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| 11 | ->'''Captain:''' Listen, chaps... There's still a chance. I'm done for; I've got a gammy leg and I've going fast. I'll never get through. But some of you might. So... you'd better eat me.\ |
| 12 | '''First mate:''' Eat you, sir?\ |
| 13 | '''Thompson:''' Eugh, with a gammy leg?!\ |
| 14 | '''Captain:''' ...You needn't ''eat'' the leg, Thompson, there's plenty of good meat! Look at that arm! |
| 15 | -->-- ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', ''"Lifeboat Sketch"'' |
| 16 | |
| 17 | [[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 EmergencyFoodSupplyAnimal. |
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| 19 | Black Comedy Cannibalism does not need to explicitly depict the act of eating people, and in fact, often it doesn't. It can be just as funny when the actual cannibalism is implied or offstage, and the humor comes from the incongruity of juxtaposing the horrors of cannibalism and murder with the mundanity of cooking and menu planning. Groan-worthy cannibalism puns are also a distinct possibility. MeatOVision may occur if a character considers cannibalism because they're starving. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | A common variant is the gag where the characters are [[CapturedByCannibals captured]] by a CannibalTribe and placed in a pot to be StewedAlive, accompanied with [[YouWontLikeHowITaste lots of wisecracking]] [[RegretEatingMe and/or corny byplay]], and possibly a ''lot'' of puns. |
| 22 | |
| 23 | Black Comedy Cannibalism can also provide uncomfortable comic relief in a work with a FauxAffablyEvil cannibal villain. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | If someone unintentionally becomes a [[ImAHumanitarian Humanitarian]], may overlap with IAteWhat. |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Compare LetsMeetTheMeat, when the meal is not only sentient but ''wants'' to be eaten. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | ---- |
| 30 | !!Examples: |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 33 | |
| 34 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 35 | * The Hazelnut M&M's commercial starts out with a lady on stage, introducing the new product, and [[FurryReminder spokescandy (not "spokesperson", mind you)]], only to find that all that's left of him is his gloves and shoes, pan to the other M&Ms with hazelnut spread on their faces, much to everyone's horror. |
| 36 | * Done in a Dairy Queen commercial for their popcorn shrimp, with a shrimp couple. The wife asks "Hold on, where are the kids?" after looking at the popcorn shrimp box, they scream in horror, realizing they ate their own children. |
| 37 | [[/folder]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 40 | * ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': Fat Majin Buu. While [[BewareTheSillyOnes portrayed as a real threat]], his habit of eating people by turning them into candy is played for [[BlackComedy dark laughs]], [[LaughablyEvil much like Fat Buu himself.]] At least until [[KnightOfCerebus he becomes Super Buu]], [[DarkestHour where shit really hits the fan.]] |
| 41 | * At one point in ''Literature/ElegantYokaiApartmentLife'', one of the birds says he finds ''yakitori'' delicious. The other two are somewhat taken aback, but then all three of them act like nothing happened. |
| 42 | * This is basically the whole premise of ''Manga/TheMermaidPrincesssGuiltyMeal''. The titular Mermaid Princess, Eru, went to the surface to pay respects for one of her fish friends who got fished and turned into a meal. However she decided to eat the meal when someone tells her the fish can't go to heaven without being eaten. So she eats her friend and finds him very delicious. As a result, she became addicted to the taste of seafood and keeps coming to the surface and eats her other friends who got caught while lamenting the fact that she's not only a cannibal, but also enjoys every taste of it. It's dark, tragic ''and'' hilarious at the same time. |
| 43 | * One of ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'''s {{Running Gag}}s is Tohru trying to get Kobayashi to eat her tail meat (don't worry, it regenerates). Kobayashi refuses every time, and seemingly has good reason to (besides {{Squick}}), since the first time Tohru tries it she says "Don't worry, I cooked out all the poison." |
| 44 | * In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon'', Sophocles and company watch as the dead remains of a bunch of Minior float up into space, having reached the end of their short lifespans. As everyone feels down in the dumps, suddenly, Rayquaza shows up in the sky, and everyone immediately forgets about the downer of an event by admiring its sudden "unexplained" appearance, brightening them all up. The kicker? None of them, even their own ''teacher'' who should know better, knows that Rayquaza appeared for a very good reason: ''it likes eating meteorite dust.'' Sophocles and the rest are utterly left in the dark his Minior's remains will turn into a space turd. |
| 45 | * In the final chapter of ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' it is revealed [[spoiler: that Moka's still addicted to Tsukune's blood despite the fact that he's now a full vampire. There is a narrate box that lampshades that's cannibalism.]] |
| 46 | * At the start of the "Sleeping Slave" arc of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'', Guido Mista starts a SeinfeldianConversation with the rest of the team about human cannibalism... or rather how human meat would taste terrible [[InsaneTrollLogic because humans eat meat and carnivore meat taste disgusting]]. He even jokes about Narancia tasting good because he eats more vegetables than meat. |
| 47 | [[/folder]] |
| 48 | |
| 49 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 50 | * Creator/GeorgeCarlin twisted a ThatCameOutWrong AccidentalPun into this during a routine about capital punishment. |
| 51 | -->'''Carlin:''' Jeffrey Dahmer never thought of this shit, did he?! Jeffrey Dahmer, eat your heart out! ...which is an interesting thought in and of itself. |
| 52 | * Jay Leno noted poorly worded advertising in his standup routine, including the jingle (recited in mounting horror) "Eckrich brings good meat from the heartland -- and the secret ingredient is ''MOM!!!'' |
| 53 | [[/folder]] |
| 54 | |
| 55 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 56 | * ''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 (note that he'd already admitted to eating human before, though not voluntarily). |
| 57 | * ''ComicBook/{{Chew}}'' thrives off this trope. The protagonist is a detective who can determine something or someone's past by taking a bite, which comes in handy- if you're willing to chow down on human remains, or even living people. As you can imagine, things often get dark quickly- but usually hilariously so. |
| 58 | * 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 (it helps that they're still conscious and able to talk even as ground into pie filling). 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. |
| 59 | -->'''Surgeon:''' That's funny, your graft smells like oranges.\ |
| 60 | '''Neighbor:''' There are times when you can't afford to be picky, I just grab the first one I find. |
| 61 | * Commonly employed as a gag in ''ComicBook/{{Sturmtruppen}}'', including a mini-arc where the cook tries to make a soldier into a special dinner for the battalion or another one involving two soldiers meeting a beautiful lady who happens to be a literal man-eater and tries to cook them for lunch. |
| 62 | * ''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. They even have toys for kids! |
| 63 | * ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'': |
| 64 | ** During his supervillain and antihero days, Eddie Brock was prone to making cannibalism wisecracks, especially towards Spider-Man. |
| 65 | ** During Mac Gargan's stint as Venom, Gargan devouring people willy-nilly due to the symbiote's influence was, for the most part, PlayedForLaughs. |
| 66 | * In a humorous one-panel ''ComicBook/WhatIf'' story, ComicBook/BlackWidow eats ComicBook/SpiderMan, as a pun on their AnimalMotifs. |
| 67 | ** The same way it works in its "cousin" "What The...": Tigra is implied to having eaten Hawkgirl. |
| 68 | * Spiders-Man, an alternate universe version of ComicBook/{{Spiderman}} who is a HiveMind of spiders in a suit with the personality of Peter Parker (which they gained by eating him in a tragic incident) very much enjoy human flesh, especially children. Fortunately, they are still too moral to go after innocents, although this is something they have to remind themselves of at times. (Villains, however, are fair game. And the occasional fresh corpse they come across that nobody will miss anyway.) |
| 69 | * One sequence of gag stories from ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'' has Dr Dinosaur running a cooking show, starting with one where they're cooking stew...oh, sorry, he meant Stu. Stu, the cameraman, is [[OhCrap appropriately disconcerted]]. Then, in "The Vengeful Dead", Dr Dinosaur is shown to have a thermos flask labelled "Stu" as a BrickJoke. |
| 70 | [[/folder]] |
| 71 | |
| 72 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 73 | * Parodied when the incompetent (and suspiciously obese) pilot of a plane ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} is on crashes into a mountain... the same one he's crashed into ''three times before''. Since his "survival tips" for avoiding frostbite involve liberal application of meat tenderizers and Worcestershire sauce, it is implied that after the first crash he became addicted to human meat. |
| 74 | * One joke in ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' is a chicken serving her ill relative chicken soup, and trying to reassure them that it's nobody they know. |
| 75 | [[/folder]] |
| 76 | |
| 77 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 78 | * ''Fanfic/BeAllMySins'': Natalie is a somewhat reluctant Chaos cultist who keeps getting blackout drunk with a Daemonette or hopped up on Warp Magic and waking up with bits of human in her mouth. Her mentor gives her no small amount of teasing over it, including arranging all manner of circumstances for her to unknowingly eat people or deliberately misunderstanding conversations as confessions of cannibalism. |
| 79 | * ''Fanfic/EatTheUnfriendly'' concerns Pinkie Pie feeding Fluttershy bacon made from a stallion who attempted to rape her, then the two of them going on to kill other bad ponies to make their corpses into food. |
| 80 | * Black comedy ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' fic "[[https://web.archive.org/web/20180624025641/http://www.thekeep.org/~mike/ucc.txt Ukyo Can Cook!]]" is all about this trope, with Ukyo snapping, murdering her rival Akane Tendo, and feeding her to Ranma without Ranma's knowledge, all while making double-meaning jokes about what she did as she commiserates with Ranma, who is finally starting to notice her romantically now that Akane is gone. The fic ends with Ranma leaving and Ukyo [[LaughingMad having an insane fit of triumphant laughter]] at how well her plan has worked. |
| 81 | * ''Fanfic/ExceptItAbideInTheVine'': [[PhraseCatcher "Sweetpea, no!"]] Sweetpea is an alternate version of the Winter Soldier from a DarkerAndEdgier universe, who went a little feral from brain damage and HYDRA's abuse. After being freed from HYDRA, he calms down a bit, but he still tries to snack on a Nazi soldier he just dispatched. |
| 82 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Development}}'', Wednesday implies that the angry mob that tore her grandfather limb from limb were themselves cannibalized by the Addamses as revenge. |
| 83 | * Not ''quite'' cannibalism as it's not the same species, but similar humour occurs in ''Fanfic/TheRigelBlackChronicles'' when Harry's thirteenth birthday cake sings "Happy Birthday" as it's eaten -- growing increasingly frantic and high-pitched as less and less remains. |
| 84 | [[/folder]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 87 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'', the [[GiantEnemyCrab gigantic crab monster]] Tamatoa casually mentions that he had once [[MonstrousCannibalism eaten his own grandmother]], and it took him about a week to do so because she was so huge. |
| 88 | * In the opening to ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'', one of the businesses shown in the [[BigApplesauce New York City-esque]] underwater setting is a sushi bar. It then cuts to the inside as the music stops, showing that it's completely devoid of customers and the owner is frustrated. |
| 89 | [[/folder]] |
| 90 | |
| 91 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 92 | * The Granny of ''Film/TheAddamsFamily'' adds her own flavour of macabre in the family's everyday lives with her rather helpful cooking book titled "Grey's Anatomy". |
| 93 | ** And in a typical case of an Addams missing a metaphor, Morticia advises a mother against eating her kid alive when she expressed her love in those words, because he is ''too young'', showing that she is okay with child-eating, as long as practical matters are considered. |
| 94 | * ''Film/CannibalGirls'' is an early effort by Creator/IvanReitman about a couple who become stuck in a small Ontario town [[MyCarHatesMe when their car breaks down]], where they become entangled with the leader of a cannibal cult and his three mistresses. |
| 95 | * ''Film/CannibalTheMusical'' is a [[CrossesTheLineTwice multiple-line-crossing]] musical about cannibalism by the creators of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. |
| 96 | * ''Film/{{Delicatessen}}'' is a very dark French comedy set in a post-apocalyptic world where [[ImAHumanitarian humanitarianism]] has become a popular response to food shortages. |
| 97 | * As suggested by its SpoilerTitle, ''Film/EatingRaoul'' concludes with the main characters, a sexless married couple who make a fortune off of killing "rich perverts," serving the titular character as a meal to a real estate agent. |
| 98 | %%* In Spanish film ''La Matanza de los Garrulos Lisérgicos''. |
| 99 | * ''Film/LuckyStiff''. In this horror/comedy, a beautiful woman invites a man to Christmas dinner with her family, He finds out that he is intended to be the main course. |
| 100 | * In ''Film/MenInBlackII'' there is a joke of this nature in the opening scene. When the film's main villainess lands on earth she takes the form of a sexy lingerie model and gets jumped by a mugger who tells her she "tastes good" and drags her behind a bush. Suddenly we see the muggers feet fly into the air and hear him scream as she devours him alive. The woman then answers his "taste good" comment with "Yeah, you too." |
| 101 | * ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'': "In the frozen land of Nador, they were forced to eat Robin's minstrels. AndThereWasMuchRejoicing." "[[FlatJoy Yaaayyy]]." |
| 102 | * ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'': |
| 103 | ** Jack Sparrow gets CapturedByCannibals who intend to make him a meal. His attempts to escape are PlayedForLaughs, including at one point resigning himself to his fate and sprinkling himself with paprika. |
| 104 | ** A darker example occurs when Will Turner asks what happened to the rest of the crew and Gibbs explains the cages made of human bones the cannibals had them locked in weren't there at the beginning... |
| 105 | * Any part of ''Film/Ravenous1999'' that isn't horror is this. |
| 106 | * The ''Literature/RedDragon'' movie opens with Hannibal Lecter serving the Baltimore Symphony board a dinner heavily implied to be made from their missing flutist, whose poor playing annoyed Lecter during a recent performance. |
| 107 | -->'''Board Member:''' Hannibal, confess. What is this divine-looking amuse bouche?\ |
| 108 | '''Lecter:''' If I tell you, I'm afraid you won't even try it. |
| 109 | * In ''Film/ReeferMadnessTheMusical'', Ralph gets a serious case of the munchies from smoking too much pot and ends up eating Sally. |
| 110 | * In ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'', Dr. Frank N. Furter reveals that the meal that Brad, Janet, Dr. Scott, and Rocky had was actually the freshly-killed ex-delivery boy Eddie, whom humorously enough is played by Meat Loaf.[[note]][[AudienceParticipation Oh no! Not Meat Loaf again!]][[/note]] |
| 111 | * In ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', Thor declares that when they rescue the children of New Asgard, the Asgardians will have a feast to celebrate their safe return, then clarifies that they won't be feasting on the children, [[FalseReassurance as they don't do that anymore]]. |
| 112 | -->'''Thor:''' No, that was a dark, shameful part of our history... |
| 113 | * The Creator/{{Wakaliwood}} films ''Film/WhoKilledCaptainAlex'' and ''Film/BadBlack'' have a narrator/color commentator, VJ Emmie, who sometimes adds in cannibal jokes in his humorous overdubs: |
| 114 | ** In the former, he ad-libs a conversation between two soldiers about "German food"--food made from killing and cooking German tourists, that is. |
| 115 | ** In the latter, when [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous a kid named Wesley Snipes]] and a bunch of other kids chase Ssali, he adds the dialogue "Eat the muzungu, he must be delicious!" |
| 116 | [[/folder]] |
| 117 | |
| 118 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 119 | * Two cannibals are having dinner. "You know what?" says one. "I hate my [[ObnoxiousInLaws mother-in-law]]." The other says, "So, just eat the salad." |
| 120 | * Why don't cannibals eat clowns? Because they taste funny! |
| 121 | * A CannibalTribe captures a troupe of actors. "Oh good," says the chief, "[[LargeHam ham sandwiches]]!" |
| 122 | * Whenever a cannibalistic SerialKiller is caught, be it Ed Gein or Jeffrey Dahmer, these jokes get told. |
| 123 | -->"What did Ed Gein say when the sheriff arrested him? Have a heart." |
| 124 | -->"What did the cops find in Jeffrey Dahmer's shower? Head and shoulders." |
| 125 | * TheMissionary living with a CannibalTribe has successfully made them change their diet. Now they only eat fishermen on Fridays. |
| 126 | * Three men are captured by a CannibalTribe and taken to their chief, who tells them that he intends to kill them, butcher their bodies, eat their meat, and use their skins to make a canoe . However, he is not without mercy, and lets the three [[LastRequest choose how they will die]]. The first two choose fairly quick and conventional execution methods. The last one, however, asks for a fork. He then starts stabbing himself all over his body, [[EvenEvilHasStandards much to the chief's horror]]. His last words are [[DefiantToTheEnd "Enjoy your goddamn canoe!"]] |
| 127 | * Why did the cannibal lose his job? For buttering up his boss. |
| 128 | * A cannibal invites a friend around for dinner. As they're tucking into the starter, the guest says, "Wow. Your wife make a lovely stew." "I know." answers the host. "I sure will miss her." |
| 129 | * Did you hear about the cannibal who was late for dinner? His wife gave him the cold shoulder. |
| 130 | * What was the cannibal told when he came home late for dinner? "Sorry, everyone's eaten." |
| 131 | * A cannibal invites some friends over for dinner. Some time passes, and one of the visitors tells their host around a mouthful of meat, "no offense, but I don't like your neighbors". The cannibal replies "that's okay, you can have some more salad instead". |
| 132 | * What did Creator/MikeTyson say to Creator/VincentVanGogh? "You gonna eat that?" |
| 133 | ** An even blacker variant uses the same punchline, but instead has Jeffrey Dahmer asking this of Lorena Bobbit. |
| 134 | * YourMom is so ugly that a cannibal took one look at her and ordered salad. |
| 135 | * What's the definition of trust? Two cannibals giving each other blow jobs. |
| 136 | * What did the cannibal do after he dumped his girlfriend? He wiped his ass. |
| 137 | * An old [[RussianHumour Soviet joke]]: Two cannibal tribes make an alliance and conquer a third. In the smoldering ruins of the conquered tribe's village, the chiefs of the victorious tribes are feasting on the corpse of their defeated rival: |
| 138 | --> '''Cannibal Chief 1''': Not very tasty. |
| 139 | --> '''Cannibal Chief 2''': True. But still better than what we got at the refectory at [[MajoredInWesternHypocrisy Lumumba]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumumba_University University]]. |
| 140 | --> '''Cannibal Chief 1''': ''*Laughs heartily*''' |
| 141 | * Many “Mommy, mommy!” jokes revolve around this. For example: |
| 142 | ** "Mommy, mommy! When are we going to have Aunt Edna for dinner?" "Shut up, we haven’t even finished your grandmother yet." |
| 143 | ** "Mommy, mommy, I hate my sister's guts!" "Shut up and eat around them!" |
| 144 | * So, there is this HawaiianShirtedTourist 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!" |
| 145 | [[/folder]] |
| 146 | |
| 147 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 148 | * In ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', the Oompa-Loompas' song about Augustus Gloop -- who, having fallen into the Chocolate Room's river, has just been sucked into a pipe headed for a room where a particular variety of fudge is prepared -- claims that while he "will not be harmed... he will be altered quite a bit"... And that's okay, because he was such a brat that nobody liked him anyway, whereas "who could bear or hold a grudge/Against a luscious bit of fudge?" The [[Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory 2013 stage musical]]'s version of this sequence ("Auf Wiedersehen Augustus Gloop") makes this trope's presence much more explicit ''and cheerier to boot!'' |
| 149 | * Creator/KurtVonnegut jokes in his novel ''Hocus Pocus'' that "people that can eat people are the luckiest people I know" while referring to the Donner Party. The band Music/AndrewJacksonJihad named their most popular album after this quote. |
| 150 | * In ''Literature/IWantToEatYourPancreas'', the title itself translated as "I Want To Eat Your Pancreas" in English. |
| 151 | * In ''Literature/TheMockeryBird'', Kingy, the native king of a tropical island, occasionally suggests that they should reintroduce cannibalism to the island, just to make his advisers cringe from the idea. |
| 152 | * Creator/JonathanSwift's ''Literature/AModestProposal'' calls for poor Irish to sell their young children as food for wealthy English gentlemen, so they are no longer a burden to society. He was satirizing some prevailing attitudes toward the poor and the Irish in contemporary (1700s) English society. He goes into some detail in suggestions for the preparation and cooking of such children, and the economic "benefits" of such an arrangement for all involved (who are still living of course). |
| 153 | * In ''Mogworld'' the fittingly named Mr. Wonderful eats his own corpse after being revived. |
| 154 | * Several references toward this in ''Literature/MonstrousRegiment'', concerning the desperate state of supplies in the Borogravian army on campaign. Even one of their frequent opponents, a Zlobenian Captain "Hopalong" Splatzer, confirms this is expected in winter warfare around the area rather than the usual saner idea of giving up until spring for pre-industrial militaries. We also learn that while they do accept having to eat people's legs for food, they're shocked at the idea of eating ''[[{{Autocannibalism}} their own]]'' legs regardless and thus them swap around. |
| 155 | * This takes place quite a lot in ''Literature/ParadiseRot'', as a large portion of the cast are Zombies and the rest either make fun of it, are horrified by it, or both. |
| 156 | [[/folder]] |
| 157 | |
| 158 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 159 | * ''Series/{{Bones}}'': |
| 160 | ** Series 3 finale: |
| 161 | --->'''Cam:''' A toothless cannibal just can't cut it in today's competitive serial killer climate.\ |
| 162 | '''Cam:''' ''[describing a bone to Caroline Julian]'' Gormogon went after this like Henry VIII after a chicken leg. |
| 163 | ** Season 6 episode 16: |
| 164 | --->'''Angela Montenegro:''' Mmm, what is that smell?\ |
| 165 | '''Wendell Bray:''' Oh, I can't use the exhaust system without electricity, so I thought it'd be better to clean the bones out here where there's more airflow.\ |
| 166 | '''Angela:''' Oh my God! You're boiling body parts.\ |
| 167 | '''Wendell:''' This is how it's done. You know that.\ |
| 168 | '''Angela:''' No. No. I was getting kind of hungry and I thought that you were -- Oh my God!\ |
| 169 | '''Wendell:''' You're pregnant. The smell of boiling flesh makes you want a sandwich. |
| 170 | * In ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'' when Jake is sent to prison his cell mate is Caleb, a serial killer cannibal who preyed on children, and frequently reminisces about it. Jake likes Caleb despite himself, but desperately wishes he'd stop bringing it up. |
| 171 | * An infamous sketch on ''Series/{{Fridays}}'' was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o_LlmYoBdE "Diner of the Living Dead"]] where a human couple happen upon a diner for zombies. |
| 172 | * A recurring threat on ''Series/GilligansIsland'' are cannibal tribes from nearby islands. Although [[JustEatGilligan that might have solved all their problems]]. |
| 173 | * ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'': |
| 174 | ** The gorgeously shot gourmet cooking is all made by a SupremeChef cannibal, which gives the FoodPorn scenes an uncomfortable subtext. The show sometimes plays this for dark humor. For instance: |
| 175 | --->'''Hannibal:''' ''[hosting a dinner party featuring beautifully prepared human organs]'' Before we begin, you must all be warned: Nothing here... is vegetarian. Bon appétit. |
| 176 | ** In the same episode, Jack's team is examining the Chesapeake Ripper's (i.e., Hannibal's) latest victims. When they note that one corpse is had its intestines removed, they quip that "either someone's got short bowels or someone's making sausages". GilliganCut to Hannibal doing exactly that. |
| 177 | ** This exchange from "Ouef": |
| 178 | --->'''Jack:''' What am I about to put into my mouth?\ |
| 179 | '''Hannibal:''' [[BlatantLies Rabbit]].\ |
| 180 | '''Jack:''' ''[smiles]'' He should have hopped faster.\ |
| 181 | ''[sudden flashback to Hannibal chasing his victim, who stumbles and takes on a distinctly hopping sort of gait as he tries to get away]''\ |
| 182 | '''Hannibal:''' Yes, he should have. Fortunately for us, he did not. |
| 183 | * An episode of ''Series/TheITCrowd'' has Moss answer an advertisement he thinks is for cooking class, [[OneDialogueTwoConversations only to discover]] it's actually a German cannibal fetishist [[CasualKink looking for a consenting victim]]. They both have a good laugh over it. |
| 184 | -->'''Moss:''' He was a fine young cannibal. |
| 185 | * An episode of ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' where Charlie and Dee believe they've accidentally eaten human meat and start experiencing "the hunger". |
| 186 | * ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': |
| 187 | ** The "Lifeboat" sketch, about [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty cannibalism among shipwrecked sailors.]] It degenerates into an argument about the culinary merits of the various sailors, and then a navy spokesman appears on the screen to object to the portrayal of cannibalism in the British navy. ([[BaitAndSwitchComment After all, the real cannibalism problem is in the RAF.]]) This is followed directly by... |
| 188 | ** The "Undertaker" sketch, about a man who goes to an undertaker to give his mother a burial and the undertaker suggests eating her instead. This skit was [[ExecutiveMeddling almost removed by the BBC]] and only allowed in with the provision that [[DudeNotFunny the studio audience would boo it]]. |
| 189 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O1rHYWH8MY#t=3m35s One sketch]] had a restaurant that served human beings as meals, including one man who is voluntarily allowing himself to be eaten and a vicar whom no one wanted to eat. |
| 190 | * In ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'', survivors of an air crash in remote South American mountains are interviewed by a gently probing reporter. They were asked what they ate to keep alive in the snowy mountain wastelands in the weeks between their crash and the rescue. The survivors are reluctant to talk, as if there is some big shameful secret. Then they begin revealing fragments about the "pink squiggly stuff" and the "disgusting squicky God-awful red stuff". Eventually it turns out they'd been putting off the awful moment for as long as possible. But there was no choice. Once they'd finished off the dead bodies, the only thing left to eat was the pre-packaged airline food. |
| 191 | * ''Series/SantaClaritaDiet'' revolves around this trope. The protagonist is a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent (still sapient) zombie woman]] with an [[HorrorHunger endless appetite for human flesh and blood]], occasionally hunting for new victims to satisfy her cravings. And of course, this is all incredibly awkward for her not-undead family members, who have to help her with pretending she's still a normal person. |
| 192 | * In ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', Kramer starts using butter as shaving cream, then as body lotion. When he stays out in the sun too long and starts to cook, Newman gets cannibalistic cravings. Well, not so much cannibalism, as he [[MeatOVision sees Kramer as a giant turkey, with Kramer's head]]. |
| 193 | * One episode of ''Series/SheWolfOfLondon'' opens with witches working in a pizza shop with obnoxious customers. They turn the customers into fish, pop them directly into a frying pan, and add 'Carp Pizza' to the menu blackboard. |
| 194 | * This was spoofed in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HCxzQQmSzQ "Bartygan's Island"]] sketch in the first episode of ''Series/ShortRibbs''. An apparent food shortage on the island causes the Gilligan expy to dream that he and the Skipper expy (played by Creator/BillyBarty) have eaten four of the other castaways, and the only other survivor is Jasmine (a Ginger expy played by Creator/PattyMaloney). "Skipper" becomes the next meal... then "Gilligan" wakes up and "Skipper" is still alive. When asked what he wants for breakfast, "Gilligan" sleepily asks for Jasmine. |
| 195 | * ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' has an episode which literally involves cannibalism, but the comedy comes in the anatomical puns made over the pot. Someone's in a little over his head... |
| 196 | [[/folder]] |
| 197 | |
| 198 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 199 | * The song "Music/{{Shia LaBeouf|Live}}" by Rob Cantor is a mock horror about being stalked by Creator/ShiaLaBeouf as a serial killer and cannibal. The concept is ridiculous, though the events are narrated completely seriously for {{Bathos}}. |
| 200 | * Music/{{Voltaire}}'s "Cannibal Buffet" is a HurricaneOfPuns about the singer becoming shipwrecked and kidnapped and eaten by a tribe of cannibals. |
| 201 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3OXqRciinw "Comin' Back for More"]] by Music/CWMcCall, very loosely based on the case of Alferd Packer, the only person ever to be prosecuted for cannibalism in the US. [[note]]Prosecuted but not actually convicted, Packer insisted that it was another in the group who attempted to eat people. And there's a rumor that he became a vegetarian before he died.[[/note]] |
| 202 | * The Music/TomPetty 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. |
| 203 | * In "Petrov, Yeleyena, and Me" by Music/FlightOfTheConchords, the narrator describes being lost at sea with two others. He is gradually eaten by his companions, waking up every morning to find a new body part missing. They deny it, but look "suspiciously well fed". In the end, he takes arsenic to poison his meat. |
| 204 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCdshepGguI#2:03 "The Reluctant Cannibal"]] a teen cannibal rebels by ''not'' eating people. |
| 205 | -->Father: But people have always eaten people, what else is there to eat? If the juju had meant us not to eat people, he wouldn't have made us of meat. |
| 206 | * Music/TomLehrer: |
| 207 | ** In "The Irish Ballad", from ''Music/SongsByTomLehrer'', the protagonist "cut her baby brother in two / And served him up as an Irish stew / And invited the neighbors in." |
| 208 | ** In "My Home Town", from ''Music/SongsByTomLehrer'', the local druggist "killed his mother-in-law and ground her up real well, / And sprinkled just a bit / Over each banana split." |
| 209 | ** In a spoken introduction he sometimes used to introduce "The Vatican Rag" (not the version heard on the album ''Music/ThatWasTheYearThatWas''), he remarked that the Catholic Church's ban on eating meat on Fridays seemed inconsistent, because it meant that a soldier was permitted to kill a man on a Friday but not to eat him. |
| 210 | * "Eating People" by Music/KingMissile - the verses consist of John S. Hall calmly explaining why he'd have no problem with eating other people, with reasoning that borders on InsaneTrollLogic ("...I have this tendency not to get to know people very well. And I don't think there is any better way to get to know humanity than to ingest it"). For the sake of LyricalDissonance, the song also has a catchy, soft-rock style chorus that starts with "Eating people holding hands / Eating hands holding people". As an allusion to the song, the cover art of ''The Psychopathology of Everday Life'' includes a caricature of Hall eating from a can with tiny human arms and legs sticking out of it. |
| 211 | * The controversial song "Congo Man" by Trinidadian calypso artist Mighty Sparrow (real name Slinger Francisco) gives this treatment to a tale of two white women CapturedByCannibals in DarkestAfrica, complete with an [[LyricalDissonance incongruously upbeat-sounding tune]]. |
| 212 | * The final verse of the Creator/ShelSilverstein song "You're Always Welcome At Our House", a BlackComedy number where every verse has the song's viewpoint character describe someone their family killed and hid the body of after letting them in their home, mentions that the family intends to take the listener to the kitchen and "put [them] in the oven until [they're] done" should they ever come to their house. |
| 213 | [[/folder]] |
| 214 | |
| 215 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 216 | * In ''Podcast/BrimstoneValleyMall'', Misroch's habit of using human corpses in their hot dogs, and then selling those hot dogs to the unsuspecting public is pretty strictly PlayedForLaughs--much of the humor comes in how ''bad'' they are at hiding it, and how everyone remains clueless anyway. For example, their employee finds a hand in the fryer on the first day, and not only continues to work there, but doesn't suspect anything is wrong with the food until she's told. |
| 217 | * ''Podcast/FatFrenchAndFabulous'' has a few notable cannibalism discussions, including this gem: |
| 218 | -->"Technically, human is the only meat that can consent!" |
| 219 | * This is an absolute staple of ''Podcast/LessIsMorgue'', whether it's Riley devouring Jon and Brains Vincent in Episodes 1 and 2, or the cannibal restaurant [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies The Last Chance Texas-Style Barbecue]] in Episode 9, plenty of comedy is derived from characters eating each other. |
| 220 | * In the "Subway" episode of ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'', the Night Vale City Council issues a friendly reminder that people are [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely not eating each other]]. |
| 221 | [[/folder]] |
| 222 | |
| 223 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 224 | * On volume six Oedo Tai's Wonder Ring STARDOM's rebuilding, Kris Wolf got drunk, started rambling about eating humans and then wandered into a crowd after demanding the video be stopped. |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 228 | * More like Black Comedy SapientEatSapient, because the characters aren't human, but there are plenty of gags on ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' involving Muppets (bloodlessly) devouring other Muppets alive, to the point that it gets a [[https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Muppets_eating_other_Muppets dedicated page]] on the Muppets fan wiki. |
| 229 | [[/folder]] |
| 230 | |
| 231 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 232 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': |
| 233 | ** The suggestion that one might occasionally have to subsist on recycled human is one of the ''lighter'' notes of 40K lore. The ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' novels in particular like to bring up [[Film/SoylentGreen Soylens Viridians]] as a staple Imperial Guard ration, and other sources mention "corpse-starch" as an unpleasant but sustaining food source in lean times. After all, humanity is the Imperium's most abundant resource... |
| 234 | ** Invoked in-universe by the Kroot, who know that their SapientEatSapient customs disturb more squeamish races and tend find this discomfort amusing. |
| 235 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' contains the story of Skabbicus, a Skaven slave who led his fellow slaves in revolt against the brutal Council of Thirteen and was on the verge of succeeding, until the Council had the devious idea to promise a pardon and reward to any slave who pointed out their leader. It is said that [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder over ten thousand slaves]] [[TooDumbToLive did exactly that]]. |
| 236 | -->''The promised pardon [[ILied was quickly forgotten]] and the following retribution was predictably brutal. Production dropped for weeks throughout Skavenblight, but everyone ate well.'' |
| 237 | * ''TabletopGame/Turnip28'': The scenario blunder for "A Long March" has the unit that just blundered pause to start eating itself before carrying out its orders. [[{{Autocannibalism}} This can lead to the last member of the unit eating himself.]] |
| 238 | [[/folder]] |
| 239 | |
| 240 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 241 | * This is the core of the hilarity of the song "A Little Priest" from ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet''. A lot of the humor of the second half of the musical, actually. |
| 242 | * The Fletcher and Massinger play ''Theatre/TheSeaVoyage'' features a group of stranded nobles attempting to eat the woman of their party. When they're stopped, they're berated for trying to eat the one who can make more people for them to eat. |
| 243 | * The climactic cannibalism in ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'' is often played this way. This [[ParodyRetcon may or may not]] have been intentional. |
| 244 | [[/folder]] |
| 245 | |
| 246 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 247 | * Rats in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' are mutated, cannibalistic humans by principle, always refer to the [[PlayerCharacter Vault Hunter]] as food, and make jokes about cooking if [[KillItWithFire set on fire]]. |
| 248 | -->'''Rat:''' ''[upon burning to death]'' I sssmell ''deliciousss!'' |
| 249 | * In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', the entire side quest taking place in the White Glove Society relates to cannibalism and involves a bit of innuendo and occasional humor. And then there is the character "Cannibal Johnson" who isn't actually a cannibal (having gained the nickname from taking a bite out of a raider's heart in order to scare off the raider's buddies) but enjoys the effect of the reputation. |
| 250 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', all your companions will have reactions to you cannibalizing a corpse in their presence, and they're all hilarious. Your TokenHeroicOrc companion will even recommend the tastiest parts to try. |
| 251 | * Used in two ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' events, with the joke both times being that the would-be food item is your AbhorrentAdmirer [[{{Yandere}} Kiyohime]], and you'd rather not encourage her. |
| 252 | ** The first Valentine's event ("Lady's Chocolate Commotion") opens with a dream sequence of Kiyohime shapeshifting into chocolate and demanding you enjoy all 240,000 calories of her. The real Kiyohime later offers herself to you in place of chocolate, although the implication here is [[ReadyForLovemaking a different kind of "eating"]]. |
| 253 | ** During the first summer event ("Chaldea Summer Memory"), you are stranded on a tropical island, and Kiyohime offers to be your food if you can't find any, declaring that her serpent form's tail is "probably delicious, [[TastesLikeChicken like chicken]]". |
| 254 | ** For an example that isn't Kiyohime, during the Valentine's events, Beowulf's return gift is a fresh-off-the-grill dragon steak. The CE's description quotes Elizabeth Bathory's hit-by-enemy-Phantasm line, implying ''she'' was the dragon who got butchered for it. Sorry, Liz, you were delicious! |
| 255 | --->"I'm gonna become a dragon steeeeak!" And now you are! Seasoned with soy sauce and wasabi for a Japanese flavor, and onion sauce for a Western one. |
| 256 | * In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Javik is prone to talking about how the most popular delicacies of his cycle are now his squadmates in Shepard's. In very amusing ways. Usually to the faces of members of the appropriate species. |
| 257 | * One verse in "I Love My Food" from ''VideoGame/OnlyTheBraveCanRescueTheKidnappedPrincess'' has the King blithely recount a time when the royal cook told him for a dare that they were out of food, to which he responded by chasing him around the castle with a "ravenous look" on his face. |
| 258 | * ''VideoGame/Portal2'': Used in the Perpetual Testing Initiative to parody ''Film/SoylentGreen''. |
| 259 | -->'''Cave Johnson:''' Cave Johnson here. Just wanna let the cafeteria staff know to lay off the soylent green. I'm holding a memo from the President, and it turns out that soylent green is... [paper rustling] let's see here...[[BaitAndSwitch doubling in price]]. Now listen up: I don't care how good people tastes. This stuff's costing me more than lobster, so we're going back to fishsticks. |
| 260 | * ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic: Shadow of Revan'': |
| 261 | ** The player's allies have found a way to discreetly eliminate some enemies, without the BigBad suspecting a thing. The rub is that they need the player to appear to be a fearsome pirate so that the whole thing looks like a gang war. For a Republic player, they decide to embellish the pirate persona's reputation with cannibalism -- to the point that the "Red Hulls" supposedly paint their ships with the blood of their literally butchered victims. Thus leading to a surreal moment when the player arrives and the locals' first reaction is to beg not to be eaten for no readily apparent reason. |
| 262 | --->'''Crier Droid:''' If you consider yourself easily frightened or ''especially delicious'', steer clear of the Red Hulls! |
| 263 | ** A second batch of it comes when talking with OptionalPartyMember Treek (an [[CuteAndPsycho Ewok]] [[PintSizedPowerhouse mercenary]] who can be recruited by any class or faction). Treek mentions that there are several sentient races she would like to cook and eat. A bit of BlueAndOrangeMorality comes into play; to an Ewok, meat is meat, and if nature provides you with some, it would be wasteful not to tuck in. |
| 264 | ** Early on in their story, a Sith Warrior can intimidate criminals attempting to steal a package that you're trying to protect by screaming that you'll eat them. They'll decide that they'd rather not take the chance with someone crazy enough to make that threat and you can later clarify whether or not you were bluffing. |
| 265 | * Kled, a ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' character whose personality is mostly AxCrazy BlackComedy, has several lines referring to eating other champions. ''Mostly'' they involve him feeding their corpses to his steed, Skaarl, but he does still say there's "good eatin'" on humans and describe a defeated [[SnakePeople Cassiopeia]] as "snake dinner tonight". |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 269 | * When fried eggs are [[http://www.loadingartist.com/comic/sunny-side-up/ served to a chicken]] at ''Webcomic/LoadingArtist''. |
| 270 | * Sergeant Schlock's habit of eating people in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' is generally played for comedy, to the point where at one point he's told to be ready for "lunch at the zero-evidence buffet". His viewing kittens as comfort food is also played for comedy, although he doesn't generally get to eat any onscreen. |
| 271 | -->'''Tagon:''' There were three goons! ''Three!'' Where's the third one?\ |
| 272 | '''Schlock:''' ''[raises hand]'' Yum? |
| 273 | * The "Cannibals Anonymous" story in ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'' has Aylee the alien's friends making an intervention for her to make her stop eating people. This involves arguing about whether she's eating ''too many'' people, as if it's okay in moderation. Then she joins the Cannibals Anonymous program -- though she's not technically a cannibal since humans aren't her own species -- and the rest of the storyline involves things like a cannibal convention. |
| 274 | * ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': |
| 275 | ** Murkoph, an actual cannibal, making comments on eating orphans or greeting people by asking to take a bite comes off as comedy as he's trapped in the khert and can't actually get at anyone. For now. |
| 276 | ** Duane is pretty good about not eating people when he's present in his body despite his ever present HorrorHunger. He still jokes darkly about it while having to team up with people and one asks why he hasn't eaten Sette yet; |
| 277 | --->''I struggle to pair wine.'' |
| 278 | [[/folder]] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 281 | * On Website/ThisVeryWiki, there are tropes with such names as NoPartyLikeADonnerParty and JustEatGilligan. |
| 282 | * The ''[=SBS=]'' article ''[[http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2015/02/04/julie-bishop-refuses-rule-out-devouring-tony-abbotts-still-beating-heart Julie Bishop Refuses to Rule out Devouring Tony Abbott’s Still-Beating Heart]]'' which parodies Australian politics. |
| 283 | -->"I am not seeking a tasty human heart," said Ms. Bishop, “but were such a heart to be available it would be a waste to not consume it. That would be exactly the kind of governmental waste we’re trying to fight against." |
| 284 | [[/folder]] |
| 285 | |
| 286 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 287 | * This is the premise of the ''WebVideo/FrenchBaguetteIntelligence'' video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH4CnfkTYPI "Vegan Cannibalism is the Future"]]. It starts with Harry insisting that he is eating a vegan diet because he only eats vegans. It only goes downhill from there - here is an excerpt: |
| 288 | -->'''Vegan:''' That would result in a world full of vegans. Wouldn't you hate that?\ |
| 289 | '''Harry:''' Why would I hate that? I am on a vegan diet. I would never go hungry again.\ |
| 290 | '''Vegan:''' You would be a menace. Probably executed too.\ |
| 291 | '''Harry:''' Excellent. They should feast on my corpse before it rots.\ |
| 292 | '''Vegan:''' Why would they do that?\ |
| 293 | '''Harry:''' Because I'm delicious. |
| 294 | * ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' has ''It's Dahm Good'', a cannibal cooking show run by Jeffery Dahmer himself, as a background element. |
| 295 | * Creator/{{CS188}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcMAoi0-Je8 Paula Peen Consumes Family Members on the FooF Network]] uses ManipulativeEditing, as is typical of YouTubePoop, to make it seem like Paula Deen is cooking her grandmother. |
| 296 | * ''WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow'' has turned this into a RunningGag as of season four. "Hey, Sugar. It's me.", when the host isn't abusing children, [[spoiler:or women, whether either are dead or alive]]. |
| 297 | * ''Series/TheWeather'': Downplayed; In the ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''-themed segment of "Tornado", Alan talks to a pig, played by a caller, who claims to enjoy eating bacon, which he finds funny enough to laugh at, but also sick enough to toss the pig into the twister. |
| 298 | * Pops up a few times in the YouTubePoop "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INa_SYywZis Of or Belonging to Arby]]", through the magic of ManipulativeEditing. |
| 299 | -->'''Arby's Head of Sandwiches:''' Maybe it's because last time you ate at Arby's, you ate your grandparents, somehow. [[NoodleIncident Because I have.]]\ |
| 300 | ...\ |
| 301 | '''Ad Presenter:''' This is Tina. She got in extra early to oven roast Eddie...This is Eddie. He's the roast beef. This is Kevin. He married the roast beef. |
| 302 | [[/folder]] |
| 303 | |
| 304 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 305 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has many cast members that are AnthropomorphicFood and loads of CarnivoreConfusion. As a result, cannibalism, in the sense of [[SapientEatSapient eating someone who is sapient]] and considered as much a person as you are, is a frequent source of humor. And that's without getting into how ''all'' food is sapient on this show: |
| 306 | ** A recurring poster in the background at Elmore Junior High explains that eating other students is against the rules. |
| 307 | ** "The Ghost": In the middle of a BingeMontage, Carrie-in-Gumball's-body is accosted by the Sheriff, [[DonutMessWithACop who is a donut]], and takes a bite out of him. |
| 308 | ** "The Dream": Darwin and Gumball [[DreamWalker enter the same dream together]], which the latter briefly leaves and come back to. Turns out [[YearInsideHourOutside several days had passed from Darwin's perspective]] where he was trapped in a car with Gumball's unconscious body, which he'd started eating out of desperation. |
| 309 | ** "The Coach": A flashback shows Jamie unpeeled Banana Joe, plucked Sarah's ice cream head off, stuck them together in a bowl, and ate some of them with a spoon. |
| 310 | ** "The Recipe": One of the many clones of Anton, a sentient piece of toast, meets his ends when he's put in the place of the bread on Tobias's sandwich, which he bites into not knowing what it was. Later, Richard finds a bunch of clones and tells them that he plans to eat them once he gets hungry. |
| 311 | ** "The Name": Gumball/Zach grabs an apple off a table someone else is sitting at and takes a bite out of it. This apple turns out to be Banana Joe's cousin, not that Zach cares. He also licked Sarah's face to eat a little bit of her, though she seemed to think of it more like a kiss. |
| 312 | ** "The Pizza": About twenty minutes after Larry quits all his jobs, society has collapsed and people are already forming gangs who kill and eat anyone who invades their territory. Mr. Small, who is normally a vegetarian, is alright with this so long as the people he eats aren't on antibiotics. |
| 313 | ** "The Spoiler": Leslie, Banana Joe and Juke all act out scenes from a movie Gumball wants to see with their food, so to avoid spoilers, Gumball eats all of their food. Anton then keeps talking about the movie, so Gumball slaps him onto another piece of bread and eats him too. |
| 314 | ** In "The Girlfriend", Banana Joe ''lets'' Jamie eat part of his head when she orders it, but then she spits it out. Likewise, Anton offers himself with a slice of cheese, and cuts the crust off. She's not interested, so she tells him to eat "it", and [[{{Autocannibalism}} he obliges]]. |
| 315 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': The Smiths were taking a cruise ship vacation, things went wrong and they along with a girl from the ship that Steve was attracted to ended up stranded on a remote island where some rich guys declared that they'd [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt them]]. After hiding in a cave a cave-in killed the girl and trapped the Smiths there. Starving the Smiths decided to eat the body. Then they found out the hunters had paintball guns and they'd stumbled across a themed resort. |
| 316 | * The Belcher family in ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' were originally intended to be cannibals who made their restaurant's hamburgers out of human meat. In the pilot, "Human Flesh", a health inspector accuses Bob of making burgers out of bodies from the mortuary next door, which is also a rumor that Louise has been spreading in her class. At the end of the episode, Bob is exonerated but keeps the story going since a group of adventurous eaters really like the idea of people burgers. |
| 317 | * ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'': |
| 318 | ** The meat industry in this verse is treated the same way it's treated in the real world: living beings are bred and cooked for the evolved ones to eat, mostly mentally retarded animals who are even tenderized by their civilized counterparts. The humor comes from how hilariously wrong it is to see people treat this as normal, even if it's also PlayedForDrama by showing how inhumane the process is, regardless of any argument. |
| 319 | ** [[spoiler:Zach Braff's death]] is pure comedy-horror personified, because nobody expected it. [[spoiler:Still, since several celebrities were trapped underground and SanitySlippage was running amok, most of the deranged accepted it as necessary as a sacrifice to the "Fire". Everyone except Braff himself.]] |
| 320 | --->'''[[spoiler:Zach Braff]]:''' [[spoiler:[[BigWhy WWWHHHHYYYYYYY??????]]]] |
| 321 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 322 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS4E12PerfectCastaway Perfect Castaway]]", when he and his friends are lost at sea, Peter eats Joe's legs since he was paralyzed and had no use for them, anyway. Joe later gets a leg transplant, but the donor was also paralyzed. |
| 323 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS11E1IntoFatAir Into Fat Air]]", the Griffin family attempt to climb Mt. Everest and wind up eating the frozen corpse of a boy, which Peter tactlessly reveals to the boy's parents. |
| 324 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS11E3TheOldManAndTheBigC The Old Man and the Big 'C']]", there's a CutawayGag to a group of women ordering dessert at a restaurant, whom start laughing at one of them making a joke before they suddenly begin eating each other alive. |
| 325 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E3DaBoom Da Boom]]", after Y2K destroys the world, Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons eat their asian co-anchor Tricia Takanawa. (The episode is AllJustADream). |
| 326 | --->'''Peter:''' That's crazy! [[ComicallyMissingThePoint They're just going to be hungry again in an hour!]] |
| 327 | ** In "[[Recap/FamilyGuy8E7JeromeIsTheNewBlack Jerome Is The New Black]]", a cutaway parody of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HItVDGs49o an old commercial for York Peppermint Patties]] features a man having been stranded on a frozen mountaintop for two months after biting into one, with the patty - which keeps teleporting him back to the top of the mountain - his only food source. Until another man bites into a patty and gets teleported to the mountain, and the first knocks him out and starts chewing on his leg. |
| 328 | ** Both "Lois Kills Stewie" and "The Fat Guy Strangler" feature jokes about fat people being cannibals (because they'll eat anything, get it?). In the first, an amnesiac Lois gets a job at a fat camp, where her responsibility is to stop the fat kids from eating each other. In the second, part of the mounting proof that Lois's long-lost brother is the titular Fat Guy Strangler is a dead fat guy in his room and an almost dead fat guy in his room, who testifies that "Patrick tried to kill me." After Lois is convinced, instead of asking for help, the surviving fat guy asks "Are you gonna eat that dead fat guy?" |
| 329 | * Used a lot in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' alongside humor involving [[ToServeMan aliens preying on humans]]. For example, a {{flashback}} shows that cannibalism was a solution during the depression of 3007, and Fishy Joe claims "the only reason we don't eat humans is because we taste terrible". |
| 330 | ** In "Fun On a Bun," Fry falls into a meat grinder that [[ItMakesSenseInContext Bender is using to grind up a wooly mammoth]] but escapes in one piece with only his clothing gone and a little of his hair trimmed off. Bender, who has no idea where Fry went, makes sausages out of the meat and [[IAteWhat Leela is halfway through hers when she finds Fry's hair and scraps of his clothing in it]]. She doesn't take it well. |
| 331 | --->'''Leela:''' ''(sobbing)'' [[BreadEggsMilkSquick I broke up with my boyfriend and then I ate him!]] |
| 332 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' |
| 333 | ** In the episode "Society of the Blind Eye", a group of gnomes try to steal one of Lazy Susan's pies, and the leader threatens to eat his fellow gnomes if they can't get the pie. |
| 334 | ** In the episode “Northwest Mansion Mystery,” [[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. |
| 335 | * Repeatedly used in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': |
| 336 | ** "Tastes Like Chicken" is all about Billy jumping to the conclusion that Mandy is a cannibal who's eaten his friends and family and plans to eat him next, which ends with a played-for-laughs implication that she actually has eaten Irwin. |
| 337 | ** In "Which Came First", a class trip ends up with the cast stranded in the desert. They bring up the possibility of having to eat each other to survive, causing Sperg to see Billy and Irwin with MeatOVision ("You dropped your pickle." "Thanks!"). At the end of the episode, they do find food, and Pud'n is relieved that they won't have to eat each other. Cut to Sperg with several legs sticking out of mouth, who then says "Tough luck for you, kid." |
| 338 | ** The series' version of Pinocchio believes that the only way he can become a real boy is if he eats the flesh of a real boy. |
| 339 | ** Eris is shown eating Hoss Delgado several times when she gets mad in "Chaos Theory", though she always uses her powers to spit him out/restore him afterwards. |
| 340 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode "[[Recap/JackieChanAdventuresS1E10TheJadeMonkey The Jade Monkey]]", the Dark Hand have Jackie tied up and [[HostageHandlerHuddle are trying to decide on what animal to turn him into using the Monkey Talisman]]. When they settle on turning him into an animal that they can eat, Jackie pleads that doing so would constitute cannibalism. |
| 341 | * ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': |
| 342 | ** In season 5, "Every Meat Burritos", there's a drive-thru restaurant that serves a burrito that has every meat in it, including "long pig", which is another name for human flesh. |
| 343 | ** In an earlier episode, living sausages eat each other up because they're covered in mustard. |
| 344 | * One ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' skit reveals that [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Krabby Patties]] are made out of crab meat in a parody of ''Film/SoylentGreen''. |
| 345 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 346 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E11FearOfFlying Fear Of Flying]]", when Marge's [[TitleDrop 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. |
| 347 | --->'''Passenger:''' (''eating sounds'') Pass another hunk of Co-pilot. |
| 348 | ** In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E6TreehouseOfHorrorV Treehouse of Horror V]]" segment "Nightmare Cafeteria", 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. |
| 349 | --->'''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}}'') [[SayingTooMuch Wait, scratch that one]]. |
| 350 | ** 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 [[WorseWithContext only six 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. |
| 351 | ** "[[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. [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty 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. |
| 352 | --->'''Moe:''' What, so now we're ''not'' eating Homer? |
| 353 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E17BartToTheFuture Bart To The Future]]", Homer offers Bart and Ralph some Film/SoylentGreen. |
| 354 | --->'''Ralph:''' Isn't that made of people?\ |
| 355 | '''Homer:''' (''annoyed'') Oh boy, here we go... |
| 356 | ** In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E4TreehouseOfHorrorXVII Treehouse of Horror XVII]]" segment "Married To The Blob", 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?!" |
| 357 | ** In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E4TreehouseOfHorrorXXVIII Treehouse of Horror XXVIII]]" segment "Mmm... Homer", 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. |
| 358 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS2E19JellyfishHunterTheFryCookGames The Fry Cook Games]]", Patrick botches a pole vault over a giant deep fryer, overturning it and sending boiling oil onto a section of the audience. A vendor then starts selling the resulting fish sticks for a dollar each. |
| 359 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 360 | ** "[[Recap/SouthParkS2E2CartmansMomIsStillADirtySlut Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut]]": During a blackout the adults of town, trapped in a small shack, resort to cannibalism of Creator/EricRoberts after a short time being trapped without power. "It's only been like, four hours. Aren't you resorting to cannibalism a little quickly?" |
| 361 | ** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E4ScottTenormanMustDie Scott Tenorman Must Die]]", Cartman tricks a teenage bully into eating his own parents. Unfortunately for Cartman, it was later revealed that [[spoiler:both boys shared a father. ]] |
| 362 | * A LighterAndSofter version of this trope occurs in ''WesternAnimation/StrokerAndHoop'', when the guys encounter a creepy club of cannibals who eat nonessential parts like tonsils and appendices. |
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| 366 | * The cafe in the student center at the University of Colorado is the [[http://umc.colorado.edu/dining/alferd-packer Alferd Packer Restaurant and Grill]]. Motto: "Have a friend for lunch." |
| 367 | * The Catholic saint Lawrence of Rome is almost the patron saint of this trope. As the tale goes, Lawrence was a deacon in charge of the church's distribution of alms in 3rd Century Rome, under Valerian's persecution. The Roman prefect demanded Lawrence turn over the church's wealth that he handled as part of his job. Lawrence produced a bunch of beggars and declared them the church's wealth (having already given the money away), and in retribution the prefect roasted him on a large gridiron. Lawrence's final words as he cooked to death were, "I'm well done. Turn me over!" For his martyrdom he was sainted, and he is the patron of both ''comedians and chefs''. ''[[http://www.cracked.com/article_19620_the-9-most-badass-last-words-ever-uttered-part-2.html Cracked]]'' even quipped that St. Lawrence might have been the first, and most accurate, user of the insult-comeback "Bite me!" |
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