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There's only one way to make you shut up!
Due to the heavily sexual and often disgusting subject matter of the show, as well as Netflix's relatively lax censorship, many moments are just so blatantly wrong, it's incredibly amusing.
  • Jay gets interrogated and profiled by security guards after he tells his friends he's gonna make the Statue of Liberty disappear. After winning them over with magic, they say he's way more fun than Kal Penn, who's shown wearing a bag over his head in a selfie with the guards.
  • If a kid called their parents by their first name in real life, they'd be a brat. Connie telling Jessi that it's an empowering part of female puberty and Jessi then bellowing at her mom "GET THE HELL OUT, SHANNON!!" is still wrong, but it's a funny kind of wrong.
  • Andrew walking through Jay's back door through a pile of discarded sneakers saying that it reminds him of a Holocaust museum.For those who don't know...  Of course, Andrew is allowed to say this because he's Jewish.
  • All of Jay's family, from his divorce lawyer father, his alcoholic mother, and his brothers Val and Kurt who force Jay to trim their pubes and eat semen. If they were real people, they'd be bastards, but the cartoonish exaggeration makes it too hilarious to take seriously.
  • Matthew tricking Jay into thinking Trans Equals Gay and convincing him to tell everyone that, all for the sake of his own entertainment.
  • Maurice is the king of this trope when he's drunk. He takes credit for an earthquake "just like ISIS", then rips off Garrison Keillor's head and forces it to give him a blowjob. According to Maurice, Netflix insisted he go this far.
  • The Deliberate Values Dissonance of Judd repeatedly calling Nick "retarded faggot." The sheer over-reaching he's doing to be offensive (and the reality that many teenagers like him do just this to sound rebellious and edgy) is too idiotic to take seriously.
  • The cutaway gag about what a head push is... done as a spoof of Seinfeld to soften the blow of an otherwise serious discussion.
  • Coach Steve DJs Jessi's bat mitzvah, and tells all the Jews to get onto the (dance) train. Matthew and Lars are offended they weren't included.
  • During the Shame Wizard's trial of Andrew, there's a retelling of a sexual assault account. By a sock that Andrew used to masturbate.
    Sock: He used me like an object! I mean, I am an object, but for feet, not for... [cries]
  • A young woman choosing the pull out method over condoms as her preferred form of birth control? Tragic and frustrating. Choosing it in a parody of The Bachelor in which various forms of birth control are depicted as various suiters? Now it's funny. Still choosing the pull-out method after it's been made explicitly clear that she should choose condoms? Now it's hilarious.
  • During the flashback of Andrew's birth, Marty reveals that he settled on the name Andrew by practicing how it sounded when he yelled it angrily.
  • The Shame Wizard telling Maurice and Connie that he has a vintage Nazi dildo collection? Wrong. Shame Wizard's tone of voice sounding almost proud when he reveals this, along with Connie and Maurice's reactions ("This fucking guy." "Of course he found a way to ruin dildos.")? Pure, twisted laughs.
  • While the Shame Wizard's a Knight of Cerebus who takes joy in his job of shaming teenagers for their natural impulses, his scenes aren't entirely without humor. For example, the scene in "Dark Side Of The Boob", where word begins to spread about Nick feeling up Gina, is contrasted by him first acting like a conductor of an orchestra as all the hurtful texts about Gina begin to spread, then donning a pair of headphones and acting like a DJ at a rave.
  • When trying to break up a fight, Coach Steve accidentally smacks Ms. Benitez with a wiffle ball bat.
    "Oh no! I meant to hit the kids!"
  • The hormone monsters repeatedly referring to anal sex as "bussy" ("butt-pussy"). So disgusting... but so funny!
  • Andrew attending a meeting for guys who are having issues with women, only to realize that they are all neo-nazis with him being the only Jew attending. Maury's solution to the issue? Torching the room, Inglorious Basterds-style.
  • Jay tries to hire a stripper for DeVon's bachelor party. He ends up hiring an eight-year-old who does the floss, because she said she was a dancer. Nick lampshades this.
    Nick: Jesus. Jay, she's a child.
    Jay: What do you want? Some saggy assed twenty-year-old?
    Nick: (to the dancer) Sweetheart, how old are you?
    [girl holds up all her fingers]
    Nick: Oh my God! That's all of her fingers. Jay, she's eight!
  • Jay and Lola's "pool" is a gigantic mud pit in the former's backyard. And they found two skeletons holding hands while excavating it!
  • Andrew giving "birth" to a pair of turds. Christ almighty.
  • "Nick Starr"
    • The Bad Future Crapsack World Nick dreams up. You have to pay to pee.
    • Future Jay and Lola founded a sex commune/borderline cult. And Elliot and Diane are part of it.
    • As the world collapses into anarchy and fire, Maury (who is Future Andrew and Gina's son's Hormone Monster) suggests they spend their last moments jerking off. Because of course he would.
  • "The Shane Lizard Rises" features an advertisement for a penis pump that is ridiculously on the nose and over the top. A guy's wife leaves him for having a small penis and tells him to kill himself, then announces she's going to a women's march. He has the gun in his mouth when the narrator tells him to use the product (laughing off the idea that he could be confident in his body). When the wife comes back to him, he says he's going to the women's march to "fuck some sense into those ladies" and leaves her the gun to kill herself. Nick and Rick watch everything in horror, including the ending where they apparently show the woman shooting herself.
    Nick: Jesus Christ.
    Rick: Why'd you say you were 18? This is too much, man.

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