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* Every "Movie" movie by SeltzerAndFriedberg (such as ''Epic Movie'', ''Meet The Spartans'', and ''Disaster Movie'') is ''all'' about hanging lampshades when it's not shoehorning pop culture references. But then [[DontExplainTheJoke they explain what the lampshade is hanging over]].

* Every "Movie" movie by SeltzerAndFriedberg (such as ''Epic Movie'', ''Meet The Spartans'', and ''Disaster Movie'') is ''all'' about hanging lampshades when it's not shoehorning pop culture references. But then [[DontExplainTheJoke they explain what the lampshade is hanging over]]. Hence, it ends up more [[Horrible/{{Film}} horrible]] than Troperific.
** Often the lampshades aren't over anything at all, they just ARE.
*** Which is funny because, you see, most lampshades hang over things, and a lampshade without something to hang over is absurd! Ha! Ha!
**** Is this a case of "Don't Explain the Lack of Joke"?
***** [[HypocriticalHumor If it is, you just lampshaded the crap out of it]].
***** HAHAHAHA... ''wait.'' Did... did you just make SeltzerAndFriedberg [[DivideByZero FUNNY]]?

* This was one thing people disliked about ''NightAtTheMuseum: Battle Of The Smithsonian''.

* While ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' was generally good with its lampshade hanging, one particular incident, at the end of "Reptile Boy" seemed kind of infuriating: Buffy mentioning that the entire episode was about how Buffy "told one lie, and had one drink" at a frat party and she was almost sacrificed to a snake demon (lampshading the CantGetAwayWithNuthin), doesn't change the fact that the whole thing was played seriously and [[WallBanger wall-bangingly]] straight.

** '''[[MemeticMutation THAT]] [[InsistentTerminology IS NOT]] [[ThisIsSparta SPANDEX]]!!!'''

* ''[[{{Disney/ptitle3if599v0}} The Emperor's New Groove]]''

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This can also be a bad thing. Sometimes this is a problem because [[DontExplainTheJoke they explained the bulb too much.]] In addition, if the goal was [[PlayedForDrama drama]], excessive lampshading can draw away from the tone of the scene. However, what constitutes "excessive" is debatable, and not the subject of this article.

* ''{{iCarly}}'' generally lampshades anything remotely related to the characters picking up an IdiotBall, as well as a wide variety of common genre tropes like AllAdultsAreUseless.

* HayateTheCombatButler

* In the anime version of SuzumiyaHaruhi, and in the novels, the SOS Brigade create a film for the Cultural Festival. Kyon becomes narrator, as usual, and proceeds to act as a LemonyNarrator, threatening to beat up Koizumi should he kiss Mikuru, and pointing out that some scenes just don't make sense for instance.

** I wasn't aware of that. Where do they do this?

* {{Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series}} and indeed AbridgedSeries in general ''exist'' for this reason.

** '''[[MemeticMutation IT'S]] [[InsistentTerminology NOT]] [[ThisIsSparta SPANDEX]]!!!'''

* I think it needs to be pointed out that TvTropes put a lampshade on the "t" of tvtropes because of all the frequent lampshade hanging here.
* And I don't know if it's intentionally or not, but the first two words in the edit page of this article are [[LampshadeHanging LampshadeHanging Lampshades]]. Maybe the writer thought it would be a good in-joke.

* I don't know if it's intentionally or not, but the first two words in the edit page of this article are [[LampshadeHanging LampshadeHanging Lampshades]]. Maybe the writer thought it would be a good in-joke.
** And YES, I was [[LampshadeHanging LampshadeHanging LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] there. Please do not continue further.

** I think it needs to be pointed that TvTropes put a lampshade on the "t" of tvtropes because of all the frequent lampshade hanging here.
** I don't know if it's intentionally or not, but the first two words in the edit page of this article are [[LampshadeHanging LampshadeHanging Lampshades]]. Maybe the writer thought it would be a good in-joke.
*** And YES, I was [[LampshadeHanging LampshadeHanging LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] there. Please do not continue further.

* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has a whole episode devoted to this trope: The Ember Island Players.

* ''PowerRangersRPM'' has recently become this. This isn't because the show is bad by any means, but because the [[{{EngineSentaiGo-Onger}} source footage]] is so ridiculously cheesy that ''not'' doing so would almost be an insult. Lampshades hung include the cutsey-animal mecha, the transformation callphrase, the prerequisite explosions behind them after transforming (which was brilliantly turned into an actual plot point) -- ''and they've not stopped yet.'' Impressively, most of the lampshades also come with [[JustifiedTrope justifications]] wherein the cliches of the franchise are given semi-plausible explanations.

* ''TheEmperorsNewGroove''

** Episode: 200. [[XJustX That is all]].

* ''PowerRangersRPM'' has recently become this. This isn't because the show it bad by any means of the word, but because the [[{{EngineSentaiGo-Onger}} source footage]] is so ridiculously cheesy that ''not'' doing so would almost be an insult. Lampshades hung include the cutsey-animal mecha, the transformation callphrase, the prerequisite explosions behind them after transforming (which was brilliantly turned into an actual plot point) -- ''and they've not stopped yet.'' Impressively, most of the lampshades also come with [[JustifiedTrope justifications]] wherein the cliches of the franchise are given semi-plausible explanations.

* While ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' was generally good with its lampshade hanging, one particular incident, at the end of "Reptile Boy" seemed kind of infuriating: Buffy mentioning that then entire episode was about how Buffy "told one lie, and had one drink" at a frat party and she was almost sacrificed to a snake demon (lampshading the CantGetAwayWithNuthin), doesn't change the fact that the whole thing was played seriously and [[WallBanger wall-bangingly]] straight.

***** HAHAHAHA... ''wait.'' Did... did you just make {{SeltzerandFriedberg}} [[DivideByZero FUNNY]]?

* The musical ''{{Urinetown}}'' hangs lampshades on everything in sight, starting with "too much exposition" and the show's awkward title.