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    Advertising 
  • The late Billy Mays had a rather... unfavorable view of fellow TV commercial pitcher Vince Offer, who is best known for his advertisement for ShamWow!, a product suspiciously similar to Zorbeez, a product Billy promoted. One of his 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 Limp Bizkit. Lead singer Fred Durst appears in the ad, proving he's a good sport.

    Animation 
  • Boonie Bears: In the first episode, when Logger Vick sees Bramble for the first time, he shelters in his car and tells the bear that he's got a Justin Bieber CD and he isn't afraid to use it to defend himself. It's implicated he probably intends to subject the bear to his music to annoy him.
  • Happy Heroes:
    • The first two episodes (a two-part pilot) have title cards depicting Happy S. beating up robots dressed like Batman, Superman, and Spider-Man 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 Garfield, Hello Kitty, and Doraemon.
  • North Korea's educational anti-American propaganda animation Pencil Cannonball (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... You can see it yourself.

    Art 
  • Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe: The whole piece is Manet's artistic middle finger to the Salon, a long-running annual French exhibition that defined art at the time by virtue of "If the Salon rejects it, it's not art". The painting tightly follows all of the technical aspects of the style that the Salon endorsed, while blatantly mocking the Strictly Formula themes and subjects the juries traditionally favored, and parodying the quirks of pieces venerated as flawless.
  • Marriage A-la-Mode: Monsieur de la Pillule, the French quack barber-surgeon whom the Viscount visits in The Inspection to discuss the case of syphilis for which the young girl he has brought along is being treated, is a dual attack on contemporary doctor Richard Rock and Hogarth's perception that French medical knowledge left a lot to be desired.note  The bizarre contraptions on the right-hand side of the painting are M. de la Pillule's own inventions and are intended to re-set dislocated shoulders and remove corks from wine bottles, and the documents next to them identify them as having been inspected and approved by the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris.
  • The Seven Deadly Sins (Dix): Envy, the cross-eyed toddler riding on the back of a decrepit old woman representing Greed, is deliberately based on Adolf Hitler. The trimmed, square mustache is the major indication of this.
  • The art collective ArtvWar produces pieces that resemble another organization's work, but then modify it to bring that organization's perceived problems to light. For example, during the first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic, MTA put out various public service announcements encouraging riders to wear masks. However, two years later in 2022, they walked back on this policy, not only stating that "Wearing a mask is encouraged, but optional," but also telling riders to "respect each other's choices" to choose to wear a mask or not. ArtvWar then produced and distributed mock flyers stating that paying the fare is "encouraged, but optional," followed by a similar piece about urinating and defecating in the train.

    Radio 
  • Adventures in Odyssey:
    • SpongeBob SquarePants (and shows like it) got hit hard in one episode. Local teen Connie Kendall wants to pitch an idea to a TV station (it's a Thomas the Tank Engine Captain Ersatz), but first we see what a guy named "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 Cartoon Network.) A bit of irony in that SpongeBob did become a Ren and Stimpy-style grossout show after the movie. But then again, Focus On The Family isn't on very good terms with Nickelodeon...
  • Bob & Ray:
    • Showing an uncharacteristically pointy side, the radio comedy team reacted to New York Magazine 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 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 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.
      Keith: "Tucker?!? NOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
    • Olbermann's impression of Rush Limbaugh (often heard during the Worst Persons segment) also owes a lot to the Bob & Ray character, particularly the slurping noises.
  • Journey into Space:
    • In The World in Peril, after learning of the Martians' plan to hypnotise humanity through a television broadcast, Lemmy remarks that they will slaves of the television. 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 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.
  • Lo Zoo Di 105: Unlike other shows, this one is not afraid of giving away these like candies.
  • The Goon Show, in its Nineteen Eighty-Four parody, had the owner of an antique shop proclaim that the cricket bat under discussion was used in the very last cricket Test match by Len Hutton...then says, "As you can see, it's quite unmarked," implying that Hutton hadn't actually hit anything with it.

    Roleplay 
  • In Darwin's Soldiers, Aisha makes a rather unsubtle jab at Paris Hilton
    Aisha: "Look at Paris Hilton, or better yet, don't. Famous for being famous, not because she has anything approaching talent."
  • Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues:
    • Crispin's novel is an example of Stylistic Suck, with multiple characters talking about how bad it is. However, Zia still thinks it's better than Countdown.
    • Ziz buys a Nintendo Switch 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 We Are Our Avatars, there was several toward The Twilight Saga; one notable one is that "Edward" is an insult among Vampires.
    • Even more to Sonichu, to the point where Chris-chan occasionally appears, often doing horrid things. Even Bernkastel hated her....
    • In addition, One More Day is occasionally jabbed at.
    • Mega Man, Duo, and Bass occasionally throw insults at Mega Man 8, citing the story as a poorly written, annoying, cheap cash in.
    • Lip and Osaka (both Midna's characters) throw a Take That at in-thread advertising at one point.
    • Charles Roberts having two IC MSTs and two of the Avatars note  coming and forcefeeding his computer down his throat.

    Web Original 
  • The WWWF has made quite a few in their time.
    • They really have a thing for Al Gore:
      • In "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 "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 "AOL vs. Al Gore", Hotbranch has a My God, What Have I Done? moment when he realizes he has to choose between AOL and Al Gore to fight CI Host for him.
    • In "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 "Voyager vs. Battlestar Galactica", The two spend much of the time arguing over which show has worse writers.
    • In "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." The match would later get a quasi-sequel in "Scrappy-Doo vs. Jar-Jar Binks", the opening of which similarly describes the two fighters as "two of the most annoying, hated characters in the universe"]].
    • In "Ebenezer Scrooge vs. The Grinch", There are very frequent mentions of how everyone wants to see Elmo gut-shot.
    • In "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 "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 "Dr. Laura vs. Dr. Evil", Brian argues that Dr. Laura will win because, unlike Dr. Evil, she has generally succeeded in her evil plans.
    • "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 Leonardo DiCaprio which went horribly, horribly wrong, mention of the "obviously homosexual [Justin] Timberlake", and the argument that "[The Backstreet Boys] can't be motivated by pride, or they would never have released any of the songs they did."
    • In "Tournament of Champions VI", one of the crimes for which Mad Max has been sentenced to death is "furthering Tina Turner's career".
    • In "The Muppet Show vs. Sesame Street", Paul argues that the Sesame Street crew will have the advantage of not needing to worry about turning off viewers with their violence "since they are on PBS where having no audience for your program is not the least bit unusual".
  • What did The Oatmeal do after being threatened with a lawsuit by FunnyJunk demanding $20,000 in "damages" after calling them out for stealing his content, cutting off the signatures, and hosting it on their site? He 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.
  • Guardian Acorn has a few:
    • “Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, otherwise known as ‘the reason why Super Mario 3D All Stars looks so half-assed…’”
    • From her You and Me and Her review “For the most part, you can generally tell a game will be kinda fucked up in some way if the Nitro Plus is visible on it, similarly to how one can tell that a game will have anime tiddies and cryptic ending requirements if an Idea Factory logo is present, or that a game will be a microtransaction infested shit pile if it has an Electronic Arts logo on it.”
    • “but there is a clear difference between Meltys Quest and the ones I liked. The difference is that just about every man in Meltys Quest, with a few exceptions, is uglier than Donald Trump’s hair.”
    • Also from Meltys Quest “So yes, it’s not exactly rape induced conversion therapy so it’s still better than Ladykiller in a Bind, but it’s pretty fucking close.”
    • Again, from Meltys Quest “It is nice to see an indie eroge RPG localized with legitimate effort when you have sixty seven assembly line “translations” that I’m convinced were created by copy pasting the entire Japanese script into Google translate, then pasting the transcribed English script into Russian, then back into Japanese, only they instead accidentally selected Javanese, then back into English, and the finishing touches are made by cutting out each individual word of said script, hanging them up on the wall, and having monkeys throw lawn darts at them. Then again, I’m convinced that the resulting script would still turn out better than anything localized by Sakura Game.”
  • Not Always Right frequently targets The Twilight Saga 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.
  • Net Price is Right, a website that hosted an online version of The Price Is Right, had a plug for a mock Home Game. On the box, there was a blurb with the following text: "Because the Endless edition blows!"
  • Syera of Springhole often cites specific works as examples of bad writing.
    • Syera often uses Bella Swan as an example of how not to do something.
    • In an article complaining about badly-written stories with dragons, Syera calls Eragon a "gibbering monster".
    • In the article on how to write dark stories, settings, and characters, Syera advises against doing this regarding Lighter and Softer works, as this will make a bad impression among those who actually like this kind of works, making the work doing the mocking look petty.
    • In a post on villains, the Luciferians from Left Behind are given as an example of villains without sensible motivations, and it says of the authors "Don't be these guys."
  • Trope Names that are Take Thats:
  • Amiright and Whatfreaks seem to both be Take Thats to music in general.
  • In 2020, some 4chan users made a CYOA◊ mocking Reddit and its userbase. Later that year, some Redditors clapped back by making another CYOA◊ mocking 4chan and its users.
  • Wikipedia itself sometimes manages to sneak these in; for example, the page for Deus ex Machina once had a "See Also" section that points you to Breaking Dawn...
  • TFWiki.net tends to throw these at the elitist fandom, being that it's not a Wiki restricted by Serious Business, you can see how, they basically named the Ruined FOREVER Trope, and even 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 Wolverine describes him as "A completely unlikable asshole".
    • Their Original Page on Dan DiDio called him Satan. Now he's just called Dr. Phil.
    • 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.
  • Rational Wiki, being what it is, will very frequently take pot shots at various crank beliefs. Almost every article about a pseudoscience is a Take That!. Also, everything they say about Conservapedia, with the exception of a few Sincerity Mode articles dedicated to seriously and earnestly proving that Conservapedia is a huge fraud.
    • Currently, their article about This Wiki claims that we jumped the shark after the changes that include giving YMMV its own section.
  • The South Sydney Rugby League team's theme song lists all the teams Souths have beaten in grand finals.
  • This is Snappy◊, the mascot of HostGator, the second host of the Furry Basketball Association and the first host of furrybasketball.com;note  This is the mascot of Anubian Host◊, where the site is now. 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.
  • The Avocado, a site created by AV Club fans, has every year the Peely Awards for the worst in pop culture. The Take Thats range from the categories (at times there are ones dedicated to a single work, like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016, Ready Player One in 2018, Cyberpunk 2077 in 2020 and The Promised Neverland in 2021), the category names ("The Sam Worthington Award For Blandest White Male Protagonist") and a few nominees, which might even win (the "Dumbest Villain of 2017" was a real person, Sebastian Gorka).

    Web Videos 
  • ExoParadigmGamer:
    • Several reviews have had him criticizing certain antics from Egoraptor, in particular verbally assaulting a cartoon representation of Skyward Sword in a Sequelitis video, and deliberately triggering glitches in his Sonic Adventure DX Game Grumps videos.
    • After his Klonoa marathon, Moonlight Museum is his go-to example of a bad video game soundtrack.
  • French youtuber LinksTheSun:
  • It's to be expected in a show like The Angry Video Game Nerd that lampoons bad video games, but he also takes a few shots at George Lucas and the much-maligned Star Wars Special Editions. Before revisiting some of his older reviews he felt weren't complete, he claims he's going to clean up the original videos and add flashy new effects like a shockwave when he blows up the TV, and editing a gun into Jason Voorhees' hand so he can shoot first.
  • Bum Reviews: Chester mentions that he once sold a burger recipe to McDonald's, but it was too disgusting for them. What did they do? They sold the rights to White Castle!
  • Console Wars:
    • In the Kirby's Avalanche Vs. Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine episode, Greg calls Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog (the show Mean Bean Machine is based on) "The bad Sonic cartoon everyone's trying to forget", and wishes the game were based on Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), which he calls "The good Sonic cartoon".
    • In the The Lost Vikings 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 Electronic Arts), which he throws into a trash can.
    • In the Super Scope Vs. Menacer episode, Pat says of Yoshi's Safari, "It's definitely better than Sonic with a gun".
    • In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters 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 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, but was changed because TMNT III sucked. He even shows the thumbnails from YouTube videos of negative reviews of the film, including The Angry Video Game Nerd's.
    • At the beginning of the Batman Forever 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 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 "Did I do that?", "You got it, Dude!", and that weird Tim Allen noise.
    • In the Aaahh!!! Real Monsters episode, Dan says that the postlady in the post office level screams while the postman grunts in the Genesis version, while it's the other way around in the SNES version. Upon hearing this, Pat says that Dan can't just throw gender roles around, especially since it's 2022, as he's going to get their show cancelled. Dan assures Pat that the Cancel Culture never overreacts to anything, but then the Cancel Culture starts a "Cancel Console Wars" page on the CNN Politics website.
  • Climate Town: In a blink and you'll miss it shot conservatives are depicted with a shot of a smirking Palpatine in "2 Minutes Of Fact-Checkable Climate Change Facts For Skeptics".
  • Jimquisition throws shade over many aspects of the video game industry and community, including:
  • The Game Grumps review of Mickey Mousecapade is one massive take that at video-game reviewers who try to emulate The Angry Video Game Nerd's style. Arin spends the entire episode doing a hilariously bad imitation of the nerd while Danny spends the entire episode laughing his ass off.
  • Speaking of, The Angry Video Game Nerd takes a shot at gamers who use emulators with save states to beat games in his review of Star Wars games, likening it to cheating and one-upping them by inventing the "Beat-A-Game Button", a button that effortlessly beats the game for you when pressed.
  • Hellsing Ultimate Abridged:
    • It takes a heart pot-shot at 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, I was a chick in the 40s, 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 Sonic the Hedgehog Rule 34 and the Furry Fandom, courtesy of Zorin's disgust with having to use an illusion of the titular mascot with a foot-long erection to create the opening she needed.
    • Two more are loaded into the chamber for the hatedoms of Teen Titans Go! and, ironically, The Twilight Saga; in the latter case, Alucard points out that hating a book series written for "horny teenage girls" "was ridiculous then, and it's ridiculous now".
  • The French-Canadian series 2 Minutes du Peuple has a long-standing Running Gag 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".
  • Achievement Hunter:
    • An example of this trope and Take That, Audience!: One episode of the VS. series seemed to play up the idea that Ray and Michael were going to have them play Pokémon Black and White, 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 Take That, Audience! for those who wanted them to play the game for so long.
    • A later episode did it again, this time involving Donkey Kong Jenga.
  • SuperMarioLogan:
    • From "Black Yoshi's Job'':
      Announcer: Call of Duty fans, go pre-order the new Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare! 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 Villain Decay, 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 the "I Love You" song.
    • In "Luigi's Mansion Part 5", there's even one to Logan's haters. They're shown, along with George W. Bush and others, as some of the worst people on Earth.
    • "Chef Pee Pee Gets Sick!" and "Bowser Junior's Playtime 3" feature take thats to The Good Dinosaur for being short, its nonsensical plot, and not living up to the same standards as Pixar's previous film, Inside Out.
    • In "Cody's Revenge!", when Bowser threatens to send Junior to Military School, one of the punishments the Brooklyn Guy says he's going to give to Junior is to make him watch Big Hero 6. Junior says that Big Hero 6 is the worst animated feature since Cars 2, 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.
  • 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 The Fast and the Furious 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 kills, the sins counter.
    • The narrator takes a moment out of Pete's Dragon (1977) to chew out Chris (who forced him to review it), which gets abruptly edited out to keep things on track.
    • Most production companies like Sony or DC Comics 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 themselves they (while showing the tweets) point out that they've pissed off Rian Johnson and Damon Lindelof, but that Dane Cook and Kevin Smith are "on their side". Then count this as a sin.
  • In the 2010 Liege-Bastonge-Liege episode of How The Race Was Won, 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 Sword Art Online Abridged episode that covers the finale of the Aincrad arc. Kirito asks the Big Bad, Kayaba Akihiko, exactly what his motives for turning Sword Art Online into a Deadly Game was. Kayaba answers that 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, pointing out how completely unsatisfying it would be if that had actually been the real answer. He also blames Bethesda for causing the game to be Christmas Rushed regardless of potential glitches, including the one that caused the Deadly Game 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] It's like writing horoscopes.
  • Randy Rainbow makes Song Parodies and spoof interviews that mock Donald Trump and his allies.
  • Pretty much every parody song Bart Baker 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 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 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 Jenna Marbles.
  • 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.
  • TB Skyen, while playing Dark Souls, found himself besieged by a swarm of baby skeletons that caused Toxic buildup...at which point he compared them to League of Legends players. (Also something of a Self-Deprecation moment given that Skyen is also a LOL player.)
  • Pikasprey's "How To Become A Sonic Fan" video is a mockery of the Sonic the Hedgehog fandom.
  • The Weather: A good chunk of the Ouija Board sketch in "Spooky Fog" is dedicated to the characters joking about and making fun of Donald Trump. The cast is, of course, not his biggest fan.
  • The Hydraulic Press Channel:
    • They devote an entire video to mocking all those surreal, impractical, and obnoxious Clickbait 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.
    • Another video has him claim the temperature of the metal he crushed is still hotter than "your typical red-hot knife" and then dismissively saying "but we don't do that shit here."
    • They do it again on Beyond The Press with the White Hot Tungsten Cube. If the name alone isn't obvious who they're dunking on, Lauri outright says it when describing how Tungsten's two main uses are being very heavy and having an insanely high melting point:
      Lauri: The not melting part allows us to heat this up MUCH hotter than anything else on Youtube, all the knives and nickel balls are (waves hand really dismissively) really cold compared to this one. Anni, what are you doing?!
      Anni: [using the exact same torch from RHNB] Heating!
      Lauri: [brandishing a massive industrial acetylene torch] We are NOT using that shit on this channel!!!
  • A lot of the jokes in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Game - The Movie are done to mock 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 Classy Cane-weapon, the fact that Jekyll gravitates into the explosions instead of away from and so on.
  • 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.
  • Man on the Internet presents... Underfell the Musical. It's basically an abridged retelling of 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. Underswap the Musical mocks the premise of Underswap by pointing out that the positions of the characters are lazily reversed, and Is That Disbelief Papyrus? mocks the idea of Disbelief Papyrus, commenting that the AU is "grossly out of character".
  • Code MENT loves this trope like C.C. loves pizza. Every few episodes, anytime a certain form of media is mentioned, the jabs will either be subtle or outright thrown in the open.
    • The first episode has Nagata telling the Britannian forces not to shoot, saying he and Kallen have the whole cast of Two and a Half Men in the truck. They shoot anyway, but stop when Jeremiah tells them they might hit Charlie Sheen... then continue to shoot.
    • Later, when Kallen confronts Lelouch over being the owner of the voice she heard on the radio, Lelouch tries to throw her off by saying he was watching the funny episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond, only to internally remind himself that no such episode exists.
    • When Jeremiah reveals that they intend to use Suzaku as a scapecoat for Clovis' murder, he mentions that his team kill record is greater than the amount of good movies Michael Cera was in. Viletta asked if it was none, and Jeremiah, while complimenting her burn, corrects her by stating it was one and a half.
    • When introducing himself as One, Lelouch originally tried to pass himself off as Adam West, which Kallen disapproves. He then names himself after numbers, which Kallen suggests he goes lower. When he gets to Colin Farrell, Kallen replies with "not that low!''
    • In this series, Jeremiah is imprisoned for attempting to kill Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer (again). Guilford, who arrived to bail him out, admits he would've done the same thing.
    • Apparently, Megas XLR was cancelled just so Cornelia could broadcast the Shinjuku Massacre, much to Diethard's discontent.
    • Windows 7 is responsible for the technical failures that occur.
    • Lelouch, trying to hide the fact that he can't read, tries to think of something to say to Suzaku to hide that fact. He tells him that he's reading the whole script of The Phantom Menace, which he remarks as the opposite of clever.
    • Before heading to Shatter Mountain, Lelouch (as One) hands Kallen a flash drive containing all of the best Owl City songs. Kallen tells him that it's only one megabyte big... before realizing what One was getting at.
  • Caddicarus made an entire video making fun of Gaming in the Clinton Years for, among other things, arbitrary ratings, nonsensical comments(saying that Lara Croft should get breast cancer in Tomb Raider III) and the fact that George Wood often can't complete games without cheating... but insists that GITCY is still better than IGN.
  • Internet Historian:
    • On the whole, he has a very low opinion of online petitions. Every time there is a drama incident online, he will without fail point out "as always, an online petition is started and goes nowhere."
    • At the beginning of "Going Camping At The End Of The World" he launches into a flowery speech about how the end is nigh and the believers will ascend to heaven while the impure will be condemned to hell. He shows a picture of Minecraft YouTubers as his example of the impure.
    • At the end of his Tales From The Varus video, he spontaneously thanks Neil Druckmann for "the worst sequel since World War II."
  • Schaffrillas Productions: In the YTP "Chowder's Knishmas Catastrophe", Chowder asks Mung why a holiday like Knishmas only exists to make people feel like garbage. While he says this, an image of a Valentine's Day card slowly appears on the screen.
  • Solid jj: The description of "The Injustice League" says Evil Flash is played by Ezra Miller, who was involved in multiple cases of disorderly conduct and child molestation cases.
  • Honest Trailers: The episode on Godfall describes the game as "another nice-looking launch title you buy because nothing else is out, then immediately regret", just like Kameo: Elements of Power (Xbox 360), Azurik: Rise of Perathia (Xbox), Resistance: Fall of Man (PlayStation 3), and Knack (PlayStation 4).
  • VA Reviews: The series takes no prisoners in jabbing at various stuff, be it at various people, moments in gaming and entertainment, etc.
  • The video from Sameer Bhavnani, "Gold Digger STAYS WITH Broke Boyfriend, Then Regrets Her Decision," is based on the aformentioned gold digger being influenced by a Kharman video. Though Sameer at the end claims that this wasn't this trope but a deconstruction of "Gold Digger regretting abandoning broke boyfriend who becomes rich" stories that are among Dhar Mann's better known videos. It doesn't help that "Kharman" is a parody of Dhar Mann himself, right down to his catchphrase.
  • Pokémon Legends Neo: Ghetsis: When Lockstin talks about how challenging it was to make a concept for a Pokémon game that's Darker and Edgier without it veering into being too edgy, a clip from Shadow the Hedgehog plays. Lockstin briefly shudders in dread before moving 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.
  • Smosh: In the video "Every Burger King Ever", The Burger King himself is on Death Row, and upon being asked for his Last Meal, he requests a Big Mac, much to the surprise of the prison guard, who thought he would want a Whopper instead. The King quips that he wants to enjoy his last meal. He also asks for some Jack-In-the-Box tacos.
  • Welcome Back, Potter:
    • Stacey finds the idea asking an American Wizarding School for help to be ridiculous, Jarry and Don muttering under their breath about America's flawed education system.
    • Jarry manages to stall for time by giving Stacey a cell-phone, calling Siri "maddening."
    • Jarry and Don both acknowledge Don using Jersey Shore as a template for his American persona was a bad idea.
      Don: I deeply regret the way I sound and act, oh!
    • Don describes American Football as "like Quidditch, except the rules make sense." It's even acknowledged that both are barbaric because both games' players wind up with brain-damage.
  • Final Fantasy In A Nutshell:
    • The opening of the III parody opens with the announcer saying the game was the last to be localized for the west because of how bad it was.
    • Towards Gogo and Umaro about how useless they are as party members.
      Edgar: Right. We have our three teams of four. Let’s go get Kefka!
      Gogo: What about us?
      Edgar: Uh, stay up here and be useless?
      • Before that, during the skit in Mobliz, there was a graffiti on the ground reading "Umaro Sux!"
    • In VIII Squall calls out the absurdity of the party's forgotten origins, being no more than an Ass Pull.
      Squall: Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! Hold up! You're telling me we all just happened to be raised in the same orphanage, even those of us that came from completely different regions who just happened to join a team... by chance... INCLUDING the teacher and my nemesis? And we were raised by the same Sorceress we're all trying to defeat? And we all just happen to CONVENIENTLY forget this because we sometimes use summoned monsters... I mean... that's ridiculous in its own right... but it made us specifically forget what should be a HUGE part of our lives in particular! Huh... I mean... how does using a summoned monster even make you forget things anyway?
      Quistis: Okay, I get it. It's not as good as VI or VII. Just... just roll with it, okay?
    • In IX after Garnet does her Important Haircut, Zidane downplays it by saying that was a pointless thing to do and that it looks stupid to boot.
      • Also towards the sudden appearance of Necron.
        Necron: Hey.
        Zidane: Uh... hi...?
        Necron: So... we gonna like fight, or...
        Zidane: Uh... I’m sorry... uh... who are you?
        Necron: A poorly implemented final boss.
        Zidane: Aw man!
      • Amarant gets a particularly cutting one in that he doesn't even appear at all. Not as an Outcast like most of the forgotten parody characters, not even as a cardboard cutout like Penelo. The closest the series gets to acknowledging his existence is in the Outcasts Recap Episode...as a Something We Forgot joke that still doesn't mention him by name.
    • The VIII and X parodies take a jab at the XIII trilogy, joking that Lightning ruined the franchise.
    • The Dissidia parody takes several jabs at each game in the series, but II, III and VIII get the worst of it.
    • XII has theirs be that there's always a reason they can't just use an airship to get where they need to go, requiring the party to go on foot to pad out the game. For example, Balthier's airship can't fly over the desert or that flying to Archades is a death trap.
    • XIII gets it worse as a lawyer comes to tell Lightning that she’s being sued by the fans of the franchise for ruining the series to the point of being unsalvagable.
    • XV gets the brunt of how for all of its three years in Development Hell, everyone does the same hand fanning animation, that Aranea is a Punch-Clock Villain who has all the power to pulverize the party and leaves soon as her shift's over, the Empire took over Insomnia in hours and yet it's so easy for four teenagers to lay waste to them, and when Gentiana as Shiva does an Exposition Dump when Noctis paid full price for the game. There's also a lot of Show, Don't Tell scenes involving Gladio, Ignis, and Prompto unless you buy their respective DLC.
  • American Greed: James McGill: The episode lampoons the unfortunate tendency within the true crime genre to produce sensationalist documentaries of lies. While the basic facts are (mostly) correct, it still distorts reality by imposing a biased narrative onto Jimmy's motivations and actions and takes the statements of several Unreliable Narrators at face value.
  • MoBrosStudios:
    • The first three Enigmatic Mr Exit videos are a satire of Mr Enter's reviews, with the titular critic's name being based off a common nickname from Mr Enter's detractors.
    • Episode 0 is a Hazbin Hotel review which parodies Mr Enter's reviewing style and has a commercial for Flipping Houses (as a reference to the failed Growing Around IndieGogo campaign). Midway through the review, there is a time card which cuts to the review 20 minutes later, referencing how Mr Enter's later reviews were far longer than his earlier ones. His take on Hazbin Hotel going against Christian tradition going viral on social media also references Mr Enter's Turning Red review note  and the fallout that occurred because of it. The closing scene shows 2 posters referencing the 9/11 take and his 2020 antivax stances before comparing him to Arthur Fleck.
    • Episode 1 is a satire on Mr Enter's old Spongebob reviews in which he'd personally insult the writers and go into overblown rages about things he didn't like about the episode. It even has Mr Exit tell the writers to lock up their Twitter accounts, a reference to Mr Enter's first major controversynote  that he's long since apologized for.
    • Mr Exit's apology lampoons Mr Enter's tendency to make apologies whenever a bad decision of his blows up in his face while also referencing the climatic scene in Joker (2019) where Arthur Fleck kills his former idol Murray Franklin.
  • JAMIEvstheVOID sometimes dabbles in this on TikTok:
    • This TikTok calls out J. K. Rowling for failing to deliver on a promise she made on Twitter of marching alongside trans people if they were discriminated against.
    • Another TikTok pokes fun at UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for prioritising his transphobia over much more pressing political topics such as the cost-of-living crisis.

    Real Life 
  • Type the word "Santorum" into Google. Go on. Rick Santorum once stated that two men having sex was equivalent to "a man having sex with a dog". Dan Savage took issue with this and basically created the meme.
    • Dan Savage also tried to create a definition for "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 Barack Obama, who not only pointedly refused to attend the opening ceremonies, but also sent a delegation composed primarily of gay current and former US Olympiansnote  in his stead.
    • The Canadian Olympic team posted this on how "The games have always been a little gay".
  • Stewart Lee, the 41st 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 Big Brother 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 Martin Luther King saw racism in 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 Russell Brand saw racism in 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 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, 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 petition to stop him forever contains completely unwarranted attacks on directors Michael Bay, Eli Roth, and George Clooney. 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 investors were no longer interested, and he does not understand why.
  • Film critic Roger Ebert 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 The Brown Bunny 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 Winston Churchill: "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 Harsher in Hindsight 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 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 Million Dollar Baby, Ray, The Aviator, Sideways, and Finding Neverland. 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 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 Take That! has to be seen to be believed.
  • Archaeologists have found ancient Greek sling shots with "Take That!" written on them. This survived until at least after World War II 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 Edit War.
  • 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 Bill Bryson has made his birthplace a running Take That! 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 Mr. Ed apparently "wrote most of his own material".
  • The icon that a Mac uses to represent a PC on the network.◊
  • Most unsubtle and unwitty example ever: This video, which is the full match of the first clip you see in the infamous "MAHVEL BAYBEE!" video, manages to throw in a random "FUCK 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 Xbox 360 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 Nintendo GameCube 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 Nintendo Power. And speaking of Future, they own both MacLife and 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. 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 dienote , 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 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. 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.
  • [adult swim] often runs bumps that are derogatory towards its viewers. There also seems to be a long-running gag about the network's 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 Jewish poet and hymn writer Eleazar Kalliri, who lived in the Byzantine Empire in what is now modern Israel, wrote a hymn (still sung in some congregations on Shabbat Zakhor, shortly before 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.
  • Australian Rules Football:
    • This video of the West Coast Eagles team theme song includes the Eagles mascot giving cross-town rival the Fremantle Dockers' mascot 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 
    • 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 Seven Network 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 Toy Story 3 responded to fan reactions of the movie via Twitter. 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 saying how great NBC was. However, they knew how bad they were in the ratings and ended up making this parody to mock the network and its-then current owner.
  • In Rugby League 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

(CHORUS)

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 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 McDonald's is located, and says "WTF?". Previously, it said "Fried?" in place of "WTF?"
  • Microsoft had for two years an anti-Google campaign that even included selling this mug◊.
  • Voice actor D.C. Douglas 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 an (admittedly uncalled for) nasty voicemail, Douglas, having since become the beloved voice of Albert Wesker, posted this gem.
    "Don't drunk-dial Freedom Works."
  • If you're using an iOS device, summon Siri and say "OK Google"note :
    "I think you've got the wrong assistant, (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 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 went too far. In response, the December 7, 2015 edition had this as its cover cover.
  • "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 admittedly hilarious jab.
  • Early in the 2017 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: This story from Iowa's main newspaper, The Des Moines Register, flat-out invokes this trope.
  • The 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 Super Bowl, 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 The Emoji Movie... 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 Calvin stickers. Almost."
  • Dolphin, an emulator for the Nintendo Gamecube and Wii, publishes monthly progress reports on the website to keep people updated on new features and bugfixes, usually with very detailed, technical descriptions. The August 2016 report contained this:
    4.0-9207 - Fix Metroid: Other M 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 Esperanto soon afterwards. It survives in the Esperanto word "volapukaĵo", which means "gibberish".
  • Formula One
    • The 1993 season had Williams sponsored by Sega, who added their mascot Sonic the Hedgehog on a few places, such as himself atop the pilot's helmets and his feet on the side of the car. Rivals McLaren made sure to include a decal featuring a hedgehog being ran over on their car whenever they won a race.
    • The following season, concurrent to The World Cup, after Ireland beat Italy in the soccer pitch, the Irish owner of the Jordan GP team stamped on his cars Ireland 1-0 Italy◊. By the next race, Ireland had fallen on the Round of 16 while Italy moved onto the quarterfinals, so Italian team Minardi retaliated by stamping Italy In, Ireland Out◊.
  • Carrie Westcott had a boyfriend who did not want to have sex with her, yet was always caught with his pants down by her. So after the breakup and her becoming a Playmate, she sent him her Playboy with the attached note "you used to have the real thing and never wanted it, enjoy this for the rest of your life, motherfucker!"
  • The Ig Nobel Awards have two sorts of winners, outrageous researches "that cannot, or should not, be reproduced", and negative assessments of recent events, including giving Medical Education to seven world leaders "for using the COVID-19 Pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a more immediate effect on life and death than scientists and doctors can", Chemistry to Coca-Cola for contaminating their bottled water with a carcinogen, and Mathematics to the Zimbabwe Reserve Bank for teaching numbers by making bank notes ranging from one cent to one hundred trillion dollars (just see our page images on Worthless Currency and Ridiculous Exchange Rates!).

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