Dead Baby Comedy/Playing With

Basic Trope: Tasteless humor
 * Played Straight: Alice miscarries, and it's treated as a great thing, or just a Big Lipped Alligator Moment, not a tragedy.
 * Exaggerated: Alice miscarries, and the whole world is congratulating her. See also Refuge in Audacity.
 * Justified: The author is trying to make a point, by using sarcasm and drawing attention to the Elephant in the Living Room
 * Inverted: A very tasteful humor.
 * Subverted: Alice miscarries, and her friends come to spend time with her for awhile.
 * Double Subverted: Only to throw a party for her in a misguided attempt to cheer her up.
 * Parodied: Alice's dead fetus gets up, and starts doing the Thriller dance with other zombie fetuses.
 * Deconstructed: The novelty wears thin quick, the show loses steam, and everyone dogpiles on it, calling for censorship or for the creator to stop being an idiot.
 * Reconstructed: The writers know just how far they can push the envelope without alienating the audience and do not try to push it beyond that point. Or they use other ways of being funny.
 * Zig Zagged: Sometimes, the humor in the work is un-PC, other times, it's not likely to offend anyone.
 * Lampshaded: "Not another dead baby joke..."
 * Averted:
 * The work is not humorous at all, nor is it meant to be.
 * The work is humorous and intended to be such, but does not make use of anything particularly vulgar or tasteless to be funny.
 * Enforced: "We need to be funny, but also dark and edgy at the same time..."
 * Invoked: Alice miscarries, and the resident Jerkass makes an insensitive remark about how "It's much better this way..."
 * Defied: Alice miscarries, and her friends and family treat the situation like the tragedy it is.
 * Discussed: "Who would find that funny?"
 * Conversed: "I don't know. Not me."
 * Played For Laughs: Almost always is, whether laughter is the end result or not.
 * Played For Drama: See "Justified"

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