The Halloween Unspectacular anthology series has had a few of these over the years.
- Halloween Unspectacular 1: When told that the bus he's boarding is heading for Sydney, Doctor Insano happily declares it "the most hellish place imaginable".
- Do the Gasmask Shuffle:
- When the copy of the first Halloween Unspectacular E350 receives at the beginning of the story unleashes eldritch horror on Sydney, it's noted that it has no visible effect on the train service (implying that it couldn't possibly get worse than it already is).
- When Timmy gets turned into a vampire in the first story, the narrator notes that "Much to Spongebob's misfortune, he was not of the weak sparkling kind."
- Terror Australis Incognita: The center of the universe, according to Doctor Insano, is in Milton Keynes; "Even I'm [not] crazy enough to go through there."
- Mess Effect
- There are many towards the infamously derided ending of Mass Effect 3. This comes to a head in "The Catalyst", in which a series of characters are put in the player's position, with most calling out the Catalyst for how batshit insane its logic is.
- "So Your Government Has Shut Down" is an interview between Sam Manson and Lionel Hutz about government shutdowns, mocking everything about the politics involved in them, written in response to an actual US government shutdown happening that October.
- When Spongebob and Sandy explore the abandoned arcade in "Little Shop of Parodies", it's noted that all of the games have been cleared out, except for the 1982 ET one, which "no sane man would want".
- At Comic-Con, it's shown that the Valve Software panel is deserted.
- The Final Push: In "An Open Letter to Deviantart: Parting Words", E350 comes to the conclusion that, while plenty of websites have their resident weirdos, there is no real "frothing mass of scum and villainy" on the internet...except for Stormfront.
- Lair of the Hack Writer:
- In the introduction, E350 refers to Stevenage as a truly awful place. And the imps he presents as living underneath it are the people who troll FanFiction.Net and leave derivative and unhelpful anonymous reviews.
- During a Mulan parody, E350 talks about writing stories with "the coherency of Dan Brown" and "the quality of an episode of Teen Titans Go!".
- The second chapter has Professor Calamitous create a thinly-veiled parody of Donald Trump. Who then turns into an Eldritch Abomination and is swiftly defeated offscreen by Kamala Khan, Danny Phantom, and the Crystal Gems.
- "The Interview" is one long dig at the Fridge Logic behind Five Nights at Freddy's.
- The second-to-last chapter is just a rant at the poor quality of Civilization VI compared to earlier versions of the game.
- Watchmeh:
- During the song in the first chapter, the people and things E350 claims his writing makes look good are Dan Brown, Zack Snyder, Ayn Rand, The Host (2008), Ed Wood, George Lucas, and Tim Kring.
- In "Robot Wars", Peridot and Lapis accidentally destroy Cleveland. No one noticed for years.
- After making a COPS reference, E350 calls it a "pretty awful show".
- In chapter 10, Doc the Ruby, Dipper, and Wendy all hate the "It's a Small World" ride — the latter two so much that they proceed to destroy the place.
- In "A Sunday Drive Down Fury Road", E350 listens to 4 Non Blondes' "What's Up" (better known as the He-Man "HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA" song
) in the car before Sandy grabs the CD and chucks it out the window. Also, he compares the Hume Highway to a barren, hellish landscape.
- Blue Alert:
- The hatted man E350 meets in the prologue states that he refuses to accept Children of Earth as canon to Torchwood.
- When "First They Came..." spells out the horrors of PURITY-controlled America, a key point is that all critics of the regime are declared "fake news".
- "There's An App For That" is one long jab at the Allegedly Free Game.
- One of the endings presented in "Choose Your Own Ending III" has the reader being forced to read Chicken, Chicken (one of the most universally despised Goosebumps books), which is treated as a Fate Worse than Death.
- The bridge troll who appears in "E350 Presents: Billy Goats" is an admitted parody of Internet trolls, especially right-wing ones.
- "Love and Mishaps" is one long parody/mockery of the Doctor Who episode "Love and Monsters", which E350 views as one of the worst in the series.
- This is fine:
- In the first chapter, when Stan tries to sing "Let It Go", E350 immediately shuts him down.
- In "Ten Decades", 80s fashion is treated like The Virus.
- "The Full Picture with Rush Carlson" is one long jab at Manipulative Editing.
- One of the stories in "The Reject Shop" is a parody of Star Wars: A New Hope, which opens with an apology to George Lucas... until E350 notes that as Lucas made the Star Wars Holiday Special, he's the one who should be apologizing to the fans.
- In "The Plague", one of the symptoms of the plague's Beta strain is attempting to cause mass panic on social media.
- "Letters to the Author" contains a jab at Butch Hartman's OAXIS project (with E350 receiving junk mail for a similarly named Church of Happyology scam), and outright calls out the The Loud House fandom for its love of incestuous shipping.
- Halloween Unspectacular X:
- One of the questions in "Form 13E7-SP00K3" asks if the person filling out the form or their relatives have ever been a member of several villainous groups (cults, conspiracies, the Communist Party), but also includes OAXIS.
- "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Seelowe" is one long essay aimed at invalidating the myth that the Axis powers were unstoppable military juggernauts that could have won WWII if things had gone slightly differently, pointing out all the ways that their early victories were more due to luck than anything, and how their poorly managed supply lines and incompetent military leadership meant that they were always going to lose.
- "The Focus Group" mocks how corporate ownership attempting to appeal to the basest support can screw up franchises — when a corporate entity buys out the Nicktoons, they decide to give the team Audience-Alienating Era costumes, ditch Spongebob because he's Ambiguously Bi, turn Jenny into Ms. Fanservice, add exactly one female character and one black character (and proceed to be unable to think of any candidates for the latter), and decide that the team can only fight Dark Laser because they find the other villains offensive as antagonists. Then it turns out that this is all a plot by Preston Northwest, Vlad, and Mr. Burns to shut down the team.
- In "A House in New Orleans", the titular house has a portrait of Andrew Jackson in its foyer, which the owner keeps up as a reminder of "the evil men do".
- "E3's Eleven (Minus Six)" has E350 explaining the concept of the Crucible by calling out the Catalyst's Insane Troll Logic. And while discussing his plan to steal it, he randomly brings up how Call of Duty: Ghosts is the worst game in the franchise.
- Agent Parker's blackmail on the Attorney General is pictures of him eating in "disreputable places"... namely Carl's Jrs.
