YMMV / brewstew

• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The shit that Michael goes through wouldn't be so funny if it wasn't so over-the-top that it looped back to being hilarious.
    • The episode where Tyler and Michael see Santa. Michael sits on Santa's lap and says that he's been a good boy this year, but Michael's stepdad points out all the bad things that Michael has done over the year (things which aren't even that bad, such as accidentally clogging the toilet and eating a tube of toothpaste). Santa doesn't give him any presents, then Michael's stepdad blames him for blowing their one chance to get a widescreen TV and gives him "ten across the ass" for Christmas instead.
    • "Michael's Revenge" has him headbutted so hard by a female bully that he goes flying through the window, shattering it. When Michael protests to his angry stepdad that it was the girl's fault, Michael's stepdad still punishes him for getting beaten up by a girl.
    • One episode has Tyler and his friends play about with airsoft guns. When David haphazardly shoots Michael, Tyler calls David out...because it was his turn to shoot Michael in the face.
    • The Monopoly episode where Michael gets grounded for going bankrupt on Luxury Tax, despite him having no control over it, and him staying in jail for as long as he feasibly could to avoid going bankrupt.
    • Frequently, Michael gets hurt and starts crying. This wouldn't be funny on its own, but the Running Gag of the "crying baby" sound effect being used every time makes it hilarious.
  • The teacher in "Maths Class" being an unstable jackass who yells at kids for making genuine mistakes? Not funny. Said teacher shooting a kid with an M-16 for asking whether the percent sign goes before or after a number and throwing another kid out a window for guessing that the numerator is the bottom part of a fraction? Hilarious!