History Main / NoLongerWithUs

* {{Housepets}} gives us a [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/2009/07/03/pushing-up-daisies/ hat-trick]].

* In ''GunnerkriggCourt'', a flashback sequence shows the young Antimony helping ghosts move on. Seven-years-old Annie doesn't understand the euphemisms used, even when they get quite transparent.

* [[OverlyLongGag Overly Long]] inversion in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0530.html this strip]] of ''{{The Order of the Stick}}'' where [[spoiler:Haley]] tells [[spoiler:Celia]] about [[spoiler:Roy's (whose invisible ghost is listening)]] death.

See also NeverSayDie, [=~He Didn't Make It~=] and DoubleSpeak. Particularly crazy examples (think the ''MontyPython'' Parrot Sketch) can cross over into UnusualEuphemism and HurricaneOfEuphemisms.

* In ''CornerGas'', Hank asks Emma for some Motherly Advice. Emma tells Hank that he should just ask his own mother, but Hank says she's in a better place. Emma points out that they have phones in Saskatoon.
** In another episode Oscar and Karen become attached to a cat and are horrified when they find out it might have to "go to cat heaven." Naturally this turns out to be a cat farm.

A standard comedy misunderstanding, often the start of a ThreeIsCompany. A character claims a loved one "is no longer with us", "has moved on", "isn't here anymore", "has joined the choir invisible" etc. Everyone takes this to mean they've died, but no, in fact the character was talking literally and they've just gone to work, are on holiday, or are in a a musical group that prevents its members from being seen. If these euphemisms become too obvious or contrived, the listener or the speaker has sometimes picked up the IdiotBall.

* In SecondhandLions, the greedy relatives come to visit Uncle Hub in the hospital after he has a heart attack. A doctor tells them "he's gone." The relative badly fake sympathy and ask where the body is. Turns out, Hub trashed the hospital room and checked himself out.

* There's the one about the woman who asks after an acquaintance's teenage son, who hasn't been seen for some weeks, and is told he's "[[http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/ gone up to Jesus]]".
* In ''RealLife'', [[HonoreDB this troper]]'s cat went to go live on a farm. Try explaining that to an adult when there are kids in the room.

* Happens at the end of Disney's ''{{Ptitledztlyey0hfvu}}'' where the other explorers upon returning to the surface from their journey actually tell Whitmore that ____ "went down with the sub" since he chose to stay behind in Atlantis instead to going back with his teammates.

*** In the same episode, Groundskeeper Willie tells Bart that he bought Santa's Little Helper... and "ATE him." But it turns out Willie has difficulty pronouncing "H".

** There's the on where Bart & Lisa ruin Sideshow Bob's date with Ms. Krabbapel. He tells Marge that her children "are no more... than a couple of uneducated ruffians".

* In the ''{{Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air}}'', Will had went to the hospital to get his tonsils removed, and befriended an elderly man named Max. After escaping, and returning to the hospital, he found Max was gone. Asking the nurse, she replied "He's gone off to a better place." (To be fair, the nurse did imply he was dead by ''sighing'', but then it shows what she thinks about her own workplace.) After Will had his tonsils removed, Max returned to his hospital room looking for his lucky hat. "Max, I thought you died." "I did die... in Pittsburgh!" It turns out "gone to a better place" meant sent to a hospital with ''cable'' in the patient's rooms.

* At least the Russian sector of web-news feeds is ''very'' fond of headlines like "The world has lost the famous singer X". Turns out X retired or moved into sports or something.

* In SecondhandLions, the greedy relatives come to visit Uncle Hub in the hospital after he has a heart attack. A doctor tells them "he's gone." The relative badly fake sympathy and ask where the body is. Turns out, Hub trashed the hospital room and checked himself out.

* In YesMinister, Humphrey says "I'm on my way out.", that there comes a time when "one passes on to pastures new, perhaps greener", and that "one has to accept what fate has in store, when one passes on". The Minister asks when he found out, whether he's told his wife, and how long they gave him ("Oh, just a few weeks... but it will give me enough time to sort everything out"). When the Minister says that Humphrey is taking it well, Humphrey replies that he's "a little anxious, of course", but that although "one is always a little wary of the unknown, but I have faith somehow I will muddle through". It transpires, of course, that he's talking about a promotion that will take him away from the department. The Minister tries to pretend he hadn't been about to cry.

* In YesMinister, Humphrey says that there comes a time when "one passes on to pastures new, perhaps greener", and that "one has to accept what fate has in store". The Minister asks when he found out, whether he's told his wife, and how long they gave him ("Oh, just a few weeks... but it will give me enough time to sort everything out"). When the Minister says that Humphrey is taking it well, Humphrey replies that he's "a little anxious, of course", but that although "one is always a little wary of the unknown, but I have faith somehow I will muddle through". It transpires, of course, that he's talking about a promotion that will take him away from the department. The Minister tries to pretend he hadn't been about to cry.

A standard comedy misunderstanding, often the start of a ThreeIsCompany. A character claims a loved one "is no longer with us", "has moved on", "isn't here anymore", "has joined the choir invisible" etc. Everyone takes this mean they've died, but no, in fact the character was talking literally and they've just gone to work, are on holiday, or are in a a musical group that prevents its members from being seen. If these euphemisms become too obvious or contrived, the listener or the speaker has sometimes picked up the IdiotBall.

* Essentially the whole of the last episode of ''{{Frasier}}'': Dr Crane's accepted a new job in San Fransisco, but all the other characters think he's dying (he's just back from the doctors and is constantly weeping due to a bad botox injection he got there, he's giving away posessions he 'won't need anymore' etc). He thinks they allready know and so launches into a long speech about moving on to better places, how they shouldn't be sad, how when he passes through that Golden Gate he'll be smiling...

* In the ''{{Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air}}'', Will had went to the hospital to get his tonsils removed, and befriended an elderly man named Max. After escaping, and returning to the hospital, he found Max was gone. Asking the nurse, she replied "He's gone off to a better place." (To be fair, the nurse did imply he was dead by ''sighing'', but then it shows what she thinks about her own workplace.) After Will had his tonsils removed, Max returned to his hospital room looking for his lucky hat. "Max, I thought you died." "I did die... in Pittsburgh!" It turns out "gone to a better place" meant sent a hospital with ''cable'' in the patient's rooms.

* When Andy's sitcom is being [[ExecutiveMeddling executive meddled]] on ''Extras'', he complains about a certain [[CampGay gay writer]]. When he's told not worry, the writer "won't be with us much longer", he replies "Is it [=AIDS=]?" It's not.