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* ''[[ICarly (TV)|I Carly]]'': Wade Collins calling everyone a "hobknocker".
* An episode of ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' has Mimi making Drew late for work {{spoiler|by getting a cowboy to tie him up. Just as planned, Drew's boss doesn't even consider believing his excuse. To be fair, he initially suspects his British colleague as well; it's only when Mimi imitates the cowboy's "Ma'am" that he finds the real truth.}}
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** Don't forget the sprig of celery on his lapel!
** The entire premise of the TARDIS cloaking system seems to work on the fact that most people, when presented with a large blue police box incongruously parked in the middle of a major tourist attraction or thoroughfare, will simply ignore it.
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May the seed of your loins be fruitful in the belly of your woman,<br />
Neil" }}
* The crew of the Liberator in ''[[Blake's Seven
* From an episode of ''[[Homicide Life On the Street (TV)|Homicide Life On the Street]]'':
{{quote| "Someone committed a murder in the ''morgue''?!"}}
* ''[[Saturday Night Live (TV)|Saturday Night Live]]'''s humor is all about this trope, whether it's taking something offensive (i.e. racism) and making it socially acceptable (i.e. the "Racist Word Association" sketch on the season one episode hosted by Richard Pryor) or taking something innocent and sweet (i.e. a kids' show) and giving it a dark, sleazy side (i.e. "The Happy Smile Patrol," "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood," and "The Tizzle-Wizzle Show"). Then, you have sketches like [http://snltranscripts.jt.org/98/98icassidy.phtml this one] that just seem too insane for network TV, but apparently made it on as a probable [[Censor Decoy]] or just the fact that the censors just don't care when it comes to late-night TV.
** 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....
*** Doesn't help that years later (eight years, to be exact), the premise of snakes attacking airline passengers would [[Snakes On a Plane|become a movie]] and would be revered as a [[Memetic Mutation]].
* ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'': Episode "[[Community (TV)/Recap/S1 E09 Debate 109|Debate 109]]" has a Jeff and Annie's kiss leading to Jeremy Simmons, who is disabled, being unceremoniously dropped on the floor by Jeff, would be a lot more offensive if it wasn't wrapped in various levels of humour, Simmons' previous behaviour as a huge asshat, and the fact that the whole thing was the convoluted outcome of a college debate-club event being taken to ludicrous levels of [[Serious Business]].
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