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▲[[caption-width-right:316:Yes, that's [[Memetic Mutation/Music|the Chocolate Rain guy]] shooting [[YouTube|the bigger panda from the "sneezing panda" video]] as it devours the [[Tron]] guy. <ref>Not that he's trying to protect the [[Tron]] guy; it's just that said guy's already severely wounded, so the panda's [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|outlived its usefulness]].</ref>
* ''[[South Park]]'' wouldn't exist if not for this.
** One [[Egregious]] example is the episode "Scott Tenorman Must Die", which started with Cartman getting conned out of $16 by an older boy, and ended with {{spoiler|Cartman ''killing Scott's parents''. There might have been moral outrage if Cartman had just killed his parents and gloated about it, but then he ''ground them up and fed them to Scott in the form of chili'' and ''made his favorite band'' (Radiohead) ''call him uncool and a crybaby'' directly afterward. Then Cartman started ''licking off Scott's tears with unnerving delight'', calling them "the tears of unfathomable sadness"}}. It's generally agreed to be one of the best episodes of the series.
** Also, in South Park episode "The China Probrem" in which multiple people imagine Indiana Jones [[Ruined FOREVER|being raped]] by [[George Lucas]] and [[Steven Spielberg]] and reacting to it as how people would ''[[Rape
** Really, most examples of [[Take That]] ''[[South Park]]'' fall under this, which is why most consider them funny instead of [[Writer
** One episode involved three-year-old Ike Broflovski having an affair with his kindergarden teacher. It wouldn't have been nearly as funny if Ike were older.
** In-story example: in ''Dances With Smurfs'', Cartman accuses Wendy of slaughtering a Smurf village for Smurfberries to power the school. Her response? {{spoiler|[[Sure, Let's Go
** Comedy Central told [[Trey Parker and Matt Stone]] that they couldn't say "shit" on TV. So instead they [[Crazy Awesome|say it over one hundred times and make fun of standards and practices in the process]]. This seems to be a trend with them: if you tell them they can't do something they will take it to the extreme until you're ''begging'' them to do the thing they proposed in the first place rather than the alternative. And it ''works!''
** When you want to watch South Park online with a German IP, you get a popup with Cartman in Lederhosen and a tyrolean hat, with a link to the german South Park side. This would be quite offensive if it wasn't, ...well, [[Actually Pretty Funny|Cartman]].
** The one in which Saddam Hussein plots to bomb Heaven with nuclear missiles. In a brilliant stroke of reverse psychology (or, rather, reverse-reverse psychology), he makes his nuclear weapons plant look like a chocolate-chip cookie factory. God, who rightly suspects that Saddam would never attempt anything as harmless as just making chocolate-chip cookies, points out that what Saddam is building looks an awful lot like a weapons plant to him. Saddam's response? "Look, if I were going to build a weapons plant, I wouldn't make it look like a weapons plant. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|I'd make it look like a chocolate-chip cookie factory, or something.]]" God actually falls for this boneheaded line, and leaves Saddam alone to continue his project!
* The title characters of the Disney Channel series ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' get away with a lot due to this trope. [[Cassandra Truth|Their older sister]] constantly tries to expose their activities to their mother. Naturally, she refuses to believe that they built a time machine, or became pop artists, and almost all the time, due to [[Contrived Coincidence|the unintentional machinations of]] [[Animal Superheroes|their secret agent pet platypus]], [[Reset Button|everything is back to normal by the time she gets home]].
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** Unable to actually argue with that, the adults in question usually provide the boys with whatever materials they're asking and let them be about their business.
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* In one episode of [[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]], [[Anti Role Model|K'nuckles]] tells [[Keet|Flapjack]] that the only way to survive when traveling to the tough side of town is to do "nothin' for nobody" and if that doesn't work, call them a sissy. When a street gang rolls a ball towards Flapjack to intimidate him, he throws it on a roof and calls them all sissies. Their jaws drop and eyes widen and only the sheer audacity of Flapjack's actions prevented them from tearing him to shreds.
* In one of the more recent seasons of [[SpongeBob]] he agreed to get a birthday cake for Patrick. He went into the shop and asked to buy one but the lady informed him they had only one cake left in stock. [[SpongeBob]] asked if the message could be changed to say "Happy Birthday." The original message on the cake? The one that was shown clear as day on this children's television program for at least three seconds? "Sorry for the scabies." You COULDN'T make this up.
* In an episode of ''[[The Fairly
** ''[[The Fairly
* Absolutely everything in ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' is based on this and parody of heavy-metal fandom.
* Four out of five sketches on ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' get away with this. [[Lampshade Hanging]] in one sketch about the tooth fairy visiting a little girl in the middle of the night and overhearing the girl's abusive father murdering the girl's mother. The sketch featured [[Multiple Endings]], culminating in the tooth fairy confronting the father and getting killed, the police arriving and arresting the father after a shootout, leaving the traumatized little girl alone in her bed, and then a marching band bursts into the room and boldly gives the [[Animated Actors]] a reward for the "darkest comedy sketch ever."
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** Conversely, this could be the reason why the "Censored Eleven" are so offensive. The animators ''[[Values Dissonance|weren't even trying to be hateful or vulgar]]'', and this lack of self-consciousness makes these cartoons [[Innocently Insensitive|creepily innocent]] instead of funny nowadays.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''
** "The Runaway" starts with the Gang cheating a gambler that is also cheating out of a lot of money. Then they do the same to several gamblers who probably ''weren't'' cheating. Then from a strength contest on the street. Then they pull a [[Flopsy]] scheme where Toph pretends to be hit by a nobleman's carriage and Sokka (disguised as a guard) blackmails him into paying several bags of money to stay quiet. Though they don't succeed, they also try to turn Toph in for the bounty and break her out later. None of them thought there was anything wrong with this except Katara, who only cared because ''it would draw unwanted attention''. The biggest thing is that, [[Can't Get Away
** Then there was the scene in which Sokka was waiting in his tent for Suki. In his underclothes.
** There was an episode centered around ''literal'' [[Scenery Porn]]. You know [[This Is a Drill|the episode]]...
** Minor example in Piandao being able to live openly in a big home in the Fire Nation, known in the local community, when he's clearly got history with the army. We're led to believe that they tried to get the deserter back once - with 100 men - and won't be trying again [[One
* ''[[Family Guy]]'s'' [http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=b9239c307b00c0801010d410adadfaed Prom Night Dumpster Baby]. As well as, arguably, most of their later jokes, such as the "You Have AIDS" song.
** Honestly, the show could be considered an embodiment of this trope.
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** And he is ''one of the most terrifying animated villains EVER.''
* The ''Animaniacs'' did an episode called "Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled" where the Warners go to Hell and meet Satan. The episode opens with a song and dance number where Saddam Hussein drops down a trap door and falls into a pit of fire ([[Hilarious in Hindsight|which actually wouldn't come true until later]]).
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* Throughout ''[[Moral Orel]]'' we've seen things up to and including Orel's belief that he should experience punishment for sin turning him into a masochist, convincing his fellow children to let him [[Blood Bath|bathe in their blood]] in a misguided attempt to prove he is "Innocent," and inadvertently popularizing a song titled "I Hate You Jesus" which the [[Holier Than Thou]] small town proceeds to ''sing in church!''
** That's not even close to some other things he does:
{{quote|- Check out a Necronomicon from the library to bring dead people back to life as zombies, because he misinterprets a sermon as claiming that dead people are rejecting God's gift of life.
- Believes that since masturbation is a sin, he must impregnate all the women in Moralton (which he actually DOES!) using a pastry bag.
- Sells his urine as an energy drink for the school sports' teams.
- Gets hooked on heroin.
- Unintentionally has the townspeople kill the dog that is very clearly made out to be the ''second coming of Jesus'' because he loves the dog ''more than Jesus'' and that's a sin!
- Orel going along with a bully in beating up two boys implied to be homosexual.
- Orel killing an old woman by pulling her life support plug when misinterpreting a sermon, thinking that since God is inside him, nothing he does can be wrong.
- Orel gets a penis piercing.
- Nothing scares Orel on Halloween, so he decides to make it a scary Halloween by breaking all ten commandments--including being somewhat responsible for an old man getting hit by a car (''driven by Orel's own father!'').
- Becoming an alcoholic based on his father's example.
- Prompting the denizens of Moralton to segregate between them and "Figurelli's"--Italian-American stereotypes--which results by the end of the episode in the entire town catching fire, ''except'' Mr. Figurelli's shop.
- Gets a normal kid branded as a mentally retarded student all because the normal kid was more interested in science than religion.
- Has [[Erotic Dream|a wet dream]] about GOD and joins an S&M club when he discovers he enjoys pain.<br />
- Becomes conditioned to attack anyone who forms a fist with their hand, resulting in him savagely beating his own parents!|Mistakingly unleashes a flood of STDs on the town when he begins bringing prostitutes in from Sinsville to "save the souls" of the people.}}
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* Not quite (but nearly) [[Once an Episode]], a human tells ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' that they don't look like whatever they're supposed to be disguised as. Brain invariably responds by saying that they're actually megalomaniacal escaped lab mice, which leads to the questioner to either laugh it off or brush them off as weirdos and let them go without another word.
* Area 51 in ''[[Kim Possible]]'' actually contains everything the rumors claims that Area 51 contains, because Area 51 releases the facts as unlikely rumors in order to make the truth rumors.
* Everything in the [[One
* In the ''[[King of the Hill]]'' episode "Tankin' it to the Streets", the otherwise [[Butt Monkey]] Bill Dauterive manages this while trying to return a tank he stole from his army base while drunk. A few miles short of their goal, they are pulled over by two police officers. Bill, his arm in a cast and wearing nothing but his boxers, emerges from the tank and convinces the two officers that they should forget ever having seen the tank. He even gets the female officer of the duo to go on a date with him.
* Anything that happens on ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', which might as well be renamed ''Refuge in Audacity: The Animated Series''.
** One great example comes from the episode "Escape to the House of Mummies Part II"
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'''Dr. Venture:''' Give me head.
'''Executioner:''' You didn't just say that.
'''Dr. Venture:''' I absolutely did, what are you gonna do about it?
'''Executioner:''' I'm about to kill your sons.
'''Dr. Venture:''' Join the club. }}
* In ''[[Star Wars:
* The FX series "[[Archer]]" is also rather fond of this one.
** ''Archer'' takes this into "[[Crosses the Line Twice]]" territory. Typical examples include Archer taking a phone call from his mother while being straddled reverse-cowgirl style by a naked Lana, and having sex with a nurse while only an X-ray machine- that still shows their ''moving skeletons''- blocks the view.
** Another prime example involves breast cancer, normally [[Dude, Not Funny|a horrible thing to befall someone]]. Pam mocks Scatterbrain Jane about it the first time she it's mentioned, and then texts the whole office when Malory is suspected to have it. When it's actually revealed that Sterling (a man) has it, she calls it "cancer of the tits" to police officers.
* The season two episode of ''[[The Mask (
** Most of the episodes of ''[[The Mask]]'' have The Mask becoming a hero (even though he's considered a menace by the city police), often by defeating a villain more maniacal (and less comedic) than he is.
* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]''.
* Cartoon Network's ''[[Time Squad]]'': This cartoon packed enough [[Ho Yay]] moments between [[Robot Buddy|The Larry 3000]] and [[The Big Guy|Officer Buck Tuddrussell]] to make ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' look like [[Platonic Life Partners]]...and most of the [[Ho Yay]] was so subtle that viewers who remember the show (or have access to seeing it regularly) [[Late to
* In a story from ''Will & Dewitt'', Will Ballantine is told to clean his room and given three boxes - throw away, give away and storage. He's told that he has one hour before his Mom checks in on him. He spends that time looking through his stuff without actually sorting it and when his Mom comes into his room, she says "This is worse. I didn't think that was possible." Will's response? "Anything is possible [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|if you believe]]." Mom then comments "They can't all be your favorite toy." Will's answer for this - "Who's you favorite child?" Mom does ''not'' look amused.
* [[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]: The violence featured in the show borders on this trope. In one scene, Sarah '''''throws a car''''' on Nazz.
** Other examples include Ed dropping a house on Eddy to [[It Makes Sense in Context|one-up]] resident [[Butt Monkey]] Jimmy for sympathy, and the Eds taking over Johnny's house as a spa (and ultimately destroying it) after they break a steam radiator trying to fix a leaky faucet. Some of their scams rely on pure audacity to work, also.
** When Nazz throws a pool party in "Pop Goes The Ed", the Eds go to the party... '''IN SPEEDOS'''. Later in the episode, the speedos fly off then the Eds rush to the pool and spend ''all day'' in the pool. ''In the tiny pool. Naked.'' '''''Next to each other.'''''
* The pilot of the ''[[Black Dynamite]]'' series features: numerous F-bombs, Black Dynamite's penis (he was caught by The Man while having sex as a way to get a secret fried chicken recipe), a frog puppet that's also a pimp, kids with guns and other weapons and lots of violence against puppets. All in 11 minutes.
* The song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAFP0IoMfsA Birds of Prey] from ''[[Batman:
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