History Main / SelfDeprecation

* Creator/JohnRatzenberger got his chance to poke fun at his tenure with Pixar in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' where his character, Mack, watched car versions of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', and ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. Once he got to the third film, he realized that the Hamm Truck, the Abominable Snowplow, and the PT Cruiser Flea were all [[LampshadeHanging voiced by the same actor]].
-->'''Mack:''' Wait a minute here. They're just using the same actor over and over. What kind of cut rate production is this?!

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', when Zazu is asked by Scar to sing a more upbeat song while imprisoned, Zazu sings the first few words of "It's A Small World", to which Scar vehemently shouts, "No! No! Anything but that!" In the Broadway stage version, Zazu instead sings [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast "Be Our Guest"]], and gets the same reaction from Scar. This doubles as a MythologyGag, since ''Beauty and the Beast,'' was the first Disney animated film that became a musical and paved the way for the Broadway version of ''Lion King''. When ''Beauty and the Beast'' closed, it got replaced with [[Film/MaryPoppins "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"]], and at least one performance has him sing "[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Let It Go]]." [[InsistentTerminology Cast Members]] at Ride/DisneyThemeParks also love taking potshots at "It's A Small World" in general.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', when Zazu is asked by Scar to sing a more upbeat song while imprisoned, Zazu sings the first few words of "It's A Small World", to which Scar vehemently shouts, "No! No! Anything but that!" In the Broadway stage version, Zazu instead sings [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast "Be Our Guest"]], and gets the same reaction from Scar. This doubles as a MythologyGag, since ''Beauty and the Beast,'' was the first Disney animated film that became a musical and paved the way for the Broadway version of ''Lion King''. When ''Beauty and the Beast'' closed, it got replaced with [[Film/MaryPoppins "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"]], and at least one performance has him sing "[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Let It Go]]." [[InsistentTerminology Cast Members]] at Ride/DisneyThemeParks also love taking potshots at "It's A Small World" in general.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', when Chief Bogo [[WhatTheHellHero chews out Judy for disobeying orders and causing a ruckus in Little Rodentia trying to catch a petty criminal]], he also takes the time to poke fun at Disney's reputation for sentimental, idealistic musicals (with a ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013'' reference, to boot).
-->'''Bogo:''' [[ThisIsReality Life isn't some cartoon musical]] where you sing a little song and your insipid dreams magically come true! So ''let it go''.

-->'''[[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Rapunzel]]''': Do people assume all your problems got solved because a big strong ''man'' showed up?\\
'''Vanellope''': Yeah! What's up with that?
* ''WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank2016'': In the first teaser trailer, Qwark, frustrated with the cheap sets and lack of dubstep, calls the movie's animators lazy. As revenge, they remove his textures, make him dance, and then, when he requests an epic logo, they drop it on him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHauntedWorldOfElSuperbeasto'' contains a lot of jokes revolving around the movie making fun of itself, such as El Superbeasto complaining about how ridiculous it is that a character in the film had a book that explained how to defeat Dr. Satan and didn't bother to tell him until the film was nearing its end and another character complaining about the movie's gratuitous use of ToiletHumour. One musical number is even dedicated entirely to lambasting the movie for "ripping off ''Film/{{Carrie}}''".
* Creator/JohnRatzenberger got his chance to poke fun at his tenure with Pixar in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' where his character, Mack, watched car versions of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', and ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. Once he got to the third film, he realized that the Hamm Truck, the Abominable Snowplow, and the PT Cruiser Flea were all [[LampshadeHanging voiced by the same actor]].
-->'''Mack:''' Wait a minute here. They're just using the same actor over and over. What kind of cut rate production is this?!

* The 1893 version of ''Art/TheScreamMunch'' has a small pencil inscription in the upper left corner saying "could only have been painted by a madman!". Recent analysis confirm it was indeed its painter Creator/EdvardMunch who wrote it, most likely as a nod to detractors of the painting calling him crazy.

* In Creator/{{Michelangelo}}'s altar painting for the ''Art/SistineChapel'', he depicts his own features on a piece of flayed facial skin being held by a martyr.

-->'''Rapunzel''': Do people assume all your problems got solved because a big strong ''man'' showed up?\\

* In ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'', [[spoiler:as Elsa is walking through her past memories in Ahtohallan, she cringes in embarrassment and eye-rolls when she sees herself doing her SexyWalk in "Let It Go"]].

* ''Magazine/NintendoPower'', for its 100th volume, listed 100 things that were equal to 100. One of the entries was the approximate running time of ''Film/SuperMarioBros''. The next entry was "Number of people who went to see the Super Mario Bros. movie." Finally, in response to a fan letter, a columnist wrote that 100 was also the number of speed bumps they had to add to keep people from leaving the movie.

* Konami does this a few times with new ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' cards whenever a much-hated TierInducedScrappy is put on the Forbidden List. For example, it put out [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Mistake these]] [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Tour_Bus_To_Forbidden_Realms three]] [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Shared_Ride cards]] when Sangan was put on the list, and [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Deep_Dark_Trap_Hole this one]] when Goyo Guardian was outlawed.

* ''Pinball/Rush2022'': One of Alex Lifeson's lines ribs [[Music/{{Rush}} his own band]]'s tendency towards EpicRocking and UncommonTime.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'', when Zazu is asked by Scar to sing a more upbeat song while imprisoned, Zazu sings the first few words of "It's A Small World", to which Scar vehemently shouts, "No! No! Anything but that!" In the Broadway stage version, Zazu instead sings [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast "Be Our Guest"]], and gets the same reaction from Scar. This doubles as a MythologyGag, since ''Beauty and the Beast,'' was the first Disney animated film that became a musical and paved the way for the Broadway version of ''Lion King''. When ''Beauty and the Beast'' closed, it got replaced with [[Film/MaryPoppins "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"]], and at least one performance has him sing "[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Let It Go]]." [[InsistentTerminology Cast Members]] at Ride/DisneyThemeParks also love taking potshots at "It's A Small World" in general.

* Creator/JohnRatzenberger got his chance to poke fun at his tenure with Pixar in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' where his character, Mack, watched car versions of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', and ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. Once he got to the third film, he realized that the [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Hamm Truck]], the [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Abominable Snowplow]], and the [[WesternAnimation/ABugsLife PT Cruiser Flea]] were all [[LampshadeHanging voiced by the same actor]].

* The ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' supplement ''Subsidiaries: A Guide To Pentex'' describes some of the companies under the umbrella of the titular evil MegaCorp. The last one listed is "Black Dog Game Factory", a fictionalized version of the real Black Dog Game Factory -- an actual subsidiary of Werewolf's own publisher Creator/WhiteWolf (which published their mature-themed gamebooks). The company's fictional games all feature White Wolf's signature traits (DarkerAndEdgier settings, etc.) taken UpToEleven, and the employees are all unflattering parodies of real White Wolf writers, including the writers of the supplement itself.

** In his 1982 set for the Catch a Rising Star club's 10th anniversary show, he revives the Foreign Man character that initially made him famous to the crowd's delight...only for an audience member to recite the act along with him until he becomes distracted. This escalates into an argument in which said audience member accuses Kaufman of reviving the routine to make people love him again after the controversy engendered by his wrestling women on stage (and from there his "feud" with Wrestler/JerryLawler) and failure to launch a film career, among other things, since he had no other new ideas...aside from ''planting someone in the audience to heckle him'' as a WoundedGazelleGambit! In the cable edit of the special, there is an abrupt cut to the end of the act with Kaufman's famous Creator/ElvisPresley impersonation, leaving the "heckler's" (actually Kaufman's closest colleague, Bob Zmuda) fate unknown to the viewer.

* The 1893 version of ''Art/TheScreamEdvardMunch'' has a small pencil inscription in the upper left corner saying "could only have been painted by a madman!". Recent analysis confirm it was indeed its painter Creator/EdvardMunch who wrote it, most likely as a nod to detractors of the painting calling him crazy.

-->'''Mack:''' Wait a minute here. They're just using the same actor over and over. What kind cut rate production is this?!

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in [[https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2022/05/08 this]] ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'' strip. When Phoebe introduces Marigold to the concept of self-deprecating humor, the {{narcissist}}ic unicorn decides to give it a try:

* John Ratzenberger got his chance to poke fun at his tenure with Pixar in ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'' where his character, Mack, watched car versions of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', and ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife''. Once he got to the third film, he realized that the [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Hamm Truck]], the [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Abominable Snowplow]], and the [[WesternAnimation/ABugsLife PT Cruiser Flea]] were all [[LampshadeHanging voiced by the same actor]].

-->'''Patrice''': The [[IncestIsRelative inbreeding]] takes up all of our time!

* Jeff Foxworthy's "You Might Be a Redneck" routine could be considered this, seeing as he often refers to himself as one.

* In Creator/{{Michelangelo}}'s altar painting for the Art/SistineChapel, he depicts his own features on a piece of flayed facial skin being held by a martyr.
* Creator/NormanRockwell's "Triple Self-Portrait" which not only portrays himself as a somewhat dorky man with a pipe hanging loosely from his mouth but portrays himself as ''portraying himself'' with better hair, no glasses and the pipe clenched firmly in his jaw.
* The 1893 version of Art/TheScreamEdvardMunch has a small pencil inscription in the upper left corner saying "could only have been painted by a madman!". Recent analysis confirm it was indeed its painter Creator/EdvardMunch who wrote it, most likely as a nod to detractors of the painting calling him crazy.