History Radio / GTARadio

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: One station ID for Rebel Radio says it's "the home of gun control, progressive politics and... breakdancing... yeah."

** The UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/XboxOne and PC versions of ''GTA V'' contain various songs created in 2014 onwards, despite the game taking place in 2013. This extends to the stations added in the Doomsday Heist, After Hours, Diamond Casino Heist and Cayo Perico Heist updates for ''Online'', which is even more blatant since the Doomsday and Casino Heist updates move ''Online'''s timeline forward.

* OddballInTheSeries: Due to having to fit on a 512MB UsefulNotes/NintendoDS card, ''Chinatown Wars'' lacks any [=DJs=], imaging, or commercials for its radio stations much like ''[[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoClassic GTA1]]'', and the soundtrack is fully instrumental. The only song in the game ''with'' lyrics is the theme song remix with [[Music/WuTangClan Ghostface Killah]] and Music/MFDoom, and that's only in the UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable and mobile ports! Additionally, most stations are dedicated to and named after either a single artist, such as Music/Deadmau5 or Alchemist, or to a record label like DFA or Truth + Soul. The outliers are Turntables on the Hudson, a music festival, and [=SinoWav=] FM, a fictional station playing traditional Chinese music.

* SummerBlockbuster: The film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vDu2se24TA Meltdown]]'' in ''V'' is a scathing parody of both these sorts of films (especially ''Film/WallStreet'' and, to a lesser extent, its sequel) and of [[UsefulNotes/TheBlockbusterAgeOfHollywood modern Hollywood filmmaking]] in general. It's a thriller about the Great Recession... mutated, by the Hollywood machine, into a shallow [[BlackAndWhiteMorality good vs. evil tale]] about two rival yuppies in Liberty City. It's shot entirely on green screen for no good reason, it features a SatelliteLoveInterest who only appears once before she completely disappears (until the end, at least), late '00s buzzwords like "subprime" and "derivatives" are thrown around with little understanding as to what they mean, and it has an action-packed finale that comes out of nowhere. It also has a talking chimp, because... hey, why not? Furthermore, through Michael's connections to Solomon Richards, we get to witness first-hand how this hot dog is made. The kicker is that, going by news reports after it comes out, it was apparently [[CriticalDissonance a smash hit with audiences nationwide, even though critical reception was mixed]].

* TakeThat: The ''Episodes From Liberty City'' iteration of San Juan Sounds does not seem to be in favour of the US being involved with Latin American countries:
-->'''Henry Santos:''' If there is one thing America cannot take from us it's a sense of rhythm.
-->'''Henry Santos:''' Did you know that the Dominican Republic was one vote away from becoming a part of the United States?. Man, we could have been just like Alaska!

** San Andreas also has two songs by Music/IceCube which were released in 1993. In addition, both "It Was A Good Day" and "[[Music/RageAgainstTheMachine Killing in the Name]]" were created in response to the 1992 LA Riots, [[spoiler:the GTA equivalent of which doesn't occur until the ending]].

* DisproportionateRetribution: One of the guests in ''Vice City's'' rendition of VCPR, Jan Brown mentioned she beat her son "to an inch of his life" for using slang words in front of her.

* DumbassDJ: Most of the [=DJs=] count.

* FunWithAcronyms

* MotorMouth: MC Codebreaker, the DJ for MSX FM in ''III'' and ''Liberty City Stories''.

* {{Bishonen}}: Parodied in ''Princess Robot Bubblegum'' with the blind swordsman, to the point where he even has a effeminate-sounding voice.

* BleepDammit: The censorship with the dialogue starts becoming nonexistent from ''San Andreas'' onwards, with radio hosts and [=DJs=] liberally swearing and talking about inappropriate subject matter on live broadcast radio and television.

* NakedPeopleAreFunny: One of the guests on ''Vice City's'' "Pressing Issues" is Barry Stark, a nudist whom Maurice keeps behind a screen (the other guests on the episode are TheFundamentalist Pastor Richards and soccer mom Jen Brown). When Barry insists on coming out from behind the screen, [[spoiler:Richards shoots him in the genitals and Jen faints]].

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: InUniverse -- in ''V'', one of the movies you can watch is ''Capolavoro'', a staggeringly awful Italian subtitled art film with incredibly {{Mind Screw}}y visuals, a barely-coherent plot, constant [[BreakingTheFourthWall breakage of the fourth wall]], and actors that speak French and Spanish. Emanuelle Pasorelli, the director, [[CreatorCameo appears at the end]] to outright declare that it's incomprehensible on purpose.

* FollowTheLeader: Thanks to the success of GTA Radio, most open world crime games now include car radios which play licensed music, whether through a radio format (''VideoGame/SaintsRow'', VideoGame/SleepingDogs) or a playlist ([[VideoGame/TrueCrimeStreetsOfLA True Crime]]). Even the [[VideoGame/ForzaMotorsport Forza Horizon]] games and ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime Ratchet & Clank]]'' have had them!

* ExecutiveMeddling: Fernando Martinez's show on WCTR in ''V'' is heavily constrained by this, as the station's standards department forces him to cover up his lecherous LatinLover attitude and run a dull political/current events talk show. Going by his frequent {{Freudian slip}}s, it's not working.

** Kult FM focuses primarily on post punk and new wave, but throws in some oddball genres like dub, east coast hip hop, EBM, traditional pop and even a proto-acid house track, like a cross between Wave 103,
The Classics 104.1, Electro Choc and Liberty Rock Radio.

* IAmAHumanitarian: Strongly implied by Jerry, the very first caller on Ron's show, complete with namecalling the actual TropeNamer for "NoPartyLikeADonnerParty".
-->'''Jerry:''' Some liberal doctor gonna tell me I have diabetes? I call bullshit! Goddamn liar, I eat what I want, motherfucker! Just like my great-grand-pappy. He was in the Donner Party! Now that's some American ingenuity right there!

In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', this even expanded to full TV shows and the Internet, parodying {{reality TV}}, Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}}, Creator/{{PBS}}, talk shows, {{anime}}, {{friending network}}s, [[{{Ponzi}} get-rich-quick pyramid schemes]], and more.

** In ''IV'', '''A'''sian '''S'''tereotypes '''S'''icken '''F'''amilies, '''U'''nity, '''C'''ommunities and '''K'''arma.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Fernando Martinez was not heard or mentioned in any of the radio stations of ''Liberty City Stories'', despite being on the radio stations in every other game since ''III'' minus ''Chinatown Wars''.

** Ma Cipriani hates being called "grandma", as when she called into Lazlow's ''Chatterbox'' program in ''Liberty City Stories'' and was called "grandma" by him, she threatened to put a hit on Lazlow.

** Kult FM focuses primarily on post punk and new wave, but throws in some oddball genres like dub, east coast hip hop, EBM, traditional pop and even a proto-acid house track, like a cross between Wave 103, Electro Choc and Liberty Rock Radio.