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Biting-the-Hand Humor
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Congratulations! As a creator who has originated a successful project, you've made it to the top of the Show Business heap, or maybe just the middle. And now that you're there, your bosses will treat you fair... right? Well... not necessarily. While you might be treated with respect (or even deference), it's luck of the draw. Chances are you'll still be subject to censorship, invoked Executive Meddling, and all sorts of ripoffs. And since you signed a contract, you have no choice but to suffer in silence and put up with it... ...but there's a way out. You can use your creativity to let the world know how you really feel. Better yet, you can make your protests part of the very work that's enriching your employers! They may be mad, but what can they do about it? Talk about Laser-Guided Karma! This trope is about the creator(s) of a work making jokes at the expense of the company funding that work. It can happen when an embittered creator, or one cynical of the morality of the entertainment industry, inserts into their work a thinly disguised slap to the face of the company that employs them, usually for unsatisfactory royalties or advance payments. In American television, the favorite target out of the Big Four Networks seems to be FOX, although all networks are Acceptable Targets at some point or another. NBC has seemed to encourage it since about 2006, right around when it became the Butt-Monkey of the four major networks - and also right around the time 30 Rock started getting a lot of mileage out of the non-stop mockery. A sister trope to Take That! and Writer Revolt. Related to Take That, Audience!. Often overlaps with Self-Deprecation (unless the author is even more correct than he believes about his employers being flawed). Remembering who wears the pants can combine this with End-of-Series Awareness. |
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In an in-universe example, in the essay-fic, Equestria: A History Revealed, the narrator directly belittles her professor who is currently marking her work, and curses at him a couple of times in-text. | |
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In one issue of Young Justice, Arrowette and Wonder Girl are complaining at length about Warner Bros. until one of them whispers something to the other. It's not explicit, but strongly implied that she had to be reminded not to make fun of the corporate parent of DC Comics. In another issue, in a scene also involving the two girls, Arrowette complains about how much she hates Internet service providers (ISPs) when their connection dies. Wonder Girl then nervously replies, "No you don't! You LOVE! ISPs! Especially the biggest one!" And to that end, Arrowette decides to shut up. At the time the comic was released, that "biggest one", America Online, had just completed a merger with Time Warner, the parent company of Warner Bros. and therefore DC, to form AOL Time Warner. | |
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In the first appearance of the Mickey Mouse villain the Phantom Blot, he removes his mask to reveal that he looks exactly like Walt Disney, only with a different style of mustache. This appearance, remarkably, has stuck ever since, so apparently uncle Walt could take the joke. | |
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Shortly before the WWF and the USWA entered into a talent sharing agreement in the early 90s USWA promoter Jerry Jarrett (Jeff's dad) warned his locker room that if they were on any steroids they better stop, because Vince wouldn't book anyone that couldn't pass a drug test. Dutch Mantel burst out laughing and replied "Hell Jerry, with the way you're paying us we're barely on food!" | |
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Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury, has slapped at his employer several times for making him submit strips six weeks in advance, with characters saying things along the lines of "even though the election happened last week, we don't know who won because this strip was submitted six weeks ago." | |
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Bill Waterson did this subtly a few times during his long fight to keep his syndicate from licensing Calvin and Hobbes, something that he did not want, unlike most cartoonists. For example, in one strip, the first panel has Calvin screaming, "I stand firm in my belief of what's right! I refuse to compromise my principles!" In the second panel, his angry mother is coming after him; in the last, he's in the bathtub, and says, "I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway." | |
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As an opening gag to one of the Garfield strip collections, the publisher ran a "headline" proclaiming "Jim Davis a Fraud!" The exposé "revealed" that Garfield himself had been drawing the strip from the beginning and allowing Davis to take all the credit. The accompanying illustration showed Garfield sitting at a desk and drawing a cartoon of Davis in the trademark Garfield style. | |
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In 1989, Sesame Street had a pledge-drive special called Sesame Street, Special that aired on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). At one point, Kermit interviews Oscar the Grouch to ask him why he likes public television, but Oscar doesn't like any of the PBS shows Kermit mentions. Giving up, Kermit starts to introduce the pledge break, which attracts Oscar's interest. | |
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In Maskerade, Terry Pratchett manages a dig at the publishing industry and the morality of book publishers by having Nanny Ogg bilked over a publishing deal, in which her payment for a best-seller is the usual gratis author's copy of the book and nothing else. Granny Weatherwax plays catch-up on her friend's behalf and demonstrates that a publisher's worst nightmare is a cheated witch. They leave the offices with an advance payment of five thousand dollars. | |
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Most of the jokes in The Order of the Stick, especially in the first 200 or so comics, are at the expense of Dungeons & Dragons or its publisher, Wizards of the Coast. Rich Burlew, the author, is a freelance game designer who mostly works for Wizards on D&D-related projects. An early strip based on Wizards' slightly bizarre copyright policy is actually titled Biting the Hand That Feeds Me. The OOTS strip in the last three issues of Dragon magazine had the Order discover the dragon from the cover of issue 1, whose subsequent career mirrored that of the magazine itself. The second of these strips was titled Claw/Claw/Bite The Hand That Feeds Me (that being how a dragon's mundane attacks are listed in the first two or three editions of the game). |
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Avengers Academy: Hazmat in issue #10: "Today's gonna suck as much as all the others... but just a little bit harder. Because it's One More Day... with no end in sight." In another issue, a couple of the kids Lean On The Fourth Wall and complain about how the latest Crisis Crossover involving the Avengers and X-Men has been dragging on for too damn long. |
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The OOTS strip in the last three issues of Dragon magazine had the Order discover the dragon from the cover of issue 1, whose subsequent career mirrored that of the magazine itself. The second of these strips was titled Claw/Claw/Bite The Hand That Feeds Me (that being how a dragon's mundane attacks are listed in the first two or three editions of the game). | |
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Lampshaded in issue #5 of the first She-Hulk ongoing, where She-Hulk and several neighbors get Trapped in TV Land. One of the shows they visit is a parody of Robocop The Animated Series, and the Tagalong Kid, who's seen the original movie, starts complaining about how wimpy the cartoon is, only for She-Hulk to slap a hand over his mouth. | |
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In the Uncle Scrooge story The Universal Solvent, Gyro demonstrates said solvent by showing it can eat through some of the most impervious substances in the world: lead, iron, steel - and a Disney contract. Don Rosa was not a happy camper. | |
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The first issue of the 2015 run of Howard the Duck had Howard going to Florida. Tara Tam thought they were going to Disney World, but Howard replies "Who'd want to see a bunch of pantless ducks?" Which not only is a swipe at Marvel's owner Disney, but an in joke to Howard wearing pants exactly because decades prior Marvel was threatened due to him being too similar to Donald... | |
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WWE itself has spent the past two decades greenlighting stories in which Chairman Vince McMahon and various other authority figures are bitterly criticized, mocked, and made to look like fools - usually with those authority figures' full complicity.note Though the fact that McMahon and the other authority figures never get their comeuppance in the end is probably the biggest factor in WWE's ratings decline over the last two decades. Even WWE has finally recognized this after the last evil McMahon angle was such ratings poison that there hasn't been a heel authority figure in WWE since, Stephanie McMahon retired entirely, and Triple H is now the booker and is always presented as a Face on TV This arguably reached its peak with the "pipebomb" of the summer of 2011, when CM Punk was made to appear to have gone off-script with his live TV rant, even though he really hadn't. | |
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Berkley Breathed, creator of Bloom County, loved this Trope: One arc had Milo having nightmares about being a syndicated cartoonist, where he was forced to draw cartoons in a dungeon where a sadistic editor-slash-torturer whipped and racked him for grammar mistakes and drawing cartoons that weren't funny. (As a Mythology Gag, Garry Trudeau - whose strip was on hiatus - was in the dungeon as well.) Also numerous highly-unflattering depictions of newspaper operators. The editor of the Bloom Picayune was offended that Milo would even consider bumping his Jack Kemp adultery rumor story to page two in order to cover an oncoming Alien Invasion. Breathed went so far as to introduce a character into to serve this purpose, W. A. Thornhump III, the fictional CEO of Bloom County Industries. Thornhump was a Corrupt Corporate Executive who represented not only the perceived hypocrisy of money-grubbing corporate America, but also the unreasonable demands of the cartoon syndicate bosses. One example of this hypocrisy occurs in a Sunday strip that showed the results of drug tests of employees of the cartoons and even Breathed himself, who Thornhump thinks should be executed because the drug test revealed that he ate "one marijuana brownie six years ago." Thornhump's own test reveals that he is a serious alcoholic (driven home when Opus appears with his six-martini lunch) but declares him to be "drug free." He also used whatever "gimmicks" he could put into the strip to make a quick buck or increase ratings, regardless of legal, moral, or ethical issues, even going so low as to schedule a field trip to the "Acme Stewardess Academy" during a "Nudeness Week" in the strip. |
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Sci-fi author Philip José Farmer, in his Riverworld series where all the Earth's population is resurrected into a wholly unexpected afterlife, has the character who is his Marty Stu in the book (legitimate, as we are all characters on the Riverworld) meet a publisher who once cheated him. Near-lethal vengeance is administered. The publisher is given the name Sharko. | |
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A mild example in PAW Patrol: The Movie: In the scene where the new headquarters is introduced, Ryder says they were able to get the money from sales of PAW Patrol merchandise, which he says is popular. As he says this, he holds a t-shirt with one of the common stock poses seen on merchandise packaging. | |
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In The Lion King (1994), Zazu starts to sing "It's A Small World" from the Disneyland ride of the same name. Scar freaks out and demands him to sing anything else but that. The stage musical uses "Be Our Guest". It doubles as a Mythology Gag, since "Be Our Guest" was from the first Disney animated film that became a musical and paved the way for Lion King to come on Broadway. When Beauty and the Beast closed, it got replaced with "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." In later runs, he sings "Let It Go" instead. | |
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Hazmat in issue #10: "Today's gonna suck as much as all the others... but just a little bit harder. Because it's One More Day... with no end in sight." | |
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In The Green Lantern: Blackstars, Earth in the universe where the Blackstars replaced the Lanterns is a rather barbed parody of some of the excesses of the then-recent DCU: Batman's villains have given up actual crime in favour of lining up to break him, as a result of which he gets replaced on a regular basis, but still insists he doesn't need help; Wonder Woman is a Blood Knight with zero interest in diplomacy; Superman ... is still Superman, but his discomfort with this world makes him come across as ineffectual and half-hearted; and the rest of the League has largely abandoned reality in favour of fighting Anthropomorphic Personifications in conceptual realms (yeah, Grant Morrison is making fun of that). Even the Batman Who Laughs and the Dark Multiverse get a more-extreme pastiche as the Depressoverse, home to the murderous cult-leader Batmanson. Morrison calls it "a celebrity roast of modern superhero comics". | |
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When Ed Brubaker did a two-issue story on Tom Strong, he produced a Deconstructive Parody of Miracleman, by Tom Strong's creator Alan Moore, arguing that Miracleman was not so much "realistic", as pointlessly nasty and depressing for the sake of it. | |
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Hitman (1993), which takes place in the DC Universe, was written by Garth Ennis, and as such it contains many rather unflattering portrayals of DC's superheroes, and by extension at the superhero genre as a whole. | |
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In the Gospel of John, when Philip asks Nathaniel to meet Jesus for the first time, Nathaniel cynically asks if anything good can come from Nazareth, but comes with Philip anyway. When Nathaniel arrives, Jesus says, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!"note Part of the joke here is that Jacob's name roughly means "one who is full of guile." Thus, Jesus is essentially sarcastically saying, "Finally, a descendant of Jacob who speaks the truth." | |
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Naked Came the Stranger is a hoax novel secretly written by a team of New York Times reporters, which doesn't stop the main character from fuming about a critic in the paper who called her radio show "pablum for breakfast." She even tries to get Morgan Advertising to stop sponsoring the Times. | |
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The LEGO Movie criticizes the Lego Company's themed sets several times, and the villain has minions called "micro-managers" and a device called the "think tank" (presumably both jabs at Executive Meddling). Well, his name is "Lord Business", after all. The "Think Tank" may also be a jab at Warner Bros. When Warner Bros. launched the Warner Animation Group in 2013, it was described as a "think tank for animated films." |
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A lot of joke fodder in Learning with Manga! FGO goes to complaining about the game's gacha mechanics, talking about useless or unwanted gameplay, and Riyo's personal pet peeve of the lack of skippable Noble Phantasms. It's even implied through Gudako that Riyo's rejected storyboards contain even more of this than usual. The English translation of More Learning with Manga! FGO Chapter 3 mocks Altria's name, a name insisted by Type-Moon to be the official spelling of her name, despite the team (and the fandom) preferring the name Artoria. Mash made a glanced comment, "We can't do anything about that." |
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The miniseries Ambush Bug: Year None mocks a lot of concepts prevalent in DC Comics titles at the time and features a plethora of jokes at the expense of DC Comics' then editor-in-chief Dan DiDio, chief among them being that DiDio is portrayed as a narcissistic supervillain who deludes himself into believing his decisions are good for DC and whose actions will eventually cause catastrophic ruin to the DC Universe if he isn't stopped. | |
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Barbie: A Fashion Fairytale: Sort of, in the overture scene. This movie was one of the first Barbie movies with modern setting and themes, and no inspiration from fairy tales anymore. Because, certainly, it was required from Mattel. Judging from Barbie's argument with the movie director, the writers were not too happy about it. Thus the obnoxious director distort the story of a fairy tale because of "fashionable" elements and refuse dialogue to the point of firing Barbie, while the latter tries in vain to calmly explain that the really cool tale is going to be lost. | |
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The preshow for the Incredicoaster has Violet joke about how it was rethemed from California Screamin': | |
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Doctor Who: The Completely Useless Encyclopedia is a spoof Universe Compendium published by Virgin. In the introduction, the writers make a Suspiciously Specific Denial that the book was written in the belief that Virgin will publish "any old crap with the programme's name on it". | |
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In the first Great Lakes Avengers, Squirrel Girl and Grasshopper appear in an offstage prologue. Grasshopper says "The only people reading comics now are overweight thirty-year-olds living in their mother's basement." Squirrel Girl's sidekick replies in an inset: "Hey, fanboys, don't take that lying down! Write angry letters to Marvel today!" | |
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A variation occurred in Pearls Before Swine: Stephan Pastis has often credited Dilbert creator Scott Adams with getting him into the syndicated cartooning world. That didn't stop him from making a storyline where Adams is portrayed as an Elvis caricature that ends up dying of a drug overdose in a toilet off-panel. Pastis has mocked his syndicate several times as well. To say nothing of the many In-Universe examples where Pastis' own characters (particularly Rat) have insulted him and the comic itself. |
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Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure: The guy King Kookoo says "Fire him!" to a caricature of Richard Williams. It was added when several of the animators got fed up with his seemingly hard direction. | |
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In Marvel Adventures: Avengers, Doc Samson's "Needs a wife" assessment of Spider-Man when the Avengers go in for therapy. | |
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New 52 Harley Quinn #8 features Dan DiDio suggesting a new DC relaunch, with all the heroes turned into antelopes and wildebeests by magic, which they'll call the Gnu 52. The DC offices promptly get hit with bags of pet poop catapulted from Harley's building. | |
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They've also created snarky warnings for Family Guy, which airs newer episodes following Disney's purchase of Fox: | |
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In Simon Braund's The Greatest Movies You'll Never See, it's suggested that this is the major obstacle against Frank Or Francis getting produced. | |
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Deadpool has been doing this almost since his inception - Issue 4# of his first ongoing had a character mention "that Onslaught thing", only for the Clue from Ed. to simply state... | |
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In Oh, Hello On Broadway, which was hosted at the Shubert Organization's Lyceum Theatre, Gil remarks that he thought they'd booked the Winter Garden Theatre. George replies, "Have you fucking tried dealing with the Shubert Organization?" | |
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