The original post: /r/television by /u/AporiaParadox on 2024-05-03 13:08:06.
I was thinking about how after Dan Harmon came back to Community, the season he wasn’t involved in that was widely considered to be not very good was in-universe called the “gas leak year” where everything sucked. It also reminded me of a similar thing in modern Simpsons, where at this point they know full well that the show has declined in quality and viewership in recent years, and make constant jokes about it.
Many shows will also do shows-within-a-show that makes fun of the series itself, like that time in Boy Meets World where Eric visited the set of “Kid Gets Acquainted with Universe” where everything is exaggerated, the actors are all jerks, and the writers are literal children.
What other examples of self-deprecating meta-humor did you like?