!!!Fiction
->'''Homer:''' This Friday, we're going back to the woods and we're going to find that alien!\\
'''Bart:''' What if we don't?\\
'''Homer:''' We'll fake it, and sell it to the {{Creator/FOX}} Network.\\
'''Bart:''' ''(Chuckle)'' They'll buy ''anything''!\\
'''Homer:''' Now, son, they do a lot of quality programming too.\\
''[Both burst into laughter.]''\\
'''Homer:''' I kill me.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "The Springfield Files"

->'''Sonic:''' Look what I found at the flea market! ''(Holds up a game cartridge)''\\
'''Knuckles:''' Dude! Is that ''[[Videogame/SonicTheHedgehog2 Tomatopotamus 2]]''?\\
'''Tails:''' That's the best one in the entire series! ''[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Tomatopotamus]]'' never worked in 3D.\\
'''Knuckles:''' Game companies always ruin their beloved franchises.\\
'''Sonic:''' They never should've changed the color of Tomatopotamus' legs.
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'', "Fiendbot"


->'''Peter:''' Well, unfortunately, Lois, there's just no more room on the schedule. We've just got to accept the fact that Fox has to make room for terrific shows like ''[[LongList Dark Angel, Titus, Undeclared, Action, That 80's Show, Wonderfalls, Fastlane, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, Skin, Girls Club, Cracking Up, The Pits, Firefly, Get Real, Freaky Links, Wanda at Large, Costello, The Lone Gunmen, A Minute With Stan Hooper, Normal Ohio, Pasadena, Harsh Realm, Keen Eddie, The Street, American Embassy, Cedric the Entertainer, The Tick, Louie, and Greg the Bunny.]]''\\
'''Lois:''' Is there no hope?\\
'''Peter:''' Well, I suppose if ''all'' those shows go down the tubes, we might have a shot.
-->'''''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''''', "North by North Quahog"

->''"I'm not one to 'bite the hand that feeds me', but I might consider 'biting the network that '''canceled''' me!'"''
-->-- '''Series/{{Alf}}''' on the cover of issue #40 of his comic book, in which he is eating a roast turkey with [[Creator/{{NBC}} colorful plumage]]

->'''Phil Smith:''' Have you seen ''{{Film/Misery}}''?\\
'''Peter Mannion:''' I'm at the fucking BBC, aren't I?
-->--''Series/TheThickOfIt'', Season 3, Episode 5

->''Produced By: '''ASSHATS'''''
-->--'''Opening Credits''', ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}''

->''"Oh I get it. The whole self-referential thing; Letterman hates the suits, Stern yells at his boss, Nixon’s "sock it to me" on ''Laugh-In''... Hippie humor.''"
-->--'''Jack Donaghy''' (a parody of an NBC executive) '''''Series/ThirtyRock''''', Season 1, Episode 5 ("Jack-Tor")

-> '''Algernon:''' It's the {{Creator/ABC}}'s![[note]]Referring to the '''A'''rmored '''B'''inome '''C'''arriers, which were retroactively dubbed such after [=ABC=] canceled the show[[/note]] They've... turned on us!
-> '''Binky:''' Treacherous dogs!
-->--''WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}}'', "Web World Wars"

->'''Tommy:''' Where the hell are you?\\
'''Chili:''' I'm in L.A. now.\\
'''Tommy:''' Hey, what are you doin' out there?\\
'''Chili:''' I'm goin' into the movie business. Thinkin' about producing.\\
'''Tommy:''' What the fuck do you know about making movies?\\
'''Chili:''' I don't think the producer has to know much.
-->--''Film/GetShorty''

->'''Zazu:''' ♩Nobody knooows... the trouble I've seen... ♩Nobody knooows... my sorrow...\\
'''Scar:''' Oh, Zazu, do lighten up. Sing something with a little more... bounce in it.\\
'''Zazu:''' [[Ride/ItsASmallWorld ♫It's a small world, after all...]]\\
'''Scar:''' [[BigNo NO!]] No. [[SelfDeprecation Anything, but]] [[EarWorm that!]]
-->--''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''

->'''Smith:''' Things have changed. The market’s tough. I’m sure you can understand why our beloved parent company, Creator/WarnerBros, has decided to make a sequel to the trilogy.\\
'''Neo:''' What?\\
'''Smith:''' They informed me they’re gonna do it with or without us.\\
'''Neo:''' I thought they couldn’t do that.\\
'''Smith:''' ''(Exhales)'' Oh, they can. And they made it clear they’ll kill our contract if we don’t cooperate.\\
'''Neo:''' Really?\\
'''Smith:''' I know you said the story was over for you, but that’s the thing about stories. They never really end, do they? We’re still telling the same stories we’ve always told, just with different names, different faces and I have to say I’m kind of excited. After all these years, to be going back to where it all started... back to the Matrix!
-->-- ''Film/TheMatrixResurrections''

->''People generally don't openly shit on their employers, unless of course, that employer is Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery, in which case, you can happily shit away, because apparently they're too busy cancelling shows to notice!''
-->-- '''Creator/JohnOliver''', ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver''

->''"The following video was brought to you by: [=YouTube=]! A company that would slaughter orphans if Google told them to!"''
-->-- CouchGag intro example for ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' fan animator '''[[https://www.youtube.com/@PixelrushTheFunnyPixelMan Pixelrush]]'''

!!!RealLife
->''"During the party scene, Jameson has an encounter with businessman [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Roderick Kingsley]], who offers his advice on how to reinvigorate the failing ''Daily Bugle''. Kingsley says, 'Sell the majority of your shares to the public!' (That, of course, is what Ron Perelman had done with Creator/{{Marvel}} in 1991, and what is believed by many experts to be what ultimately led to the company going bankrupt in 1996.) Jameson replies, 'I'd never take the Bugle public, Kingsley-because I know that its long-term integrity would suffer under corporate connivers like you, who dream up ridiculous little 'schemes' which only produce short-term gains!' Yep, that pretty sums up what was going on at Marvel. If only [[MeanBoss J. Jonah Jameson]] could have been our owner…"''
-->--Editor/Writer '''Glenn Greenberg''' on ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''

->''"These photos were taken at a ''Deadspin'' Super Bowl party that was co-sponsored by Jaguar (Jaguar™: Three Months In The Shop Ain't That Bad!)"''
-->--'''[[http://deadspin.com/why-your-team-sucks-2014-san-francisco-49ers-1625046485 Drew Magary]]''', ''Deadspin''

->''"''[Richard]'' Garriott's dislike of [[Creator/ElectronicArts EA]] founder Trip Hawkins is legendary for long-time ''Ultima'' fans. Potshots at EA begin as early as ''VideoGame/UltimaII'', and ''VideoGame/UltimaV''[='=]s Apple II version recognized 'electronic arts' as a curse word, with [=NPCs=] chastising you for using it in conversation. In ''VideoGame/UltimaVI'', players can stumble onto the grave of 'Captain Hawkins', a pirate whose epitaph reads 'Here lies Captain Hawkins. He died a hard death [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing and he deserved it]]', and whose cruel and destructive deeds form a minor part of the backstory of several quests and [=NPCs=] in the game, including other pirates also named after prominent EA employees. Even in ''Ultima VII'', stabs at EA come in the form of major Fellowship leaders Elizabeth and Abraham, three artifacts that must be destroyed in the endgame being shaped like a cube, sphere and pyramid (the components of the old Electronic Arts logo), and the Guardian himself being described as the 'Destroyer of Worlds' (Creator/OriginSystems' company motto at the time was 'We Create Worlds'). Fan theory regards The Guardian as an analogue for Trip Hawkins, due to his urge to [[CorruptCorporateExecutive acquire and then destroy once he gets bored with his toys]]."''
-->--'''Robert Kosarko''' [[http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/ultima/ultima8.htm on]] ''VideoGame/UltimaVII''

->''"It's fairly clear that after he had that huge #1 hit with 'Convoy', his record company was applying severe pressure to [=Mr. McCall=] to [[StrictlyFormula repeat the success with another hit about CB.]] He wisely refused; his followup album, ''Wilderness'', had him posing on the album cover looking like Music/JohnDenver and did not include one single song about truck drivers or [[UsefulNotes/TwoWayRadio CB radio.]] Major faux-pas as far as Creator/MGMRecords was concerned - they wanted a sequel to 'Convoy' and they wanted it now. 'You want a sequel to 'Convoy'? You got it!'. (Heh heh, I'll show 'em). [=Mr. McCall=] then set out to deliberately jump the shark on his fourth album, the way over the top ''Rubber Duck'' featuring 'Ratchetjaw' (a bunch of CB radio talk that sounds like a self-parody of his earlier CB novelty songs) and 'Round the World with the Rubber Duck' (which went beyond mere self-parody, it was [=C.W. McCall=] methodically and deliberately Jumping The Shark, right down to the pirate-inspired 'yo ho ho'isms and the backing 'dumb, dumb, dumb, this is dumb, dumb, dumb' background chorus.)"''
-->--'''''Rational Wiki''''' on [=C.W. McCall=]

->''"Bidmead copes admirably with the [[Creator/JohnNathanTurner Nathan-Turner]] hell brief -- certainly better than anyone not named Robert Holmes ever did. (That he was coping is evident in the anecdote that he picked the name and setting of the story based on remembering a pair of [[Creator/MCEscher Escher]] prints hanging in someone’s office that Nathan-Turner hated. The reasons Nathan-Turner hated them ''[were]'' that he believed that 'art should exist to soothe, not distract.' If I had to reduce my objection to Nathan-Turner to a single fact, incidentally, that would be it.)"''
-->--'''El Sandifer''' [[http://www.philipsandifer.com/2012/03/pathetic-bunch-of-tin-soldiers.html on]] ''Series/DoctorWho'' ([[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva}} "Castrovalva"]])

->''"Once upon a time, there was an institution built around excitement and adventure. Weird and wacky individuals would wander around the galaxy and entertain millions with their unique talents and bold ideas. It developed its own following and its own fanbase. Some people even dared to call it [='=]''the greatest show in the galaxy.''[='=] Eventually, however, there came pressure to conform; to settle down; to sell out. The hippie ideals of [[TheSixties the sixties]] were cast aside like the shell of a brightly coloured party bus, as the show settled for [[LowestCommonDenominator middle-brow entertainment]] in the middle of [[BBCQuarry a rocky grey quarry]].\\\
Where once the show had drawn massive crowds, now the rafters were empty. Various stunts were attempted to draw new attendees or to appease those audience members who had been there since the very beginning. The few people who did watch were [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks less-and-less amused or entertained]] by what they had seen...A middle-class family sit up in the rafters munching on popcorn and telling each other to shut up and watch. They offer the ratings that determine whether the show lives or dies. It becomes a dark metaphor for the state of the show in the Creator/JohnNathanTurner era, as it offers what ever sacrifices are necessary to keep those viewers watching, and to appease the angry gods sitting at the BBC head office. Don’t try anything [[StrictlyFormula too ambitious or controversial]]. Just keep them entertained."''
-->-- '''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2013/11/11/doctor-who-the-greatest-show-in-the-galaxy-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowInTheGalaxy}} "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"]]

->'''Enrico Caruso''': ''(upon being made honorary captain of the New York Police Department)'' Can I arrest people now?
->'''Richard Enright''': Yes.
->'''Enrico Caruso''': Then I must go to the Metropolitan right away. I will play a funny on Mr. Gatti.
-->--Conversation between Metropolitan Opera tenor Enrico Caruso and Police Commissioner Richard Enright in 1917 (Mr. Gatti refers to Giulio Gatti-Casazza, General Manager of the Met Opera between 1908 and 1935)

->''Well, a few years ago, we were sitting on top with ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' and ''Series/{{Friends}}''''
->''Then those shows bailed and the new ones failed, and it's turning a nasty trend''
->''And the guy who passed on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' was promoted instead of tossed!''
->''And now, the peacock's getting it from both ends''

->''Yeah, we got trouble! Right here at NBC!''
->''With a capital "T", and that rhymes with "G", as in "Gee, we're screwed!"''
->''Yeah, we got trouble! Right here at NBC!''
->''I hate to disrespect, but my lawyer checked and I can't be sued''
-->'''Creator/ConanOBrien''', singing a parody of [[Theatre/TheMusicMan "Ya Got Trouble"]] during Creator/{{NBC}}'s broadcast of the 2006 Emmy Awards
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