Played for Laughs: Difference between revisions

Contrast [[Played for Drama]]; sometimes, the [[Canonical List of Subtle Trope Distinctions|only difference]] between one [[Trope]] and another is that one is [['''Played for Laughs]]''', while the other is [[Played for Drama]].

Can sometimes result in [[Harsher in Hindsight]] or a [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] down the line. And of course, can result more immediately in [[Dude, Not Funny]].

* Most of the middle of Ep. 4 in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'' is Beatrice having fun making the story play out as much as a cheesy kids' action anime as possible. [[Eleventh -Hour Superpower]], [[Out -of -Character Moment]], [[Interface Screw]], you name it. {{spoiler|After everyone stops acting it becomes obvious in hindsight.}}

* We have [[All Men Are Perverts|uncontrolled lechery]], [[Would Hit a Girl|fathers beating their daughters]], bipolar childhood friends with murderous grudges, [[Kill It Withwith Fire|a pyromaniac baby]], a mother who wishes her son was never born, wanton property destruction, and alien invasions. This is ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''. All of the above is ''frikken hilarious''.

* Try [[Ranma Half½|an Aquatransexual]] with {{spoiler|a mother who thinks he should be manly or [[Seppuku|face the sword]],}} ''way'' too many Fiancéesfiancées, [[I Know Kung Faux|rivals who practice]] all kinds of [[Martial Arts and Crafts|ridiculous martial arts]], a [[Dirty Old Man]] [[Fair Weather Mentor]] who will stop at nothing [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Heinous?|to get him into a bra]], [[Weirdness Magnet|and all sorts of other random stuff happening in his neighborhood.]]

* In ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'', Kouji's sexism and [[Belligerent Sexual Tension|the fights between him and Sayaka]] nearly always are [[Played for Laughs]].

* ''[[Casino Royale 1967]]'' plays its {{spoiler|[[Kill 'Em All]] ending}} for laughs, by immediately following it with a {{spoiler|[[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]] Ending.}}

* The most famous example is probably ''[[Dr. Strangelove|Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb]]'' and how it plays [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]] as a farcical [[Black Comedy]].

* ''[[Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo]]'': What Raven and Beast Boy are doing reflects a type of comedy that Japan has called Manzai, where there is a serious straight and an irreverent idiot ([[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]]), only it's in an American parody and mockery of the original Japanese Manzai.

* ''[[Discworld]]'' novels are often heavy on these in general and sometimes entirely based on this [[Trope]]. Or umm, these [[Trope|tropestrope]]s.

* ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]]'', particularly ''[[World War I|Blackadder Goes Forth]]'', likewise (except in [[Tear Jerker|the finale]]).

* [[Comedic Sociopath|Sam's]] cruel, oftentimes [[God of War|Kratos-esque]] treatment of [[Butt Monkey|Freddie]] on ''[[I Carly|iCarly]]'' is often played for laughs. And always unsettling in its nature.

* On a similar vein, much of ''[[Victorious]]''' humor comes from jokes that imply [[Black Comedy|mental instability, death, parental abandonment]], etc. In real life, this would be horrifying, and [[Dude, Not Funny|it's not too funny when they make jokes about it anyway]].

* Many of the characters that fit under [[The Ace]] would be [[God Mode Sue|God Mode Sues]]s if their absurd competence was not funny.

{{quote| As the sabre true<br />

Cut cleanly through<br />

His cervical vertebrae<br />

* Zaboo from ''[[The Guild]]'''s [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]] behavior would be horrifically creepy in [[Real Life]], but on the show it's over the top funny.

* The blog ''Cut!'' is basically [[Slender Man]] [[Played for Laughs]]. At one point, [[Took a Level In Dumbass|Slendy himself actually bumps into a clear glass door before slinking off in embarrassment.]]

* ''[[Ka BlamKaBlam!]]'': Billy from "The Off-Beats", The [[Running Gag]] in the series usually involved Billy saying something that would get Tina mad, and then the Populars would throw him out of the group, causing Billy to crash into something.

* ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' in the episode "Fear Itself". Beast Boy, [[Genre Savvy|being an aficionado of horror movies]], spends most of the episode (until he's caught) [[Lampshade Hanging|telling everyone]] not to [[Let's Split Up, Gang!|split up]] as the monster ''always'' gets his targets easier that way, and that he, the funny guy, will inevitably be taken first. He ends up being right.

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