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Good news! The mainstream American audience has finally stopped believing that all animation is inherently made for kids, and has accepted that some animation is made for adults! Bad news! Instead, the mainstream American audience now believes that all animation that is made for adults is inherently full of Black Comedy, graphic violence, copious amounts of swearing, Vulgar Humor, Toilet Humour, deliberately offensive stereotypes and, to a lesser extent, surrealistic Mind Screws! If your animated show or movie doesn't have any of those things in it, then sorry, but everyone still thinks it's for kids only. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In The Dark Age of Animation, when the Animation Age Ghetto was the norm, people like Ralph Bakshi made vulgar cartoons out of a desire to make animation that wasn't "just for kids" by making something that couldn't possibly be shown to kids. They thus avoided the statement "It can be enjoyed by the whole family" (with the implication that it's meant for children), and a Cult Classic or two emerged during that era. During The Renaissance Age of Animation, thanks to the popularity of The Simpsons, Beavis and Butt-Head, and (to a milder degree) The Ren & Stimpy Show, the idea that animation could be expanded beyond the family market began to take off again. With the establishment of the TV ratings system, it also became easier to make it clear to audiences that a show wasn't for children. As the Renaissance Age began to shade into The Millennium Age of Animation, King of the Hill note Basically just another animated suburban family sitcom, but much more grounded in reality than The Simpsons became a quiet success for Fox, and Cartoon Network — starting with the success of the spoof Space Ghost Coast to Coast — began to create its own adult-oriented shows, eventually launching the [adult swim] lineup. But the biggest shake-up to the ghetto came in 1997 when Comedy Central debuted the TV-MA-rated South Park, a vulgar but often uproarious comedy that immediately became a smash hit. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Unfortunately, because of this, most of the adult-oriented shows that followed in South Park's wake were similarly vulgar, envelope-pushing fare — the most successful being Fox's Family Guy. Thanks to creators following the example of these shows, people now believe that any western animation that isn't just kids' shows are either sitcoms and/or raunchy cartoons, which is far from the truth. Thus, it's very hard for aspiring animators/creators to pitch animated shows without Vulgar Humour and Comedic Sociopathy in mind, which leads to people creating more South Park-esque shows; lather, rinse, repeat.note It's usually thought that Japanese animation doesn't deal with any perception issues like this, which is not entirely true. Non-children targeted Japanese animation doesn't have this trope, but it does have its own set of issues over there. Many such shows have animation that is extremely ugly, extremely cheap, or both, in order to resemble Family Guy's or South Park's own animation-style. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })This mentality can also work in the opposite direction, where adult viewers understand that not all cartoons are for children but think that anything not in lockstep with South Park's particular brand of Crosses the Line Twice humor is immature garbage—ignoring the many critically acclaimed animated series and films that are suitable for all audiences (such as SpongeBob SquarePants, Shrek, or Zootopia). Who cares how well-written it is if there's no blood or swearing? Overall, this thinking is just an evolution of Animation Age Ghetto: animation may not be seen as exclusively for children anymore, but it is still seen as exclusively immature. To some extent, however, this mindset has begun to die down in The New '10s, largely thanks to the rise of streaming services that allow animation creators more creative freedom than TV networks and regular networks also taking suit. Series such as BoJack Horseman, Undone, and Primal have all shown that adult animation outside of the traditional South Park-esque vulgar comedy mold can be successful, though there is still a long way to go yet. On traditional television and in theaters, however, this trope is still very much in play. And bear in mind, Tropes Are Tools. For as many misbegotten South Park and Family Guy clones as there's been over the years, there's been plenty of critically-acclaimed, respected shows - such as The Venture Bros., Rick and Morty and Archer - that rely on almost all of the tropes mentioned in this description. Usually, this is by demonstrating some level of restraint and featuring actual Character Development. This does, however, require the writers to be very careful with how they approach the show—and as many of the examples below will attest to, many aren’t. (Writing shock humor is easy; writing compelling characters and story isn’t.) See Gross-Out Show for more general (and kid-friendlier) examples. Compare with All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles and Rated M for Money. Contrast with All (Kid-Oriented) Animation is Disney. Examples: |
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Animals starts more or less with dudebro humor about drugs and wanting to get laid. As the show progresses, though, it basically becomes South Park's Spiritual Antithesis, mocking society but generally having likable characters and happy endings, little toilet humor, and abundant, positive LGBT representation. | |
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The mid-90s manga/anime The Ping-Pong Club is about middle school boys competing to be the best at ping-pong so they can do whatever they want with a girl's body for a month. | |
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Bojack Horseman both deconstructs and totally defies this trope. There are no designated heroes, no Snap Back, very little grossout humor and all of the socio-political messages are well-informed (if a little heavy-handed). Instead, the show analyzes why a crude, selfish, destructive person would be the way they would. The result is a story about how love is earned and that nobody is going to like you if they have a perfectly good reason not to. While the series has some Early Installment Weirdness in the first few episodes, where it does lean more towards the South Park/Family Guy style of animated comedy, it quickly settles on character-driven Black Comedy, and mostly uses the gags of its earlier episodes for deconstruction. | |
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This is why Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" was canceled after only six episodes. As it turns out, a show that already thrived on vulgar humor doesn't automatically become more "adult" when you show outright what the original cartoon could only imply—if anything, that makes it less funny. There's some debate over whether this was Spike TV trying to appeal to the post-South Park crowd or just what happens when you don't rein in John Kricfalusi. | |
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Although it's actually a puppet show, Mongrels was clearly trying to copy this. Word of God even stated that he wanted to "do for puppetry what American shows like The Simpsons have done for animation". | |
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Part of the reason for The Simpsons Seasonal Rot was pressure to become more "edgy" and "adult" in order to compete with shows like Family Guy and South Park. This resulted in an increase in mean-spirited humor and gross-out gags that aren't particularly funny and don't fit the show's milder, more laid-back tone. It all culminated in the panda rape scene in "Homer vs. Dignity." | |
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Beavis and Butt-Head is an early (pre-South Park) example, deriving several jokes from Toilet Humour and the title characters love to point out innuendoes. Its spinoff, Daria, largely averts this trope. While it was controversial in its time, later shows such as South Park and Family Guy have taken their vulgar humor to much greater lengths, to the point that Beavis and Butt-Head can look tame in comparison. This may be one of the reasons why the 2011 revival was so short-lived. | |
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The Cyanide & Happiness animated shorts usually fall under this category. Some of the shorts can be dark (both Black Comedy-wise and Nightmare Fuel-wise), some of their shorts can be relatively light, some of their shorts can be surreal, some of their shorts can be gross... you get the idea. In that way, they're much like the original webcomic. | |
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While Aqua Teen Hunger Force definitely qualifies as this in its later seasons (earlier episodes were much tamer, while episodes from season 4 onwards are filled with Vulgar Humor and Gorn), the extremely short-lived Spin-Off Soul Quest Overdrive takes this Up to Eleven, featuring a non-stop barrage of crude sex jokes, random gratuitous violence, drug references, and Comedic Sociopathy crammed into every 5-minute episode. | |
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Averted completely by Isle of Dogs. Despite its PG-13 rating and occasionally use of comedy focused around stereotypes, it isn't a raunchy South Park-style comedy, and has been praised by many critics not just as an animated film but as a film overall. | |
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Rick and Morty is often seen as an example of this trope "done right". A lot of the humor is extremely sophomoric, with phallic imagery, burp/fart jokes, pop culture references and violence galore; however, much like Bojack Horseman, it plays the consequences of a lot of these jokes completely straight for the sake of furthering the story and developing the characters, who even at their flattest are much more fleshed out and three-dimensional than a good deal of the show's contemporaries. The most notable of this is the writers' conscious decision to make the occasional verbal rape joke while playing every instance of the act itself completely for horror, illustrating the difference between making jokes about rape and thinking rape is funny. | |
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In his 2015 autobiography, Ed Sheeran says that he wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons as a child because his mother thought it was on the same level as South Park. Strangely, he quit church choir so he could watch The Simpsons, which is mentioned in his 2017 song "Eraser." | |
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Home Movies, a short-lived UPN animated series that eventually continued its run as one of the inaugural [adult swim] shows, largely averts this. It has some Toilet Humour and profanity, but by and large prioritizes strong, witty dialogue-based humor over shock comedy. | |
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PONY.MOV is pretty much what happens when you take the adorable little ponies from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and place them inside a Crapsaccharine World that would make both John Waters and John Kricfalusi proud. | |
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The Pokémon Squad is a rare example of a fanfic series that fits. Almost the entire cast consists of characters from Western Animation, Video Games and Anime & Manga, and the humor has gotten increasingly reliant on sexual innuendo. Lampshaded on the 200th Episode's Q-A session. | |
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American Dad!, the Quietly Performing Sister Show to Family Guy, fits the trope just as well. That said, the humor tends to be more character and plot-driven, and as a result is generally more critically respected than its older brother. | |
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Conker's Bad Fur Day is one of the few non-animation examples of this trope, with sex jokes and grossout gags galore. This was a deliberate choice in response to critics who felt that earlier builds were too similar to Rare's other cartoonish mascot platformers. | |
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Mitsudomoe is a rare anime example of this being played straight, with gross-outs and sex jokes galore. | |
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The Netflix show Big Mouth is a Downplayed example, since it's ostensibly centered around middle schoolers who have reached the onset of puberty and are confused about their sexual and psychological changes, something an adult would have outgrown. That said, barely an episode is devoid of dealing with mature topics like sex, drugs, crime, and containing profanity. It's essentially South Park but with teenagers. | |
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Archer contains loads of sex, violence and shocking subject matter, particularly jokes involving Krieger, the Nightmare Fetishist. It does have a highly detailed and realistic art style, however, compared to the usual crude and simplistic looks of shows of this type, and mixes in long-running plotlines, a surprising amount of Character Development and a love for obscure Genius Bonus jokes. | |
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Seitokai Yakuindomo, where at least 90% of the show's jokes either shock humor or about bodily functions. | |
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SMG4 zig-zags this trope. While it does use a lot of swear humor and sex jokes, it does not rely on shock humor and gross-out and would put more emphasis on classic cartoon gags from the The Golden Age of Animation. | |
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Squidbillies is a pretty faithful adherent of this trope. All of the humor is either sexual, violent, offensive, or just plain gross, and is also drawn in a deliberately sloppy, ugly art-style. | |
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Legends of Chamberlain Heights is another example, not only having loads of stereotypes and sexual humor, but even using the same two-frame animation style as South Park. It doesn't help that Comedy Central is using South Park as a lead-in in it's first season. | |
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Gintama is this as it has toilet humor and fourth wall breaking even though it was published in a certain shonen manga magazine. As a matter of fact, it's frequently cited as the Japanese equivalent to Family Guy due to their very similar styles of humor. | |
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The main criticism of Brickleberry is that tries to be the next Family Guy (next to its art-style being a blatant rip-off of it) by cramming as many vulgar, offensive and tasteless jokes as humanly possible at the cost of any well-developed or likable characters or interesting storylines. | |
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In a review in Metro (free newspaper on public transport) of Goro Miyazaki's Tales from Earthsea, the reviewer made a remark along the lines of, "but its main problem is that it's not very funny; it's a cartoon, so what's the point if it's not funny?" | |
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Tripping the Rift is a rare CG example (the only other one being Father of the Pride) of this being played straight, with gross outs and sex jokes galore. | |
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Object Redundancy is rather fitting, as it's another series full of Vuglar Humor. | |
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Crayon Shin-chan is an odd example. In the franchise's native Japan, the manga is aimed at adults as it was published in a Seinen manga magazine. Its anime adaptation, on the other hand, is considered family-friendly despite the crude, raunchy humor being kept in. In addition, the vast majority of the foreign dubs bowdlerized the anime to make it more suitable for younger audiencesnote though they still had their moments of raunchiness, some of which were actually added by the dubbers themselves. When the anime finally received the more well-known Gag Dub by FUNimation, it was marketed specifically towards adults and had its raunchiness turned Up to Eleven. | |
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The Boondocks averts this trope. While it's a comedy that does have a lot of sexual humor, swearing, and some bloody violence, it seldom resorts to Toilet Humor outside the episode where R. Kelly is on trial for a sex tape of him urinating on a 14-year old girl. It has been compared to the trope namer, but only in regards to its biting social commentary, not its style of humor. | |
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Bob's Burgers played this trope straight in Season 1 (the first episode alone cracked jokes about pedophilia, autism and cannibalism). As of Season 2, the show grew out of it and was made into a Denser and Wackier version of King of the Hill (which is perhaps the ultimate aversion of this trope). | |
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Deconstructed in the third season of Moral Orel. While the show is a biting criticism of Christianity and plays most of the tropes straight, when the Cerebus Syndrome hit, it starts exploring how psychologically damaging the violence and obscenity can turn out to be. | |
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Most of Animation Domination High-Definition, especially High School U.S.A., plays this straight. | |
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The Venture Bros. is one of the biggest aversions of this trope. Despite being a Sadist Show with tons of Black Comedy, graphic violence, substance abuse, female fanservice, and nudity, this very continuity-heavy show prioritizes long-running plot-lines with tons of character development, lots of Call-Back's to prior episodes, humor that derived from cleverly-written shout-outs and deconstructions to Jonny Quest and Marvel Comics instead of just mindless shock value and mean spirited take-that's, there's almost no Toilet Humor, and higher-quality animation and art direction than other shows of it kind. | |
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The Filipino-American creators of The Nutshack say that their series is the very first Asian adult cartoon. Anime aside, most of the humor is very low-brow and crude, with sex, violence, and drug use throughout. | |
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Another short-lived UPN animated series, Dilbert, also averted it — aside from a few moments of Getting Crap Past the Radar, it didn't rely on sexual or scatological humor (a few swears were heard from time to time, but typically just the occasional damn, crap, hell, etc.). Having a Seinfeld producer instead meant an intelligent show that revolved around plots mixed in with often over-the-top absurdity, as the comic strip generally did (although with a less of a focus on office humor). | |
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The main reason Allen Gregory lasted as briefly as it did (aside from being a "filler" show inbetween seasons of Family Guy) was that it was so sophomoric and the characters were so needlessly cruel and unlikable that nobody found it appealing or funny. | |
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Dick Figures with its cheap animation and vulgar humor. | |
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The later seasons of SuperMarioLogan resort to this kind of humor, being one of the few non-animated examples of this trope | |
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Eight Crazy Nights is one of the few feature film examples of this trope played straight. | |
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Sonic for Hire is jet-packed with Black Comedy and Vulgar Humor, though YouTube rates it TV-PG. Its brother show, Mega Man Dies at the End, is Lighter and Softer in terms of this trope, but it's still present. | |
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Hell and Back is another rare feature film example as well as one of the few stop-motion examples besides Robot Chicken, with tons of sex and rape jokes. | |
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Despite its superhero comic origins, Harley Quinn (2019) fits nicely in this category. It delights in how crude and raunchy it can get, with gratuitous violence, profanity, and jokes about all manner of off-color topics fill every episode. | |
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Vete A La Versh is full of swearing, sex jokes, and Comedic Sociopathy with the main protagonist being as massive Jerkass and his friend being a Butt-Monkey. | |
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The reason why Bad Day L.A. was universally panned is, beside the gameplay not being that good to begin with, is that the game tried to be a video-game equivalent of South Park, yet the game's Vulgar Humor is way too childish and sophomoric and it attempts at satire mostly boiled to racial stereotypes. | |
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Zig-zagged with Sausage Party. There's plenty of Character Development and a solid plot, but it still sold itself on being the first 3D computer-animated feature to get an R-rating. Viewers are divided on its quality, with some feeling that it tried too hard to shove crude humor into every available place it could find. | |
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Final Space averts this trope via not resorting to shock humor and having the characters utter expletives every half-minute, instead defining itself as mature by its emotional, gripping story arcs and complex, multilayered characters, irrespective of the moderate language and (stylized) violence here and there, but thankfully none of the swear words are more vulgar than "crap." | |
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Deep Space 69 has sexual jokes for most of its humor. The episodes are roughly 2 to 4 minutes long each. | |
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Camp Camp with its Black Comedy, stereotypes, Toilet Humor, MindScrews, and a child protagonist who swears like a sailor. | |
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South Park, the Trope Namer, is almost single-handedly responsible for creating the audacious, line-crossing brand of humor that has become so prevalent in adult animation. Hard as it is to imagine these days, in 1997 the sight of cartoon characters telling each other to "suck balls" was totally wild and crazy (the closest The Simpsons had ever come to that was, of course, "Eat my shorts!"), and the show drew huge viewership numbers purely from the novelty factor. Like all popular things, it was quickly aped and imitated, and soon it became standard practice for adult cartoons to take a page out of Parker and Stone's book. Unlike many of its derided imitators, though, South Park's humor relies heavily on satire and mockery of weekly news Ripped from the Headlines; while Toilet Humor and crude sexual jokes feature frequently, they're not the sole source of comedy in the show, or even the primary one. | |
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One major complaint about Mr. Pickles is that the show tries to cram as many sex jokes and as much violent, disturbing and disgusting content as humanly possible into 11 minutes. King Star King and Superjail! fall under this formula as well, although the latter is considered as many as this trope done right. That said, there are hints of a consistent plot, and notably for this type of show it rarely delves into politics. Season 3 tries other types of humor besides just gross-out, like genre parodies, though it still thrives in gore. | |
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Lobo Webseries counts due to the high amount of violence, profanity and sex due to the R-rated DC comics character involved. However, its humor is considered to be better than other examples of this trope. | |
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Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt is Studio Gainax's attempt to emulate American cartoons. Specifically, American adult cartoons. The result is like South Park, The Powerpuff Girls, Drawn Together and Ghostbusters spliced together and dosed up on speed. Word of God even says that they were watching Drawn Together while drunk and wondered why Japan couldn't make stuff like that. |
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The short-lived British series Full English was roundly panned for being a very blatant Family Guy rip-off, right down to the cutaway gags. The series featured much more graphic content than Family Guy, however, with constant swearing, nudity, sex, and shock humor in every episode. | |
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Possibly one of most well-known shows that play this trope straight is Drawn Together, which is 90% Cringe Comedy and Vulgar Humor. You can count the amount of jokes that are not shock value, bodily function-related or at the expense of any kind of social/racial minority on one hand. Unlike other shows of it's kind, though, it has at least good art-direction and frequently mocks the lack of artistic merit this show has. | |
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Osomatsu-san is superficially similar to Crayon Shin-Chan (the previous series, Osomatsu-kun, was even more so), though it is marketed mainly at an teen and adult audience. Since the six brothers are lazy, hard-drinking, self-centered NEETs who obsess over sex but can rarely find female companionship, it has a lot of crude humor, up to and including a scene in the OVA showing the title character getting 'ridden' by the horse instead of the other way around. | |
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