"Ever notice how the more successful observational comics become, the more their jokes focus on flying and hotels?"
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.
Related Indexes:
Tropes involved:
- Affectionate Parody
- Aside Glance
- British Humour
- Camp (occasionally)
- Deconstructive Parody
- Describe Topic Here (a quick self reference for a page here, that doesn't get in the way of the main description)
- Eyebrow Waggle
- Hypocritical Humor
- Hypocrisy Nod
- Lampshade Hanging
- Left It In
- Medium Awareness
- No Fourth Wall
- Some regions of the Sliding Scale of Fourth Wall Hardness
- Playing with a Trope
- Rage Against the Author
- Satire/Parody/Pastiche (and a little bit of all three)
- Scolding the Fourth Wall Breaker
- Self-Deprecation
- Self-Parody
- Spoof Aesop
- Subverted Trope (sometimes)
- Waldorf: TV Tropes breaks the Fourth Wall soooo much...Waldorf: They break it so much they're now a wholly owned subsidiary of The Home Depot!Both: Ho Ho Ho!

