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Satire is a form of humor, and is considered the cruelest form of comedy. Satire points out the folly of people, organizations, institutions, and ideas.

Often, satire will use fictional counterparts of real people as characters, as a parody of Real Life. However, a satirical work can also use original characters to explore the foibles or ramifications of an organization or course of action.

Satire often relies on current events, which raises a danger that it won't be appreciated in another era. The poetry of Alexander Pope and John Dryden satirized English politics of the 18th century, but few would appreciate the humor now. The best satire can still be appreciated on its own merits even after the thing it's criticizing fades from consciousness. Occasionally, a piece of satire regains relevance in similar circumstances; for example, satire aimed at George Bush I (or, perhaps more justifiably, Richard Nixon) can often be easily applied to Bill Clinton; 1990s "look at the old guy!" barbs at Bob Dole were recycled in 2008 to target John McCain.

The Roman poets Ennius and Lucilius are considered the progenitors of the genre, though almost all of their work has been lost. Latin satire was generally delivered in verse, like most literature of the time. It was considered the sole branch of literature native to Ancient Rome and there was no Greek equivalent, though some Greek comedy, such as Aristophanes, had elements that we would consider satiric. Horace, Persius, and Juvenal are perhaps the three most famous Roman satirists, ranging from good-natured (Horace disposing of a dreadful bore) to savage (Juvenal's condemnation of sodomites pretending to be philosophers). They are for the most part preoccupied with urban life, morality, and how other people suck.

Literary convention divides satire into the Horatian (good-natured, almost affectionate, light-hearted, and more likely to view the target as foolish rather than evil) and the Juvenalian (contemptuous, abrasive, scornful, and outraged, relentlessly mocking a target often regarded as outright evil).

See also Parody, Pastiche, Farce, Meta Trope Intro. Compare Deconstruction, as a lot of satire incorporates elements of it, as well as Black Comedy and Take That!. See also The Comically Serious, which is often a key component of satire.


Examples:

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    Alternate Reality Games 
  • Omega Mart: Meow Wolf's primary intention with this Alternate Reality supermarket is to provide a Surrealist Satire of the American grocery store, with surreal parodies of common grocery store items designed to make people who go through it think about the relationship they have with the products they purchase.

    Anime & Manga 
  • Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei makes dark commentary on general shallowness, escapism, otaku and society in general.
  • Kino's Journey basically does this Once an Episode as Kino travels from one city to another. Notably one episode has a democracy where only a single citizen is still alive, all the others having died because of their absolute belief in majority rules.
  • Oh! Edo Rocket is a farcical meta-satire of its own genre, managing to (hilariously) savage just about every cliche and character type in the world of anime and manga.
  • Depending on if you consider it a parody or not Black Lagoon is this towards the over-the-top violence that was '90s anime.

    Arts 
  • Superflat is a Post-Modern art movement that was started by Takashi Murakami who was inspired by Hideaki Anno. It sometimes satirizes many aspects of Japan (particularly things sparked by Anime) such as consumerism, the prevalence of Kawaisa, Lolicon, and Fanservice along with the Otaku subculture that is the driving force behind all of them. However, since certain artists associated with Superflat are lolicon otaku themselves, it could also be seen as a form of Self-Parody. Furthermore, it should be noted that not all Superflat works are satirical in nature — Superflat Monogram, by Murakami and Mamoru Hosoda, for instance, is merely a Louis Vuitton commercial.
  • Dada was a Post-Modern movement that was a satire of modern art and post-WWI malaise.

    Comic Books 

    Comic Strips 

    Fan Works 
  • Lily and the Art of Being Sisyphus is a hilarious and exceptionally well-made satirical mockery of popular conventions in Harry Potter Fan Fiction, the Harry Potter fandom, and the universe of Harry Potter in general. Of special note is the relationship between the Mundane and Wizarding worlds — which is sharply delineated in the source material and most fanfiction. In the protagonist's eyes there is no divide, and a significant element of the humor stems from everyone around her being unable to parse this.
  • Edgar satirizes Disney's trend of creating live-action sympathetic origin story movies for their classic villains by making one of these for Edgar of The Aristocats.

    Films — Animation 
  • Munro is a satire of the American armed forces circa The '50s. A little boy gets conscripted into the military, but everyone involved is so wrapped up in red tape and unquestioning loyalty to the system that the only way they notice is having the evidence shoved into their faces.
  • Peanuts Animated Films:
  • Several of Ralph Bakshi's animated feature films are heavy on satire, particularly Coonskin.
  • South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is a satire of censorship.
  • Sausage Party is a satire of religion.
  • Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation, the direct-to-video animated film of the series, jabs its toes further into Summertime Activities, such as water fights, boating, including a car trip to a satirical Disneyland Park, Johnny Depp in the form of a skunk cartoon, and even the late 1980s horror films Friday the 13th and The Hitcher.
  • Beavis and Butt-Head Do America mockingly puts it feet down further at The U.S. Federal Governments incompetence, inadequacy and inefficiency, especially when dealing with dangerous criminals and terrorists, predating the 9/11 tragedy of 2001. It also shows us about life on the lam, through the eyes of two idiotic teenage boys.

    Films — Live-Action 

    Literature 
  • The Book of Jonah: Possibly the Ur-example. The title character is a Take That! toward people who desire God's mercy for themselves, but not for other people.
  • Adrian Mole satirises "the Iron Lady" Margaret Thatcher (whom he despises), in the form of a poem:
    Do you weep, Mrs Thatcher, do you weep?
    Do you wake, Mrs Thatcher, in your sleep?
    Do you weep like a sad willow? On your Marks and Spencer's pillow?
    Are your tears molten steel? Do you weep?
    Do you wake with "three million" on your brain?
    Are you sorry that they'll never work again?
    When you're dressing in your blue, do you see the waiting queue?
    Do you weep, Mrs Thatcher, do you weep?
  • Jonathan Swift in general, really. His A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels are among the most Juvenalian works ever produced.
  • Samuel Johnson was another notable satirist. An example of his work being The Life of Richard Savage.
  • Edwin A. Abbott's 1884 novella Flatland is a scathing dissection of Victorian class structures, of biological racism and eugenics, and of misogyny.
  • The works of Honoré de Balzac, Marcel Proust, Rabelais and Voltaire.
  • Some of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books are satires of government, religion, and other things, often with the assistance of parody and pastiche. Typically Horatian.
  • Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote satirizes nearly all of its contemporary examples of literature and theater and ridicules them; also a Juvenalian take of Spanish society at The Cavalier Years.
  • Horace's satires tend to be playfully sly and give the characteristics of Horatian satire. He even provides his own description of satire here in his first satire:
Furthermore, not to go rattling off lists the way comics tell one joke
After another, — yet what's to forbid our amusement at telling
Truths, the way teacher cajole little boys by awarding them cookies,
Coaxing them on to the point where they want to learn more of their letters?
  • Juvenal's satires, on the other hand, tend to be much more abrasive and establish the characteristics of Juvenalian satire. Juvenal provides his own description in his first satire:
When a flabby eunuch marries, when well-born girls o crazy
for pig-sticking up-country, bare-breasted, spear in fist;
when the barber who rasped away at my youthful beard has risen
to challenge good society with his millions; when Crispinus —
that Delta-bred house-slave, silt washed down by the Nile —
now hitches his shoulders under Tyrian purple, airs
a thin gold ring in summer on his sweaty finger
('My dear, I couldn't bear to wear my heavier jewels') —
it's harder not to be writing satires; for who could endure
this monstrous city, however callous at heart, and swallow
his wrath?

    Live-Action TV 
  • The Daily Show satirizes modern US and global news events, as does the Spin-Off, The Colbert Report. Whether their satire is Juvenalian or Horatian depends on the subject: Fox News Channel? Juvenalian (particularly when it comes to Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity). Barack Obama? Horatian. George W. Bush? Are we talking 2001-2006 or 2006-2009?note  The rest of the media? What are they saying now? Etc., etc., etc.
  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Hosted by Daily Show graduate John Oliver, it can do the Horatian, but is usually fiercely, fiercely Juvenalian. Oliver has a habit of selecting a single target and pointing out how unbelievably horrible it is for 20 minutes at a time and unabashedly insulting people and institutions he regards as idiots or evil.
  • Full Frontal with Samantha Bee: Hosted by another Daily Show graduate, Samantha Bee. Furiously Juvenalian, freely mocking everyone Bee regards as awful (and Bee regards a lot of people as awful). Carries on the Daily Show tradition of sending "correspondents" to conduct man-on-the-street interviews in which interviewees' responses to questions are made the subject of ridicule.
  • When Stephen Colbert took over The Late Show in 2015, he took with him his satiric roots. He did change his approach, becoming rather more Horatian, as he shed his "Stephen Colbert-the-right-wing-pundit" character and simply appears as someone more or like his actual self (a rather mild-mannered liberal and suburban dad of deep but unostentatious Catholic faith).
  • On a meta level, the Onion's You're Right satirizes political late night hosts such as Stewart and Colbert, accusing them of pandering to their audience and only telling them what they want to hear.
  • Yes, Minister satirized 1980s UK Governmental policy and decision-making. Generally Horatian with occasional dips into Juvenalian territory.
  • ...and its Spiritual Successor The Thick of It now satirises UK politics in the 21st century. Purely Juvenalian.
  • Veep, Transatlantic Equivalent of The Thick of It, is, despite coming from the same crew, surprisingly far less Juvenalian and even moves into Horatian territory, with the politicians and staffers mostly being overworked or likeably incompetent rather than scheming sons-of-bitches. It helps that there is no clear equivalent to Malcolm; the Invisible President's messenger to the VP's office is possibly the saddest schmuck in the District (and the District is full of schmucks). This is partly because Armando Iannucci was struck (while researching for In the Loop) about how young everyone in the American government seemed to be. (Today, "the Veep explanation" (or similar) of a political phenomenon is a common Beltway shorthand descriptor for "the explanation that assumes that the phenomenon is the result of overworked and/or incompetent staffers trying to make sense of their equally-overworked and/or incompetent bosses' pronouncements without any of it being part of a plot for anything more nefarious than temporary political advantage this news cycle.")
  • Brass Eye satirized the reporting methods of 90s UK news media as well as wider social and political issues. Out-Juvenals Juvenal himself.
  • Frontline satirized Australian current affairs programmes in the 1990s.
  • Have I Got News for You. Fittingly for the editor of Juvenalian satirical magazine Private Eye, Ian Hislop's contributions are toward the Juvenalian end of the scale, while Paul Merton tends more toward the Horatian end when he isn't making plays on words or indulging in surrealism and flights of fancy.
  • MADtv (1995): This took MAD Magazine, and put it on our television screens in the form of a sketch comedy show.
  • Mock the Week
  • Ugly Betty satirizes the fashion industry. Horatian.
  • Bewitched continually satirizes American conformity, consumerism, and racism. More or less Horatian, per the standards of the day.
  • Royal Canadian Air Farce satirized Canadian politics and current events and just about every other aspect of of Canadian life in its long run. It was something of a forerunner for Canadian television and influenced the CBC in particular for a number of years.
  • Another Canadian series, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, was a satirical presentation of current events and was shown in a news format. It was known for having strictly Newfoundland performers and a particularly eastern perspective on things.
  • Monty Python's Flying Circus
  • Spitting Image: satirizing politicians and other celebrities of the day. Its more enduring portrayals are typically more Juvenalian (e.g. "I've Never Met a Nice South African", which calls all Afrikaners racist, ignorant, talentless, humourless, murderous, smelly loudmouths who exiled their one and only decent countryman).
  • That Was the Week That Was kickstarted the British television satire boom of the 1960s. Juvenalian.
  • The "Really!?! with Seth (and Amy)" skit on Saturday Night Live. Constantly points out the absurdity of celebrities or politicians by comparing their actions with how the same actions would affect ordinary people. Typically Juvenalian, although Tina Fey's "Really!?!" to Greece on her first guest appearance in 2008 was more disappointed than nasty.
  • Van Kooten En De Bie: Dutch comedic duo satirizing Dutch society from 1964 until 1998.
  • Dinosaurs: Dinosaurs is entirely a satire of society that condemns environmental pollution, political correctness, corporate greed, government controlling citizens' private lives, propaganda on television and religion.
  • Black Mirror takes a dark commentary on how people and society abuse technology, showing the negative aspects that it will bring about.
  • Corporate is an extremely Juvenalian satire on the modern corporate workplace and its denizens.
  • Midnight Mass (2021): The show ultimately tries to point out the folly of being religious. The first two episodes clearly establish that the writers respect those with religious beliefs by accurately portraying Catholicism, but after that the show gets more and more offensive to religious people. By the end of the the first season, it's clear this is a satire that favors atheism over religious beliefs.
    • The Decoy Protagonist is an atheist who tries to stop the Catholic vampires, and the first victim of the show, a dog, is killed by the most well-read Catholic character.
    • There are some "classic" anti-Catholic tropes present throughout the season, such as only one Catholic knowing much about Scripture, Catholics drinking literal blood as opposed to blood in the form of wine, the Church embezzling people's money, the monsignor regretting becoming a priest and fraternizing with a member of his flock, the faithful being timid and subservient to the one person who quotes Scripture the most, and Catholics being generally closed-minded concerning other religions.
    • While there are two characters who are Muslim, one of them converts to Catholicism and by the end of the show they both die while praying. Moreover, the Catholic vampires all die while singing a hymn, which is a form of prayer.
    • In the season finale, one of the supposedly devout Catholics, who has attended Mass every day, suddenly goes through a "death-bed conversion" to atheism, insisting that she will become one with the universe after decomposing and even going so far as to use the phrase "I am that I am," making herself equivalent to God, which is the last thing one would expect a devout Christian to say.
  • Israeli show Eretz Nehederet satirizes politics, culture, and current events, similar to The Daily Show.

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    Print Media 
  • MAD
  • The Onion: Arguably the most famous satire site on the internet, it started out in print before becoming a digitally-exclusive paper in 2013.
  • Punch!, a British magazine launched in 1841, was a groundbreaking satirical periodical, including satire of then-contemporary society and politics. (It closed, a shadow of its former self, in 2002, having been fighting a losing battle against Private Eye — for which see below — for at least 30 years).
  • Punch was an express attempt at replicating a French satirical magazine of the day, Le Charivari, a Paris magazine that lampooned July Monarchy-era French politics and mores — as evidenced by the British publication's full title, Punch, or the London Charivari. The actual Charivari of Paris stopped doing satire shortly after Punch started, turning into a lifestyle magazine, after falling afoul of Louis-Philippe's censors.
  • Punch also inspired an American publication named Puck (which ran 1871-1903).
  • The pornographic magazine Hustler uses satire to express Larry Flynt's beliefs and opinions. Almost always Juvenalian.
  • The articles in Private Eye are mostly Juvenalian satire... when they aren't hard-hitting straight-up exposés of real wrongdoing. Sometimes articles do dip into the Horatian (particularly the Prime Minister parodies, which are usually too ridiculous to be truly stinging). Incidentally, the founders of Private Eye in The '60s specifically cited (again) Punch in its heyday as their inspiration — rather than as it existed in their time, which they found rather insipid (and which eventually was reduced to writing nasty articles at the Eye's expense).
  • The New Yorker is known for its satire, particularly The Borowitz Report by Andy Borowitz.
  • P. J. O'Rourke is another satirical columnist who wrote articles for The Weekly Standard and The Daily Beast, known for his conservative-libertarian bent.
  • Dave Barry: Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist for The Miami Herald. He makes fun of everything from Florida to his colonscopy to specialty coffees, usually with an absurdist, exaggerated brand of humor.

    Radio 
  • On his radio show, Howard Stern will satirize any number or things he doesn't care for, most notably the hypocrisies of Media Watchdogs.
  • Absolute Power (BBC) was a satire on spin-doctoring in modern politics, and media manipulation. The Sound-to-Screen Adaptation shifted its focus: still satirizing media manipulation, but more in the context of the nature of celebrity.
  • Brian Gulliver's Travels is a six-part Setting Update of Gulliver's Travels on BBC Radio 4. It updates the satire to be about 21st century Britain, giving us, for example, Sham, the land of alternative therapies.

    Theatre 
  • Chicago is a satire of media sensationalism and the American justice system, depicting the circumstances of a murder trial as if it were a theatrical production. Roxie's press conference is portrayed as a ventriloquist performance with her lawyer Billy puppeting her, the media is treated like a "three-ring circus," and Billy's fraudulent arguments in the trial are likened to a skillful tap dance.

    Video Games 
  • Everything made by 2D Boy and Tomorrow Corporation is a satire of some aspect of corporations. The satire even extends to the website itself!
  • Bad Day L.A. makes fun of how dysfunctional modern society is.
  • Far Cry 3 is a satire of video game violence.
  • Going Under: The game is a satire of corporate and start-up culture. In the setting, failed start-ups go under literally, being sunken under the earth, have their members turned into monsters, and become dungeons. A lot of the dungeons poke fun at the kind of projects they do (an app to facilitate the Gig Economy, a dating app, a new cryptocurrency, etc), but a lot of the story also point out the excess of start-ups, their poor management, hiding flaws behind corporate speak, the conflict between bosses and workers, and stealthily supports worker unionization.
  • No game represents the worst aspects of the political and sociocultural lens of The New '10s than Grand Theft Auto V. To give you an idea, the vast majority of the characters in this game are caricatures with the most deplorable and toxic elements of the stereotype they embody. Their own ignorance blinds them to the utter self-parody they represent, something that, even after almost a decade since this game was released, doesn't seem too far removed from real life.
  • Harvester makes a bloody and cruel joke of suburban American life during the 1950s.
  • Helldivers is a satire of American neoconservatism and War on Terror politics, as well as a Parody of Paul Verhoeven's Starship Troopers. The Helldivers are the forces of a dystopian Super Earth fighting offensive wars against various alien races in the name of "spreading freedom and democracy". Of course, Super Earth is actually a People's Republic of Tyranny and the brainwashed citizens do not even really understand what democracy is. Where it gets really on the nose is the reasons for war against Super Earth's enemies: The Cyborgs? They blew up District 48 and might be Dirty Communists; the Illuminate? Super Earth Senator John W. Killjoy has evidence that the squid aliens have nano-fusion obliterator bombs and the government feels threatened by an alien race who can rival or exceed human technology; and the Bugs? Well, when they die and decompose, the create an awful lot of oil byproduct...
  • The Magic Circle pokes fun at video game developers, by showing a game that's been in Development Hell for 20 years.
  • Mr. Saitou: The game pokes fun at several aspects of Japanese work culture, such as sticking unwanted employees on mind numbing tasks rather than firing them and being pressured into drinking and socializing with colleagues after work.
  • The Ratchet & Clank series, particularly its earlier installments, contained very tongue-in-cheek satire of consumerism.
  • Sim Nimby is a satire of anti-development activism, particularly where affordable housing is concerned.
  • The Stanley Parable is another jab at game developers, particularly ones who try to railroad the player onto their preferred method of playing their game. Stanley himself is also a Take That! at players who try to find meaning through their choices, or who use video games as a means of escape from their dull, boring lives.

    Visual Novel 
  • Ace Attorney is designed to be a satirical spoof of Japan's infamously rigged legal system, which, while creating its own set of rules and supernatural happenings, covers many of the issues Japanese citizens have with their legal system.
  • Doki Doki Literature Club! satirizes the relationship between video game players and characters by invoking Video Game Caring Potential, then having bad things happen to the characters, and then having dialogue reacting to this as in Video Game Cruelty Potential, showing that kind of thinking as horrifying rather than fun.note 

    Web Comics 

    Web Original 
  • The Onion: Arguably the most famous satire site on the web, whose brand of fake news stories inspired a lot of copycats:
    • ClickHole: A spinoff of The Onion, poking fun at clickbait sites like Buzzfeed.
    • Babylon Bee: A conservative Christian version of the Onion.
    • Reductress: Another fake news website poking fun at women's magazines.
  • RedLetterMedia frequently pokes fun at the film industry or nerd culture.
  • Strong Bad Email often deals in horatian satire, largely due to Strong Bad thinking of himself as being more juvenalian.
  • Ministry Of Harmony satirizes news stories from China in a Juvenalian style.
  • TJ Omega has his Plastic Addict series which does this of the bad toys he reviews during them. He's repeatedly pointed out that they're not to be taken seriously and are meant to be entertaining.
  • Kakos Industries satirizes the concept of Evil itself, it being seen as something that is never solidly defined but is treated as though it can be bought, sold, measured, and enhanced among the Evil, Inc. the show takes place in. Bear in mind that the podcast functions as a news style Work Com while having this as the central plot.
  • The extremely short Young Adult one-shot manages to satirize recurring tropes in young adult book series, mainly in the popular The Twilight Saga, Harry Potter and Divergent series.
  • City Nerd: While many videos on the channel use dry humor and sarcasm to address political choices that have resulted in poor and dangerous city planning the Investigating Heinous Land Uses series is dripping with satire on the racism, corruption, cluelessness and greed behind many of the zoning laws that require poor land uses.
  • Climate Town does satire on the two-faced nature of politicians, the fossil fuel industry and other corperations that are contributing to climate change while lining their pockets.
  • The Cinema Snob started out as one of film critics that use biased and stupid arguments against exploitation\genre films (inspired by Roger Ebert's review of Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning). Eventually it also became one of The Movie Buff who is equally pretentious.
  • DarkMatter2525: Many if not most of the videos involve this, running with common apologetics claims to show what they entail in Real Life. For instance "How To Be Like God", which displays how defenses against the problem of evilnote  like respect for free will, being simply "mysterious" etc. would seem if a person did them (i.e. a huge sadistic jerk who lets you die rather than give help he could easily provide).
  • Jreg: Centricide makes fun of political extremists, by putting them on the same team to fight against the centrist threat. Becomes so much more on the nose when its revealed that Jreg is actually using the anti-centrists for jreir agenda of becoming Accelerationist, who causes ideologies to lose their meaning.
  • videogamedunkey occasionally delves into this. A couple notable examples are "Anthem Legends: Exodus," which parodies cliched copycat video games, as well as his video on "Twitter".
  • Sword Art Online Abridged, in addition to parodying the source material, also satirizes the video game industry and its questionable practices. For example, the very first joke in the series mocks game companies that aggressively force adverts in players' faces and use micro-transactions to extort money for features that should be in the game from the beginning (such as, in this case, removing the ads). The titular game itself is shown to be an invoked Obvious Beta with many Game Breaking Bugs that occurred because it was Christmas Rushed, paralleling real games like Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) that fell to the same fate. It also attacks "crunch time" and overworking developers by showing that this led to many of the bugs plaguing the game. In addition, real companies like Bethesda and Ubisoft are made into targets of ridicule by being the publishers who are responsible in-universe for the games releasing in their terrible state, as well as fostering toxic work environments that overwork their best developers (Akihiko Kayaba) and allow sexual predators to do as they please (Noboyuki Sugou).

    Western Animation 
  • The Venture Brothers satirizes adventure shows like Jonny Quest by showcasing just how psychologically scarring being a boy adventurer can become.
  • The Simpsons is one huge satire of late 20th and early 21st century Western society.
  • Family Guy, often in the most controversial sort of manner.
  • The more recent seasons of South Park usually use satire as their primary source of humor.
  • Futurama frequently satirizes aspects of modern life, from our waste and consumerism, technological evolution to our short-sightedness to relentless and irritating evangelists.
  • MAD is a spiritual and satirical successor to Mad TV, in the form of an animated sketch series; it even had the nerve to ridicule James Cameron's Avatar in the very first episode.
  • Invader Zim did an excellent job poking fun at human life; even the aspects of daily life in the far-future have devolved into a tortured mockery of itself in a most Juvenalian manner.
  • Yin Yang Yo! often satirizes feminism by bringing up the hypocrisy done or said by radical feminist Saranoia, and to a lesser extent Yin. The episode "A Walk in the Woods" satirizes childhood obesity where Yin and Yang stayed indoors surfing the Internet all day and eating junk food.
  • Tiny Toon Adventures mocks and laughs at American Retro Pop culture alongside old fashioned media censorship policies as well.
  • Animaniacs: The show loves to take aim at and spoof many of the most popular topics of the day, including poiltics, history, and Warner Bros itself.
  • Pinky and the Brain
  • Daria
  • Recess
  • Rocko's Modern Life has the one-hour special Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling which satirizes, what else, modern life: the O-Phone upgrades constantly and people charge into the store for a new one and Rocko's old job is gone, replaced with a 3D printer that makes the comic book for you.
  • Looney Tunes pokes its cartoonish fingers at early 20th Century pop-culture, both American and foreign.
  • Beetlejuice
  • The Ren & Stimpy Show: This element wasn't as prevalent after John Kricfalusi left the show, though certain episodes, such as "Stimpy's Cartoon Show" and "Reverend Jack", satirized what working under John K.'s tenure was like.
  • Beavis and Butt-Head
  • The Amazing World of Gumball often does this; for example, "The Upgrade" takes a huge swipe at the concept of Planned Obsolescence.
  • The Patrick Star Show: Following the show's Growing the Beard, episodes sometimes have a satirical bent to them, mainly about the entertainment industry.

 
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