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Gross-out films form a sub-genre of comedy movies in which the producers aim to "gross out" their audience with disgusting and disturbing material, such as sexual or "toilet" humour. Since the abolition of the Production Code and its replacement with the MPAA film rating system in the late 1960s, some filmmakers began to experiment with vulgar humor. Early pioneers of the gross-out genre include several John Waters films of the early 1970s, such as Pink Flamingos
(1972) and Mel Brooks
' Blazing Saddles
(1974).

The first true "gross-out film" was 1978
's National Lampoon's Animal House
, which was a great success at the box office. Since the 1980s, gross-out films increased in number, and became the norm for comedy films. Some films of this genre could be aimed at teen audiences (such as Porky's
or American Pie
) or adult audiences (such as There's Something About Mary
or Wedding Crashers
).

Examples of the Gross-out genre

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