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* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode where [[{{greed}} Mr. Krabs]] goes to a graveyard to dig up a million-dollar hat. Squidward is mourning at a tombstone and when Mr. Krabs comes to see who it was, he sees that the engraving reads "Here lie Squidward's hopes and dreams." In the same graveyard, there's "Diver Dan", whose tombstone has carved scuba gear on it; "Stupid" next to "I'm with Stupid", complete with pointing hand, and most importantly, the "#1" shaped tombstone of Smitty Werbenjaegermanjensen, whose name extends off the name plaque.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode where [[{{greed}} Mr. Krabs]] goes to a graveyard to dig up a million-dollar hat. Squidward is mourning at a tombstone and when Mr. Krabs comes to see who it was, he sees that the engraving reads "Here lie Squidward's hopes and dreams." ("Pfft. What a baby.") In the same graveyard, there's "Diver Dan", whose tombstone has carved scuba gear on it; "Stupid" next to "I'm with Stupid", complete with pointing hand, and most importantly, the "#1" shaped tombstone of Smitty Werbenjaegermanjensen, whose name extends off the name plaque.
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** The first five ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' episodes used these in their openings. The last one to use them actually had a tombstone reading "Amusing Tombstones", signaling the retirement of the gag, until it was brought back for [[LongRunners the twenty-ninth Treehouse of Horror.]]

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** The first five ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror" episodes used these in their openings. The last one to use them actually had a tombstone reading "Amusing Tombstones", signaling the retirement of the gag, until it was brought back for [[LongRunners the twenty-ninth Treehouse of Horror.]]
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*** In the story ''Bad Dream House'', the Indian burial ground includes gravestones for [[Radio/TheLoneRanger Tonto]], UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi (who wasn't a Native American Indian), Crazy Horse and Not So Crazy Horse.
*** The pet cemetery from ''Dial "Z" for Zombies'' has graves marked "WesternAnimation/FishPolice", "WesternAnimation/CapitolCritters" and "WesternAnimation/FamilyDog", all of which were animated series that tried and failed to compete with ''The Simpsons'' in primetime.

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*** In the story ''Bad "Treehouse of Horror I" segment "Bad Dream House'', House", the Indian burial ground includes gravestones for [[Radio/TheLoneRanger Tonto]], UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi (who wasn't a Native American Indian), Crazy Horse and Not So Crazy Horse.
*** The pet cemetery from "Treehouse of Horror III" segment ''Dial "Z" for Zombies'' has graves marked "WesternAnimation/FishPolice", "WesternAnimation/CapitolCritters" and "WesternAnimation/FamilyDog", all of which were animated series that tried and failed to compete with ''The Simpsons'' in primetime.



** Another episode shows the family is using Bart's gravestone as a tea table. It reads "Bartholomew J. Simpson: Son, Brother, [[BookDumb C- Student]]."

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** Another episode shows the family is using Bart's gravestone as a tea table. It reads "Bartholomew J. Simpson: Son, Brother, [[BookDumb C- Student]].C-Student]]."

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* CountryMusic legend Music/TomTHall once told an interviewer that his epitaph was going to be "What was ''that'' all about?"

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* CountryMusic legend Music/TomTHall once told joked to an interviewer that his epitaph was going to be "What was ''that'' all about?"


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* In a similar vein, after learning that he was terminally ill, writer William Saroyan contacted the Associated Press and gave them a "final statement" from him to print after he died: “Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?” (Saroyan died about a month later, and the line was indeed printed in various obituaries devoted to him).
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* Creator/GilbertGottfried, who infamously caught flak for making "too soon"-type jokes about current events, fittingly enough has [[https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2023/271/238734697_c08e672e-b854-4725-b373-5e1cc2fdcd79.png "Too Soon"]] engraved on his tombstone.
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*** After Homer fakes his death to get off working as a garbage collector, Marge is visited by Patty and Selma, who [[ObnoxiousInLaws quite gleefully]] try to gift Marge what they have been saving for ever since she married: a graveyard spot for Homer with accompanying tombstone that reads "Homer Simpson: we are richer for having lost him".
*** Another episode shows the family is using Bart's gravestone as a tea table. It reads "Bartholomew J. Simpson: Son, Brother, [[BookDumb C- Student]]."

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*** ** After Homer fakes his death to get off working as a garbage collector, Marge is visited by Patty and Selma, who [[ObnoxiousInLaws quite gleefully]] try to gift Marge what they have been saving for ever since she married: a graveyard spot for Homer with accompanying tombstone that reads "Homer Simpson: we are richer for having lost him".
*** ** Another episode shows the family is using Bart's gravestone as a tea table. It reads "Bartholomew J. Simpson: Son, Brother, [[BookDumb C- Student]]."
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*** In the story ''Bad Dream House'', the Indian burial ground includes gravestones for [[Radio/TheLoneRanger Tonto]], UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi (who wasn't a Native American Indian) Crazy Horse and Not So Crazy Horse.

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*** In the story ''Bad Dream House'', the Indian burial ground includes gravestones for [[Radio/TheLoneRanger Tonto]], UsefulNotes/MahatmaGandhi (who wasn't a Native American Indian) Indian), Crazy Horse and Not So Crazy Horse.

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