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{{quote|'''Nathan''': I f***ing love my dad!}}
* [[Gorillaz]] bassist Murdoc was, according to ''Rise of the Ogre'', [[Financial Abuse|forced by his father to participate in talent contests for money]]. The incident portrayed in the book involved him in costume as Pinocchio, complete with fake nose, singing "I've Got No Strings." "The prize? £2.50." Murdoc also claims to have hit puberty at age eight and lost his virginity to a dinner lady at age nine "And I've been in a bad mood ever since," though given that this is Murdoc it's not unlikely that he's making that up.
* Helga's home life in ''[[Hey Arnold!]]!'' was alternately [[Played for Laughs]] (as in this trope) and [[Played for Drama]] (especially in [[Tear Jerker|"Helga on the Couch"]]). Her father is controlling and uncaring, and her mother is scatterbrained, lazy, seems to have the will to live sucked out of her, and is most likely an alcoholic due to her love of [[Frothy Mugs of Water|"smoothies" that contain ingredients commonly found in alcoholic cocktails (such as tabasco sauce and celery sticks)]]. Anytime her beautiful and successful sister (who may have problems of her own, but is so much of a [[Stepford Smiler]], she represses them) shows up, she's overlooked for her.
* Rusty Venture's boyhood on ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' manages to teeter on the edge of being serious and morbidly funny. He was constantly being kidnapped and his father used him as little more then a prop to make himself look good, plus the issues this left him with are what made him the morally-bankrupt mad scientist he is today. But given the laughs we get from the show already, seeing Jonas Venture drunkenly fall on top of Rusty while trying to score with this woman he just met is darkly hilarious. Likely this had something to do with his relationship with twin brother Jonas Jr., who did not go through any of this (having been swallowed as a fetus by Rusty and made his way out as an adult) and is every bit the [[Smug Super]] that Jonas Sr. was.
** But of course Rusty's traumatic childhood is just the [[Freudian Excuse]] he has for treating his own sons so poorly and placing them in many of the same life-threatening situations he himself experienced. Apart from the constant danger and kidnappings they experience, the boys also have a very impoverished home life and no friends thanks mostly to being homeschooled in a box their pop made (and it sometimes gets very hot in the box that pop made). The most telling peice of evidence comes from the episode ''Powerless in the Face of Death'' when Rusty and Brock jovially recount all of the ways the boys have {{spoiler|died}}. The hilarity of child abuse gets a wonderful 'metaphoric' representation midway through this montage when we see {{spoiler|Dr. Venture as a werewolf kill his own kids}} and we all laugh.
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