History Main / TheFunInFuneral

* ComicBook/NickFury's famous funeral in ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Issue #434. The entire story is mostly grim but then there's the ComicBook/HowlingCommandos who are making jokes and laughing the whole time, sure that Nick is FakingTheDead. [[spoiler: And they were ''[[FirstLawOfRessurrection right]]''.]]

* Reportedly UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson, 7th U.S President, was such a SirSwearsALot that his pet parrot had to be removed after cussing up a storm in ''three seperate languages'' at his funeral.

* ComicBook/NickFury's famous funeral in ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Issue #434. The entire story is mostly grim but then there's the ComicBook/HowlingCommandos who are making jokes and laughing the whole time, sure that Nick is FakingTheDead. [[spoiler: And they were ''[[FirstLawOfRessurrection right]]''.]]

* In Taiwan and some parts of China, the next of kin sometimes hire entertainers, especially strippers, to perform at funerals. Notably, the funeral procession of Tung Hsiang, a Taiwanese politician, included fifty pole dancers. Part of the logic is that having lots of mourners at your funeral is a mark of prestige, and naked ladies are a good way to bring people in. (The Chinese government frowns on this practice and considers it fairly embarrassing on the global stage, but they haven't had much luck in getting it to stop.)

* Memorial Day in the U.S., which is officially meant to commemorate war dead, compared to places like Europe or Israel, where it's a much more somber affair. In the U.S., it's considered mostly a day off work and the unofficial start of the summer season, and people have barbecues while stores have sales. America also commemorates the armistice that Ended UsefulNotes/WorldWarI in 1918 each November, but again most Americans use it as a day off work.

* Creator/BillyMays's pallbearers wore his iconic OxiClean blue shirt/khaki pants outfit.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Yzma ends the memorial service for Kuzco [[spoiler: who isn't really dead]] by telling the assembled palace staff: "Well, he ain't gettin' any deader! Back to work!"
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'', there is a flashback scene of Branch ruining several parties, where he shouts about the Bergens coming and tips something over a clown Troll who's present in all of them: a birthday party where he tips over a pile of presents, a wedding where he tips over a cake, and a funeral where he tips over the casket, letting the now-dead clown Troll roll out with a squeak noise.

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* This trope is also seen in the movie ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon'', in which a grieving widow watches her dead husband's funeral turn into a "celebrity roast", and she is ultimately compelled to give a classic roast-style speech (the deceased's "rebuttal") as her eulogy.
** This funeral is so much fun that [[spoiler:the last scene of the sketch shows the funeral home's sign, telling passers-by that the funeral has been held over several weeks]].
* ''Film/BeerFest'' begins in a dark room with a man playing a beer/coin game with a mob boss and his goons who nearly beat up the other guy...just kidding, it was the priest and his assistants. As the funeral begins a tv is wheeled out to reveal the deceased giving a heartfelt and jolly eulogy from his hospital bed looking down on his open casket. He toasts and chugs several pints of beer during his speech. Once complete, he pulls his own plug and immediately flatlines while still on the tv screen.
* When the Dude and Walter go to scatter [[spoiler: Donny]]'s ashes in the ocean in ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', after a fairly-touching - although full of unnecessary references to UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar - speech from Walter, he scatters the ashes, but the wind is blowing the wrong way, and the Dude ends up covered. Also a subversion, in that immediately after the humorous moment the Dude explodes with rage, calls Walter out for turning the occasion into "a fuckin' travesty" and breaks down, thus turning a slapstick moment into a TearJerker [[MoodWhiplash almost instantly]].
* The ending of ''Film/BigMoneyHustlas'' had Big Baby Sweets shooting up a funeral.
* ''Film/BluesBrothers2000'' involved Elwood trying to put the band back together, and finding Alan "Mr. Fabulous" Rubin working as an undertaker. Elwood and Mack prompt a chase through a graveyard as they disrupt a Russian Mafia funeral as part of their blackmailing Mr. Fabulous into rejoining the band. The graveyard is destroyed by the ensuing gunfire, when everyone at the funeral whips out AK-47s.
** And by 'disrupt', they mean 'talk loud how they're going to rob the valuables off the corpse and sell his penis to med school as soon as the burial is over'.
* In Peter Jackson's ''Film/{{Braindead}}'', Lionel's mother has been turned into a zombie, forcing him to sneak into the back during the funeral and pump her full of tranquilizers. He succeeds just as they both crash through the door into the service, forcing him to pass it off as a deranged act of grief.
* The funeral of the Breather's first victims includes an university band playing downtempo ''Ode to Joy'', black balloons for decoration, cheerleaders with black pom-poms, and a principal giving a rousing, optimistic speech with no relation to funeral whatsoever.
* ''Film/{{Clerks}}'' had a similar sketch, though in the original movie it was [[SecondHandStorytelling unseen]]. It was later animated in the ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'' style, and rather hilarious.
-->''[Dante and Randal have just returned from a wake]''\\
'''Dante:''' I can't fuckin' believe you!\\
'''Randal:''' I'm tellin' you, it wasn't my fault!\\
'''Dante:''' You knocked the casket over!\\
'''Randal:''' It was an accident!\\
'''Dante:''' Like somebody knocks a casket over on purpose!\\
'''Randal:''' It wasn't a big deal!\\
'''Dante:''' Her fuckin' body fell out!\\
'''Randal:''' Just put it back in. It's not like it matters if she breaks something!
* ''Film/TheComedyOfTerrors'' embodies this trope. Instances include: Creator/VincentPrice and Creator/PeterLorre secretly recycling their only coffin by ''dumping the body into the grave'' sped up and set to piano music, or Joyce Jameson caterwauling "he is not dead but sleepeth" (and the guest of honor [[spoiler: isn't really dead]]), her singing so bad that even the cat turns away in disgust.
* The Northern Irish short ''Crashing The Wake'' has a man get beer spilled all over his good trousers the night before the funeral, so he robs the trousers off the man in the coffin. [[spoiler:Once he's found out, he's made to walk to the funeral in his boxers]].
* The entirety of the film ''Film/DeathAtAFuneral''. As the name would imply. Hijinks include: Alan Tudyk's character gets high on acid because he and his girlfriend thought it was Valium [[spoiler:and eventually ends up wandering around naked on the roof]], Creator/PeterDinklage's character [[spoiler:crashes the funeral to blackmail the family because he was the closeted patriarch's lover (and characters freak out over the pictures)]], and a crabby, handicapped old man curses at every chance he gets. And then said old man [[spoiler: shits on his bathroom assistant's hand when he sits on it. And he meant to do it.]]
* ''Entr'acte'' is an early filmic example made by a bunch of wacky Frenchmen, with a long chase after a runaway coffin and a corpse [[spoiler:who ends up standing up and walking off]].
* ''Film/FinalDestination5'': The movie series is usually serious about funeral, but this one gets in some laughs when the speaker, the less-than-attentive company manager, is listing off names of the dead and accidentally names a survivor. The other two survivors next to him have some fun at the guy's expense.
''Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral'', Heather's family sings, Matt stumbles through a speech before being kicked offstage by John, and Joan [[MoodWhiplash breaks down and angrily berates her husband for being so heartless]].
* 1984's ''Film/TheFuneral'' is a mostly light-hearted take on an extended family suddenly having to prepare for a funeral when one dies of a heart attack.
* In the rock-and-roll comedy ''Film/GetCrazy'', we're introduced to a B.B. King-style blues legend eulogizing a fellow blues man at his funeral in a way that makes the clergyman uncomfortable. Nearly everyone in attendance is a blind blues man, one of whom walks into an open grave.
* The cult film ''Film/HaroldAndMaude'' features several darkly comedic funerals. In one notable scene, the procession exits the church just as a parade rounds the corner and marches cheerily by.
* In ''Film/HotShots'', Dead Meat ends up dying. (Not a spoiler; they run him through any DeathTrope that can apply.) At his funeral, Topper tries to offer some money to his widow... who just hit the lottery, and says she'll blow the cash on hats. Later, their C.O. mistakes the 21-gun salute for an enemy attack... and responds in kind.
-->'''Admiral "Tug" Benson:''' ''[at said funeral, after throwing a hand grenade]'' I love a good funeral!
* In ''Film/JohnnyEnglish'', the titular character chases down a hearse that's holding a coffin which contains the crown jewels of the British throne, but inadvertently chases down the wrong car after the original hearse shakes him off. The new hearse he's following is carrying a corpse to a graveyard for a funeral. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93TnnyxGBqI He questions the mourners and the priest]], thinking they're all actors engaged in a cover-up and paying remarkable attention to detail ("Real tears! Do you get paid extra for that?"). Bough shows up and stops English from further embarrassment by claiming to be a doctor from the "Lunatic Response Unit" here to recover "Gunter", who wasn't supposed to be let out until 2028. English goes along with the "escaped mental patient" cover ("fwbib, fwbib!") until they're out of sight.
* In ''Film/LastActionHero'', some dead mobster's body was filled with toxic gas, to kill the mob bosses attending the funeral. Not really funny ''per se'', but the stuff they did to prevent the hit certainly counts.
** That, and the bomb is activated by pulling the dead mobster's (appropriately named Leo "the Fart") finger. And the whole assassination plot is summed up by the immortal line, "Leo the Fart is going to pass gas one last time."
* In Creator/MelBrooks's film ''Film/LifeStinks'', [[spoiler:Sailor]] ends up dying. His ashes are scattered ... but the wind blows it back at the mourners. They say goodbye as they dust the ashes off themselves.
** According to Mel Brooks, this was actually based on true events. One of the film's writers was scattering the ashes of his deceased father and the wind blew the ashes back to the crowd. Despite the circumstances, it was felt that the event was too good not to include in the script and it ended up in the final film.
* French black comedy ''Louise Michel'' starts with such a funny funeral, in a scene apparently unrelated to the rest of the film (it's supposed to be the funeral of the last Communist, according to the filmmakers...) It's almost silent comedy: the undertaker struggles to get the coffin into the furnace while the family stare at him mournfully and ''The Internationale'' plays, he can't get the furnace to start and eventually has to ask the family for a light.
* ''Film/LoveActually'' has a sombre funeral for Joanna, but her husband during the eulogy says that his wife told him he should bring Claudia Schiffer as his date. He also plays "Bye Bye Baby" over a photo montage of her, which his friend Karen can be seen chuckling at.
* In the Dracula parody ''Film/LoveAtFirstBite'', Drac's coffin accidentally gets switched with that of a deceased black man. The resulting funeral is memorable.
* ''A Madea Family Funeral'' is all about [[Creator/TylerPerry Madea]] having to organize a funeral for a relative, so of course hijinks ensue. To start with, there's the awkward moment when the family realize that about 90 percent of the attendees to the funeral are women that the adulterous deceased had affairs with. Then, despite Madea's strict orders for everyone giving eulogies to keep them short to save time, they all end up being rambling and long-winded, causing the service to stretch on for hours. And finally, just as they get to the viewing of the body, the coffin suddenly pops open due to the deceased's persistent pre-mortem [[GagPenis erection]] springing up again.
* In ''Film/ManOnTheMoon'', after Creator/AndyKaufman (played by Creator/JimCarrey) found a bit of GallowsHumor in a fake treatment for his cancer, it cuts to his funeral... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roKZ1cN_N50 where he'd, apparently, requested a sing-a-long be performed]] by those in attendance. A very weird mix of TearJerker and TheFunInFuneral ensue.
* ''Film/MenInBlack3'' had the funeral of Agent Zed. The first part had K talk about not sharing a detail about his boss's life, which was around 3 sentences(and hyped to be a hell of a speech). The next speech was from Agent O (the new chief of MIB) telling what an alien said, in her native language. She spoke gibberish.
* ''Film/MenWithBrooms'' has a brief scene, less than thirty seconds long, of the private funeral service for Coach Foley, by way of introducing Gary Bucyk, a funeral director. What should be [[ASimplePlan a simple cremation]] service goes awry when:
** 1) The conveyer belt's motor shorts out, causing 2) the recording of AmazingFreakingGrace to ''play in reverse'', along with 3) Causing the coffin to start moving away from the oven and towards the end of the belt. They try to keep the coffin from falling off the end, only for it to 4) Tip over onto its end, the lid popping open and 5) Coach Foley's body almost falling out, only to be caught by 6) Gary grabbing the Coach by the face and throwing him ''back'' in the coffin, only for 7) the belt to start moving the ''right'' direction, Gary's coat to get caught in the lid of the coffin when it slams shut, 8) Dragging him ''onto the conveyer belt'' with the casket and being dragged towards the oven, ''[[BlackComedy all while the grieving family sits and watches, horrified]]''. All of this in a scene that again, lasts less than 30 seconds.
* In ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'', Ethan pursues [[spoiler: Walker]] and ends up through St. Paul's Cathedral with the Apostles on his tail. He ends up disrupting a funeral in the process and has this to say while looking at the mourners apologetically.
--> '''Ethan''': [[SincerityMode I am terribly sorry]].
* In an opening scene of ''Film/MouseHunt'', the two protagonists drop their father's casket. It proceeds to slide down the church stairs and bounce their father's body into the air and down an open sewer hole.
* Early in Creator/AdamSandler's ''Film/MrDeeds'', the funeral for Deeds' wealthy relative (the inheritance from whom forms the movie's premise) takes place, and Deeds insists on making it an open-casket affair -- unfortunately the lid of the casket is the only thing preventing the old man's frostbitten body from bending back into the awkward position he was found in...
* ''Film/MyGirl'' uses this in a CrossesTheLineTwice sort of way. The protagonists live in a funeral home, and the elderly mother is senile and has a habit of singing to herself. On the day of a funeral in the house, Vada is supposed to be watching her but Grandma gets up and walks into the funeral - and starts singing at the top of her voice. It's PlayedForLaughs.
* ''Film/{{Premonition}}'' involves a corpse falling out of its coffin, but this is ''not'' supposed to be funny and is in fact used against the protagonist by concerned family members who think she's coming unhinged.
* Johnny's singing at his father's wake in ''Film/RedRosesAndPetrol''.
* In ''Film/RevengeOfThePinkPanther'', most of the world believes that Chief Inspector Clouseau has been killed, including his old supervisor Dreyfus, who had been committed to an asylum because of his murderous hatred for Clouseau. He recovers his sanity and his position upon Clouseau's death, and is asked to eulogize him, to which he ineffectively protests. Dreyfus, holding back his tears, delivers a moving performance -- struggling to suppress his laughter. [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral Clouseau sneaks into the burial in disguise]] and reveals his face to Dreyfus, who falls stunned into the grave.
* In ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' , Brad sings ''Dammit Janet'' in a church, while not noticing a child size coffin being carried out in the background. In [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShowLetsDoTheTimeWarpAgain the remake]], he and Janet dance over various graves, completely oblivious to the funeral procession in the background.
* In ''Film/ScaryMovie3'' George mistakenly believes "wake" to mean the deceased is alive again and takes her out of the coffin as such. Mahalik comes in later to help his friend when people start attacking George for disturbing the body.
-->'''George''': Why is there an open casket?\\
'''Cindy''': George, it's a wake.\\
'''George''': She's alive! Sue, your teacher's alive!\\
'''Cindy''': No George, she's dead!\\
'''George''': No Brenda! Don't die on me! ''(starts doing CPR)''
* At the end of ''Film/TheSistersBrothers'', the brothers attend the funeral of [[spoiler:the Commodore]]; not only are they the only attendees, but Eli punches the deceased to make sure he’s really dead.
* ''[[Film/{{SOB}} S.O.B.]]'' has the Viking funeral scene at the end. A very fitting send off to [[spoiler:Felix]].
* The western spoof ''Film/SupportYourLocalSheriff'' begins with a group of pioneers burying a man (possibly) named Millard Frymore who joined their traveling party for two days before dropping dead of some unknown disease. The only music is supplied by a [[MountainMan grizzled coot]] playing an accordion, some stray dogs cheerfully trample through the scene, and then someone notices gold in Millard's grave, leading to an all-out brawl. At least the poor guy got the eventual gold mine [[BrickJoke named after him]].
* ''Film/{{Toys}}''. Appropriately, the deceased (a saint-like toy mogul) seems to be in on the fun. His son and daughter even take a bumper car in the funeral procession. It regularly bumped the car ahead then stopped until the car behind it hit it.
* One of the advertisers for the station in ''Film/{{UHF}}'' is one of these outfits.
* In ''Film/WeddingCrashers'', the protagonists' mentor (played by Creator/WillFerrell) replaced "getting women at weddings" with "getting women in funerals". And he brings Owen Wilson along for a demonstration.
* In a deleted scene from ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Marvin Acme has a funeral with Foghorn Leghorn giving the eulogy and ending with the casket being lowered...and landing on a whoopee cushion. Everyone at the funeral, humans and toons alike, burst into laughter.
* The Victorian farce ''Film/TheWrongBox'' culminates in a chase with a horse-drawn hearse carrying a trunk of ill-gotten money and another hearse with a not-at-all dead family member, which get tangled up with an actual funeral, the party of which holds another family member thought to be dead. Everyone ends up with the wrong hearse and they all converge at the funeral site. HilarityEnsues.
* ''Film/UndeclaredWar'' has a shootout taking place in an apartment... right ''next to'' a funeral parlor where a ritual is being performed for the deceased. The shootout quickly spills into the parlor, at which point the terrorists hijacks a hearse and throws the coffin out at their police pursuers.
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* The ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' adventure ''Literature/BattlebladeWarrior'' has a really funny part, where the player hero must infiltrate an orc's funeral by dressing up as an orc himself. To his horror, he then discovers the funeral rites include ''taking a bite from the deceased'', at which point he ends up bailing the funeral by slicing and slashing his way through the mourners.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has Gumball mistaking a pet funeral for a date with Penny, because she wanted some emotional support. He gives a very brief and uninterested eulogy and [[spoiler: is later attacked by the supposed dead pet, ending up in the hospital]].
--->'''Gumball:''' "Mr. Cuddles was Penny's pet. Even though I never met him, Penny's pretty hot. So I'm sure he was pretty hot too."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' even had an example of one of these: In one Slappy Squirrel short, Slappy's nemesis, Walter Wolf, is dead, and Slappy has to deliver the eulogy at his funeral. The twist is that Walter isn't really dead, and he's set up a bunch of booby-traps at the funeral for Slappy. Slappy finds out about this, and hilarity naturally ensues.
* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'', "Losing Nana Bishop" has Hoodsey eulogizing his late paternal grandmother. He happens to be wearing an iron mask that he and Carl got, but they lost the key. Also, the service is being held on a boat and the casket's cart is accidentally knocked loose, causing it to sway back-and-forth during an otherwise appropriate eulogy.
* The ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE51TheManWhoKilledBatman The Man Who Killed Batman]]" featured [[AntagonistInMourning the Joker truly mourning Batman]], placing a cape and cowl in a coffin, and then adding a "Kick Me" sign, causing Harley Quinn to observe "You know what's great about you, Puddin'? You really put the 'fun' in funeral." After an emotional eulogy, he [[spoiler:sticks the low-level guy held responsible for Batsy's death in the coffin and rolls it into a pit of acid.]] while Harley plays "Amazing Grace" on a kazoo (one of the funniest moments of the entire series; reportedly, the kazoo solo was done all in one take, as everyone was cracking up, making it impossible to do it again). And then he wipes away a tear and then [[MoodWhiplash perkily discusses dinner choices.]]
-->'''Joker''': Well, that was fun. Who's for Chinese?
* In ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', some of the highlights of Herb's funeral include:
** The actual way he died: Not from cancer, but from a car accident right after his cancer went into remission. He was tweeting while driving (about how good it is to be cancer free) and he slammed into a truck. It was not the crash that killed him, mind you, but the fact that the truck was full of peanuts and he was deadly allergic.
** The stars of the show he wrote ditching the wake to go on a convoluted treasure hunt... Which suddenly turns into the investigation of a ''murder''. [[spoiler: Although it turns out the murder part was just a huge misunderstanding.]]
** A whole bunch of people just coming in to mooch up to celebrities and network shamelessly. But when Herb's beloved friend, Creator/HenryWinkler (who never misses an opportunity to mention [[Series/HappyDays his most beloved role on tv]]... That one episode of Series/LawAndOrder) expresses disgust at this, Princess Carolyn, who never actually knew Herb, goes on to make up all sorts of over the top stories about her doing charity work with him well into the night.
** The great reveal: Herb's gold was actually the manuscript for his novel, which he hopes will become his legacy after he dies. It's terrible, and what looked like an odd mix of [[spoiler: ''murder and plagiarism'']] was actually a perfectly well intentioned attempt to stop the manuscript from being published and humiliating Herb.
---> '''[=BoJack=]''':''(reading out loud) "The carpenter's boy was a hungry boy, hungry for crumpets, but also hungry, dot dot dot, for life" ({{Beat}}) ... He literally wrote out "dot dot dot".''
** And the fun does not stop there!
*** After Princess Carolyn convinces everyone she was very close to Herb, she gets to keep his urn with his ashes (which has the same plaid pattern he had on his shirt). The urn shows up again several times throughout the series... And most of those times, it [[AshesToCrashes falls and breaks]].
*** Eventually, [=BoJack=] has an orphanage named after him... [[spoiler: but he sends them an email with a typo and the orphanage is named... "Jerb Kazzaz Orpahange"]]. Todd points out that Herb would have found it hilarious that [=BoJack=] could not even get that right.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "Wingmen", Robert Freeman is asked to read the eulogy, written by the deceased, at the funeral of a {{jerkass}} war buddy named Moe. He gets about halfway through, his voice increasingly incredulous, until he eventually gives up, speaks his mind, and finds out that nobody else really liked the guy either. [[spoiler:In the end, though, Granddad does show some affection, displaying his inheritance on the mantel even though it was really just one last prank.]]
-->'''Granddad:''' (Reading) "I'm not gay, but Moe Jackson was a very... sexy man...?" (Increasingly confused) "We used to call him 'Moe Bitches'"?? "I once saw Moe ''in his underwear...''"??? "...And it ''changed my life...''"!? "Everybody should have a father like Moe Jackson... Moe Jackson paid my rent ''over fifty times"?!! '''OKAY, THIS IS BULLSHIT!'''
* Ponce's funeral in his premiere episode of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' is played entirely for laughs, with his best friend JFK picking him up out of the coffin and punching him because he insists he's not really dead, and then jumping into the coffin next to him and closing the lid (only to pop out seconds later and state "I was in a coffin with a dead guy!" and run off screaming).
* There's great fun to be had in the funeral scene in ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'''s 16th episode, ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Girl Captain Girl]]''. "We are burying Captain Girl as a Mormon. Not because she was one, but because she hated Mormons and it would make her happy to bury one."
* ''WesternAnimation/DrKatzProfessionalTherapist'' features an episode called ''Mourning Person'' where Dr. Katz has to attend a funeral and give a eulogy. He confesses right away that he's not a "''mourning'' person", and finds something about funerals highly amusing. There's an extended scene where both Dr. Katz and his son Ben try very hard (and sort of fail) to keep their giddy laughter in check during the funeral.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'':
** In the episode "Pig Amock", the normally staid Cornfed, suffering from a familial genetic disease, suddenly becomes outrageously horny while giving a eulogy. This culminates in an attempt to [[BlackComedyRape sex up]] the widow upon hallucinating her scantily clad and wearing a "Pigs Welcome" sign. After he apologizes to everyone and runs off, Bernice fears there's something wrong with him, whereupon Duckman says, "Seemed perfectly normal to me."
** In "Love! Anger! Kvetching!", the episode ends with the burial of Duckman's horrific uncle, featuring a balsawood coffin and a song specially composed for the occasion:
--->"My name is Moe and I was an old man/It took me hours to go to the can/Time made me deaf, made it harder to see/Enlarged my prostate so I couldn't pee/I was a mean and vindictive old guy/Nobody liked me, not hard to see why/But Heaven can take me, it really still can/if all of you girls will sleep with Duckman!"
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' episode "The 87 Cent Solution!", Scrooge's [[spoiler:(fake)]] funeral is an appropriately somber affair...until [[ArchEnemy Glomgold]] crashes the event wearing a white sequined suit with dollar-sign-shaped shades, blasting DJ Khaled's "All I Do Is Win", throwing money around like he's at a strip club, and twerking at the corpse. He then attempts to climb on to Scrooge's casket to dance on it, but is stopped by his thoroughly-embarrased assistant.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E1PeterPeterCaviarEater Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater]]", Peter attends the funeral of one of Lois' relatives. When he learns she left her a vast inheritance, he starts ''dancing with the corpse''. The funniest part of this is when everybody stares in horror at what Peter's doing. His attempt at getting out of this is to drop the corpse and say "Oh my God. She's dead."
** In one of the cutaway gags involving Quagmire (more specifically the one in the episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS5E12Airport07 Airport '07]]" that was a DVD-exclusive scene), there is a funeral of a woman who was implied in the eulogy to have died a virgin, only for Quagmire to pop out of the coffin and dance away in his underwear, heavily implying that he [[ILoveTheDead committed necrophilia]] (on a side note, the DVD commentary for this episode stated that the censors only objected to this scene because ''the woman who died was a virgin'', not because of the heavily-implied necrophilia).
** During a near-death experience in "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS13E14Jolo #JOLO]]", Peter pictures his own funeral -- fat hula dancers flank his coffin, while three monkeys in bellhop costumes sing "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer". Meanwhile, all the mourners are eating soft pretzels, and a midget clown riding a dog throws a pie in Meg's face.
-->'''Lois''': I don't know either, kids. But this was your father's wish, so we're going to honor it.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'' short "[[Recap/MickeyMouseS2E18AFlowerForMinnie A Flower for Minnie]]", one of the areas where Mickey tries to take a flower with the intent to give it to Minnie is from a coffin at a funeral. He realizes what he is doing when he sees the shocked faces of the people attending the funeral and then sheepishly puts the flower back and says "He was a great man" to try and save face.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "[[Recap/FuturamaS3E17APharaohToRemember A Pharaoh to Remember]]", the gang stages a fake funeral for Bender, who listens in from his own casket. He's at first pleased, but grows more bitter ("'''LOUDER''' and '''SADDER'''!") before he erupts in anger.
-->'''Leela''': We did our best!\\
'''Bender''': Your best is an idiot!
** In the same episode, Bender admires an alien culture that devotes masses of slaves to things that glorify their leaders, and when ''his'' death comes around, there are some exaggerated ancient Egyptian-derived ceremonies (including a dump truck full of personal possessions from his garage), an Elton John-esque singer filking "Benny and the Jets" who is ''also'' thrown in, and, before all of that:
--->'''High Priest:''' We commend the body of Hermenthotip to the abode of the damned... The damned ''good-looking! '' ''[pause]'' Pharaoh commanded me to tell that joke at his funeral.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' had this happen in "Billy and Mandy's Jacked-Up Halloween", where a flashback showed the episode's villain Jack O'Lantern slipping a whoopie cushion into an open grave before the casket is lowered in. As soon as the coffin releases a flatulent noise after being lowered into the grave, the mourners are seen struggling to refrain from laughing.
* The ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Hereafter" has Superman apparently disintegrated. After a solemn memorial service, the rest of the League holding a wake on the Watchtower, sharing reminiscences including a funny story about Supes containing a grenade explosion in his bare hands. Then [[BoisterousBruiser Lobo]] shows up....
* The ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode, " A Fire Fighting We Will Go", Hank and his friends, Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer, act as pallbearers for Chet Elderson, a former firefighter. While taking the casket to the grave, Hank's glasses fell off him so he tries to pick them up. He trips and falls into the grave along with his friends, while Boomhauer tries to grab onto Chet Elderson's legs and accidentally ends up pantsing the poor guy's corpse.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': During "Hearts and Hooves Day", Sweetie Belle jumps on the back of a priest, noogies him, calls him "too old" for Cheerilee, and jumps away. During a musical number. ''With a coffin visible on the side of the screen.''
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''
** Creator/BennyHill's funeral was exactly like one of the sketches from his show (with the coffin being hidden, transported to different places, used as a sled and there was even a mourner dressed in a BlackBraAndPanties).
** Another sketch had Creator/DiabloCody delivering a long eulogy only for the deceased to come out of her coffin and question Diablo's presence and whether or not her mom even read the suicide note.
** Yet another had WesternAnimation/{{Casper}}'s cousin, Jasper the douchebag ghost, possessing the corpse at a funeral for some hijinks.
** In the first DC Comics speical, Superman, Batman, and Green Lantern attend the funeral of Captain Carrot of the Zoo Crew, and Green Lantern is trying his best not to laugh when he sees that the memebers of the Zoo Crew are all cartoon animals. Batman also lets out a snicker when he finds out that one member is a mouse named Little Cheese.
** The second DC Comics special sees Batman stop his eulogy for Green Arrow, much to the horror on those attending, and rant about how DeathIsCheap in the DC Universe, noting that Green Arrow will probably be back in some fashion considering everyone attending the funeral have themselves died and came back at some point. Not only do those in attendance applaud to this fact, [[spoiler:but sure enough, one of the people attending Green Arrow's funeral is ''Oliver Queen himself'', proving Bruce's point]].
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' features Ed Bighead having a mid-life crisis. Rocko eventually snaps him out of it by holding a fake funeral for him, complete with trash-can as a coffin and almost getting him buried in the Bigheads' back yard with cement.
-->'''Rocko:''' Ashes to ashes, dust to dust\\
We stick Ed Bighead in the Earth's crust.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Several:
** The most famous instance is "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E23HomersEnemy Homer's Enemy]]" which centered on the conflict between Homer and a new co-worker, Frank Grimes (a hard-working professional whose ethics conflict with Homer's gross inepitude and poor social graces). Eventually, Frank is killed after touching live electrical wires, and at the funeral, Homer falls asleep and mutters "Marge, change the channel!" The other funeral-goers and even Rev. Lovejoy to burst out laughing, and inspires Lenny to remark "That's our Homer!" The tombstone simply has "Grimey" written on it, Homer's nickname for Grimes which he himself despised; Lovejoy also referred to Grimes as "Grimey," as though he accepted the name with affection.
*** In a later episode, Homer is getting dressed for his wedding anniversary when he pulls out the program for Grimes' funeral ... and realizes he has completely forgotten who this guy is.
** Maude's funeral in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E14AloneAgainNaturaDiddily Alone Again, Natura-Diddily]]" had a 21 T-shirt Salute, rather tasteless given that Maude was killed by a t-shirt shot at her with one of their bazookas. Also, a later episode reveals that, off-screen, Homer fell in Maude's grave. "I saw a gopher! What a day!"
** After Krusty the Clown [[FakingTheDead fakes his death]] in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E15BartTheFink Bart the Fink]]", the town turns out for his funeral, at which Creator/BobNewhart is conscripted to provide the eulogy.
** And there's always Homer's mom, who asked that her ashes be thrown away at a certain point at a certain time. Of course, this was really part of her plan to stop Mr Burns from polluting the Amazon.
** The season four episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E13SelmasChoice Selma's Choice]]" (the one where Marge's Great-Aunt Gladys dies and Selma continues trying to have a baby before she hits menopause [which actually happened in a later episode]) actually had a funeral home sign that reads, "The Lucky Stiff Funeral Home -- We Put [[TropeNamer the 'Fun' in Funeral]]". Bart also scares Lisa into thinking the corpse is still talking.
** In one of the earliest episodes, "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS1E5BartTheGeneral Bart the General]]", Bart -- fearing a run-in with the feared bully, Nelson Muntz -- imagines his funeral. As the parade of mourners pass by, Nelson spots the cupcake that Lisa had just left on her brother's forehead, cheerfully remarks, "Hey, they've got food at this thing!" before grabbing it for himself, and then declares "Here's one for the road, dude!" before starting to thuggishly punch Bart's corpse.
** During ''Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow'' "shorts" era, there was "The Funeral," where Bart is (well) himself at his elderly Uncle Hubert's funeral. (Presumably this is Abe's brother or cousin.) First, Bart clenches his hands in sadistic anticipation of viewing Hubert's corpse at the visitation, only to collapse when he actually sees Hubert's body. Later, he helps "direct" the pallbearers to the gravesite, in preparation for the casket being lowered into the ground; a disgusted Homer grabs Bart before he can pull any other hijinks.
** At Bleeding Gums Murphy's funeral in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E22RoundSpringfield 'Round Springfield]]", Reverend Lovejoy refers to him as "Blood and Guts Murphy", mistakenly calls him a sousaphone player in the eulogy, and Homer uses the event to look for a hot dog vendor (who follows him everywhere, because Homer is apparently putting his kids through college). On a much sadder note, Lisa was the only mourner present (not counting her parents).
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E2TheWizardOfEvergreenTerrace The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace]]", Homer had an ImagineSpot about what his own funeral would be like if his life didn't amount to anything. While his friends are all successes (Lenny is President of the United States, Barney has multiple Oscars and Flanders is a Cardinal), his own body is placed in the back of a dump truck then thrown into the ground haphazardly. If that wasn't the worst part, his own family weren't in attendance, [[HumiliationConga they were among the only mourners there, along with the robot from "Lost in Space" and Heckle and Jeckle, his feet are left sticking out of his grave, the two birds mock him, calling him a sack of crap and then two dogs come by and start biting his feet.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
** "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E12ALadderToHeaven A Ladder to Heaven]]": Cartman drinks Kenny's ashes, mistaking them for chocolate milk mix.
** "[[Recap/SouthParkS5E6Cartmanland Cartmanland]]": At Cartman's grandmother's funeral, a crate is opened to release some doves... only to have them fall out, dead.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'':
** In "Past Tense", the Ventures crash their jet into a cemetery where a funeral is taking place, piercing the casket and dismembering the deceased. This is followed by plenty of humorous banter in the midst of the other funeral they're attending.
** In "Bot Seeks Bot", villains attend the funeral of Boggles The Clue Clown, an {{Expy}} of ComicBook/TheRiddler. He left one final [[RiddleMeThis riddle]] for his nemesis Captain Sunshine, about a "type of jack". When Sunshine can't unravel it, the answer is given by The Clue Clown's spring-loaded corpse erupting from the casket, with "a jack in the box" scrawled on a note pinned to his chest.
--->'''Dragoon:''' Too soon!
* ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' implies this offscreen. Nightcrawler is in bed with a cold and he accidentally teleports himself and Shadowcat somewhere every time he sneezes. He wakes up at the end to find a disheveled and enraged Kitty listing all the places he teleported her to - including a funeral.
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* ''Series/AlasSmithAndJones'' featured the 'drop something in the grave' variant. Or indeed ''several'' things. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgTNx50ehFY See it here]].
* In the late Irish comedian Dave Allen's sketch/stand-up show, he had a recurring sketch with apparently solemn funerals descending into farce, mostly ending in a race to the graveyard.
* ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' had Archie's friend Stretch Cunningham die, with Archie chosen against his will to deliver the eulogy. It's only at the funeral that Archie discovers that Stretch was Jewish...Bunker-esque HilarityEnsues with his improvised speech.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfQjE6D_dKw This]] ''Series/AlmostLive'' sketch.
* One episode of ''Series/TheArmandoIannucciShows'' involved the mortuary owner solemnly informing the bereaved that "We like to do a rodeo theme." Therefore, the eulogy was delivered while riding on the coffin, like one of those mechanical bulls.
* [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Murdock]] orchestrates Hannibal's fake funeral in ''Series/TheATeam'' episode, "[[Recap/TheATeamS3E15TheBigSqueeze The Big Squeeze]]". He stops Face and B.A. at the door and demands to know if they are "friends of the bride, or the groom?" Then he gives a eulogy about how Hannibal (rather, the restaurant owner he was masquerading as) "graced our lives like an avocado salad." He ''then'' takes things UpToEleven by playing a ''very'' melancholy version of ''Take Me Out to the Ballgame'' on the organ!
* ''Series/Avenue5'': In the second episode, the crew and passengers have a funeral for Joe by placing him in a coffin and ejecting it into space... but the coffin's weight means it doesn't get enough momentum and is stuck in orbit around the ship, leaving everyone to watch as it constantly circles them. Later, they have another funeral for some passengers who died from wounds sustained in the original accident, and try to solve the problem they had with Joe by using lightweight coffins and bursts of compressed air to push them past the ship's gravity well. But the gravity gets reset just as they're launched, robbing them of that momentum and leaving them also orbiting the ship.
* In ''Series/{{Awkward}}'', Ricky Schwartz's funeral (or more accurately, his shiva) shows several of Ricky's heretofore unknown paintings, including a self portrait of himself as a pimp with several scantily clad women around him and several paintings of women with huge breasts, apparently inspired by his busty female family members, and the fact that he was breastfed until he was 8. Jenna also eats some of the apparently awful-tasting food, which led to her spitting it into a nicely decorated vase...that turned out to by Ricky's urn. His candlelight vigil turns into a drunken WildTeenParty, but not before several girls (and some guys) reveal that Ricky broke their hearts and they hated him.
* ''Back To You'' had both the eulogy issues and a guy losing his cell in the coffin (he was trying to photograph the corpse).
* ''Series/{{Bones}}'':
** "The Double Death of the Dearly Departed" involved Brennan stealing the body, Booth handcuffing the mortician to the coffin, Hodgins watching Brennan and Booth carrying (and dropping) the body whilst giving a speech to guests who are oblivious to everything happening outside, Cam placing her sunglasses on the corpse, and culminated in tricking the murderer into confessing.
** And ''Booth'' singing! (It's epic and really weird. But... Mostly Epic.)
** A somewhat more subdued funeral for [[spoiler: Vincent Nigel-Murray]] in "Hole In the Heart" had Brennan lead the rest of the team in singing the deceased's favorite song, "The Lime in the Coconut". The same thing (and song) happens for [[spoiler: Dr. Lance Sweets]] when they’re scattering [[spoiler: his]] ashes as that was also [[spoiler: his]] favorite song.
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' had a variation where the sisters had faked their deaths and were holding a wake for themselves. Annoyed that so few people were mourning her, Paige cast a spell on herself to look like Janice Dickinson and give a tearful speech on how Paige was Janice's only real friend. And Phoebe tried to pick up a guy who was mourning her.
* ''Series/TheCloser'' had Flynn and Provenza in "Saving Face" dropping a casket, revealing a half naked woman and Flynn and Provenza decided to send the casket on to the burial. During the burial, Brenda showed up and interrupted the burial to get the casket and the body as evidence.
* ''Series/{{Community}}'' had the episode [[Recap/CommunityS5E11GIJeff "G.I. Jeff"]], where Jeff has a fever dream where he and the Study Group are a part of Franchise/GIJoe. Jeff, as Wingman, in his attempt to stop Destro from escaping, shoots at Destro's parachute, destroying it and sending Destro to his death. At Destro's funeral, naturally as a {{deconstruction}} of [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero the cartoon]], things go off the rails with Cobra Commander trying to deliver a eulogy, before devolving into the Commander lamenting he's never had to do it before and ranting about the death after years of ATeamFiring, getting interrupted by Vice Cobra Assistant Commander (Dean Pelton dressed as a version of Cobra Commander) calling, a now pissed-off Commander admitting to loving Destro, and Zartan muttering "Called it!" under his breath after said admission.
* A Season 5 episode of ''Series/CornerGas'' has Oscar and Wanda crash funerals together for different reasons (Wanda does it to skip work. Oscar does it because Emma gets a job and he doesn't want to have to make his own food). Wanda later puts out sandwiches stolen from the funeral at her kid's birthday party.
* In ''Series/{{Coupling}}'', the gang spend most of Jane's aunt's funeral reception desperately trying to stay clear of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iKjkPgVQcE Giggle Loop]]. This is [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Jeff's]] name for the situation in which someone trying not to laugh at an inappropriate moment finds the situation of trying not to laugh ''funny'', so setting off said feedback loop. The concept is illustrated throughout by an increasingly precarious stack of pint glasses.
** Additionally, while Jeff, Steve, and Patrick are all about to choke on their laughter, it was ''Jane'' who was the first to break[[note]]This was unexpected, since only the boys had discussed the Giggle Loop[[/note]].
* In ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'' episode "The 5 Wood", Larry tries to retrieve his golf club from the casket. In the episode "The Special Section", he tries to have his mother moved to a Jewish cemetery despite her being refused a burial.
* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'':
** The control-freak Bree changes her dead husband's tie in the middle of the service.
** During the aftermath of the tornado in the 4th season Gabrielle causes havoc in Carlos's accountant's wake while trying to find the right documents of her husband's foreign bank account.
* ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'': Dharma climbs into Greg's grandmother's casket to get her ring.
* Season Five, Episode 2 of ''Series/DocMartin'' plays this to the hilt with Joan's funeral. The hearse is late, the guests are weird[[note]]er than normal[[/note]], the pall-bearers drop the coffin, Martin turn's Joan's eulogy into a medical case history presentation-cum-public health lecture, the local police constable bemoans dealing with simple heart attacks and not something exciting, someone's mobile phone goes off playing "things can only get better" as a ring-tone. The usual for [[QuirkyTown Portwenn]] really.
* ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'': During the Coy and Vance era, there was "Ding Dong, the Boss is Dead," where the Dukes orchestrate a fake funeral for Boss Hogg when they learn a paroled mobster, sent to prison on Boss' testimony, is out for murderous revenge. Things become complicated when the mobster -- who had continually called Boss to remind him he was coming for him -- shows up at Boss' wake to "pay his last respects."
* ''Series/FamilyMatters'' Carl mistakenly throws out Harriet's aunt's ashes and replaces them with fireplace ashes.
* ''Series/FamilyTies'': The third season episode "Auntie Up" features Mallory's favorite aunt, Trudy Harris, dying of a heart attack in the living room. Mallory is deeply saddened, but the family is preoccupied with a garage sale at the house (for Alex's fraternity); a wake is held at the Keatons on the same day as the garage sale, and naturally hilarity ensues. Eventually, everyone is able to take Mallory seriously when she speaks up at the funeral and delivers an emotional eulogy.
* In ''Series/FatherTed'', the dim-witted Father Dougal volunteers to perform a funeral ceremony in Ted's absence. When Ted discovers this, he goes into a blind panic and yells at Mrs. Doyle who really should have stopped him. Cut to the funeral, where ambulance sirens are blaring, most of the mourners are being treated at the scene, a burning hearse lies wedged in the grave and Dougal in the middle of it all going, "Sorry about that." [[EveryCarIsAPinto And then the hearse explodes.]]
-->'''Ted:''' '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJhbP4q32vs DOUGAL'S DOING A FUNERAL?! ''YOU LET DOUGAL DO A FUNERAL?!]]'''''
* On ''Frank's Place'', an old guy died, and two of his friends took the body from the funeral parlor for a last night out together...then they forgot where they left the body.
* The title character of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' played the Reluctant Eulogist for his aunt whom he openly wishes is in Hell. Unable to think of one positive thing to say about her, he decides to stage a musical number instead. At one point in the episode, Niles spills her ashes all over himself attempting to get the urn open.
** "She's such a groovy lady, she makes my heart go hide-y hade-y!"
* ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' did something right with this one; Will's yelling at his uncle's {{Jerkass}} [[TheRival political rival]] leads him to have a heart attack. When his funeral comes around, [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing all the mourners turn out to hate him]] (for very good reasons, mind you: for example, one of them was a Mexican gardener whom the rival hired to tend his garden and when it was time to pay, ''called Immigration'') and most of them have showed up to make sure he is actually dead. Will -- wracked by guilt -- yells at them all for it, saying they should respect the dead, but when they ask who he is, he answers "I'm the dude that killed him" and receives rapturous applause. "Tough room."
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'':
** In a season 1 episode, Ross' and Monica's maternal grandmother dies of old age and of course, many things happen; Ross takes too many painkillers after hurting himself falling in an open grave and spends the funeral high as a kite, Chandler (whose main goal this episode is proving his heterosexuality) is mistaken for gay by a couple of cute girls after the high Ross says that it's okay if he's gay, and Joey is watching a football game on a portable TV and most of the males at the funeral ends up joining him, including Ross' and Monica's dad.
** Then there's Phoebe's grandmother's funeral. "Welcome. Here are your 3D glasses..."
* This is the entire premise of the British comedy series ''Fun at the Funeral Parlour''.
* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'':
** They did this for when Dorothy's six foot, three hundred pound, '''cross dressing''' (but straight) brother Phil dies. His wife has him dressed in a teddy to be buried and Sophia gives the priest an exaggerated story of how smart and gifted Phil was. Dorothy tries to fix the problem Sophia makes by telling the priest. The priest responds with that he can just look at a person to know about them. HilarityEnsues. Taken even further when four shapely, black-clad and veiled figures show up at the funeral; they weren't sluts, they were Phil's poker buddies.
** In another episode, despised neighbor Frieda Claxton dies of a sudden heart attack after Rose tells her to "drop dead!" Mrs. Claxton has no family to take care of the final arrangements, so to assuage Rose's guilt, the housemates undertake the matter. The only person who attends besides the four main characters is a woman who gives a beautiful eulogy...then realizes she's at the wrong funeral. When she finds out whose funeral it really is, she kicks the coffin. Then the funeral home cremates Mrs. Claxton by mistake.
* The short-lived Howie Mandel sitcom on Fox, ''Series/GoodGrief'', which took place in a funeral home.
* When a cast member in ''Series/GregTheBunny'' died on stage, it turns out his will was to have his funeral be a cocktail party. HilarityEnsues.
* ''Series/HappyDays'': The fifth-season, two-part episode "Fonzie's Funeral" had the Cunninghams stage a fake funeral for Fonzie to put him into protection from a mob whose leader, The Candyman, is wanted for robbery, money laundering, extortion, and counterfeiting (after Fonzie had gone to the police with $100 bills found in a hearse he was repairing). At Fonzie's "funeral" visitation, series' regulars and memorable guests saying their "farewells," and "Fonzie's mother" (Fonzie in drag) comforts the survivors. (The "funeral" allows the Cunninghams time to hatch a plan to catch The Candyman and his goons.)
* In ''Series/HomeImprovement'', when Al's mom dies in the final season, Tim ends up delivering the eulogy, which of course means that it includes a HurricaneOfPuns regarding her weight (she was Tool Time's biggest fan, etc). But the last laugh comes indirectly from Wilson, when he starts calling the list of pall bearers. It was awfully long because he'd reached about ten names and was still going at fade-out.
* In an episode of ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'', Munch organises and attends the funeral of his ex-wife's much-hated mother, a literary critic. The only people who attend are Munch, his ex-wife, a shill who has been paid to sit in the front row and wail at the top of her lungs and the author Peter Maas, who has only turned up to make sure that she's dead owing to a bad review she gave of one of his works. Munch later ends up giving her a flattering, if tactfully-phrased, eulogy in front of his co-workers at a Christmas party later in the episode.
* An episode of ''Series/HotInCleveland'' features the gals crashing a funeral in order to obtain a rare copy of "Soap Opera Digest" which featured Victoria. Such things as climbing into the coffin, losing a ring, and believed the deceased was in fact murdered all occur.
* In ''Series/{{House}}'', the titular character is forcibly taken to his father's funeral, and has to deliver the eulogy. (He hated his father and didn't want to go.) He uses this as a chance to get a piece of his father's skin to subject to a DNA test, which confirms his long-standing suspicion that the man was not his biological father. He also comments on his father's weak qualities in the eulogy, and says that 'if he was a better father, maybe I'd have been a better son'.
** By the end of the speech, though, it's touched on touching. House says, essentially, that the person he is -- good and bad -- is because of his father.
** Wilson also ups the wackiness factor by breaking a stained glass window at the funeral home, goaded by House, of course.
--->'''House:''' ''Still'' not boring.
** And in the series finale, at House's own funeral, most of the mourners stand up and say something nice about House. Wilson tries, but eventually breaks down and admits that House was an ass, and his death proves it: he selfishly died in a narcotics-induced haze, leaving everyone else to pick up the pieces. At this point a cell phone starts ringing, and Wilson goes on a tirade about that ... before discovering it's ''his'' cell phone, with a text message "SHUT UP YOU IDIOT". [[spoiler: It's from House, who actually isn't dead.]]
* Barney in ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' claims that his funeral is the only time he won't be wearing a suit because suits are happy garments...a suit is the sartorial equivalent of a baby's smile.
--> '''Barney:''' Open bar for the guys, open casket for the ladies!\\
'''Everyone:''' (on way out of room) That's disgusting...\\
'''Marshall:''' (last to leave room) Dude, that's awesome!
* ''Series/TheITCrowd'':
** One episode of the main trio mucking up the funeral of [[spoiler: their boss, Mr. Reynholm]], including Moss relating the death to losing a pen, Roy feeling like a he suffered a heart attack and cursing loudly only to realize it was just his souped-up cell phone, and the deceased's long lost son [[spoiler: Douglas]] barging in, screaming [[IncomingHam FAAAAATHEEEEEERRRRRRR!!!]] atop of his lungs, knocking over the coffin and having a sissy slap fight with the priest.
** Another episode explains that Richmond was moved from his executive office to the IT department's server room during the culmination of his transformation from Yuppie to Goth, at which point he showed up at the funeral of Denholm's father wearing a creepy goth outfit (Complete with face paint), and gave Denholm's grieving mother a Cradle of Filth CD.
* In ''Series/TheJeffersons'' episode "Not So Dearly Beloved," George is railroaded into giving the eulogy for an employee he despised, and as he delivers a euphemism-laden eulogy, voiceovers reveal the attendees' thoughts, leading to a silent "roast" of sorts as everyone remembers the way the deceased screwed them over. The funeral reaches a climax as George bobbles the urn and nearly spills it all over the attendees.
* In the pilot of ''Series/KindredTheEmbraced'', Sasha comes in late to her grandfather's funeral, follows Julian's eulogy with SarcasticClapping, then declares that she would've been tempted to have sex with the deceased if they hadn't been related. She settles for pulling the corpse out of the coffin and giving it a kiss in front of her horrified relatives.
* In the ''Series/LALaw'' episode "Izzy Ackerman or Is He Not," a pallbearer at the titular character's funeral can't handle the casket, and it falls. The body tumbles out, and the videotape of the proceedings reveals that the body isn't Izzy's -- turns out the funeral home accidentally switched bodies, and sent Izzy off to be dissected. Leland manages to get the pieces of Izzy's body back from the various medical schools and research labs to which they were sent. It culminates in Izzy's head being shipped from a Florida med school and delivered to [=McKenzie=]-Brackman's offices. Two of Izzy's friends peer into the foam cooler to verify that the head is indeed Izzy's, resulting in this exchange:
--> "He looks good."
--> "Why ''shouldn't'' he look good? He just came back from Florida!"
* The cast of ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' spends an episode hiding from authorities in an Ohio funeral parlor. The director has them attend to a grieving family -- unwisely, for as Xev puts it, "we're from a parallel universe, and people there are mostly put in the protein bank and fed to a giant insect."
--> '''Stan''': Hey folks, come on in. The old lady's laid out over there in the box. She's all drained and preserved, just the way you wanted. Just come on over and do your boo hoo hoo thing to your heart's content. ...So how old was she when she finally blasted off? Looks like about a hundred standard years to me -- you know, that's a nice long run. You must have a lot of memories invested in the old skin sack.
* In ''Series/LifeInPieces'', John decides that having a funeral themed party for his [=70th=] birthday party would be fun way to hear the sort of things his family and friends would say at his actual funeral. Greg rips of
* In a rather meta skit from ''Series/LimmysShow'', Limmy is seen in a writer's room pitching various characters. All of his characters play with Main/FeeFiFauxPas and Main/{{Sitcom}}, but there is a trend of unoriginality as he can't quite situate them in specific scenes. With each idea, he says the character could turn up somewhere inappropriate like a funeral. The punchline of the joke is a scene set at a funeral combining all his characters.
--> '''Drunk Woman:''' (Tripping over the coffin) [=ARghHAHAHAahzzzz!!=]
--> '''Soaking Man:''' Oh my god!
--> '''Drunk Woman:''' (Rocking the coffin) Knock knock! Who's there?
--> '''Man With An Overbite:''' What's the ploblem?
--> '''Waiter:''' Do you want this mushroom?
* ''Series/MadMen'': The funeral for Roger Sterling's mother in the season 6 premiere. There's food getting sent over by Bob Benson in an attempt to impress Roger, Don getting so drunk off his ass that he vomits the moment a touching speech given by one of Roger's mother's friends ends, forcing Pete, Harry, and Ken to get him out, all culminating in Roger kicking everbody out when Mona brings in her new husband to pay respects.
* ''Series/MamasFamily'' had several examples.
** At Aunt Fran's funeral at the beginning of Season 3, Vint slams the hearse door, causing the casket to slide out and roll down the interstate on-ramp, while Bubba eats all the food at the wake, thinking it was a coming-home party for him.
** In another episode, the family goes to Uncle Oscar's funeral and scatters his ashes on a lake, only to have a water-skier slalom through them.
** In yet another, Mama has a dream about her own funeral, where everyone gets bored and decides to leave to go bowling instead.
* Something similar happened on an episode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', with the ashes of Marcy's aunt being used in Al's grill.
* ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'': The classic "funeral" episode, and widely hailed as the funniest sitcom episode ''ever'', is "Chuckles the Clown Bites the Dust." Aired early in the show's sixth season, Chuckles, the host of WJM-TV's children's show, is killed during a freak incident at a circus parade; an elephant goes wild and during the rampage, Chuckles -- dressed as a peanut -- is caught in the chaos, knocked down and trampled beneath the pachyderm's weight. When the death is announced, Mary had berated her fellow co-workers for not taking Chuckles' death seriously and instead laughing at the silly circumstances of his death; "He was dressed as a peanut and the elephant tried to shell him," remarks one. Then, when the funeral takes place, Mary suddenly breaks out in uncontrollable hysterics ... and then the priest presiding tells her that, as a clown, Chuckles would ''want'' her to laugh, at which point she starts bawling uncontrollably instead..
* On ''Series/{{Monk}}'''s {{pilot}} episode, Monk drops his keys into the casket from a balcony seat, and proceeds to attempt to fetch them by lowering a paper-clip on a string into the casket. He accidentally hooks the corpse's sleeve, causing it to "wave" to the mourners.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' once features a hearse painted all black on one side and black with lots of flower decorations on the other. It also has a funeral where a priest gets shot with [[FailedASpotCheck a large and very obvious cannon poking out of the grave]].
* In the ''Series/MotherAndSon'' episode "The Funeral", Maggie stops the funeral procession to buy a large bag of oranges from a roadside fruit stall, which end up spilling into the grave after the bag gets ripped open.
* ''Series/MurphyBrown'':
** In one episode, Murphy must eulogize a rival with whom she exchanged pranks.
** In another episode, she's asked to eulogize a crew member who apparently adored her, but whom she can't remember a thing about. (The crew member is later proven to be fictitious; the other characters were trying to make a point about her treating the crew as if they were invisible.)
** In a third episode, she and Frank are flying somewhere when the aircraft almost crashes; they pass out (due to oxygen deprivation?) and dream of their own funerals. Murphy receives an awful eulogy and Frank's ashes are spilled and swept under a carpet.
*** "Now look at me. Dead! In a dickie!"
* In ''Series/TheMusketeers'', only [[spoiler: Aramis, Porthos, D'Artagnan and Treville]] knew that [[spoiler: Athos]] wasn't really dead but had to fake it for their plan to [[spoiler: catch Milady and Cardinal Richelieu]] to work. While [[spoiler: Treville]] attempted to be solemn as he delivered the eulogy, [[spoiler: Aramis and Porthos]] were snarking behind him.
* In ''Series/MyFamily'', a patient of Ben's dies just after telling him he's been having an affair. It later emerges that for the years it had been going on, he was telling his wife that he was going golfing with Ben, leading her to believe they were much closer than they actually were and asking him to give the eulogy. Throughout the episode, Ben tries to keep what is going on from Susan, while both the wife and mistress keep visiting him to talk about the patient, leading Susan to become suspicious that ''he'' is having an affair. This culminates in her bursting into the funeral, Ben blurting out the truth, and then declarations of "He loved me!" from the man's wife, mistress... and boyfriend.
* ''Series/MyHero'' had an episode where Thermoman's BizarreAlienBiology acting up led to his secret identity, George Sunday, being thought dead by everyone. The idea was that he'd sit up in the coffin during the ceremony before his cremation and make [[SmugSnake Dr. Piers Crispin]] look like an idiot (which isn't particularly difficult). Two things combined to put it under this trope: a sudden attack of that same BAB problem that caused all this in the first place, and a B-plot featuring Mrs. Raven fusing therapeutic and stage hypnosis. HilarityEnsues:
-->'''Vicar''': One...\\
'''Ella''': Take me now my stallion Stanley, ravage me you raving beast! (Out of character as all hell)\\
...\\
'''Vicar''': Two...\\
'''Stanley''': [[Franchise/SpiderMan That is my gift, that is my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-Man]]!\\
...\\
'''Vicar''': Three...\\
'''Piers''': <[[HypnoFool chicken noises]]>\\
'''Mrs. Raven''': Shame he won't get to four!\\
...\\
'''Vicar''': These are the things we will remember this good man for.\\
'''Janet's Parents, Arnie, and Piers''': (complete with the dance) [[Music/VillagePeople YMCA...It's fun to stay at the YMCA]]\\
...\\
(BizarreAlienBiology is acting up, so George hasn't sat up on schedule, and Janet is trying to stop the coffin from entering the [[BuffySpeak furnace cremation...thing]])\\
'''Priest''': She's got [[TheStrengthOfTenMen the strength of ten]]!\\
'''The Same Four As Before''': (Start doing the Chicken Dance. Mrs. Raven falls out of her seat laughing)
* ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'',:
** In an episode Earl tries to make up for accidentally kidnapping a guy. Problem is, the guy is dead (as a result of a [[MurphysBed mishap]] involving a Murphy Bed.) Earl decides to throw a funeral for him. Which is a noble thing to do, except he didn't really know the guy, and the deceased doesn't seem to have any friends or family. Earl invites all of Camden, who treat it as a party and not a funeral. (And Darnell is less than pleased to find that his favorite purple tux has been placed on the deceased.) [[spoiler: It turns out that Josh did have friends, but they were all online. And they help Earl throw a proper funeral.]]
** Another episode involved Earl's ex-girlfriend FakingTheDead to get back at Earl for doing likewise to her.
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'':
** One episode had Joel and the [[RobotBuddy 'bots]] lying in faux-coffins, discussing their ideal funerals after watching the boring one held in ''The Gunslinger''. Servo can't decide between something educational that explains his embalming methods, or a circus-like extravaganza ("I want elephants, Joel, lots of them"). Crow on the other hand wants a beach-themed funeral, complete with kegger, "couples sneaking off to neck, prop me up so I can surf!"
** In the final episode of the revival season, for the Invention Exchange Max presents the Rip Taylor Urn Cannon, which fires ashes like confetti, designed to make funerals more interesting.
* In ''Series/TheNeighbors'', everyone in the neighborhood attended their gardeners funeral, and most of the aliens haven't attended a funeral or know about death so they made several weird acts like a stand up comedy, or lighting fireworks.
* After Nick's Dad dies in ''Series/NewGirl'', his mother enlists him to organise the funeral service. His father always wanted an ''Music/ElvisPresley'' themed funeral. Nick struggles to coordinate the event and drunkenly arrives at the funeral with a barfly dressed as Elvis. Nick's mother is about to end the service prematurely when Jess steps in to save the day. Dressed in the Elvis costume, she saunters down the aisle singing 'In The Ghetto.' She manages to lift the spirits of everyone attending and they all join in to sing, even Nick's mother.
* On ''Series/NewsRadio'' Dave eulogizes an obscure employee he knows nothing about. And who turns out to have been an asshole. And a Klan member. Bill [=McNeil=]'s funeral episode falls under this as well, seeing as most of the episode is about Matthew talking nonsense about hidden messages about Raven's, wondering what the contents of Catherine's private message was, and general lighthearted treatment of it, save from a downer moment or two.
* ''Series/NightCourt'':
** One episode featured a case where a funeral director decided he would in his words "[[TropeNamer put the fun back in funeral]]" including a bumper sticker on the casket saying "I'd rather be breathing".
** Another episode ("Baby Talk") featured the ashes of the late Herb being kept by Harry. Problem was that Art mistook the label for herbal tea and used it to test the coffeemaker, leading to the hilarious line, "Art, this wasn't herb tea! This was ''Herb''!", followed immediately by them both turning to Dan, at the coffeemaker, with the mug to his lips.
* ''Series/NorthernExposure'': Maggie's most recent boyfriend was killed when a communications satellite landed on him. The satellite fused with the deceased, and the coffin had to be specially built to hold the whole thing.
* ''Series/OneLifeToLive''. As she lay dying, beloved heroine Megan Gordon insisted that everyone come to her funeral dressed in brightly colored clothing and that the music be upbeat. To that end, at the service, one of her doctors led the attendees in a rendition of "Dancing In The Street", which had been her favorite song.
* ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' featured an episode where Del Boy and Rodney buy a couple of urns from Trigger. One of them turns out to have the ashes of Trigger's grandfather, Arthur, in it. The entire episode centers on Del and Rodney trying ever more ridiculous ways to dispose of the ashes, while genuinely trying to be thoughtful. At one point, Rodney's grandfather sits up talking to the ashes, while Del responds, pretending to be Arthur. Eventually the ashes are accidentally sucked up by a street-cleaning machine; after some initial horror, Del and Rodney reflect that maybe Arthur would have wanted it that way, since he was a road sweeper. Then they find out that [[spoiler: there are more ashes in the other urn; Trigger's grandmother married twice]].
** A more good natured case in "Strained Relations", which featured Grandad's funeral to coincide with his actor Leonard Pearce's passing. While the episode is fittingly poignant and respectful, it is characteristically laden with a few light hearted gags and hiccups. In particular, one moving scene has Del Boy put what is supposedly Grandad's trademark hat inside his grave to be buried with him, only for the priest to later ask where his hat has gone.
** In part 2 of the 2001-3 Christmas trilogy, Del Boy and Rodney decide to give their beloved Uncle Albert a burial at sea, by scattering his ashes from the boat they were on (Albert was, before, during and after the war at separate points in the past in both the Merchant and Royal Navy). After doing so, they notice Rodney's wife Cassandra's contraceptive tablets at the bottom of the urn, where Del Boy's son Damien had hidden them as a joke, resulting in Cassandra getting pregnant while they were all dirt poor. As well as desecrating his great uncles ashes, Damien also [[CrossesTheLineTwice used the urn as target practice for his toy NERF gun]].
* ''Series/PeepShow'' features an episode where Jez's religious uncle dies, but his atheist sister provides a secular funeral for him, prompting Jez to go on a long, {{Metaphorgotten}} rant about the musician Enya instead of giving a eulogy:
-->If I was dying and I wasn't particularly into Enya before, but that now I really really was into Enya and I thought Enya was great, and that Enya died for our sins, and I wanted an Enya-themed funeral with pictures of Enya and lots and lots of mentions of Enya, then I'd think it a bit bloody rich for my sister to ban all mentions of Enya, yeah?
* In ''Series/RepublicOfDoyle'', Jake catches the urn containing the ashes of a client's dead husband... and holds it upside down.
* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' casts a spell to visit her own funeral in the future. Her boss Annie can be seen texting and looking bored, Morgan muses that the coroner wasn't wearing a wedding ring and Sabrina asks Amanda (who came with her) to make sure to not bury her with her bra straps showing.
* ''Series/SavedByTheBell: The College Years'' had a professor die and at the funeral Dean [=McMahon=] accidentally drops her phone into the casket and her arm gets stuck in it just when she's forced to give a eulogy.
** Zack actually interrupts the funeral - telling everyone that the professor wouldn't have wanted them to sit around and be sad, but instead to live life to the fullest. He even suggests they all go outside and play a game. After Zack promises to honor his professor by enjoying life before rushing off, [=McMahon=] criticizes his lack of respect... [[HypocriticalHumor just as her phone - still in the casket - rings]].
* ''Series/SchittsCreek'':
** The first season episode "Carl's Funeral" in which Johnny Rose is invited to give the eulogy for a townie he did not know. This leads to a comic monologue by Creator/EugeneLevy that devolves into Johnny melting down and describing what a hell the Roses's lives have become since moving to the town. Moira, who had told Johnny about a similar experience she had had at the funeral of a former co-worker and how she had sung her way out of it, breaks into "Danny Boy" to save Johnny.
** In the sixth season, Johnny, Roland and Stevie think they are going to view a motel they are interested in purchasing but arrive at the former owner's open casket funeral. Initially, Roland starts lying to save face, but Johnny shows CharacterDevelopment by telling the truth to the owner's widow and apologizing. Turns out she and her husband knew Stevie's aunt and she invites them in to pay their respects.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' has J.D. attending the funeral of one of his patients and ending up having sex with the widow, prompting him to quip "there's a lot of ways to grieve, but last time I checked, wheelbarrow style wasn't one". In another episode, Turk attends the funeral of one of the patients, but forgets the man's name(his wife tries to jog his memory by moving her head like a ''Bob''blehead, but he doesn't get it) and accidentally mentions how bored he is too loudly. Another occasion has J.D imagine his ''own'' funeral during the funeral of a co-worker, in which he has had the choir singing "Party All The Time" and himself positioned upright in his own coffin with his arms wide open; his last request being a final hug from his own co-workers. Upon receiving a hug from Dr. Cox, he reveals that he has in fact faked his own death ''solely to receive a hug from Cox''. Cox ends up breaking his neck and ''actually'' killing him. "Then we'd have my real funeral."
** Dr. Murphy, already the cause of many death-related jokes, also appears as "the guy that is completely inappropriate" by telling the co-workers uncle that he did her autopsy. Later on, he wonders if he left his cellphone inside her.
** During the same episode, J.D. is singing "It's A Beautiful Morning" [[MoodWhiplash before Carla reminds him where they are.]]
* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'':
** George has to get a copy of his girlfriend's father's death certificate to qualify for an airline fare discount. He fails to acquire this and tries to substitute a picture of him with the coffin, to no avail.
** There's also "The Susie". The concept of having a funeral for a fictional person is funny enough, but made even more funny by the fact that J. Peterman somehow has the idea that he slept with Susie on the job and bring it up during the eulogy, AND that minor character Mike Moffit bursts into the funeral to say Susie didn't commit suicide, but was murdered by Jerry Seinfeld (long story).
* An episode of ''Series/SisterSister'' has Lisa going to a funeral for a woman she didn't like. Just before she goes, she chips a tooth, goes to a slightly inattentive dentist, and enters the service doped up on laughing gas. HilarityEnsues and the service ends with Lisa leading the guests in a round of an upbeat hymn while Ray cowers with embarrassment. (Note that this is technically not possible, as laughing gas's effect ends within minutes of ceasing intake.)
* ''Series/SixFeetUnder'' occasionally featured realistic versions of this. The biker funeral resembled a massive party while the funeral of a gay guy featured a small opera skit complete with stage and costumes.
** In addition, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc2ThRnNuz0&feature=related one of the spoof funeral supply commercials]] in the Pilot had the product being advertised with the song "Shake Your Booty" playing, dancers dancing and the announcer saying that it "Puts the fun, back in the funeral". The actual product appears during Nathaniel Sr.'s funeral which is anything ''but'' fun. [[spoiler: Except for Nathaniel Sr. himself maybe]].
** In "A Private Life," Nate goes to pick up a body in an abandoned building, and finds a candle-lit trail of photos with captions by the psychotic Billy, culminating in a covered body and leading Nate to assume he's committed suicide. Nate pulls back the cover, whereupon Billy jumps up and yells "Gotcha!" When Nate [[DudeNotFunny fails to see the humour]] in his prank, Billy says, "If you mix up the letters in 'funeral' you get 'real fun.'"
* Following Oliver's death in Season 1 of ''Series/SlingsAndArrows'', Geoffrey goes to view his body. As he lays his copy of ''Hamlet'' in the casket, Oliver opens his eyes and starts lecturing Geoffrey, who hisses "Shut up!" at him when someone else approaches. Later, at the memorial service, all goes well with people telling amusing stories about Oliver - until Geoffrey gets on. His initially touching speech eventually devolves into a rant about the New Burbage theatre festival. The memorial service ends when a fire-and-brimstone preacher delivers a sermon about how the theatre is Satan's trap for the unwary and gay people (like Oliver) are going to hell, at which point Anna pulls the fire alarm.
* One episode of Creator/GeneWilder's short lived sitcom ''Series/SomethingWilder'' had him returning to a wake twice (for a total of three visits) due to something involving the tie of the deceased as well.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "The Next Phase", Geordi [=LaForge=] and Ro Laren are presumed dead in a TeleporterAccident (in reality, they have become [[IntangibleMan "out of phase"]] due to a Romulan device). Data is put in charge of planning the funeral, but Worf tells him that in Klingon culture, when a friend like Geordi has died, and earned a place among the honored dead, it is a time to celebrate. So, in the spirit of the New Orleans example below, Data throws a bouncy, jazzy wake. [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral When they show up]], [[CultureClash Ro is shocked]] and Geordi is amused. Of course, when the pair are rescued from that state right at the shindig, they tell the gang to keep going considering they really have something to celebrate now.
* In the ''Studio C'' sketch, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3WSFVxQW1A "Dead Wedding,"]] this trope is at play when a guy who wants to plan for his wedding accidentally meets a funeral planner expecting to help someone plan his grandmother's funeral.
* On the Season 11 finale of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', before Dean heads off to commit a HeroicSacrifice, he tells everyone he wants his funeral to have an open bar, a Music/BlackSabbath cover band, and Creator/GaryBusey giving the eulogy.
* ''That 80's Show:'' When "Silverpants", a regular at the club, dies from, er, his excessive lifestyle, Corey is asked to hold an euology in the misassumption that they were best friends. Not only doesn't anyone know anything about him (other than him being a very dedicated partygoer) or even ''his name'', but the regulars can only list his various bad habits and jerkish acts (such as copping feels and blaming others for it) for Corey to build the euology on. In the end, the euology lists every nasty detail he's dug up, but ambiguously worded to sound like positive qualities.
** DarkMagicalGirl Tuesday eventually saves him with a pre-made eulogy at the last minute.
* On ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' Dick is asked to eulogize a hated professor. Oddly enough, because Dr. Hamlin knew everyone hated him, he asked Dick because he was the only one who would say it to his face. He didn't want a eulogy that wasn't about him. Inverted somewhat in that Dick's eulogy is actually very moving to the audience because he simply relates the bare facts.
-->'''Dick:''' How can we honor the memory of a man like Leonard Hamlin. Well, {awkward pause} he was governed by the laws of physics.
** While the humans present were astonished at Dick's beautiful prose, his fellow aliens mocked the triteness, asking why he didn't just phone it in.
* In the ''Series/ThreesCompany'' episode "Dying to Meet You," Jack is being harassed and threatened by the jealous boyfriend of a girl he likes. So he and Larry concoct a plan to make the boyfriend think he's dead, complete with a fake funeral and viewing. HilarityEnsues.
* ''Series/{{Titus}}'':
** There's a Christmas episode of all things that dealt with this. Titus goes to the funeral of an ex-girlfriend -- not because he loved her and wanted to say goodbye, but to make sure the funeral wasn't an elaborate ruse for her to attack him for dumping her (As mentioned in the episode, "Dad is Dead" and on the comedy special, "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding," Titus's first girlfriend was a 5'1, 100 lb. Jewish girl who, like Titus's mom, was beautiful, sexy, very smart, and a bipolar whack job who often abused him and used sex to manipulate him).
** Another Fun In Funeral moment: after Juanita's suicide, Titus and Erin visit her lawyer for a will reading. According to the will, Titus and Erin have to eat apples for dinner should Juanita die. Not ''too'' bad, but Juanita was a homicidal, manic-depressive schizophrenic with touches of paranoia and multiple personalities. The "apples" that Erin and Titus have to eat is actually [[spoiler:the name of the dog Juanita killed back in 1978 and kept in her freezer since then]].
** According to the comedy special "The 5th Annual End of the World Tour," Titus had to deal with his dad's funeral, who requested that he be put in a cardboard box [[note]] Titus ended up putting his dad in a rental casket, with his brother, Dave, asking, "Who brought it back?"[[/note]] and peed on by everyone he angered in his life while Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" played. After the ceremony, Ken's body was to be cremated and Titus had to find a douche bottle and a hooker so Ken can be "run through one more time." Titus couldn't go through with that plan, so he spread his father's ashes all over some Victoria's Secret dressing rooms and at a Caesar's Palace casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada while singing "Amazing Grace" with his brother, Dave, and his sister, Shannon.
* ''Series/TheTonightShow'': During the early 1980s, Johnny Carson and the show's comedy troupe did a parody of the E.F. Hutton commercials (tagline: "When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen"). The parody ad was set at a funeral visitation, where a young stockbroker is talking with one of the deceased's brothers; as soon as the stockbroker says "E.F. Hutton," all conversation and mourning immediately stops and everyone turns their attention to the gent ... including the deceased guy (Carson), who sits up in his casket to hear what the guy has to say!
* In the original ''Series/TrafficLight'', Itzkoï's (Mikeï's) uncle, who was a clown, dies, and demands in his will that Itzko be his "funeral clown". This is especially hillarious as he attends the wrong, serious funeral, only to see the right one, complete with clowns singing parodies about birthday songs, not far from there. However, this does get him started on a brief new career as a funeral clown.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" tells what happens when the title character sits up in coffin, alive and hungry.
* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'':
** An episode featured virtually every sitcom-funeral trope imaginable, from the hilarious, angry, and hate-filled eulogy to Jake's Gameboy getting left in the coffin to Charlie scoring with the widow.
** Another had Charlie having an ImagineSpot of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxuhOS3UduY his funeral]]. It includes open bar, Creator/JamesEarlJones reading his eulogy, and another (sarcastic) eulogy by Alan.
** Charlie's actual funeral in the first episode of season 9. Alan's eulogy was interrupted by Charlie's ex-girlfriends insulting the deceased, and Evelyn used the occasion to remind everyone that Charlie's house is up for sale.
*** "I didn't come all this way to spit on a closed casket!"
* ''Series/TwoPointFourChildren'' had Ben struggling to organise the funeral of his SitcomArchNemesis, Jake the Klingon. Under the terms of Jake's will, the funeral was a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' costume event (Original Series only, much to Bill's annoyance: "There [[TheSmurfettePrinciple weren't any women]] in the original series!") It turns out Jake isn't dead, he set the whole thing up to humiliate Ben.
* On a later ''Series/{{Wings}}'', the brothers lose the body they were flying in for a funeral, so Joe takes its place in the coffin.
* ''Series/TheWire'': Baltimore Police Department cops who die on the job before their retirement date are honored with Irish wakes at Kavanaugh's Pub. To quote [=McNulty=], "It's tradition. Tomorrow he goes to the funeral home for family, but tonight he drinks with the boys!" The departed is laid out on the pool table, posed with a bottle of Jameson's in one hand and a cigar in the other, and after Jay Landsman delivers a hilarious, but heartfelt eulogy summing up their finest moments, they all sing "The Body of an American" by Music/ThePogues. This serves as a means of explaining the departure of cop characters whose actors had died. Season 3 gives us one for Ray Cole, due to the death of his actor Robert F. Colesberry. Season 4 gives us one for Raymond Foerster, due to the death of Richard De Angelis. They even do it for cops who just resign too, as shown in season 5, when a mock wake is held for the still very much alive Jimmy [=McNulty=].
--> '''Jay Landsman:''' If I was ever dead in some gutter, I'd want you to catch the case, Jimmy.\\
'''Bunk Moreland:''' Jay, if you were lying dead in some gutter, it was probably Jimmy that done ya!
* Kevin and Wayne drop a twenty dollar bill they've been fighting over in the coffin on an episode of ''Series/TheWonderYears''. They're still fighting over how to retrieve it when Grandpa tells them they missed the coffin closing.
* Given a unique twist in ''Series/YesPrimeMinister''. While Prime Minister Hacker is [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing overjoyed]] by the death of his predecessor and doesn't expect that many of the other mourners will be too upset either, none of the usual hijinks occur. The laughs instead come from the fact that apparently state funerals are treated as unofficial business meetings and summits by world leaders, who use them to knock together all sorts of arrangements out of the public eye.
* In the Israeli sitcom ''Zanzuri'', the eponymous character, whose sixth months left to live with his heart condition are just about to end, arranges his own funeral, in which some HilarityEnsues. He ends up [[RuleOfFunny counting down from ten with the crowd until his death from a heart attack]], during which [[spoiler:his wife tells him [[LawOfInverseFertility she�s pregnant]]]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'', there is a flashback scene of Branch ruining several parties in which he shouts about the Bergens coming and tips something over: a birthday party where he tips over a pile of presents, a wedding where he tips over a cake, and a funeral where he tips over the casket, letting the dead troll, also dressed as a clown, roll out with a squeak noise.

* Memorial Day in the U.S., which is officially meant to commemorate war dead, compared to places like Europe or Israel, where it's a much more somber affair. In the U.S., it's considered mostly a day off work and the unofficial start of the summer season, and people have barbecues while stores have sales. America also commemorates the armistice that Ended UsefulNotes/WorldWarI in 1918 each Novemeber, but again most Americans use it as a day off work.

* Memorial Day in the U.S., which is officially meant to commemorate war dead, compared to places like Europe or Israel, where it's a much more somber affair. In the U.S., it's considered mostly a day off work and the unofficial start of the summer season, and people have barbecues while stores have sales.

* Memorial Day in the U.S., compared to places like Europe or Israel, where it's a much more somber affair. In the U.S., it's considered mostly a day off work and the unofficial start of the summer season, and people have barbecues while stores have sales.

* In a rather meta skit from ''Series/LimmysShow'', Limmy is seen in a writer's room pitching various characters. All of his characters play with ''Main/FeeFiFauxPas'' and ''Main/{{Sitcom}}'', but there is a trend of unoriginality as he can't quite situate them in specific scenes. With each idea, he says the character could turn up somewhere inappropriate like a funeral. The punchline of the joke is a scene set at a funeral combining all his characters.

--> '''Drunk Woman:''' (Tripping over the coffin) [[=ARghHAHAHAahzzzz!!=]]

--> '''Drunk Woman:''' (Tripping over the coffin) ARghHAHAHAahzzzz!!

* In 'Man Needs Shite At Funeral' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_FL_f11cJE]], ''Creator/{{Limmy}}'' (Brian Limond) improvises a tale about a man whose parents have just died. The man (called Craig) sits through the service needing to use the toilet, until he is called up to deliver his eulogy. He struggles to leave his seat, and people misinterpret this as him being overwhelmed by grief. Wincing in discomfort, Craig stands up at the podium. The story ends with Craig cursing his parents and defecating in their coffins, something so notable that it becomes commonplace and traditional at proceding funerals.

* In 'Man Needs Shite At Funeral' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_FL_f11cJE]], ''Creator/{{Limmy}}'' improvises a tale about a man whose parents have just died. The man (called Craig) sits through the service needing to use the toilet, until he is called up to deliver his eulogy. He struggles to leave his seat, and people misinterpret this as him being overwhelmed by grief. Wincing in discomfort, Craig stands up at the podium. The story ends with Craig cursing his parents and defecating in their coffins, something so notable that it becomes commonplace and traditional at proceding funerals.

* After Nick's Dad dies in ''Series/NewGirl'', his mother enlists him to organise the funeral service. His father's wishes was to have an ''Music/ElvisPresley'' themed funeral. Nick struggles to coordinate the event and drunkenly arrives at the funeral with a barfly dressed as Elvis. Nick's mother is about to end the service prematurely when Jess steps in to save the day. Dressed in the Elvis costume, she saunters down the aisle singing 'In The Ghetto.' She manages to lift the spirits of everyone attending and they all join in to sing, even Nick's mother.

* In ''Series/LifeInPieces'', John decides that having a funeral themed party for his [=70th=] birthday party would be fun way to hear the sort of things his family and friends would say at his actual funeral. Greg rips of ''Film/FourWeddingsAndAFuneral'', Heather's family sings, Matt stumbles through a speech before being kicked offstage by John, and Joan [[MoodWhiplash breaks down and angrily berates her husband for being so heartless]].