The FAFO Diaries

[Webster]

...anyone want to stab a tractor tire?

 

[Hulk's iconHulk]

 

[Webster]

@PGen98, that was Naiwen in the OP vid, wasn't it?

 

[PGen98]

OMG, lol, you have to be some kind of special to do things like that!

 

[Webster]

OMG, lol, you have to be some kind of special to do things like that!

Yeah, it was Naiwen, wasn't it?

 

[PGen98]

Yeah, it was Naiwen, wasn't it?

 

[Hulk's iconHulk]

@PGen98, that was Naiwen in the OP vid, wasn't it?

 

[Webster]

..... around opening a lithium battery, you find out the battery fights back....

 

[PGen98]

..... around opening a lithium battery, you find out the battery fights back....

I was cringing before it even happened...ugh.

 

[Webster]

I was cringing before it even happened...ugh.

Reddit's a goldmine of like that....

 

[Webster]

..... around bodyslamming a cactus and you'll find out that the cactus fights back....

 

[PGen98]

..... around bodyslamming a cactus and you'll find out that the cactus fights back....

OUCH!

 

[Webster]

OUCH!

TV Tropes said it best....

Crosses the Line Twice - TV Tropes

"Pain is funny. Therefore, more pain must be even funnier!" Thus goes the logic in a lot of comedy shows and a few adult cartoons. Sadly, that's not the case. The line separating The Three Stooges-style painful fun from outright villainous …

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However, if a show goes far enough with its violence, it may end up crossing the line not once but twice, as it goes around the planet and crosses it again. This second crossing takes the violence from sick back to funny in its ridiculous extremes. Similar to So Bad, It's Good, but done quite intentionally.

This isn't as easy as it sounds. Shows attempting to be Darker and Edgier with their humor this way straddle the line between sadism and comedy, and it's easy to make a mistake and fall on the wrong side of the S.S. Tightrope. Rather than cross the line a second time, the show makes a Wrong Turn at Albuquerque and breaks the audience's Willing Suspension of Disbelief. Some people just don't have a second line to cross in their minds, and will dislike any turn into sadism or vulgarity.

This can also apply to things other than violence for funny's sake; any time a little exaggeration would provoke a negative reaction, but exaggeration 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 Willing Suspension of Disbelief. Still, others take the over-the-top so over the top that what was before unbelievable garbage is now heart-wrenching, adrenaline-rushing, undiluted AWESOME.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

...anyone want to stab a tractor tire?

Why was she doing that? A upset Karen who didn't like whatever work they were doing with that tractor or what?

..... around opening a lithium battery, you find out the battery fights back....

Dumb!

..... around bodyslamming a cactus and you'll find out that the cactus fights back....

Ouch! His screams made me laugh though.

 

[Webster]

Ouch! His screams made me laugh though.

Glad to see I wasn't the only who laughed at his screams....

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Glad to see I wasn't the only who laughed at his screams....

We're bad people for that.