Some of you may be familiar with The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, a comedy show about the news and current affairs.
This past thursday they were doing a story on children from South America entering the US illegally. At one point they were using small green army guy toys to represent the armed response, and then they used three Playmobil kids to illustrate the kids. It certainly jolted me to see them so unexpectedly! (It was very brief though,)
I know that The Daily Show gets a weekly best of compilation in parts of Europe (because when I went to a taping years ago, Jon had us stay after the show had finished while he taped the Euro intro!), and it's available on the Comedy Central site in the US and Comedy Network in Canada.