This isn't even the most messed up death he's suffered, either.
Given the show's openly shameless and completely unapologetic history of Refuge in Audacity, plus the fact that Trey Parker and Matt Stone have outright said they wish to offend everyone, it's not at all surprising that this trope has come into play extremely frequently throughout the years.
- "Scott Tenorman Must Die": After Cartman and Scott spend most of the episode trying to humiliate each other in petty, light-hearted ways, Cartman concocts a revenge scheme that crosses the line so many times, it's not even funny. For anyone that is unfamiliar, Cartman, after being tricked into buying Scott (a random teenage boy)'s pubic hair for ten dollars, and then getting scammed again when he attempted to recoup his losses (including being forced to sing "I'm a Little Piggy" in an attempt to get his money back), then being publicly mocked by having the "Piggy" video shown after his own video trick is dismissed, he pulls off a Titus Andronicus by engaging in a Batman Gambit that results in Scott eating a bowl of chili made from the remains of his recently killed parents. Cartman even got Scott's favourite band, Radiohead, to see Scott cry, and insult him for it! What a jerk.
- Cartman: Oh let me taste your tears, Scott! Oh, the tears of unfathomable sadness! Mmm-yummy!
- It's even more twisted later on. In "201", we learn that Scott's father was also Cartman's biological father, and everyone covered up the truth to protect his football career, as he was the right tackle for the Denver Broncos that time. Cartman's reaction? He's devastated because... His dad was a ginger! At this point, the line is practically obliterated.
- "Up the Down Steroid", Cartman decides to enter the Special Olympics on the presumption that he could easily get one of the $1,000 prizes on offer. While this is bad enough, he actually loses every event he enters, ending up with just the consolation prize, which he finds more insulting.
- In the DVD commentary to "It Hits the Fan", Parker and Stone say that the network wouldn't let them say "shit" a few times, but were fine with them saying it 162 times; and keeping count on-screen, to boot. It's as boundary-pushing as it is hilarious.
- Relatedly, every time the MPAA told the creators they objected to something in Bigger, Longer, and Uncut Parker and Stone just made it worse, and were then told it was okay. Possibly, the MPAA was afraid of seeing what the pair would do if they objected to the second version.
- Another especially extreme example is in "Night of the Living Homeless" from season 11, where someone decides to "take the easy way out" and shoot himself in the head... before turning out to be Made of Iron (borderline Implacable Man) and surviving multiple gunshots, ending with him spending his last moments slipping on his own blood and shrieking in a comically over-the-top fashion. This manages to cross the line about fifty times in thirty seconds.
- In "Le Petit Tourette", as part of Kyle's plan to take down Cartman's falsified Tourette's Syndrome Hate Speech towards Jewish People, he and Thomas, a kid who actually has Tourette's Syndrome, tricks a pedophile into the studio where Cartman is set to appear on national television, but shoots himself when he finds out he is on Dateline with Chris Hansen. At first, it's in really bad taste... and then it becomes hilarious when he's followed by many other pedophiles who proceed to shoot themselves as well. By the time one of the pedophiles shoots themselves because there weren't any brownies, the line is blown to bits.
- "It's a Jersey Thing". The whole episode. For the most part, it's just an irreverent Take That! towards Jersey Shore; not particularly offensive. When the city calls upon Bin Laden for help, it starts to approach eyebrow-raising territory, but it's otherwise pretty tame for South Park. Then comes the episode's climax, where Al Qaeda saves South Park by flying hijacked planes into the Jersey Shore people; by that point, the episode is gleefully pole-vaulting over the line like an Olympic athlete. By the time Osama bin Laden is awarded the Medal of Freedom for this, and then shot in the head, you're too busy laughing to care about how messed up it all is.
- "HUMANCENTiPAD"'s mere concept (Kyle being forced into being a part of the titular HUMANCENTiPAD after failing to read the Terms and Conditions for the latest iTunes update) is already deliciously depraved in numerous ways. When it reaches the point where Takiyama (one of the people Kyle is tied to) is forced to choose between eating a cuttlefish and vanilla paste, you'll be forgiven for all but dying of laughter for the rest of the episode.
- Season 23's "Season Finale" (which is actually the name of the episode, not the actual finale) Longtime minor character Jason White is sadly killed off after getting over by a car because he tried to catch a Gridiron football in the street. What crosses the line twice is Cartman's (who threw it in the first place) nonchalant reaction towards it: "That totally would've been a touchdown."
- "Cartman Joins NAMBLA" doesn't merely CROSS the line. It takes it out back, shoots it in the head, runs it over with a tank, and dumps its remains in a river. To recap, Cartman decides he needs new, more mature friends, so he decides to join the North American Man-Boy Love Association after misunderstanding Dr. Mephisto, who wanted Cartman to join the North American Marlon Brando Look Alikes. The pedophile NAMBLA group decides to use Cartman as a poster child and urges Cartman to invite his friends to a banquet to honor Cartman where the pedophiles also attempt to have sex with the boys. All of that alone already puts the episode into shooting-the-line-in-the-head territory, and that's not even getting into the rest of it.
- Meanwhile, in the B plot, Kenny feels threatened when his parents decide to have another baby, so he spends most of the episode trying to either injure his fathers' testicles or abort the fetus; which eventually devolves into his father simultaneously vomiting, defecating, and bleeding into a trash can after Kenny crushes his testicles, gives him a chocolate milk and vodka drink laced with extra-strength abortion pills, and breaks his nose on an amusement park ride based upon John Denver's airplane-crash death. And that's not even the end of it.
- This culminates with a Scooby-Dooby Doors segment with the children, both NAMBLA groups, the FBI, and Kenny chasing his mother with a plunger all while the goofiest cabaret song plays. The episode ends with Kenny's father being mistakenly raped by all the members of the pedophile NAMBLA. By the time the credits roll, the line is completely non-existent.
- Russell Crowe decides to fight cancer. He can't find cancer, so he beats up a man WITH cancer. All while Trey Parker is portraying Crowe himself with a hilariously stereotypical Australian accent.
- In "Informative Murder Porn" a man murdered his wife and when the dead wife is being taken away, her son sees it and starts screaming. Sergeant Yates says the kid shouldn't be forced to see this, so another officer just throws a blanket over the kid's head.
- "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy" is 22 minutes of pure, unadulterated, satirical line-crossing:
- The relationship between Ms. Stevenson and Ike is, fittingly, portrayed as sick and appalling. Everybody (sans Kyle, Sheila, Principal Victoria and Mr. Mackey) treating the whole thing as an accomplishment on Ike's part, however, is where it becomes hysterical.
- The mere CONCEPT of the relationship: an adult woman being intimate with an underage boy? Sick and Wrong. An adult woman being intimate with a literal toddler? Exaggerated, but not that funny. An adult woman and a toddler in a passionate whirlwind romance with one another? Fucking hilarious. And like the above, it all serves the satire perfectly.
- Alabama Man, debutting in Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery, is the most hilariously offensive and stereotypical toy ever conceived.
- "Weight Gain 4000" has Mr. Garrison putting on a historically accurate play on the founding of South Park. Said play features most of his students playing either Indians or pioneers... and the pioneers giving the Indians a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
- A subplot in the episode "Hell on Earth 2006" involves real-life serial killers Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer delivering Satan's Ferrari cake. On the face of it, murderers like Bundy, Gacy and Dahmer's being involved wouldn't exactly make for a humorous subplot; however, in depicting them as inept Three Stooges-like buffoons, things quickly go from unsettling to darkly absurd. By the time Dahmer is shown having sex with someone's torn-out intestines, it's impossible not to burst out laughing.
- In "Cripple Fight!", the boys' new scoutmaster taking pictures of the boys naked? Nightmare Fuel. The news exposing the pictures on the newscast while their parents (who are at fault for the new scoutmaster being there after they got the old one fired) are watching after the scoutmaster got arrested? Hysterical.
- At the start of "Grounded Vindaloop", Cartman made Butters wear a VR headset and made him believe it was virtual reality. Butters taking it seriously enough that he steals a car and drives to the bad side of town? Rather dark. Butters taking it so seriously that he punches his dad in the balls for all the times he got grounded, then drives said stolen car to the bad side of town just to beat up and steal from a hooker, who ends up stabbing him? Comedy gold.
- After Jimmy labels Germans the least funny people of all, Cartman, of course, puts this trope into effect.
- Cartman: Do you know what happened to the last people to piss the Germans off? Tell him Kyle.
- From "Mecha-Streisand", Cartman is interviewed by a news crew after Kyle finds the Triangle of Zinthar.
- Cartman: ...and I told him. I said, "Kyle, I will kick you in the nuts." But he didn't give it back to me. So I kicked him square. In the nuts. And he cried. Like Nancy Kerrigan!
- In the second episode of the "Imaginationland" trilogy, the evil imaginary figures attack Strawberry Shortcake and tear out her eyeball. It's unsettling and honestly pretty sad... at first. Then the Woodland Christmas Critters show up, and discuss ways to make her death as gruesome as possible; by that point, Black Comedy is in full, deliciously depraved effect:
- Beavery Beaver Hey! I know! Let's all pee in her empty eye socket!Deery Deer: Let's make her eat her own eyeball, and then pee in her empty eye socket.Beary Bear: How about we get someone with AIDS to pee in her eye socket, so she dies all slowlike? (the other Critters cheer at the idea)The Minotaur: Nobody here has AIDS!Woodland Critters: Awwww!!Beary Bear: But we've got to have AIDS before we pee in her eye socket!
- The entire character of Nathan, an evil child with Down Syndrome, whose schemes often backfire and result in Laser-Guided Karma, often with Black Comedy Rape involved.
- Honey Boo-Boo having a heart attack in Raising the Bar. A small child having a heart attack? Horrifying. Her mom casually performing CPR on her as if it's happening often? Funny as hell.
- The end of "Eek! A Penis!" has Garrison deliver a transphobic line about how the only thing that makes you a woman is that you can have babies. Then Thompson reveals that his wife is infertile due to ovarian cancer, and Garrison responds with this gloriously offensive gem: "Well, then, get an AIDS test, Thompson, 'cause your wife's a dude, faggot!". If that doesn't leave your mouth agape, nothing will.
- "With Apologies to Jesse Jackson" has Randy say the N-word with utter glee as a guess to the board reading "N_GGERS". The fact that he said the N-word, in of itself, isn't funny at all. However, the big smile on his face after he says it, the horrified Stunned Silence of the audience, and the disgusted glares of the black participants all turn it into comedy gold. It becomes even funnier when you remember that the category is "People That Annoy You", and then get to see the real answer: "NAGGERS".
