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''"Pain is funny. Therefore, more pain must be even funnier!"'' Thus goes the logic in a lot of comedy shows and a few adult cartoons. Sadly, that's not the case. The line separating ''[[The Three Stooges]]''-style painful fun from outright villainous [[squick]]y sadism varies from person to person but is definitely there; crossing it makes one fan's ''[[The Chew Toy|"Nyuk nyuk!"]]'' another fan's [[Guilty Pleasures]].

* The anime ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan]]'' bases much of its comedy on brutal and over-the-top violence.

* Similarly to ''Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan'', ''[[Dai Mahou Touge]]'' relishes in the protagonist's sheer brutality in applying wrestling submission maneuvers for much of its comedy. This is contrasted with the fact that she usually acts like the typical sweet Magical Girl (whose spells cause just about as much havoc...)

** While we are at it, the previous manga, Katteni Kaizo, from the same author Kōji Kumeta, is a lot about it too, especially during the later chapters.

* ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'': Although on the whole not too bad, but the final episode was entitled "Going Too Far", it was intentionally so violent, obscene, and long ([[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|it had a running time 1 minute longer than the standard episode format]]) that it wasn't allowed on Japanese TV.

** And some consider it a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] for the whole series, as it's a spot on spoof of [[Refuge in Audacity]] shows.

{{quote|Mayuri: [[Blatant Lies|"I would never do anything unsuitable for family viewing! Get your mind out of the gutter!"]]}}

* ''[[One Piece]]'' has Boa Hancock literally [[Kick the Dog|kick an adorable kitten]] that happened to be in her way to indicate that she is, in fact, a villain. Later, and after {{spoiler|pulling a [[Heel Face Turn]],}} she kicks a puppy and a ''baby seal'' at the same time to turn it into a gag.

* One of Kimblee's lines from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': "That's one way of saying it. Another is that I made women and children go boom."

** This is pretty much the entire reason for [[Serial Killer|Barry]] [[Blood Knight|the]] [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|Chopper's]] [[Heel Face Turn]]: to provide a comic relief character.

* The ludicrous exposition in ''[[Speed Racer]]'' does this often and unintentionally.

* ''[[Gintama]]'' stomps and poops all over the line.

* Hiruma's creative and liberal use of his [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] on his teammates (and everyone else) in ''[[Eyeshield 21]]''.

* ''[[Ghost Stories]]'', the [[Gag Dub]] version oh so much. "I know now that it could never work between us! As much as we wanted to it could never be! Not because you're {{spoiler|a rabbit}}, but because you're {{spoiler|black}}..." It can be seen (legally) on youtube by Americans [http://www.youtube.com/show/ghoststories here] for those who need to see it to believe it.

* ''[[Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro]]'': Crosses the line so often it can only be explained as being in a quantum state

** When X kills a bunch of neighborhood dogs, grinds up their bodies, and places them in boxes, it's horrible and twisted. When a guy holds up a tiny box crying about his chihuahua that he had to borrow lots of money to buy, it's sad, but kind of funny at the same time. When the people he bought it from come and ask him which body he wants to give up to cover the sale, it's morbidly hilarious.

* ''[[Detroit Metal City]]'' is about one man's descent into the mentality of a sociopath by merging with his [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]. It's played for laughs. ''And it works''.

* ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' makes only what concessions to [[Rule of Cool|the laws of physics]] that it needs to in order to prevent itself crossing the line ''thrice''. Bonus points in this case for doing the same with [[Anachronism Stew|history]].

 

== Comic Books ==

* What do you expect of a comic called ''[[Walter Moers|"The Little Asshole"]]'' written by a beloved author of children books and satirical novels.

 

* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6130321/1/bJesus_b_and_bHitler_b_A_Romance Jesus and Hitler, A Romance]''. Pretty much [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]. As one review put it:

{{quote|This is the single most disgusting nasty offensive thing I've ever read. And it's bloody amazing!}}

* ''[[My Immortal]]'' pretty much runs on this, either [[Troll Fic|intentionally]] or not.

* {{spoiler|The death of Mami}} in ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' was disturbing. Some of the fanart reacting to that, like [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/853948/-_-beret-blonde_hair-blush-boots-breasts-charlotte this one] (NSFW ads)... Not so much.

** It's more like it's ''more common'' to see {{spoiler|Mami and Charlotte}} to be together in a completely happy situation. To the point that it's one of the more common [[Crack Pairing|pairings]] in the show's [[Shipping]] fandom.

* ''[[Latias' Journey]]'' crosses the line a ''billion'' times. It is ''unimaginably'' [[Gorn|gory]] but it is so over the top that it starts getting funny.

* ''[[The Last War]]'' goes so over the top in its [[Ron the Death Eater|portrayal of Ron]] as the Potterverse's answer to [[Eastenders|Trevor Morgan]] that it becomes a total farce very quickly.

* The entire premise of ''[[Tamers Forever Series|Theory of Chaos]]'' is this trope taken [[Up to Eleven]].

** Basically what happens is {{spoiler|a Doumon¬ bewitches all the tamers except for Takato into becoming the embodiment of each of the seven deadly sins so we now have Rika Nonaka as a ''frieking avatar of lust!''.}} The whole thing is just so WRONG it's hilarious, and Ruki and {{spoiler|Chaos'}} comments make it that much better.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[The Aristocrats]]''. Any half-decent rendition should cross the line at least a dozen times, in every direction.

** In his rendition in the movie, [[Bob Saget]] practically picks up the line and jumps rope with it.

* Anything by [[John Waters]].

* The maximum bloody Crazy 88 fight scene in ''[[Kill Bill]]'' Vol 1. At first the blood is a powerful and startling effect. But after a while the ridiculously high pressure and copious volumes of blood from even minor wounds, combined with the sheer number of bodies piling up at The Bride's feet become a source of gory amusement. Note that the high pressure effect was used in O-Ren's backstory anime to good dramatic effect.

* ''Tin Cup''. An interesting case, in which Roy keeps trying to get the ball in the hole on one shot over, and over, and over, and over. It goes from being painful, to pathetic, to ''hysterical'', to finally (and unlikely!) '''''triumphant'''''.

* ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'' is built on this: Gratuitous use of the word 'nigger' and [[Black Comedy Rape]] to name a few.

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[The Wayfarer Redemption|Pilgrim]]'' has a bit that has achieved a fair bit of infamy in fantasy circles. In brief: a woman is used by her grandfather to channel the soul of his long-dead wife (her grandmother), so that she basically possesses their granddaughter and they have hot, passionate sex while the granddaughter [[And I Must Scream|is still conscious and powerless to do anything about it.]] She gets pregnant, and over the course of the pregnancy manages to regain control of her body, forcing grandma's soul into the unborn fetus instead. She then ''beats herself into miscarrying in front of her grandfather's eyes'', expels the aborted fetus, and crushes it's already-dead skull with her foot. All very macabre, twisted and [[Squick]]y. But when she smacks grandpa in the face repeatedly with the dead fetus while berating him, it becomes a stellar example of this trope.

 

* ''[[Strangers with Candy]]''. The episode involving syphilis crossed it '''three''' times and wrapped back around to genuinely disturbing when a teenage boy suffered brain damage from the disease and became little more than a lurching zombie.

* ''[[Bottom]]'' has more than its fair share of these - sometimes feeling like a live-action Tom and Jerry. One episode has Richie chainsawing Eddie's lower legs off...twice.

** Then there's the whole "pretending Kaylee's dead" from the pilot which Simon sums up best:

{{quote|'''Simon''': That man's psychotic.

'''Wash:''' You are ''psychotic!'' }}

* Several of the sketches on ''[[Mr. Show]]''. Making fun of religious beliefs? That's just stupid and rude. Doing it with America's Funniest Home Video style sound effects and graphics? Hilarious.

** Similarly, stealing money from orphans - not funny. Following up the revelation with a sequence showing the title character in a casino throwing the (stolen) money up in the air and laughing hysterically while surrounded by scantily clad showgirls? Hilarious.

* Kyle's song [[Bilingual Bonus|My Struggle]] as his good friend marries a Jewish man in the season 2 finale of ''[[Party Down]]''.

{{quote|'''Albie''': ''If geysers of blood are gushing out, then I get the Tarantino joke, and it's funny. If it's just a 'realistic' amount of blood, then it's ''extremely'' disturbing....''}}

* And who can the forget the surprising and hilarious death of Leslie Arzt in the ''[[Lost]]'' episode "Exodus, Part 2"?? Made all the more funny by Hurley's next line: "You got some... Arnst... on you."

{{quote|'''Ted:''' I can't decide whether to be thoroughly disgusted or really, really impressed.}}

** At one point he claims he may have actually ''sold'' one of the women he's slept with. It shouldn't be as funny as it is.

 

== Music ==

** Jingle BOMBS

*** Speaking of Santa going off the deep end, The Killers' song "Don't Shoot Me Santa" talks about Santa coming to shoot a boy who "couldn't let [the people who bullied him] off that easy" and has been "killin' just for fun" Of course, it is [[Played for Laughs]].

** [http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=3698 It does.]

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7IHNnyJ00 Damn right!]

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxJi-si5FRY Makes you run faster, too.]

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouiLFjMJnqo New] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMxhqNnjqPM challengers]? Warning: ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' spoilers! Certainly some YouTubers think these two may have broken the streak.

** [http://bennyhillifier.com/?id=kv4s3fn8jDc Here's proof that even 9/11 can be funny.]

** [http://bennyhillifier.com/?id=7_PwZZJgKRA I should email this to the people in it, as they would be insulted.]

* A lot of stuff by ''The Vandals''. Example? The song "Fourteen"; lyrics include "I can't make love to you because you're fourteen", and "there will come a day when love like ours is not a crime, just give it time". Sick. Also funny. Also the Christmas album "Oi to the World" which includes the songs "My First X-Mas (As A Woman)", "Christmas Time For My Penis" and "Hang Myself From The Tree"

* The video for Amanda Palmer's "Oasis". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C17yfGyJjM Seriously, just watch it.]

* [[Arlo Guthrie]]'s 18 minute 60's protest song against the draft does this when he's describing what he did when asked to talk to the shrink at the recruiting office.

{{quote|And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin' up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and he started jumpin' up and down with me and we was both jumpin' up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."}}

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al Yankovic]] has at least a couple of these on every album, i.e. "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKRqDtzOlQ Mr. Frump In The Iron Lung]", "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwgFRy3XK8o Christmas At Ground Zero]", "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceVXIs7Ihyw Good Old Days]", "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN6avab0fIY Trigger Happy]", "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-Mce9VpmY The Night Santa Went Crazy]"...

** Add "Weasel Stomping Day" to that list.

* The [[Doug Anthony All Stars]]. 'Nuff said.

* "Banging in the Nails" by the Tiger Lillies.

* [[Voltaire (musician)|Voltaire]]'s "Cantina" is all about a poor guy who visits [[Star Wars|Mos Eisley's infamous cantina]] and ends up receiving all kinds of [[Black Comedy Rape|unwanted sexual attention]] from everyone there (up to and including Han, Chewie, Greedo, and even Obi-Wan). It's quite hilariously disturbing.

* GWAR

 

== Radio ==

'''Boy:''' Has he gone to heaven?

'''Mother:''' No, he's flying to the south of France with his secretary.

'''Mother:''' Yes. Go and play in the motorway. }}

* To "bring something up" was/is a term for vomiting. ("Brought up my lunch", etc.) ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again|I'm Sorry Ill Read That Again]]'' was a sketch comedy which was [[Black Comedy Burst|usually]] plenty bawdy and occasionally touched on dark ideas, but often kept a light heart or a non-serious tone about it. This is all the context you need to get the next absolutely terrible yet horribly fantastic pun.

{{quote|''David Hatch went to the countryside to bring up his babies, which serves him right for eating them.''}}

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* [http://maze.icomix.com/picturepage/020707/the_eternal_rivalry.jpg This chess set].

** That destroyed the line. There was no crossing, it just blew it up.

** Er...no pun intended, right? Also, there exists a chess set, probably still in Corning, New York, of Jews versus Christians.

* [[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]: each player is given several clones of his character on the (justified) assumption that the Friend Computer and/or fellow players will find horrible and creative ways of destroy them

 

== Theatre ==

* ''[[Titus Andronicus (theatre)|Titus Andronicus]]'' is Shakespeare's bloodiest play. The Rape of Philomela is used as the basis for a secondary plot line, lampshaded in the dialouge, and [[It Got Worse]]. There is even a very blatant "[[Your Mom]]" joke.

** Two of Titus's sons are framed for the murder of their sister's fiancé, and Titus cuts off his own hand to secure their release... except he's been lied to, and he only gets their heads back, along with his hand. So, he grabs one head, has his brother take the other, and orders his handless, tongueless daughter to carry his hand by picking it up in her teeth.

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'' is something like this, except the line is between "[[Nintendo Hard|frustrating]]" and "funny", rather than "vulgar" and "funny".

** For many fans of [[Nintendo Hard]] games, this is the reasoning. Dying repeatedly in the same spot, or to a death trap that was absolutely impossible to see coming, is simply hilarious.

* Ellis [[Invoked Trope|invokes this]] in ''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]'' with one of his stories about Keith.

{{quote|'''Ellis''': My buddy Keith tried camping out on top of a building once. He was shooting crows, but the police were too busy tear gassin' him to ask what he was doin' up there. He screamed for an entire year every single time he opened his eyes! Oh man! At first it was funny, then it just got sad, but then it got funny again! Oh man!}}

*** On a somewhat related note concerning the Baron, his voice actor would later go on to voice [[Transformers (film)|Mudflap]], whose offensiveness is on par with (if not higher than) the Baron's. [http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2009/06/jive-talking-twin-transformers-spark.html He did not get away with it], which tells something about ''Madworld''.

* ''[[Ninja Gaiden]] II'', the 360 one, has bloodshed to such ridiculously over-the-top extents that it avoids being offensive or disturbing.

* Not from the game itself, but from one of the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' forums: the brother of a player called Nano logs into Nano's account to tell everyone that Nano has passed away, they've had the funeral, "he was a good person and I'm sure many of you would agree".

{{quote|'''loroldonfarm''': Did he drop any good loot?}}

* The ''[[Postal (video game series)|Postal]]'' series is full of this: pissing on a pizza and eating it; using a cat as a silencer; setting a gay club on fire; playing catch with a dog using a head or a grenade; pissing on people, making them throw up; tasering someone until they collapse, crying and pissing themselves in pain as you kick them in the face then douse them in gasoline and flick matches at them, setting them on fire, followed by kicking them a few more times, pissing on them again to put the fires out, and finally finishing them off by knocking their head off with a shovel or dropping a molotov cocktail on the ground just out of reach (but close enough that they're well within the blast radius) and watching them crawl toward it on charred limbs and belly, ostensibly in an effort to snuff it out, and see it explode in their face, sometimes splattering their head into little, bloody, bony chunks; the whole slaughterhouse sequence in the second game...

** Did we mention that both blood AND vomit have liquid physics applied to them? You can induce vomiting on someone at the top of a hill, then decapitate them (the vomit will keep spraying forth from the neck) and watch a mixed stream of blood and bile run down the hill and pool at the bottom. Get your angles right and the head will bounce down the hill right alongside the fluids.

{{quote|'''Hazama'''/'''Terumi''': Awwww, that's so cute... Who's my good little sword? It's you! Yes you are! Yes you are! Oh now don't get jealous Rags, but this sword is all mine from now on, OK? Isn't she nice, though? It wasn't cheap, but I thought "Hell Hazama, you deserve it... Spoil yourself! Spring for the 'Ragna's Little Sister' model"!}}

* This is one of [[Mortal Kombat]]'s selling points. The fatalities tend to fall under this, since you're adding insult to injury, or further injury to injury, whatever.

* That's the main selling point of ''[[Blood]]''.

* The final battle in ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]] III'' allows you to cross the line as many times as you want.

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[VG Cats]]'' ran a strip in which Aeris goes back in time to abort Leo. He got a bit of backlash for this, so his next strip had Pantsman introduce a toe-tapping dance routine... ''the Fetal Five''. Consisting of ''four'' bloodied fetuses.

{{quote|'''Pantsman''': Well that was good, but where's the fifth member?

'''Pantsman''': Bugsy!... }}

** This one may have set the record for most line-crossing in a comic ever. And it did it in ONE PANEL. [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1685#comic\]

* Xykon of ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' is a [[Complete Monster]], and yet... What he did to the Sapphire Guard (drove them insane with a magical symbol inscribed on a superball, leading them to slaughter one another) crosses the line so many times that the end result is hilarious . The same goes for the various [[Cold-Blooded Torture|tortures]] he's inflicted on O-Chul.

** That's tame compared to what Xykon does in "Start Of Darkness". Rich Burlew has stated that he wanted to make a villain that [[Complete Monster|has no sympathy from his audience.]]

** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0755.html Comic 755.] Where to start?

* [http://shortpacked.com/comic/book-3-is-totally-gay/02-wikimania/rape/ This] ''[[Shortpacked]]'' strip. Anything with the words "rape therapy" in it, in fact.

* Pretty much anything involving Black Mage of ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'', like [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2004/11/27/8-bit-chronicles-3-of-3/ how his Hadoken spell works].

** Not to mention his repeated orphaning and traumatizing of Onion Kid, and his repeat murders of his companions. Hell, he more or less defines it.

** Some of the things other characters do qualify as well, like [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2006/03/23/episode-676-supernatural-selection/ how Red Mage plans to get a ride off an island].

** Most things Sarda does, especially [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/01/31/episode-1089-special-delivery/ what he does after Ranger tries to kill him].

{{quote|'''Davan:''' Y'know, Jason, there's a fine line between parody and basically wearing a sign that says, "please lynch me".

'''Jason:''' And it's our job to spread our posterior cheeks and empty our bowels upon that line - in a literary sense, of course. Now, we need a dance number. How's this for a song - "God Wants More Animal Testing"? }}

** Not to mention Jason's musical about the crucifixion, ''"Nailed[[Excited Show Title!|!]]"''

* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', much of the [[Demonic Invaders|demonic rampage]] shown during "That Which Redeems" is played this way.

{{quote|'''Sweral:''' You ''did'' kill and eat Reakk's cat.

'''Tryka:''' ''It looked like my mom!'' }}

** Really, a ''lot'' of the strip came off this way in the early years; [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny]] hit ''hard'' in the new millennium.

* ''[[Ansem Retort]]''.

{{quote|'''Axel:''' But really, is drowning a kid in tequila such a reprehensible crime?

'''Aerith:''' Yes. }}

* ''[[Sexy Losers]]'' pretty much runs on a combination of this, [[Squick]], [[Refuge in Audacity]], [[NSFW]], and [[Fan Disservice]].

* The undead, firewielding warlock Richard from ''[[Looking for Group]]'', ''unlives'' this trope; See his [["I Am" Song|big musical number]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcbazH6aE2g "Slaughter Your World"].

* ''Tomoyo42'sRoom'': A story about [[Cardcaptor Sakura|Sakura]] and Tomoyo. This has everything, from baseball practice with aborted fetuses to a girl taking her recently decapitated dog and squeezing it to squirt her friend with blood. It's heartwarming.

* ''[[Van Von Hunter]]'' has [http://www.vanvonhunter.com/vvh232.html this example.]

* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' does this at least every other week.

* Used in [http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20090129 this strip] of [[Least I Could Do|LICD.]]

* ''[[Channel Ate]]''. About 90% of the comics are this.

* ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del|Ctrl Alt Del]]'', [http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20030505 here.]

** In one comic, a man approaches a fireman to lead his son's cub troop camping trip. The fireman agrees, then buries all the children alive and starts a forest fire. When the man comes back to the fire station concerned about his missing child, another fireman refuses to help unless the worried father helps him cheat on his taxes. He then goes back on his word and instead of helping, uses the fire truck to deliver his tax forms. The fireman also steals the poor man's wallet, then seduces his wife using flowers bought with the victim's own money.

* A Softer World, all the time. For [http://asofterworld.com/index.php?id=247 example].

* The entire point of [[Electric Retard]]. Killing small children and a giant angry naked Hitler are just the tip of the iceberg.

 

== Web Original ==

* [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/439144 The Torture Game 2.] Great for stress relief.

** A ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' [[Hentai]] parody (obviously [[Not Safe for Work]]) on newgrounds. '''BOOYAH!'''

* [[The Smurfs|Papa Smurf,]] [http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/papasmurf can I lick your ass?]

* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' in all its gory glory. [http://happytreefriends.atomfilms.com/ But don't take our word for it]. Be warned, not for the initially faint of heart. Also, beware over-saturation; violence ''does'' desensitize.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpM2Y5Wq8C8 This video] combines a disturbing scene from ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' with the song "What Is Love" by Haddaway. The scene was utterly fucked up in the original; it's gut-bustingly hilarious with the musical accompaniment.

* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' has a rampage by [[Ax Crazy|Wade Wilson]], along with [[The Scrappy|Carson Baye's]] [[And There Was Much Rejoicing|death]].

* The somewhat popular G-Mod [[Christian Brutal Sniper]] series (viewable [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iczmIosE4z4 here]), crosses the line so many times with it's joyously-nonchalant killer of a protagonist, it's freaking hilarious.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsTVkiXxDUo This video] of Euphemia from ''[[Code Geass]]'' {{spoiler|killing "Elevens"}} to [[Memetic Mutation|Caramelldansen]].

* ''[[Bastard Operator From Hell]]'' basically has a [[Magnificent Bastard]] that utterly devastates the lives of all around him for his own amusement and self-profit. Sometimes, it delves into pretty dark territory (at least relative to the fact that it's an ostensibly realistic series based around a business workplace).

* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=CTGrjcgSeAA This mash-up] of the Omaha Beach scene from ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'' using sound effects from ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2El7BFm04Y This version] using ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' qualifies.

* Derrick Comedy videos use this a lot. It mixes this and [[Overly Long Gag]] in [http://www.derrickcomedy.com/2007/05/21/kp/ kp]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KOlVl77SkQ Mario! Wario! Lucario!]

* [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s video "Top 10 Disturbing and Inescapable Christmas Songs" featured Alan Jackson's "Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)", accompanied by clips of a man assaulting his wife in case you didn't get why the song is so disturbing. After repeatedly smacking her to the ground and curb-stomping her, he starts hitting her with her own arm and saying "Why're ya hittin' yerself? Why're ya hittin' yerself?" and ''giving her noogies''. It [[Narm|stops being disturbing]] by this point.

** Related is a collaboration video that [[The Nostalgia Chick]] did with [[The Spoony Experiment|the Spoony One]], appropriately titled ''"Spooning with Spoony."'' It pretty much involves the Chick waking up next to Spoony and That Chick With The Goggles in bed with no idea what just happened, though she pretty quickly figures it out. It rapidly goes from disturbing to hilarious as the video progresses. {{spoiler|And then Benzaie shows up in nothing but a bowtie.}}

** And there's every episode of ''[[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]]'', where his horrifically nonsensical answers benefit greatly from deadpan delivery and the way everything piles up on itself until you can't possibly take it seriously.

*** Sometimes he doesn't even wait until the Q&A:

{{quote|''"Oh, seig heil! Didn't hear you come in."''}}

*** Then Bennett The Sage cranks that up a notch.

{{quote|Yeah, OK, so we have Wissenschafts prisons. So what? It's all [[For Science!|for the sake of science]]. They do very useful tests and experiments with the prisoners there. For example, they once tested how many wigs a man must eat before a wig comes out of his ears. They also tested what happens to a man if you knot his penis and let him drink 10 gallons of water. And last year, they tested how long you have to leave two men in a room until one man eats the other one. Could you live without the answers to these questions? I don't think so. Yes, I know it sucks to do science experiments with prisoners, but the good news is, um, we are also making the best porn movies in the whole world.}}

** Also pretty much the regular schtick of Video Game Confessions. So far we have a masochistic, Stockholm Syndrome-afflicted Princess Peach, a raving drug addict Sonic, a [[Camp Gay]] Link who keeps hitting on women [[Unsettling Gender Reveal|despite his best efforts]], and a sadistic [[Groin Attack]]-happy Samus Aran.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeaweVywMfM Black People Are Annoying] zig-zags the heck out of the line when it comes to racism. Crosses the first time when {{spoiler|one guy says [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|black people are annoying]].}} Crossed a second time when {{spoiler|the rest of the interviewees start to agree with him.}} Crossed a ''third'' time when {{spoiler|the camera turns around and shows all the interviewers are black, something the interviewees would have seen right from the start.}} Crossed a ''fourth'' time when {{spoiler|the black people agree with them.}} Crossed a '''''fifth''''' time when {{spoiler|the black people suggest that it be changed to Mexicans.}} Crossed a '''''sixth''''' time when {{spoiler|the white people get offended by that.}} Crossed a '''''seventh''''' time when {{spoiler|the white people say they were joking and are totally cool with changing it to Mexicans.}}

* ''[[The Onion]]'': [http://www.theonion.com/articles/congress-takes-group-of-schoolchildren-hostage,26207/ "Congress Takes Group of School Children Hostage."]

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nuUwN4MAcA Another Onion video] about gymnast Shawn Johnson.

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'' has "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WziyFLzOS_4 The Vagina Monologues]", a re-dub of the first episode with most of the words replaced with vagina. Not only are the voice actors constantly cracking up, but some of the lines now have hilarious implications: "For some reason, playing a children's card game has caused my vagina to become severely injured!" Spoken by an old man.

* ''Hellsing Ultimate Abridged''. Hellsing Ultimate is a gruesome and violent anime. The abridged series doesn't change the characters very much...except for Alucard. He goes from being a very serious character to an immature asshole who seems to go out of his way to piss people off. Much of the humor is derived from making fun of how violent the show is. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgnIjJexut4 Here's episode 1]. Warning: Lots of language, violence, and very mean words.

 

== Western Animation ==

** Don't forget the flower in his mouth, or the actor's beer-belly. Zuko and Sokka's responses to the reenactment didn't detract from the funny either.

** Not to mention that they made Actor!{{spoiler|Zuko}}'s [[Famous Last Words]] {{spoiler|Honor!!!}}

* ''[[South Park]]'', "Scott Tenorman Must Die": After a series of petty torments, Cartman takes a revenge that crosses the line so many times it's difficult to know whether to be horrified or not.

** For anyone that is unfamiliar, Cartman, {{spoiler|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 engages in a [[Xanatos Gambit]] that results in Scott eating a bowl of chili ''made from the remains of his recently killed parents''.}}

* Some ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episodes. Especially "Krusty Krushers". Like Spinning around SpongeBob and Patrick to pieces. Cementing the two in the ring. (either the first or second cross). Autographing the wet cemented remains with," Jim was here", on SpongeBob and "My foot was here", on Patrick. (Hillarious either way). Or earlier, them getting gargled only to be returned to normal with a toliet plunger.

* In a scene in ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', Brock is torturing an enemy henchman for information by squeezing his testicles, then abruptly stops when he feels a lump. The henchman is distressed at the news. This somehow turns the scene from "nasty" to "hilarious".

** The fact that Dr. Venture [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|powered his pleasure chamber with the trapped soul of an orphan]]? Horrific. The fact that his only defense is that he didn't use ''all'' of it? Hilarious.

*** Goes right back to horrific [[Fridge Logic|if you consider]] what was the sequence of events that led to the conclusion that an ''orphan'' was the solution?

* [[Total Drama Island|Chris McLean]]. Almost everything he makes the contestants do fits this trope, but {{spoiler|placing a C-4 charge on Owen's face takes the cake. And that was just the first episode of the 4th season.}}

** Not to mention the [[They Killed Kenny|interns.]]

 

== Other ==

* Many Internet Radio shows do this in terms of sheer vulgarity since there is virtually no censorship; wonder how far it can go; this line says it all: "Oh god they said that Jesus gave it to his mother!"

** After The Forking Show (ATFS), a podcast spinoff of a now defunct Australian radio show called The Spoonman, crosses the line in every podcast. One notable, repeated example: Bringing slavery to Australia (both played for laughs and discussed seriously).

* The cartoons in ''The Rejection Collection'' crossed the line once when they were rejected by ''The New Yorker,'' but crossed it a second time when they were funny enough to be published in this book.

* Bringing guns into an NBA locker room and threatening a teammate with them? Crossing the line. At a game, pantomiming shooting his teammates as a joke? This trope. Nice job, Gilbert Arenas.

* [[Mel Brooks]] on what he does for a living: "If I cut my finger, that's tragedy. If a man walks into an open sewer and dies, that's comedy!"

* Any tragic event will lead to jokes. When [[Too Soon]] doesn't qualify, this trope usually kicks in.

** [[Auto-Tune]] can make almost any video funny. Crazy fan nails Justin Bieber in the head with a water bottle? Tasteless. Auto-Tune the resulting clip into a song? Hilarious!

* Meta-Example: [[Tropes That Will Never Happen (Darth Wiki)|Tropes That Will Never Happen]] is full of this, especially the "Too Dangerous" section.

 

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[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

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