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* Creator/JasperFforde writes an AuthorAvatar into ''Literature/TheGreatTrollWar'' that the heroes turn to for help because they need someone to come up with wild, off-the-wall ideas to figure out just what the evil wizard's true goals are:
-->'We need someone who can think bigger and more boldly than us. Someone who has fanciful notions and weird screwball ideas that fly in the face of logic and reasoning.'\\
'What about -- I don't know -- a fantasy author?' suggested Tiger. 'They're pretty unhinged and come up with all kinds of weird and crazy stuff. Maybe they can help.'
-->'We need someone who can think bigger and more boldly than us. Someone who has fanciful notions and weird screwball ideas that fly in the face of logic and reasoning.'\\
'What about -- I don't know -- a fantasy author?' suggested Tiger. 'They're pretty unhinged and come up with all kinds of weird and crazy stuff. Maybe they can help.'
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* ''WebVideo/DrGlaucomflecken'' portrays doctors in general as neurotic, maladjusted, prone to petty feuding and bullying, and utterly ignorant about everything outside their narrow fields of specialization. Opthalmology is portrayed as the worst of the bunch, who has forgotten everything about what he calls "body medicine", refuses to do anything after 4 PM and dumps most of his work onto his scribe. The series creator, Dr. Will Flannery, is a practicing opthalmologist.
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* ''WebVideo/DrGlaucomflecken'' portrays doctors in general as neurotic, maladjusted, prone to petty feuding and bullying, and utterly ignorant about everything outside their narrow fields of specialization. Ophthalmology is portrayed as the worst of the bunch, who has forgotten everything about what he calls "body medicine", refuses to do anything after 4 PM and dumps most of his work onto his scribe. The series creator, Dr. Will Flanary, is a practicing ophthalmologist.
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* ''WebVideo/DrGlaucomflecken'' portrays doctors in general as neurotic, maladjusted, prone to petty feuding and bullying, and utterly ignorant about everything outside their narrow fields of specialization. Ophthalmology is portrayed as the worst of the bunch, who has forgotten everything about what he calls "body medicine", refuses to do anything after 4 PM and dumps most of his work onto his scribe. The series creator, Dr. Will Flanary, is a practicing ophthalmologist.
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* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' did this a bit, belittling both Jerry's stand-up act and writing for a sitcom. Another take on "SeinfeldIsUnfunny" here.
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* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' did this a bit, belittling both Jerry's stand-up act and writing for a sitcom. Another take on "SeinfeldIsUnfunny" here.
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** In ''Literature/MrsMcGintysDead'' Ariadne admits that she screwed up a plot point about a poison dart blowpipe, making the blowpipe only a foot long when they actually need to be four feet long.
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** In ''Literature/MrsMcGintysDead'' Ariadne admits that she screwed up a plot point about a poison dart blowpipe, making the blowpipe only a foot long when they actually need to be four feet long. Agatha Christie actually did this in ''Death in the Clouds''.
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** In ''Literature/ThePaleHorse'', Ariadne complains about how hard it's getting to come up with new plot twists after writing fifty-odd novels.
** In ''Literature/ThirdGirl'' Ariadne says that she doesn't like her FunnyForeigner detective, who is a Finn, and admits that she knows nothing about Finland and is always making mistakes that readers call her out about. This of course was the same with Christie and her FunnyForeigner Belgian detective, Literature/HerculePoirot.
** In ''Literature/ThirdGirl'' Ariadne says that she doesn't like her FunnyForeigner detective, who is a Finn, and admits that she knows nothing about Finland and is always making mistakes that readers call her out about. This of course was the same with Christie and her FunnyForeigner Belgian detective, Literature/HerculePoirot.
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** In ''Literature/MrsMcGintysDead'' Ariadne admits that she screwed up a plot point about a poison dart blowpipe, making the blowpipe only a foot long when they actually need to be four feet long.
** Ariadne really goes to town in ''Literature/CardsOnTheTable''. She outright calls her many successful novels "tripe" and frequently makes jabs about herself and her writing habits. She admits to recycling plots and sometimes resorting to NeverOneMurder to stretch out a story that isn't making it to book length. She admits to using {{Inspector Lestrade}}s ("idiotic police inspectors") to make her detective look good.
** Ariadne really goes to town in ''Literature/CardsOnTheTable''. She outright calls her many successful novels "tripe" and frequently makes jabs about herself and her writing habits. She admits to recycling plots and sometimes resorting to NeverOneMurder to stretch out a story that isn't making it to book length. She admits to using {{Inspector Lestrade}}s ("idiotic police inspectors") to make her detective look good.
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* Creator/AgathaChristie: In RealLife Christie had no illusions about her career, calling herself a "sausage machine" churning out a book or more a year. In her books she created an AuthorAvatar, Ariadne Oliver, an obvious Christie stand-in who made fun of herself and her career.
** In ''Literature/DeathInTheClouds'' it wasn't Ariadne Oliver, but a one-off character, but the trope was the same. The mystery author complains about how hard it is to write good mystery stories and how he struggles to avoid cliches like TheWatson and how he pumps out the same old stuff because his audience demands it.
** In ''Literature/DeathInTheClouds'' it wasn't Ariadne Oliver, but a one-off character, but the trope was the same. The mystery author complains about how hard it is to write good mystery stories and how he struggles to avoid cliches like TheWatson and how he pumps out the same old stuff because his audience demands it.
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* Izumi Tsubaki is an established shoujo manga artist and in ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' she takes light-hearted jabs at her own profession. Nozaki making all his male characters [[OnlySixFaces look alike]] pokes fun at her own tendency to reuse the same characters designs in her manga, with Nozaki's character design itself being one that shows up prominently in ''Manga/OresamaTeacher'' and ''Magic Touch''.
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* Izumi Tsubaki Creator/IzumiTsubaki is an established shoujo manga artist and in ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'' she takes light-hearted jabs at her own profession. Nozaki making all his male characters [[OnlySixFaces look alike]] pokes fun at her own tendency to reuse the same characters character designs in her manga, with Nozaki's character design itself being one that shows up prominently in ''Manga/OresamaTeacher'' and ''Magic Touch''.
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* While ''Manga/ComicGirls'' is a {{seinen}} series, its author Kaori Hanzawa previously wrote for the {{Shojo}} demographic. The cast of ''Comic Girls'' has Koyume, a {{shojo}} manga artist, which pokes fun at some of Hanzawa's own idiosyncracies as a shōjo author. For example, their common inability to draw men and having to resort to passing {{bifauxnen}} for a PrettyBoy.
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* In one Belgian ''Clifton'' comic, the bad guys capture a second boy along with their [[RichKids rich kid]] mark. The boss hopes for a second ransom, until he learns that the boy's father makes comic books.
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* ''Podcast/NerdistPodcast'': The antagonist of the ''Franchise/{{Futurama}}'' special "Radiorama" is a soundwave-like creature named Klaxxon, voiced by podcast host Creator/ChrisHardwick, the result of fifty-eight billion excessive podcasts ("most of which featured Chris Hardwick") being tossed away in the 21st century, who threatens all of Earth by playing all its podcasts at once, even though the force of the sound waves would destroy the world. Earth is more scared about having to listen to podcasts than the destruction.
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* ''Podcast/NerdistPodcast'': The antagonist of the ''Franchise/{{Futurama}}'' special "Radiorama" is a soundwave-like creature named Klaxxon, voiced by podcast host Creator/ChrisHardwick, the result of fifty-eight billion excessive podcasts ("most of which featured Chris Hardwick") being tossed away in the 21st century, who threatens all of Earth by playing all its podcasts at once, even though the force of the sound waves would destroy the world. Earth is more scared about having to listen to podcasts than the destruction.
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* ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline'' and its predecessor ''ComicStrip/SabrinaAtSeeCAD'' both use AuthorAvatar Eric Squirrel to make these jokes regularly.
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* The main character of "Final Reward" by Creator/TerryPratchett is a fantasy novelist whose girlfriend claims, with some justification, that he writes fantasy because he can't handle the real world.
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The author wants to portray their character as a loser but doesn't want to offend people in any particular occupation. So they make the character's occupation their own. This allows for a lot of SelfDeprecation, which is probably the whole point. It also means that the parody will be much better informed than one from someone [[ShallowParody who knows less about the profession]] - being on the inside means they include anecdotes and details that other scientists or teachers or priests or whatever will find greater recognition and (hopefully) humour in.
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The author wants to portray their character as a loser but doesn't want to offend people in any particular occupation. So they make the character's occupation their own. This allows for a lot of SelfDeprecation, which is probably the whole point. It also means that the parody will be much better informed than one from someone [[ShallowParody who knows less about the profession]] - -- being on the inside means they include anecdotes and details that other scientists or teachers or priests or whatever will find greater recognition and (hopefully) humour in.
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* Inverted in ''{{ComicStrip/Foxtrot}}'', which frequently has characters holding newspapers with headlines like "Cartoonist Dates Supermodel", "Cartoonist Addresses U.N.", "Cartoonist Awarded Nobel Prize", etc.
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* ''Film/DowntonAbbeyANewEra'': When Mary agrees to let a film crew use Downton in order to use the money to fix the roof, there is much talk mourning how the great estate is in such dire straights that they have to let actors in (The ''Downton Abbey'' series itself filmed in and around the real-life Highclere Castle). Many of the British upper crust characters, all played by highly-regarded British actors, find acting shameful, with the worst offender being [[Creator/MaggieSmith Dame Maggie Smith's]] [[DeadpanSnarker Violet Crawley]].
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* ''Film/DowntonAbbeyANewEra'': When Mary agrees to let a film crew use Downton in order to use the money to fix the roof, there is much talk mourning how the great estate is in such dire straights that they have to let actors in (The ''Downton Abbey'' series itself filmed in and around the real-life Highclere Castle). Many of the British upper crust characters, all played by highly-regarded British actors, find acting shameful, with the worst offender being [[Creator/MaggieSmith Dame Maggie Smith's]] [[DeadpanSnarker Violet Crawley]].Crawley]], whose actress has the longest and most-lauded acting career of the cast.
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* ''Film/DowntonAbbeyANewEra'': When Mary agrees to let a film crew use Downton in order to use the money to fix the roof, there is much talk mourning how the great estate is in such dire straights that they have to let actors in (The ''Downton Abbey'' series itself filmed in and around the real-life Highclere Castle). Many of the British upper crust characters, all played by highly-regarded British actors, find acting shameful, with the worst offender being [[Creator/MaggieSmith Dame Maggie Smith's]] [[DeadpanSnarker Violet Crawley]].
