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** Clarkson had a ''car'' pull this on ''him''. A challenge issued by the producers required the trio to drive from Switzerland to Northern England on ''one'' tank of gas, a distance of about 750 miles, essentially an exercise in hypermiling. Hammond and May chose cars that were already extremely fuel-efficient. Clarkson showed up in a ''Jaguar''. While May and Hammond practiced hypermiling as much as possible, Clarkson declared the challenge impossible and set out carefully to manage his fuel consumption so he would run out of fuel close to his home (so he could spend that evening with his family). Despite the fact that he should have run out of gas after four hundred miles, Clarkson not only ''made it'' to the finish line, ''he even beat May to it and could won easily had he not tried to lose early on''. He doesn't believe it to this day.

*** The really audacious part is that, after he made it, they examined the fuel system of the car and determined he had another ''100 miles'' or so worth of fuel left!

*** And James May ''drinks it!''

{{quote|'''James May:''' I have a name for it: the Bloody Awful.}}

* From an episode of ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]'':

{{quote|"Someone committed a murder in the ''morgue''?!"}}

** The problem is, they take it ''so'' far that they just don't know where to stop, and [[Dude, Not Funny|things sometimes get ugly really quickly]]. The absolute nadir had to be the late '90s, when we were "treated" to skits like "A Bear Ate His Parents." It's [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|exactly what it sounds like]]: Horatio Sanz is a bawling, psychotic wreck who's still tormented by his parents being devoured over 20 years after the fact, to the point that when he sees someone else at a party ''[[Coincidental Accidental Disguise|dressed up like a bear]]'', he promptly commits suicide. All for laughs.

** Then there was the "cobra" skit from season 23 (1997-1998), which must have gotten NBC a crapload of hate mail. It's all about a family of [[Evil Albino|creepy albino]] cobras (and yes, [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|they have red eyes]]) slithering their way onto a plane full of tourists bound for Hawaii and slowly biting and poisoning every single one. Textbook [[Black Comedy]] played for all it's worth - but there's more. The snakes also bite the pilot, causing him to imagine psychedelic visions like a [[Magical Native American]] who orders him to crash the plane - which he does. The ending of the skit is pure [[Nightmare Fuel]], with the aircraft smashing to the ground in a colossal inferno and the leader of the albino cobras (a female cobra, and [[Subverted Innocence|with an "innocent" girl voice]] that makes her all the ''more'' freaky) standing against the backdrop of the hellish flames and taunting and laughing at the audience. Brrrrr. If you weren't afraid of snakes before....

'''Judge Stein:''' Either you are a brilliant strategist, Mr. Feinman, or you are the biggest jackass ever to set foot in my courtroom. }}

* While ''[[True Blood]]'' plays with this trope on any given episode, what stands out is the season four finale, which doubled as a [[Halloween Episode]]. Arlene's daughter Lisa, who's like ''ten'', dresses as a pregnant tramp--baby bump, [[Jail Bait]] outfit, and five gallons of makeup--because she loves MTV's ''[[Teen Mom]]''. Arlene's response was "[[Don't Ask]]".

* The ''[[Haven]]'' 1st Season episode "The Trial of Audrey Parker", in which Audrey and Duke, unarmed, defeat two armed men, one of whom could read minds, by having Duke do outrageous things - such as stripping to his underwear and lamenting that he'd never done the Electric Boogaloo - all directed behind the scenes by Audrey. The poor psychic finally went crazy trying to predict what Duke was going to do next, and Duke and Audrey defeated them easily.

* ''[[Round the Twist]]'' is an Australian kids' show that was almost banned at the time of its premiere because it contained a lot of things deemed [[Harmful to Minors]], such as death, nudity (including references to genitalia), underwear, incest ([[Kissing Under the Influence]]), mild sex references (a lot of the stories have to do with supernatural female characters in search of a human male to be an unwilling groom and one episode -- "Lucky Lips" -- centered on a magic tube of lipstick that attracts females... and not just human females, either), and your typical gross-out humor staples (body odor, [[Toilet Humor]] [both urination and defecation] and plenty of vomit). It still got away with it, and became one of the most iconic and successful children's programs ever made in Australia.

 

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