Black Comedy: Difference between revisions

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjVW6roRs-w "No Pressure"] featured, among other things, kids being [[Disproportionate Retribution|blown up]] for not signing on to 10:10's [[Hollywood Global Warming|carbon emissions reduction program]] as a [[Crosses the Line Twice]] joke. If you don't feel like watching, it's not some kind of cute, funny explosion effect; it's [[Gorn|very bloody]] and identifiable bits of human tissue can be seen coating the bystanders in this ad.

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f46kAiy5BPA This commercial] (for Hershey's chocolate, of all things) dunks the poor woman in lava to make the pitch.

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Icelandic playwright/cartoonist Hugleikur Dagsson's crudely-drawn cartoons include such savory topics as incest, coprophagia, bestiality, suicide, and adults intentionally putting children in harms way. [http://www.dagsson.com Check it out if you dare ].

* In ''Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on a Serious Earth'' Joker starts a joke "How many brittle bone babies does it take-" only for Batman to cut across him. Admittedly not dead babies but clearly the same pitch black comedy.

* The original ''[[The Mask (comics)|The Mask]]'' comics often bordered on this.

* "Hubba Hubba," a two-page comic by Arthur Suydam that appeared in ''Heavy Metal''. One of Suydam's trademark weirdos-with-snouts sees a beautiful naked woman and, hoping to impress her with a gift, kills and cooks what he thinks is a small animal. This turns out to have been the woman's baby, and we're meant to see her horror and his ignorance as to its cause as humorous.

{{quote|'''Captain Hero:''' Captain hero ONE! Billions of innocent Zebulonians...um...dead. Oh. I...uh...(Slinks off)}}

* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'': Courage & 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.

{{quote|'''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! }}

* ''[[Moral Orel]]'', which occasionally decides to drop the "comedy" part; it left it to die in a ditch for most of the last season.

* ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''. More subtle than the above examples, but still there.

** When they went to the museum, there was a dog skeleton on display with a collar that says "Bucky." Phineas says that they had a dog named Bucky who got sick and went to live on kindly Old Man Simmons's farm. Their dad hurries them along to the next display, which is {{spoiler|kindly Old Man Simmons.}}

* One famous animated segment on ''[[The Electric Company]]'' starts with a well-dressed woman leaving her parrot home alone; a plumber comes and knocks on the door, and the parrot says, "Who's there?" The plumber answers, "I'm the plumber, I've come to fix the sink." But the parrot says "Who's there?" causing the plumber to repeat, "I'm the plumber, I've come to fix the sink!" [[Overly Long Gag| After several repetitions of this]], with the plumber becoming more annoyed each time, he has a heart attack and collapses. The owner of the house comes back, notices him, and exclaims, "Who's this?" The parrot replies, "He's the plumber, he's come to fix the sink."

 

== Other Media ==