History Main / BlackComedyCannibalism

* The Wakaliwood films ''Film/WhoKilledCaptainAlex'' and ''Film/BadBlack'' have a narrator/color commentator, VJ Emmie, who sometimes adds in cannibal jokes in his humorous overdubs:

[[ImAHumanitarian Cannibalism]] is often played for dark comedy. Cannibalism is gross, disturbing, and strongly taboo in many cultures, but less likely to get a DudeNotFunny reaction than more common forms of violence. Because cannibalism is both taboo and outlandish, it's common CrossesTheLineTwice fodder. And [[FoodSongsAreFunny food is funny]]. Compare EatTheDog.

* Black comedy ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'' fic "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20180624025641/http://www.thekeep.org/~mike/ucc.txt Ukyo Can Cook!]]" is all about this trope.

** In the episode “Northwest Mansion Mystery,” after [[HauntedHouse after a ghost takes over the Northwest mansion]], [[DirtyCoward The Northwests]] hide in an underground shelter. According to Preston, it has enough food to last them a couple of weeks, but if worse comes to worse, they’ll eat their own butler.

** In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI Treehouse Of Horror XVI]]" segment "Survival Of The Fattest", [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Mr. Burns is hunting down the male population of Springfield for sport on a safari]]. After running for only a few hours, Homer already resorts to cannibalism by eating Professor Frink. When Lenny points out the edible fruits on a nearby tree, Homer protests that they look a little green.

* The Tom Petty music video for "Don't Come Around Here No More" ends with Tom (as the Mad Hatter) and the rest of the Mad Tea Party guests eating Alice, who has been turned into a cake.

** Jack Sparrow gets CapturedByCannibals who intend to make him a meal. HilarityEnsues with his attempts to escape, including at one point resigning himself to his fate and sprinkling himself with paprika.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisherPresentsBarracuda'' ends on this trope, topping off a series that was already founded on BlackComedy. The series ends with Barracuda and his on-off porn actress love interest stranded in a rubber raft after all their plans have crashed and burned due to sheer random chance. When the actress wonders what they're going to eat since the raft has no supplies, Barracuda implies that he's going to eat her.

* The French series ''ComicBook/LesCrannibales'' is all about this, with the titular family's cannibalism being a pretext for atrocious food-related puns. The victims themselves don't even seem that disturbed by it. The main antagonist is a neighbor who keeps trying to stop them by stealing the body parts they were about to eat (as the police never believe him), keeps getting caught, and has to have the dinner grafted to the corresponding body part taken by the family.

* The Wakaliwood films ''Film/WhoKilledCaptainAlex'' and ''Film/BadBlack'' have a narrator/color commentator, VJ Emmie, who sometimes adds in cannibal jokes. In the former, he jokes that a military base's cook is making "German food" from German tourists, and in the latter, he says that a group of children chasing a white character intend to eat him.

* ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' features a ''fast food chain'' for [[ImAHumanitarian Long Pig]] - humans can be readily cloned with or without working brains (along with many other formerly taboo or endangered animals), allowing for guilt-free cannibalism. And business is good.

** In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS17E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVI TreehouseOfHorror]]" segment "Survival of the Fattest", [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame Mr. Burns is hunting down the male population of Springfield for sport on a safari]]. After running for only a few hours, Homer already resorts to cannibalism by eating Professor Frink. When Lenny points out the edible fruits on a nearby tree, Homer protests that they look a little green.

** When Marge's [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E11FearOfFlying fear of flying]] resurfaces, Homer tries buying movies of planes to help calm her. Of course, he chooses ''Film/{{Alive}}'' on the basis of its title.
--->'''Passenger:''' (''eating sounds'') Pass another hunk of Copilot.
** In the segment "Nightmare Cafeteria" of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E6TreehouseOfHorrorV Treehouse of Horror V]]", the teachers of Springfield Elementary solve both the underfunding of the school cafeteria and the overcrowding of the detention room by serving misbehaving students in the cafeteria.
--->'''Principal Skinner:''' Oh, relax kids. I've got a gut feeling Uter's around here somewhere. (''starts to laugh'') After all, isn't there a little Uter in all of us? (''laughs harder'') In fact, you might say we just '''ate Uter''' and he's in '''our stomachs''' right now! {''{{beat}}'') Wait. Scratch that one.
** In the ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' segment "Survival of the Fattest", Mr. Burns is hunting down the male population of Springfield for sport on a safari. After running for only a few hours, Homer already resorts to cannibalism by eating Professor Frink. When Lenny points out the edible fruits on a nearby tree, Homer protests that they look a little green.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E21SimpsonsTallTales Simpsons Tall Tales]]" has a genderbent version of UsefulNotes/JohnnyAppleseed with Lisa as Connie Appleseed. While she's busy wandering the west planting apple trees, her family have been stranded and driven to starvation due to overhunting the buffalo. Driven to cannibalism, the wagon train is just about to devour Homer, only for Lisa to arrive in the nick of time with apples. As she's hailed as a hero, Moe sticks his head out of Homer's blanket with a hunk of flesh on his fork.

** In one of the future episodes, Homer offers Bart and Ralph some Film/SoylentGreen.

'''Homer:''' ''[annoyed]'' Oh boy, here we go...
** In the first segment of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVII Treehouse of Horror XVII]]", a "space marshmallow" turns Homer into a giant, green blob that stomps around the city eating fat people. "You've got an eating problem, and you know it. In fact, you're thinking of eating me right now, aren't you? Aren't you?!"
** In the third segment of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E4TreehouseOfHorrorXXVIII Treehouse of Horror XXVIII]]", Homer somehow starts [[NauseaFuel getting addicted]] to [[{{Autocannibalism}} cooking and eating his own body parts]]. All of this is darkly PlayedForLaughs, ultimately ending with Homer volunteering to be cooked and served as a gourmet dish by a celebrity chef.

* So, there is this HawaianShirtedTourist visiting Spain, and he goes to the restaurant. He sees a Corrida Special being advertised, and asks what it is. "Señor, there was una Corrida yesterday, and el Toro was killed! So that corrida special are the Cojones del Toro!" The tourist immediately orders, and gets served the biggest testicles he has seen in his life on a silver platter. He happily eats, and this was an experience to remember. So much so, that next year, he visited Spain again, and went to that restaurant to order the Corrida Special again. Only this time, he was served a pair of tiny balls. "What the hell happened? Last time I was here, I was served huge balls, and now this?" And the waiter simply shrugged. "Señor, sometimes, El Toro... El Toro wins the corrida!"

** Despite the HorrorHunger constantly yearning for living flesh in what used to be his gut Duane is pretty good about not eating people when he's present in his body, he still jokes darkly about it while having to team up with people during an extended break down and one asks why he hasn't eaten Sette yet;