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* 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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* ''Series/YoungSheldon'': In "Funeral", Connie's eulogy to George is full of jokes at his expense, which have the congregation in stitches. When Missy angrily asks why everyone's laughing, Georgie responds that it's because they love George.
* 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 she's pregnant]]]].
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* ''Series/ThirtyRock'': When Jack's mother dies, he has to rush to put together a funeral the next day, "before the rest of the family found out and sold her body to a haunted house. It's actually quite moving...until Jenna crashes it to stage her wedding to her cross-dressing, celebrity-impersonator boyfriend, who snuck in by pretending to be one of the church's angel statues, officiated by a minister in a gimp suit.
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** 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.

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** A more good-natured case in "Strained Relations", which featured Grandad's funeral to coincide with his actor Leonard Pearce's Creator/LennardPearce'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.
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** Then there's Phoebe's grandmother's funeral. "Welcome. Here are your 3D glasses..."

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** Then there's Phoebe's grandmother's funeral. "Welcome. Here are your 3D glasses...glasses. Reverend Pong will tell you when to put them on."
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* ''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]].

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* ''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]]. And a third where the hearse crashed on the way to the funeral, so the pallbearers had to carry the coffin the rest of the way. Which caused them to eventually collapse by exhaustion one by one, upon which the other pallbearers would stuff them in the coffin and keep going, ultimately culminating in the last pallbearer placing himself in the coffin, and the coffin travelling the rest of the distance under its own power.
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'''Stanley''': [[Franchise/SpiderMan That is my gift, that is my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-Man]]!\\

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'''Stanley''': [[Franchise/SpiderMan [[Film/SpiderMan1 That is my gift, that is my curse. Who am I? I'm Spider-Man]]!\\
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* ''Best Funeral Ever'' was a short-lived RealityTV series on Creator/{{TLC}} that focused on providing over-the-top and extravagant funerals for the families of the recently deceased as an incredibly silly yet earnest celebration of their lives. One episode was dedicated to Olympic gold-medalist Ronnie Ray Smith, where in honor of his win at the 4x[=100m=] relay in the 1968 Summer Olympics, his casket "ran" a [=100yd=] race (being pushed on a trolley down a track among other competitors) and received another gold medal in a mock Olympic-style funeral.
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* Laura Palmer's funeral in ''Series/TwinPeaks''. A solemn funeral interrupted by Bobby's [[LargeHam "AAAAAAMEEEN!"]] is a bit of NarmCharm. Bobby and James [[CockFight coming to blows the second they spot each other]] and Leland jumping on Laura's casket and hugging it, causing a malfunction on the lowering device CrossesTheLineTwice. Leland's reaction is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] later in Meals on Wheels, where some patrons make fun of the broken lowering device.
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* Something similar happened on an episode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', with the ashes of Marcy's aunt being used in Al's grill.

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* Something similar happened on an episode of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', with the ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': The ashes of Marcy's aunt end up being used in Al's grill.
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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]].

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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]].



* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfQjE6D_dKw This]] ''Series/AlmostLive'' sketch.

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* %%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfQjE6D_dKw This]] ''Series/AlmostLive'' sketch.

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