Post Modernism.

x Self referential (such as breaking the fourth wall, talking about the sponsors negitively as a joke)
x Rejection of conventions. No central values
x Death of the author.

Parody - A direct piss take with a few people and 1-2 texts
Irony - Humurous juxtapositions (e.g. a lazy person saying someone else is lazy)
Pastiche - A montage of genres mimiced (e.g. Scary Movie)
Eclectic - Blend of things that usually do not go. (Genres etc.)
Playfull - Do not take themselves, or the audience seriously. (e.g. Team America)
Aesthetic - The way things look
Intertextual - Referencing other texts (e.g. Spaced)
Nihilism - No faith, pesimistic.
Self Referential - Refer to themselves in texts (e.g. The Simpsons)
Hyper Reality - More than real, exadurated reality (e.g. Malcolm in the Middle)