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| 5 | [[caption-width-right:350:"[[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror That's... wrong. That's... brilliant]]." [[note]][[ComicallyMissingThePoint Shouldn't the planes be white though? White moves first, after all.]][[/note]]]] |
| 6 | ->''"I may disapprove of a movie for going too far, and yet have a sneaky regard for a movie that goes much, much farther than merely too far."'' |
| 7 | -->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''' on ''Film/ShootEmUp'' |
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| 9 | %% One quote is sufficient. Extra quotes go on the quotes page. This page is in alphabetical order. Please put your examples in the correct place. |
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| 11 | ''"[[BlackComedy Pain is funny.]] Therefore, more pain must be even funnier!"'' |
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| 13 | Thus goes the logic in a lot of comedy shows and a few adult cartoons. Sadly, that's not the case. The line separating ''Film/TheThreeStooges''-style painful fun from outright villainous {{squick}}y sadism varies from person to person but is definitely there; crossing it makes one fan's ''[[TheChewToy "Nyuk nyuk!"]]'' another fan's GuiltyPleasures. |
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| 16 | However, if a show goes far enough with its violence, it may end up crossing the line not once but ''twice'', as it goes around the planet and crosses it again. This second crossing takes the violence from sick back to funny in its ridiculous extremes. Similar to SoBadItsGood, but done quite intentionally. |
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| 18 | This isn't as easy as it sounds. Shows attempting to be DarkerAndEdgier with their humor this way straddle the line between sadism and comedy, and it's easy to make a mistake and fall on the wrong side of the S.S. Tightrope. Rather than cross the line a second time, the show [[MemeticMutation makes a]] WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque and breaks the audience's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. [[MoralGuardians Some people]] just don't have a second line to cross in their minds, and will [[DudeNotFunny dislike]] any turn into sadism or vulgarity. |
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| 20 | This can also apply to things other than violence for [[RuleOfFunny funny's sake]]; any time a little exaggeration would provoke a negative reaction, but exaggeration is fine, that's crossing the line twice. Take action scenes, for example: some shows try to keep action scenes realistic in order to seem believable, while others go so far over the top that it breaks the audience's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. Still, others take the over-the-top so over the top that what was before unbelievable garbage is now heart-wrenching, adrenaline-rushing, undiluted '''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome AWESOME]]'''. Of course, this form of the trope is just as subjective as the last, so be careful what you put down as an example. |
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| 22 | See also BlackComedy, BloodyHilarious, RefugeInAudacity, VulgarHumor. If this happens completely by accident, that's SpringtimeForHitler. Part of the SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror. When this trope ''isn't'' taken to extreme, over-the-top levels, it's mere ComedicSociopathy. When it succeeds in being offensive but not so much at comedy, it's DudeNotFunny. |
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| 24 | The HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood depends on this trope, piling misfortune on misfortune until it becomes so ridiculous it's funny. For instance, the BoardingSchoolOfHorrors in ''Radio/BleakExpectations'' would be abusive if the staff beat the students and deprived them of food. That they use the boys as ammo for artillery practice and make them play a game where the smallest boy is chosen as the ball, kicked and punched across the field, and finally has his head shoved in a bucket of manure to score a goal is just silly. |
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| 26 | This is also the way the HeroicComedicSociopath holds the audience's hearts. This character does evil in such an over-the-top, outrageous fashion that the audience stops feeling any moral qualms, because it's so over-the-top and out of line that it becomes ''hilarious'' instead. |
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| 29 | Compare ActuallyPrettyFunny, when even the target of the joke concedes the humor of the situation. |
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| 31 | For the (mostly) non-vulgar variant, see OverlyLongGag. |
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| 33 | !!Example subpages: |
| 34 | |
| 35 | [[index]] |
| 36 | * CrossesTheLineTwice/AnimeAndManga |
| 37 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' |
| 38 | * CrossesTheLineTwice/{{Comedy}} |
| 39 | * CrossesTheLineTwice/ComicBooks |
| 40 | * CrossesTheLineTwice/FanWorks |
| 41 | * Films — Animation |
| 42 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/{{Madagascar}}'' |
| 43 | * [[CrossesTheLineTwice/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]] |
| 44 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/{{Eurotrip}}'' |
| 45 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/FreddyGotFingered'' |
| 46 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/ScaryMovie'' |
| 47 | * CrossesTheLineTwice/LiveActionTV |
| 48 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' |
| 49 | * CrossesTheLineTwice/{{Music}} |
| 50 | * CrossesTheLineTwice/VideoGames |
| 51 | * CrossesTheLineTwice/{{Webcomics}} |
| 52 | * CrossesTheLineTwice/WebAnimation |
| 53 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/ASDFMovie'' |
| 54 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'' |
| 55 | * CrossesTheLineTwice/WebOriginal |
| 56 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/SCPFoundation'' |
| 57 | * CrossesTheLineTwice/WebVideos |
| 58 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/DreamSMP'' |
| 59 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' |
| 60 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/SuperMarioLogan'' |
| 61 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/VanossGamingAndCompany'' |
| 62 | * CrossesTheLineTwice/WesternAnimation |
| 63 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/AmericanDad'' |
| 64 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/BigMouth'' |
| 65 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/BojackHorseman'' |
| 66 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/FamilyGuy'' |
| 67 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/FinalSpace'' |
| 68 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/{{Futurama}}'' |
| 69 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/{{Kaeloo}}'' |
| 70 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/ParadisePD'' |
| 71 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/RobotChicken'' |
| 72 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/SmilingFriends'' |
| 73 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/SouthPark'' |
| 74 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/SpongeBobSquarePants'' |
| 75 | ** ''CrossesTheLineTwice/StevenUniverse'' |
| 76 | [[/index]] |
| 77 | |
| 78 | !!Other examples: |
| 79 | |
| 80 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 81 | %% |
| 82 | %% Please do not undo the folders. Thank you. %% |
| 83 | |
| 84 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 85 | * Featured at the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBKc3Gb37pw an episode]] of ''Series/TheGruenTransfer'' was an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMxzKQFl7 ad for 42Below brand Vodka]]. The ad mercilessly poked fun at homosexual stereotypes, then, at the end, said the ad was run past "two fags and a queer" to make sure it wasn't offensive. |
| 86 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNDIbBpxoBA And this one.]] |
| 87 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2R7vfrnbp4 And this one too.]] |
| 88 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMxzKQFl7pw And here's the first one again.]] |
| 89 | * Creator/AdultSwim's "Smart Pipe" infomercial, which begins as a satire of social media and their obsession with gathering and selling personal data (in this case in the form of a pipe that goes in your toilet plumbing and analyzes your waste,) and for some odd reason begins with an announcement that the company (the ''entire'' company) is a registered sex offender. [[BrickJoke Later on in the infomercial they try to explain this]] with the revelation that Smart Pipe analyzes and creates a topographical map of each user's anus, and how they've run afoul of "ancient child pornography laws" by scanning children, before suddenly turning political and requesting that viewers call and harass a specific congressman about it. |
| 90 | * This entire [[https://youtu.be/Qh_gOK6xDNA Super Bowl L ad]] for Doritos. It's better to watch until the end to see ''exactly'' why. Let's just say that even unborn babies enjoy Doritos too… |
| 91 | * Metro Trains Melbourne's rail safety ad: ''Advertising/DumbWaysToDie'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw here.]] Basically, it's a PSA about being safe around trains, and it compares it to other stupid deaths, such as using private parts as piranha bait, and selling both your kidneys on the Internet. |
| 92 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvZQSw3F6FE This]] banned {{NSFW}} IKEA commercial shows a couple playing kinky games at home. Then their [[PrimalScene kids walk in on them]] prompting the father to cover up his manhood with a photo of his daughter which pushes the whole things into incest territory. From the same campaign is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hgN4Fqulmw this ad]], depicting a boy playing with toys... including one of his mom's. |
| 93 | * Nandos has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYnL5oUePM8 a commercial]] which depicts the one time strongman of UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}}, Robert Mugabe, reminiscing over doing childish games (i.e. water guns, swinging, etc.) with other dead dictators like UsefulNotes/{{Libya}}'s Muammar Gaddafi, UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}'s UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein, and UsefulNotes/{{Uganda}}'s UsefulNotes/IdiAmin. Not only does it cross the line twice in terms of humor, it's also bizarrely moving. It was perhaps unsurprisingly pulled before release, though that didn't stop it from making the rounds on [=YouTube=]. |
| 94 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PKaFwYIBbg This 2003 NSPCC ad]] depicts a mother becoming increasingly agitated by her toddler son's demands to the point that a request for water is heavily implied [[AbusiveParents to be answered with violence]]. The funny part is that the kid is initially depicted as a DrillSergeantNasty clearly matching or surpassing Creator/RLeeErmey in [[LargeHam sheer hamminess]] as he barks childish orders throughout the day. |
| 95 | * A series of Pop-Tarts commercials have really pushed the boundary by portraying the Pop-tarts as sentient beings always being hunted by humans and animals out to gobble them up. Worse is that the Pop-tarts always lose; an especially weird one has a baby pop-tart eaten by a nurse as its parents ''watch''. |
| 96 | -->'''Mom:''' Ah Jammit. |
| 97 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvFNQuZgFX4 This Canadian PSA,]] which features a pop group at a school assembly ''singing about sex'', with the audience uncharacteristically eliciting a FlatWhat. Just when you thought it couldn't get weirder, then came the dancers in ''penis and vagina costumes'', and the people chanting "Go Penis! Go Penis!" |
| 98 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbYWhdLO43Q This ad]] for the Squatty Potty, involving a unicorn [[PoopingFood pooping out ice cream]]... which the advertiser proceeds to eat. The entire ad is full of poop-as-ice-cream analogies, and the presentation in general is so ridiculous you have to take it seriously. |
| 99 | * Sending a gift box containing a stuffed representation of the organism that causes an STD? Tasteless and offensive. Sending [[https://www.giantmicrobes.com/us/products/taintedlove.html a gift box]] containing ''five'' stuffed representations of various STD-causing organisms? Hilarious. |
| 100 | [[/folder]] |
| 101 | |
| 102 | [[folder:Arts]] |
| 103 | * Art in the SocialistRealism style is generally derided for being bombastic, over-the-top and self-aggrandizing. [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Treptow_Ehrenmal_06.jpg This statue]] (erected after the liberation of Berlin) is all of those things and so much more: a Soviet soldier in BadassLongcoat rescuing a baby with one hand and wielding a {{BFS}} in the other, while pulling a CaptainMorganPose on a [[SmashTheSymbol smashed swastika]]. Subtle. ''Awesome''. |
| 104 | [[/folder]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 107 | * The cartoons in ''The Rejection Collection'' crossed the line once when they were rejected by ''The New Yorker'', but crossed it a second time when they were funny enough to be published in this book. |
| 108 | * ''ComicStrip/ScaryGary'': Being a series with a lot of BlackComedy, many, ''many'' jokes merrily skip their way across the line. One of the lighter examples would be Gary telling Leopold [[NoodleIncident "- for the last time -"]] to stop burying body parts in Gary’s flower bed, only to do a 180° when Frankenstein’s boyfriend gushes over how gorgeous the flowers are. |
| 109 | -->'''Gary''': ''(To Leopold)'' "Throw in another foot." |
| 110 | * One ''ComicStrip/{{Baldo}}'' strip in 2002 had the family talk about the SceneryPorn they would see in Colorado... only [[https://s3.amazonaws.com/lowres.cartoonstock.com/families-baldo-vacation-holiday-road_trip-camping_trip-hcc020817_low.jpg for them to enter Colorado and see a bunch of burnt-out trees]] that were still smoking. At the time, Colorado had ''quite'' a lot of wildfires (Notably the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayman_Fire Hayman Fire]]) and seeing something produced within months of them was quite shocking - yet people in Colorado thought it was ActuallyPrettyFunny. |
| 111 | * One comic strip for ''ComicStrip/BigNate'' depicts Nate and his friends at the beach making a sandcastle. A bully threatens to knock it over... only for Nate to say he will not. Cut to the sandcastle being [[https://www.gocomics.com/bignate/2011/09/11 the twin towers]]. Yes, this strip ''seriously'' ran on September 11th. |
| 112 | * Many strips of ComicStrip/TheFarSide run on this, and are too numerous to name. |
| 113 | * In one story arc of ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'', Paige is given an aquarium with guppies and an angelfish. |
| 114 | -->'''Paige''': "That's right guppies, eat the fish food. That's right Mr. Angelfish, eat the fish-[[BlackComedyPetDeath FOOD!]] I said eat the fish ''FOOD''!" |
| 115 | -->'''Peter''': "I hope guppies reproduce quickly..." |
| 116 | ** Another strip had Jason and Marcus looking at the aquarium... and saying the miniature [[Film/Titanic1997 Leonardo DiCaprio]] at the bottom was a nice touch. |
| 117 | [[/folder]] |
| 118 | |
| 119 | [[folder:Films — Animation]] |
| 120 | * ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': At one point, Horace and Jasper argue over who will kill the puppies and who will skin them. |
| 121 | %% Please explain how this event Crosses the Line Twice, then uncomment |
| 122 | %% * ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie'': Red kicking a blue bird into the ocean. |
| 123 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Boogie}}'' is filled to the brim with stuff like these. The titular hero introduced tricking a 7-year-old kid into ringing the doorbell of a mafia hideout, leading to the kid getting machine-gunned, which is all ''PlayedForLaughs'', pretty much sets the tone of the film. And later there's a MushroomSamba sequence containing a Disneyland Parody called "War Land", where a Tinkerbell CaptainErsatz blows up a child with a grenade launcher before the Disneyland castle turns into a series of nukes and launching into the sky. |
| 124 | * Some characters' antics in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'', such as Lord Portly-Rind using his funds to build a cheese wheel instead of a children's hospital. |
| 125 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}'': |
| 126 | ** There's a running gag of Scamper being suicidal but having the HealingFactor. And when he's in mortal danger, he says, "Just when I've decided I want to live!". |
| 127 | ** There's an orphanage specifically for ''blind'' orphans, and initially it looks like Eva is killing them (when really they're squealing happily). Igor (who created her for evil) says, "Oh my gosh, she's killing blind orphans! That's so evil! I mean, [[GoneHorriblyRight which is great]], but... ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards blind orphans]]''?!" |
| 128 | ** Brainwashing is treated like an actual wash, and it has types of brainwashes called "Arsonist Scrub" and "Axe Murderer Wash". |
| 129 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': The death montage of the Supers who died [[CapeSnag thanks to their capes]]. Normally, the means of death (including getting ''sucked into a jet turbine and crushed by an elevator'') would be horrifying. But the rapid fire way that Edna Mode lists them, as well as the fact that they all died to something as trivial as a ''cape'' turns it back into a hilarious moment. |
| 130 | * ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'': Sadness talking about the "funny movie where [[DeathByNewberyMedal the dog dies]]". Double for when Joy desperately brings it up to try to cheer her up. This goes even further in at least one foreign dub, where it's "the movie where [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 the lion's father dies]]." |
| 131 | * ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'': The fact that President Hathaway designed the [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction nuclear fallout button]] to be right next to the latte button is [[InventionalWisdom rather ridiculous]], but then it leads to this interaction. |
| 132 | -->'''W.R. Monger:''' And we all know... ''nukes'' ain't an option.\ |
| 133 | '''President Hathaway:''' Sure, they are. Just, uh... ''(casually leans on the nuclear fallout button)'' |
| 134 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' gives us a rare ''Disney'' example -- Mulan is bathing in secret in a lake. Then, however, Yao, Ling, and Chien-po enter prompting a hilarious water-fight in which Mulan is trying to hide that she's a woman in front of [[NakedPeopleAreFunny three naked men]]. She manages to get away from them, and says "I ''never'' [[TemptingFate want to see another naked man ever again...]]" Cue a stampede of about a couple dozen naked men running running past her. |
| 135 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" is an infectiously gleeful song, sung by three children, about their plans to kidnap and torture Santa. |
| 136 | * ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'' has an OverlyLongGag where its twelve-year-old KidHero has to pry a book out of the hands of an ''obese man's corpse'' through increasingly aggressive and ridiculous methods. Then there's a throwaway line from the cop character, which has only gotten ''more'' hilariously awful with age: |
| 137 | -->'''Sheriff Hooper:''' What are you doing, firing at civilians? [[TakeThat That's for]] [[PoliceBrutality police to do!]] |
| 138 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'': Aunt Fanny's {{Fartillery}} causes a nearby street lamp bot to collapse. Cut to the next morning, he's gone... with a ''[[ChalkOutline tape outline]]'' marking the spot. |
| 139 | * ''[[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer]]'': Rudolph's parents cover his nose so it won't raise a fuss when he plays reindeer games. The cover comes off and a buck Rudolph just befriended whimpers and yells "Get away from me!" with WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises. One can't help but laugh at the reaction that triggered Rudolph getting shunned by the other reindeer. |
| 140 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'' was already on the [[RefugeInAudacity other]] [[BlackComedy side]] [[NationalStereotypes of the]] [[LetsMeetTheMeat line]] [[FoodPorn before it]] [[HurricaneOfPuns could even]] [[TakeThat cross it]]. |
| 141 | * ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoToTheMovies'': The premise involves the Teen Titans traveling back in time to prevent all other superhero origins so they can get their own movie, so at the end they have to undo all their changes to bring the past and present back to normal. This includes ''pushing the Waynes into Crime Alley'' so their deaths create Batman. Raven even slaps [[ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns the infamous pearl necklace]] onto Martha Wayne first. |
| 142 | * ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'': Woody's cringeworthy attempt to convince the other toys that Buzz is fine, and that they're friends now...using Buzz' currently severed arm (Buzz having suffered a complete mental breakdown at this point). He also smacks Buzz [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan across the face]] to knock some sense into him with Buzz' own dismembered arm. |
| 143 | * ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'': While the RealitySubtext made it awkward enough for Disney to cut it out of future releases, the gag of Stinky Pete [[CastingCouch flirtatiously offering two Barbies a role in the sequel, with obvious ulterior motives]], is still hilarious on its own. |
| 144 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'': |
| 145 | ** A flashback is shown of the many incidents caused by Branch's paranoia of a Bergen attack. Birthday party? Knocks down the cake in panic. Wedding? Knocks down the cake again. Funeral? Knocks down the casket, ''causing the body to fall out''. Made doubly so when the deceased troll and his widow being the groom and bride from the previous wedding sequence, [[RuleOfThree and the groom originally being a clown for her birthday]]. |
| 146 | ** When the Bergens are singing about how they're all miserable, one is seen ''burying himself alive''... with a "meh" expression on his face. |
| 147 | ** Cooper's best moment in the film is when he cracks a totally inappropriate joke while everyone else is letting Branch's tragic backstory sink in. |
| 148 | --->'''Cooper:''' My uncle broke his neck tap-dancing once. |
| 149 | * ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': |
| 150 | ** The circumstances surrounding Ming confronting Devon at the store over Mei's drawings of him shirtless would normally be pretty serious, since she finds Mei's drawings and mistakes the 17-year-old Devon for a ''30-year-old'' who is ''[[MistakenForPedophile preying on her 13-year-old daughter]]''. It wouldn't be so funny if the real reason behind Mei's drawings weren't so simple (it was just Mei starting to form a crush on Devon, and she'd never even spoken to him before), and if Mei's horrified and embarrassed expressions during it all weren't downright hilarious. |
| 151 | ** Mei ShakingTheRump at ''her own mother'' likely wouldn't be so funny if [[spoiler:they weren't both in their red panda forms, with Ming being the size of a {{Kaiju}}]], or if Mei wasn't doing it just to get a rise out of her (which she succeeds at spectacularly). |
| 152 | * ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Kano]] [[BloodyHilarious performing his]] [[AndShowItToYou most iconic fatality]] on a zombie at the Bad-Anon support group meaning (albeit with purplish goo rather than red blood). It's already a [[RefugeInAudacity rather shocking gag]] for a PG-rated Disney movie, but the way that 1) Kano is doing it as an [[AffablyEvil enthusiastic expression of support]], 2) Ralph is [[{{Squick}} absolutely horrified]], and 3) the zombie in question [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction doesn't seem to mind much]] elevates it from "violent and funny" to "violent and ''hilarious''". |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:Game Shows]] |
| 156 | * ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'' puts poor Alex on the receiving end of this twice: |
| 157 | ** One that gleefully speeds across the line on a motorcycle is when, during their ColdOpen back and forth, Creator/{{Greg|Davies}} and Creator/{{Alex|Horne}} are voicing each other: |
| 158 | ---> '''Alex voicing Greg:''' You, Alex, are a wonderful person! I love you, Alex. |
| 159 | ---> '''Greg voicing Alex:''' Hello, I'm Alex Horne, and I support ''[[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid]]''. |
| 160 | ** And another time when the contestants are tasked with hiding from Alex. He reaches into a closet to move some clothes, and accidentally ''[[ThanksForTheMammary grabbed Mel Giedroyc's breast]]''. While the two of them were clearly uncomfortable about it when it happened, by the time the on-stage segment happened Mel decided to do a backflip over the line by accusing Alex's hands of covering quite a bit more surface area... |
| 161 | ---> '''Mel:''' There was a drive-by. Both of them. And possibly in the Pennyfield area as well. It was fine! You saw there was a little bit of awkwardness. |
| 162 | [[/folder]] |
| 163 | |
| 164 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 165 | * The funnier jokes on [[https://www.sickipedia.net Sickipedia]]. There's a reason why Frankie Boyle and Sickipedia appear to have reached something of a "steal and steal alike" agreement. |
| 166 | * Why is Auschwitz better than a hospice? You don't have to die naturally in Auschwitz. |
| 167 | * Why is Al Qaeda more compassionate than pro-lifers? The 9/11 hijackers got to die instantly. |
| 168 | * Creator/MelBrooks on what he does for a living: "If I cut my finger, that's tragedy. If a man walks into an open sewer and dies, that's comedy!" |
| 169 | * Three men and a woman were marooned on a desert island. After one week, the woman [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone felt so guilty about what she had been doing]] that she committed suicide. After another week, the three men felt so terrible about what they had been doing they buried her. After another week the three men felt so terrible about what they had been doing they dug her back up. |
| 170 | * Why did ''(insert name of child molester here)'' go to Walmart? Because children's clothes were half off! |
| 171 | ** It would be physically impossible to list every child molester joke ever made and all of them are like this. Another is, "How does ''(insert name of child molester here)'' know what time it is? When the big hand is on the little hand!". |
| 172 | * The [[http://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/28g0ap/little_timmy_went_to_a_brothel/ "Dead Frog"]] joke crosses it numerous times. A young boy named Timmy [[DirtyKid goes to a brothel]] with [[BlackComedyPetDeath a dead frog]] and asks to sleep with one of the girls, and an employee ''lets him''. Then, he asks if Timmy has any preferences and he asks for the girl with the most diseases. The employee is shocked, but arranges it, and later, he asks Timmy why he made that request. Timmy responds that it's to spread them to his babysitter when she "touches" him, who will then spread them to his father, who will spread them to his wife (Timmy's mother), who will [[CheatingWithTheMilkman spread them to the milkman]], who ran over Timmy's frog. |
| 173 | * A white guy, a black guy, a Japanese guy, and a Mexican guy were standing on the edge of a cliff, contemplating oblivion. The Mexican man shouts, "For the honor of my people!" and jumps off the cliff. Japanese man shouts, "For the honor of my people!" and commits seppuku. The black man shouts, "For the honor of my people!" and pushes the white guy off. |
| 174 | * Why did little Suzy fall off the swing? She had no arms. Knock knock. Who's there? Not little Suzy. What did Little Suzy get for Christmas? A scooter! Just kidding, she couldn't open the box. |
| 175 | * A murderer, a sadist, an arsonist, a zoophiliac, a necrophiliac, and a masochist were sitting in a room together. "We should kill a pig," says the murderer. "We should set the pig on fire and then kill it", says the arsonist. "We should fuck the pig and then set it on fire and then kill it", says the zoophiliac. "We should torture the pig and then fuck it and then set it on fire and then kill it," says the sadist. "We should torture the pig and then fuck it and then set it on fire and then kill it and then fuck it again", says the necrophiliac. "Oink," says the masochist. |
| 176 | * The entire point of TheAristocrats, a joke that's meant to be a ''challenge'' to come up with the most vulgar, offensive and outright ''wrong'' story one can think of all for the purposes of making [[DudeNotFunny things that should never be considered funny]] funny. |
| 177 | ** The joke is that a group of performers, usually described as a family, are auditioning for an agent or for a gig, sometimes at a circus. The person evaluating them asks to see their act, so they proceed to perform a long series of absolutely terrible things, from killing and torturing animals, to perverse sexual acts, to defecating or urinating. Eventually the act stops and the bewildered audience of one asks what the hell they call their act. ''"The aristocrats!"'' [[DontExplainTheJoke (Because this is the sort of thing aristocrats supposedly get up to.)]] |
| 178 | *** In one version of this joke, the act is actually an elaborate group suicide, and the whole family dies. |
| 179 | * A man sees a crying woman by a pond. She is in a wheelchair and has no arms or legs. He asks her why she is crying and she answers that she has never been hugged. Feeling pity, he hugs her then jogs away. The next day he finds her crying again and she says she has never been kissed. The man kisses her and jogs away again. On the third day the man sees her crying and asks her thrice. She tells him she has never been fucked. The man picks her up... and throws her in the pond telling her, "You're fucked now!" |
| 180 | * Some [[https://mashable.com/2017/11/23/kids-write-jokes/ jokes written by kids]]. For instance, "Why did the banana [[{{Autocannibalism}} eat himself]]? Because he had nothing" and "What do you get when you cross a T-rex with a chicken? Nothing but death". |
| 181 | * Why is Helen Keller a bad driver? Because she's a woman. Or alternatively, because she's dead. |
| 182 | * What's white and bobs up and down in a baby's crib? A pedophile's ass. |
| 183 | * Two Holocaust survivors go to heaven. One of them tells a Holocaust joke to the other, who laughs. {{God}}, who overheard them, asks what's so funny about the joke. They reply, "Ah, I guess you just had to be there." |
| 184 | * Creator/NormMacdonald had a joke on Saturday Night Live that crosses the line three times: “Who are safer drivers? Men or women? Well, according to a new survey, 55% of adults feel that women are most responsible for minor fenderbenders, while 78% blame men for most fatal crashes. Please note that the percentages in these pie graphs do not add up to 100% because the math was done by a woman. For those of you hissing at that joke, it should be uh noted that that joke was written by a woman. So, now you don't know what the hell to do, do ya? Nah, I'm just kidding. We don't hire women.” |
| 185 | [[/folder]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 188 | * The vampire feast in ''Literature/AlmostNight'' features various animals being drained of blood and killed. Then their corpses are used as playthings such as impromptu pillow fights, and sword fights for birds. Carlisangel even tortures one for kicks during the first one. |
| 189 | * ''Literature/AndyGriffithsJustSeries'': In "Band Aide" from "Just Crazy", Andy imagines ripping off his band-aid and [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank filling up the bathroom with blood]], then his mother opening the bathroom door and sending them down the street in a wave of blood... and then when he explains that he ripped his band-aid off, [[SkewedPriorities her yelling at him about band-aids being expensive]]. |
| 190 | * In ''Literature/TheBFG'', the giants eat humans, and there are so many over-the-top jokes about it, like puns about where the humans come from (e.g. humans from Panama taste of hats and Hottentots are literally hot), and the giants having ridiculous names like Butcher Boy. |
| 191 | * In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', one of the Whistler sisters tells the other that the neighbour's boy, Balin Brindle, is rumoured to have [[ParentalIncest fathered his younger sisters.]] The reply? "And? At least we know he's fertile". |
| 192 | * ''Literature/{{Candide}}'' by Creator/{{Voltaire}} has horrible things happening to almost all of the characters. Several times one character is forced to flee abandoning others to gruesome deaths. But as they often manage some to survive in some incredibly improbable way as it progresses the horrible events become funny. |
| 193 | ** Made even worse by the recurring quote "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds" with all the atrocities around, often repeated just after something especially terrible happened. Well justified as the book was intended to be a sarcastic approach to the government, society and philosophy, particularly Gottfried Leibniz's optimism. |
| 194 | * ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': At the end of the twelfth book, [[spoiler: Greg visits the Isla de Corales website and sees a picture of his family that says that they have been banned from the resort. The picture in question? ''The family falling off an inflatable boat!'']] |
| 195 | * Creator/EdwardGorey's ''The Gashlycrumb Tinies'', a book where twenty-six children die in alphabetized ways. |
| 196 | * These lines from ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': |
| 197 | -->We were resting a moment by a stream when we saw him. A young buck, probably a yearling by his size. His antlers were just growing in, still small and coated in velvet. Poised to run but unsure of us, unfamiliar with humans. Beautiful.\ |
| 198 | Less beautiful perhaps when the two arrows caught him, one in the neck, the other in the chest. Gale and I had shot at the same time. The buck tried to run but stumbled, and Gale’s knife slit his throat before he knew what had happened. Momentarily, I’d felt a pang at killing something so fresh and innocent. And then my stomach rumbled at the thought of all that fresh and innocent meat. |
| 199 | ** A pretty hefty portion of the humor in the series is this. For instance, "The Head Shackle" from Mockingjay. |
| 200 | * The French novel/prose poem ''Literature/LesChantsDeMaldoror'' crosses the line so many times that it becomes impossible to tell if it's meant to be funny or not. In one episode, the main character, sitting on a clifftop armed with a rifle, calmly watches a ship leave harbour during a storm, hit some rocks, and sink. Amid the mass of survivors, one sixteen-year-old boy swims bravely towards the shore, and the main character takes some time to admire the boy's beauty and bravery [[spoiler: and then shoots the kid in the head.]] Then, a group of sharks attacks the remaining survivors. The main character watches all the survivors getting eaten, then identifies an especially large female shark as the most savage one. He waits until all the surviving humans are dead, picks off all the other sharks with his rifle, then dives into the sea, swims up to the female shark [[spoiler: and fucks her.]] |
| 201 | * Creator/JonathanSwift's satirical essay ''Literature/AModestProposal'' definitely qualifies. Eating babies to prevent overpopulation is rather dark and gruesome. However, saying that they make for a delicacy, great gloves, and should have women act like cows to raise them up for being eaten is just plain hilarious. |
| 202 | * ''Literature/PaperTowns'': |
| 203 | ** At the prom afterparty, Ben sets a county record for longest keg-stand. Radar describes him as some kind of "autistic savant". |
| 204 | ** During the road trip, [[spoiler:Radar is bought a T-shirt with a Confederate flag on it that reads "Heritage not Hate". Radar is black]]. |
| 205 | * ''Literature/{{Ratburger}}'': The way the villains die is that [[spoiler:they get made into burgers and then eaten by the rats they wanted to make into burgers]]. |
| 206 | * In the first chapter of ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', Rico drops a bomb into a room full of people. It's a ''talking'' bomb, programmed to announce, in the enemy's language, that it is a bomb, and count down until it explodes. Rico winces as he throws it, but the image of the whole thing is just hilarious. It's helped by the long-ish countdown, and that it's intended more to freak the enemy out than to actually kill anybody. |
| 207 | * [[http://www.amazon.com/Supervillainous-Confessions-Costumed-Evil-doer-ebook/dp/B0050BQSZA Supervillainous!: Confessions of a Costumed Evil-doer]] has the dubious honor of being home to a supervillain named White Power, who is decked out in Ku Klux Klan robes and has the power to make white people violently racist. In one scene he and the rest of his team parachute into a prison yard and start to kill a bunch of inmates. When the guards come out he points to a group of black inmates and says "They did it!", prompting the guards to immediately attack said inmates. |
| 208 | * The entire plot of Shakespeare's ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' could be this. According to [[http://alivion.livejournal.com/88232.html this guy]], it is. |
| 209 | * ''[[Literature/TheWayfarerRedemption Pilgrim]]'' has a bit that has achieved a fair bit of infamy in fantasy circles. In brief: a woman is used by her grandfather to channel the soul of his long-dead wife (her grandmother), so that she basically possesses their granddaughter and they have hot, passionate sex while the granddaughter [[AndIMustScream is still conscious and powerless to do anything about it.]] She gets pregnant, and over the course of the pregnancy manages to regain control of her body, forcing grandma's soul into the unborn fetus instead. She then ''beats herself into miscarrying in front of her grandfather's eyes'', expels the aborted fetus, and crushes its already-dead skull with her foot. All very macabre, twisted and {{Squick}}y. But when she smacks grandpa in the face repeatedly with the dead fetus while berating him, it becomes a stellar example of this trope. |
| 210 | * ''Literature/TheWitches'': |
| 211 | ** The witches all want to kill kids... because they think kids smell of dogs' droppings. |
| 212 | ** While the Grand High Witch is "frying" (i.e. psychically burning) another witch, she sings a rhyme with lines like, "An idiotic witch like you must roast upon the barbecue". |
| 213 | [[/folder]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[folder:Manhua]] |
| 216 | * ''Manhua/{{ezi}}'': ezi and his dad watch a news report about a school shooting in the United States. Then at school, the principal announces that the school will be screening American blockbusters during the summer break to the students' joy. To accentuate this, the page with this comic is titled "Violent Blockbusters". |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 220 | %%* Many Internet Radio shows do this in terms of sheer vulgarity since there is virtually no censorship; wonder how far it can go; this line says it all: "Oh god they said that Jesus gave it to his mother!" %%General example. |
| 221 | * ''After the Forking Show'' (ATFS), a podcast spinoff of a now defunct Australian radio show called The Spoonman, crosses the line in every podcast. One notable, repeated example: Bringing slavery to Australia (both played for laughs and discussed seriously). |
| 222 | * ''Podcast/DiscOnlyPodcast'': In Episode 5, Stephen pitches an idea for a steakhouse in which patrons pay for their meal with their blood. There's even fanart that spawned from his pitch, some of which was shown off in the podcast. |
| 223 | * ''Podcast/FatFrenchAndFabulous'': |
| 224 | ** The episode on the murderous Papin sisters crosses several lines. It crosses lines you never knew you had. The two sisters murdered their employer and her daughter with a pewter jug (referred to as an "attempted poisoning" due to the high lead levels found in pewter) then cut off the women's buttocks and basted them in menstrual blood (referred to as "avant-garde French cooking"). |
| 225 | ** Then there's this discussion from the FFF episode on the Mystery of Room 1046: |
| 226 | --->"Who needs a child-leash when you can put 'em in a regular old gimp mask and dog collar?"\ |
| 227 | "Hey, it's really hard to find a gimp mask that small."\ |
| 228 | "Yeah, there's a reason that doesn't come in fucking child size. You have a hard time finding cock rings for toddlers for the same reason." |
| 229 | * In the ''Road House'' live show episode of ''Podcast/HowDidThisGetMade'', the hosts notice that someone in the audience has brought a baby to the show. This is ''after'' they've been discussing the nitty gritty of a sex scene and shown a clip of it. Jason Mantzoukas then contemplates asking if he can hold the baby for the rest of the show. |
| 230 | -->'''Jason:''' If you brought a tiny baby, please bring it up here, I would like to hold it for the rest of the show. 'Casue I'm only going to say more horrible things, and it's only gonna be funnier if I'm holding a baby. |
| 231 | * Too many examples to list in ''Podcast/TheScathingAtheist''. |
| 232 | ** One notable example was when they brought on the hosts of the Cognitive Dissonance Podcast in episode 128, where they listed jokes about the controversy regarding fetuses and Planned Parenthood. |
| 233 | ** One week Noah made a passing joke of making a top ten list of analogies involving puppy rape. Guess what was in the show the following week? |
| 234 | * Antigone from ''Podcast/WoodenOvercoats'' has clinical depression, and has for most of her life, which would be something to take seriously... except she got diagnosed with said depression ''twenty minutes after she was born''. |
| 235 | -->'''Madeline:''' It was a world record. Which didn't offer her the least bit of consolation. |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 239 | * At ''Wrestling/{{ECW}} Holiday Hell 96'', [[Wrestling/ShaneDouglas "The Franchise" Shane Douglas]] and [[Wrestling/{{Francine}} "The Head Cheerleader" Francine]] ({{Heel}}s) defeated [[Wrestling/TommyDreamer "The Innovator of Violence" Tommy Dreamer]] and Wrestling/{{Beulah McGillicutty}} ({{Face}}s) when Douglas pinned Beulah with his Belly To Belly Suplex. Merely winning the match by pinning a woman would be offensive enough, but his making sure to ''hook the leg'' of a woman he outweighed by around 120 lbs. takes it to the necessary levels of outrageousness. The match was shown on ECW TV, so Douglas hooking the leg also sent the message to any newer viewers that Shane Douglas is the biggest jerk in the universe. |
| 240 | * One infamous scene from the ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries'' has Wrestling/VinceMcMahon talking with Wrestling/JohnCena before ending the conversation with "My N***a", leaving everyone stunned, including the nearby black wrestlers Booker T and Sharmell. Obviously, a white man saying a racial slur is incredibly shocking, especially on national TV in 2005, even for the WWE. But it's exactly for those reasons, combined with the reactions of the other people and how confidently he says it, like he's trying to sound "hip", that make it hilarious and thus, you don't take the fact that he basically said a slur all that seriously. |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 244 | * ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'' has JustForFun/StatlerAndWaldorf laughing about the time they shut down an orphanage on Christmas. They remember all the little tykes in the snow with their frostbitten teddy bears, actually laughing at the thought of said children before shuddering in shame. |
| 245 | * ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'': |
| 246 | ** Billy Bones' death scene. It's surprisingly intense for a Muppets film but at the same time, the {{Narm}} makes it impossible not to laugh. When Bones collapses, Rizzo says, "He died? [[MediumAwareness And this was supposed to be a kids movie!]]". Later on, Rizzo, Gonzo and Jim panic when they realize they're "standing in a room with a dead guy". |
| 247 | ** Then there's Dead Tom who is just a skeleton being casually dropped after it's stated he's always been dead. Then there's Blind Pew who keeps bumping into things because he's blind. But you laugh anyway because he's a jerk and is LargeHam in doing so. |
| 248 | --->'''Blind Pew:''' ''[while the cabin is burning down]'' I think I smell... Something burning, no? |
| 249 | * ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'' |
| 250 | ** The entire "Everyone has AIDS" musical number at the beginning of the movie. The word "AIDS" is repeated 52 times within about a minute. And the last 20 instances of the word just comes from the singers says "AIDS" a bunch of times at the end of the song. |
| 251 | ** The scene with Gary vomitting in an alley. The dramatic music takes it over the top while Gary repeatedly throws up, with the last instance going on for several seconds straight. |
| 252 | ** One of the most famous scenes has Gary disguise himself as someone from the Middle-East, complete with blackface, to infiltrate a secret terrorist base in Egypt. How does he manage to infiltrate the base? By spouting random [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign "Egyptian"]] to convince the guards. Even funnier, the guards are using the same "Egyptian language", which mostly consists of "Derka Derka", "Allah", and "Muhammud Jihad". [[note]] The use of "Derka Derka" is a derogatory interpretation of how the Arabic language is heard, similar to how "Ching Chong" is to Chinese. [[/note]] The whole scene (along with the team arriving via obviously American jetplanes) is absolutely ridiculous and over the top. |
| 253 | ** Not to mention the sex scene. Just in general. [[note]] It was so extreme that the MPAA demanded cuts for it to qualify for an R-rating, Parker and Stone [[BlatantLies complied]] by re-submitting a [[CensorDecoy version]] of the scene that was twice as filthy [[RefugeInAudacity and five times as long.]] At this point, the MPAA decided to cut their losses and rated the original version R, [[BatmanGambit exactly as Parker and Stone hoped they would.]] [[/note]] |
| 254 | ** The speech about dicks, pussies and assholes would just be crude, but it being such a brilliantly sagacious description of human nature makes it utterly hilarious instead. |
| 255 | ** A teenager going to see a show, being invited backstage, and then raped - disturbing. Said rape taking place with the perpetrators dressed as, and in character as, the cast of ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' - hilarious. |
| 256 | [[/folder]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 259 | * As mentioned at the top of this very page, ''Radio/BleakExpectations'' does this with [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors St. Bastards]], the most sadistically cruel school in all Georgian Britain. |
| 260 | ** And there's also the Chinese... ''[[OpiumDen restaurant]]'' in Series 2, followed shortly thereafter by Abraham Bagel, a parody of the GreedyJew who is in fact [[spoiler:a Catholic]]. |
| 261 | ** The subversion of a "release the dogs" moment. Setting dogs on abused factory workers? Not funny. Dropping dead dogs on said factory workers, on the other hand... |
| 262 | * ''Creator/TheBrewingNetwork'': Pretty much all of the humor of Lunch Meet. |
| 263 | * This sketch from ''Radio/HelloCheeky'', which is so short it can be transcribed. |
| 264 | -->'''Boy:''' Mummy? When's Daddy coming home?\ |
| 265 | '''Mother:''' Daddy won't be coming home any more, Julian. Daddy is... up high, in the sky.\ |
| 266 | '''Boy:''' Has he gone to heaven?\ |
| 267 | '''Mother:''' No, he's flying to the south of France with his secretary.\ |
| 268 | '''Boy:''' Is that why [[CheatingWithTheMilkman Uncle Milkman's]] upstairs with his boots off?\ |
| 269 | '''Mother:''' Yes. Go and play in the motorway. |
| 270 | * To "bring something up" was/is a term for vomiting. ("Brought up my lunch", etc.) ''Radio/ImSorryIllReadThatAgain'' was a sketch comedy which was [[BlackComedyBurst usually]] plenty bawdy and occasionally touched on dark ideas, but often kept a light heart or a non-serious tone about it. This is all the context you need to get the next absolutely terrible yet horribly fantastic pun. |
| 271 | -->''David Hatch went to the countryside to bring up his babies, which serves him right for eating them.'' |
| 272 | * One of the most popular and most requested sketches from ''The Mark & Brian Radio Program'' is the ParodyCommercial [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88QdZrM9xrc Kruger's Supermarket]], which emphasizes how cruelly they kill the animals to get the best taste out of the meat. |
| 273 | * ''Radio/OldHarrysGame'' uses this a lot. |
| 274 | ** Everything [[LaughablyEvil Thomas]] says or does. |
| 275 | ** Or the things [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment done]] ''to'' Thomas, such as being squashed into a pancake then roasted in a frying pan, solely to ''get God's attention'' (either from the cries of pain, or the smell). |
| 276 | ** This exchange, in the episode where the Professor starts interviewing the damned to find the true account of history. |
| 277 | -->'''The Professor''': [A]nd a Nazi who claimed he was just following orders.\ |
| 278 | '''Satan''': They all said that.\ |
| 279 | '''The Professor''': Yes, but [[NeverMyFault this one was Hitler.]] |
| 280 | ** One episode had a Muslim suicide bomber confused as to why he ended up in Hell when he gave his life for Allah and blew up an American top-secret military base, which skirts if not crosses the line into DudeNotFunny territory. Then it becomes funny again after Satan reveals the "top-secret military base" was actually just a barber shop. |
| 281 | * Creator/PeterDavison WorkCom Rigor Mortis generally runs on black humour but in one episode a lack of bodies drives the pathologists to dangerous levels of boredom. So much so that they are appalled to hear that a very young patient survived the night and then consoled with the thought that he was small so the autopsy wouldn't have lasted long enough to be interesting. A fatal traffic accident ends the drought, cheering them all up. |
| 282 | [[/folder]] |
| 283 | |
| 284 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 285 | * ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' has a rampage by [[AxCrazy Wade Wilson]], along with [[TheScrappy Carson Baye's]] [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing death]]. And now we can add... pretty much everything [[SmallNameBigEgo Jimmy Brennan]] does. [[http://s10.zetaboards.com/SOTF_V2/topic/7283191/1/ His first thread]] (possibly NSFW due to ClusterFBomb) is a prime example of it; he starts out by [[BringMyBrownPants peeing himself]] and running around screaming and crying. And then... well, let's just say according to him ''[[GentleGiant Craig Hoyle]]'' will rape everyone and wear their skins as a coat (which reached MemeticMutation territory). One could also make a case for [[http://s10.zetaboards.com/SOTF_V2/topic/7317305/1/#new Richard Han's death]] as well, in which he falls off a cliff, and [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou apparently has enough time to think out what his last words were going to be]] ("YOU WIN THIS TIME, GRAAAVIIIIITYYYYYYYYY-"). And then if that weren't enough, he falls ''[[http://s10.zetaboards.com/SOTF_V2/topic/7315953/1/#new into another thread]]'', still screaming. |
| 286 | [[/folder]] |
| 287 | |
| 288 | [[folder:Short Films]] |
| 289 | * Creator/DonHertzfeldt's animations have all sorts of violence inflicted on stick figures that go between horrible and hilarious routinely. |
| 290 | * Jim Reardon, before he went on to do animation for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', created [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A15v4tTab0Y this student short]] about [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Brown]] gunning his classmates down in a ''Film/{{Scarface|1983}}''-style rampage. A perfect example of a film which straddles the line between "appalling" and "the most hilarious thing ever made." (Warning: video NotSafeForWork or Sanity.) |
| 291 | * ''Film/ForkliftDriverKlaus - [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr3QwofYfHs The First Day On the Job]]''. |
| 292 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MELPIUpjqmw Pogo et ses amis]]'' (warning: subtitles), so very much. A Quebecois stop-motion animated short chronicling a day in the suburban life of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_the_Clown Pogo the clown]] and his friends [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein Ed]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish Albert]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer Mister Z]]. The whole thing is presented like an episode from a children's show, with voices provided by locally known actors (including the voice actors for Ned Flanders and Mr. Burns in the Quebec translation of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'') and a cameo from a local right-wing politician. It's hilarious, especially if you understand French. |
| 293 | * A 2016 Irish short film contest was won by a group of teenagers whose genre was BlackComedy. As such it was full of these types of jokes, with the crowner being... |
| 294 | -->'''Girl 1:''' My boyfriend's terrified of ovens.\ |
| 295 | '''Girl 2:''' What do you expect? He's Jewish. |
| 296 | [[/folder]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:Sports]] |
| 299 | * Bringing guns into an NBA locker room and threatening a teammate with them? Crossing the line. At a game, pantomiming shooting his teammates as a joke? This trope. Nice job, Gilbert Arenas. |
| 300 | [[/folder]] |
| 301 | |
| 302 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 303 | * Crossing the line is the whole point of ''TabletopGame/CardsAgainstHumanity'', which is ''Apples to Apples'' for people with a twisted sense of humor. Crossing the line ''twice'' is how you win. |
| 304 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'': each player is given several clones of his character on the assumption that The Computer and/or fellow players will find horrible and creative ways of destroy them. It usually happens. |
| 305 | * The game ''Public Assistance: Why Bother Working for a Living?'' is a parody of the American welfare/government assistance program where the object of the game is to stay on welfare as long as possible to make easy money (and even do illegal things on the side like prostitution, having illegitimate children, and selling drugs) whereas doing things people do a daily basis like working a 9-5 job and paying bills is considered a detriment to the player's success and such areas on the board are actually called "Worker's Burden" to simulate the burden of making income. |
| 306 | * In the "Attitude" sourcebook for 4th edition ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' the electronically recorded memories of a dead Street Samurai are reviewed and commented upon by fellow Shadowrunners. One fellow he'd worked with was known for keeping a cloth bag filled with stray cats; in a fight he would grab one by the tail, whirl it around, then hurl it at someone's face. One of the Runners comments on how this bit of animal cruelty is the most disgusting thing he'd ever heard of and he wanted nothing to do with a psycho like that. Then the memory log notes the crazy cat guy's specialty: the Cat-astrophe, where he attaches a bomb to the cat first. The same Runner responds, "okay, I take it back. That's just awesome." |
| 307 | * The hypermasculine orcish society of ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'' uses a term for its females (who are collectively owned by the respective chieftain and handed out as a reward), which translates as "Animals, that give birth to Orcs". |
| 308 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': |
| 309 | ** Da Orks do not live this trope; they ''are'' this trope. Psychotic, belligerent monsters (in a galaxy already filled to the brim with the psychotic, the belligerent and the monstrous) taken so far past the utter screaming extreme that they become endearing instead, not at all hurt by their ridiculous {{Funetik Aksent}}s or their treatment of warfare as a cross between a mass migration, holy war, looting party and ''pub crawl'', with a bit of genocide thrown in for good measure. Deyz show all deze udder gretchin gitz 'ere 'ow itz don'. Follow me, ladz! WAAAGH! |
| 310 | ** The setting in general is this on several levels, considering the absolute grimdarkness it revels in. One of the common jokes is that the Eldar literally Squicked a god (the god of sex no less) into existence and that the Catholic-Space-Nazi Imperium are the ''good guys''. |
| 311 | ** Most things related to Slaanesh tends to pole dance on the line. Slaaneshi Chaos Space Marines tend to be genetically engineered drug addicts, possible sex maniacs, and often sport literal breast plates (with one boob no less). In previous editions they even went into battle wielding guitars. |
| 312 | ** Why not talk about Cherubs? Flying {{cyborg}} ''babies'' that have been hollowed out and lobotomized to serve as combat familiars. Or Catachan, a jungle DeathWorld that has everything from carnivorous zombie plants to scorpions the size of tanks; ''only 25% of the locals survive past their tenth birthday, and doing so is considered a major accomplishment''. How about Commander Chenkov of the Valhallan Ice Warriors, who once threw ''one million'' of his own men to their deaths [[WeHaveReserves assaulting a fortress without artillery or air support]] and got widely commended for it? |
| 313 | [[/folder]] |
| 314 | |
| 315 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 316 | * ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon''. Just... well, it does starts as a black comedy ''mocking'' religious organizations in general, and then we have ''Hasa Diga Eebowai''. It's a song about how the Africans resolve to endure with famine, poverty, and AIDS; they just throw their hands to the sky and say a seemingly innocent phrase: ''Hasa Diga Eebowai''. What does it mean? [[spoiler: Fuck you, God]]. How does it cross the line a second time? With the following sentence sung out loud by women and men alike: [[spoiler: Fuck you God in the ass, mouth and cunt!]]. And that is just the fourth song in the story. Later you will find someone intending to [[spoiler: fuck a baby PlayedForLaughs. And then someone else tries to do it, being none other than the most important prophet for a whole religion!]]. Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone indeed. |
| 317 | * Rimsky-Korsakov's ''The Golden Cockerel''. Tsar Dodon finding out his sons [[MutualKill have killed each other]]? A very grim and tragic moment. And then Dodon lets out a long and carefully-sung "Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-OH!" To the music. Four times. |
| 318 | * ''{{Theatre/Hamlet}}'' can be played as a BlackComedy, and it works incredibly well if the actors involved are good. It mostly comes off as this. Notably, Hamlet casually dragging a dead body offstage while saying, "Goodnight, Mother!" can get a big laugh out of the audience. |
| 319 | * Norwegian playwright ''Johan Herman Wessel'' managed this in his parodic play ''Love without stockings'', taking the DrivenToSuicide trope up to hilarious levels, because ''every single member'' of the cast commits suicide one after another, passing the same knife around. Made doubly hilarious because of a bowl of pea stew, also passed around at the same time. |
| 320 | * ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'': |
| 321 | ** Orin Scrivello is a drug-addicted [[DomesticAbuse domestic abuser]], whose girlfriend [[TheWoobie Audrey]] is terrified of him. In real life, there would be nothing funny about him. But he's also an Elvis impersonator who works as a DepravedDentist, his drug of choice is laughing gas, he makes Audrey call him "doctor," and he takes childlike glee in inflicting pain on ''everyone''. The audience can't help but laugh and LoveToHate him. |
| 322 | ** [[spoiler: Audrey's]] death is heartbreaking... except [[spoiler: her]] LastRequest begins "When I die... [[LampshadeHanging which should be very shortly...]]", which in some productions is delivered [[BreakingTheFourthWall with a glance at the audience]] in a hilariously dry tone. |
| 323 | %%* ''Theatre/MeAndMyDick''. The whole freaking thing. |
| 324 | * ''Film/ReeferMadness''. The Musical has Jesus show up to tell the main character to stop smoking pot...and that's at the halfway point. |
| 325 | * ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' is Shakespeare's bloodiest play. The Rape of Philomela is used as the basis for a secondary plot line, lampshaded in the dialogue, and it goes FromBadToWorse. There is even a very blatant "YourMom" joke. |
| 326 | ** Two of Titus's sons are framed for the murder of their sister's fiancé, and Titus cuts off his own hand to secure their release... except he's been lied to, and he only gets their heads back, along with his hand. So, he grabs one head, has his brother take the other, and orders his handless, tongueless daughter to carry his hand by picking it up in her teeth. |
| 327 | ** After Aaron is arrested, he tells his captors about his hobbies, including this gem: "Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves, And set them upright at their dear friends' doors, Even when their sorrows almost were forgot; And on their skins, as on the bark of trees, Have with my knife carved in Roman letters, 'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'" |
| 328 | ** It has been described as the Kill Bill of the Elizabethan era. |
| 329 | * ''Theatre/TheTrailToOregon'' is basically a case study in this. |
| 330 | ** The ''second song in the musical'' drops reference to incest, using kids as tourniquets, getting bit by a bear (or a snake), and the actual historical genocide following the migration west, all in a fast-paced PatterSong. |
| 331 | ** The scene where Son is forced to kill a family of oxen ''could'' have been sad...except that the oxen physically resemble his parents, the baby ox is constantly slipping and striking sexy poses, and his grandpa is singing an [[ScatterbrainedSenior incomprehensible]] song about being an animal and...waking up with mud on your dick. |
| 332 | -->'''Baby Ox:''' And if you're really that goddamn hungy, just eat my pawents wight in fwont of me...[[KilledMidSentence JUST DO IT, MOTHERFU--]] |
| 333 | ** There's also [[AndIMustScream Horny Ox.]] |
| 334 | * ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' has a couple examples, but the Ron/Hermione kiss must be seen to be believed. It's... funny, but mostly just... ''wrong''. ''A Very Potter Sequel'' does this with Umbridge and all her plot. |
| 335 | ** At one point in ''A Very Potter Senior Year'', Dumbledore attempts to cheer up an angsty young Tom Riddle by telling him, "Well Tom, you know, sometimes... sometimes [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone you accidentally kill your family]]." This line typically gets a two-second laugh, then a bunch of "oooooh"s when the audience remembers that [[spoiler:Dumbledore's sister was killed in the crossfire of his duel with Grindelwald]], then a bigger laugh. |
| 336 | * This is the basic MO of many Jacobean and Elizabethan revenge tragedies. Shakespeare was unusual in how soberly (apart from in Titus, which crosses the line twice for the whole genre, that some critics see it as an intentional parody) he dealt with his tragedies. |
| 337 | ** Thomas Middleton's ''Theatre/TheRevengersTragedy'' jumps back and forth over the line constantly. The title character Vindice exhumes his beloved's skeleton, dresses her, fills her mouth with poison, and then tricks her murderer into making out with it. Hilarious. Not quite dead, Vindice and his Brother then proceed to kick the dying man to death. Not so funny. |
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| 341 | * During the Creator/JimmySavile paedophilia scandal, one audience member texted this message to a BBC Morning Radio program which got read out live on air: |
| 342 | --> [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9yJUOdVyUc "I wish everyone would stop criticising Jimmy Savile. He was a nice man. When I was eight he fixed it for me to milk a cow blind-folded."]] |
| 343 | * A baby once [[FlippingTheBird flipped the bird]] at its parents. And not just any baby, but a ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20121207180901/http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4686203/baby-flips-out-during-routine-scan.html fetus]]''. Apparently, the ultrasound disturbances were pissing the young thing off. |
| 344 | * [[http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/cropson/2002/canola/canola.html Tisdale, Saskatchewan]] is famous for its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed rapeseed]] and honey so naturally they picked [[Literature/TheBible "the land of rape and honey"]] as their slogan. Music/{{Ministry}} saw the slogan on a ''souvenir mug'' and just had to make an album title out of it. |
| 345 | * Recounting [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill#Personal_life the dark and secret life of type designer Eric Gill]] (whose eponymous sans-serif font is all over Britain, even today) often fits this trope. His diaries, not made public until the 1980s, describe in great detail how he had [[BrotherSisterIncest a sexual relationship with his sister]]. And [[FromBadToWorse how he molested all his children]]. But that still wasn't enough. [[RuleOfThree For the trifecta]], ''[[BestialityIsDepraved he molested his dog]]''. |
| 346 | * [[https://gizmodo.com/google-earth-helps-spot-swastika-shaped-building-304670 There's a Navy building that's unfortunate enough to be shaped like a giant swastika.]] What makes it brilliant is the nearby buildings that look like bombers flying towards it. |
| 347 | * Fringe Republican candidate Rex Rammell of Idaho replied to a question during a debate about wolf tags by saying that many Idahoans would gladly buy "Obama tags", referring to then-president Barack Obama. He later refused to apologize for the remarks on the grounds that everyone knows that [[RefugeInAudacity Idaho has no authority to issue hunting tags in Washington, D.C.]] |
| 348 | * ''Oyakodon'' (親子丼) is a Japanese dish consisting of chicken and egg on rice. The literal translation of the name is "parent and child bowl". One way to think of this dish is that you've [[TogetherInDeath reunited parent and child, only to eat them]]. [[BlackComedy This is the inspiration for the song "Mother and Child Reunion" by Paul Simon]]. |
| 349 | * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt_Memorial_Swimming_Centre There is a swimming centre]] named after Harold Holt, one of [[UsefulNotes/PrimeMinistersOfAustralia Australia’s former Prime Ministers]]. While naming buildings after a former politician is extremely common, the person it’s named after infamously went missing [[{{Irony}} after going for a swim]]. This just goes to show the Australian’s brand of humor. |
| 350 | * [[https://bigassfans.com/ Big Ass Fans]] sounds like a rather sassy name for a company that makes industrial-sized fans. Their original name, ''HVLS Fan Company'' ("High Volume, Low Speed") was just as mundane as their products. Prospective customers kept asking if they were "the company that sold those ''big ass fans''", and so the company was officially renamed accordingly. |
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