Take That / Web Animation

The following have their own pages:

• How It Should Have Ended
• Terrible Writing Advice

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• Arfenhouse took two potshots at the deluge of 8-Bit Theater ripoff animations that were popular on Newgrounds at the time; once in the Cold Open for Arfenhouse 2, then again as a standalone animation, 8-Bitch Fyve: Evil on the Attack.
• asdfmovie takes a shot at The Annoying Orange with a skit of a child with faces drawn on fruit repeating "Hey Apple!" and his dad coldly remarking "Well, we failed. Don't look, honey" while cocking a shotgun.
• The webtoon Bonus Stage is full of Take Thats, roughly on par with Family Guy, but its creator Matt Wilson really doesn't like his fanbase: he has levelled several Take Thats against Bonus Stage Fan Fiction, Fan Dumb and the fan wiki.
• DarkMatter2525:
  • In "Inappropriate For Children", the teacher receives complaints about reading Harry Potter to his students when he was really quoting passages of the Bible that mention dragons, witches and giants.
  • "Teach the Controversy" makes fun of the campaign of the same name, using the allegory of treating leprosy and giving the patient the option to choose between curing it with the modern scientific method (through a series of drugs that have been proven to work) and the biblical method (spilling the blood of a dead bird on a living one and sprinkling that blood on the afflicted).
  • "Proud American Scrotum" operates as a mocking Parody of Alex Jones and his broadcast Infowars.
  • "The Blame Game" operates as commentary on modern reaction culture, showing how various types of groups and people that react to a tragedy (in this case a public massacre at a shopping mall) in an attempt to politicize it, including news-networks, online bloggers, hipsters, SJWs (including a Straw Feminist), a redneck, various elderly people blaming video-games/movies/music/oil-paintings/stone-carvings, anti-secularists, racists,^note of both Caucasian and African-American ethnicity conspiracy theorists,^note Alex Jones especially a Straw Misogynist, pro and anti-gun control advocates and general new-watchers.
    Bystander: I just really need to know which group I can point my finger at. I hope it's a group I hate.
    Reporter: What if it's a demographic you belong to?
    Bystander: Well the, I really, really need to know so that I can hurry up and post that I don't condone the killings.
    Reporter: You think that'll be necessary?
    Bystander: Oh yeah. If I don't there'll be all kinds of assholes pointing their finger at me.
    • Everyone is unsure what to say when it turns out that a gray alien did it.
  • Both "If Muhammad Replaced Trump" and "If Muhammad Became the President" draw parallels between Donald Trump's alt right conservative talking points and that of fundamentalist Islamic ethics (with particular emphasis on how alt/far-leftists hate everything "Trump" says but suddenly love it when it's revealed to be Muhammad's ideas, and the precise opposite for the alt/far-right), with the former also taking jabs at the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton, the media and the far left and right voting base.
  • "God is Punishing Us!" mocks the claim that natural disasters like floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc are instigated by God for arbitrary, unrelated causes like saving "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas", legalizing same-sex marriage, putting up atheist billboards, etc.
  • "God Isn't Allowed In Schools" debunks the idea that school shootings occur because religion isn't forced onto school students.
  • The entirety of "The Alt Apostle" is meant to be a big one to modern day conservatives that claim that their politics are compatible with Jesus Christ's teachings, with Jesus espousing wisdom he says in the Bible while the titular Apostle heckles him with modern-day conservative values.
    Jesus: Do not be hypocritical when thee pray. Hypocrites love to pray out in public, and upon the Books of Face, and then pray with the invokedTags of Hash, so that they’ll be seen by others. Verily, I say onto thee, that is their reward in full. But when thou prayest, thou shall do it in private. Go into thy room, and close thy door when thy pray.^note Matthew 6:5-6
    Alt Apostle: Oh [the Alt Apostle does an exaggerated 360 degree spin from the waist up] so now we shalt not pray in public? This is how it starts, I say unto thee. If thou do not liketh the way I practice my religion, then thou can get the Hell out. [The Alt Apostle gets up in Jesus’s face, causing Jesus to lean back] Just go away if my prayer bothers thee so much. I'm praying for thee, Jesus [Alt Apostle leans in harder, causing Jesus to bend back at an impossible 90 degree angle.] right now. Do something about it. Right now. Didn’t think so. All of these problems in Jerusalem today are because we doth not institute public prayer at schools and sporting events and government meetings and now here thought telling people not to pray in public. Thou art helping cause the downfall of Middle-Eastern society. I hope thou knows that Jesus.
  • "That's Just How It Was Back Then" debunks the common argument that the Bible was written the way it was because of how people were back then.
  • "God's Political Compass" addresses people who use religion to fuel their political agendas.
  • "If God Exists Everything Is Permitted" addresses Christian Apologists who claim the killings in the Bible were justly motivated.
  • "The War on Christmas" mocks the very idea of the "War on Christmas" and the victim complex it gives American Conservative Christians.
  • "More Communist than the Communists" mocks anticommunist fundamentalist Christians who denounce the evils of Communist regimes, yet worship a deity whom they believe will torture most human beings for eternity because they believed the wrong things, and demand endless worship from those in Heaven (all much worse than what they denounced by Communist rulers).
• The credits sequence of Double Rainboom shows Rainbow Dash and Buttercup playing what appears to be a parody of My Little Pony: Fighting Is Magic. This can be seen as a Take That at the Mane 6 Dev Team: "Oh, your game got shut down for being too popular? Well, guess what: we did an animation and got away with it!"
• An Ebolaworld cartoon had Taco-Man beating up a dead hacker. At one point, he says, "And This Is for... Homestar Runner's popularity!". In his first e-mail, people accused him of ripping off Strong Bad e-mails. In another e-mail, people are given instructions on how to write to Taco-Man. One of the wrong ways to write his name was to write "Strong Bad". Taco-Man was actually referenced in a Homestar Runner Halloween cartoon.
• Enterprising Engines is a web series based on Thomas & Friends. One episode of the series, "James Goes on a Streak" is one to the Thomas Wood line that replaced the long-running and beloved Thomas Wooden Railway line, back when the Wood models were half-painted. James spends the episode half-painted (represented by his 2017 Wood model) and is not happy about it at all, eventually having a run-in with a nudist colony.
• A Flashgitzanimation video which mocks Games Workshop, for their overpriced miniatures and their over obsession to Space Marines.
• The Frollo Show:
  • It takes potshots at The Irate Gamer at every chance it can get. He winds up screwing things up on a regular basis, and eventually has his head bitten off by snake Jafar.
  • There's also a jab towards Two and a Half Men. After Gaston's death, the producers attempt to replace him with Ashton Kutcher as Frollo's sidekick. Frollo refuses and commits suicide.
  • Two of Hell's rules also adjust their crosshairs towards 9gag jokes and Soviet Russia jokes.
  • For the entire duration Lemongrab was in charge of the show, he calls several works as being "unacceptable" compared to other works that have been better received by most, which includes the Irate Gamer.
• generic purple protogen: "A Protogen's Epic Mobile Game Ad" mocks the absurdity of mobile game advertisements by intentionally being amateurishly "animated" in Paint (per the title), having the Protogen ask the player to fend off a bee from Minecraft, choosing the spaghetti which somehow successfully defeats it, and "prompting" the viewer to "download" Bee Spaghetti.
• Helluva Boss: In the episode "C.H.E.R.U.B.", when I.M.P exposes a Mall Santa as a creep to prove a point to their target and three cherubs, his shirt reads "#Cuties" on top of having an already unflattering design.
• Homestar Runner:
  • Strong Bad once received a Strong Bad Email asking if he ever played mini-golf. The sender signed his name as "Somebody no one cares about in Iowa". Strong Bad wittily remarks "Also known as, everyone in Iowa".
  • In "fan clubs", Strong Bad not only pokes fun at the Homestar Runner fandom, but goes on to claim that the worst word that can be paired up with "fan" is, of course, fiction, complete with an excerpt from a SBemail fanfic written by Strong Sad featuring a blatant self-insert character called "Twelve Times A Day Man": "You can't just start adding terrible new characters!"
  • In the email "rough copy" Homestar advertises his Malinko-brand (or possibly just Malinko-flavored) flavored water as "crystal clear like domestic beer". Aside from the inherent Homestarishness of the rhyme, this could also be a crack at mainstream American beers, specifically, the derision with which it's met by foreigners and snooty American beer enthusiasts.
  • The SBEmail "independent" pokes fun at both Le Film Artistique and then-contemporary "indie" movies like Juno and Synecdoche, New York.
  • "Comic Book Movie" (a bonus e-mail from one of the Strong Bad Email compilation DVDs) is a downright vitriolic jab at Adaptation Decay in superhero movies, especially inspired by the original trilogy from Fox's X-Men Film Series. Strong Bad mercilessly riffs on unsuitable casting choices, uninspired costumes, and abuse of cheap CGI as applied to a hypothetical movie about Strong Badman.
  • The SBEmail "parenting" takes jabs at parents who put a tablet in front of their kids to entertain them instead of properly raising them.
• If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device:
  • It contains numerous take that's aimed against the producers of Warhammer 40,000 for their retcons and some more questionable decisions.
  • Apart from that, slashfic writers of all people get their share of Emperor's hate in episode 17.
    Kitten: (...) my only desire is to serve you, my lord!
    Emperor: This can easily be skewed in all the wrong ways. It's a good thing that shitty slashfic writers aren't anywhere near here.
    Magnus: Don't jinx it...
• James Lee:
  • "Breaking up with Adobe" is James Lee literally yelling at Adobe for all of his problems with it (its bugs, its poorly received icon redesign, the price), only to stay with it anyway in a toxic relationship.
  • "A Life Without Facebook" shows just how predatory Facebook is, James Lee having developed an addiction to Facebook he tries and fails to break. It also shames Mark Zuckerberg, who sells everyone's personal data and then blames everyone else for thinking he could be trusted with it, thinking that the "free shit" Facebook gives them in return is a fair trade.
• Kurzgesagt:
  • Facebook's doppelgänger is Buttbook.
  • The remake of "Time: The History & Future of Everything" calls the Tide POD Challenge, which involves eating bleach pods, an "absolutely smart idea".
• Lucky Day Forever is one to the superficiality of Reality shows like American Idol because it depicts a future where the present-day glorification of the celebrity moron has been taken to society-destroying extremes.
• Manga-Waido:
  • A story where a girl is forced by her parents to marry an overweight, unattractive man in exchange for money to pay of their debt is titled "My toxic parents made me marry an ugly Discord mod but…"
• Minilife TV:
  • In "How to Cook a VAMPIRE!", Chris uses the Edward Cullen-esque vampire that Ian made as a prime example of how not to make a vampire.
  • In "Snowball's Encounter", Todd claims that he's helping his sister, Genevieve, get a job as a news reporter so she could help him get a new job and he could stop writing boring articles for Mega Blok Magazine^note Mega Bloks is a rival toy company to LEGO that's often considered the inferior brand.
  Jack: I subscribed to that magazine once, but when I got my first issue, the pages fell apart.
• The Misadventures of R2 and Miku has an episode devoted to Halloween and Predator that has a lot of these. It starts with R2 reacting to Miku referencing Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice with "Are you seriously quoting that horrible piece of--?!", then progresses to a few barbs at The Predator (which was in production at the time the video was released):
  Miku: Do you really think a bunch of "Marvel" jokes from the guy who ruined Iron Man are gonna save your franchise?!
  [later]
  R2: I'll be back, Miku Myers! With an overly expensive sequel that has nothing to do with the previous film!
• The titular character of Pokémon Ralphie is a jab at "genwunners", Pokémon fans who either don't know anything about more recent games or don't care and believe that everything after Generation 3 is inferior to everything prior.
• In Episode 54 of The Most Popular Girls in School:
  Blaine: Oh and also the ending to How I Met Your Mother! That was fucking bullshit! You know what I'm talking about!
• The Nekci Menij Show is ruthless with its Take Thats towards every female currently working in the pop music industry. Madonna, Christina Aguilera, and Katy Perry are thrown under the bus (literally in Katy's case) for their Shameless Self-Promotion; Jessie J is repeatedly insinuated to have broken her leg to boost album sales; Nicki Minaj is turned into an insane agent of chaos/rapper-for-hire; and Beyonce's ego is implied to be through the roof. Even relatively unknown acts are taken to task; Marina of Marina & the Diamonds has this to say about her music:
  Marina: Holywode and amaricon cultur is bad for us and menstram pop lyk Xtine is faek. Esept if its ironec lyk min.
• Plancy's World: The whole series is a Take That toward Dora the Explorer, complete with expies of the show's characters and parodied Fake Interactivity.
• In Power Star 4.5, to counter Mario's claim that he sucks, Luigi responds that it is Mario who sucks, and he specifically sucks almost as much as Superman 64 whilst holding said game in the air.
• An episode of Retarded Animal Babies had the characters go on to the Internet. They go by the site Happy Tree Friends, which one of the characters says, "All they do is copy us". A Halloween episode also had one of the characters dressed as Flippy.
• Red vs. Blue: Ever since its beginning, the series has been chock-full to the brim and beyond with Take Thats, especially in its PSA videos. One such case was
• In Shrapnel, Fortnite figures tend to be maimed or killed horribly whenever they appear, with a review by Cecilia of Jazzwares' Meowscles including a rapid-fire montage of said deaths.
• Stupid Kids:
  • When Bazsi sees the rats in the kitchen in Ahol a méreg sem segít (Where even poison does not help).
    Bazsi: There are more rats than artistic worth on YouTube!
  • The rats turn out to be products of animal tests because of the upcoming iPhone5 in Ahol a méreg sem segít (Where even poison does not help).
  • Tony Macflane announces people can sign up for Nova Talent with any songs except Because I Got High in És mind nekem tapsol (And they all clap for me).
  • Jigglypuff signs up for the Nova Talent and gets criticized for its "lame" attack move from Super Smash Bros. in És mind nekem tapsol (And they all clap for me).
  • DaniGamer001 is an entire "take that" towards the YouTube Minecraft Let's Play community; especially the Hungarians.
  • Facebook crashes and all the people who sold their souls to it become zombies in Boldogat és még boldogabbat (Merry and even more).
• The Super Pony Power Hour:
  • One bit shows a megaphone playing Ylvis' infamous "The Fox", only for it to get ripped out by adult Spike.
  • Another recreates a Freakazoid! bit with this: "The scariest thing in the world would be if they gave Sinbad another TV show!"
• Underpants: When the monsters see the surface, they see war, disasters, pollution, Donald Trump and the Undertale fandom.
• Word of God states that Wacky Game Jokez, 4 Kidz! is NOT intended to be Take That! towards video games — he likes them, in fact. It is a Take That! toward video game culture, however.
• The Welcome to... series is almost entirely made of Take Thats to certain people who use the sites discussed. In order:
  • DeviantArt mocks people who overuse Japanese terms, inflation artists, and shippers, among others.
  • Facebook mocks people who whine about their (very simple) problems on Facebook, along with people who take bad photos and don't admit it, people who friend people they barely know and refuse to unfriend anyone, and people who misuse the site in general.
  • YouTube mocks people who make comments about the like/dislike bar, comments that say "Thumbs up if [X] brought you here", users that upload certain types of videos, YouTube's design and copyright system, more specific people (i.e. the PONY.MOV series and PewDiePie), and other less important fandoms.
  • Twitter mocks the very concept of Twitter, pointing out that only 140 characters is dumb and insufficient on a social media website.
  • Tumblr mocks fandom itself, night bloggers, people who don't fact-check to see if important causes are real or not and social justice warriors.
  • FanFiction.Net mocks grammatical errors, Mary Sues/Gary Stues, plagiarism, self-insert fics, and Occidental Otaku types.
  • Kickstarter makes fun of how many projects are overhyped by their creators, overpriced backer pledges, Schedule Slip, the finished project not having all of the advertised features and people who cheat others out of their money. Many jabs are also taken towards Mighty No. 9 and how it was a massive disappointment.
  • Webcomics makes fun of the general unprofessionalism found within webcomics, lack of updates, inability to take criticism, bad art and unoriginal works.
• Zero Punctuation:
  • The video for July 2nd, 2008 is one enormous Take That at webcomics in general but Ctrl+Alt+Del in particular. Which seems sort of redundant considering he's already done a review of it.
  • He also had a not-too-terribly subtle jab at Gamespot in his video response to the SSBB fandom backlash, regarding their firing a reviewer for giving "Kane & Lynch" a bad score:
    "I do point every little thing that is bad about a game, but then, I'm a critic. It'd be weird if I didn't. If I put people's balls in my mouth for a living, I'd be a prostitute... or possibly a Gamespot employee."
  • His "review" of Duke Nukem Forever is essentially a Take That against the whole series and anyone who's still a fan of it. And especially the developers and producers.

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