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* In one ''Royal Variety Performance'', Creator/ShirleyMacLaine sings a self-deprecating pastiche of "[[Film/SweetCharity If My Friends Could See Me Now]]":
-->How did I get up here? I bet you'd like to know,\\
Vanessa Redgrave called, and said she just couldn't show!\\
They said "We need [=MacLaine=], nobody else will do,"\
"But if you can't get her, try Danny [=LaRue=]!"
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* ''Series/StormChasers'': Professional tornado-chaser Reed Timmer to the cameraman after having a window on his armored car the ''TVN Dominator'' blow in on him during a chase:
-->"[[DontTryThisAtHome Don't drive into tornadoes, you'd have to be an idiot to do that.]] Like me."
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** A history book calling slavery "tasks" was compared to "calling Hitler 'a best-selling author', JFK's assassination 'a bad day', [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers and this show a comedy.]]"

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** A history book calling slavery "tasks" was compared to "calling Hitler 'a best-selling author', JFK's assassination 'a bad day', [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and this show a comedy.]]"
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* Series/{{Castle}} wants to travel to Montreal alone to investigate [[spoiler:his recent two-month-long disappearance]]; Beckett insists that it might be too dangerous. Castle (played by Canadian Creator/NathanFillion) responds with "It's Canada! How dangerous could it be?" to fellow Canadian Creator/StanaKatic.

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* Series/{{Castle}} Series/{{Castle|2009}} wants to travel to Montreal alone to investigate [[spoiler:his recent two-month-long disappearance]]; Beckett insists that it might be too dangerous. Castle (played by Canadian Creator/NathanFillion) responds with "It's Canada! How dangerous could it be?" to fellow Canadian Creator/StanaKatic.
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* In ''Series/CriminologistHimuraAndMysteryWriterArisugawa'', the victim of one episode was an actor famous for playing an associate professor in a drama. Himura, a university professor, thinks it's silly that a drama would have a professor as the main character. He continues on to say that it's unrealistic for the professor to be a stud when Himura himself gets ShipTease with various women.
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* The first episode of ''Series/HellsKitchen'' Season 6 has three former contestants - Bonnie and Aaron of Season 3 and Colleen of Season 5 - give the new contestants pointers on what not to do while showcasing their EpicFail moments (Bonnie forgetting to turn on the oven, Aaron bursting into tears before the first dinner and Colleen not realizing she put in sugar and not tasting it before hand)

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