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* "Theatre/TheTrailToOregon" has a kind of weird one towards Mike's Hard Lemonade at one point saying that it has so little alchohol you can give it seven year olds
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* ''Theatre/TheTwentyFifthAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'' often uses its improv spots to take shots at current events, most notably Logainne's speech, often used for political criticism.

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* ''Theatre/TheTwentyFifthAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'' often uses its improv spots to take shots at current events, most notably Logainne's speech, often used for political criticism.criticism.
* ''Theatre/ComingOutOfTheirShells'': The Shredder, the guy who's big defining quality in this musical is his hatred of music, uses the De-Harmonic Convergence Converter to take away all music in the world. Well, all music with the possible exception to Music/BarryManilow.
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** In the opening number for the 2013 Tony Awards ("Bigger", written by Creator/LinManuelMiranda and performed by Creator/NeilPatrickHarris) Neil at one point asks for his "[[Film/LesMiserables2012 Tom Hooper Les Miz]] close-up."
--->'''Neil''': See, on Broadway, we don't need extreme close-ups to prove we're singing live. We sing live eight shows a week, check it!
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* "Everyone's a little bit racist" From ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' is a TakeThat to [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad Political Correctness]].

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* "Everyone's a little bit racist" From ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' is a TakeThat to [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad [[PoliticalOvercorrectness Political Correctness]].

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* ''Theatre/TheTwentyFifthAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'' often uses its improv spots to take shots at current events, most notably Logainne's speech, often used for political criticism.
* In the 2010s revival of ''Theatre/MissSaigon'', the "[[VillainSong American Dream]]" song ends with the Engineer begging his backup dancers to come back because "[[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump We can make it great again!]]"

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* ''Theatre/TheTwentyFifthAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'' often uses its improv spots to take shots at current events, most notably Logainne's speech, often used for political criticism.
* In the 2010s revival of ''Theatre/MissSaigon'', the "[[VillainSong American Dream]]" song ends with the Engineer begging his backup dancers to come back because "[[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump We can make it great again!]]"
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'''Gnome:''' Stop mailing all those sweet but slightly threatening fanletters to Franchise/TheLittleMermaid!”

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'''Gnome:''' Stop mailing all those sweet but slightly threatening fanletters to Franchise/TheLittleMermaid?
* ''Theatre/SomethingRotten!'' mocks the musical genre as a whole in the song "A Musical", where Nick Bottom learns about theater of the future, doubling as SelfDeprecation (though it also mocks other theater genres, specifically tragedy and drama, and Greek mythology where [[Theatre/OedipusRex "a mother has sex]] [[OedipusComplex with her son"]]). It does get in more specific digs, such as when Nostradamus begins singing about opera:
-->'''Nostadamus:''' And it's supposed to create a dramatic effect, but mostly you just sit there asking yourself, "Why aren't they talking?"\\
'''Nick:''' Sounds miserable.\\
'''Nostadamus:''' I believe it's pronounced... [[Theatre/LesMiserables Misérable!]]

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'''Gnome:''' Stop mailing all those sweet but slightly threatening fanletters to Franchise/TheLittleMermaid?
* ''Theatre/SomethingRotten!'' mocks the musical genre as a whole in the song "A Musical", where Nick Bottom learns about theater of the future, doubling as SelfDeprecation (though it also mocks other theater genres, specifically tragedy and drama, and Greek mythology where [[Theatre/OedipusRex "a mother has sex]] [[OedipusComplex with her son"]]). It does get in more specific digs, such as when Nostradamus begins singing about opera:
-->'''Nostadamus:''' And it's supposed to create a dramatic effect, but mostly you just sit there asking yourself, "Why aren't they talking?"\\
'''Nick:''' Sounds miserable.\\
'''Nostadamus:''' I believe it's pronounced... [[Theatre/LesMiserables Misérable!]]
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* As has been well-documented by history, director Creator/EliaKazan and playwright Arthur Miller had a famous falling out over Kazan's decision to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Arthur Miller wrote ''Theatre/TheCrucible'', a play that compared the UAC's activities to the Salem Witch Trials, while Molly Kazan, Elia's wife, wrote ''The Egghead'', a play about a liberal intellectual who was blind to the great threat posed to America. After Elia made ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'', which features a sympathetically portrayed informer, Miller wrote ''Theatre/AViewFromTheBridge'', which portrays an informer negatively.

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* As has been well-documented by history, director Creator/EliaKazan and playwright Arthur Miller had a famous falling out over Kazan's decision to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Arthur Miller wrote ''Theatre/TheCrucible'', a play that compared the UAC's HUAC's activities to the Salem Witch Trials, while Molly Kazan, Elia's wife, wrote ''The Egghead'', a play about a liberal intellectual who was blind to the great threat posed to America. After Elia made ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'', which features a sympathetically portrayed informer, Miller wrote ''Theatre/AViewFromTheBridge'', which portrays an informer negatively.
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* The musical ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' features an extended TakeThat against New York's government: the delegate from New York spends the entire musical having to "abstain--courteously," because, as he finally explains, the members of the legislature "speak very fast and very loud and nobody pays any attention to anybody else with the result that nothing ever gets done." Like much of the rest of the play...TruthInTelevision. Even for the time period. (It's truly scary when you realize how much of ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' is all lifted directly from period documents (if somewhat out of context at times.)

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* The musical ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' features an extended TakeThat against New York's government: the delegate from New York spends the entire musical having to "abstain--courteously," because, as he finally explains, the members of the legislature "speak very fast and very loud and nobody pays any attention to anybody else with the result that nothing ever gets done." Like much of the rest of the play...TruthInTelevision. Even for the time period. (It's truly scary when you realize how much of ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' is all lifted directly from period documents (if documents, if somewhat out of context at times.)



* ''Theatre/TheTwentyFifthAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'' often uses its improv spots to take shots at current events, most notably Logainne's speech, often used for political criticism.

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* ''Theatre/TheTwentyFifthAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'' often uses its improv spots to take shots at current events, most notably Logainne's speech, often used for political criticism.criticism.
* In the 2010s revival of ''Theatre/MissSaigon'', the "[[VillainSong American Dream]]" song ends with the Engineer begging his backup dancers to come back because "[[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump We can make it great again!]]"
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* Since it's ''about'' theater:
-->'''Creator/AntonioBanderas''', being asked if he'll do a live-action 3-D movie after being in the animated 3-D movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} 4'': I've been doing 3-D for a long time. [[TakeThat It's called theater.]] It was invented 3,000 years ago. (Actually, theatre was invented [[OlderThanFeudalism 2,530 years ago,]] but he was close.)

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* As has been well-documented by history, director Creator/EliaKazan and playwright Arthur Miller had a famous falling out over Kazan's decision to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Arthur Miller wrote ''Theatre/TheCrucible'', a play that compared the UAC's activities to the Salem Witch Trials, while Molly Kazan, Elia's wife, wrote ''The Egghead'', a play about a liberal intellectual who was blind to the great threat posed to America. One of these plays is a classic. The other one is practically forgotten.
** On the other hand, Elia made ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'', which features a sympathetically portrayed informer. As a response to that, Miller wrote ''Theatre/AViewFromTheBridge'', which portrays an informer negatively.
* The famous Scottish anti-war play ''Black Watch'' includes a scene where the protagonists debate who will play them in the movies. One of them says that he doesn't mind, as long as it isn't [[Creator/JohnHurt that cunt from]] ''Film/TheElephantMan''. On the day after the play ran with said cunt in the audience, the producers received a card which said "[[SelfDeprecation Congratulations on an excellent performance of a very important play.]] [[Creator/JohnHurt That cunt in]] ''Film/TheElephantMan'' and his wife."

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* As has been well-documented by history, director Creator/EliaKazan and playwright Arthur Miller had a famous falling out over Kazan's decision to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Arthur Miller wrote ''Theatre/TheCrucible'', a play that compared the UAC's activities to the Salem Witch Trials, while Molly Kazan, Elia's wife, wrote ''The Egghead'', a play about a liberal intellectual who was blind to the great threat posed to America. One of these plays is a classic. The other one is practically forgotten.
** On the other hand,
After Elia made ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'', which features a sympathetically portrayed informer. As a response to that, informer, Miller wrote ''Theatre/AViewFromTheBridge'', which portrays an informer negatively.
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* The famous Scottish anti-war play ''Black Watch'' includes a scene where the protagonists debate who will play them in the movies. One of them says that he doesn't mind, as long as it isn't [[Creator/JohnHurt that "that cunt from]] ''Film/TheElephantMan''. from ''Film/TheElephantMan'' (Creator/JohnHurt). On the day after the play ran with said cunt Hurt in the audience, the producers received a card which said "[[SelfDeprecation Congratulations on an excellent performance of a very important play.]] [[Creator/JohnHurt That -That cunt in]] ''Film/TheElephantMan'' in The Elephant Man'' and his wife."
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* As has been well-documented by history, director Creator/EliaKazan and playwright Arthur Miller had a famous falling out over Kazan's decision to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Arthur Miller wrote ''Theatre/TheCrucible'', a play that compared the UAC's activities to the Salem Witch Trials, while Molly Kazan, Elia's wife, wrote ''The Egghead'', a play about a liberal intellectual who was blind to the great threat posed to America. One of these plays is a classic. The other one is practically forgotten.
** On the other hand, Elia made ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'', which features a sympathetically portrayed informer. As a response to that, Miller wrote ''Theatre/AViewFromTheBridge'', which portrays an informer negatively.
* The famous Scottish anti-war play ''Black Watch'' includes a scene where the protagonists debate who will play them in the movies. One of them says that he doesn't mind, as long as it isn't [[Creator/JohnHurt that cunt from]] ''Film/TheElephantMan''. On the day after the play ran with said cunt in the audience, the producers received a card which said "[[SelfDeprecation Congratulations on an excellent performance of a very important play.]] [[Creator/JohnHurt That cunt in]] ''Film/TheElephantMan'' and his wife."
* In the musical version of ''Merrily We Roll Along'', the protagonist is a musical theatre songwriter who in one scene says, "I saw ''Theatre/MyFairLady'' -- I sort of enjoyed it."
* The musical ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' features an extended TakeThat against New York's government: the delegate from New York spends the entire musical having to "abstain--courteously," because, as he finally explains, the members of the legislature "speak very fast and very loud and nobody pays any attention to anybody else with the result that nothing ever gets done." Like much of the rest of the play...TruthInTelevision. Even for the time period. (It's truly scary when you realize how much of ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' is all lifted directly from period documents (if somewhat out of context at times.)
* Occurred during the 2008 Tony Awards broadcast, when the winner for Best Play, in his acceptance speech, thanked the producers for funding "an ''American'' show with ''theater'' actors!" This would have been much less remarkable had his award not [[BitingTheHandHumor been presented to him by]] [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341743/ Richard Griffiths]] and [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0705356/ Daniel Radcliffe.]]
* The lyrics to "You're The Top", a song by Cole Porter from the musical ''Theatre/AnythingGoes'', contains the following jab at the Republican party of the 1930s:
-->"I'm the nominee of the G.O.P., or "Gop,"\\
But if baby, I'm the bottom, you're the top!"
* "Everyone's a little bit racist" From ''Theatre/AvenueQ'' is a TakeThat to [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad Political Correctness]].
** Also, a minor example during "Mix Tape":
-->'''Kate''': I loved ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}''!
-->'''Princeton''': It was all right...
** Also, during the 2004 Presidential debate they mentioned that they would need to end the debate soon because there was going to be "A Vice Presidential debate held by Red Lobster"
** In An interview, Princeton implied that [[Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Sarah Brightman]] sings like a goose. [[spoiler: She does.]]
** "George Bush is only for now!" Now updates every other show.
* Since it's ''about'' theater:
-->'''Creator/AntonioBanderas''', being asked if he'll do a live-action 3-D movie after being in the animated 3-D movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} 4'': I've been doing 3-D for a long time. [[TakeThat It's called theater.]] It was invented 3,000 years ago. (Actually, theatre was invented [[OlderThanFeudalism 2,530 years ago,]] but he was close.)
* In ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica'', when [[spoiler: Joe hits Louis]], he compares it to a love scene from an Creator/AynRand [[Literature/TheFountainhead novel]].
* In a book of Christian plays, one vignette set in a supermarket has an employee announce via loudspeaker that an event featuring (a man in a costume of) Pikachu has just concluded. The plot is immediately derailed for a few seconds so one of the characters can deliver what is, to all appearances, an AuthorTract about how Franchise/{{Pokemon}} should be "banished to the island of annoying toys".
* In ''Theatre/ShrekTheMusical'', Gingy receives one:
-->'''Gingy:''' It's time we do what we should've done a long time ago.\\
'''Gnome:''' Stop mailing all those sweet but slightly threatening fanletters to Disney/TheLittleMermaid?
* ''Theatre/SomethingRotten!'' mocks the musical genre as a whole in the song "A Musical", where Nick Bottom learns about theater of the future, doubling as SelfDeprecation (though it also mocks other theater genres, specifically tragedy and drama, and Greek mythology where [[Theatre/OedipusRex "a mother has sex]] [[OedipusComplex with her son"]]). It does get in more specific digs, such as when Nostradamus begins singing about opera:
-->'''Nostadamus:''' And it's supposed to create a dramatic effect, but mostly you just sit there asking yourself, "Why aren't they talking?"\\
'''Nick:''' Sounds miserable.\\
'''Nostadamus:''' I believe it's pronounced... [[Theatre/LesMiserables Misérable!]]
* ''Theatre/TheTwentyFifthAnnualPutnamCountySpellingBee'' often uses its improv spots to take shots at current events, most notably Logainne's speech, often used for political criticism.

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