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I like that it doesn't feel like it's trying too hard
There are never any bits where you can tell they were staring at a mostly complete script and someone said "this isn't edgy enough" and they went back and hacked in an brutal offscreen death or something.
All the bits where that sort of thing is a punchline are set up and carried out like actual jokes and feel like natural inclusions in the episode.
Like, the beach episode where a guy gets thrown out a window, Gary says "Well, that's not a very long fall but you still shouldn't throw people out windows" and then later jumps out the window and it turns out they're actually like 6 stories up and the guy's mangled body breaks his fall, that was actually a funny and slightly involved joke. In Rick and Morty or something it would have just been a background gag where the guy screams for a bit and then makes a gruesome splat sound while the main characters ignore it and then maybe have to step over him later in the episode or something, not because writers actually think it would be funny but because they're writing an edgy show and that means people need to die, right?
