[{{Cyborg}} Gigan]] and [[EldritchAbomination King Ghidorah]].
54	* ''Film/TheGreatDictator'' has Creator/CharlieChaplin break character to deliver a moving speech on the state of the world and go on an AuthorTract on the evil, stupid, and cowardly nature of the Nazis, before America had entered war with them and before the atrocities committed in UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust had come to light.
55	* ''Film/TheGreenBerets'' is basically one giant "Take That" to Americans that were opposed to UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, but it also contains one of the more stunning examples of this trope in action. When he was writing the book that the film was based on, Robin Moore accompanied a special forces unit into action in Vietnam, and wrote an often critical account of his experiences in the field. In the film however, David Janssen plays a very obvious stand-in for Moore, and his character, a journalist who is initially highly critical of the war, gradually learns to become a good, patriotic, war-supporting American over the course of the movie. Needless to say, Moore was not involved in the making of the movie, and didn't speak too highly of it afterwards.
56	* ''Film/HarrisonBergeron'': Administrator Klaxon scoffs when Harrison suggests high politicians have to be very smart and go without handicaps to do the job, saying a person of average or below average is easily capable. We later see that the President is certainly not particularly smart, and such positions are filled by lottery, with random citizens chosen instead of having elections (too much opportunity to envy others).
57	* ''Film/{{Help}}'': Scotland Yard gets one.
58	-->'''Chief Superintendent:''' So, this is the famous ring? And this is the famous Beatles.\
59	'''John:''' So, this is the famous Scotland Yard.\
60	'''Chief Superintendent:''' And how long do you think you'll last?\
61	'''John:''' Can't say fairer than that -- Great Train Robbery, eh, how's that going?
62	* The Hong Kong movie ''Film/HighRisk'' had the character Frankie Lone, an overt TakeThat by the director at Creator/JackieChan's expense -- portraying him as a boozing, womanizing fraud whose stunts were really done by the main character, played by Creator/JetLi. However, Jet Li did publicly apologize for his involvement later.
63	* It's never been confirmed as such, but Chief Orman, Peter Boyle's Creator/MarlonBrando-esque character in ''Honeymoon In Vegas'' is commonly perceived as a take that to Brando himself. Writer / director Andrew Begrman would have reason for throwing such a take that in: His previous film, ''The Freshman'', starred Brando, who later trashed the film in an interview.
64	* ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}'' manages to do a TakeThat against many of the companies that appear in the movie by firmly associating them with, well, idiots: Fuddruckers evolves into "Buttfuckers", Carl's Jr. becomes DarkerAndEdgier ("Fuck you, I'm eating."), Starbucks serves cappuccino and prostitutes, Crocs are the shoes of choice, a Gatorade-esque drink replaces all piped water except in toilets, and [=CostCo.=] becomes a fortress city the size of Kansas with its own subway system. Mike Judge wanted to use actual Gatorade, but was forced to come up with [[BrandX Brawndo]] because [=PepsiCo=] refused permission. Notice how Luke Wilson's character goes out of his way to compare the drink to Gatorade...
65	* ''Film/IndependenceDay'' featured a frustrated Sat TV customer care employee saying to angry customer: "Yeah, I love ''Series/TheXFiles'' too..."
66	* Two Indian examples of films taking pot shots at brands:
67	** In ''Film/DelhiBelly'', the lead actor trio walk towards a compact car owned by one of them. One of them tells the one who owns that car that it's a really ugly vehicle, and is born when a donkey has intercourse with a rickshaw (three-wheeled minicab in India). This vehicle was a hideously modified Hyundai Santro (known as Atos abroad)- and truly looked like a product of some such incident. Hyundai did not take it lying down and got after the film's producers, in court.
68	** In ''Film/ZindagiNaMilegiDobara'' (''Life Doesn't Come Again''), one of the actors says he's invested a lot of money to buy a Ferrari. He says if the investment doesn't work out, he'll be forced to settle with a Ford Fiesta. Ford did nothing.
69	* Franchise/JamesBond:
70	** The death of Blofeld at the beginning of ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' was a TakeThat to Kevin [=McClory=], the screenwriter who created the character and had tried to create [[Film/NeverSayNeverAgain a rival James Bond series]].
71	** Q from ''Film/{{Skyfall}}'' delivers one of these to ''Film/GoldenEye'' involving the exploding pen from the latter film. "We don't really go in for that anymore."
72	** ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'': Auric Goldfinger is named after [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/jun/03/film.hayfestival2005 Erno Goldfinger]], an architect whose buildings Creator/IanFleming hated. Apparently, Erno threatened to sue Fleming for unauthorised use of his name. In that event, Fleming would have changed the name to Goldprick.
73	* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'':
74	** In ''Film/JurassicParkIII'', when asked about character Ian Malcolm's book, a young boy comments that he didn't like it, saying it spent way too much on Chaos Theory and used big words. This is probably a dig at the original book's author, Creator/MichaelCrichton, who likes to AuthorFilibuster on his theories, and used Malcolm for this purpose - the novel was one long discussion on Chaos Theory.
75	** ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' features a notable diss against paleontologist Robert T. Bakker, who was a rival of the film's paleontological consultant, Dr. Jack Horner. In the film, Dr. Bakker is given his very own CaptainErsatz, a bumbling poser who gets scared out of hiding by a snake, and [[DroppedABridgeOnHim into the jaws of a T-Rex]]. Dr. Bakker surprisingly loved the scene, and even called Horner after watching the movie and told him "See? I told you it was a predator!" (Horner is the oldest- and practically, the only- defender of the theory of T-Rex as a giant, slow-moving full-time scavenger, whereas Bakker always defended the idea of T-Rex as a fast, ferocious killer).
76	** ''Film/JurassicWorld''
77	*** The film issues its own take that to ''JP III'' after the Spinosaurus battle went over poorly with fans, who took to the dinosaur as TheScrappy because of that. Not only is the dinosaur left off the list of attractions, [[spoiler: its only appearance in the film is a skeleton that ends up getting destroyed by the Tyrannosaurus Rex, satisfying a large number of fans dissatisfied with the above-mentioned CurbStompBattle in that film]].
78	*** Owen and Claire find that Gray and Zach have escaped the I-Rex by jumping over the waterfall. Claire begins to frantically call their names, and Owen immediately shuts her up and reminds her that if she keeps doing that, they're going to wind up dead. The whole situation is a nod to the other [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] of ''JPIII'', Amanda Kirby, a DumbBlonde [[TooDumbToLive who lacked the sense to realise that shouting her son's name at the top of her lungs in a jungle infested with vicious predators is a stupid idea]].
79	* ''Film/TheKentuckyFriedMovie'':
80	** In a segment parodying morning news programs, where a zookeeper brings out a gorilla named "Dino". "Dino" is said to be impotent, leading to him going on a rampage. Creator/RickBaker, who designed the gorilla suit and played "Dino", had just come off Dino De Laurentiis's much-maligned remake of ''Film/KingKong1976'', which he has referred to as one of the worst jobs in his career.
81	** In "A Fistful of Yen", the CIA spy is utterly frightened of his ultimate torture: UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}.
82	--->'''NO!! NO, NOT DETROIT!! NO! NO, PLEASE!! ANYTHING BUT THAT!! NO! NO!"'''
83	* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'': Harry's home is plastered with copies of The Sun. For each inane, worthless, bigoted headline published, he had saved the world or done something major prior to that.
84	** It's strongly suggested that the vast majority of world leaders went along with Valentine's insane plan to kill most of the world's population with a HatePlague. [[spoiler:It's also suggested that they all died when Merlin set their implants to blow up and the only known remaining head of state left is a sexy Swedish princess who didn't want to go along with the plot.]]
85	** Galahad mentions he once foiled a plot to assassinate UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher, to which Eggsy replies that not many people will thank him for that.
86	* In ''Film/KungFuHustle,'' Creator/StephenChow stops a child's stray soccer ball... and stomps it flat, shouting ''[[MemeticMutation "NO MORE SOCCER!"]]''. This is generally interpreted as Chow's response to the frequent requests he got for a sequel to ''Film/ShaolinSoccer''.
87	* B-movie ''Film/{{Laserblast}}'', about a white trash teenager who gets a laser gun that works like the One Ring, featured the main character randomly blowing up a ''Franchise/StarWars'' billboard and laughing about it. Everybody saw ''Laserblast'', right? Ya know, outside of ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''... At the time ''Laserblast'' first came out, people actually ''compared'' it to ''Star Wars'' and discussed which film was better. For a brief time it looked like a serious rival. Hard to believe....
88	* Another equally sad example [[{{Pun}} Hale]]s from ''Film/TheGiantSpiderInvasion'', when the Sheriff remarks that the giant-est spider makes the shark from ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' "look like a goldfish!" [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Crow's]] reply: "Yeah, the ''better'' movie."
89	* ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' managed to pull an unintentional TakeThat against series creator Creator/AlanMoore, by casting Creator/SeanConnery as Allan Quartermain. Moore ''hates'' James Bond.
90	* ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}'':
91	** ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}'' takes a number of shots at Lucky Charms, most likely for refusing to enter into a ProductPlacement deal. The first has the titular Leprechaun eat some [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Lucky]] ''[[LawyerFriendlyCameo Clovers]]'' and promptly spit them out in disgust, and of course there's Alex's surprisingly bad-ass PreMortemOneLiner before killing the little gremlin off for good (Well, at least until the sequels showed up):
92	---> '''Alex:''' Fuck you, Lucky Charms!
93	** ''Film/LeprechaunReturns'':
94	*** Lubdan retains his shoe cleaning compulsion from the original movie. Except if said shoes are Crocs, in which case he'll put them straight in the trash bin.
95	---->'''Lubdan''': Probably doin' fashion a favor killing that one.
96	*** Lubdan sees the gang try to get away in a rather slow electric car (the sorority girls are shown to be [[GranolaGirl avid about the environment]]) and has this reaction:
97	---->'''Lubdan''': That's the car of the future? Shit...
98	* ''Film/LightsOfNewYork'': A Take That from the first [[MediaNotes/RiseOfTheTalkies talkie]] to all the silent movies (that weren't actually ''silent'': while lacking speech, they were accompanied by music). The first scene starts with a closeup of a playing radio, then a bootlegger walks in and tells his partner to "shut up that music".
99	* A take-that to Brooklyn from the film ''Film/TheMadMissManton'':
100	-->'''Lt. Mike Brent''': Look, lady, it's been ten minutes since you called us. The murderer, that is if there is a murderer, could be in Brooklyn by now - that is, if anybody wants to be in Brooklyn.
101	* ''Megiddo: Film/TheOmegaCode 2'' was, in large part, TBN's take-that to the mainstream media, which they constantly believed to be conspiring against them. In the film, the Antichrist is the owner of a major media outlet.
102	--> '''Antichrist''': This is TELEVISION! People believe whatever they see on television!
103	* A scene in ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'' features BigBad Ivan Ooze--as he is trashing the Command Center--lamenting the terrible things he missed out on while sealed away for a couple thousand years: "The Black Plague! The Spanish Inquisition! ''Series/TheBradyBunch [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Reunion!]]''" Made even funnier by the grave emphasis he puts on the latter, as if it's the worst of the three.
104	* According to the DVD commentary of the cast of ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', the scene where a monk reads the instructions of the Holy Hand Grenade was revenge against being forced to go to church as children. They described their experience during service as having to listen to someone reading a nonsensical repetitive bible verse in an annoying high pitched voice, which is exactly what happens in the scene.
105	* Creator/EricIdle delivers one to English beer during the "Bruces" sketch from ''Film/MontyPythonMostlyLiveOneDownFiveToGo'':
106	--> '''Head Bruce''': We find, over here, your English beer is a little like making love in a canoe. It's fucking close to water!
107	** He'd earlier made that joke about American beer during ''Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl''.
108	* ''Film/MuppetsMostWanted'''s opening musical number "We're Doing a Sequel" features the following lyrics (that were cut from the theatrical version but remain in the soundtrack as well as the film's extended cut) as they lampshade how sequels are never quite as good as the original film:
109	-->'''Muppets:''' We're doing a sequel! How hard can it be?
110	-->'''Rowlf:''' We can't do any worse than ''[[Film/TheGodfather The Godfather III]].''
111	* Early on in ''Film/MysteryMen'', The Shoveler pulls in to his driveway and runs over a [[Series/BarneyAndFriends plush purple T-Rex]], then rips its head off for good measure. It's a ''little'' less out of nowhere than it sounds, because he then comes in complaining about his kids leaving their toys out, but still an obvious take that.
112	%% * ''Film/{{Neighbors\|2014}}'': "Have you seen a Kevin James movie?"
113	* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'': Freddy Krueger is named after a kid who bullied Craven at school. Craven's earlier film, ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft'', features a rapist named Krug, also after that same bully.
114	* The Russian film ''Film/NightWatch'' became the highest-grossing film in Russia. Afterwards, several films beat that record. The sequel, ''Day Watch'' had the lead character jump through and destroy posters of the previous highest grossing Russian films. The TakeThat proved to be accurate -- ''Day Watch'' outgrossed all of those films.
115	* In ''Film/NoKidding'', Dandy Big warns Dandy Little to get away from Catherine before she starts singing "[[Theatre/TheKingAndI Getting to Know You]]".
116	* ''Film/{{Nope}}'':
117	** [[spoiler:The TMZ photographer who shows up late in the film is a total idiot who is completely out of his element, with Emerald and OJ being totally exasperated when they realize where he's from. He isn't even given the dignity of having his face seen, he is under a very concealing motorcycle helmet from his first appearance to getting eaten by Jean Jacket. His only contribution is leaving his motorcycle behind for Emerald to use during the climax of the story. This ties neatly into the [[CentralTheme film's stance against mindless spectacle.]]]]
118	** [[spoiler: Celebrities who try to capitalize on personal infamy for fame. Despite witnessing as a child two of his co-stars killed and a third completely disfigured, Ricky tries to cash-grab on this later in life, through his theme park, an informal tour for inquiring minds about his time on ''Gordy's Home'', and a reality show that incorporates his family. The fame-chasing hubris regarding Jean Jacket winds up getting the entire family and their paying audience killed.]]
119	** The only way Ricky "Jupe" Park can [[spoiler:process his trauma]] is describing the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' skit portraying the [[spoiler: Gordy incident]], and there was also apparently a ''[[{{Magazine/Mad}} MAD Magazine]]'' parody of what happened as well. This calls out how satirical platforms frequently try to make comedy out of [[DudeNotFunny real tragedies where real people were hurt or even killed]]. (Antlers Holst briefly mentions the tiger mauling that happened to Siegfried & Roy, and ''SNL'' [[TruthInTelevision did indeed parody this incident shortly after it happened, with Alec Baldwin as victim Roy Horn]].) Ricky, who is Asian, also mentions that he himself was played in the sketch by guest host Creator/ScottWolf (who is White) -- something else true to life, as ''SNL'' has had a long track record of blackface, brownface, and especially yellowface, and has often faced criticism for being insensitive to the races of the people that they're portraying. [[note]]Creator/JordanPeele himself is a former ''Series/MadTV1995'' cast member, and was slated to play Barack Obama on SNL before contract disputes prevented him from doing so. Obama was eventually portrayed that season by Creator/FredArmisen (who is of German, Asian, and Venezuelan descent), which offended Peele so much he later felt he dodged a bullet.[[/note]]
120	* ''Film/NotOkay'': Creator/LenaDunham is not overly subtly called tone-deaf.
121	--> '''Danni's editor''': You don't want to be like Lena Dunham.
122	* ''Film/OfficeSpace'' did this with a character named Michael Bolton. When Samir asks Bolton why he doesn't change his name if he's dissatisfied with sharing a name with the singer-songwriter, Bolton says that the other guy should change ''his'' name because he makes such bad music (the real Bolton supposedly thought the exchange was ActuallyPrettyFunny):
123	-->'''Samir:''' "You know, why don't you just go by 'Mike', or 'Mikey' or something?"
124	-->'''Michael:''' "No way, why should I change? ''He's'' the one who sucks!"
125	* In the BMovie ''Film/OrcaTheKillerWhale'', which is about a killer whale that actually kills people, there's a scene where the titular orca kills and devours a great white. Gee, I wonder [[Film/{{Jaws}} what]] that could refer to... ''Film/{{Jaws 2}}'' fires right back as one of the shark's early victims is none other than... you guessed it, a killer whale.
126	* ''Film/{{Paparazzi}}'', from Icon Productions (Creator/MelGibson's company), depicts photographers as amoral assholes who would cause a manslaughter if it meant getting pictures, and requires Cole Hauser to kill them one by one. When writing about the director's DVDCommentary for ''Website/TheOnion'''s "Commentary Tracks Of The Damned," Nathan Rabin quipped that he was surprised to see the deleted scenes didn't include "footage of (paparazzi) clubbing baby seals or strangling nuns."
127	* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'': (Apparently) in-universe example regarding a dilapidated lighthouse with its whale-oil reservoir intact:
128	--> '''Blackbeard:''' "Can you make it work?"
129	--> '''Salesman:''' "Made by the English! Let's not get our hopes up."
130	* A couple in ''Film/{{Pixels}}'':
131	** A harmless dancing [[Franchise/TheSmurfs Smurf]] is shot by Violet for creeping her out.
132	** Both VideoGame/QBert and Sam state that modern video games are too brutal and simple to be fun. Matty disagrees, though.
133	* Creator/UweBoll has been accused of [[SpringtimeForHitler making deliberate flops to make use of a tax loophole]], which would explain a lot. His cameo in his own ''VideoGame/{{Postal}}'' movie is probably a reaction to the rumours, since he keeps insisting his movies are awesome.
134	-->'''Boll''': "Because, you know, there are all these rumours out that my movies are funded with [[NaziGold Nazi-gold]]. And what should I say? It's true. But somebody has to do something with the money."
135	* The marketing of ''Film/ThePurgeElectionYear'' takes multiple shots at UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump. The film's tagline, "Keep America Great," is a clear jab at Trump's 2016 campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again." A later trailer says that this Purge ''trumps'' them all.
136	* ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'': "Because, unlike [[Creator/KevinCostner some]] ''[[Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves other]]'' Myth/{{Robin Hood}}s, '''I''' can speak with an English accent."
137	* The Hallmark Channel made-for-TV movie ''Film/TheSantaIncident'' is just one big take that at [[LawfulStupid Homeland Security]].
138	* When Creator/WesCraven read Kevin Williamson's script for ''Film/{{Scream 1996}}'', he was worried that the line about how the first ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'' was good, "but the rest sucked" could be mistakenly seen as a TakeThat from him to people who made the sequels. But then he realized that "the rest" would include his own ''[[Film/WesCravensNewNightmare New Nightmare]]'' as well, and left it in.
139	* ''Film/SmoshTheMovie'':
140	** Steve [=YouTube=], implied to be {{allegorical\|Character}} to the [[Website/YouTube titular website]], is shown to be a petty, manipulative {{Jerkass}} who traps content-creators unlucky enough get his attention in his website, forcing them to churn out content to make him more money.
141	** Everyone reacts with disgust when they find themselves in a UsefulNotes/{{Furry\|Fandom}} Party video.
142	---> '''Steve [=YouTube=]:''' Why was this video in your viewer history? Sickos.
143	** One of Anthony's pet peeves is buffering. When buffering grinds the climax to a halt, he takes their brief moment being frozen to complain about it while Steve weakly explains that it's due to a bandwidth issue outside of his control.
144	* In ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'', Sonic views a planet covered in mushrooms with disdain, stating "I hate mushrooms" which has been confirmed by writer Patrick Casey to be a jab at a certain [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros other video game franchise]] which used a lot of mushroom imagery and served as [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog the Sonic games]]' main rival for a long time.
145	* ''Film/SpaceJam'':
146	** WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck suggests that they call their basketball team "The Ducks". WesternAnimation/{{Bugs\|Bunny}}' response: "What kind of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse organization would call their team the Ducks?" Besides using "Mickey Mouse" as a pejorative term, this could be considered a slam against the Creator/{{Disney}} Pictures film series ''Film/TheMightyDucks'', their cartoon ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'', ''and'' the then Disney-owned NHL hockey team The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.
147	** The movie also includes an alien theme park called "Moron Mountain" -- possibly a self-parody of one of the Time-Warner owned Six Flags amusement parks, Magic Mountain.
148	* ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'', Creator/SteveMartin does a bit near the climax where he unzips various disguises, one of them being UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan quoting "Let's do some drills" from ''Film/SpaceJam''. "This doesn't make a lick of sense," muses Daffy.
149	* ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'' has one moment towards the trend of 2D characters becoming CGI (with some hints of SelfDeprecation). The Looney Tunes are actually offended when [[BigBad Al-G]] "upgrades" them (except for [[OnlyOneFindsItFun Daffy]]). Considering that they are hand-drawn 2D characters that have been around for years, they wouldn't be all too keen at being updated.
150	* The Creator/{{CBS}} MadeForTVMovie ''Film/SpringBreakSharkAttack'' began with thin analogues of the entire cast of ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' being eaten by a shark. Just in case the viewers still didn't get it, a newspaper headline read "Desperate Search For Missing Housewives Continues." The film first aired opposite that show.
151	* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', when Harrison is being led to the brig, he is bound with his hands in front of him as he walks. Later, [=McCoy=] learns of the beat-down Kirk tried to give him and makes a comment about Harrison being a ''superman.'' What's the name of that ''[[Film/ManOfSteel movie]]'' set to open a few weeks later?
152	* From the ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[Film/ThePhantomMenace pre]][[Film/AttackOfTheClones quel]] [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith trilogy]], Nute Gunray, the villainous leader of the Trade Federation, is named after former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich as well as a reversal of Ronald Reagan, to get back at Project Star Wars. From ''The Phantom Menace'', the Neimoidian senator is Lott Dodd, named after U.S. Senators Trent Lott and Chris Dodd.
153	* In ''Film/SuddenImpact'' Dirty Harry crashes a wedding in which the bride is the granddaughter of a very powerful gangster. He quickly causes the elderly don to suffer a fatal heart attack, subtly implying that if Don Vito Corleone, or Michael, had been in San Francisco instead of Long Island, he would have answered to Harry Callahan.
154	* In the comedy-western ''Film/SupportYourLocalSheriff'', the town's brothel-owner is named "Madam Orr". There's the obvious "whore" {{pun\|nyName}}, but the star of the film, James Garner, had also recently been involved in a bitter legal clash with a Warner Brothers executive named William Orr.
155	* Creator/SylvesterStallone did a Take That at himself in ''Film/TangoAndCash''. When a fellow cop compares his character to Rambo, Stallone declares "Franchise/{{Rambo}} is a pussy" and shoots a tanker truck full of gasoline.
156	* In ''Film/Twins1988'', Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's character compares his bicep to a poster for ''Rambo'' and smirks in triumph.
157	* The notorious Creator/AndyWarhol film ''Taylor Mead's Ass'' was made in direct response to a snipe by Peter Emmanuel Goldman, a director who also served as film critic for the ''Village Voice'', about Warhol's films being nothing but "[a camera] focusing on Taylor Mead's ass for two hours." The film that resulted was [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly that]].
158	* In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwXFsrp6WBs second trailer]] for ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014'', Vernon asks if [[DevelopmentGag the Turtles are aliens]], only for April to reply, "No, that's stupid. They're turtles." This is poking fun at an old draft of the script where the Turtles were aliens from outer-space, but was scrapped due to a massive backlash from fans.
159	* Allegedly, Creator/RaulJulia's rant against Creator/MelGibson in ''Film/TequilaSunrise'' near the end is Creator/RobertTowne's TakeThat against Creator/JackNicholson. Originally, Towne was supposed to direct Nicholson in the sequel to ''Film/{{Chinatown}}'', but when Nicholson took over, the friendship fell apart. When Julia thinks he's been betrayed by Gibson in the film, his character says the following:
160	-->'''Carlos''': Friendship is all we have! WE CHOSE EACH OTHER! How could you fuck it up? How could you make us look so bad?
161	* ''Film/{{Torque}}'':
162	** The [[SoBadItsGood hilariously over-the-top]] biker movie ''Film/{{Torque}}'' featured an opening scene in which two cars are engaged in a drag race using camera cuts and CGI effects in an obvious reference to ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious''... only for the lead character, on a motorcycle, to swoop in and easily outrun both of them. A few minutes later, he beats them both up at a gas station, quipping about the obvious inferiority of guys who drive cars. Yeah....
163	** There's the scene where the main character repeats the line from ''Fast And The Furious''-"I live my life a quarter-mile at a time" to which Shane replies-"[[StupidestThingIveEverHeard That's the stupidest thing i've ever heard!]]"
164	* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'':
165	** The ProductPlacement robots that appear in the first ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' [[Film/Transformers2007 movie]] are also AlwaysChaoticEvil due to the fact that all human technology since the 1930s is reverse-engineered from Megatron.
166	** Before the debut of ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', some of the ''dozens'' of new toys released depicted a new Decepticon, Sideways, touted as the deadly adversary to Sideswipe. The toys never state what make of car he is (while nearly everyone else's does), but he bears a close resemblance to the Audi R8, made famous by ''Film/IronMan''. Now look how Sideways winds up in the movie. Or the opening of the movie, at least. It's worth noting here that Audi is a German company and the Autobots always transform into American (General Motors) vehicles.
167	** ''Revenge of the Fallen'' features an ObstructiveBureaucrat whose desire to leave open the possibility of diplomatic talks with the Decepticons serves as a Take That against UsefulNotes/BarackObama's foreign policy.
168	** In the first movie, when Sam and his Dad are car-shopping, the salesman sits behind the wheel of a yellow Volkswagen Beetle, which is promptly slammed by the Autobot Bumblebee (disguised as a yellow Camaro). WordOfGod is that this was a TakeThat against the original Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Bumblebee character. HilariousInHindsight now that a standalone Bumblebee movie is being made, starring a yellow Volkswagen.
169	** At one point in ''Film/{{Bumblebee}}'', Charlie inserts a music cassette into Bumblebee, which is Music/RickAstley's [[JustForFun/RickRoll "Never Gonna Give You Up"]]. Bumblebee immediately spits it out toward a wall, breaking it.
170	** One of the boats that Charlie knocks down in the climax of ''Bumblebee'' had a "[[Creator/MichaelBay Bay]]liner" name on it.
171	* ''Film/TimeBandits'' contains an unusual TakeThat, the song playing over the closing credits ‘Only a Dream Away’ is a TakeThat aimed at the film’s director Creator/TerryGilliam. Producer Music/GeorgeHarrison got so frustrated with Gilliam’s uncompromising attitude during the filming that he wrote the song containing lines like ‘greedy feeling, wheeling dealing, losing what you’ve won’ as an attack on his attitudes.
172	* In ''Film/TrickRTreat'', Steven Wilkins tells his son to go inside and watch Charlie Brown, presumably in reference to the ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' HalloweenSpecial. You know, [[WesternAnimation/ItsTheGreatPumpkinCharlieBrown the thing with the Great Pumpkin]].
173	-->Charlie Brown's an asshole!
174	* ''Film/TropicThunder'' had the "never go full retard" speech, which is an obvious jab at pretty much every actor who played a mentally disabled character for OscarBait.
175	* Film/TheViewAskewniverse movies have varying levels of this in each movie.
176	** It reached fever pitch in ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'', taking shots at pop culture, themselves, their audience, and everything in-between.
177	** The character of Elias in ''Film/ClerksII'' essentially exists so Creator/KevinSmith can insist that ''Franchise/StarWars'' is better than ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Film/Transformers2007''. He's [[StrawLoser an unlikable mama's boy]] and fan of ''Transformers'' and ''[=LotR=],'' while Randall is a mean yet likable guy and a ''Franchise/StarWars'' fan, and even [[WriterOnBoard copies Smith's statement]] that "''Lord of the Rings'' is just a bunch of people walking". They have a fight over which is better. Guess who "wins" and makes the other vomit.
178	* ''{{Film/Vamps}}'': At one point, Goody and Stacy call [[Series/TrueBlood Sookie]] the stupidest character on TV.
179	* ''Film/WarriorsOfVirtue'', a Mystical Kung-Fu adventure from the mid-90's, features a scene early on in which the movie's protagonist Ryan is told by an Asian chef about a magical world he winds up travelling to later on. The chef describes this place as "a world beyond anything you've ever seen...no guns, no lasers, no Morphing...", a rather obvious Take That! at ''Franchise/PowerRangers''.
180	* ''Film/WithinOurGates'' is considered a response to ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation\|1915}}''. It is one of the earliest known films directed by an African-American and is a "race film" (an early film by black people for black audiences). The film focuses on racism and contains a lynching scene.
181	* After a night of drinking, Mulder urinates on a poster for ''Film/IndependenceDay'' in ''Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture''.
182	* The start of ''Film/XXx'' (the Creator/VinDiesel spy thing, not the porn genre) features a [[Franchise/JamesBond tuxedo-wearing spy]] finding himself in a club, looking very out of place amongst the hip young kids, before getting himself shot several times.
183	* In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Logan desperately tries to change the radio on the car when Music/{{NSYNC}}'s "Bye Bye Bye" plays after Pyro turns it on.
184	* In ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', after seeing ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Jean says, "Well, at least we can all agree that the third one is always the worst." Not only is that a jab against ''Return of the Jedi'', it's also one against [[Film/XMenTheLastStand the third movie in the original trilogy]], and, perhaps unintentionally, [[SelfDeprecation also applies to X-Men Apocalypse]], which had the lowest critical ratings of the reboots until Dark Phoenix came out.

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