->''"Ever notice how the more successful observational comics become, the more their jokes focus on flying and hotels?"''
-->-- '''Randall Munroe, Webcomic/{{xkcd}}''' [[http://xkcd.com/785/ #785]] in the AltText

SuperTrope index of all tropes having to do with referencing the nature of one's own medium, style and the almighty fourth wall to make a laugh or two.

Insert joke about the FourthWall of the wiki here while I go about linking to tropes that don't exist, and adding examples to the SelfDemonstratingArticle list.
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!!Tropes involved:
[[index]]
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Related Indexes:
+ RantComedy
+ ThisTropeNameReferencesItself
]
* AffectionateParody: A work parodies another work out of love for the source material.
* AsideGlance: Characters looking toward the audience briefly.
* AudienceWhatAudience
* BritishHumour
* {{Camp}} (occasionally)
* CompanyCameo: The work contains references to the companies that worked on and/or distributed it.
* DeconstructiveParody: A franchise installment handles the tropes and traditions of the series in a more realistic manner than usual.
* JustForFun/DescribeTopicHere (a quick self reference for a page here, that doesn't get in the way of the main description)
* EyebrowWaggle
* HowIWroteThisArticleArticle: Writing about not knowing what to write anymore.
* HypocriticalHumor: A gag involving a character making a hypocritical statement or otherwise demonstrating comically blatant hypocrisy.
* HypocrisyNod: A character acknowledges when they're being hypocritical.
* LampshadeHanging: A character acknowledges when a specific trope is occurring or has a tendency to happen.
* LeftItIn
* MediumAwareness: The character is aware that they are in a work of fiction.
* NoFourthWall: The fourth wall is broken so often that it's as if there never was a fourth wall to begin with.
** Some regions of the SlidingScaleOfFourthWallHardness
* PlayingWithATrope
* RageAgainstTheAuthor
* SatireParodyPastiche (and a little bit of all three)
* ScoldingTheFourthWallBreaker
* SelfDeprecation: The work makes fun of itself for laughs.
* SelfParody
* SpoofAesop
* SubvertedTrope (sometimes)
[[/index]]
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-->'''[[JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf Waldorf]]''': TV Tropes breaks the FourthWall soooo much...
-->'''[[ThoseTwoGuys Statler]]:''' [[Series/MatchGame How much do they break it?]]
-->'''[[Series/TheMuppetShow Waldorf]]''': They break it so much they're now a wholly owned subsidiary of The Home Depot!
-->'''Both''': Ho Ho Ho!
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