- When the Allies invaded Normandy, Adolf Hitler 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.
- In the English court case of R v Collins
, Edmund Davies LJ commented that "This is about as extraordinary a case as my brethren and I have ever heard.... Were [the facts] put into a novel or portrayed on the stage, they would be regarded as being so improbable as to be unworthy of serious consideration and verging at times on farce."
- 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 the waitresses dress as nurses to put the unhealthy nature of his food bluntly.
- 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?"
- For pages about tropes, there will a folder section for TV Tropes, lampshading how TV Tropes uses the trope explained on the page in some fashion. Very meta. Even more meta is the logo, though it could just be drunk.
- Murphy's laws.
- "I don't mean to complain" is something you say right before you complain.
- "I don't mean to brag" is something you say right before you brag.
- In summary the apophasis is a rhetorical lampshade hanging.
- In summary the apophasis
- Real Radio XS and Jack FM lampshade many, many radio cliches, with the voiceover artist attempting to be Man of a Thousand Voices.
- This site lampshades Lampshade Hanging, causing recursive Lampshade Hanging to happen.
- Additionally, TV Tropes lampshades Lampshade Hanging itself, and lampshades the fact that it does so by this article, resulting in recursive Lampshade Hanging through itself, QED being the fact that this entry exists.
- In other words, "Why does this entry exist?" one may ask: to give an example of itself through the fact it exists.
- A purpose which was lampshaded recursively by this entry pointing out the fact that it exists, which it now points out itself, which can subsequently be pointed out by itself to an infinite iteration, which it currently points out, which is to be demonstrated by the fact that this clause points itself and the previous ones out (and would the next if the fact that it causes a Recursion hadn't already been mentioned, which already has, but is again already pointed out by this clause anyways, lampshading the fact that any additional lampshading that would exist would exist as well as the lampshading of itself even at this point), and I no longer have any idea of where I'm going with this.
- Also see Recursion, which also gives an example of itself through the fact it exists.
- As does the Recursive Index Index, which is an index of recursive indices containing itself and the only other recursive index (that being the Index-Index) that lampshades its own reason for existing, which it wouldn't need to lampshade (or exist for at all) if there hadn't been a Recursion that didn't need to exist in the first place, which this entry criticizes, and, ironically, only exists to lampshade for no other purpose than to give an example of Lampshade Hanging while also lampshading itself recursively for reasons for which it also didn't need to be lampshaded.
- 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).
- 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, so it doesn't matter, anyways.
- Don't Explain the Joke, you little prick. note
- In other words, "Why does this entry exist?" one may ask: to give an example of itself through the fact it exists.
- Any point at which TV Tropes indicates the presence of Lampshade Hanging, including this entry itself, and any consequent lampshading of this example that may exist.
- Every Self-Demonstrating Article, which this is and currently lampshades.
- Every TV Tropes article demonstrates the existence of some literary device or other aspect of a message or story (or real life); therefore, it stands to reason to say that every moment in which this site makes a statement or other indication of the presence of anything is Lampshade Hanging (although the only things which are to be taken note of are the things it lampshades themselves).
- Any moment in which a person refers to the existence of oneself.
- Any instance in which a person (or anything at all) refers to the existence of anything.
- 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 Lampshade Hanging described on this website noteworthy is its application inasmuch as calling to attention examples of tropes frequently used in literature).
- Any instance in which a person (or anything at all) refers to the existence of anything.
- The Virgin American inflight safety video is filled with lampshades and borders on parody.
- "If you're the 0.00000000001 of you who have never used a seatbelt before..."
- Southwest Airlines also gets cheeky with its inflight briefings
- Before awarding Roy P. Benavidez the Medal of Honor, President Ronald Reagan reportedly told the press "If the story of his heroism were a movie script, you would not believe it."
- Radio commercials for Gold's Horseradish over the decades have used several different slogans punctuated by the ringing of a bell. For the last few years, the very Jewish-sounding announcer has been ending the commercials by demanding to know who is ringing the bell and why.
- 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 way worse than you do."
- This is a feminine product commercial by Kotex that make fun of traditional advertising techniques for pads and tampons.
- This old newscast has an expert lampshade the Narmy Engrish of "Lightforce Dr. Hill's Spirulina Snake Bladder High".
- A large company published the following statement:
If our efforts to protect the security of personal information about our guests and team members are unsuccessful, we could be subject to costly government enforcement actions and private litigation and our reputation could suffer.
The nature of our business involves the receipt and storage of personal information about our guests and team members. We have a program in place to detect and respond to data security incidents. To date, all incidents we have experienced have been insignificant. If we experience a significant data security breach or fail to detect and appropriately respond to a significant data security breach, we could be exposed to government enforcement actions and private litigation. In addition, our guests could lose confidence in our ability to protect their personal information, which could cause them to discontinue usage of REDcards, decline to use our pharmacy services, or stop shopping with us altogether. The loss of confidence from a significant data security breach involving team members could hurt our reputation, cause team member recruiting and retention challenges, increase our labor costs and affect how we operate our business.- The above appeared in the 2012 Securities and Exchange Commission Form 10-K, filed by Target Corporation. In 2013, Target experienced the worst data breach to happen to any company, exposing personal information on more than 70 million Target customers. More-or-less, almost everything Target predicted happened to the company due to the 2013 "data security incident"
- "radare2", a piece of open sourced reverse engineering software, has a biased comparison web page between itself, IDA Pro and Hopper. The first sentence of said comparison web page?
This is a (completely unfair) comparison between radare2, IDA Pro and Hopper.
- Existentialism, sort of.
Lampshade Hanging / Real Life
Lampshades hung in the real world.
