History LampshadeHanging / LiveActionTV

* In ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'', Alex and Mason are throwing water balloons from the roof to below residents, whom are not amused.

** And when the Russos are investigated by the government for being wizards, a scientist starts asking questions, and the man says "you skipped all the questions you asked the other kid" and he says "excuse me for keeping it fresh".

* In the 6th season of ''Series/OneTreeHill'', when Lucas agrees to getting his book turned into a movie, he goes around asking his friends and family who they want to play them. Most name famous celebrities, to which Lucas often points out they the film is based on teenagers/high school students lampshading the fact that all the cast members themselves were all [[DawsonCasting twenty-somethings playing teenagers]].

* ''Series/{{Roseanne}}'' exhibits an awful lot of lampshade hanging when it comes to the actor switch of Becky. In "The Clip Show: All About Rosey (Part 1)" an adult DJ has clearly gone insane and is seen muttering something. The psychiatrist finally askes him to speak up and he says, "They say she's the same, but she's not the same." This is followed by back-to-back clips of Lecy Goranson and Sarah Chalke as Becky. Also, in the first episode where Sarah Chalke appears as Becky, Roseanne mentions at the end of the episode that Becky "seems really different." Due to Lecy Goranson's indecision in whether or not she wanted to stay as Becky in season 8 of the show, one week's episode would include Lecy and the next's Sarah. Finally, in the episode "Disney World War II" Sarah Chalke appeared onscreen and the entire cast freeze-framed. A narrator lamp-shaded the whole Lecy-Sarah switch-off by saying, "Sarah Chalke will play Becky in this episode and for the rest of series." To which the audience clapped. Amen, audience.

* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' has repeated moments where lame plots are lampshading and the terrible writing is exposed.
** There are also several instances where characters point out the main cast are the only ones who speak/participate in class and perform in plays.

** In another epidose, some of the team lampshade the QuipToBlack puns that are so prevalent in the franchise. Sheldon has placed some evidence in the super glue chamber:

* The Australian political satire ''The Ex PM'' derives a lot of its humour from lampshade hanging, being about an Eerily familiar Australian Ex Prime Minister and his ghostwriter. In the second episode, The Ex PM discusses how much he dislikes the ABC and how he should have got rid of them while he had the chance, but no matter how many times they were attacked, they keep "coming back like crazed zombies." The show was produced by the ABC and was aired not long after the government had cut their funding. At the end of the same episode, there is a scene in which a remote control aeroplane flies into a chimney with re-enactments of many famous images from 9/11. Afterwards, while the PM is fixing the chimney, he mentions "ground zero", and his ghostwriter says "I don't know about 9/11 jokes. Could hurt American sales."

** ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Throughout the series, the gang bumps into Janice (Creator/MaggieWheeler) often. In her final apperance, near the end of the series, Janice makes a cameo in the neighbouring house of the one Monica and Chandler are buying. Chandler lampshades the unlikelihood of bumping into her every now and then.

** In the second season episode, "The One With Five Steaks and an Eggplant", Chandler gets laid via a convoluted sitcom shennanigan. He had to give the girl Ross's number because he couldn't give her his number because she thought his number was [[ItMakesSenseInContext Bob's number]]. After Chandler explains this, Ross asks, "And what should I do if [[Series/ThreesCompany Mr. Roper calls]]?"

* In one ''Series/HannahMontana'' episode, Jackson complains about people being too gullible not to notice Clark Kent is Superman (their only difference is Clark wearing glasses). Miley (who's putting on the wig -- which makes her Hannah alter-ego unrecognisable for the rest of the world) agrees.

** WordOfGod from the original staff on the matter, Hibiki was not meant to be a mass-merchandising cash-cow For Bandai and Toei like others Series of its kind infrequently are where it's mostly-focused on telling interesting stories that'll engage people with only a minoirty of attention paid to making toysales so the production could maintain funding...like most film and television actually is. Hibiki in particular was trying to work to rebuild the audience for the franchise that had been lost in prior years from bad storytelling caused by the mismanagement of the property by Toei, in particular Producer Shinichiro Shirakura, so they could make the NEXT series have a lot of tie-in merch after the viewers came back. But Toei got impatient, thus compromises were made until the entire staff got booted when Shirakura offered Toei's higher ups what they wanted with no strings if they handed the show back to him. Before he took over and booted the prior staff though, Hibiki had many examples of throwing shade at the executives in this manner.

* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episode "Deadpan" closes with Jessica Fletcher in an empty theater, confronting a theater critic ([[spoiler: Creator/DeanStockwell]]) whom she had proven had murdered a rival critic. As the police emerge to arrest him, the critic -- a frustrated [[spoiler: playwright]] -- wearily comments, "The detective in the wings, Mrs Fletcher? I suppose I should have expected a climax so... clichéd."

*** He also makes repeated references to a Colonel O'Neil (one L) at the SGC who has "No sense of humour at all", lampshading the personality retool he underwent at the same time.

*** When they are in the space station bar, Worf is asked why he looks different than the Klingons of that era, lampshading the [[SeriesContinuityError radical changes]] in Klingon appearance over the years. The [[WordOfGod writers said]] ''any'' answer -- along the lines of genetic engineering or viral mutations or environmental catastrophes -- would be trite and cheesy to the audience, who would know the changes were solely as a result of improved budgets across the shows, so they decided to lampshade the issue with humour. The characters themselves debate the scenarios the writing staff had discarded as trite, until Worf shuts the lid on the discussion by growling out that Klingons "don't talk about it with outsiders".\\

** When Chuck tells Sam that [[spoiler:he knows he has been drinking demon blood]], he explains that he left it out of the books because no one would relate to him doing something so awful -- a reaction to many fans complaining that Sam's behaviour in the most recent season had made him too unsympathetic.

** Also, when Sheldon walks in on Amy practising the harp he refuses to hear a song, saying that he dislikes their overuse in classic television sitcoms.

** During Dawn's training the season seven premiere, Dawn encounters a new vampire.

** In one episode, Jerome and Joy refused to believe Patricia and Alfie in the fact that their "extra credit" project was actually a ceremony, set up by the teachers, to awake Robert Frobisher-Smythe. Seeing as Jerome and Joy were in the mysteries of the past two seasons, they had to reason not to believe the. Eventually, Alfie responded with, "Ceremonies, bad teachers, great evil, does none of this ring a bell?"

** The episode 'iEnrage Gibby' - Carly is playing the ukelele and confirms she's always played it when asked by Freddie. On this Freddie hangs his lampshade retort with "Wow, that's never been established".

** In the series revival episode ''Film/CryWilderness'' Jonah and the bots are seen exiting into the hallway out of the theater. We then cut to Kinga's grandma Pearl, Bobo, and Brain Guy (the primary villains of the Mike era) stopping by, exposisting some advice about the experiment/blantantly trying to avoid spending time with Kinga, and then heading on their way for the episode. Kinga then bemoans the fact seaming the current season with the previous ten's countinity is a lot of work, and it would have been easier to just to reboot it. When we cut back to Jonah and the bots returning to the theater, [[OffScreenInertia Tom wonders just how long they spent in the hallway.]]

* In an episode of ''Series/TheNanny'', C.C, played by the then very pregnant Creator/LaurenLane brings up an episode of ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' where writers obviously hid [[Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus Julia Louis-Dreyfus]]' pregnancy behind large props, while Lane move a giant purse and a potted plant that "needed watering". Later in the episode, she used a giant sign that read "BABY".

* Richard ''Series/{{Castle}}'' is effectively a self-hanging lampshade. As a murder mystery novelist whose role on a homicide investigation team is out-of-the-box thinking, any theory he suggests is ''by definition'' the sort of idea that only the over-active imagination of a crime fiction writer would come up with.

** Abed, the character the previous paragraph is referring to, is basically this website in walking, talking form. In one episode, he says that acting like life is TV is basically his thing, but "they leaned heavily on that last week, so I'll lay low for now", which he does. In another episode, it seems like a narration by Abed is about to start, when the camera reveal shows him simply talking aloud, and the other character tells him to stop, to which he replies "I know, it's a crutch." Then in ANOTHER episode, it seems like they completely forgot about their narration rule, except it turns out the entire narration for the episode was him recounting the events of the episode to the dean of the community college. Oh yeah, the episode was basically ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' meets chicken fingers. He starts his narration with "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be in a Mafia movie." He even serially refers to Season 2's [[BottleEpisode bottle episode]] "Cooperative Calligraphy" as a bottle episode .

** In "The Art of Murder" Gloria Carlisle attempts to burn these, but a large fragment with the signature of her artist lover at the bottom survived for Henry to find. Lampshaded by Jo.

** When Spike is being taunted by the First Evil at the end of the season seven premiere who is taking the forms of the show's previous BigBads, it notably takes the form of the BigBad of season one, The Master, when it tells him, right back to the beginning.