History BlackComedy / WesternAnimation

* Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/CartoonsThatNeverMadeIt'' adverts consisted of shorts about fictional cartoons that never made it past the pilot due to having terrible premises, with most of the shorts' premises revolving around a morbid joke.

* Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''WesternAnimation/CartoonsThatNeverMadeIt'' interstitials consisted of shorts about fictional cartoons that never made it past the pilot due to having terrible premises, with most of the shorts' premises revolving around a morbid joke.

** "Frothy Dawg" stars a manically grinning rabid dog who won't stop biting people who get too close to him and in one shot is shown to have infected a bat, a squirrel, a raccoon and a monkey with his disease. The end of the title sequence also shows that it is the series' seventh episode, alluding to how dogs infected with rabies typically die within a week when they are not treated in time.

** "Frothy Dawg" stars a perpetually rabid dog who won't stop biting people who get too close to him and in one shot is shown to have infected a bat, a squirrel, a raccoon and a monkey with his disease. The end of the title sequence also shows that it is the series' seventh episode, alluding to how dogs infected with rabies typically die within a week when they are not treated in time.

** "Frothy Dawg" stars a perpetually rabid dog who won't stop biting people who get too close to him and in one shot is shown to have infected a bat, a squirrel, a raccoon and a monkey with his disease. The end of the title sequence also shows that it is the series' seventh episode, alluding to how dogs infected with rabies typically die within a week.

* Creator/CartoonNetwork's ''Cartoons that Never Made It'' interstitials consisted of shorts about fictional cartoons that never made it past the pilot due to having terrible premises, with some of them revolving around a morbid joke.

** "Frothy Dawg" stars a perpetually rabid dog who won't stop biting people who get too close to him and in one shot is shown to have infected other mammals with his disease.

** "Rupert the Grouper" is about a dancing grouper who ends up dying from being out of his fishbowl too long by the time the title sequence ends. The actual episode is just a brief clip of people dancing around his corpse and his body is shown getting smelly and attracting flies during the end credits.

** "Rupert the Grouper" is about a dancing grouper who ends up dying from being out of his fishbowl too long by the time the title sequence ends, the actual episode is just a brief clip of people dancing around his corpse and his body is shown getting smelly and attracting flies during the end credits.

%%* The Jellies, too.

** An episode where TheLittlestCancerPatient wants Stan and Kyle to win the hockey game for them. [[spoiler:In a horrid subversion of this tired sports cliché, in the end they lose and so the child dies. The end!]]

* The episode "Mr. Grumpypants" of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}!'' has [[ImplacableMan Jailbot]] following Jacknife into a hospital and accidentally killing some sick kids; later on, various inmates of the prison are reverted into infants by magical means, which is a probably rare instance of seeing toddlers cutting each other to pieces. Also, the driving force of the episode is the Warden's hatred of children and desire to murder the little girl who Jailbot accidentally brought to Superjail. However, the inmates treat her with dignity, and the episode plays her death by cancer [[PlayedForDrama for drama]].

** Chief Wiggum mixes up DOA and DWI.

* ''WanderOverYonder'': In "The Axe", Commander Peepers has a GoodTimesMontage as he prepares to leave the Skullship. Since he's the [[VillainousFriendship friend]] and second-in command to CardCarryingVillain Lord Hater, the things they've bonded over are things like torturing prisoners, blowing up planets and playing in a pit of bones.

** “Ghost Host” plays all sorts of insane NightmareFuel for laughs. One standout scene has the Flying Dutchman petting Gary and promising him that he’s not going to hurt him… [[EatTheDog and then eating him immediately afterward]]. [=SpongeBob=], who sees the whole thing, is utterly horrified. Thankfully, it was just a trick and the real Gary shows up safe and sound only seconds later.

* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'': Its gross humor and demonic running gags are truly a dead giveaway.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Tearjerker" the evil plot involves a film about a mentally retarded, alcoholic Jew in the Holocaust with a cancer-riddled puppy.

** It's really more of a parody of OscarBait. The film's name is even ''Oscar Gold''.
** Let's not forget Tearjerker's contingency movie: "Six hours of a baby chimp trying to revive its dead mother".
* ''WesternAnimation/ErnestEtCelestine'' has a number of black comedy moments, such as when Celestine waxes about the diseases that Ernest might get if he keeps eating out of garbage.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': A bunch of cute forest animals killing each other off in every episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHillFarm'': The wife casually snaps the neck of a chicken right after one of the tourists takes her picture. The tourist faints.
* The Goofy short "WesternAnimation/HowToBeADetective" is a lot DarkerAndEdgier in its comedy. It opens with a guy getting thrown off a bridge, followed by a pan over silhouettes in an apartment building, each of which is displaying a scene of comically over-the-top violence. Later, there's a gag where Goofy is kicked out of the city morgue after falling down an elevator shaft, and is told, "Beat it, and don't come back 'til you're ready!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/HulkVs Wolverine'', after a shot showing a bunch of fetuses-in-tubes at Weapon X HQ, the following exchange takes place:
-->'''Deadpool''': What do you say after the mission we kill all those [[PeopleJars floating babies]]?\\
'''Omega Red''': ...do you ever shut up, Wilson?\\
'''Deadpool''': What? Babies creep me out! Rock-a-bye--BANG!
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': Only Creator/JhonenVasquez could make the hostile alien takeover of our world so twistedly funny.

* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes: A lot of cartoons have SuicideAsComedy gags.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' toys around with this (and BloodyHilarious) from time to time, particularly with the "Dethkomedy" episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'', which occasionally decides to drop the "comedy" part; it left it to die in a ditch for most of the last season.

* The classic two-reel 1936 ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' short ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsSindbadTheSailor'' had a rather dark running gag. Wimpy spent most of the story chasing a duck with a meat grinder, with the intention of turning it into a burger. Fortunately, the duck ends up getting away, swiping Wimpy's last hamburger in retaliation after he gives up.
* ''Quiet Please!'' (1989) (not to be confused with the WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry [[WesternAnimation/QuietPlease1945 cartoon]]), featured in the Spike and Mike animation festival, features every tasteless joke you could think of, including a dead baby being urinated on and a priest getting his head blown off. The cartoon is extremely NSFW, as you can imagine.
** The sequel, ''Sittin' Pretty'', isn't any better. The same man and baby return, with the baby being killed, chopped up, and baked into a meatloaf because the man was hungry.

* 1978 short ''WesternAnimation/SpecialDelivery'' is a whimsical, cheerful little cartoon about a mailman who slips and dies on an icy porch, followed by the husband's panicky disposal of the body.
* Spike And Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation is full of it, They introduced theirselves to the world with "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window" (A Cartoon where a dog gets impaled by a glass window).

* WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons: Also used Suicide as Comedy gags often.

* ''WesternAnimation/TripTank'' is, like ''Robot Chicken'', an animated SketchComedy show that revels in this.

* ''WesternAnimation/WelcomeToHell'' is a BuddyPicture about an [[{{Keet}} intensely friendly]] [[OurDemonsAreDifferent murderer-turned-demon]] whose job it is to drive an apathetic high-schooler to suicide, under the orders of [[MysteriousEmployer Mephistopheles]]. And he's absolutely terrible at his job.

* ''WesternAnimation/WorldOfTomorrow'' is mostly just gloomy, but a large part of its humor is this. It's especially common in young Emily's blithe reactions to horrible news, like the pretty shiny stars that are actually dead bodies being burned up in space through failed time travel.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': Because the tone of the show changed after the events of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'', the third season is lacking in the traditional comedy and edges more into Black Comedy, sometimes going into full blown GallowsHumor. For example, a comedy episode in Season 2 has local GrumpyBear Gears get turned into an ExtremeDoormat by the Decepticons, driving the latter crazy the entire time thanks to his ServileSnarker attitude. A comedy episode in Season 3 has the Decepticons attempting to cure Galvatron's insanity, playing the full gamut of psychiatric cures for comedy (including a ''lobotomy'')--culminating in Galvatron destroying the medical planet and leaving its doctors at the mercy of their insane patients. Yikes.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has a [[ArtStyleDissonance surprising amount]] of this, and Wiki/TheOtherWiki even lists it as a BlackComedy. A few outstanding examples:

* ''WesternAnimations/TheOblongs'' is loaded with morbid jokes, which is a given considering that the main characters are a lower-class family living in a community of people forced to endure horrific mutations and serious health problems because of the pollution coming from the upper crust who treat them like dirt.

** The sequel, ''Sittin' Pretty'', isn't any better. The same man and baby return, with the baby being killed, chopped up, and baked into a meatloaf because the man was hungry.

* ''Quiet Please!'' (1989) (not to be confused with the WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry [[WesternAnimation/QuietPlease cartoon]]), featured in the Spike and Mike animation festival, features every tasteless joke you could think of, including a dead baby being urinated on and a priest getting his head blown off. The cartoon is extremely NSFW, as you can imagine.

* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes: A lot of cartoons have SuicideAsComedy gags.
* WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons: Also used Suicide as Comedy gags often.
* 1978 short ''WesternAnimation/SpecialDelivery'' is a whimsical, cheerful little cartoon about a mailman who slips and dies on an icy porch, followed by the husband's panicky disposal of the body.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'': Beavis and Butthead often hurt themselves in pretty gruesome ways. "Woodshop" has them destroying all the equipment in their classroom. Then Beavis [[{{Fingore}} cuts his finger off]], because he just felt like touching the saw! Cue the panicking teacher being unable to find his first-aid kit and telephone, [[TooDumbToLive because the two boys had destroyed everything that could help Beavis in this particular emergency situation.]]
* And, what black humor list would be complete without mention of ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether''? The show definitely goes out of its way to be controversial and gross, though some jokes can be seen as pretty tasteless.
** Perhaps the best example of something on the show being both dark ''and'' hilarious is in "Little Orphan Hero" in which Captain Hero ends up reenacting the rape scene from ''Film/TheAccused''. It doesn't sound funny until you consider the fact that A: He's dressed like a woman for no good reason and no one at the frat kegger questions this; B: He's powerful and crazy enough to kill all his attackers with ease; C: A newspaper headline later in the show reads "Best Kegger Ever!", and D: It's a ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' Expy in a tube top being gang banged by frat boys. The sheer insanity of the situation counteracts the otherwise offensive nature of the joke.
** From the same episode: Captain Hero wipes out his species out of ''spite''.
-->'''Captain Hero:''' Captain Hero ONE! Billions of innocent Zebulonians... um... dead. Oh. I... uh... ''(Slinks off)''
* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Tearjerker" the evil plot involves a film about a mentally retarded, alcoholic Jew in the Holocaust with a cancer-riddled puppy.
** It's really more of a parody of OscarBait. The film's name is even ''Oscar Gold''.
** Let's not forget Tearjerker's contingency movie: "Six hours of a baby chimp trying to revive its dead mother".
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': Only Creator/JhonenVasquez could make the hostile alien takeover of our world so twistedly funny.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' treats all the problems of living in a futuristic dystopia very humorously.
** There's an episode where Bender adopts a dozen orphans and then attempts to sell them to a restaurant as meat once they become too expensive to care for. He hugs one to check their average weight, and when arrested by the police, one of his offenses is "misrepresenting the weight of livestock".
** Then there's the second movie "The Beast With a Billion Backs" where in order for the Robot Devil to provide the robots with weapons he tells Bender he must give him his first born son, so he brings him to Robot Hell and casually kicks him into a vat of molten lead saying "Here you go". The Robot Devil notes that [[EvenEvilHasStandards the act was brutal even for him]], only for Bender to reply [[CrossesTheLineTwice "No backsies."]]
** In the same movie, Bender goes to kill himself in a suicide booth (itself a RunningGag example). He ends up falling through a trap door before it has a chance to work, and after it does, this happens.
-->'''Recording''': You are now dead. Please take your receipt.
-->A receipt is printed out, falling onto a very large pile of untouched receipts.
** There's also a number of jokes implying that cannibalism is legal in the future.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', most infamously. In its later seasons, it's even more notorious for [[MoodWhiplash rapidly switching between this]] and [[{{Irony}} being too moralistic and heavy-handed]]. There were even dead babies during the Creator/ChristopherReeve stem cell episode. Some of the darkest episodes are:
** An episode where TheLittlestCancerPatient wants Stan and Kyle to win the hockey game for them. [[spoiler:In a horrid subversion of this tired sports cliché, in the end they lose and so the child dies. The end!]]
** The infamous "Scott Tenorman Must Die", where Cartman gets revenge after being tormented the whole episode by [[spoiler: getting Scott's parents killed, chopping them up, putting their remains into a chili which he feeds to him, inviting his [[Music/{{Radiohead}} favorite band]] over just so they can mock him, and licking his tears as he cries his eyes out]]. It's DisproportionateRetribution taken to such a horrifying extreme that it's hilarious.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' is a black hole; blackness so dense, not even light can escape. For example; "September Eleventh, Two Thousand Fun!" The show couples this brand of humor with {{Breathless Non Sequitur}}s. "Airport '07" applied the trope by featuring a sequence in which a group of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRj-S8Aklcw "Prom Night Dumpster Babies"]] sing a showtune about their plight.
** The episode "The Splendid Source" spoofed this; Peter and friends find the people who write the world's dirty jokes. They have on display the first dead baby joke, a papyrus scroll with an Egyptian woman saying "My baby is dead" and a man pointing and saying "Ha".
* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': Courage and his owners, Eustace and Muriel Bagge, constantly run into monsters, aliens, demons, mad scientists, zombies, and island natives that Courage must fend off to save his owners. Eustace always ends up being attacked by all the horrors in the series.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''
-->'''Grim:''' ''[baby voice]'' Who's gonna get reaped? Who's gonna get reaped? You are! You are!
-->'''Grim:''' Come on, Mandy. This should be fun... like watching a train wreck.
-->'''Grim:''' Ahahaha! This is more fun than the French Revolution!
-->'''Grim:''' Actually, I'm scheduled to see you next week, Mr. Teetermeyer!
** ...And that's just one character.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' lived and breathed off this trope by using NightmareFuel as comedy. An IMDB reviewer sums it up pretty well.
-->This show is nightmare fuel, pure and simple. This 'nightmare fuel' aspect is, in no way, a negative view of the show. The backgrounds' dark and dreary art style seems to compliment the characters' lighthearted antics. Oftentimes, extreme reactions in the characters faces are grossly exaggerated in a vividly horrifying, and wildly entertaining, manner. The story lines, and even the setting, are twisted and sometimes hard to follow. Again, this is not detrimental to the show's entertainment value, but instead enhances it.
* The classic two-reel 1936 ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' short ''WesternAnimation/PopeyeTheSailorMeetsSindbadTheSailor'' had a rather dark running gag. Wimpy spent most of the story chasing a duck with a meat grinder, with the intention of turning it into a burger. Fortunately, the duck ends up getting away, swiping Wimpy's last hamburger in retaliation after he gives up.
* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'', which occasionally decides to drop the "comedy" part; it left it to die in a ditch for most of the last season.
* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog''. It's not obvious at first glance, but WordOfGod is that the series is fundamentally about conjoined brothers with [[SadistShow the most miserable lives imaginable]] in [[CrapsackWorld the most miserable setting possible]] - ''and it's a comedy for children''!
* While not the first animated example that comes to mind for most, ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' definitely qualifies, especially as the series progressed. The show is hosted by a sadistic sociopath whose obsession with making the contestants' lives as painful and miserable as possible (and eagerness to see them die in his challenges) is entirely PlayedForLaughs, and many jokes involve characters both sympathetic and unsympathetic being harmed in over-the-top manners, cruelly humiliated, and/or potentially left for dead.
* In mid-season 2 of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra '', there’s a two-part WholeEpisodeFlashback to the life of the first Avatar, [[PunnyName Wan]]. When Wan learns firebending, he goes off to find another settlement and happens upon the ancestors of the Air Nomads. [[{{Foreshadowing}} About 10,000 years after Wan’s time]], [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender the Fire Nation wipes out all but]] [[Characters/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAvatarAang one airbender]].
* ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' may be LighterAndSofter than [[WhatCouldHaveBeen its original concept]], but the final product is still rife with cruel and violent AmusingInjuries and [[SadistShow humiliation]]. How many other cartoons would have an AxCrazy {{Yandere}}'s StalkerShrine being ''PlayedForLaughs''? Considering the show's supposed to take place in a cartoony version of {{Hell}}, it's oddly fitting.
* ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' is about a completely [[{{Jerkass}} desensitized, immoral, rude, stubborn, selfish, heartless asshole]] who will put people (including his friends) in harm's way to commit (usually illegal) acts of vengeance, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments and yet is so hilarious.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'' features a fantastically hilarious joke of law firm boss juggling a baby with shotguns and live chainsaws. Though in all fairness, that baby was having a good time.
** Then there's the episode where Phil runs for president and goes down a line of well-wishers. "Shake hand, kiss baby. Shake hand, kiss baby. [[DuckSeasonRabbitSeason Shake hand, kiss hand. Shake baby, kiss hand. Kiss hand, shake baby...]]"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHillFarm'': The wife casually snaps the neck of a chicken right after one of the tourists takes her picture. The tourist faints.
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' lives and breathes this trope.
** Almost inevitably, the show had one such sketch in which a crowd of visitors inside a maternity ward coo at a baby, and then a nurse walks up and covers its face to illustrate that it's dead. Good stuff.
** Lampshaded in one episode where a sketch shows a visit from the Tooth Fairy being interrupted by the girl's mother and father arguing in an obvious abusive situation before a gunshot goes off, and showing MultipleEndings where some combination of the parents and the Tooth Fairy die. The characters in the sketch then win an award for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5D_3BlOWOQ "Darkest Sketch Ever"]]. What makes this even darker is that you don't even see outside the room, just the poor child holding the covers in her room.
*** Ending 1: The Tooth Fairy wrestles the gun from the father, supposedly kills him, then walks back into the room and sits down with the kid before telling the child to be good and leaving the now orphaned child alone in her room.
*** Ending 2: The father kills the mother, and when the Tooth Fairy intervenes, kills her as well, then enters the child's room and tells the child that they're going on vacation to Disneyland. When the child asks if mom is coming, the father just repeats louder "Disney Land!!!"
*** Ending 3: The father kills the mother, and when the Tooth Fairy intervenes, kills her as well. The police arrive and you can see blinking blue and red lights through the girl's windows. The cops tell the father to drop the weapon, but he refuses, and supposedly gets shot to the ground, arrested, and taken away in a police car. The lights from the car go away, indicating the cops didn't know about the girl upstairs, leaving the child alone in a house with a dead tooth fairy and her dead mother while her father is carted off to jail. [[MoodWhiplash ...Until he and the Tooth Fairy come back in]] [[RefugeInAudacity with a marching band, a hula girl, and a businessman who gives a large check to the kid over the aformentioned darkest sketch award.]]
** In one sketch, Series/HannahMontana is murdered like Lennon, and her friends from the show [[OfCorpseHesAlive struggle to maintain the illusion of her being two different people with her corpse]], ''Film/WeekendAtBernies''-style, only for her body to become more horrifically mutilated. The sketch ends with a cut to Music/MileyCyrus crying hysterically in an office, as a Disney executive warns her "And THAT is how we'll end the show if you ever get knocked up like that ''Series/{{Zoey 101}}'' whore!"
** Proving that even the creators have limits, supposedly they scrapped a potential skit in which a baby is delivered stillborn, causing the doctor to work it like a hand puppet. It was (obviously) never made.
** They also like doing this to kids' shows a lot to give them darker jokes for a "Right In the Childhood" kind of blow. An example is the skit with Dora climbing a mountain and leaves Swiper to die in the cold (She hands him a gun to kill himself with, but purposely left it unloaded just to torment him further), Diego is dropped to his death from a mountain, she eats a small band of insects that started playing for her, and we even see the Grim Reaper come to claim Swiper as Swiper says "Reaper no Reaping" over and over.
** One sketch has a little kid in a homemade costume playing Iron Man in his backyard when he sees the ''real'' Iron Man fly past overhead and, excited to see his hero in the flesh, runs after him to where Iron Man and the Avengers are fighting a giant mechanical crab monster. He accidentally distracts Iron Man, who gets smacked into the distance by the crab monster, and then is mistaken for the real Iron Man by Hulk and Giant Man, ending up with the kid being ricocheted around by the robot, shot by it, and falling into its engine, which actually succeeds in defeating it. Iron Man comes back and the other two realize what's happened, the last scene of the sketch being that the boy has been memorialized with a solid iron statue and Tony cracks a bad joke about it which the other Avengers groan at.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' frequently gets laughs from graphic violence and horrible things and sheer sadism toward the main characters. This is the show with an episode that gave us a LotusEaterMachine PoweredByAForsakenChild, after all (even if Dr. Venture "didn't use the whole thing!")
** Also think about the fact that Dean and Hank are [[spoiler:clones that are constantly being killed]] (at least for the first few seasons).
* Most of the humor in ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' (where, as the name suggests, celebrities compete in a DeadlyGame) is either this or GallowsHumor.
* The episode "Mr. Grumpypants" of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}!'' has [[ImplacableMan Jailbot]] following Jacknife into a hospital and accidentally killing some sick kids; later on, various inmates of the prison are reverted into infants by magical means, which is a probably rare instance of seeing toddlers cutting each other to pieces. Also, the driving force of the episode is the Warden's hatred of children and desire to murder the little girl who Jailbot accidentally brought to Superjail. However, the inmates treat her with dignity, and the episode plays her death by cancer [[PlayedForDrama for drama]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'' toys around with this (and BloodyHilarious) from time to time, particularly with the "Dethkomedy" episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' does this on occasion.
-->'''[[BigBad Plankton]]:''' (''holding a carton of baby powder'') Is this made [[MadeFromRealGirlScouts with real or artificial baby]]?
** Heck, even ''before'' season 4 they did it on occasion. The season 2 episode ''The Fry Cook Games'' had a pole-vaulting event in which the competitors pole-vaulted over a vat of frying grease. Patrick bungles the whole thing, landing on the handle of the fryer, causing the grease to get launched into the crowd, turning an entire section into fish sticks. A fish promptly comes on-screen, ready with a sign, [[BlackComedyCannibalism and begins selling them for $1 each]].
** At the beginning of the episode "Plankton's Pet", Plankton attempts to steal a Krabby Patty with a baby-like robot. Mr. Krabs tackles the thief, horrifying the customers and employees until he reveals the truth. However, when he puts the baby's head back on and kicks it out of the Krusty Krab, he is beaten by some women for his abuse.
** "Nasty Patty", where [=SpongeBob=] and Mr Krabs [[MistakenForMurderer think they have killed a health inspector]] and try to hide the body.
** In "Demolition Doofus", Mrs. Puff and [=SpongeBob=] watch several injured fish attack each other in the hospital hallways, a doctor telling they were "risking their lives for their amusement". Mrs. Puff then has an ImagineSpot where [=SpongeBob=] is attacked from all sides by thugs in boats; when they clear up, all that remains of [=SpongeBob=] is '''''his grave.'''''
** In "Code Yellow", [=SpongeBob=] performs surgery on Squidward by chopping him up with a spatula, causing him to squirt ink (in place of blood), accidentally ''pull out his heart'', and chopping him up into sushi.
** “Ghost Host” plays all sorts of insane NightmareFuel for laughs. One standout scene has the Flying Dutchman petting Gary and promising him that he’s not going to hurt him… [[EatTheDog and then eating him immediately afterward]]. [=SpongeBob=], who sees the whole thing, is utterly horrified. Thankfully, it was just a trick and the real Gary shows up safe and sound only seconds later.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has a [[ArtStyleDissonance surprising amount]] of this, and Wiki/TheOtherWiki even lists it as a BlackComedy. A few outstanding examples:
** The episode "Princess Monster Wife" is about The Ice King stealing body parts of other princesses to create his own princess. His own fully aware princess. She's so horrifying that Finn and Jake faint at the sight of her, and [[TheWoobie she knows]] that she's an unnatural and suffers horrible emotional trauma by merely existing and knowing she's an abomination, while the Ice King only tries to comfort her with some of his only displays of kindness in the whole series only for Finn and Jake to screw it up by not understanding the situation or that she's fully aware. And it's somehow as hilarious as it is [[TearJerker/AdventureTime heartwrenching]], partially thanks to [[ArtStyleDissonance the simplistic and childish art style that the show deploys.]]
** The ChristmasSpecial [[TearJerker/AdventureTime "Holly Jolly Secrets"]] [[TheReveal established]] that The Ice King was once a normal antiquarian who stumbled upon an ArtifactOfDoom that drove him insane and away from his fiancee Betty and he lives through the apocalypse crying out for his lost love and begging that anyone forgive him for whatever he may do under the influence of his evil crown. After TheReveal, Jake's first line is ''"Drama boooomb!!!"'', and the Ice King cries out about his secret being revealed; that secret being that he "used to wear glasses", and he continues to brush off everything that happened, along with everyone else besides Finn. Even not considering TheReveal, the entire two part episode consisted of Finn and Jake watching The Ice King's video diary, which was filled to the brim with CringeComedy and The Ice King sobbing for hours about his unhappiness. It's all darkly funny, until the depressing ending.
** One of the tamer examples: In one episode Jake is imprisoned by a Demon who weakens him by stealing Jake's blood and supplies him with various things he might need, albeit [[ForTheEvulz surrounded by a force-field that is rigged to vaporize him]]. He has a rather [[ButForMeItWasTuesday careless]] attitude towards the whole situation and takes a seat on what he believes to be a rock. It turns out to be a member of turtle-like species that apparently spends the first twelve years of its lifetime sleeping. it eventually approaches the supplies and cheerfully exclaims "I just woke up today!" before being obliterated by a quick and powerful zap. Jake picks up the shell and decides to [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain pretend it's sleeping]]. The show in general is getting much DarkerAndEdgier.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
** The episode "Hereafter" deals with [[ImmortalityImmorality Vandal Savage]] and a Superman who was shot into the future. Savage recounts how he killed the entire Justice League and destroyed the solar system, at which point a depowered Superman beats him into the ground and raises up a rock.
-->'''Superman:''' "I should crush your skull."
-->'''Savage:''' "Go ahead, we both know [[CompleteImmortality it wouldn't work]]."
-->''[Beat. Superman gets up.]''
-->'''Superman:''' "What do we do now?"
-->'''Savage:''' "Lunch?"
** In "The Once and Future Thing, Part Two: Time, Warped", the time-traveling villain [[TimeMaster Chronos]] punishes one of this henchmen (Chucko, a member of the [[MonsterClown Jokerz]] gang) for informing the Justice League by [[spoiler:sending him approximately 65 million years into the past, exactly when the dinosaurs were killed in a mass extinction]]. This mook's fate is just too absurdly over-the-top to take seriously.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
** One episode revolves around the two protagonists delivering pizzas. Two anthropomorphic pizzas answer the door, considering the pizza to be their new baby. Gumball accidentally [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120919162343/theamazingworldofgumball/images/e/ee/Job10.png drops the pizza as the father]] is paying him.
** A later episode revolves around one of the recurring characters who [[TheyKilledKennyAgain meets a gruesome demise in nearly every appearance]], with the two protagonists trying to figure out how he's able to [[BackFromTheDead return]]. To do this they kill him in a montage of different fatalities, only for him to come back from each one. (It turns out that [[ItMakesSenseInContext his parents clone him]].)
** There are also a number of jokes revolving around AnimateInanimateObject characters being maimed in ways that befit what they are, such as in "The Coach", when a flashback shows that Jamie has in the past eaten bits of Sarah (an ice cream cone) and Banana Joe, torn off Teri (a girl made of paper)'s leg, then chewed it up and spit it at her, and fed Anton (a piece of toast) to a group of ducks.
** "The Question" is full of this, from an ArmorPiercingQuestion causing Larry to go totally insane and possibly [[SuicideAsComedy kill himself]], to the ghost of a skydiver chasing Gumball and Darwin only for his parachute to deploy and send him flying backwards at which point he says "Oh, ''now'' you work", to the Solar System singing [[LyricalDissonance a cheerful and upbeat song about how your life is ultimately meaningless]].
** "The Parents" has Nicole mentioning off-hand that her parents almost killed her by attempting to get her an A+ blood transfusion when her blood type is B-.
** “The Copycats” has the Wattersons attempt to get rid of their knockoffs[[note]]who come from a real show called ''Miracle Star'', which unashamedly copies ''Gumball''[[/note]] by attempting all sorts of dangerous stunts in hopes that their ripoffs will kill themselves trying to copy them; Gumball replaces his alarm clock with a time bomb, Darwin blindfolds himself while choosing between milk and a biohazard, Nicole drives as recklessly as possible, and Richard outright chains himself up for a bath and disposes of the key. He also donates a kidney, only to find out that his copycat is the one who received it. In the end, the Wattersons drive a truck with a leaky tank leaving a trail lit by fire after nothing else works. While the Wattersons manage to stop before falling off the freeway thanks to Anais, the copycats don’t have an equivalent to Anais and the results aren’t pretty.
---->'''Gumball (to the copycats):''' Are you guys good?!\\
'''Chi Chi (severely injured):''' No…\\
'''Gumball:''' Eh, good enough.
** ''Gumball'' by the fifth season has so much dark humor and relentless satire that it can be described as ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' for kids.
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' has a very morbid sense of humor, with frequent subjects including trauma, sociopathy, alcoholism, and death. The show does a good job of balancing the humor and the darkness, so you can find a grim situation funny and yet still sympathize with the very realistically human reaction characters usually have to it (e.g. Rick pantsing Morty in front of two girls he was trying to impress and pushing him down the stairs is PlayedForLaughs, but [[MoodWhiplash Morty's humiliated crying]] afterwards [[PlayedForDrama is not]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/TripTank'' is, like ''Robot Chicken'', an animated SketchComedy show that revels in this.
* The WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts dabble in this from time to time.
** The Goofy short "WesternAnimation/HowToBeADetective" is a lot DarkerAndEdgier in its comedy. It opens with a guy getting thrown off a bridge, followed by a pan over silhouettes in an apartment building, each of which is displaying a scene of comically over-the-top violence. Later, there's a gag where Goofy is kicked out of the city morgue after falling down an elevator shaft, and is told, "Beat it, and don't come back 'til you're ready!"
* ''WesternAnimation/ErnestEtCelestine'' has a number of black comedy moments, such as when Celestine waxes about the diseases that Ernest might get if he keeps eating out of garbage.
* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': A bunch of cute forest animals killing each other off in every episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' uses this trope a lot for a Disney cartoon, even more so in Season 2. Examples would be Preston Northwest casually mentioning in "Northwest Mansion Mystery" about eating the butler if things go badly, or Bill Cipher giving Dipper a decapitated head that constantly screams as a present in "Sock Opera".
** Bill seems to be fond of this trope, particularly when he is giving out "gifts" to people. What's one of the first things he does when he appears in "Dreamscaperers"? Rip out a deer's teeth and give them to the nine year old who summoned him of course!
--->'''Bill Cipher:''' Deer teeth. For you, kid! [[EvilLaugh HA HA HA HA HA!]]\\
'''Gideon:''' AUGH! YoureInsane\\
'''Bill Cipher:''' [[InsultBackfire Sure I am, what's your point?]]
** He also invokes this type of humor in both his [[https://www.reddit.com/r/gravityfalls/comments/315yoy/im_bill_cipher_i_know_lots_of_things_ask_me/ AMA]] and in [[AllThereInTheManual Dipper and Mabel's Guide to Mystery and Non-Stop Fun.]] Some highlights include his enjoyment of bending people's fingers backwards until they break, [[ItMakesSenseInContext wanting to disassemble Time Baby's molecules in order to salt his margaritas]], and several other things that would probably never be allowed on the actual show. The first thing Bill links to in him AMA is a video of a ''real rabbit decomposing''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xExkffmPTOQ R.I.P. Big Henry]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' often plays racial stereotypes and violent crimes for laughs.
%%* The Jellies, too.
* The very first episode of ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' jokes about cannibalism (the restaurant comes under fire from Louise's rumor they serve human meat from the mortician's next door) and pedophilia (Louise's "Child Molester Burger" that comes with free candy).
* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman''. ''In spades''. At least one off-colour joke per episode. Special mention has to go to [=BoJack=] [[spoiler:having sex with his TV daughter]] and, in a later episode, his roommate Todd [[spoiler:witnessing a shanking in prison after being informed he'll be "just fine" by the victim]].
** The series' constant down-to-earth depiction of everyday misery, clinical depression, and consumerism in an increasingly spiritual empty world, coupled with its use of philosophical KafkaKomedy can get like this when coupled with the normal absurdism of Hollywoo.
** The series finale of ''Horsin' Around'' apparently has [[spoiler: [=BoJack=]'s character dying of a broken heart due to his three adopted orphans not appreciating him enough, who are in turn handed over to child protective services]].
--->'''[=BoJack=]:''' We might've gone too dark on that series finale.
** Most, if not all, of [=BoJack=]'s flashbacks to his HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood:
--->'''Beatrice Horseman:''' ''(dryly)'' Here's your omelet. ''(throws it on the table)'' I'm sorry it's not as good as the omelets your secretary makes, but then you're not married to your secretary, are you?\\
'''Butterscotch Horseman:''' ''(bitterly)'' Well, maybe if my secretary ''also'' refused to get an abortion, I would be!\\
''(camera pans to reveal a young [=BoJack=] sitting at the table)''\\
'''Young [=BoJack=]:''' Mommy, can I have an omelet?\\
'''Beatrice Horseman:''' You're the birthday boy.
** The ''many'', ''many'' examples of BloodyHilarious in the series. OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank doesn't even ''begin to cover it''.
** Any mention of Sarah Lynn's family life (especially her StageMom with CastingCouch tendencies and her "[[PaedoHunt stepfather]]") is loaded with GallowsHumor, [[spoiler:[[PlayedForDrama at least until the end.]]]]
** The [[AscendedToCarnivorism meat industry/competition]] between Chicken 4 Days and Gentle Farms and its explanation InUniverse. CarnivoreConfusion indeed!
** The dinner party for Mr. Peanutbutter's governor campaign in season 4. [[spoiler:Poor Creator/ZachBraff. [[BlackComedyCannibalism May his meat have pleased those starving.]]]]

* A large amount of humor in ''WesternAnimation/DawnOfTheCroods'' revolves around how short life expectancy is for cavemen. The valley the Croods live in is called "Ahhh! Valley" because those were the last words of the first person to discover the valley, as he didn't check to make sure there wasn't any dangerous animals living there.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Madballs}}'' animated series' second episode "Gross Jokes" features some of this brand of humor.
** The first sketch consists of Screamin' Meemie portraying an incompetent doctor named Dr. Ghastly, who ends up performing surgery on a patient when he isn't sure whether they've even been anesthetized and makes the assumption that the patient's problem is that they have an ugly thing inside their head, which turns out to be the patient's brain. At one point, Aargh remarks that Dr. Ghastly kills him, which results in Slobulus adding that Dr. Ghastly kills most of his patients.
** Another skit in the episode has Aargh and Slobulus decide to visit their friend Skull Face in the cemetery. When Slobulus asks how they'll get to the cemetery, Aargh answers with "Easy, we'll just jump in front of a truck!"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': Because the tone of the show changed after the events of ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'', the third season is lacking in the traditional comedy and edges more into Black Comedy, sometimes going into full blown GallowsHumor. For example, a comedy episode in Season 2 has local GrumpyBear Gears get turned into an ExtremeDoormat by the Decepticons, driving the latter crazy the entire time thanks to his ServileSnarker attitude. A comedy episode in Season 3 has the Decepticons attempting to cure Galvatron's insanity, playing the full gamut of psychiatric cures for comedy (including a ''lobotomy'')--culminating in Galvatron destroying the medical planet and leaving its doctors at the mercy of their insane patients. Yikes.
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' has more than its share of dark humor.
** "Power Trip" begins with Really Really Big Man accidentally throwing his kid sidekick Jimmy into the sun.
** "Spitballs" has a scene where a baseball player thinks he's caught the ball, but is horrified to find a severed head in his catcher's mitt.
** In the beginning of "Rocko's Happy Sack", when Rocko finds that he's out of food, a starving insect comes across a single crumb. The insect happily declares "It's Thanksgiving!", only to fall over dead before he can start eating the crumb.
** At one point in "Who's for Dinner?", Rocko excuses himself while having dinner with the Wolfes, who are anthropomorphic wolves as their surname implies (except for Heffer, who is a bovine). Rocko finds a closet full of little girls in red hoods with picnic baskets while trying to find the bathroom and later opens the bathroom mirror to find three pigs bound and gagged, each of them labeled with a day of the week.
** The episode "Mama's Boy" has a RunningGag of Heffer's mother calling her son out of worry after he's started living on his own and Heffer exasperatedly telling his mother that he's just fine when he obviously isn't. The gag eventually escalates to Heffer lying to his mother that everything is alright while he's in jail, about to be executed, and in Hell.
** In "Carnival Knowledge", Heffer tries to flip a frog from a wooden plank onto a lily pad using a hammer. He misses and accidentally hits the frog instead, killing it and splattering Slippy Slug, the carny, with green.
** In "Flu-In-U-Enza", there’s a bluejay smoking in the waiting room who eventually coughs up his heart and dies.
* ''WesternAnimation/DinosaurTrain'' has this for the audience, with the characters blissfully unaware. In "Zeppelin: Crater," the Pterosaur family and Mr. Conductor visit a crater that may have been created by an asteroid. They discuss the idea of something like that happening again. Mr. Conductor says his mother told him that something like that is very rare and not something to worry about. Buddy comments "I mean, what are the odds an asteroid would ever hit us?"
* The ''WesternAnimation/GalaxyHigh'' episode "The Beef Who Would Be King" has a dark joke where Doyle swats a fly that turns out to be a student at the high school, with Doyle's embarrassment at accidentally killing a student and Ms. [=McBrain=]'s confusion at the student's absence being played for laughs.
* ''The Stick'' is a short about a man going to a therapist because he's afraid a boomerang that never came back to him will hit him at any moment. The short ends with him having overcome his anxiety and settled down. He's holding his newborn baby when all of a sudden the boomerang hits him and his baby falls out the window.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Toonsylvania}}'', being a horror comedy cartoon, has its fair share of morbid jokes. Most examples are prevalent in the ''Night of the Living Fred'' segments, such as the Deadman family constantly falling apart due to being zombies, Fred Deadman dragging around his deceased pet dog Frisky and acting as if his pet was still alive, Dedgar Deadman implying that he and his family died from getting hit by a car and the episode "Bang!" ending with the entire neighborhood getting blown to Kingdom Come because Dedgar activated a bomb kept in his FBI agent neighbor's basement under the belief that he's being a good neighbor by helping him fix broken equipment.
* ''WesternAnimation/SolarOpposites'' has a lot of very dark and morbid jokes. The first three episodes alone include Yumyulack and Jesse pouring soda over a school bully's exposed brain to erase her memories of them shrinking and kidnapping her, a mock ad bumper that depicts the Shlorpians decorating a snowman with eyeballs and severed arms, Yumyulack saving Korvo's life by murdering who he later learns were actors Korvo hired to pretend to assassinate him, and Jesse's attempts to convince Yumyulack that he can befriend the humans who are {{Jerkass}}es resulting in the two finding themselves at a bar full of Neo-Nazis who all end up gruesomely slaughtered.
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatItsLikeBeingAlone'': One critic described the show as having ''Addams Family'' values. If the character descriptions and premise don't tip you off on that, this quote might give you a good idea of what they were aiming for.
-->'''Brad Peyton:''' These characters suffer only briefly- they don't want to wallow in it, they want to have fun. And if I can drop a giant pair of scissors through an orphan's head and cause people to laugh, then I've done my small part for public broadcasting.
* ''Quiet Please!'' (1989) (not to be confused with the WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry [[WesternAnimation/QuietPlease cartoon]]), featured in the Spike and Mike animation festival, features every tasteless joke you could think of, including a dead baby being urinated on and a priest getting his head blown off. The cartoon is extremely NSFW, as you can imagine.
** The sequel, ''Sittin' Pretty'', isn't any better. The same man and baby return, with the baby being killed, chopped up, and baked into a meatloaf because the man os hungry.
* Spike And Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation is full of it, They introduced theirselves to the world with "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window" (A Cartoon where a dog gets impaled by a glass window).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' does the occasional morbid joke.
** "That's Life" has Timmy's wish for everything in his mother's garden to be full of life, causing his deceased pet gerbil Eddie (shown in a flashback to have starved to death because of Timmy's father neglecting it) to come back as a zombie that tries to kill Timmy's parents in retribution. In addition, when Timmy's mother cries that everything she touches dies, Timmy's dad tries to get their neighbors, [[SitcomArchNemesis the Dinklebergs]], to touch his wife's hands.
** "Knighty Knight" has a bit where King Arthur is reduced to a skeleton after trying to attack a dragon. Following an awkward pause, Timmy says "Uh, guys?" to his godparents, and Cosmo and Wanda proceed to use their magic to bring Arthur's charred remains back to life.
** "Shelf Life" has Timmy change the word "villagers" in ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' to "ill", which causes the mob of angry villagers to become very sick and bandaged. One girl ends up having her bandaged arm break off after she lifts it.
** "Sooper Poof" has a couple of NotWhatItLooksLike gags where Timmy's parents catch him when it looks like he's about to drop Poof into a tank of sharks and is holding him too close to a meat-slicing doodad.