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* Type the word "Santorum" into Google. Go on. [[TheFundamentalist Rick Santorum]] once stated that two men having sex was equivalent to [[InsaneTrollLogic "a man having sex with a dog"]]. Creator/DanSavage took issue with this and basically created the meme.
** Dan Savage also tried to create a definition for "[[TechnicalVirgin saddlebacking]]" (in reference to the Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, owned by Rick Warren) with considerably less success.
* In commemoration of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Google changed their logo to a rainbow filled with different sports... in a Games surrounded by controversy due to anti-homosexuality laws being passed in Russia, as well as the governments refusal to stop gay bashing by Russian gangs.
** The direct insult from US President UsefulNotes/BarackObama, who not only pointedly refused to attend the opening ceremonies, but also sent a delegation composed primarily of gay current and former US Olympians[[note]]Namely, women's hockey player Caitlin Cahow (who participated in these Olympics), retired tennis great Martina Navratilova (a double-slap to Russia, because she had defected from Czechoslovakia while it was under the USSR's thumb), and retired figure-skating great Brian Boitano (whom [[AlwaysCamp everyone had simply assumed was gay]] without realizing he hadn't technically come out yet; he "remedied" this shortly after Obama made his nomination).[[/note]] in his stead.
%% ** The Canadian Olympic team posted [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4CEaoNADiY this.]]
* Creator/StewartLee, the [=41st=] [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative Best Stand-Up Ever]], devotes two segments of his routine to bashing Tom O'Connor's lame "Are You A Sardine" pun (O'Connor had asked a man in the audience what he did for a living. The man replied "I'm in oil," to which O'Connor replied with "Are you a sardine?") and the ''Series/BigBrother'' racism scandal respectively:
-->'''Lee''': What my mother doesn't know, is that since his nervous breakdown following the tabloid press exposing him for having an affair with a teenage prostitute, Tom O'Connor is only able to answer any discussion, with the phrase: Are. You. A. Sardine?
-->'''Lee''': When UsefulNotes/{{Martin Luther King|Jr}} saw racism in [[TheSixties 1960s America]], he said "I have a dream that one day my four little children will live in a nation where they are judged not by the color of their skin but the content of their character". When Creator/RussellBrand saw racism in [[TheNoughties 2000s Britain]], he said, whilst dressed as a cartoon pirate: "[=OooOOoOoh.=] There's been some bad racism and stuff going down today, and no mistake. My liege. It's made [[ICallHimMisterHappy Mr Winky]] go right small it has, oh yes it has, oh yeah. And my ballbag. Oh my old ballbag. Has only gone up my bum. Here's H from Steps"...After the scandal, [[PageThreeStunna Danielle Lloyd]], a glamor model, who was involved in one of the nastier bits of the racism, lost a lot of opportunities for glamor shooting and topless photoshoots. What this means is that the editors of ''Nuts'' magazine, and ''Zoo'', and ''Loaded'', must have sat down and asked themselves the question: "Will our customers feel comfortable masturbating over images of a racist?" And they must have decided "No". I think they underestimated their readers' tenacity - perhaps Ms Lloyd's opinions might even have provided ''un petit frisson''.
* Uwe Boll's online video in response to the [[http://www.petitiononline.com/RRH53888/petition.html petition to stop him forever]] contains completely unwarranted attacks on directors Creator/MichaelBay, Creator/EliRoth, and Creator/GeorgeClooney. This is also the video in which he claims to be "ze only genius in ze whole fucking business". Ironically, he may have a point -- since his films were financed by the German government, he profited even when the movies suck. Germany closed that loophole though; Boll kept trying to make movies, but for some reason [[TheManBehindTheMan investors were no longer interested]], and [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he does not understand why.]]
* Showing an uncharacteristically pointy side, radio comedy team [[Radio/BobAndRay Bob & Ray]] reacted to ''New York Magazine'' critic [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Simon_(critic) John Simon's]] negative review of their stage show by incorporating him into their skits as "The Worst Person in the World" -- a character who never spoke, just made rude noises while other characters commented loudly on his uncouth manners. Broadcaster [[Series/CountdownWithKeithOlbermann Keith Olbermann]] later picked up the concept, ''sans'' specific attack, and used it in his ''Countdown''.
** And Olbermann has used several Take Thats in his feud with [[Series/TheOReillyFactor Bill O'Reilly]]. A classic was when O'Reilly announced he was starting an online petition to get Olbermann's show off the air. Olbermann had a segment showing the entire production crew and staff of ''Countdown'', including himself, cheerfully signing the petition to show how seriously they took it. And MSNBC's other shows got in on the act as well: Dan Abrams and Tucker Carlson are shown signing it.
---> '''[[LargeHam Keith]]:''' ''"[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Tucker?!?]] [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOO]]!!!"''
** Olbermann's impression of Radio/RushLimbaugh (often heard during the Worst Persons segment) also owes a lot to the Bob & Ray character, particularly the slurping noises.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' usually uses AffectionateParody, but the items related to the Furry Suit contain a number of surprisingly vicious swipes at the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom. Not least of which is that the tattoo you can receive by wearing it is the "Loser Tattoo".
** Hippies and hobos aren't treated kindly either. All hippies have bad body odor and do drugs, and hobos are all lazy, stupid booze-drinkers.
** On the other hand, all frat boys use "bra" as a VerbalTic, drink more beer than is probably humanly possible, and have an unhealthy obsession with paddling.
* Film critic Creator/RogerEbert was very, very skilled at the Take That. He published ''three'' books that consist entirely of reviews of movies he hated (''Your Movie Sucks'', ''I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie'', and ''A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length''). If we listed ''all'' the great Take That lines from his reviews, we could easily double the size of this page, but here's a sample.
** When Ebert referred to Vincent Gallo's movie ''Film/TheBrownBunny'' as the worst film in the history of the Cannes film festival, Gallo called him "a fat pig with the physique of a slave trader". Ebert's reply is pure gold: "It is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and he will still be the director of ''The Brown Bunny.''" (Technically that response is a modification of a line attributed to UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill: "Madam, I may be drunk, but you are ugly, and I shall be sober in the morning.") Gallo publicly wished Ebert would get cancer again. Ebert did. Gallo, not apologizing, said he wished for a different cancer than Ebert got. Ebert's reply was that he had no time for this- he just got back from an exam where an image of his colon was on a TV for 90 minutes- "which was still better than ''The Brown Bunny''." ''Serious'' HarsherInHindsight there, as Ebert did indeed get thin...thanks to cancer.
** Ebert also commented about a feud between Rob Schneider and another critic, Patrick Goldstein. After Patrick made a remark about Columbia Pictures financing ''Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo'' while having turned down every single one of that year's Best Picture nominees, Rob Schneider took out full-page ads in two magazines insulting Patrick Goldstein, for [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter not having won anything himself.]] Ebert's comment is, once again, priceless:
---> But Schneider is correct, and Patrick Goldstein has not yet won a Pulitzer Prize. Therefore, Goldstein is not qualified to complain that Columbia financed ''Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo'' while passing on the opportunity to participate in ''Film/MillionDollarBaby'', ''Ray'', ''Film/TheAviator'', ''Film/{{Sideways}}'', and ''Film/FindingNeverland.'' As chance would have it, I '''have''' won the Pulitzer Prize, and so I am qualified. Speaking in my official capacity as a Pulitzer Prize winner, Mr. Schneider, your movie sucks.
** Of course, Schneider then went on to invert this trope entirely by sending Ebert flowers and a get-well-soon card while he was in hospital. And Ebert said that while Schneider may make terrible movies, he's a nice guy.
** Ebert struck again by thanking Bill O'Reilly for including the Chicago Sun-Times in his "Hall Of Shame", claiming to be in a Bill O'Reilly Hall of ''Fame'' [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame would be a cruel blow to any newspaper.]] He went on to compare him to "Squeaky The Chicago Mouse" in response to the latter's claim he was more powerful than any politician, and such an eloquent TakeThat has to be [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090407/COMMENTARY/904079997 seen to be believed]].
* Archaeologists have found ancient Greek sling shots with "TakeThat" written on them. This survived until at least after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII when bomber crews would paint messages on their explosive payloads.
* Ubiquitous in political campaigning - any specific examples would either double the size of this page fairly quickly or lead to a massive Administrivia/EditWar.
* In ''Häxornas försvarare'' by Jan Guillou, a book about the witch processes in seventeenth-century Scandinavia, the author explains that while at one point the study of witches was considered a credible science, all the information that went into scholarly treatises on the subject had been uncovered by the scholar a) reading what other people had previously written on the subject and b) making stuff up. He further states that understandably, no modern field of science uses this odd form of research, "except of course for national economics."
* Acclaimed travel writer Creator/BillBryson has made his birthplace a running TakeThat gag. The first line of ''The Lost Continent'': "I was born in Des Moines, Iowa. Somebody had to be." There follows a two page explanation of why (''he'' thinks) Des Moines is a horrible soulless shithole.
** Bryson has also been known to direct these at other things when he felt like it. For example, he once remarked that the horse playing Series/MrEd apparently "wrote most of his own material".
* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/macvpc-icon.JPG The icon that a Mac uses to represent a PC on the network.]]
* Most unsubtle and unwitty example ever: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTldxSdAHuM This]] video, which is the full match of the first clip you see in the infamous '''"[[VideoGame/CapcomVs MAHVEL]] [[MemeticMutation BAYBEE!]]"''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZUMjoxfZA video]], manages to throw in a random "FUCK [[VideoGame/ArcanaHeart AR-CAY-NAH HEART]], NIGGER! FUCK ARCANA HEART!" at the end of its utterly non-sensical commentary.
* PC Gamer regularly takes cheap shots at console gamers. One was when they recommended the UsefulNotes/XBox360 controller for Games For Windows games, with the hasty disclaimer "don't worry, no one will think you're a console gamer". When a reader wrote in and called them on it, they said it was a "friendly rivalry".
** If this is PC Gamer of Future Publishing then it definitely is a friendly rivalry, since Chandra Nair, one of their writers, used to work for Cubed, a UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube magazine.
*** Not to mention that Chandra Nair went on to also become editor of Official Nintendo Magazine before leaving the industry completely.
** Not to mention that Future owns Official Xbox Magazine, as well as Magazine/NintendoPower. And speaking of Future, they own both [[http://www.maclife.com/ MacLife]] and [[http://www.maximumpc.com/ Maximum PC]]. They love taking pot shots at each other.
* When AMD announced its EPYC server processors codenamed "Naples", it touted a modular design that took four of the same dies (chips) used in its desktop Ryzen processors and put them together. [[https://www.techpowerup.com/235092/intel-says-amd-epyc-processors-glued-together-in-official-slide-deck Intel released a slide deck criticizing this setup as "4 glued-together desktop dies"]], claiming that this can cause performance issues with workloads that use cores spanning several dies. It conveniently ignores the fact that this design has an inherent manufacturing yield and cost advantage over Intel's approach of using one big monolithic die[[note]]A given number of defects in each wafer (batch) can ruin a substantial proportion of large dies, while a greater percentage of smaller dies will be usable[[/note]], as well as the fact that EPYC processors have highly-competitive performance in a wide variety of real-world workloads, have more memory channels, and more PCI Express lanes for connecting devices like graphics cards and storage controllers, allowing higher-density server designs. Intel's "glue" claim [[MemeticMutation was widely derided by the AMD fanbase]].
** Over a year later, AMD announced their second-generation EPYC processor codenamed "Rome", taking this "chiplet" design to the next level with as many as nine dies on the processor package (eight core dies, one I/O die) providing a whopping '''64 cores'''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC3ny3LBfi4&t=1h52m50s AMD's CEO took the "glue" meme and ran away with it:]]
---> '''Lisa Su:''' Some people called it gluing chips together. We called it the next generation of system design.
* Matthew Wright, presenter of Channel Five's ''The Wright Stuff'' is fond of making gags toward presenter Jeremy Kyle, such as calling him "Jeremy Vile" and getting out of the house whenever his show comes on.
* The creators of {{Demoscene}} productions are typically very direct about their Take Thats, often outright saying "fuck you" to the people and companies they don't like.
* Creator/AdultSwim often runs bumps that are derogatory towards its viewers.
** There also seems to be a long running gag about the network's [[ScrewedByTheNetwork simmering contempt towards their Anime block]]. Bumps regularly criticize it, commercials show their {{Narm}} moments and episode descriptions on their website tend to read like "Vampires, robots, big hats!".
*** There's a division in staff between Adult Swim's western-styled comedy department, writers of all the bumps since the action programming stopped featuring them (and producers of ''PHF'''), and the Action department, who programs Adult Swim's anime and are anime fans.
* The numerous Red Box kiosks, scattered throughout multiple grocery store chains in the US, advertise $1.00 overnight rentals, but Red Box will charge the customer's card an additional $1.00 for each additional day the item is kept. In response, the movie rental chain ''Hollywood Video'' introduced a program called ''True Dollar,'' to their existing Powerplay rental program, that offers $1.00 rentals with ''no due dates.''
* Sixth century [[UsefulNotes/{{Judaism}} Jewish]] poet and hymn writer Eleazar Kalliri, who lived in the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire in what is now modern UsefulNotes/{{Israel}}, wrote a hymn (still sung in some congregations on Shabbat Zakhor, shortly before [[UsefulNotes/JewishHolidays Purim]]) that directly says "Rome" (aka the Byzantine Empire) is not only the direct descendant of Amalek (the main villain in Jewish history), but that "Rome takes it up the ass" (especially insulting as Jews then held a very dim view of homosexuality, with especial scorn aimed at the passive partner).
* The 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith:
-->"6. That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine, into the substance of Christ's body and blood, commonly called transubstantiation, by consecration of a priest, or by any other way, is repugnant not to Scripture alone, but even to common sense and reason, overthroweth the nature of the ordinance, and hath been, and is, the cause of manifold superstitions, yea, of gross idolatries." This is an attack on Catholics.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSweVjWOVf0&feature=related This]] video of UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball team the West Coast Eagles' theme song includes the Eagles mascot giving cross-town rival the Fremantle Dockers' mascot a wedgie. [[note]]Also a StealthPun - the best-known Australian species of eagle is the Wedge-Tailed Eagle, known colloquially as a "wedgie".[[/note]]
** A famous one happened when Carlton played Essendon in 1991. The previous year, Essendon had lost to the much-hated Collingwood in the grand final, giving Collingwood their first premiership since 1958. During that time, Carlton had beaten Collingwood in grand finals in 1970, 1979 and 1981. Carlton rubbed it in by having their banner read, "If you lose to Collingwood in a grand final, you're a bloody idiot." [[note]]A riff on Essendon sponsor TAC's slogan "If you drink, then drive, you're a bloody idiot."[[/note]]
** At Essendon home games, a pre-match video shows a bomber launching, locking on to the opposing team's emblem, and blowing it up.
** In 2001, the Creator/SevenNetwork lost the broadcast rights to the AFL (which it had held for forty years) to the Nine and Ten networks. In the week leading up to the 2001 Grand Final, it broadcast a program called "Biffs, Bumps and Brawlers" that showcased the violent aspects of the game that the league was trying to de-emphasise.
* Lee Unkrich, the director of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'' responded to fan reactions of the movie via Website/{{Twitter}}. [[http://www.slashfilm.com/armond-white-prevents-toy-story-3-from-becoming-the-best-reviewed-movie-of-all-time/ Here's what he said to the critics who didn't like it.]]
* In early 1979, NBC was falling behind in the ratings war against CBS and ABC. In an attempt to get back those ratings, NBC initiated its "Proud as a Peacock" campaign. One of those was a song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g34DG1fghaU saying how great NBC was]]. However, they knew how bad they were in the ratings and ended up making [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8id3o-BPbM&feature=related this parody]] to mock the network and its-then current owner.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' (and shows like it) got hit ''hard'' in an episode of ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey''. Local teen Connie Kendall wants to pitch an idea to a TV station (it's a WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine CaptainErsatz), but first we see what a guy named "[[Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} Nigel O. Dion]]" has. IT winds up being a [=SpongeBob=] pastiche where everyone is free from values and [=SpongeBob=]'s parents are idiots. "Nigel" openly expresses how aggressively kid friendly it is. Connie's show talks about how we need to have authority or things would go wrong, and "Nigel"'s show is rejected because it's another one of "too many" shows that teach kids to "mock and taunt authority" and make them "glib, selfish, and rude". (Although the actual [=SpongeBob=] isn't a little kid and in fact loves his parents very much.) "Nigel" leaves them saying they're unreasonable and stuck in the "19th century".
** Ironically, a lot of Nickelodeon's shows aren't really like that. (Shows like that are on Creator/CartoonNetwork.) A bit of irony in that ''[=SpongeBob=]'' ''did'' become a ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Ren and Stimpy]]''-style grossout show after the movie. But then again, FocusOnTheFamily isn't on very good terms with Nickelodeon...
* In UsefulNotes/RugbyLeague the South Sydney Rabbitohs' song goes as far as to list all the teams Souths beat in grand finals:
-> (To the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"):\\
They mauled the Balmain Tigers,\\
Slew the Dragons from St. George,\\
The Seagulls and the Mounties next\\
Were crushed with mighty force\\
They humbled Parramatta\\
And the Berries in due course\\
They wear the RED & GREEN\\
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(CHORUS)\\
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They plucked the Western Magpies,\\
Slashed the Newtown bag of blue\\
The Eastern Suburbs rooster crowed,\\
And then was conquered too\\
The greatest name in any game\\
Within South Sydney grew\\
They wear the RED & GREEN \\

* Above the [[https://www.google.com/maps/@57.7010002,11.9741995,3a,75y,58.49h,100.44t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1seGU-t2vEPhX5JXnOC9lDNw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 Burger King restaurant at Avenyn]] in Gothenburg, Sweden, there are currently two signs. One of them points at the Burger King and says "GRILLED" while the other one points to the right, where a UsefulNotes/McDonalds is located, and says "WTF?".
** Previously, it said "Fried?" in place of "WTF?"
%% * Microsoft sells an anti-Creator/{{Google}} [[http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/pdp/Scroogled-Keep-Calm-Mug/productID.291428700 mug]].
* Voice actor Creator/DCDouglas posts political videos to his personal Youtube channel, often lampooning the Tea Party. In one noteworthy example, after having lost a job at Geico following a Tea Party group known as Freedom Works posting a (admittedly uncalled for) nasty voice mail, Douglas, having since become the beloved voice of [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil5 Albert Wesker]], posted [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMUVFctJ2Xw this gem.]]
--> "Don't drunk-dial Freedom Works."
* If you're using an iOS device, summon Siri and say "OK Google"[[note]]the voice command used to quickly summon the Google voice assistant on an Android devoice[[/note]]:
--> "[[WhatTheHellPlayer I think you've got the wrong assistant]], ''[[HelloInsertNameHere (name)]]''." \\
"Very funny, ''(name)''. I mean, not funny "ha-ha," but funny."
** Saying "Okay Glass" yields similar results:
---> "Stop trying to strap me to your forehead, ''(name)''. It won't work." \\
"Just so you know, I don't do anything when you blink at me, ''(name)''."
* In the days after deadly shootings in Colorado Springs and San Bernardino, the ''[[UsefulNotes/AmericanNewspapers New York Daily News]]'' spent the next few days devoting its front covers to venting its frustrations about GOP lawmakers who won't do anything about gun control and the National Rifle Association for its apparent stranglehold over Congress, going as far as to label NRA vice president Wayne [=LaPierre=] a terrorist. These covers received criticism from gun rights advocates, conservatives, and those who felt they simply [[DudeNotFunny went too far]]. In response, the December 7, 2015 edition had [[https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/673691056207175682 this]] as its cover cover.
* "[[http://i.imgur.com/xAoTS0c.jpg Leaf fan waiting for cup]]." The fact that the Toronto Maple Leafs have won the Stanley Cup ''over a dozen times'' won't stop a rival sport's fan from delivering that cutting and [[ActuallyPrettyFunny admittedly hilarious]] jab.
* Early in the 2017 [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball college football]] season, Oklahoma convincingly defeated Ohio State in a battle of top-5 teams on Ohio State's home field. Oklahoma QB Baker Mayfield celebrated by planting an OU flag in the middle of OSU's midfield logo. The "Take That!" came a few weeks later, after Iowa State scored a stunning upset at Oklahoma (the Cyclones' first win in Norman since 1990). Cyclones defensive back Evrett Edwards planted Iowa's state flag in the middle of OU's logo. Bonus points: [[http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/sports/football/2017/10/07/iowa-state-flag-plant-gives-mayfield-oklahoma-taste-their-own-medicine-following-upset/743040001/ This story]] from Iowa's main newspaper, ''The Des Moines Register'', flat-out invokes this trope.
* The [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL Drafts]] have gotten particularly venomous over the past years, especially when the draft takes place in a rather...notorious city. The '18 draft was especially egregious, as ''everyone'' had shots to take at both Dallas and the Cowboys; but what really stands out:
** Justin Tuck called the NY Giants the greatest sports team ever, only for Gary Clark of the Redskins to respectfully disagree;
** Nate Burleson put over Detroit's blue-collar workers as the hands that built America;
** Merton Hanks reminded Dallas that the 49ers were the first to win five Super Bowls, with Rod Woodson later pointing out that the Steelers were the first to win ''six'';
** Brad Jones boasting about Green Bay's "Titletown USA" legacy of 13 world championships;
** Eagles kicker David Akers told Cowboys fans "the last time [the Cowboys] were in the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl, these draft picks weren't born!"
* The "You Had One Job!" 2019 desk calendar's page for January 11 shows an emoji plushie with an upside-down head, accompanied by the caption, "This emoji is even more terribly made than ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie''... and that's saying something."
** The May 21 page shows a Ford "Expedtion", and says "Driving around with a typo on your rear bumper is almost as embarrassing as having one of those peeing [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] stickers. Almost."
* Dolphin, an [[UsefulNotes/{{Emulation}} emulator]] for the UsefulNotes/NintendoGamecube and UsefulNotes/{{Wii}}, publishes monthly progress reports on the website to keep people updated on new features and bugfixes, usually with very detailed, technical descriptions. The [[https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2016/05/01/dolphin-progress-report-april-2016/ August 2016]] report contained this:
-->'''4.0-9207 - Fix VideoGame/MetroidOtherM by phire'''\\
Sorry.
* During development, the internal code names for the Apple Power Mac 6100, 7100, 8100 computers were "PDM", "Cold Fusion", and "Carl Sagan". After Carl Sagan publicly objected to the use of his name as Piltdown Man and Cold Fusion were prominent examples of pseudo-science. Apple changed the internal code name to "BHA", privately standing for Butt-Head Astronomer. Sagan sued for libel, though the case was quickly dismissed. In the end, Apple apologized for causing distress and changed the internal code name yet again. This time engineers adopted "LAW" privately standing for Lawyers are Wimps. The court ruling for Apple dismissed the claim of libel with:
-->''There can be no question that the use of the figurative term "Butt-Head" negates the impression that Defendant was seriously implying an assertion of fact. It strains reason to conclude that Defendant was attempting to criticize Plaintiff's reputation or competency as an astronomer. One does not seriously attack the expertise of a scientist using the undefined phrase "butt-head."''
* In June 2019, Apple revealed the Pro Stand for their Pro Display XDR monitor retailed at $999 USD. Needless to say, everyone took potshots at Apple for promoting a nearly $1000 piece of aluminum. MSI took their own shot against Apple by comparing the stand to their own monitor, which they boasted that their product had 5K display resolution, HDR 600 certified, 98% DCI-P3 color gamut, and it comes with a stand, all for just $300 more. When comparing their product with Apple's stand, they made this:
--> ''No 5K. No screen. No color gamut. It's just a stand. (Yep...still just a stand.)''
* Volapük is an international auxiliary language that was popular in the late 19th century and was displaced by [[UsefulNotes/EsperantoTheUniversalLanguage Esperanto]] soon afterwards. It survives in the Esperanto word "[[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/volapukaĵo volapukaĵo]]", which means "gibberish".
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* The late Creator/BillyMays had a rather... [[ArchEnemy unfavorable view]] of fellow TV commercial pitcher Creator/VinceOffer, who is best known for his advertisement for [=ShamWow!=], a product suspiciously similar to Zorbeez, a product Billy promoted. One of his newer Zorbeez commercials takes a potshot at Vince's "You followin' me, camera guy?" line:
--> '''Billy:''' "They get dirty? Throw 'em in the wash! They last for years! ''Did ya get that, camera guy?''"
* Car Max advertises that they'll buy any car, even one with a CD changer stuck on Music/LimpBizkit. Lead singer Fred Durst appears in the ad, proving he's a good sport.
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* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'':
** The first two episodes (a [[FiveEpisodePilot two-part pilot]]) have title cards depicting Happy S. beating up robots dressed like Franchise/{{Batman}}, Franchise/{{Superman}}, and Franchise/SpiderMan from within a telephone booth. Make of that what you will.
** In Season 7 episode 15, three cats are trying to get recruited by Cat Planet but are rejected for some reasons. They look rather like ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}, Franchise/HelloKitty, and Manga/{{Doraemon}}.
* North Korea's educational anti-American propaganda animation ''Animation/PencilCannonball'' ('''Korean:''' 연필포탄) is a weird interesting example of this. While it teaches North Koreans to "learn and study mathematics and numbers for war", as North Korea and the USA are still fighting for decades, this cartoon responds by using a "pencil cannonball" to blast submarines from the USA while a North Korean song is playing in the background... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8tbzxIgxFs You can see it yourself.]]
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* ''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'':
** In ''The World in Peril'', after learning of the Martians' plan to [[MassHypnosis hypnotise humanity through a television broadcast]], Lemmy remarks that they will slaves of the television. [[spoiler:The Lunar Controller]] replies, "They're hardly more than that now." Lemmy later comments that television has been a major weapon of people from Earth for years.
** In ''Frozen in Time'', Charles Chilton takes numerous shots at 21st Century society. When Jet, Lemmy, Doc and Mitch arrive on UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} in order to rescue the Earth Saviour Operation, they meet a media officer, a health and safety officer and an IT officer but they are informed that Saviour does not have any engineers as it is operated by an artificial intelligence named Crystal. Lemmy describes these job titles as "modern lingo" and "mumbo jumbo." Doc later notes that the Saviour crew seem to spend all of their spare time playing games on computers.
* ''Radio/LoZooDi105'': Unlike other shows, this one is ''not'' afraid of giving away these like candies. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as the targets of these [[AcceptableTargets deserve every single bit of their snark.]]
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[[folder:Roleplay]]
* In ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'', [[ActionGirl Aisha]] makes a rather unsubtle jab at Creator/ParisHilton
--> '''Aisha''': "Look at Paris Hilton, or better yet, don't. Famous for being famous, not because she has anything approaching talent."
* ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'':
** Crispin's novel is an example of StylisticSuck, with multiple characters talking about how bad it is. However, Zia still thinks it's better than ''[[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis Countdown]]''.
** Ziz buys a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch for Ivy without using any of her money. When she worries that they've accidentally stolen it, Luna claims it's a victimless crime since it came from Amazon.
* In ''Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars'', there was several toward ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''; one notable one is that "Edward" is an insult among Vampires.
** Even more to ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'', to the point where Chris-chan occasionally appears, often doing horrid things. Even [[ForTheEvulz Bernkastel]] hated him....
** In addition, ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' is occasionally jabbed at.
** Mega Man, Duo, and Bass occasionally throw insults at ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'', citing the story as a poorly written, annoying, [[CashCowFranchise cheap cash]] [[MissionPackSequel in]].
** Lip and Osaka (both Midna's characters) throw a Take That at in-thread advertising at one point.
** Charles Roberts having two IC {{MST}}s and two of the Avatars [[note]]Metis and Tetsuya Tsurugi[[/note]] coming and forcefeeding his computer down his throat.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* [[http://www.cracked.com/video_18398_why-star-trek-universe-secretly-horrifying.html "What other civilizations are like that?" "North Korea." "Apple stores."]]
* The ''Website/CollegeHumor'' video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFzLRP8e4vE Tim Burton's Secret Formula]]" seems to be a jab at how Creator/TimBurton's movie formula is just the same thing recycled. You can tell that from the DullSurprise reactions of the executives to Burton saying that the studio plans to make another film. Also, when the casting director is told "get me Creator/JohnnyDepp and my wife on the phone," he says, "I can't ever not do that," and we see that the cell phone in question can only call Johnny Depp and Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter.
* [[http://www.grudge-match.com/current.html The WWWF]] has made quite a few in their time.
** They really have a thing for Al Gore:
*** In [[http://www.grudge-match.com/History/judgejudy.shtml Kenneth Starr vs. Bill Clinton on Judge Judy]], Paul argues that Clinton can't be impeached because if he is, then Al Gore would become president, and there is no way Judge Judy is going to let that happen. This match is pretty full of Take Thats all around, claiming that both candidates fail to meet the five criteria of victory on Judge Judy ("Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth", "make your point and shut up", "Don't be an idiot", "Don't put your children at risk", and "Don't tick off the judge").
*** In [[http://www.grudge-match.com/History/culkin-zombies.shtml Kevin McCallister vs. Night of The Living Dead]], Brian argues that Kevin can just pop in a tape of the latest presidential debate, and the zombies will stumble off to vote for their undead leader Al Gore. John counters saying "They're undead, not dumb." John also claims that "any scene in which Michael Jackson has a ''girlfriend'' is clearly the fantasy scene", and that "in Chicago, it's hard to tell the difference between the living dead and regular passersby", and Brian asks "if the zombie's mission is to consume as much human brain as possible by daybreak, why are they going after Macauley Culkin?"
*** In [[http://www.grudge-match.com/History/aol_gore.shtml AOL vs. Al Gore]], Hotbranch has a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment when he realizes he has to choose between AOL and Al Gore to fight CI Host for him.
** In [[http://www.grudge-match.com/History/Maul_MacLeod.shtml Darth Maul vs. Connor MacLeod]], that if all else fails, Connor can just explain how all the Highlander movies make sense together, and Maul's head will explode.
** In [[http://www.grudge-match.com/History/galactica_voyager.shtml Voyager vs. Battlestar Galactica]], The two spend much of the time arguing over which show has worse writers.
** In [[http://www.grudge-match.com/History/barney-wesley.shtml Barney the Purple Dinosaur vs. Wesley Crusher]], the reason the two have been put together is because they're "the two most hated figures on the internet."
** In [[http://www.grudge-match.com/History/scrooge-grinch.shtml Ebenezer Scrooge vs. The Grinch]], There are very frequent mentions of how everyone wants to see Elmo gut-shot.
** In [[http://www.grudge-match.com/History/letterman-leno.shtml David Letterman vs. Jay Leno]], Mark compares David Letterman to the A-Team, saying that "where the A-Team could turn any vehicle into a tank, Letterman can tank any comedic vehicle."
** In [[http://www.grudge-match.com/History/rosie-roseanne.shtml Rosie O'Donnell vs. Roseanne]], Paul claims Roseanne must win "for the good of humanity" because unlike Rosie, people have already seen her breasts.
** In [[http://www.grudge-match.com/History/laura-evil.shtml Dr. Laura vs. Dr. Evil]], Brian argues that Dr. Laura will win because, unlike Dr. Evil, she has generally succeeded in her evil plans.
** [[http://www.grudge-match.com/History/popstars.shtml The Circus Maximus of the Pop Stars]] is absolutely pouring with Britney Spears hate, as well as the claim that all boy bands are the result of an attempt to clone Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio which went horribly, horribly wrong, mention of the "obviously homosexual [Justin] Timberlake", and the argument that "[Music/TheBackstreetBoys] can't be motivated by pride, or they would never have released any of the songs they did."
* The French youtuber [=LinksTheSun=] once made a video about UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-yQroTBL3o here]]), in which he regularly mocks Patricia Cornwell and her theory about the identity of the infamous murderer.
** He also regularly mocks Music/MileyCyrus and ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' in his videos. In one of them ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO3awMzSP5I about humour]]), he explains that regularly doing the same jokes is not funny, and then uses the example of [[SelfDeprecation "imagine someone always joking about Miley Cyrus and Twilight..."]]
* ''WebVideo/BumReviews'': Chester mentions that he once sold a burger recipe to UsefulNotes/McDonalds, but it was too disgusting for them. What did they do? Sold the rights to White Castle!
* ''WebVideo/ConsoleWars'':
** In the ''VideoGame/KirbysAvalanche'' Vs. ''VideoGame/DrRobotniksMeanBeanMachine'' episode, Greg calls ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' (the show ''Mean Bean Machine'' is based on) "The bad Sonic cartoon everyone's trying to forget", and wishes the game were based on ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'', which he calls "The good Sonic cartoon".
** In the ''VideoGame/TheLostVikings'' episode, Dan says that the Genesis version of the game has a three-player mode that only works with the official Team Player multitap by Sega, not the "piece of junk from EA" (referring to the 4-way Play adapter from Creator/ElectronicArts), which he throws into a trash can.
** In the Super Scope Vs. Menacer episode, Pat says of ''VideoGame/YoshisSafari'', "It's definitely better than [[VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog Sonic with a gun]]".
** In the ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTournamentFighters'' episode, Pat points out that Aska, one of the playable characters in the SNES version of the game was originally going to be Mitsu from ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII'', but was changed because ''TMNT III'' sucked. He even shows the thumbnails from [=YouTube=] videos of negative reviews of the film, including ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'''s.
** At the beginning of the ''Film/BatmanForever'' episode, Pat tells Dan that their new batch of T-Shirts came in. Dan compliments the logo, Pat says he hopes no one steals it, and Dan asks who would, a direct jab at Creator/{{CBS}} for stealing their logo for their documentary of the same name. Later in the same episode, Pat points out that the SNES game doesn't have the voice clips that the Genesis game does, but Dan argues that the sound quality of the voice clips on the Genesis game is terrible. Pat then says it's better than what the SNES game originally had planned, and shows Dan fictional voice clips that were cut from the SNES game on the blu-ray of the titular film that Dan ordered, where the enemies say "[[Series/FamilyMatters Did I do that?]]", "[[Series/FullHouse You got it, Dude!]]", and [[Series/HomeImprovement that weird Tim Allen noise]].
* ''WebOriginal/EnterprisingEngines'' is a web series based on ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine''. One episode of the series, "James Goes on a Streak" is one to the Thomas Wood line that replaced the long-running and beloved Thomas Wooden Railway line, back when the Wood models were half-painted. James spends the episode half-painted (represented by his 2017 Wood model) and is not happy about it at all, eventually having a run-in with a nudist colony.
* A ''Flashgitzanimation'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zSxQnZ3TM8 video]] which mocks Games Workshop, for their overpriced miniatures and their over obsession to Space Marines.
* ''WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}}'' throws shade over many aspects of the video game industry and community, including:
** Specific companies with questionable business practices, especially Creator/{{Konami}}, Creator/{{Ubisoft}}, and Creator/{{Nintendo}}.
** SmallNameBigEgo developers, the most infamous of which being Digital Homicide, a notorious shovelware developer that [[CantTakeCriticism tried to sue Jim and Steam for negative publicity]].
** Snobby "hardcore" gamers, whose internet comments he reads and mocks in the character of a Victorian-era aristocrat.
* The ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' review of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-LfKbCR0MI Mickey Mousecapade]]'' is one massive take that at video-game reviewers who try to emulate the ''WebVideo/AngryVideoGameNerd's'' style. Arin spends the entire episode doing a [[StylisticSuck hilariously bad]] imitation of the nerd while Danny spends the entire episode [[{{Corpsing}} laughing his ass off]].
* Speaking of, ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' takes a shot at gamers who use emulators with save states to beat games in his review of ''Franchise/StarWars'' games, likening it to cheating and one-upping them by inventing the "Beat-A-Game Button", a button that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin effortlessly beats the game for you when pressed]].
* ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'' takes a heart pot-shot at Website/{{Tumblr}} and social justice warriors in the form of Rip Van Wrinkle.
--> '''Rip''': "I don't have to take this from you, you racist, cisgendered, patriarch-propagating, misogynistic pig!"\\
'''Alucard''': "The funny thing is, in any other circumstance, you might've had a point there...except my boss is a woman, [[GenderBender I was a chick in the 40s]], [[HatesEveryoneEqually I hate everyone equally]], and there is no one alive who can comprehend my sexual preference! So in other words, Miss Van Wrinkle...'''''CH-CH-CH-CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE!'''''
** Episode 7 of the same series has a sniper round loaded for ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' RuleThirtyFour and the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom, courtesy of [[EvenEvilHasStandards Zorin's disgust]] with having to use an illusion of the titular mascot with [[GagPenis a foot-long erection]] to create the opening she needed.
** Two more are loaded into the chamber for the hatedoms of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' and, ironically, ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''; in the latter case, Alucard points out that hating a book written for "horny teenage girls" "was stupid then, and is still stupid now".
* The ''Ben [=McYellow=]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37r2XHm4cIo&list=PL9fGHMcRLx6gU9ZLieogw3HJTU9C53HAA YouTube series]], for no apparent reason, has its GreaterScopeVillain, the Skeleton King, always portrayed by pictures and footage of [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump]].
* The French-Canadian series 2 Minutes du Peuple has a long-standing RunningGag against various French musicians. One episode has a woman kidnapped by aliens recall her experience (in English) while the voiceover provides translation into French. At one point she says "made me listen to Francis Lalanne's records", the name clearly audible, the voiceover goes with "made me listen to horrible things".
* An example of this trope and TakeThatAudience: One episode of Creator/AchievementHunter's ''VS.'' series seemed to play up the idea that Ray and Michael were going to have them play ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', only for Michael to declare that they aren't because it would be "too boring" and revealed the real game. It's this trope because it jabs at Nintendo and their then-recent Content ID ownership claims and TakeThatAudience for those who wanted them to play the game for so long.
** A later episode did it again, this time involving ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' Jenga.
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7PR3PmcWxQ Ross Scott's promo]] for the Machinima Website [[http://gorillagong.com/ Gorilla Gong]], he states the site has hundreds of videos, and more ''good'' Machinima than anywhere else. It's most likely a swipe toward {{Creator/Machinima}}, which had, at the time, numerous [[SturgeonsLaw quality control]] issues, was [[NetworkDecay phasing out]] Machinima when not outright [[ExecutiveMeddling meddling]] with the creators' work, and also screwed Ross Scott out of his money due to legal and contract disputes while making ''{{Machinima/Freemans Mind}}''.
* [[https://youtu.be/PF9z-kEmic4?t=12m13s ASDFMovie]] takes a shot at ''WebVideo/TheAnnoyingOrange'' with a skit of a child with faces drawn on fruit repeating "Hey Apple!" and his dad coldly remarking "Well, we failed. Don't look, honey" while ''cocking a shotgun''.
* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan:''
** From "Black Yoshi's Job'':
-->'''Announcer:''' "''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' fans, go pre-order the new ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare''! There's absolutely nothing different compared to the last ''Call of Duty'', but we're gonna make a ton of money!"
** In "Evil Bowser", after suffering VillainDecay, Bowser decides to summon the Devil to help him get his evil back. He does so by singing the "Evil Devil Chant", which is actually [[Series/BarneyAndFriends the "I Love You" song]].
** In "Luigi's Mansion Part 5", there's even one to [[CantTakeCriticism Logan's haters]]. They're shown, along with George W. Bush and others, [[UpToEleven as some of the worst people on Earth]].
** "Chef Pee Pee Gets Sick!" and "Bowser Junior's Playtime 3" feature take thats to ''WesternAnimation/TheGoodDinosaur'' for being short, its nonsensical plot, and not living up to the same standards as [[Creator/{{Pixar}} Pixar's]] previous film, ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut''.
** In "Cody's Revenge!", when Bowser threatens to send Junior to MilitarySchool, one of the punishments the Brooklyn Guy says he's going to give to Junior is to [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment make him watch]] ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6''. Junior says that ''Big Hero 6'' is the worst animated feature since ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'', which gets Bowser to reconsider. Later in the episode, Cody makes Junior watch the movie on blu-ray with him twice as part of his blackmail.
** In "Jeffy's Favorite Song!", Mario gets Jeffy an iPhone 7 after breaking his old iPhone, and proclaims that Jeffy only agrees to use it if he uses headphones. He then finds out to his horror that it doesn't have a headphone jack, resulting in him being forced to listen to the Bunny Do song.
* ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'' is basically this trope incarnated and aimed at every single thing they find wrong with every single movie they "sin", be they well or poorly received. For just a few of their very notable examples:
** They utterly '''despise''' ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'' movies, to the point of adding 100 sins to ''Fast Five'' because of how nonsensical the plot was getting, and adding ''one thousand sins'' to ''Furious 7'' for the building jump scene.
** ''Fate of the Furious'' breaks, and later ''[[UpToEleven kills]]'', the sins counter.
** The narrator takes a moment out of ''Film/PetesDragon1977'' to chew out Chris (who forced him to review it), which gets abruptly edited out to keep things on track.
** Most production companies like Creator/{{Sony}} or Creator/DCComics will get a sin when their logo flies across the screen at the beginning. Comcast on the other hand:
--->'''Narrator:''' Comcast.\\
'''Sin Counter:''' Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding
** In their sin of [[TakeThatMe themselves]] they (while showing the tweets) point out that they've pissed off ''Creator/RianJohnson'' and ''Damon Lindelof'', but that ''Creator/DaneCook'' and ''Creator/KevinSmith'' are "on their side". [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame Then count this as a sin]].
* ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'' frequently targets ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' in its stories. There are two long-running series of stories ("Twilight of our Literacy" and "More Daylight, Less Twilight") where the problem customers are huge fans of the series.
* In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3rWBvlRLZM 2010 Liege-Bastonge-Liege]] episode of WebOriginal/HowTheRaceWasWon, Cosmo ends the video with "I'm Cosmo Catalano, and that's how you do your job". This is after spending more than a third of his video talking about how poor a job cycling journalists had done talking about the race.
* In ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'' episode that covers the finale of the Aincrad arc. Kirito asks the BigBad, Kayaba Akihiko, exactly what his motives for turning ''Sword Art Online'' into a DeadlyGame was. Kayaba answers that [[spoiler:he cannot actually remember his reasons for doing it]], which was the exact same answer he gave in the actual show. When an outraged Kirito asks if he is being serious, Kayaba answers that he is just kidding, [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall pointing out how completely unsatisfying it would be if that had actually been the real answer]]. [[spoiler:He also blames ''{{Creator/Bethesda}}'' for causing the game to be ChristmasRushed regardless of potential glitches, including the one that caused the DeadlyGame in the first place.]]
* British youtuber Hbomberguy made a career out of alternating between video game analysis and riffing on the failings of various alt-right types, so naturally you get a lot of these, such as this zinger on the subject of pick-up artist advice:
-->It's like writing horoscopes, only for desperate and lonely people. [{{Beat}}] [[VerbalBackspace It's like writing horoscopes.]]
* ''WebVideo/LouderWithCrowder'': After receiving many pot-shots from them, Steven did a very scathing impression of Radio/TheYoungTurks where he dressed up as hosts Cenk Uyghur and Ana Kasparian, depicting them as unhinged, biased, and faux-edgy, and made fun of Cenk's weight. He later crashed a panel discussion that included Cenk with Crowder in-character as Cenk.
* WebVideo/RandyRainbow makes {{Song Parod|y}}ies and [[ManipulativeEditing spoof interviews]] that mock UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump and his allies.
* Pretty much every parody song WebVideo/BartBaker makes contains one aimed at the original song's singers. Downplayed as it's obviously for comedy and he isn't serious about hating the singers in question.
* Miles Jai has a few:
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HhoXtOz5oM You Not Black No More!?]] video is one aimed at Black people who look down on other black people for not adhering to stereotypical Black interests, attributes or fashion trends.
** The (in)famous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPnP_zlYU44 LIKE MAH STATUS]] video was aimed at "Like My Status" trend going on on Facebook at the time.
** Another one took aim at people who constantly questioning his gender identity and those who left disparaing comments on his collaboration video with WebVideo/JennaMarbles.
* The webseries ''Fact Hunt'' by Larry Bundy Jr. aka Guru Larry has almost every episode give a Take That at infamous game developer Peter Molyneux, notorious for his lying about almost every game. There's also an episode called "Top 5 Stupid Things Said by Games' Journalists" where he asked for suggestions. He brought up how people suggested comments by Movie Bob and Jim Stirling, only laugh and repeat that he said suggestions for ''journalists''.
* WebVideo/TBSkyen, while playing ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'', found himself besieged by a swarm of baby skeletons that caused Toxic buildup...at which point he compared them to ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' players. (Also something of a SelfDeprecation moment given that Skyen is also a ''LOL'' player.)
* WebVideo/{{Pikasprey}}'s "How To Be A Sonic Fan" video is a mockery of the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' fandom.
* ''Series/TheWeather'': A good chunk of the OuijaBoard sketch in "Spooky Fog" is dedicated to the characters joking about and making fun of UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump. The cast is, of course, not his biggest fan.
* ''WebVideo/TheHydraulicPressChannel'':
** They devote [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Bf0pyjIGw an entire video]] to mocking all those surreal, impractical, and obnoxious {{Clickbait|Gag}} life-hack videos that can be found all over Youtube. The video is just them claiming to be giving instructions on how to peel a banana or open a jar, randomly adding things like toothpaste or lemon to them, and then smashing them in the press all to annoying twee music, with a video thumbnail of them hot-gluing a Coca Cola bottle into a Pringles can.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHFuZVGpBC0 Another video]] has him claim the temperature of the metal he crushed is still hotter than "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKYAjFX5xy4&list=PLnBRCTk6a_Gumg_-lCVGiIHTZ84MfgOHE your typical red-hot knife]]" and then dismissively saying "but we don't do that shit here."
* ''Net Price is Right'', a website that hosted an online version of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', had a plug for a mock HomeGame. On the box, there was a blurb with the following text: "[[TheProblemWithLicensedGames Because the Endless edition blows!]]"
* A lot of the jokes in ''WebVideo/DrJekyllAndMrHydeTheGameTheMovie'' are done to mock [[VideoGame/DrJekyllAndMrHyde the game's]] nonsensical story, its bad gameplay and all-around shittyness, including the towns-folk's irrational (and murderous) behavior towards Jekyll, his incredibly slow walk, his useless ClassyCane-weapon, the fact that Jekyll gravitates into the explosions instead of away from and so on.
* ''WebVideo/{{ContraPoints}}'': Jackie Jackson, a self described "Classical Liberal" that hosts an in-universe show called "The Freedom Report". She is a parody of Dave Rubin and his show "The Rubin Report", who is known to call himself a "Clasical Liberal" and mostly pandering to the conservative audience by never questioning his guests and the general "Classical Liberal" types who naively believe that talking it out and finding middle ground on everything is the way forward.
* Creator/ManOnTheInternet presents... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2xYAj42sqs Underfell the Musical]]. It's basically an abridged retelling of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', but with the vocals ''heavily'' turned down, an eye-bleedingly red filter applied to the art, and Megalovania shoehorned at the end where Judgement Hall would normally be. The video description tells you all you need to know about Alex's feelings on Underfell.
--> ''Wow look at how original, creative, and "great" an idea this is, I sure do enjoy "Literally just Undertale but everyone is evil and has no recognizable character traits anymore, except it doesn't matter, the only ones we focus on are Sans and Papyrus because I, as an adolescent writer of [=AUs=] and fanfic, want to explore my sexual awakening through these fictional skeletons but only if they're edgy and don't resemble the original in any way." And now, the Man on the Internet presents - a musical that is boring, and goes completely against what Undertale tried to teach!''
** The various other alternate universes don't get off better. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTtUI4pnrSY Underswap the Musical]] mocks the premise of [[RoleSwapAU Underswap]] by pointing out that the positions of the characters are lazily reversed, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zgYE_B15A8 Is That Disbelief Papyrus?]] mocks the idea of Disbelief Papyrus, commenting that the AU is "grossly out of character".
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[[folder:Wikis]]
* [[http://encyclopediadramatica.se/Main_Page Encyclopedia Dramatica]] is basically a TakeThat Wiki, [[AccentuateTheNegative gleefully bashing everything and everyone]], with the site's main target being [[http://uncyclopedia.org Uncyclopedia]], a parody encyclopedia and its unofficial "rival".
** Uncyclopedia pretty savagely [[https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Encyclopedia_Dramatica_(Website) returns fire]], as well.
** Since Encyclopedia Dramatica was originally designed as an archive of Troll activity, {{Take That}}s are inevitable.
** It also really crosses over into TheReasonYouSuckSpeech with the article titled "You".
** Given that both sites shamelessly mock the daylights out of everything, including each other, any [[SeriousBusiness serious]] 'war' is doomed to just make everyone involved look stupid.
* Trope Names that are Take Thats:
** TheScrappy
** TheChrisCarterEffect
** {{Flanderization}}
** DanBrowned
** CapcomSequelStagnation
** XPacHeat
** {{Macekre}}
** FoxNewsLiberal and its redirect, MSNBCConservative
** {{Narm}}
** YokoOhNo
** TheWesley, WesleyCrusher, and ShillingTheWesley, all of which are redirects of CreatorsPet.
** TakahashiCouple, a redirect of BelligerentSexualTension.
* Amiright and Whatfreaks seem to both be {{Take That}}s to music in general.
* Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} itself sometimes manages to sneak these in; for example, the page for DeusExMachina once had a "See Also" section that points you to ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn]]''...
** Another one for the Japanophobia page. The See Also? [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment Alfred R. Kahn]].
** While both of these are now gone, Tropers can take comfort in the fact that TOW's page on DeusExMachina now links to (their page on) AlienSpaceBats.
* The Transformers Wiki tends to throw these at the elitist fandom, being that it's not a Wiki restricted by SeriousBusiness, you can see how, they basically ''[[TropeNamers named]]'' the DarthWiki/RuinedFOREVER Trope, and even [[ShoutOut link to our Ruined FOREVER page]]. There are other Take Thats, mostly bordering on the idiotic logic of the Transformers fanbase, on one of the timeline pages, they put the beginning of the universe, and it says:
-->The Big Bang creates the universe as we know it. The protons, neutrons, and electrons that will eventually compose Transformers are formed, ruining it forever. A Thursday.
** Beyond fandom, there are plenty of Take Thats directed at certain people involved in Transformers, notably Pat Lee, Shane [=McCarthy=] and Andy Schmidt.
** Their page on [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Wolverine Wolverine]] describes him as "A completely unlikable asshole".
** Their Original Page on Creator/DanDiDio called him Satan. Now he's just called Series/DoctorPhil.
** Their Cy-Kill (see the comics section for more details on the treatment of this character) pages passive-aggressively point out just how tired and old killing the character is.
* Wiki/RationalWiki, being what it is, will very frequently take pot shots at various crank beliefs. Almost every article about a pseudoscience is a TakeThat. Also, everything they say about Conservapedia, with the exception of a few SincerityMode articles dedicated to seriously and earnestly proving that Conservapedia is a huge fraud.
** Currently, their article about [[Wiki/TVTropes This Wiki]] claims that we [[JumpingTheShark jumped the shark]] after the changes that include giving YMMV its own section.
* The South Sydney UsefulNotes/RugbyLeague team's theme song lists all the teams Souths have beaten in grand finals:
* What did ''Webcomic/TheOatmeal'' do after being threatened with a lawsuit by [=FunnyJunk=] demanding $20,000 in "damages" after [[https://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk calling them out for stealing his content, cutting off the signatures, and hosting it on their site]]? He [[http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk_letter rips the letter given to him and the lawyer who wrote it a new one]] and then initiates what amounts to a fundraiser ''not'' to pay the guy off, but to give to two other charities, vowing to take a picture of the money earned and give it (and a lewd drawing of the lawyer's mother seducing a Kodiak bear) to the people who sent him the threat. He gets the money in under 64 minutes and hits $150,000 in 24 hours.
* [[http://www.smartbloggerz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/hostgator-mascot.gif This is Snappy]], the mascot of [=HostGator=], the second host of the WebOriginal/FurryBasketballAssociation and the first host of ''furrybasketball.com.'' [[note]]The original host, Furtopia, used subdomains when it hosted websites.[[/note]] [[http://furrybasketball.net/wiki/images/archive/a/af/20140112184920!AnubianHost.png This is the mascot of Anubian Host]], where the site is now. [[http://furrybasketball.net/wiki/images/a/af/AnubianHost.png And THIS is the Anubian Host logo on the Furry Basketball Association Wiki]].
* If you type ''about:mozilla'' into the address bar of the browser Pale Moon, you get a page with the title "Mozilla: In Memoriam", and a shot at Mozilla to how they treated their developers.
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* North Korea's educational anti-American propaganda animation ''Pencil Cannonball'' ('''Korean:''' 연필포탄) is a weird example of this. While it teaches North Koreans to "learn and study mathematics and numbers for war", as North Korea and the USA are still fighting for decades, this cartoon responds by using a "pencil cannonball" to blast submarines from the USA while a North Korean song is playing in the background... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8tbzxIgxFs You can see it yourself.]]

* North Korean's educational anti-American propaganda animation ''Pencil Cannonball'' ('''Korean:''' 연필포탄) is an weird example of this. While it taught North Korean peoples to "learn and studying mathematics and numbers for war", as North Korea and USA is still fighting for decades, this cartoon is about to response by using "pencil cannonball" to blast submarines from USA while an good North Korean song is playing on the background... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8tbzxIgxFs You can see it yourself.]]

* North Korean's educational anti-American propaganda animation ''Pencil Cannonball'' ('''Korean:''' 연필포탄) is an weird example of this. While it taught North Korean peoples to "learn and studying mathematics and numbers for war", as North Korea and USA is still fighting for decades, this cartoon is about to response by using "pencil cannonball" to blast submarines from USA... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8tbzxIgxFs You can see it yourself.]]

* The first two episodes of ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' (a [[FiveEpisodePilot two-part pilot]]) have title cards depicting Happy S. beating up robots dressed like Franchise/{{Batman}}, Franchise/{{Superman}}, and Franchise/SpiderMan from within a telephone booth. Make of that what you will.

* In June 2019, Apple revealed a monitor stand retailed at $999 USD. Needless to say, everyone took potshots at Apple for promoting a nearly $1000 piece of plastic. MSI took their own shot against Apple by comparing the stand to their own monitor, which they boasted that their product had 5K display resolution, HDR 600 certified, 98% DCI-P3 color gamut, and it comes with a stand, all for just $300 more. When comparing their product with Apple's stand, they made this:

* Some tropers love to use this. You'll find a bunch of them scattered all over the Wiki, which are {{Pothole}}d to the main page. Sometimes they get ground down by WikiMagic, sometimes not. '''''Don't even think about adding to them.''''' Chances are, whatever you have in mind is just not worth including.

* Sixth century [[UsefulNotes/Judaism Jewish]] poet and hymn writer Eleazar Kalliri, who lived in the UsefulNotes/ByzantineEmpire in what is now modern UsefulNotes/Israel, wrote a hymn (still sung in some congregations on Shabbat Zakhor, shortly before [[UsefulNotes/JewishHolidays Purim]]) that directly says "Rome" (aka the Byzantine Empire) is not only the direct descendant of Amalek (the main villain in Jewish history), but that "Rome takes it up the ass."

* Dream Fiction Wiki Give [[WebVideo/PoohsAdventures Pooh Adventure's]] Crossover with [[Film/TheWatcherintheWoods The Watcher in the woods]] a [[http://dreamfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Pooh%27s_Adventures_of_The_Watcher_in_the_Woods 65 Dislikes.]]

** In the ''VideoGame/KirbysAvalanche'' Vs. ''VideoGame/DrRobotniksMeanBeanMachine'' episode, Greg calls ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' (the show ''Mean Bean Machine'' is based on) "The bad Sonic cartoon everyone's trying to forget", and wishes the game were based on ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'', which he calls "The good Sonic cartoon".

** In "Cody's Revenge!", when Bowser threatens to send Junior to MilitarySchool, one of the punishments the Brooklyn Guy says he's going to give to Junior is to [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment make him watch]] ''Disney/BigHero6''. Junior says that ''Big Hero 6'' is the worst animated feature since ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'', which gets Bowser to reconsider. Later in the episode, Cody makes Junior watch the movie on blu-ray with him twice as part of his blackmail.

* ''Webcomic/TheOatmeal'', after being threatened with a lawsuit by [=FunnyJunk=] unless they were given $20,000 in "damages", [[http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funnyjunk_letter rips the letter given to him and the lawyer who wrote it a new one]], then initiates what amounts to a fundraiser ''not'' to pay the guy off, but to give to two other charities, vowing to take a picture of the money earned and give it (and a lewd drawing) to the people. He gets the money in under 64 minutes and hits $150,000 in 24 hours.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-504 SCP-504]] is a tomato that hurls itself at the nearest thing that just told a bad joke. When exposed to a Dane Cook recording, it completely demolishes the CD player. Also, when shown an SNL skit of Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton it almost hurled itself, but not quite, because it wasn't sure whether it was actually meant to be funny or not.
** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4444-j SCP-4444-J]] is one at the InNameOnly, ''much'' less horrific Website/GaiaOnline SCP guild.

** TakahashiCouple

* Most unsubtle and unwitty example ever: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTldxSdAHuM This]] video, which is the full match of the first clip you see in the infamous '''"[[VideoGame/CapcomVsWhatever MAHVEL]] [[MemeticMutation BAYBEE!]]"''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZUMjoxfZA video]], manages to throw in a random "FUCK [[VideoGame/ArcanaHeart AR-CAY-NAH HEART]], NIGGER! FUCK ARCANA HEART!" at the end of its utterly non-sensical commentary.