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17	Animated Shock Comedy is a subgenre of primarily [[WesternAnimation Western]] AnimatedSitcom that emerged in the 1990s (though it has its roots significantly earlier), towards the tail end of UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation. A new generation of cartoons busted Western TV animation out of the AnimationAgeGhetto by infusing animation with pervasive elements that are decidedly ''not'' for children: VulgarHumor and BlackComedy. These shows typically feature heavy elements of ComedicSociopathy, strong profanity, pop culture references, socio-political {{satire}}, and last but not least, shocking subjects used as punchlines.
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19	In TheNineties, shows like ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' (debuting as early as 1987 as shorts within ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'' and 1989 as a standalone show) and ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' proved to the industry that cartoons with an adult[[note]]though in many cases it's more of a teen/young adult[[/note]] audience could be a success, and introduced certain elements, like social satire (''The Simpsons'') and crudeness (''Beavis and Butthead'') that paved the way, but the genre really took off with the debut of the TropeCodifier ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' in 1997. ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' had a huge impact on the genre as well, particularly in its use of the CutawayGag. The massive success of these shows [[FollowTheLeader spawned a whole host of imitators]] and helped initiate a RuderAndCruder shift within pop culture as a whole.
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21	Animated Shock Comedies are virtually always {{Prime Time Cartoon}}s, and the most common form is the AnimatedSitcom. They are character- or [[GagSeries gag-]]driven rather than plot-driven, and often feature NegativeContinuity. As part of their "adult" nature, they eschew ZanyCartoon elements like ToonPhysics in favor of a more mundane setting where characters typically have [[OneHourWorkWeek jobs]] and [[CartoonCreature clearly defined species]]. While many are not afraid to dabble in other genres, like SpeculativeFiction or {{Thriller}}, this is usually done through {{parody}}, and fantastical elements are incorporated in a MundaneFantastic manner.
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23	Visually, Animated Shock Comedies are not confined to any particular animation style, though ThinLineAnimation is probably the most common. A number of them tend to have fairly [[StylisticSuck crude or "cheap" animation styles]], possibly to mimic the GenrePopularizer ''South Park''[='s=] "[[ClipArtAnimation construction paper]]" style (it's actually animated on computer software and this style allows for very rapid ProductionLeadTime).
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25	Animated Shock Comedy received a fair amount of backlash back in the day, both from MoralGuardians due to the genre's family-unfriendliness, and from critics for the perceived [[BottomOfTheBarrelJoke laziness]] of its quick gag-based humor. The latter criticism was enhanced by SeasonalRot and perceived FollowTheLeader tendencies amongst some popular examples, many of which became [[FranchiseZombie well past their expiry date]] at best. However, the genre received something of a rehabilitation in the 2010s, with a number of critically-acclaimed examples, like ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'', ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' that managed to balance key features of the genre with CharacterDevelopment. Remember that Administrivia/TropesAreTools and any genre can be done well or poorly.
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27	For a long time, Animated Shock Comedies were, for all intents and purposes, the ''only'' successful Western animated works aimed at adult audiences. (The stereotype that all adult Western animation fell under this umbrella[[note]]as exemplified by the former trope name, All Adult Animation Is South Park[[/note]] was something of a counterpart to the assumption that AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles.) Part of this is parallel to the inherent issue of the AnimationAgeGhetto, being the insistence that "If it's animated, it must be immature." This has begun to change ever so slightly since the late 2010s, with the introduction of the first successful non-comedy adult animated series such as ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'' and ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'', but shock comedy is still by far the dominant genre in Western adult animation. Therefore, this is not the place to list aversions.
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29	Compare GrossoutShow, RatedMForMoney, and AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles.
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37	* ''Advertising/DumbWaysToDie'' is an animated PublicServiceAnnouncement by Metro Trains of Melbourne, Australia that has every character suffering [[BloodyHilarious cartoonishly gruesome injuries and deaths]], except for the AxCrazy [[OurSlashersAreDifferent psycho killer]] who kills an unseen person. The purpose of the [=PSA=] is to promote railway safety.
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41	* ''Literature/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'' is technically a series of LightNovels, but the anime adaptation definitely qualifies. The story is about a cute angel who repeatedly and graphically kills the main character and later revives him, only to do it again every time she gets mad at him. Furthermore, she was sent from the future to kill him so he doesn't grow up to create an immortality potion that stops women from physically aging past twelve years old and thus creating a "pedophile's world". And there are even more raunchy jokes, including the fact that angels get chronic diarrhea when their halos are removed.
42	* ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'': In the franchise's native Japan, the manga is aimed at adults as it was published in a {{Seinen}} manga magazine. Oddly, its anime adaptation is considered ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids family-friendly]]'' despite the crude, raunchy humor being kept in. In addition, the vast majority of the foreign dubs {{Bowdlerized}} the anime to make it more suitable for younger audiences[[note]][[{{demographically inappropriate humour}} though they still had their moments of raunchiness]], some of which were actually added by the dubbers themselves[[/note]]. When the anime finally received the more well-known GagDub by Creator/{{FUNimation}}, it was marketed specifically towards adults and had its raunchiness turned up to eleven.
43	* When ''Anime/GhostStories'' was dubbed into English, the producers at ADV Films were told to do whatever they wanted to help the show sell (even though scripts were made, the voice actors mainly ad-libbed). There are many jokes that would be deemed as racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, etc. in the resulting GagDub.
44	* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has toilet humor and fourth wall breaking even though it was published in a certain [[Magazine/ShonenJump shonen manga magazine]] (and it's not afraid to take potshots at its fellow ''Jump'' series, either). It's frequently cited as the Japanese equivalent to ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' due to their very similar styles of humor.
45	* ''Manga/HenZemi'' is filled with sex jokes and bases its humor around the characters’ disgusting fetishes. One of the [=OVAs=] has a long discussion about how to eat ''feces''.
46	* ''Manga/{{Mitsudomoe}}'' focuses on the Marui triplets and their classmates, who are all kids in the sixth grade. Despite this, it's also quite raunchy, with gross-out humor and sex jokes galore.
47	* ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' is a sequel to ''Manga/OsomatsuKun'', a classic shonen gag manga that was largely kid-friendly, and it has a similarly cartoony art style to its predecessor. However, ''Osomatsu-san'' is marketed mainly at an teen and adult audience due to having a ''much'' more adult and raunchy sense of humor. Since the six brothers are [[LazyBum lazy]], [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy hard-drinking]], [[ItsAllAboutMe self-centered]] [=NEETs=] who [[CasanovaWannabe obsess over sex but can rarely find female companionship]], it has a lot of crude humor, up to and including a scene in the OVA showing [[BestialityIsDepraved the title character getting 'ridden' by the horse instead of the other way around]].
48	* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' is Creator/StudioGainax's attempt to emulate American cartoons. Specifically, American ''adult'' cartoons. The main characters are named after undergarments (which they can make into weapons), and Panty is [[ReallyGetsAround always into having sex]]. WordOfGod even says that they were watching ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' while drunk and wondered why Japan couldn't make stuff like that.
49	* The mid-90s manga/anime ''Manga/ThePingPongClub'' is about middle school boys competing to be the best at ping-pong so they can do whatever they want with a girl's body for a month.
50	* ''Manga/SeitokaiYakuindomo'', where at least 90% of the show's jokes either shock humor or [[ToiletHumour about bodily functions]]. However, in comparison to the amount of sexual humor, there's very little sexual imagery or {{Fanservice}}.
51	* ''Manga/YouAreBeingSummonedAzazel'' mostly revolves around vulgar ToiletHumor, [[BloodyHilarious funny gore]], and sex jokes.
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55	* ''WesternAnimation/DownAndDirtyDuck'' features a perverted [[{{Expy}} parody]] of WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck trying to get a sexually-frustrated blue-collar worker laid. The film is filled to the brim with vulgar sex jokes, FanDisservice, and deliberately offensive stereotypes.
56	* ''WesternAnimation/EightCrazyNights'': PG-13 and filled with ToiletHumor, jerkassery, and all the sorts of crudeness you wouldn't expect in an animated holiday movie.
57	* [[Creator/RalphBakshi Ralph Bakshi's]] early films, in particular ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'', could be considered the prototypes of this genre. [[UnbuiltTrope However]], they were also [[TheBigRottenApple fairly grim portrayals of life in New York City]], even featuring some somber moments of MoodWhiplash; the {{Jerkass}} protagonists that became common in the genre were targets of satirical mockery; and more "offensive" elements such as racial stereotypes were generally used as social commentary. While some of today's adult animation, including ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', follows up on Bakshi's satirical tendencies, this was certainly not the case with the now-forgotten ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'' imitators of TheSeventies.
58	* ''Hell and Back'' is a rare feature film aimed at adults, as well as one of the few adult stop-motion films, with tons of sex and [[BlackComedyRape rape jokes]].
59	* ''WesternAnimation/KingDick'' involves a dwarf with a [[GagPenis ridiculously large penis]] and a witch who ruthlessly pursues him in an attempt to receive 69 orgasms to regain her former beauty.
60	* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' has plenty of CharacterDevelopment and a solid plot, but it still sold itself on being the first 3D computer-animated feature to get an R-rating. Viewers are divided on its quality, with some feeling that it tried too hard to shove crude humor into every available place it could find.
61	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthParkBiggerLongerAndUncut'', naturally. Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone specifically refused to make the movie unless it was rated R, and they used it to fill the movie with the sort of language, violence, and general depravity that the show itself could only dream of - at least at the time. (The film has ran uncensored on Creator/ComedyCentral at least a handful of times, with the first being in 2001.) Not to mention it featured such charming musical numbers as "Uncle Fucka" and "Kyle's Mom Is A Big Fat Bitch". ''Literature/GuinnessWorldRecords'' gave it the award for most swearing in an animated film, and according to them, "The 81-minute movie contains 399 swear words, 128 offensive gestures, and 221 acts of violence."
62	* ''WesternAnimation/TarzoonShameOfTheJungle'' was a raunchy Tarzan parody featuring [[BestialityIsDepraved bestiality]], soldiers shaped like penises, and deliberately offensive racial stereotypes.
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66	* Music/{{Eminem}}'s early music (especially ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'' and ''Music/{{Encore}}'') was heavily influenced by [[TheNineties late 90s]] and TurnOfTheMillennium-era shock comedy cartoons, with Eminem often rapping in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''-inspired voices and using the common bad-taste jokes of the era (like making fun of [[PeripheryHatedom boybands]] and Creator/ChristopherReeve). Eminem even attempted to launch his own cartoon in this genre, ''The Slim Shady Show'', but even Eminem's fans like to forget that he made it. While Eminem moved further from these influences in his later work, he did attempt to promote ''Relapse'' with a ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' crossover featuring Stewie Griffin.
67	** Eminem has a couple of music videos in this style, too, most prominently 2005's "Shake That".
68	* Music/LilDicky's CharityMotivationSong "Earth" and its accompanying music video prominently feature crude humour like a baboon showing off his huge anus, a zebra being eaten on screen, a disgruntled skunk who sprays his foul liquid at Lil Dicky (and makes sure to mention that it comes from his butthole), multiple {{Double Entendre}}s, and references to sex, marijuana and [=STDs=].
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72	* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqMC0UAFZj0&t=145s A Dog That Smokes Weed]]'' satirizes this, by imagining how a pitch meeting for one of these shows would look like [[spoiler:and having the titular show flop against ''[[SerialNumbersFiledOff A Cat That Drinks Beer]]'']].
73	--> '''Steve''': So...my show is called ''A Dog That Smokes Weed'', and it's about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a dog that smokes weed]]. There's a [[MsFanservice sexy lady]] in it [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment and she's really hot]]. Also, he has an [[PsychoExGirlfriend ex-wife who's really mean to him]] and [[ResentfulGuardian he hates his kids]]. The first episode would be...he gets high, and he goes to the supermarket and [[RandomEventsPlot falls down a portal to the next dimension]]. And another one would be [[OnceAnEpisode he gets high]] and goes to a Football game, but then [[BottomOfTheBarrelJoke he mixes up someone's penis for a hot dog]] [[GroinAttack and eats it]]. [[StylisticSuck That's all I have so far]].
74	* ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'' with its BlackComedy, [[CrossesTheLineTwice stereotypes]], ToiletHumor, {{Mind Screw}}s, and a [[SirSwearsALot child protagonist who swears like a sailor]].
75	* The ''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' animated shorts usually fall under this category. Some of the shorts can be dark (both BlackComedy-wise and NightmareFuel-wise), some of their shorts can be relatively light, some of their shorts can be surreal, some of their shorts can be gross... you get the idea. In that way, they're much like the original webcomic.
76	%%* ''WebAnimation/DeepSpace69'' has sexual jokes for most of its humor. The episodes are roughly 2 to 4 minutes long each.
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78	* ''WebAnimation/DickFigures'' with its cheap animation and vulgar humor.
79	* Parodied in Alasdair Beckett-King's video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEsiYI_W9CE Every Episode of Generic Animated Sitcom]]", in which a cartoon man and his wife (drawn in a very ''Family Guy''-esque art style) debate "What if a cartoon said 'fart'"? Then there's some "meaningless violence" and a [[StylisticSuck deliberately-lame]] CutawayGag.
80	* ''Platform/GoAnimate'': [[DependingOnTheWriter Depending on the user]] (with Isaac Anderson and Amethyst is Cutie being particularly well-known examples), the "Grounded videos" and its associated genres (especially the Punishment Day videos) can be filled to bursting with BlackComedy, violence, ObligatorySwearing, sex, and drug usage. The most popular theme, Comedy World, also bears a striking resemblance to ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
81	* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' is all about cute forest critters dying in the most gory and disgusting ways possible, played entirely for laughs and shock value.
82	* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' is about a team of foul-mouthed assassin demons that kill people in [[BloodyHilarious extremely gory]] manners. Each intro is accompanied by a ContentWarnings letting you know that these demons are VERY horny.
83	* ''La Familia De Barrio'' is a Mexican web-series (which eventually got adapted into a full TV-series on MTV and Comedy Central Latin America) with crude animation, lots of swearing, sex jokes, and constantly ridiculing politics and pop-culture like ''South Park''.
84	* ''Las Aventuras De Roberto Manfinfla'' is a Chilean web-series known for its extreme vulgar humor, crude LimitedAnimation, and [[GrossoutShow gross imagery]]
85	* ''WebAnimation/LoboWebseries'' counts due to the high amount of violence, profanity and sex due to the R-rated DC comics character involved.
86	* ''WebAnimation/ObjectRedundancy'' is rather fitting, as it's another series full of VulgarHumor.
87	* ''WebAnimation/PonyDotMov'' is what happens when you take the adorable little ponies from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' and place them inside a CrapsaccharineWorld that would make Creator/JohnWaters and [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone the creators of South Park]] proud.
88	* ''WebAnimation/RetardedAnimalBabies''. If the title itself didn't tip you off, the series ''loves'' VulgarHumor and BlackComedy.
89	* ''WebAnimation/SonicForHire'' is jet-packed with BlackComedy and VulgarHumor, [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids though YouTube rates it TV-PG]]. Its brother show, ''WebAnimation/MegaManDiesAtTheEnd'', is a LighterAndSofter take on the genre, but it's still present.
90	* ''[[WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]'' takes [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros one of the most recognizable video game character of all time]], and turns him into a depraved, psychopath [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and stupid]] version of him, who kills people with no remorse, humps naked on spaghetti, and goes on crazy [[SurrealHumor surreal]] and (sometimes) [[BlackComedy darkly-humorous]] adventures and situations in a "retarded" world, with a cast just as crazy or stupid as him... well, at least before CerebusSyndrome [[ScrewedByTheNetwork and]] [[{{Retool}} some]] [[KinderAndCleaner other]] [[AudienceShift factors]] came along many years later.
91	* ''WebAnimation/VeteALaVersh'' is full of swearing, sex jokes, and ComedicSociopathy with the main protagonist being as massive {{Jerkass}} and his friend being a ButtMonkey.
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95	* The short-lived ''WesternAnimation/AllenGregory'' features a lot of sophomoric shock humor, such as the titular eight-year-old having a sexual crush on his fat elderly principal and Allen's father abusing and raping a straight man into marrying him.
96	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' fits this trope just as well as its older sibling, ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', with rampant gore, BlackComedy, ComedicSociopathy and CrossesTheLineTwice humor present throughout, and few topics that seem to be considered off-limits. That said, it does lean towards more standard (if still outlandish) sitcom plotting and humor compared to the ReferenceOverdosed CutawayGag-infested style of ''Family Guy'' and its imitators, and it does occasionally dip its toes into more serious storytelling.
97	* ''WesternAnimation/Animals2016'' [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness starts more or less]] with dudebro humor about drugs and wanting to get laid. As the show progresses, though, it mocks society but generally has likable characters and happy endings, little toilet humor, and abundant, positive LGBT representation.
98	* While ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' is definitely one in its later seasons (earlier episodes were much tamer, while episodes from season 4 onwards are filled with VulgarHumor and [[BloodyHilarious gore]]), the [[ShortRunners extremely short-lived]] SpinOff ''WesternAnimation/SoulQuestOverdrive'' takes this further, featuring a non-stop barrage of crude sex jokes, random gratuitous violence, drug references, and ComedicSociopathy crammed into every 5-minute episode.
99	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'' contains loads of sex, violence and shocking subject matter, particularly jokes involving Krieger, the NightmareFetishist. It does have a highly detailed and realistic art style, however, compared to the usual crude and simplistic looks of shows of this type, and mixes in long-running plotlines, a surprising amount of CharacterDevelopment and a love for obscure GeniusBonus jokes.
100	* The AnimatedAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BabyBlues'' on Creator/TheWB took what was a genial, family-friendly comic strip about the everyday hassles of parents raising two young children, and filled it with sexual innuendo and adult-oriented plots. This GenreShift is to blame for the show's failure, as it [[AudienceAlienatingPremise drove away fans of the comic strip while failing to bring in people who weren't]].
101	* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' derives several jokes from ToiletHumour, and the title characters [[HehHehYouSaidX love to point out innuendoes]]. While it was controversial in its time, later shows such as ''South Park'' and ''Family Guy'' have taken their vulgar humor to much greater lengths, to the point that ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' can look [[OnceOriginalNowCommon tame in comparison]]. This may be one of the reasons why the 2011 revival was so short-lived.
102	* The Netflix show ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'' is ostensibly centered around middle schoolers who have reached the onset of puberty and are confused about their sexual and psychological changes, something an adult would have outgrown. That said, barely an episode is devoid of dealing with mature topics like sex, drugs, crime, and profanity.
103	* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' in [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Season 1]]--the first episode alone cracked jokes about pedophilia, autism and cannibalism. Starting with Season 2, the show dropped most of the puerile elements (barring the ToiletHumor) and settled into what is essentially a DenserAndWackier version of ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' (which is very much ''not'' in this genre).
104	* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'' deconstructs some of this genre's conventions, specifically the UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist. The result is a story about how love is earned and that nobody is going to like you if they have a perfectly good reason not to. While the series has some EarlyInstallmentWeirdness in the first few episodes, where it does lean more towards the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''/''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' style of animated comedy, it quickly settles on character-driven BlackComedy. For example, there's a lot of dark jokes about [=BoJack=]'s AbusiveParents and addictive tendencies, and Sarah Lynn's drug abuse and sex addiction, but all of these concepts become major plot points down the line. There are also a handful of episodes satirizing current events, usually with tact but occasionally throwing in some dark jokes, particularly in "Braap Braap Pew Pew" where the conflict stems from Sextina Aquafina having to fake an abortion and she sings a ''very'' over-the-top song about killing her fetus.
105	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' contains a lot of profanity, sexual humor, and occasionally some bloody violence, though it seldom resorts to ToiletHumor outside the episode where Music/RKelly is on trial for a sex tape of him urinating on a 14-year-old girl. It has been compared to the [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark former trope namer]], but only in regards to its biting social commentary, not its style of crude humor.
106	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'' crams as many vulgar, offensive and tasteless jokes as humanly possible into its series. Its humor and art style have both been compared to ''Family Guy.''
107	* ''WesternAnimation/BromwellHigh'': The series is full of crude humour and BlackComedy and caricatures modern British society.
108	* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', possibly one of the most well-known animated shock comedies, is 90% CringeComedy and VulgarHumor. You can count the amount of jokes that are not [[RefugeInAudacity shock value]], [[NauseaFuel bodily function-related]] or at the expense of any kind of social/racial minority on one hand. It frequently [[SelfDeprecation mocks the lack of artistic merit associated with this genre.]]
109	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''[='s=] particular style of pop culture-centric humor and cutaway gags proved a big hit with audiences (especially following its [[UnCancelled uncancellation]]), and made it just as influential as ''South Park'' in popularizing the genre, for better or worse.
110	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Farzar}}'', much like [[WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}} its]] [[WesternAnimation/ParadisePD predecessors]], is filled with BlackComedy, {{Gorn}} (with [[GroinAttack genital mutilation]] being a favourite), FanDisservice, ComedicSociopathy, and the team's name is [[FunWithAcronyms "Special Hostile Assault Team"]].[[note]]S.H.A.T.[[/note]]
111	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFreakBrothers'' It was inspired by an underground comic and some of the things featured in those were considered shocking when it was originally published.
112	* ''WesternAnimation/FuggetAboutIt'', a CanadianSeries about a mafia capo and his family. The show is filled with sexual references, bloody violence, foul language, and otherwise VulgarHumor. Episode titles like "The Oracle of Vagina" and "Hate Crime Legislation Is for Pussies" really say it all.
113	* The short-lived British series ''WesternAnimation/FullEnglish'' was roundly panned for being a very blatant ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' rip-off, right down to the cutaway gags. The series featured much more graphic content than ''Family Guy'', however, with constant swearing, nudity, sex, and shock humor in every episode.
114	* The MTV ShortRunner ''WesternAnimation/GoodVibes'', which was originally intended to air alongside Seth [=MacFarlane=]'s series but ended up airing with the revival of ''Beavis and Butt-head'', had some HiddenDepths and the main characters avert being {{Comedic Sociopath}}s, but otherwise plays most of the genre's tropes straight.
115	* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'', despite its superhero comic origins, delights in how crude and raunchy it can get, with gratuitous violence, profanity, and jokes about all manner of off-color topics filling every episode.
116	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoops}}'', another Netflix cartoon. The main character is a completely unlikable {{Jerkass}}, and the humor is very crass, with lots of dick jokes and extreme amounts of [[ClusterFBomb F-bombs]] from its [[SirSwearsALot VERY foul-mouthed protagonist]]. While jerkass protagonists are hardly rare in this genre, this one's sheer obnoxiousness garnered the show many negative reviews, and likely led to its swift cancellation.
117	* Britain's Creator/ChannelFour had a short-lived stab at the genre in 2000 with late-night show ''House of Rock''. It focused on (real) dead musicians coping in purgatory on the brink of Hell, including Music/TheNotoriousBIG portrayed as DumbMuscle and Music/FreddieMercury portrayed as a DepravedHomosexual. Michael Hutchence of {{Music/INXS}} also had a guest appearance hanging from the neck in the bathroom less than a year after his real-life death. There wasn't much in the way of violence (mainly because the characters were already all dead) but plenty of sexual humour, toilet humour, and general vulgarity.
118	* ''WesternAnimation/JJVillardsFairyTales'' is full of {{Gorn}}, VulgarHumor, and has LimitedAnimation to the point where the character animation is just like ''South Park'''s.
119	* ''WesternAnimation/KevinSpencer'' is full of crass humor, sexual references, and tons of satire (one episode had Percy launching into a rant that specifically targeted then-American president George W. Bush) and animation that resembles ''South Park''. Notably, one interview with creator Greg Lawrence showed that he thought the series would be the next ''South Park''.
120	* ''WesternAnimation/LaFamiliaDelBarrio'' is an Mexican adult animated series with a lot of VulgarHumor and ToiletHumor and one of the main male characters is an alcoholic womanizer.
121	* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfChamberlainHeights'' not only has loads of stereotypes and sexual humor, but even using the same two-frame animation style as ''South Park''. It doesn't help that Creator/ComedyCentral used ''South Park'' as a lead-in in its first season.
122	* Deconstructed in the third season of ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel''. While the show is a biting criticism of Christianity and plays most of the genre's tropes straight, when the CerebusSyndrome hits, it starts exploring how psychologically damaging the violence and obscenity can turn out to be.
123	* One major complaint about ''WesternAnimation/MrPickles'' is that the show tries to cram as many sex jokes and as much violent, disturbing and disgusting content as humanly possible into 11 minutes. That said, there are hints of a consistent plot, and notably for the genre, it rarely delves into politics. Season 3 tries other types of humor besides just gross-out, like genre parodies, though it still thrives in gore.
124	* ''WesternAnimation/KingStarKing'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' fall under this formula as well, though more so the former than the latter.
125	* The Filipino-American creators of ''WesternAnimation/TheNutshack'' say that their series is the very first Asian adult cartoon. Anime aside, most of the humor is very low-brow and crude, with sex, violence, and drug use throughout.
126	* Creator/{{Netflix}}'s ''WesternAnimation/ParadisePD''. Every episode is a nonstop barrage of stereotypes, graphic violence, drug jokes, [[GrossoutShow grossout jokes]], ToiletHumour, and ComedicSociopathy so unrelenting it almost borders on parody. Much like its SpiritualPredecessor ''WesternAnimation/{{Brickleberry}}'', it even uses a Creator/SethMacFarlane-esque art style.
127	* Creator/BillPlympton's films feature completely unfiltered vulgarity and violence, though they're strictly AuthorAppeal and not intended to appease some kind of demographic. At one point, he ''was'' dealing with criticism that he could only do over-the-top sex and violence with no emotional substance, and challenged those critics with the somber, personal ''WesternAnimation/{{Cheatin}}''.
128	* ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'' shows us what happens when one of the most famous {{Gross Out Show}}s for children is stripped of its already-lenient network censorship. The episodes feature plotlines like Ren and Stimpy living inside a disgusting spitoon, a flashback episode where a [[EnfantTerrible young Ren]] sadistically and graphically abuses several animals, a BeachEpisode with a ''lot'' of naked women, and the duo witnessing Creator/RalphBakshi have gross sex while they have to clean his filthy toilet. It wasn't nearly as successful as the original series, however.
129	* A lot of the humor in ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is extremely sophomoric, with phallic imagery, burp/fart jokes, pop culture references and violence galore; however, much like ''Bojack Horseman'', [[{{deconstruction}} it plays the consequences of a lot of these jokes completely straight]] for the sake of [[{{dramedy}} furthering the story and developing the characters]], who even at their flattest are much more fleshed out and three-dimensional than a good deal of the show's contemporaries. The most notable of this is the writers' conscious decision to make the occasional verbal rape joke while playing every instance of the act itself completely for horror, illustrating the difference between [[BlackComedy making jokes]] ''about'' rape and thinking rape is ''funny''.
130	* ''WesternAnimation/SantaInc'', an Creator/HBOMax original. It is a Christmas-themed miniseries animated in stop-motion InTheStyleOf the Christmas specials made by Creator/RankinBassProductions, but is full of coarse language, nudity, sex, violence, and ComedicSociopathy.
131	* While ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is fairly tame as far as adult cartoons go (despite it being considered edgy for its time), it gravitated towards more edgy humor and grossout comedy during its tenth season as it had to compete with the likes of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. One example is the infamous "panda rape" scene in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E5HomerVsDignity Homer vs. Dignity]]". However, [[DownplayedTrope this isn't a consistent tone]] [[DependingOnTheWriter across the show]], which is generally seen as pretty laid-back.
132	* While ''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends''' overall message of helping people with depression is more complex than one might expect from the genre, the show otherwise revels in BlackComedy, random bursts of violence, and surreal humor. WordOfGod is that in spite of many other late-night Creator/AdultSwim shows featuring the same kind of content, its presence in ''Smiling Friends'' is purely AuthorAppeal, not {{pandering\|ToTheBase}} to any particular demographic.
133	* ''WesternAnimation/SolarOpposites'' uses the aliens' BlueAndOrangeMorality as an excuse to employ a ton of BlackComedy, gore (AlienBlood and otherwise), and bizarre, often sophomoric humor, as well as numerous pop culture references. However, the subplots about the Wall and the Silvercops take some of those mean-spirited jokes and spin them off into dramatic narratives that downplay the edgier comedy.
134	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is [[GenrePopularizer almost single-handedly responsible]] for kickstarting the trend of RefugeInAudacity and CrossesTheLineTwice in adult animation. Hard as it is to imagine these days, in 1997 the sight of cartoon characters telling each other to "suck balls" was wild and crazy (the closest ''The Simpsons'' had ever come to that was, of course, "Eat my shorts!"), and the show drew huge viewership numbers purely from the [[DancingBear novelty factor]]. Like all popular things, it was quickly aped and imitated, and soon it became standard practice for adult cartoons to take a page out of Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone's book. [[UnbuiltTrope Unlike many of its imitators]], though, ''South Park'''s humor relies heavily on satire and mockery of weekly news RippedFromTheHeadlines, though ToiletHumour and crude sexual jokes still feature frequently.
135	* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'' dabbles in and was marketed as this, being a lot more likely than other [[Franchise/StarTrek Trek]] shows to show frequent swearing, nudity, sex, and bloody violence and injury for laughs. But much like ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' (''Lower Decks'' show runner is Mike [=McMahan=] who worked on ''R&M'') it has a lot of character focus and heart to it as well, it's mainly a story of how several lower rank Starfleet members on a ship that itself is relegated to less glamourous work deal with the more day-to-day craziness of working in Starfleet... which just often includes violence and sex. It still typically has the optimistic core of most Trek works.
136	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Squidbillies}}'' is a faithful adherent to the basic tropes of the genre. All of the humor is either sexual, violent, offensive, or just plain gross, and is also drawn in a deliberately sloppy, ugly art-style.
137	* ''WesternAnimation/TrippingTheRift'' has gross-out and sex jokes galore. Unusually for the genre, it's an AllCGICartoon.
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