History LampshadeHanging / RealLife

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwfiNas-JlM This Kia ad]] lampshades tropes used in typical car ads.
* 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 had the tagline "It's time to ROCK!" In December 2009, it was changed to a talk radio station. The tagline on the billboards was changed to "It's time to... talk."

* Creator/AdultSwim runs ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' reruns for about a year before announcing new episodes for the next Saturday block. The following week, this commercial was run: "Yes, it starts back with a filler arc, but at least its not the Bounts."
* The Lamborghini ''Sesto Elemento'' was revealed in the 2010 Paris Motor Show. "Sesto Elemento" means "sixth element" in Italian. Guess what's the car's primary construction material? [[note]]carbon fibre, in case you weren't a motorhead. A nerd would pretty much catch it quickly too. Carbon is number 6 at the Periodic Table of Elements.[[/note]]

* For pages about tropes, there will a folder section for ''Wiki/TVTropes'', lampshading how ''Wiki/TVTropes'' uses the trope explained on the page in some fashion. Very meta. Even more meta is the logo, though it could just be drunk.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVzKqhwh6No this]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRf35wCmzWw this]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIzaM1VdVP0 this]] are feminine product commercials by Kotex that make fun of traditional advertising techniques for pads and tampons.

* When the [[BigDamnHeroes Allies invaded Normandy]], AdolfHitler had taken a sleeping pill and was not to be awakened, full stop, new paragraph. A German general mused on how improbable the situation was.

* For pages about tropes, there will a folder section for ''Wiki/TVTropes'', lampshading how ''Wiki/TVTropes'' uses the trope explained on the page in some fashion. Very meta. Even more meta is the logo.

* The Lamborghini ''Sesto Elemento'' was revealed in the 2010 Paris Motor Show. "Sesto Elemento" means "sixth element" in Italian. Guess what's the car's primary construction material? [[note]]carbon fibre, in case you weren't a motorhead. A nerd could pretty much catch this one too. A nerd would pretty much catch it quickly too. Carbon is number 6 at the Periodic Table of Elements.[[/note]]

* The Lamborghini ''Sesto Elemento'' was revealed in the 2010 Paris Motor Show. "Sesto Elemento" means "sixth element" in Italian. Guess what's the car's primary construction material? [[note]]carbon fibre, in case you weren't a motorhead.
A nerd would pretty much catch it quickly too. Carbon is number 6 at the Periodic Table of Elements.[[/note]]

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

*** [[LampshadeHanging Although it did acknowledge the fact that, as a result of existing for a reason for which it didn't need to, it was being hypocritical,]] [[Irony so it doesn't matter, anyways.]]

*** [[LampshadeHanging Although it did acknowledge the fact that, as a result of existing for a reason for which it didn't need to, it was being hypocritical.]]

*** The fact that it relies upon that article that didn't need to exist, using a reason for existing for which it didn't need to exist itself, isn't so much hypocritical as situationally ironic because it lampshades the fact that it exists as well as the fact that, by doing so, it's being critical of a reason for which it didn't need to exist (which, as stated earlier, [[LampshadeHanging it acknowledges]]).

*** The fact that it relies upon that article that didn't need to exist, using a reason for existing for which it didn't need to exist itself, isn't so much hypocritical as situationally ironic because it lampshades the fact that it exists as well as the fact that, by doing so, it's being critical of a reason for which it didn't need to exist (which, as stated earlier, it acknowledges).

** In other words, "Why does this entry exist?" one may ask: to give an example through the fact it exists.

** Also see {{Recursion}}, which gives an example of itself through the fact it exists.

*** The fact that it relies upon that article that didn't need to exist, using a reason for existing for which it didn't need to exist itself isn't so much hypocritical as situationally ironic because it lampshades the fact that it exists as well as the fact that, by doing so, it criticizes a reason for which it didn't need to exist.
*** DontExplainTheJoke.

** As does the RecursiveIndexIndex, which is an index of recursive indices containing itself and the only other recursive index (that being the IndexIndex) that [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] its own reason for existing, which it wouldn't need to lampshade if there hadn't been a {{Recursion}} that didn't need to exist in the first place, which, [[{{Irony}} ironically, this entry exists to lampshade for no other purpose than to give an example of]] LampshadeHanging.

*** Anything that has meaning; for example, the thought or statement "I exist" or "this website enumerates literary devices"... so, any articulation, declaration, or indication of anything (meaning that the only thing that makes the LampshadeHanging described on this website noteworthy is its application inasmuch as establishing examples of tropes frequently used in literature).

*** Anything that has meaning; for example, the thought or statement "I exist" or "this website enumerates literary devices"... so, any articulation, declaration, or indication of anything (meaning that the only thing that makes the LampshadeHanging described on this website noteworthy its purpose to establish examples of tropes frequently used in literature).

*** Anything that has meaning; for example, the thought or statement "I exist" or "this website enumerates literary devices"... so, any articulation, declaration, or indication of anything (meaning that the only thing that makes the LampshadeHanging described on this website noteworthy its purpose to establish tropes frequently used in literature).

*** Anything that has meaning; for example, the thought or statement "I exist" or "this website enumerates literary devices"... so, any articulation, declaration, or indication of anything (meaning that the only thing that makes the LampshadeHanging described on this website noteworthy is their purpose as evincing tropes frequently used in literature).

*** Anything that has meaning; for example, the thought or statement "I exist" or "this website enumerates literary devices"... so, any articulation, declaration, or indication of anything (meaning that the only thing that makes the LampshadeHanging described on this website noteworthy is their purpose as frequent tropes in regards for literature).

*** Anything that has meaning; for example, the thought or statement "I exist" or "this website enumerates literary devices"... so, any articulation, declaration, or indication of anything.

* There is [[TitleDrop one]] [[SelfDemonstratingArticle hanging on the TVTropes]] [[CaptainObvious Logo]].

* There is [[TitleDrop one]] hanging on the TVTropes [[CaptainObvious Logo]].

* Additionally, [[{{Recursion}} TVTropes lampshades Lampshade Hanging itself, and lampshades the fact that it does so by this article, resulting in recursive Lampshade Hanging through itself,]] [[MindScrew QED being the fact that this entry exists.]]