Movies about Self referential humor
Deadpool likely introduced meta humor to many younger filmgoers, but a number of movies have done it even better than the wisecracking Marvel character. Whether self-aware, self-parodical, or self-referential, these meta movies bring the audience in on the jokes about the movie and the filmmaking process itself. Most films try and make the audience forget that what they’re watching is fictional, but these movies embrace and exploit the medium, overtly manipulating it so the audience is aware. Meta movies intentionally expose the inner workings of the film form, often with hilarious and clever results.
Many of these movies openly acknowledge their own cinematic tropes, often using the fictional nature of the medium to take apart the genre or cinematic/storytelling conventions. Other times they exploit the audience’s awareness of the filmmaking and film viewing process. They may even break the fourth wall and speak to the audience directly. Rather than forgetting we are in a movie theater, we’re reminded of this fact by these films, which are often more amusing for doing so.
Which meta-movie moments do you think are better, funnier, or more ingenious than Deadpool ? Vote up your favorites below!
Super-Trope index of all tropes having to do with referencing the nature of one’s own medium, style and the almighty fourth wall to make a laugh or two.
Insert joke about the Fourth Wall of the wiki here while I go about linking to tropes that don’t exist, and adding examples to the Self-Demonstrating Article list.
Tropes involved:
- Rant Comedy
- This Trope Name References Itself
- Affectionate Parody: A work parodies another work out of love for the source material.
- Aside Glance: Characters looking toward the audience briefly.
- Audience? What Audience?
- Britský humor
- Camp (occasionally)
- Company Cameo: The work contains references to the companies that worked on and/or distributed it.
- Deconstructive Parody: A franchise installment handles the tropes and traditions of the series in a more realistic manner than usual.
- Describe Topic Here (a quick self reference for a page here, that doesn’t get in the way of the main description)
- Eyebrow Waggle
- «How I Wrote This Article» Article: Writing about not knowing what to write anymore.
- Hypocritical Humor: A gag involving a character making a hypocritical statement or otherwise demonstrating comically blatant hypocrisy.
- Hypocrisy Nod: A character acknowledges when they’re being hypocritical.
- Lampshade Hanging: A character acknowledges when a specific trope is occurring or has a tendency to happen.
- Left It In
- Medium Awareness: The character is aware that they are in a work of fiction.
- No Fourth Wall: The fourth wall is broken so often that it’s as if there never was a fourth wall to begin with.
- Some regions of the Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness
14 Meta Jokes, Shows and Movies for the Comedy Hall of Fame
Hello! This is the intro for an article about meta jokes. (Cracked Editor: I should have seen this bit coming when I made the assignment. But whatever, let’s do this thing.) The goal is to display what meta/self-referential humor is and entice you, the reader, to check out some of the best meta jokes we could find, or at least the ones that have repostable videos online. We’ll also provide links to related Křaplavý articles like this one about parodies on Rick a Morty (Cracked Editor: Good call. Readers and SEO love Rick and Morty) or ones written by yours truly like this one . Maybe even this one , too.
In any case, we feel like you’ve been properly prepped on meta-humor, meaning this part is over. Up next is a bunch of the best pop culture meta-jokes and moments we’re putting in our Hall of Fame.
14 She-Hulk Meets Her Maker
The fourth wall was utterly obliterated in the season finale of She-Hulk: Advokát when she finally met the Knowledge Enhanced Visual Interconnectivity Nexus. Who is definitely ne Kevin Feige .
13 ‘Barry’ Calls Out the Algorithm
12 ‘It’s Garry Shandling’s Show’ Theme
While the entire premise of the show was meta and poking fun at sitcom tropes and plots, It’s Garry Shandling’s Show had one of the few sitcom theme songs that knew it was a sitcom theme song by telling you that it was a sitcom theme song.
11 ‘It’s Only a Model’ in ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’
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Inzerát10 ‘Shrek’ in General, Duloc in Particular
Svým způsobem Šrek as an entire film is meta as it was a commentary on fairy tales disguised as a feature-length middle finger from Jeffrey Katzenberg to Disney and Michael Eisner. This was most apparent when Shrek and Donkey first visited the Disneyland-like Duloc.
9 Roy, the New, Incredibly Vital, Ongoing ‘Simpsons’ Character
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Inzerát8 ‘It’s Always Sunny’ at the Emmys
Despite its critical acclaim and having been on the air since 2005, Je to vždy slunečné ve Philadelphii has never won an Emmy, likely due to its lowbrow content — no matter its highbrow execution. The gang kinda made peace with that by making fun of Emmy-worthy comedies in an episode titled “The Gang Tries Desperately to Win an Award.”
7 ‘LEGO Batman’ Calling Out Batman’s Odd Rogues’ Gallery
While Batman has some memorable foes, the LEGO version decided to list a few less memorable ones that have to be Googled to be believed. Don’t believe us? Ask the Joker.
6 Duck Amuck
Ve většině Looney Tunes cartoons, Daffy Duck is antagonized by his fellow cartoon characters like Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig. But “Duck Amuck” is unique in that Daffy is in conflict with his own animators.
5 ‘Arrested Development’s Plea to the Fans
Critical acclaim wasn’t enough to spare Arrested Development from being under the constant threat of cancelation during its entire original run. So much so that they poked fun at their desperation for more viewers and literally asked the audience to tell their friends about the show.
4 ‘Rick and Morty’s Full Meta JackRick
This entire episode of the Adult Swim series is a meta-bit containing numerous referential meta-jokes within it, with several of them being used as verbs. Like a person being “ Baned .”
3 ‘Seinfeld’s Pilot ‘Jerry’
Čtvrtá sezóna roku Seinfeld revolved around Jerry and George trying to get an NBC sitcom made based on Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy and life. It was a giant metacommentary on the difficulties of television creation at the time while taking digs at the sitcom’s lack of a premise, too.
2 ‘South Park’s Very Crappy Christmas
To honor Christmas, the fourth season of South Park had the kids make a stop-motion film that happened to be the short film Duch Vánoc , the animated holiday card that led to the show getting greenlit.
1 Virtually the Entire Series of ‘Community’
Pokud jste se někdy dívali Naše projekty , you know how the series started with a sitcom-y premise, then beat sitcom tropes to death with a tire iron over and over again, with meta-humor occasionally being its crutch. Honestly, there’s nothing funnier — or more meta.
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