History LampshadeHanging / RealLife

* AdultSwim runs ''{{Bleach}}'' reruns for about a year before announcing new episodes for the next Saturday block. The following week, this commerical was run: "Yes, its starts back with a filler arc, but at least its not the Bounts."

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwfiNas-JlM This ad]] takes hanging lampshades on tropes used in typical car ads UpToEleven.

** "If your the 0.00000000001 of you who have never used a seatbelt before..."

* Recent Newcastle Brown Ale commercials give us a few black and white clips of miners from Newcastle, England, followed by the line "Because nothing sells beer like old footage of people who had it was worse than you do."

* The radio frequency of 94.5 in the Kanawha Valley area of West Virginia used to be a rock station, aptly named "Z-Rock 94.5". The billboards promoting the station would have the tagline "It's time to ROCK!" This past December (of 2009), it was changed to a talk radio station. The tagline on the billboards was changed to "It's time to... talk."

** [[SapphireAndSteel Steel?]]
*** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Steel's not an element.]]
**** [[ElementalPowers Metal is, though.]]
** Tip: [[GeniusBonus Check out the Periodic Table of Elements]].

* [[http://www.soxlamps.com/lampposts_sub.htm This site lampshades]] LampshadeHanging, causing [[{{Recursion}}]] to happen.

* RealRadioXS and Jack FM lampshade many, many radio cliches, with the voiceover artist attempting to be ManOfAThousandVoices

* [[PeoplesRepublicofTyranny China]] has the notorious "one-child" policy, which states that parents can only bear one child per family or face a loss of social benefits. This has shifted the birthrate towards the male side in China. This was lampshaded in a Chinese textbook published by the state with a discussion question saying "Imagine that in the future, you could only have one child. Would you like a boy or a girl?"

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKRSYAuSNg&NR=1&feature=fvwp The Heart Attack Grill]] of Chandler, AZ. In addition to offering nothing but super-fatty burgers and fries, the owner dresses as a doctor and has his waitresses dress as nurses to put the unhealthy nature of his food bluntly.

** Tip: Check out the Periodic Table of Elements
* The [[PeoplesRepublicofTyranny Chinese]] have the notorious "one-child" law, that stated that one could only bear one child or face a loss of social benefits. That has shifted the birthrate towards the male side in China. This was lampshaded in a Chinese textbook published by the state with a discussion question saying "Imagine that in the future, you could only have one child. Would you like a boy or a girl?"
* Our own site logo hangs a lampshade on lampshade hanging... Literally. And you didn't even notice until now, did you?
* Murphy's laws

** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint Steel?]]

* Our own site logo hangs a lampshade on lampshade hanging... Literally.
** Holy crap. I never noticed that.

* The [[PeoplesRepublicofTyranny Chinese]] have the notorious "one-child" law, that stated that one could only bear one child or face a loss of social benefits. That has shifted the birthrate towards the male side in China. This was lampshaded in a Chinese textbook published by the state with a discussion question saying "Imagine that in the future, you could only have one child. Would you like a boy or a girl?"

* The Lamborghini ''Sesto Elemento'' concept car was revealed in the 2010 Paris Motor Show. "Sesto Elemento" literally means "sixth element" in Italian. Guess what's the car's primary construction material? [[hottip:*:carbon fibre, in case you weren't a motorhead]]

[[CompletelyMissingThePoint Steel?]]