History Main / CrossesTheLineTwice

* Nandos has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYnL5oUePM8 a commercial]] which depicts the one time strongman of UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}}, Robert Mugabe, reminiscing over doing childish games (i.e. water guns, swinging, etc.) with other dead dictators like UsefulNotes/{{Libya}}'s Muammar Gaddafi, UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}'s UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein, and UsefulNotes/{{Uganda}}'s UsefulNotes/IdiAmin. It was perhaps unsurprisingly pulled before release, though that didn't stop it from making the rounds on [=YouTube=].

* ''Oyakodon'' (親子丼) is a Japanese dish consisting of chicken and egg on rice. The literal translation of the name is "parent and child bowl". One way to think of this dish is that you've [[TogetherInDeath reunited parent and child, only to eat them]]. [[ThisIndexIsAJoke This is the inspiration for the song "Mother and Child Reunion" by Paul Simon]].

* ''Oyakodon'' (親子丼) is a Japanese dish consisting of chicken and egg on rice. The literal translation of the name is "parent and child bowl". One way to think of this dish is that you've [[TogetherInDeath reunited parent and child, only to eat them]]. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIndexIsAJoke This is the inspiration for the song "Mother and Child Reunion" by Paul Simon]].

* [[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 [[Literature/TheBible "the land of rape and honey"]] as their slogan. Music/{{Ministry}} saw the slogan on a ''souvenir mug'' and just had they make an album title out of it.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie'': Red kicking a blue bird into the ocean.

* ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon''. Just... well, it does starts as a black comedy ''mocking'' religious organizations in general, and then we have ''Hasa Diga Eebowai''. It's a song about how the Africans resolve to endure with famine, poverty, and AIDS; they just throw their hands to the sky and say a seemingly innocent phrase: ''Hasa Diga Eebowai''. What does it mean? [[spoiler: Fuck you, God]]. How does it crosses the line a second time? With the following sentence sung out loud by women and men alike: [[spoiler: Fuck you God in the ass, mouth and cunt!]]. And that is just the fourth song in the story. Later you will find someone intending to [[spoiler: fuck a baby PlayedForLaughs. And then someone else tries to do it, being none other than the most important prophet for a whole religion!]]. Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone indeed.

* ''Oyakodon'' (親子丼) is a Japanese dish consisting of chicken and egg on rice. The literal translation of the name is "parent and child bowl". One way to think of this dish is that you've [[TogetherInDeath reunited parent and child, only to eat them]]. This is the inspiration for the song "Mother and Child Reunion" by Paul Simon.

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* Three men and a woman were marooned on a desert island. After one week, the woman felt so guilty about what she had been doing that she committed suicide. After another week, the three men felt so terrible about what they had been doing they buried her. After another week the three men felt so terrible about what they had been doing they dug her back up.

* The [[http://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/28g0ap/little_timmy_went_to_a_brothel/ "Dead Frog"]] joke crosses it numerous times.
* A white guy, a black guy, a Japanese guy, and a Mexican guy were standing on the edge of a cliff, contemplating oblivion. The Mexican man shouts "For the honor of my people!" and jumps off the cliff. Japanese man shouts "For the honor of my people!" and commits seppuku. The black man shouts "For the honor of my people!" and pushes the white guy off.

* Two Holocaust survivors go to heaven. One of them tells a Holocaust joke to the other, who laughs. God, who overheard them, asks what's so funny about the joke. They reply, "Ah, I guess you just had to be there."

* ''[[Literature/TheWayfarerRedemption Pilgrim]]'' has a bit that has achieved a fair bit of infamy in fantasy circles. In brief: a woman is used by her grandfather to channel the soul of his long-dead wife (her grandmother), so that she basically possesses their granddaughter and they have hot, passionate sex while the granddaughter [[AndIMustScream is still conscious and powerless to do anything about it.]] She gets pregnant, and over the course of the pregnancy manages to regain control of her body, forcing grandma's soul into the unborn fetus instead. She then ''beats herself into miscarrying in front of her grandfather's eyes'', expels the aborted fetus, and crushes its already-dead skull with her foot. All very macabre, twisted and {{Squick}}y. But when she smacks grandpa in the face repeatedly with the dead fetus while berating him, it becomes a stellar example of this trope.

** A teenager going to see a show, being invited backstage, and then raped - disturbing. Said rape taking place with the perpetrators dressed as, and in character as, the cast of ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' - hilarious

** Why not talk about Cherubs? Flying cyborg ''babies'' that have been hollowed out and lobotomized to serve as combat familiars. Or Catachan, a jungle DeathWorld that has everything from carnivorous zombie plants to scorpions the size of tanks; ''only 25% of the locals survive past their tenth birthday, and doing so is considered a major accomplishment''. How about Commander Chenkov of the Valhallan Ice Warriors, who once threw ''one million'' of his own men to their deaths [[WeHaveReserves assaulting a fortress without artillery or air support]] and got widely commended for it?

* A baby once flipped the bird at its parents. And not just any baby, but a ''[[http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4686203/baby-flips-out-during-routine-scan.html fetus]]''. Apparently, the ultrasound disturbances were pissing the young thing off.

** After Aaron is arrested, he tells his captors about his hobbies, including this gem: "Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,And set them upright at their dear friends' doors, Even when their sorrows almost were forgot; And on their skins, as on the bark of trees, Have with my knife carved in Roman letters, 'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'"

* The funnier jokes on [[http://www.sickipedia.org Sickipedia]]. There's a reason why Frankie Boyle and Sickipedia appear to have reached something of a "steal and steal alike" agreement.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas: "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" is an infectiously gleeful song, sung by three children, about their plans to kidnap and torture Santa.

->''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.''

* Nandos has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYnL5oUePM8 a commercial]] which depicts the one time strongman of UsefulNotes/{{Zimbabwe}}, Robert Mugabe, reminiscing over doing childish games (i.e. water guns, swinging, etc.) with other dead dictators like UsefulNotes/{{Libya}}'s Muammar Gaddafi, UsefulNotes/{{Iraq}}'s UsefulNotes/SaddamHussein, and UsefulNotes/{{Uganda}}'s Idi Amin. It was perhaps unsurprisingly pulled before release, though that didn't stop it from making the rounds on [=YouTube=].

* Nandos has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYnL5oUePM8 a commercial]] which depicts Zimbabwean president and nationalist Robert Mugabe reminiscing over doing childish games (i.e. water guns, swinging, etc.) with other dead dictators like Muammar Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, and Idi Amin. It was perhaps unsurprisingly pulled before release, though that didn't stop it from making the rounds on [=YouTube=].

* During the Jimmy Saville pedophile scandal, one audience member texted this message to a BBC Morning Radio program which got read out live on air:

* Recounting [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Gill#Personal_life the dark and secret life of type designer Eric Gill]] (whose eponymous sans-serif font is all over Britain, even today) often fits this trope. His diaries, not made public until the 1980s, describe in great detail how he had [[BrotherSisterIncest a sexual relationship with his sister]]. And [[FromBadToWorse how he molested all his children]]. But that still wasn't enough. [[RuleOfThree For the trifecta]], [[spoiler:he molested his dog]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'': Woody's cringeworthy attempt to convince the other toys that Buzz is fine, and that they're friends now...using Buzz' currently severed arm (Buzz having suffered a complete mental breakdown at this point). He also smacks Buzz [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan across the face]] to knock some sense into him with Buzz' own dismembered arm.

* ''TheBrewingNetwork'': Pretty much all of the humor of Lunch Meet.

* This entire [[https://youtu.be/Qh_gOK6xDNA Super Bowl L ad]] for Doritos. It's better to watch until the end to see ''exactly'' why.

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 crossing the line twice. 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 '''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome 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.

* The entire point of TheAristocrats, a joke that's meant to be a ''challenge'' to come up with [[UpToEleven the most vulgar, offensive and outright]] ''[[UpToEleven wrong]]'' story one can think of all for the purposes of making [[DudeNotFunny things that should never be considered funny]] funny.

** Not to mention the sex scene. Just in general. [[note]] It was so extreme that the MPAA demanded cuts for it to qualify for an R-rating, Parker and Stone [[BlatantLies complied]] by re-submitting a [[CensorDecoy version]] of the scene that was [[UpToEleven twice as filthy]] [[RefugeInAudacity and five times as long.]] At this point, the MPAA decided to cut their losses and rated the original version R, [[BatmanGambit exactly as Parker and Stone hoped they would.]] [[/note]]