My main problem with the former assassins is they felt overly similar to the Testimony from Twice Upon a Time.

Here are two policies that you should follow.

So they should stick with the policy of mocking people with disabilities?

They’re creative people trying to create entertaining media under a very short time frame. As a result, sometimes their barbs are misaimed and go too far.

Know what annoys the hell out of me? People initiating random contact, like forcing hugs on me I in no way initiated, because they think I should smile more or be more outgoing. People have done that to me my entire life, feeling like it’s their place to force some sort of cuddliness out of me that’s just not there.…

Maybe the soundtrack will be Music With Rocks In.

And since this has turned into a “My favorite Metacomedy” thread, which I’m totally OK with, I’m gonna give a shout-out to Gremlins 2, which makes it a point to tear Gremlins 1 a new one. (My personal favorite moment being Kate’s traumatic Lincoln’s Birthday story echoing the Christmas story from the first one.)

One of my favorite and one of the older meta commentaries in a movie is from ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’. George Lazenby had just taken over the role of James Bond from the iconic Sean Connery. In the opening scene James Bond fights off the bad guys only to see the damsel in distress he was saving (Diana Rigg)…

my first memory of “meta” comedy was one of the characters in The Goofy Movie commenting about them always wearing those white gloves. So yah... it’s been a thing in cartoons especially!

Oh and also Shakespeare and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which itself is a meta-commentary of Shakespeare’s own work and Theater itself. I wonder what this guy has a degree in. 

Oh, yeah. The list goes on. The Naked Gun/Police Squad and its ilk, It’s Gary Shandling’s Show, Sledge Hammer... All of these are some of my favorite shows ever. I’m drawn to meta-humor like a moth to a flame.

How about The Last Newhart, where the entire show ends up being a dream of Bob Newhart’s character on his previous sitcom? Or Moonlighting, where the entire concept of a fourth wall was thrown away and the characters regularly worry about being canceled, and ends with Bruce and Cybill saying goodbye? Or Monty Python…

Oh! And of course I have to give a shout-out to the old Looney Tunes which set the stage by playing with the audience WAY before anyone reading this was likely to have been born. (“I do this sort of thing to him all through the picture.”)

And if you go back further, Duck Amuck. 

I preferred the original version:

Every candidate who ever runs against the mayor: “I’m telling you, we’ve all been telling you, he’s let dozens of teenagers get horribly murdered over the years so he can sell you pumpkins! AND HE COULD SELL YOU PUMPKINS EVEN IF HE TOOK STEPS AGAINST THIS!”

The show’s also dealt with pan-dimensional beings in the past as well. Doctor Who has been riffing on HHGG for years.

Then what does the Hogwarts Express run on, Rowling? Burning house elves? Oh my god, is it burning house elves? 

I mean, yeah, the VP should be more involved, but it would have been nice if that fucking ghoul had stayed on the sidelines.