History Main / CrossesTheLineTwice

**** Truly the act of a benevolent and enlightened being.

See also BlackComedy, BloodyHilarious, RefugeInAudacity, DudeNotFunny, VulgarHumor. If this happens completely by accident, that's SpringtimeForHitler. Part of the SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror.

** And some consider it a CrowningMomentOfFunny for the whole series, as it's a spot on spoof of RefugeInAudacity shows.

* [[MadScientist Captain]] [[JerkAss Kurotsuchi]] of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' has practically [[RefugeInAudacity skip roped with the line]] since the Soul Society arc and comes of as all the more [[ComedicSociopathy amusing]] [[SociopathicHero for it]].

* ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'': The Buddhist nun who ate [[ShoutOut mermaid]] [[MermaidSaga flesh]] and became immortal, thus becoming TheChewToy for grisly punishment of all kinds and magnitudes is one thing. But then there's [[NobleDemon Minki's]] introduction: annoyed at boys from Doumori Elementary, and feeling particularly vindictive, [[BalefulPolymorph she turned them all into]] ''[[BalefulPolymorph panties]]''. How to remove the spell? The girls had to wear them. ThisIsWrongOnSoManyLevels that [[IdiotHero Hiroshi]] suffers a ''spectacular'' breakdown, looping back to heroic and trying to charge back into battle. Yes, that's right. HotBlooded, [[RefugeInAudacity heroic panties]].

* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' go bouncing over the line, combining this with RefugeInAudacity.

* The Music/BloodhoundGang is a master of this -- when they're not pulling off either RefugeInAudacity. See the first couple of lyrics from "Altogether Ooky":

* [[http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/219 In this]] and the following ''Webcomic/{{Loserz}}'' strips, the line is crossed twice. [[RefugeInAudacity At least]].

* ''Webcomic/SexyLosers'' pretty much runs on a combination of this, {{Squick}}, RefugeInAudacity, {{N|otSafeForWork}}SFW, and FanDisservice.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0Rau01wbeo This video.]] The first few seconds makes it look very offensive, while the rest of it makes it one of the most [[RefugeInAudacity offensively]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny funny]] things ever.

This can also apply to things other than violence for [[RuleOfFunny funny's sake]]; any time a little exaggeration would provoke a negative reaction, but exaggeration UpToEleven is fine, that's CrossingTheLineTwice. Take action scenes for example: some shows try to keep action scenes realistic in order to seem believable, while others go so far over the top that it breaks the audience's WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. Still others take [[UpToEleven the over-the-top so over the top]] that what was before unbelievable garbage is now heart-wrenching, adrenaline rushing, undiluted [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome AWESOME]]. Of course this form of the trope is just as subjective as the last, so be careful what you put down as an example.

* Featured at the end of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBKc3Gb37pw an episode]] of TheGruenTransfer was an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMxzKQFl7 ad for 42Below brand Vodka]]. The ad mercilessly poked fun at homosexual stereotypes, then, at the end, said the ad was run past "two fags and a queer" to make sure it wasn't offensive.

* [[LewisBlack Lewis Black's]] immortal lines on his [[Series/TheDailyShow Daily Show]] [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-october-16-2012/back-in-black---lance-armstrong--butt-chugging---farm-animal-sex segment.]]

* PattonOswalt
* [[Creator/NormMacDonald Norm [=MacDonald=]]]

* Bill Maher, of course, especially in ''RealTimeWithBillMaher''. Although applying CrossesTheLineTwice to political jokes is what gets him in the most trouble, he arguably goes even further outside political jokes.

*** Special mention should go out to TheBoys which doesn't so much [[CrossesTheLineTwice cross the line twice]] as dance back and forth over it laughing maniacally.

* A more meta-example surrounds Franchise/SpiderMan Comicbook/OneMoreDay[=/=]BrandNewDay: When [[JoeQuesada Quesada's]] friend Marc Guggenheim tried to defend Spider-Man selling his marriage to the devil he said that if you don't like it "...then you're pro-gay marriage." This statement was just crazy enough for most people to assume that he wasn't homophobic but just mentally unstable.

--> '''Harley Quinn''': "Uh, fellas? [[SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb Our boy is a blow-up doll]]. [[CrossesTheLineTwice And]] ''[[CrowningMomentOfFunny not]]'' [[CrossesTheLineTwice the fun kind]].

* {{Ultimate X-Men}}: Mr. Sinister pushing a man in a wheel chair down the stairs: [[AndThatsTerrible That's Terrible]]. Doing so while declaring Stairs to be the greatest enemy of Professor Xavier: CrowningMomentOfFunny!

** Basically what happens is [[spoiler: a Doumon¬ bewitches all the tamers except for Takato into becoming the embodiment of each of the seven deadly sins so we now have Rika Nonaka as a ''frieking avatar of lust!''.]] The whole thing is just [[CrossesTheLineTwice so WRONG it's hilarious]], and Ruki and [[spoiler:Chaos']] comments make it that much better.

*** ''Film/IronMan2'' has an homage to the above scene--complete with CrossingTheLineTwice humor--when Stark leaks footage of Justin Hammer's failed armor prototypes.

** "Alright! [[IncrediblyLamePun You got a lot of guts, Oscar]]!"

* You could argue the entire movie is this, but when you see the scene when ForrestGump explains Lt. Dan was from a long military tradition, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9c8Rba5NVE and then you see a DeathMontage of Gary Sinise (the actor playing Lt. Dan) playing a different ancestor just at the moment of his death, in a different battleground, with a war uniform more modern that the last]], you don't think that the movie is mocking those soldiers patriotism or sacrifice, but you see as questioning the intelligence and sanity of GloryHound Lt. Dan, whose desire to die in battle makes Forrest seem like a genius by comparison.

** The British [[Series/{{The Office (UK)]] had a similar theme: David Brent's jokes failed ''so badly'' it quickly became funny for the sheer awkwardness of his self-delusion.

** ''AngryBoys'', Lilley's newest series, contains this also, especially in the Jen Okazaki segments.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Ju69P3hmA Yes, even Hiroshima]]. And [[WorldWarII on th]][[GodwinsLaw at note]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsif_yofsMc Hitler.]]

* One has to wonder what in the hell Mel Brooks was thinking when he recorded [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu2NqfISm9k "To Be Or Not To Be"], considering Brooks is Jewish. Spoiler- it has nothing to do with Shakespeare.

* ''VideoGame/SurgeonSimulator2013'' gleefully does it with style. Drill bit stuck in the patient and bleeding out? Gruesome. Trying in vain to get the drill bit out as it ''spins in the patient''? [[IncrediblyLamePun Bloody]] hilarious.

* This ''RoosterTeeth'' [[http://www.roosterteeth.com/media/viewItem.php?id=472 comic]] features this - draw your own conclusions on whether it crosses the line, or is telling people to start stepping back.

* The somewhat popular G-Mod ChristianBrutalSniper series (viewable [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iczmIosE4z4 here]]), crosses the line so many times with it's joyously-nonchalant killer of a protagonist, it's freaking hilarious.

* The second episode ''[[http://www.youtube.com/user/RucknTrigger No Decency]]'' GagSub of ''OkaneGaNai''. In the original, during the Russian Roulette scene the characters use a red paint bullet. In the sub, it's an aborted fetus.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', "Scott Tenorman Must Die": After a series of petty torments, Cartman takes a revenge that crosses the line so many times it's difficult to know whether to be horrified or not.
** For anyone that is unfamiliar, Cartman, [[spoiler: after being tricked into buying Scott (a random teenage boy)'s pubic hair for ten dollars, and then getting scammed again when he attempted to recoup his losses (including being forced to sing "I'm a Little Piggy" in an attempt to get his money back), then being publicly mocked by having the "Piggy" video shown after his own video trick is dismissed, he engages in an EvilPlan that results in Scott eating a bowl of chili ''made from the remains of his recently killed parents''.]]
*** Not only that, Cartman even got Scott's favourite band, Radiohead, to see Scott cry, and insult him for it! [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking What a jerk.]]

** It's even more twisted. In "201" we learn that Scott's father was also [[spoiler: Cartman's biological father, and covered up the truth to protect his football career]]. Cartman's reaction? He's devastated -- because [[spoiler: his dad was a ginger!]] It's not CrossesTheLineTwice so much as obliterating it.

** Another especially extreme example is in 'Night of the Living Homeless' from season 11, where someone decides to "take the easy way out" and shoot himself in the head... Before turning out to be MadeOfIron (borderline ImplacableMan) and surviving multiple gunshots, ending with him spending his last moments slipping on his own blood. This manages to cross the line about fifty times in thirty seconds.

** "It's a Jersey Thing", just that whole episode.
*** Taken as an attack on ''Series/JerseyShore'' instead of the actual state of New Jersey, it's just an irreverent TakeThat. It doesn't cross the line at all. Well, maybe at the point where they [[spoiler: call Bin Laden for help... but not before that.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has Stewie beating the crap out of Brian when he owed him money becomes funny again about when Stewie pulls out a gun and shoots him in the knees. (The line, of course, varies. Other didn't find it funny in the slightest until the flamethrower...)

** Crossing the Line Twice is basically the whole point of ''Drawn Together''.

-->'''Archer''': ...[[CrossesTheLineTwice Jesus]] ''[[BlackComedy Christ!]]''

->''"Half the time, the humour came from how totally out-of-control and psychotic it was. And it kicked'' ass''! Sure, it was gross and vulgar, but on the other hand, it was gross and vulgar!"''
-->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''' on ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''

* Subverted (off-camera) and deconstructed in ''Studio60OnTheSunsetStrip'' episode "The Option Period", when Matt Albie complains about an (unseen) sketch, "Creator/QuentinTarantino's Hallmark Movie 'Turkey Won't Die'", that a clueless special-effects guy ruins by curtailing the scripted excessive blood, thereby un-crossing the second line, so to speak.

--> '''Matt''': It's called Quentin Tatantino's Hallmark Movie, "Turkey Won't Die." It's about a mortally wounded bird that will not die, ''even as it's being served.'' Did he find the premise realistic?... If [[{{Gorn}} geysers of blood are gushing out]], then I get the Tarantino joke, and [[BloodyHilarious it's funny]]. If it's just a ''realistic'' amount of blood, then it's... ''[[{{Squick}} extremely]]'' [[KickTheDog disturbing...]]

* ''PokemonTheBridgedSeries'' features Brock as a MemeticMolester with an obsession with '''''breeeeeeding''''' [[ILoveTheDead among other things]], and has stuffed Misty inside a sack on at least two separate occasions. At one point while inside the sack, Misty finds what she believes to be a dead squirrel. [[spoiler:It's actually Brock's dead mother. [[FridgeHorror How Misty could possibly mistake human remains for a dead squirrel in the pitch-black interior of a sack makes her mini-freakout all the more appropriate]].]]

** There's also the episode when Peter claims Chris is dying so his favorite show can come back on the air. When the charity points out they've bought the rights to Chris' death, Peter says he healed him. Fast-forward to people dancing on the Griffin's lawn asking for Peter to heal them. Lois, who still doesn't know about Peter's flimflam, wonders if that's chanting she's hearing. Peter assures her that's ridiculous, while edging towards her holding a table lamp. Yes, the implication is that Peter was about to commit murder over a TV show. Or at least assault.

-->-- '''The Nostalgia Critic''' on ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''

->''"I may disapprove of a movie for going too far, and yet have a sneaky regard for a movie that goes much, much farther than merely too far."''
-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''' on ''Film/ShootEmUp''

* [[http://www.ftlcomm.com/ensign/cropson/2002/canola/canola.html Tisdale, Saskatchewan]] is famous for its [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed rapeseed]] and honey so naturally they picked [[TheBible "the land of rape and honey"]] as their slogan. {{Ministry}} saw the slogan on a ''souvenir mug'' and just had they make an album title out of it.

* This is the entire point of the infamous joke "TheAristocrats".

* NormMacDonald
* RichardPryor, made especially funny by the fact many of the things he describes ''[[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer actually happened to him]]''.

* ''DragonBallZAbridged'' is a case study in this trope. It's an AbridgedSeries of an anime featuring numerous evil villains, the abridged version leaves in all of their MoralEventHorizon moments of gratuitous violence. Yet there's always some detail that goes far enough to make the violence funny, whether it's Vegeta turning Goku into a squeaky toy by cracking his ribs, Freeza counting StockPhrases as he mows down civilians, or Dodoria saying he likes kids because "they don't leave much of a mess."