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Death as Comedy
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Come on, admit it. We've all seen it. Some hapless loser or faceless redshirt bites it in a strange and unusual way. Maybe it was embarrassing. Maybe he died because of his own stupidity. Maybe he had an anvil dropped on him, or better yet a bridge. Maybe he keeps getting killed every week by some monster, only to come back to be killed off again. Perhaps he's small, furry, and cute, yet the death is depicted as gory and defined as possible. Perhaps he was a total asshole who deserved it. Any way it happens, someone is going to chuckle... unless you happen to be a Moral Guardian or easily offended, in which case it's Dude, Not Funny!. Many an Omnicidal Maniac who Crosses the Line Twice benefits from this trope. So does the Affably Evil or Faux Affably Evil villain if they make the audience appreciate the killings they do. If this happens to your own Player Character, it's Have a Nice Death. Yet Another Stupid Death also applies if a bit of forethought or common sense could have prevented it. In Real Life, this can be a coping strategy for those close to death and/or the dying. Often a form of Black Comedy and a Sister Trope to Gallows Humor. They Killed Kenny Again is a subtrope of this if it's Played for Laughs. Can overlap with Bloody Hilarious and Gorn. Sometimes comes with a Stock Scream. Compare Black Comedy Rape, Suicide as Comedy. Super-trope of Black Comedy Pet Death. See also The "Fun" in "Funeral". Contrast Death Is a Sad Thing. As a Death Trope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware. |
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In Valhalla, after an intense and serious chase sequence, the novel's Big Bad is accidentally smashed to death by a rolling mutant walrus. | |
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Every character in The Town with No Name has either an understated or exaggerated reaction to being shot. In one of his death animations, the Man with No Name grabs a book out of nowhere and flips through its pages before keeling over. | |
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Horrible Histories uses this often and even has a recurring sketch, "Stupid Deaths," dedicated to the subject. | |
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The death of Thelma's sister Fran in Mama's Family. Thelma is extremely reluctant to discuss the circumstances, insisting it was "natural causes", but finally explains that Fran got some roast beef stuck in her teeth while they were eating out and went into the bathroom with a toothpick. After a little while, a tipsy Thelma got the idea to burst in on her as a prank, at which point Fran gasped, choked on the toothpick, ran into a stall, and died. To add insult to injury, Fran's funeral is a complete and utter trainwreck from start to finish. | |
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Numerous times on Whose Line Is It Anyway? has this trope been acted out by one of the performers. | |
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Noted examples from Looney Tunes cartoons: ''Daffy Duck And The Dinosaur" has Daffy, Casper Caveman and Casper's pet dinosaur blown into oblivion after stabbing a giant inflated balloon duck. The three are in Heaven as Daffy turns to the audience and says "Y'know, maybe that wasn't such a hot idea after all." Curtain Razor and Show Biz Bugs ends with the same gag: a performer (an unnamed wolf and Daffy Duck, respectively) swallowing various volatile liquids then swallowing a lit match, causing him to explode. The gag is each's final line when asked to do it again (each performer is already a devil): "I can only do it once." |
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In the Fireman Sam YouTube Poop "Fit for Something", Elvis manages to die twice in quick succession; first by getting flung off a treadmill at high speeds, accompanied with a screenshot of the credits changed to read "Elvis is fucking dead", then by getting crushed by a barbell. Both times, it's played as a joke, and in the next scene he boards Jupiter completely fine. | |
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Hangaroo is basically a hangman game where the player will inevitably kill countless of kangaroos as they fail to guess the correct word or phrase generated by the game. Considering that his pissed off soul just angrily glower at you as he ascends to heaven, the deaths are clearly not meant to be taken seriously. Exacerbated by the fact that you can't really save him from death. Even if the player wins the game, the kangaroo will inevitably get killed by something else while hopping away from the hanging platform. | |
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Star Fox: Assault: When Fox dies, he falls onto his stomach and wags his (white-tipped) tail back and forth, showing his defeat like when waving a white flag. In the alpha version of the game, Fox slowly raises his tail, also like a white flag for surrender. | |
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The Trouble with Harry: The closest thing Hitchcock ever made to a comedy. A body turns up in the woods outside a small town. As the local authorities try to figure out who killed him, one by one the entire town confesses to the murder. | |
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Dean from Supernatural gets a whole series of funny deaths because of a Time Loop. | |
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In the episode "Pigmalion" of King of the Hill, Luanne's delusional new boss, Trip Larsen regains his sanity just before being killed in his pork processing conveyer belt | |
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Star Wars: Kanan: While his death is ultimately treated like a tragedy and given some gravitas when Stance dies there is some rather evident dark humor in his final words being "Don't worry, Caleb. I got your—— BAAACCKKK!", the last being shouted as he's fatally shot in his own back. | |
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Discworld has some examples, some due to Don't Fear the Reaper; any death that DEATH personally comments on gets a little more lighthearted...except for Mr. Pin. There's also the Agatean poisoning sequence in Mort, various gags involving the Assassins' Guild, and a comment by Vetinari that condemned criminals in one of the former regimes were "pulled apart by wild tortoises. It was not a quick death." | |
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A comical death is the best fate anyone who befriends, talks to, looks at, or gets within driving distance of Xavier: Renegade Angel can hope for. Two or three episodes (depending on how you interpret the Gainax Ending of "Bloodcorn") end with The End of the World as We Know It Played for Laughs. | |
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Total Drama makes a Running Gag of the abuse through which Chris puts his interns, up to and including them being killed offscreen while testing new challenges. | |
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Sudden, gruesome deaths account for about a third of the jokes on Metalocalypse, whether it be Dethklok's foes, their fans, or just innocent bystanders getting killed. | |
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In Temple Run, your deaths are often played for laughs. Whenever you die, you get a laconic text message. For example, when you die from falling into a pit, this message may be "I knew I should have learned how to fly" or "Temple slippery when wet". These two messages have a double irony since you can use "wings of resurrection" and since you can slide without problem over even the roughest surfaces. | |
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The basic concept of Life Goes On is you need to kill one of your heroic knights to proceed to each level's goal. Killing and using dead bodies in various humorous ways is one of the core gameplay elements; resulting in the dark humour of using corpses as stepping stones, to weigh down weights, etc. | |
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The entire Fat, French and Fabulous episode on Famous Last Words, which begins with the tale of James D. French, a convicted killer who supposedly said "How's this for a headline? 'French Fries.'" to journalists present shortly before his execution by electric chair. (French definitely wanted to die, and did evidently make the quip to a reporter, but not as he was literally being marched to the chair.) | |
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Hot Fuzz: every death in this film is done in a weirdly twisted, but comical way. | |
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The elimination feed in Fortnite: Battle Royale often describes the defeats of unfortunate players in humorous ways as they occur, especially self-inflicted ones. | |
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Arnold J. Rimmer. Twice. And in fact everyone on the ship except for the main characters; this is after all the Trope Namer for Everybody's Dead, Dave we're talking about. The Alternate Continuity of the novels pulled a neat bit of Mood Whiplash by preserving the scene from the pilot episode all but word for word and then following up with a long sequence where the reality of his situation hits Lister full-force and he experiences a spectacular alcohol-fueled Freak Out that was not Played for Laughs. |
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Thanks to the hilariously bad voice acting as well as some of the cutscenes, Dynasty Warriors 3 is arguably a case of where deaths are more hilariously funny than probably intended. A good example includes the death of Taishi Ci. | |
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In The Vampire Diaries, Elijah knocking off Trevor's head? Harsh, but hilarious. Elijah forcing Slater to stake himself? Awful, but hilarious. Elijah ripping out two people's hearts at THE SAME TIME? Evil, but epic. | |
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This happens often on Archer, where the main cast's fuckups will often lead to background characters dying in hilarious ways. | |
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Tropic Thunder, so violent that the only death on the movie is this: Damien has just finished giving a Rousing Speech, and then gets blown to bits by a landmine. | |
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One of the most well-known examples is from Pulp Fiction: | |
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The Final Destination movies can be interpreted as rather dark comedies. | |
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Kaeloo: Since Death Is a Slap on the Wrist, characters die in ridiculous ways and it's all Played for Laughs. They're always fine by the next episode, or even the next scene in some cases. | |
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Running Theme in Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. With just about every single character who dies. | |
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A SBTB: The College Years episode featured the death of a professor followed by the usual wacky humor. | |
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C14 Dating: The presence of some ancient human remains in the dig site, how angry head archeologist Augustin can get when students make mistakes and the sometimes morbid sense of humor shared by several characters (including Augustin himself) result in a few jokes about people getting murdred. | |
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People die so many times in Ghost Trick that even they can find their own deaths amusing if they're ludicrous enough. It helps that we know the deaths won't stick. The record holder is Lynne, who dies a grand total of five times (not counting preventable deaths or repeats), and in increasingly absurd ways each time* (by shotgun, by sniper rifle, by Rube Goldberg device, by giant roast chicken, and by explosion in a submarine). At one point Sissel suspects that she's doing it on purpose. | |
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In the episode "Envoys" of Star Trek: Lower Decks, when Sam Rutherford is training to be a command officer in the holodeck, he spectacularly fails a basic training simulation, which ends with all the children of the ship he's commanding getting ejected into space. While he is mortified by this result, Commander Jack Ransom is pretty amused by it. | |
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Red vs. Blue takes a video game deathmatch and makes everyone involved very incompetent, and thus the deaths are often hilarious, starting with the very first, where Church is team-killed by a tank. The first season also has Church recalling his friend Jimmy getting beaten to death with his own skull ("This doesn't seem physically possible!") and Sarge possessed by Church getting shot by Caboose ("What the? Where did my body go? Oh, you've gotta be KIDDING me!"). The show tried to take things more seriously as time went on, but come season 14, a guy walks into a trap and is blown by a huge bomb with "REDS SUCK" painted on it, and a ship full of soldiers explodes because the vessel's AI misheard "shelf construction" as "self-destruction". The following two seasons had Sarge causing two such deaths: in season 15, he accidentally drops Surge into a lava flow (while ironically trying to convince him to live!), and in 16, Sarge shoots a guy, does a victory dance straight out of the Six Flags commercials, and then the film crew gets desperate at how their actor was killed. | |
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Mob Boss Momo from Get Shorty keels over with a Hollywood Heart Attack on receiving a Shock Party. | |
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As you had already guessed, 1000 Ways to Die has a good number of these, in which many victims get killed in some of the most hilarious ways. Their stupidity that causes their own death just adds on to the humor. | |
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Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan has titular character Dokuro, an angelic assassin, play this straight with the unfortunate Sakura, who gets a giant horrible club to the wherever whenever he does something Dokuro finds vaguely inappropriate. Of course, she also possesses the ability to bring him back, which leads to a vicious cycle. | |
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes and its spiritual sister Theatre of Blood. The latter becomes especially funny if you know your Shakespeare. | |
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Weekend at Bernie's and its sequel, along with any film that uses the same schtick. | |
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Dead Like Me features a lot of these — the main cast of Psychopomps specialize in those who die by accident or homicide, so the contrived circumstances of the demise tend to be played for comedy relief. Helped by the fact that the newly deceased usually gets to snark about it afterwards. George's death involved being hit by the toilet seat from the deorbiting Mir space station, and the other psychopomps do not let her forget it. | |
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The Emperor's New Groove: "C'mon men! Nobody lives forever!" Guards drop down the hole to their deaths. | |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street gets loads of this, be it in film or stage production. Killing people to a tune or with camp makes it funny, apparently. Or maybe it was the pork pies... | |
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Mystery Team. "Someone stole that man's face." Rather unusual in that the characters usually react very seriously to death otherwise (although the line "Two dead bodies, that's my limit!" certainly qualifies as a joke). | |
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Clue has the unfortunate singing telegram girl getting killed, apparently just for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. | |
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The Princess Bride uses this with Vizzini's death. Failing to accurately determine which of two glasses contain poison, he begins to laugh and boast about his brilliance in "figuring out" where the poison was, only to suddenly stop mid-laughter and keel over. | |
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Total Drama World Tour Deluxe: Ruby the camel is devoured by crocs in the Egypt challenge, with her death just being brushed off by Chris due to it causing Team Amazon to lose and go to elimination. | |
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The IT Crowd has Denholm Reynholm walk to a high-story window and casually commit suicide when confronted by the authorities for accounting irregularities and it's hilarious. | |
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Double subverted. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where the entire planet gets blown up in the first part of the book... because it was in the way of an intergalactic freeway. Subverted when they replaced Earth. Then subverted once more when it was blown up again. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean has a few. In the third movie, a pirate is killed as part of Captain Teague's introduction. In the fourth movie: |
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In the fourth movie: | |
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In the third movie, a pirate is killed as part of Captain Teague's introduction. | |
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There's a lot of this in Less is Morgue, from the death of one of our main characters, Evelyn, who died after being crushed to death at a Nickeback concert, to Jon the Pizza Man, who's abruptly eaten by the other main character, Riley. | |
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BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO is a spinoff animation series of BanG Dream! and features silly "deaths" as a joke in several of it's episodes, for example: Rimi turns into a Chocolate Cornet, the entire Hello, Happy World! band freezing to death while hiking a snowy mountain, Aya and Maya of Pastel*Palettes collapsing out of exhaustion in a dessert, and many more. Luckily, the girls always get up for the next episode(s) after "dying". | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus was notable for this. "The Funniest Joke In The World" is probably their most famous example. There is also "Is There?," a chat show where four dead people discuss (or obviously not) the topic of there being life after death. | |
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DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story: "I don't think they make a 'Sorry Your Dodgeball Coach just got crushed by two tons of irony' Hallmark card." | |
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Blanche of The Golden Girls recounts how a politician lover of hers was killed while opening a toll bridge when he was run over by "ten Shriners on minibikes who just happened to have the exact change." | |
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Played straight nearly constantly on South Park, be it with Kenny or anyone who happens to get hit with the biggest Idiot Ball at the time. | |
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Evil Dead: Regeneration does this with Sam, Ash's half deadite sidekick. He gets better each time, but he still doesn't like dying. Killing him is actually a gameplay mechanic as well as something Ash does in the cutscenes. | |
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Monica Mancuso from Las Vegas flies off the roof of the casino when a gust of wind catches the "winged-style" dress she was wearing. She flies around for about five minutes before crashing into a shoe store more than a mile away. Characters spend the episode debating the impossibility of it, and buying shoes from the store. To add to the humor, the theme of The Wicked Witch is playing as she flies. | |
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RWBY Chibi: In the first series, when Ruby tries to mention some of the tragic events of the main show, Nora interrupts, emphatically telling the audience that nothing bad ever happens in the Chibi world, prompting Ren to suggest they stick to comedy. Death and near-death is, therefore, a common source of comedy in this show. "Cape Troubles": Ruby hangs herself when she tries to jump from the top bunk only to have her cape get caught by accident. Her face even starts to turn blue from lack of oxygen as she gasps "Not like this! Not like this!" "Neptune's Phobia": Neptune stands in for Sun as the swimming pool's lifeguard. When Jaune slips and falls into the pool right beside Neptune's chair, Jaune struggles for air and desperately calls for help. However, Neptune looks the opposite way and ignores what's happening. Eventually, Jaune sinks below the water and releases one final bubble that pops into the word "dead". "The Floor Is Lava": Whenever somebody attempts to enter Team RWBY's room, Ruby stops them and tells them that the floor is lava. Wiess and Yang use their tools to get to the beds to humor Ruby, then Torchwick arrives to kill them. After Ruby warns him, he declares he will kill her first. He then steps into the room, only to melt away leaving only his hat. In "Boy Band", Neptune tries to fix Jaune's makeup only to discover that it's made of latex, which he's allergic to. His hand and then his entire head promptly turn red and swell up, prompting him to say "Remember me... as I was..." |
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The whole point of Happy Tree Friends is showing its cast of adorable cartoon animals dying in very painful and unusual ways. | |
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The Mary Tyler Moore Show had the episode "Chuckles Bites The Dust", often cited as one of the funniest episodes of any show ever, which rotates around the death of performer Chuckles the Clown in a parade - "He went as Peter the Peanut... and a rogue elephant tried to... shell him." | |
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Hyperdimension Neptunia has this following exchange: The crowner was that Compa can heal his wounds, but cannot undo his death flag. |
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Implied: Punky Brewster and her friend Cherie deal with a customer at Henry's restaurant whom they think is dead. The customer is a narcoleptic who had fallen asleep, but the girls don't know that...yet. | |
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Firefly features the villain of the week, Crow, being kicked into Serenity's engine intake by Mal. It's clearly played for comedy, and it is pretty funny. | |
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Angel Beats! features a universe where no one can die, so obviously this trope is used frequently. It's made even funnier when there are "instant replays" with the sad, dramatic ending theme in the background. | |
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The Mummy Returns has this: | |
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Coco: Ernesto was killed in 1942 when a church bell fell on him during a performance. | |
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Dinosaur Comics asks "You know what's funny?" | |
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In Heaven's Design Team, a poorly designed animal often very quickly becomes a dead animal. Of course, this is all played for comedy, and the designers are usually more devastated by the failures of the design than the animal deaths they cause. | |
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In the Friends episode "The One Where Heckles Dies", there is a bit of this. Mr. Heckles dies rapping a broom on the ceiling in an attempt to get the friends in the apartment above him to quieten down. | |
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Robotbox and Cactus: As Cactus is strapped to the electric chair for his crimes in "Substitute", the executioners crack jokes about aborted fetuses. | |
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