History PlayingWith / Retirony

* '''Implied''': Fred tells George he's going to work [[OneLastJob one last case before retirement]]. He walks out the door [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and never comes back]]. [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome The audience never finds out what happened to him.]]

** [[CharacterDiedWithHim Chris, Fred's actor, died]] a few episodes before Fred was due to retire (along with Chris from acting).

* '''Enforced''': "We're writing Fred out of the show, his character was going to just retire, but where's [[RuleOfDrama the drama]] in just letting Fred quietly move to Florida and take up shuffleboard?"

** [[RedShirt Fred dies during his first day on the job.]]

* '''Parodied''': Instead of retirement papers, Fred has to file his own funeral plans.

* '''Reconstructed''': While Fred's family is devastated at first, they manage to move on eventually, and a hefty life insurance payout helps them get through the financial hurdles caused by Fred's death.

** Lethal InsuranceFraud schemes targeting (or performed by) days-away-from-retirement people skyrocket because they try to exploit this trope.

** InsuranceFraud schemes targeting (or performed by) days-away-from-retirement people skyrocket because they try to exploit this trope.

* '''Deconstructed''': We see the perspective of Fred's family, who were ready to celebrate his retirement and looked forward to being able to spend more time with him, only to have those plans and hopes crushed by his sudden passing and replaced with grieving.

* '''Downplayed''': Fred is just under two years away from being eligible to retire when Jonathan kills him.

** Alternatively, Fred has a very peaceful last day on the job.

* '''Deconstructed''': Everyone is so afraid of being murdered that nobody wants to retire.
* '''Reconstructed''': Thus, when Fred mentions he's "ready to retire", everyone knows the [[DrivenToSuicide unspoken implication]].

** Fred has learned that he has a terminal disease and began preparations to retire because of that.

** Fred expects to die shortly before retirement so when his retirement approaches he blows all his money on ConspicuousConsumption items. To his dismay, he ends up surviving, and now must work at the local BurgerFool instead of enjoying his retirement because he's broke.

* '''Implied''': Fred tells George he's going to work one last case before retirement. He walks out the door [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and never comes back]]. [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome The audience never finds out what happened to him.]]

** Fred and Jonathan have been enemies from the very first day Fred has been working as a cop, and knowing that Jonathan will never stop hounding him, Fred decides that since it's the last day that he will legally have access to the tools to take down Jonathan once and for all, [[TakingYouWithMe he decides to end this feud once and for all, no matter the cost, and preferably in a blaze of glory]].

* '''Straight''': George and Fred are police officers who are pals. During Fred's last case, a mafia boss named Jonathan kills Fred one day before Fred's retirement date.

** This happens to every character who was planning to retire, no matter what their occupation.
** Bob announces his retirement and gets shot in the head immediately afterwards.

** Fred is TheMole that [[BecomingTheMask Became The Mask]].

** [[RedShirt Fred dies during his first day on the job]].

** Fred, who was on his last day on the job, is the only character to not be killed.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Fred seems to die, only to be later revealed to still be alive shortly afterwards. Then he dies again, and comes back, and so on and so forth several times over the course of the story.
* '''Averted''':

** None of the characters are employed.

** Fred and Johnathan have been enemies from the very first day Fred has been working as a cop, and knowing that Johnathan will never stop hounding him, Fred decides that since it's the last day that he will legally have access to the tools to take down Johnathan once and for all, [[TakingYouWithMe he decides to end this feud once and for all, no matter the cost, and preferably in a blaze of glory]].

* '''Played For Laughs''':

** Fred goes to herculean effort avoiding the ridiculous amount of {{Contrived Coincidence}}s that make an attempt on his life on the day before his retirement. He successfully survives, and retires. [[VictoryIsBoring A day later he's bored silly]].
* '''Played For Drama''':
** Jonathan never gets blamed because [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident everyone thinks Fred's death was accidental]].

** George and Fred have been cops for 40 years. Fred dies during is last case, one second before his retirement.

** Even devices, buildings and ''animals'' that were scheduled for retirement get wrecked or killed mere hours from such a thing happening officially.

** Even devices and buildings that were scheduled for retirement get wrecked mere hours from such a thing happening.

** The police force surrounds Fred with dozens of bodyguards for the duration of his last day. And the Jonathan uses the day, with large numbers of cops otherwise occupied, to rob six banks.