South Park

Butter's Kissing Company was damn near a perfect episode.

But sometimes, they take the absurdity so far that it breaks the joke and becomes less funny for it.

Sergeant Yates marrying his pimp and moving to Switzerland was just stupid and not funny. But up until that point, the sex "stings" were absolutely hilarious. It also was so divergent from the main story, that they had to retcon it away as though it never happened.

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South Park has a tendency to do this. They have a fantastic running joke and they have to keep on raising the absurdity until it "breaks".