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| 4 | [[caption-width-right:350: ...Then the casket was accidentally dropped, causing [[ClownCarGrave twenty dead clowns to roll out]].]] |
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| 6 | -> ''Vienna Central Cemetery: Half the size of the City of Zurich, but at least twice as fun.'' |
| 7 | -->-- '''Austrian saying''' |
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| 9 | Even at a ''funeral,'' [[PlayedForLaughs hilarity ensues]]. This trope summarizes all the [[FeeFiFauxPas wacky hijinks]] that can commonly occur at a {{sitcom}} funeral. It's the comedic flipside of the serious DueToTheDead. |
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| 11 | The protagonist will see something in the casket that belongs to them, and must retrieve it without being noticed by the mourners or violating the corpse. This many times will result in the person's watch, bracelet, or cuff link getting snagged on something in the casket (going as far as on the ''zipper'' of the deceased). |
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| 13 | Or, he is asked to deliver the eulogy, and [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead struggles because he either barely knew the deceased or hated them intensely]]. |
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| 15 | If the deceased is cremated, dust to dust, AshesToCrashes. The ashes are just waiting to be spilled, worn, consumed, or disrespected in some way. If it's a particularly black comedy, expect the coffin to be knocked over at some point, and for extra BlackComedy points, [[DesecratingTheDead the corpse to be abused in some fashion]]. |
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| 17 | Then of course there's always the "missing corpse/casket" situation, which often has the guest of honor rolling out of control down a street, dodging cars, {{fruit cart}}s, [[SheetOfGlass sheets of glass]], and other obstacles. And then there's the instance where [[FakingTheDead a main character is declared "dead" to protect him from a bloodthirsty revenge-seeker]], with matters sometimes becoming complicated when the villain discovers that his supposedly dead enemy is still very much alive. |
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| 19 | Expect plenty of BlackComedy to be involved. |
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| 21 | Or maybe the characters will play an OfCorpseHesAlive. This is the generally the opposite of the heartwrenching MeaningfulFuneral, but there can be [[GallowsHumor some]] [[ToAbsentFriends overlap]]. Compare AndThereWasMuchRejoicing, LastDisrespects, or SpeakIllOfTheDead, where the non-dead characters may indulge in this. |
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| 23 | Or, finally, the heartwarming version that we get a bit in real life. The deceased was a comic (or even a SadClown) and would abhor the idea of people wasting a day and a gathering moping about their passing. This is the basis of a CheerfulFuneral: ultimately full of good spirits as everyone shares their fondest memories of the passed and honors their memory with a smile or two. |
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| 25 | See also DeathAsComedy, when the character's demise itself was amusing. |
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| 28 | !!Example subpages: |
| 29 | [[index]] |
| 30 | * [[TheFunInFuneral/{{Film}} Films]] |
| 31 | * TheFunInFuneral/LiveActionTV |
| 32 | * TheFunInFuneral/WesternAnimation |
| 33 | [[/index]] |
| 34 | |
| 35 | !!Other examples: |
| 36 | |
| 37 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 38 | |
| 39 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 40 | * One ad for Spotify has Music/{{DNCE}} noticing that one user has their songs on a playlist called "Play This At My Funeral." Music/JoeJonas notes "That's a pretty messed up funeral." Cue ImagineSpot of pall bearers carrying a casket while simultaneously crying and dancing to one of their songs. |
| 41 | --> '''Tagline:''' "Play this at my funeral." [[BlackComedy She would have wanted you to listen to it.]] |
| 42 | * An ad for Aiwa has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEe_2g0Bjuc a hearse driver playing "Another One Bites the Dust"]] in his hearse's CD player. |
| 43 | [[/folder]] |
| 44 | |
| 45 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 46 | * In ''Anime/CaroleAndTuesday'', one of Carole's part-time jobs involves fake-crying at a dead guy's funeral to give the impression there are plenty of people missing him. This being Carole, she sees a butterfly land on the priest's head and bursts out laughing like a madwoman. |
| 47 | * In ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', episode 231 has Gintoki and company attending a funeral for the owner of a restaurant they were regulars at, which the foreword states will be [[BlatantLies a solemn, dignified affair.]] It goes well up until Kagura gets involved, then takes a nosedive from there after she completely messes up at paying her respects properly, which provokes the owner's ghost into trying to ensure the processions go smoothly by force. It ends up having the opposite effect due to how horrified Gintoki and Hijikata are of him (Made worse by the fact that only they can see him), which leads to them making even more mistakes, wrecking his coffin and launching his corpse into a delivery truck among other things. |
| 48 | ** Part of a later story arc has everyone attending a funeral for a not-quite dead [[spoiler:Kagura]], which after a series of mishaps, leads to them all thinking that the proper way to pay their respects is to crush the coffin with a giant boulder... |
| 49 | * In Episode 5 of ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', due to the contract Yurika is forced to carry out funerary ceremonies for the members of the Nadesico's crew and residents of the space colony which had been recently destroyed by the Jovians' attacks. She isn't very thrilled about it, especially when she has to dress up accordingly for Catholic, Muslim and many other different religions' ceremonies to carry them out properly, while being dragged around by Jun. |
| 50 | * In the filler "Laughing Shino" arc of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', the title character accompanies Shino to act as the representative for a man whose father has just died. If he / his representative laughs at the funeral, he loses his inheritance, and he knows his relatives will do everything in their power to make it happen. [[TheStoic Shino]] is the obvious choice for a stand-in, but he's poisoned by a drug that causes him to laugh uncontrollably en route. Naruto has to take his place, and has a much harder time trying to ignore the antics of everyone else at the funeral. [[spoiler:However, it's later revealed that the father was still alive and the entire situation was an elaborate ruse; when his children were children, they were a pretty poor family, but were happy and laughed. However, when they discovered the valuable medical properties of the herbs around, they got greedy and forgot what was important, leading him to do this. Shino ends up pointing out the flukes in his plan before helping him pull it off.]] |
| 51 | * An episode of ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' involved Team Rocket having a fake funeral for a rice ball that fell into a lake. |
| 52 | ** An earlier episode involved James' parents faking their death to get him to marry Jessiebelle. It quickly stops being funny when it's revealed what kind of people his parents and Jessiebelle ARE. |
| 53 | * ''Anime/ScottPilgrimTakesOff'': From Envy breaking into a concert performance mid-service to the casket holding the coins that he left behind in the fight, Scott's funeral is completely played for comedy. |
| 54 | * In ''Anime/SummerWars'', the family gathers to celebrate Grandma Sakae's 90th birthday, but she dies a few days shy of it. In the final scenes we get her funeral, where most of her family sings HappyBirthdayToYou while wearing party hats and carrying silly props. |
| 55 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': {{Zig Zagging|Trope}}. Yusuke attends his own funeral as a ghost. To his disgust, he finds that some of his classmates are laughing and smiling, causing him to think that they only came just to get extra credit. Then he sees Keiko crying over his death, and Kuwabara mourning over his death and commenting that he was supposed to be there for him. Then he notices Iwamoto and Akashi, who seem to be rather glad that he was already dead. But Mr. Takanaka confronts the two, and proceeds inside their house. He follows him, and seems to be a little bit surprised to see the teacher mourn over his death. He also sees his mother, also doing the same. The kid whom he saved is also there with his mother, and as they leave the kid tells his mother that he was really a nice guy even though some people there were angry at him. Seeing how much he's missed by his childhood friend Keiko, his mother, his rival Kuwabara, and his homeroom teacher gives him the resolve necessary to go through some difficult ordeals to get himself resurrected. |
| 56 | [[/folder]] |
| 57 | |
| 58 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 59 | * In the ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' issue ''Funeral for a Freak'', Deadpool, who had died in the previous issue when he turned against the agency he had been working for, was able to attend his own funeral. What made this issue unique was that the entire issue was "Silent", with no dialogue. Deadpool plays various gags on the mourners as a ghost, such as getting a blind woman -- Blind Al, for those familiar -- to fall into his grave. He eventually crosses to the afterlife, where {{Death}} is waiting to seduce him, but is returned to life before anything occurs. |
| 60 | * In a ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' flashback scene where Constantine is presumed dead, the, er, unconventional clergyman Rick the Vic begins his eulogy with the biblical quote, "There is no...plan that can succeed against the Lord." He then [[RefugeInAudacity casually tosses his Bible over his shoulder]] and says, "Tell that to John Constantine." |
| 61 | * Occurs offscreen in an issue of Creator/GrantMorrison's ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeague JLA]]'', where ComicBook/TheJoker mentions that he rigged the coffins of some victims of the [[LegionOfDoom Injustice Gang]] to spring their contents into the air during the funeral. ComicBook/LexLuthor [[EvenEvilHasStandards was not amused]]. |
| 62 | * ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': |
| 63 | ** Because the Scavengers didn’t know him that well (and didn’t even really like him), [[RedShirt Flywheels’s]] “funeral” (for lack of a better term), ends up consisting of Misfire insulting the deceased before the group [[RobbingTheDead robs his corpse]]. They don’t even bother to bury him before leaving. |
| 64 | ** One story arc involves the Lost Light crew being invited to Thunderclash’s funeral... which [[NonindicativeName isn’t really a funeral because Thunderclash isn’t dead yet]]. It’s more of “preemptive wake” than anything, and mostly consists of [[MoodDissonance a dance party]]. Also, [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial despite everyone insisting that they loved Thunderclash and will remember him dearly]], nobody actually seems all that sad to see him go. And this all happens ''before'' [[spoiler:the monsters show up]]... |
| 65 | * The last issue of ''ComicBook/NewAvengers2015'' opens with the team holding a funeral for [[spoiler:Sunspot]]. The only person who really takes it seriously is Songbird (who’s eulogy quickly turns [[InelegantBlubbering melodramatic]]), with most of the other guests cracking jokes or engaging in SeinfeldianConversation. The only attendees are the team themselves (not even all of them), the ComicBook/NewMutants, some AIM mooks, and an alcohol-serving robot butler. [[spoiler:It’s also [[FakingTheDead fake]], and part of a sting operation to bust the Scientist Supreme. Sunspot busts out of his coffin to beat up the bad guy in question.]] |
| 66 | * ComicBook/NickFury's famous funeral in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'' Issue #434. The entire story is mostly grim but then there's the [[ComicBook/SgtFuryAndHisHowlingCommandos Howling Commandos]] who are making jokes and laughing the whole time, sure that Nick is FakingTheDead. [[spoiler:And they were ''[[FirstLawOfRessurrection right]]''.]] |
| 67 | --> '''Dino Manelli:''' So... so what's his angle ''this'' time? [[ActuallyADoombot LMD?]] [[ComicBook/TheCloneSaga Clone? Clones are BIG these days.]] |
| 68 | * ''ComicBook/PierreTombal'': In this comic book the dead are apparently living skeletons who spent eternity in the cemetery of Pierre Tombal, the local gravedigger, where they are treated as residents. |
| 69 | * ''ComicBook/TheSuperiorFoesOfSpiderMan'' has a memorable scene where the team tries to give a funeral to a guy who isn’t dead. They’re planning on burying him alive. When he interrupts Speed Demon’s (melodramatic and nonsensical) eulogy to beg for mercy, [[BlackComedy they get on his case for being rude]]. |
| 70 | * One time, the ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' were holding a funeral for some fallen comrades when Ravager (Rose Wilson) suddenly declares that she's bored and walks over to the nearby swimming pool to go SkinnyDipping. |
| 71 | * In one issue of ''ComicBook/XMen'', Mystique has to scatter the ashes of Destiny, her friend and [[HideYourLesbians implied]] romantic partner. While most of the issue is emotional and introspective, at the end, Mystique declares that Destiny and her powers of future sight will finally be out of her hair forever, and tosses the ashes off a ship at the time/place specified in Destiny's will -- at which point, the wind picks up and blows them right back into her face. She collapses in helpless laughter and starts singing "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da". Oddly enough, given the actual tenor of their relationship, [[ItMakesSenseInContext it's heartwarming in context]]. In one of the recollections in that story, before the ash-in-face scene, Mystique remembers Destiny saying, "[[{{Foreshadowing}} I'll make you laugh even if it's the last thing I do]]." |
| 72 | [[/folder]] |
| 73 | |
| 74 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 75 | * After Opus [[ItMakesSenseInContext was lost at sea and presumed eaten by a squid]], the cast of ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'' held a wake for him. This was followed by the reading of his will, which mostly consisted of the various characters greedily demanding to know what they were left, or bitching about what he bequeathed them. |
| 76 | ** Later, when [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk Steve]] was presumed dead [[spoiler:(actually, he was abducted by aliens and returned later)]], the rest of the gang held a wake in his memory. They couldn't come up with any real compliments for him (besides "he could spit forty feet"), Portnoy got drunk on a bottle of Old Spice, and they mistook his Trojans for water balloons, throwing them at one Mrs. Paula Pegwhistle, who retaliated by chasing them with a shotgun. |
| 77 | * Becomes somewhat inevitable in the Swedish comic strip ''Himlens Änglar'' given that it runs on DeathAsComedy and loves to poke fun at various AfterlifeTropes. |
| 78 | * In an early story arc from ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'', Pig got a job as a funeral director. One strip involved a eulogy about how Fred was a good husband and a good man. Except his name was Bob. Another strip involved the casket falling into the grave and breaking...followed by the "corpse" yelling "Ow!" [[https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2006/02/20 Another strip]] has Pig mention a parade where the cars had stickers reading "fun something or other" in their windows, and Rat informs him that they actually read "funeral", and then Pig says "Now I feel bad for waving and honking." |
| 79 | [[/folder]] |
| 80 | |
| 81 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 82 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4907797/2/Beneath-Boundless-Skies Beneath Boundless Skies]]'' George plays a prank during Fred's funeral that turns the hair of every non-redheaded participant Weasley red. This is soon followed by enough fireworks to outdo Guy Fawkes' Day. |
| 83 | * In ''WebVideo/RainbowDashPresents: Fanfic/{{Bittersweet}}'', only the rest of the Mane Six attend Pinkie's funeral, and when asked to speak about her, Rarity gloats that she totally called it that Pinkie would [[spoiler:commit suicide]], Twilight expresses disbelief about her cause of death ([[spoiler:short version: the diabetic Pinkie ate herself to death by eating tons of ice cream]]) in this day and age, Applejack has nothing to say and concluded that Pinkie died out of spite, Fluttershy is drowned out by dubstep as per Pinkie's last will and testament, and Rainbow Dash makes it [[ItsAllAboutMe about herself]] and her feelings of guilt for not doing enough to save Pinkie. |
| 84 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11888152/7/Carry-That-Weight-A-Long-Time Carry That Weight (A Long Time)]]'' George sets off fireworks during Fred's funeral. |
| 85 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12814058/10/A-Dreary-Tale-of-Katelyn-Potter A Dreary Tale of Katelyn Potter]]'' [=McGonagall=] mentions that during her husband's funeral, her brother Robert was about to give a reading when her other brother Malcolm unleashed some [[{{Gasshole}} killer flatulence]]. |
| 86 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6631794/1/Elementum-Consensio Elementum Consensio]]'' Harry is attending Fred's funeral when he receives a Howler which, instead of yelling at Harry, proclaims the sender's undying love for him and describes various sexual acts in great detail. George treats the incident as a sort of tribute, stating that it's just the kind of thing Fred would've done if he could've managed it. |
| 87 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13871375/1/Happiest-Day-Of-His-Life Happiest Day of His Life]]'' Harry shows up at his uncle's funeral and proceeds to insult the deceased, reveal a tasteless personalized T-shirt and announce that due to a court-ordered claim on the estate, nobody but him is going to be receiving a single penny. |
| 88 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13600326/5/Mors-et-Tempus Mors et Tempus]]'' Slughorn mentions the time his friend Samwell Haggins took a sip of Elixir to Induce Euphoria during his wife's funeral and ended up interrupting the professional singers by doing a very slow rendition of "Danny Boy". |
| 89 | * ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/260239/rest-in-chaos Rest in Chaos]]'' from [[Fanfic/TheBorderworld the Borderworld]] is the will of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Discord]]. This is the same character who canonically made cotten candy clouds rain chocolate as the introduction to his attempted takeover, defines himself as the Spirit of Chaos, and regularly warps reality for the sake of a gag. While the fic isn't technically a funeral fic, it does very deliberately set up the Fun in Funeral situation: |
| 90 | -->Specifically, you should remove my heart and throw that into the volcano. Be warned that my heart doesn't look like a heart and is also not located where you'd think it should be. It moves around a lot. You'll know it when you see it, because it'll be giving out an ominous red glow, and gazing upon it causes auditory hallucinations. Then I want the rest of my body preserved. I want it stuffed in a pose that makes it look like I'm pointing and laughing at the rest of you, and I want it mounted on the wall above Celestia's throne. |
| 91 | ** That's only the FOURTH paragraph. |
| 92 | * The pro wrestling story, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10340937/31/The-Return-Remixed The Return-Remixed]]'' has one. After Wrestling/BethPhoenix steps down as Divas Champion due to a severe concussion she suffered at the hands of DEAR, the members of DEAR throw a mock-funeral for her, featuring Wrestling/TrishStratus dressed in WidowsWeeds, Wrestling/{{Lita}} delivering a scathing eulogy, Wrestling/MickieJames leading a parody of "Amazing Grace" for the hymn and [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron Victoria]] lying in a coffin as "the late Beth Phoenix". |
| 93 | * In ''Fanfic/TheSevenMisfortunesOfLadyFortune'', Marinette seems to be the only one actually sad at Gabriel's funeral. Considering he tried to kill her seven years ago, that's saying something. |
| 94 | * In ''Fanfic/ThoseWhoStandForNothingFallForAnything'' there's [[spoiler:Matt]]'s funeral [[TheFriendNobodyLikes because pretty much everyone hated]] him, even his widow. Light, who ''really hated'' him, [[NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead has to give his eulogy]] and L and Light uh... [[{{Squick}} make use of]] his [[AshesToCrashes ashes]]. |
| 95 | * A ''food fight'' broke out at the funeral of [[ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse Elly Patterson]] in ''FanFic/WhoSilencedEllyPatterson'', started when Connie confronted Elly's husband about bringing his ''fiancee'' to the funeral. ''All'' of the Patterson dirty laundry got aired that day, and preserved for posterity thanks to family friend Josef Weeder being a photographer. |
| 96 | [[/folder]] |
| 97 | |
| 98 | [[folder:Gamebooks]] |
| 99 | * 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. |
| 100 | [[/folder]] |
| 101 | |
| 102 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 103 | * In ''Literature/AnansiBoys'', Charlie gives an eulogy for his father and then realizes he's at the wrong funeral. [[TricksterGod Anansi]] would have loved that; heck, Anansi was probably ''behind'' that. |
| 104 | * In the Australian children's book ''Literature/BarebumBilly'', a funeral is mentioned as one of the inappropriate places Billy chose to run around naked. |
| 105 | * ''Literature/ColdSassyTree'': Rucker Blakeslee leaves a note in his will saying that he hates how solemn funerals are, and he wants a party "like them Irishmen have." Despite the objections of several family members, he gets his posthumous party (no doubt partially motivated by the fact that anyone who refuses to follow his wishes will be cut out of his will). |
| 106 | * ''Literature/TheCommissar'' by Creator/SvenHassel. The funeral of Gregor's unnamed GeneralRipper superior, whom he served as batman, is more accurately described as "a battle course with all the trimmings." Highlights include the coffin being dropped while carried up a muddy hill in the rain and running down a load of Nazi bigwigs, and the pallbearers being assigned to the Russian front as a result. Gregor mentions that the event was only beaten by the time a bridge collapsed while the funeral party was crossing it, and the coffin went floating into the harbour where it was torpedoed by a U-Boat in the belief that the coffin was some sort of British secret weapon. |
| 107 | * The plot of ''[[Literature/DearAmerica Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie]]'' is set in motion by the "missing corpse" variant: the coffin of narrator Hattie's uncle falls into the Missouri River in the path of a steamboat, and the body is lost. Feeling responsible, the boat's captain offers Hattie's family free steamboat tickets, which allow them to start [[SettlingTheFrontier a journey to Oregon]]. |
| 108 | * In ''[[Literature/DearAmerica Color Me Dark]]'', Nellie Lee Love's family runs a funeral home out of their house. Nellie and her sister are often told to stay upstairs and not move during funerals ever since they started running around upstairs and made the family of the deceased think it was a ghost. |
| 109 | * ''Literature/HowToSellAHauntedHouse'': The funeral for Louis and Mark's parents is quite goofy. Their mother was a puppeteer so the mourners are all the city's puppeteers with their puppets and Mark even gives her a kazoo song as a final tribute she would have wanted. |
| 110 | * Attempted unsuccessfully in ''Literature/MenAtArms''. The funeral of Beano the Clown involves things such as a trombonist clocking a musician in the row ahead of him during the funeral dirge, then getting punched in turn and knocked into the bass drum, starting a brawl, and Beano's ashes going down someone's pants. But since the whole thing is choreographed and performed by rote, like all other routines done by the Ankh-Morpork Guild of Fools, it's explicitly noted to not be the least bit funny to the non-clown witnesses. |
| 111 | * FazilIskander has a story called [[http://lib.ru/FISKANDER/stories_engl.txt_with-big-pictures.html#9 Old Crooked Arm]], about a guy famous for his jokes. He had a friendly competition with his neighbor about who's the best horseman. So, on his deathbed he admitted the neighbor was better, and asked him to leap over his coffin on his horse three times before it's closed. The funeral showed everyone who was the best horseman... once the horse refuses to jump. |
| 112 | * Patty Sanders's eulogy for her grandmother is loving but far from traditional in ''Literature/RacingTomTurkey'' by ''Creator/AbbyAdams''. |
| 113 | * ''Literature/StarterVillain2023'' begins with Charlie being asked to officiate at his estranged uncle Jake's funeral. The funeral director askes him what to do with all of the floral arrangements that celebrate Jake's being dead in various obscene ways. Then Charlie learns that everyone else at the funeral is just there to make sure Jake really is dead - including by trying to stab the body. |
| 114 | * In Janet Evanovich's ''Literature/StephaniePlum'' series, at least once per book on average, Stephanie's Grandma Mazur wreaks havoc at the local funeral home (she gets quite aggravated by closed caskets, and finds ways to get that lid open). In several instances, either Stephanie or Grandma obtains important information as a result of the funeral home hijinks. They've also burned the place down on one memorable occasion (sort-of accident: Grandma was trying to shoot the baddies, who were planning to kill her and Stephanie. Grandma was apparently not aware those crates stacked against the wall contained ammunition, explosives, etc.). |
| 115 | * In the opening of John R. Powers' novel ''Literature/TheUnoriginalSinnerAndTheIceCreamGod'', the narrator, Tim Conroy, is sitting in the neighborhood funeral parlor, remembering two incidents that occurred there: When he was thirteen, his uncontrollable laughter at his Great Uncle Elmer's funeral in response to a funeral director's comment, "Will everyone please come up and take a last look at Mr. Elmer Keegan and then pass out." The second, just before he started college, involved him accidentally tripping over a woman on her knees praying, when he wasn't watching where he was going. |
| 116 | [[/folder]] |
| 117 | |
| 118 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 119 | * A Sage Francis song, "[[FakingTheDead Andy]] [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral Kaufman]]", has this almost exactly. "''I put the fun back into funeral/My morbid humor'll kill ya''" |
| 120 | * The Pogues' (sensing an Irish theme yet?) "Body of an American", as excellently used in ''Series/TheWire'''s cop funerals; |
| 121 | -->''Fifteen minutes later we had our first taste of whiskey\ |
| 122 | There was uncles givin' lectures on ancient Irish hist'ry\ |
| 123 | The men all started tellin' jokes and the women they got frisky\ |
| 124 | By five o'clock in the evenin' every bastard there was pisky!'' |
| 125 | * The music video for the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers single "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6YbVCyXs98 Brendan's Death Song]]" features a parade in New Orleans, albeit with a morbid theme. |
| 126 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnegan%27s_Wake "Finnegan's Wake"]] (the song, not the [[Literature/FinnegansWake James Joyce book named for it]]). It's about a bricklayer named Tim Finnegan, who was a drunkard. One day, he falls off his ladder and breaks his skull. During his viewing, a brawl starts up. Turns out Tim was OnlyMostlyDead. Yeah, he woke right up when some whiskey accidentally landed on him.[[note]]For the pun, the word "whiskey" comes from the Gaelic "uisge beatha", literally meaning "water of life."[[/note]] |
| 127 | * ''Going Out In Style'' by The Music/DropkickMurphys is sung from the POV of someone who doesn't care what's done to his body after he goes as long as there's a huge, loud, well-lubricated traditional Irish wake. Includes jokes about "the stiff" finally getting to score with all the girls he loved... |
| 128 | * The music video for Music/{{Rammstein}}'s "Haifisch". Let's see, two women Till slept with get into a {{cat fight}}, the remaining band members discuss ''right there'' who to replace him with, said band members spend it fantasizing about how ''they'' would have killed Till (well, except Paul, [[HoYay he just fantasized about getting spanked by Till]]), and then ''they'' get into a fight, and to top it all off, [[spoiler:it turns out that Till had [[FakingTheDead faked his death the entire time]] and ran off to live on a tropical island]]. |
| 129 | * In the music video for "Music/{{Helena}}" by Music/MyChemicalRomance the titular woman's funeral includes dancing mourners, the lyrics to the song are the eulogy delivered by Gerard Way, there's a (the) band, and the deceased gets up and dances ballet amongst the praying mourners. |
| 130 | * A perfect example of this may well be the Newfoundland folk song, ''[[http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/06/diedjb.htm The Night that Paddy Murphy Died]]''. |
| 131 | -->''That's how they showed their respect for Paddy Murphy\ |
| 132 | That's how they showed their honour and their pride\ |
| 133 | They said it was a sinnin' shame and they winked at one another\ |
| 134 | And every drink in the place was full the night Pat Murphy died''. |
| 135 | * This trope pops up in the Music/BarenakedLadies' "One Week" as an instance of the narrator's inappropriate behaviour. |
| 136 | -->''How can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad?\ |
| 137 | Trying hard not to smile, though I feel bad\ |
| 138 | I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral\ |
| 139 | Can't understand what I mean? Well, you soon will!'' |
| 140 | * In "Only If for a Night" by Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine, there are the lines: |
| 141 | -->And the grass was so green against my new clothes\ |
| 142 | And I did cartwheels in your honor, dancing on tiptoes\ |
| 143 | My own secret ceremonials before the service began\ |
| 144 | In the graveyard, doing handstands |
| 145 | * The Irish folk song [[https://mainlynorfolk.info/lloyd/songs/rosinthebeau.html "Rosin the Beau"]] [[InvokedTrope Invokes]] this trope, with the eponymous character specifically requesting that his funeral be filled with drinking and merrymaking in his memory. |
| 146 | -->''When I'm dead and laid out on the counter\ |
| 147 | A voice you will hear from below\ |
| 148 | Crying, “Send down a hogshead of whisky\ |
| 149 | To drink to old Rosin the Beau!"'' |
| 150 | * Less about shenanigans and more about ritual celebration, ''The Saints Go Marching In'' is about the hope of going to heaven after death. It's one of the jauntiest tunes in existence. |
| 151 | * Music/RayStevens has a song entitled "Sitting Up with the Dead" in which his late Uncle Fred is so horribly bent over due to arthritis that the morticians have to use a heavy chain to straighten him out. Somehow the chain snaps in the middle of the overnight wake, causing Uncle Fred to sit up in his casket. Coupled with a thunderstorm, everyone instantly thinks "haunting," and HilarityEnsues [[note]]Cultural Note: This was partly based on the until recent tradition of holding all the services and such at a private residence. "Sitting Up with the Dead" was the practice of somebody staying awake and with the casket during the night so that it was never left unattended. Now think about ''that'' poor sap. The opening of the song helpfully explains enough of these traditions so that everyone can follow along.[[/note]] |
| 152 | ** More funeral fun from Ray comes in "Family Funeral Fight". When the criminal son of the deceased arrives, the whole affair devolves into an hours long family brawl. |
| 153 | * Music/WeirdAlYankovic's Tacky has the following lines. |
| 154 | --> I would live-tweet a funeral\ |
| 155 | Take selfies with the deceased |
| 156 | * Music/TheTragicallyHip's song "World Container" (off the album of the same name) discusses this trope, probably as a ShoutOut to the Music/BarenakedLadies. |
| 157 | -->Laugh at a funeral or two\ |
| 158 | Laugh and laugh 'til all the chameleons turn black\ |
| 159 | Laugh and laugh 'til you're told\ |
| 160 | [[DudeNotFunny Please don't come back]] |
| 161 | * Creator/SammyJ's "There'll Be Someone at My Funeral Who Doesn't Want to Be There" describes the unusual collection of individuals he expects to be attending his funeral, and there disparate reasons for being there. Also [[InherentlyFunnyWords quiche]]. |
| 162 | [[/folder]] |
| 163 | |
| 164 | [[folder:Print Media]] |
| 165 | * ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' #393 had an article titled "Practical Joke Items Guaranteed to Put the 'Fun' Back in Funerals." |
| 166 | ** In another issue is a piece entitled "What NOT to Do at a Funeral." Samples include: "DON'T try to amuse the guests with a hand puppet of the deceased," and "If you work at Disneyland, DON'T go to the funeral directly from work," with a panel drawn by Paul Coker showing a man in a Goofy costume sitting in the front row of the viewing. |
| 167 | [[/folder]] |
| 168 | |
| 169 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 170 | * The Wrestling/{{WWE}} feud between Wrestling/BigShow and the Wrestling/BigBossman may just take the cake for this one. Boss Man interrupted Big Show's father's (outdoor) funeral by driving up in a former police car with a loudspeaker mounted on the top and cracking cruel jokes about Show and his father over the speaker. Then, he chained Show's dad's coffin to his back bumper and dragged it off while Show desperately held onto the coffin (in what's often called "the coffin surfing incident" by fans). This was part of a longer feud, that also involved a "sympathy" poem by Boss Man that included the lines, "But if I had a son who was as stupid as you/I'd wish for cancer, so I could die too." |
| 171 | ** Said poem was followed by the beautiful sentiment "That's exactly how I feel about the Big Show's daddy being dead". The poem, coffin surfing and a summary of the whole feud can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhSh35ryueA here]] The poem is between 1:28 and 2:10. The funeral starts at 2:28. |
| 172 | *** The police vehicle driven by Big Bossman in the funeral scenes is a replica of the Bluesmobile from ''Film/TheBluesBrothers''. |
| 173 | *** [=McMahon=]'s justification for this angle was that Big Show's father in real life had actually been dead for nearly a decade before this angle. |
| 174 | *** The ridiculousness of the angle was later {{lampshade|Hanging}}d with Big Boss Man, in a stable including Wrestling/KurtAngle, retells the story. [[note]](Indeed, in [[HilarityEnsues real life]], anyone who crashes a funeral and engages in the behavior the Big Bossman did would likely be facing an extended jail sentence, heavy fines and [[MoralEventHorizon other social consequences]].)[[/note]] |
| 175 | * In the last year of WCW, they were fond of having heels throw funerals for faces who lost retirement/get fired matches, complete with coffin and backhanded eulogies. |
| 176 | * At least one insignificant TNA wrestler got this kind of sendoff when his "Feast or Fired" case (all the other cases hold title shots) revealed "Fired". A brief montage ended with the words, "We hardly knew you," which was probably delivered ''in all honesty''. |
| 177 | [[/folder]] |
| 178 | |
| 179 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 180 | * The ''Radio/BelieveIt'' episode "Party" ends with Creator/RichardWilson attending the funeral of an actor he despised for networking purposes. He manages to give a decent eulogy by simply and bare-facedly lying, but then subtly ends it with "Is there anyone here who can give me a job?" |
| 181 | [[/folder]] |
| 182 | |
| 183 | [[folder:Theater]] |
| 184 | * ''Dearly Departed'' is this trope in spades. After the patriarch of a dysfunctional southern family, Bud Turpin Sr., keels over at the breakfast table, his family attempts to cope with their loss and plan his funeral. Various shenanigans occur, including the Reverend having a bad case of food poisoning in the middle of the service, Bud being buried in ballet shoes due to rigor mortis, Junior and his wife reconciling after Junior's affair by passionately making out on the floor during the service, and ends with everybody bursting out into uncontrollable laughter at the ridiculousness of it all. |
| 185 | * The musical adaptation of ''ComicBook/FunHome'' highlights this in "Come To the Fun Home", an upbeat, colorful commercial for the Bechdel Funeral Home where Alison and her brothers sing praises of all there is to do at their funerals, including one of the brothers playing with an aneurysm hook like a sword. |
| 186 | * Pretty much the entirety of ''Grandma Sylvia's Funeral'', starting before the audience even goes inside (this part may differ for different runs -- in one version, the hearse arrived with the back door open and no casket -- it showed up sticking out of the trunk of a taxi a few minutes later). |
| 187 | * ''Old Dogs'', an amateur dramatics play, has the accidental homicide of a pimp who chases a prostitute into an old folks' home. The body is initially hidden in the fridge, but when the person who accidentally killed him dies of a heart attack, the body is shlepped into the single coffin and buried with him. All this takes place at double quick speed to fool the warden, who has returned early from holiday to find that [[HilarityEnsues her home has been turned into a brothel and a naive young inspector is also missing]]. |
| 188 | * In the opening scene of ''Theatre/PaintYourWagon'', Ben Rumson is in the middle of delivering a eulogy for his fallen friend Jim Newberry, when his daughter Jennifer runs her hands through the dirt around the grave and finds gold. Jennifer is anxious to tell, but Ben angrily silences her and continues. But just as the three miners accompanying him are about to leap in, Ben winds up his eulogy quickly: "I hope you'll make him happy up there... for-ever-and-ever-I-stake-this-claim--Amen!" |
| 189 | [[/folder]] |
| 190 | |
| 191 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 192 | * On your first visit to the Athkatla Graveyard in ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', you'll encounter a panicked man called Nevin, who explains how his hated, tyrannical, stingy uncle Lester has just risen from his new grave as a zombie, killed every funeral-goer who couldn't escape, and is now after him. Lester promptly lurches onto the scene and angrily explains he rose from the dead through sheer indignation at the funeral he got: Nevin had a closed-casket ceremony to cover for the fact he'd buried Lester naked after pawning all of his uncle's clothes, bribed a drunken Talosian cleric with a few coppers to slur some drunken profanity over the casket in lieu of a eulogy, and the flowers laid out on the casket [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking were freshly picked by Nevin from the local swamp that morning]]. Nevin angrily spits back that he had little choice, given that Lester's will had given all of his money and everything else of value that he had to Lester's favorite Calimshite whore. The player can either intervene, cutting the zombie down whereupon his nephew curses the fact he's going to have to rebury the mangled corpse, or just leave them be, whereupon Lester will kill Nevin and then shamble off in search of his mistress for [[ILoveTheDead "one last quickie"]].[[note]]Most players will side with Nevin, simply out of pragmatism if nothing else -- killing Lester gives the party 7500 experience points and a random gemstone on his corpse, whilst letting him kill Nevin gives them nothing but the single gold piece they can loot from Nevin's body.[[/note]] |
| 193 | * One of the stages in the FlippingTheTable arcade game ''VideoGame/ChoChabudaiGaeshi Sono 2'' involves the ghost of a guy who's frustrated by the lackluster funeral he's getting from the cheap-ass priest his family hired, and who proceeds to ''pound on his own lifeless corpse and flip the casket across the room.'' |
| 194 | * In ''VideoGame/Grandia1'' an NPC in New Parm is all set to celebrate his own funeral. He sincerely believes you should be able to have fun at your own funeral. |
| 195 | * [[FakeUltimateHero Captain Qwark's]] memorial in ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' features not only Ratchet (who knew damn well that Qwark was about as heroic as [[BuffySpeak something not very heroic]]) listing Qwark's "wonderful qualities" as including being really tall and having a chin with "kind of a butt shape", but also has Clank ([[spoiler:actually [[EvilTwin Klunk]]]]) responding to the Galactic President's heartfelt speech with "What a load of [[CurseCutShort bullsh-]]". |
| 196 | -->'''Ratchet''': And he had a unique... "fashion sense"... |
| 197 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgXW-cKI1bw&feature=player_embedded# This infamous 2006 video]] of a ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' funeral getting crashed by a guild of [[{{Troll}} self-proclaimed assholes]] for laughs, especially considering that the player died of a terminal illness. [[SoundtrackDissonance The PvP carnage is set to]] "[[Music/ScatmanJohn Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)]]" for extra funeral fun. For better or for worse, ''[=WoW=]'' players learned from this incident and now hold funerals in non-[=PvP=] zones so as to remove the fun from them. On the other hand, the deceased was a fairly hardcore [=PvP=] player, and the "crashing" players were merely paying their respects in their own, cross-faction way. |
| 198 | ** Subverted in a similar rumored incident in ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline''. Following the death of Creator/LeonardNimoy, STO devs set up a memorial on the Vulcan Map (still there) and players held vigil there. One of the troll fleets showed up and began spamming the local chat and deployed several items that would break emotes or create lag for less dedicated computers when enmass. Unfortunately, their timing was off as the game developers (who had been accused of ignoring player complaints about such actions) were showing executives at CBS the fan outpouring on line. While the devs maintained to players that the above antics were legitimate game play, the devs recognized it for what it was and promptly tolled the devs, who cracked down on such fleets. |
| 199 | [[/folder]] |
| 200 | |
| 201 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 202 | * ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': The WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail "[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail168.html your funeral]]" has Strong Bad describing what will happen when he dies; he'll be [[PeopleJars preserved in a jar]] so that he can return for the zombie apocalypse, his funeral dirge will be death metal, he'll record his own eulogy (which will, of course, be accidentally recorded over), and at the end, he'll come back to life in order to prevent his brother from performing an interpretive dance. |
| 203 | * In ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', command sends Sister as a new recruit because Red Team's commander [[spoiler:(actually Blue Team's commander; Sister is colorblind))]] supposedly died. Sarge refuses to believe that command could be mistaken, so he has the rest of his team give him a funeral. Grif turns his eulogy into a stand-up routine, Sister just insults Sarge because "old people are gross", and Simmons briefly talks about how Sarge was a great leader before trying to steal his job. |
| 204 | ** There was also the Blue Team funeral for Church and Tex, made more awkward because [[AttendingYourOwnFuneral Church was standing right there with them]], and Tucker refuses to do the eulogy. |
| 205 | --->'''Church:''' Tucker, I'm not going to eulogize myself.\ |
| 206 | '''Tucker''': Why not, dude? [[DoubleEntendre I eulogize myself all the time.]] Wait. I think I don't know what the word 'eulogize' means...\ |
| 207 | '''[[TheDitz Caboose]]:''' I know how to do this! *ahem* Dearly Beloved: we are gathered here today to witness the joining together of Church and Tex in... togetherness... uh... speak now! Or forever rest in peace! With liberty and justice for all! The end!" |
| 208 | ** While hunting for O'Malley in Season 3, Sarge and Caboose come across a dead Blue. Sarge is happy about this, but decides that he should [[InformalEulogy at least give some respect to the dead]]: |
| 209 | --->Rest in peace... dirtbag. |
| 210 | ** In Season 17, after Agent Washington becoming mentally unstable due to a RealityBreakingParadox and filthy rich because Dr. Grey used that to perform some InsuranceFraud, [[MadDoctor Grey]] gave him this gem of an idea: |
| 211 | -->'''GREY''': On my suggestion he's funding a [[PunctuatedForEmphasis giant. Walking. Cannon.]] For funerals! Blasts you straight into the ground. Or space. Or the ocean if you've got a foot fetish. (brief silence) So folks at the beach paddle in you forever. After death care is a pet interest of mine and by extension, Wash. |
| 212 | * Although we don't see [[http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/funeral/ Donkey's funeral]] in WebAnimation/WeeblAndBob, the buildup is filled with GallowsHumor ("I guess it's time to put donkey... in the ass hole!") and an [[StealthPun incredibly lazy joke about Donkey's father being]] [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong a giant ape]]. |
| 213 | ** Bob actually mentions that Mr Teeth 'puts the fun in funeral'. |
| 214 | [[/folder]] |
| 215 | |
| 216 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 217 | * ''Webcomic/{{Concession}}'': During [[spoiler:Mariam Jansen]]'s funeral, Roland complains about the boring food: "The old lady may be dead, but my taste buds aren't!" When a guest says she wants to say to her, "ey, c'mon now... Just get up already..." Angie shouts, "[[ThatsWhatSheSaid That's what SHE said!]]" Roland high-fives her, and Thonnen is visibly angered. Things take a [[MoodWhiplash turn for the dark]] later as that night Roland's clothes get stolen somehow, leaving him [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside naked outside]], while [[spoiler:[[RapeAsDrama Thonnen is raped to continue the family line]]]]. |
| 218 | * ''Webcomic/EnnuiGo'': The aptly-named strip [[https://ennuigo.thecomicseries.com/comics/755#content-start "FUNeral"]] sees resident NonIronicClown Sarah get hired to perform at a funeral and wake up the corpse with her joy buzzer. |
| 219 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': |
| 220 | ** Aradia is eager to try a human "corpse party," since trolls don't have funerals and since she doesn't know that they're supposed to be somber affairs. |
| 221 | ** After finding the dead body of Jade's dreamself, Grandpa Harley is seen mourning, with Jade preserved and stuffed in a silly pose in the background. |
| 222 | ** Roxy held a funeral for [[spoiler:Rose]], all by herself. It was actually a rather sombre and serious event, until [[spoiler:Jaspersprite dug up the body and turned it into another sprite]] not long afterwards. |
| 223 | * ''Webcomic/LeastICouldDo'': A NearDeathExperience gives the main character a vision of his own funeral, where ''he'' puts the fun into it. This includes arranging for his lawyers to deliver a knee to the groin of his {{Jerkass}} older brother, having a huge naked golden statue of himself standing over his grave (complete with erect penis, so young women could "pay their respects") and making his best friend deliver a eulogy as if he was a character in a ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars'' crossover. It also featured a subversion at the end, however, as the last shot from the funeral was his five year old niece, a single tear forming in her eye, whispering "Unca?" her preferred nickname for him. |
| 224 | %%** "[[http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20060907 Well played, little sister, well played]]." |
| 225 | * ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': [[spoiler:Xinchub]]'s funeral, and the events leading up to it, is treated like this, on account of the multiple times he blackmailed and attempted to kill the main characters. Then they get paid to steal his corpse ''and'' act as security for the funeral. HilarityEnsues. |
| 226 | -->'''Flambe''': Captain, I have studied more than a little bit of human culture. Nowhere have I found brightly colored, conical hats and inflatable noisemakers to be appropriate funeral attire. |
| 227 | * ''Webcomic/SexyLosers'': In one strip, someone actually masturbates with an urn containing the ashes of a [[BlackComedyRape girl she raped to death]]... and it breaks inside her. She then doesn't have the heart to clean out the ashes. |
| 228 | * ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'': Mike attends [[AbusiveParent Blaine O'Malley's]] funeral in a Hawaiian shirt and paper hat, with a noisemaker and confetti to boot. Amber is introduced to Faz's girlfriend Wen, who is exactly as deranged and creepy as Faz. And after Amber berates her father's corpse, Mike [[FlippingTheBird flips him off]] while delivering this line: |
| 229 | -->'''Mike''': Later, jerkhole. I'm fuckin' your daughter. |
| 230 | * ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'': |
| 231 | ** An early strip shows Davan attending the funeral of his childhood friend, Scotty, who committed suicide. His grief quickly takes the form of rage towards Scotty, which he then takes out on the corpse. Literally, taking the corpse out of the coffin to shake it and yell at it. In the background, J. Grant, making a cameo, urges Davan to "let the legions of the dead know we living will no longer be oppressed by their cold clutches." |
| 232 | ** Another one features Davan laying out his plans for his own funeral, where he will be dressed in a smoking jacket and propped up in a chair so that people can have their photos taken with him. There will be attractive cocktail waitresses (to make sure Jason attends) and marshmallow roasting on his pyre, after which Aubrey will be given his skull to mount on her wall. |
| 233 | ** Yet another includes Faye [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp07132003.shtml referencing this trope]] in regards to Davan's paternal great-grandfather. |
| 234 | ** Another strip had Peejee sending a wreath to the funeral of a female supervisor who'd spent the last few weeks sexually harassing her (and was threatening to sue her when she was killed by a Canadian Trapdoor Alligator). Unfortunately, the floral service screws up the order... and a giant "You'll Always Be My Valentine!" wreath shows up instead. |
| 235 | ** Another [[http://somethingpositive.net/sp04062011.shtml reveals]] that when Aubrey and Peejee were passed out from alcohol, Jhim [[HoYay stripped them naked, posed them together in Davan's bed, and took pictures]], which he then [[ComedicSociopathy arranged to have on display at the reading of his will]]. |
| 236 | ** After the passing of the well-despised Avagadro Pompey, one of the many enemies he left behind hopes that [[http://somethingpositive.net/sp11252006.shtml his funeral]] ends up a "miserable little circus". Cue Kharisma walking by in her [[{{Stripperiffic}} funeral dress made of measuring tape]], as Davan comments that a good circus needs a clown. Sanderson also managed to leave a [[ExcrementStatement final gift]] behind in the casket. |
| 237 | * As always, ''[[Webcomic/WhiteNinjaComics White Ninja]]'' shows us how it's done: [[http://www.whiteninjacomics.com/comics/heartout.shtml with style]]. |
| 238 | [[/folder]] |
| 239 | |
| 240 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 241 | * The Coffin Dance Meme shows the Dancing Pallbearers dancing with a coffin after a person makes an epic fail which brought that person according to the meme in the coffin. |
| 242 | * From Season 2 Episode 6 of [[https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DEBCC868724EAA19 Kpts4tv, mac_sly56, and Arkonid's]] ''[[WebVideo/DeathNoteTheAbridgedSeriesKpts4tv Death Note Abridged series]]'': |
| 243 | -->'''Souichiro:''' Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pee on the grave of a man who died unloved and hated by everyone.\ |
| 244 | '''Matsuda:''' But Chief... isn't that the same thing?\ |
| 245 | '''Souichiro:''' Dammit Matsuda, stop ruining my eulogy! I will never forget the last time I saw him smile�it was the day he took away Matsuda's innocence. Oh how we laughed and Matsuda cried when [[spoiler:L]] told Matsuda that cartoon animals were just people in costumes. Where was I? Oh, right, [[spoiler:Watari]]! Come on everyone we're gonna go dance on his grave next!\ |
| 246 | ''The taskforce leaves''\ |
| 247 | '''Light:''' [[EvilLaugh Muwahahahaa]][[LaughingMad hahahaha hahahaha!]] (''crawls on top of [[spoiler:L]]'s grave'') [[FreakOut You died over nothing! You died because you told Matsuda Mickey isn't real.]] ''[[FreakOut HOW STUPID IS THAT!]]'' (''[[GlowingEyesOfDoom *his eyes start glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning red*]]'') [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove I loved you]] [[spoiler:L]] [[{{Yandere}} and you smashed my heart into a million pieces.]] [[UnrequitedLoveLastsForever I will never love again.]]\ |
| 248 | '''Ryuk:''' Light, uh... [[HorrifyingTheHorror you're scaring me.]]\ |
| 249 | '''Light:''' Oh Ryuk, I haven't even ''begun'' to scare you yet! |
| 250 | * The ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'' hosted a funeral for [[ArcVillain Jschlatt]] after his death in the L'Manburg Civil War, which was one massive [[Funny/DreamSMPSeasonTwo Funny Moment]] for the series. Nobody except [=BadBoyHalo=] took it seriously, resulting in Schlatt's pictures being shot off the walls or defaced with penises, people [[GraveRobbing stealing his body parts]] (renamed items placed in a chest, as Minecraft corpses disappear upon death), Tommy and Tubbo playing with his bones, and to cap it all off, Quackity singing a horribly [[AutoTune autotuned]] song about how Schlatt is burning in hell, after ''[[BlackComedyCannibalism eating his heart]]''. |
| 251 | * In ''WebVideo/TheGuild'', we're told that Zaboo still managed to find wi-fi at his grandfather's funeral. |
| 252 | * The popular Creator/ImprovEverywhere group did an AprilFoolsDay video where they pretended they crashed a funeral as mourners. People who saw it on Website/YouTube the day it came out understood it was a joke, but afterwards they got a lot of flak from people who didn't understand it was put up on April Fool's and were use to their more friendly ones like Frozen Grand Central or Pantless Subway Ride. Despite putting up warnings in the description and in annotations and the title -- yes, the title -- a few people still respond "outraged" many years later. |
| 253 | * [[CuteGhostGirl Evelyn]] from ''Podcast/LessIsMorgue'' is extremely proud of the fact that Chad Kroeger from Nickelback performed at her funeral. |
| 254 | * [[https://youtu.be/iczMnI_v2AU?t=171 Million Dollars, But:]] introduces the curse of doing the Mary Poppins dance every time you hear music. And then hypnotizing everyone else into dancing along with you, no matter what they're doing. Including at a funeral. All for the low, low, price of negative one million pounds! Want to buy it? |
| 255 | * In ''WebVideo/MonsterFactory'''s Sweeps Week series, [[spoiler:[[Series/DharmaAndGreg Greg Montgomery]]]] gets deleted. [[spoiler:Dharma Finklestein]] plans a "memorial rager" in an empty field that reads "[[spoiler:GREG]]" in the dirt, setting up a bonfire pit, grill, and hot tub, and inviting [[Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir Will Smith, Geoffrey, Jazz]], and [[Series/GrowingPains Carol Seaver]]. The wake features people setting themselves on fire, sleeping in the deceased's coffin, and Jazz [[RomancingTheWidow going on a camping trip with the widow]], all culminating in [[spoiler:Greg climbing out of his coffin, the field now reading "GREG RULES".]] |
| 256 | -->'''Justin''': [[spoiler:Greg]] would hate every second of this, though. |
| 257 | * In ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'', [[spoiler:Ma-Ti]]'s funeral alternates between serious and funny (on his overall heartwarming eulogy, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic has to explain why he was cremated -- YouDontWantToKnow how -- and put in a can of Quaker Oats, and describes him as the most [[spoiler:"[[BuffySpeak hearty]]"]] person he's ever met; the "show your arms" by the Website/ChannelAwesome crew has WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick pulling her wig instead of a weapon; WebVideo/PawDugan plays AmazingFreakingGrace on a kazoo -- which still sounds like a [[EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes bagpipe]] orchestra!) |
| 258 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmfC7VY5Ods 'This Way Up'.]] A British short animation filled with BlackHumor. Just about guaranteed to make you cringe [[CringeComedy at some point in the film.]] |
| 259 | * WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}: Joel holds a "funeral" for his bootlegged, red, Platform/PlayStation2 controller. Yes, seriously. He writes the "engraving" in Comic Sans, sings a very funny parody of [[Film/Titanic1997 "My Heart Will Go On"]] using a crappy MIDI as background music, makes a joke about Creator/DannyDeVito, and proceeds to buy a new controller. It can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDBmRhWX8EQ here]]. |
| 260 | * The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' story [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/funerals-are-fun Funerals are Fun]] is a BlackComedy version of this. Told from the victim's perspective, it shows a funeral that is targeted by the horrific SCP "Cousin Johnny," with all the usual depravity he brings. However, the events suddenly become even stranger, resulting in Johnny's plan being completely derailed by "LAUGH IS FUN," a morbid candid-camera show hijacking the funeral. Despite how gruesome it is, what makes it funny is how annoyed Cousin Johnny gets at being upstaged. |
| 261 | * ''WebVideo/{{Jacksfilms}}''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rLluHH-bSo YIAY #572]] is entirely dedicated to how users would want their funeral. Answers include firing their corpse out of a cannon and burying them where they land, playing the ''Series/CurbYourEnthusiasm'' theme when their casket is being lowered, and having everyone in Garfield fursuits kiss the corpse (which is in a ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBossBaby Boss Baby]]'' themed casket) on the lips before having a dance party with the corpse tied to the ceiling fan. |
| 262 | [[/folder]] |
| 263 | |
| 264 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 265 | * UsefulNotes/AndrewJackson, 7th U.S President, was such a SirSwearsALot that his pet African grey parrot Poll had to be removed from the congregation after cursing up a storm in ''three separate languages'' at his funeral. |
| 266 | * When medieval German [[TheTrickster trickster]][=/=]fool-using-ObfuscatingStupidity Literature/TillEulenspiegel died, the guys who carried his coffin goofed up, and the coffin fell into the grave, standing upright instead of lying down. The priest decided this was OK: "He lived in a weird way, so he shall be buried in a weird way." |
| 267 | * William the Conqueror was too large to fit into his stone sarcophagus. He was forced into it, which caused his bowels to [[PottyFailure evacuate]] in the church. The ceremony was hastily concluded. |
| 268 | * The funeral for controversial musician Music/GGAllin didn't take long to turn into one giant party in honor of him. The bottle of Jim Beam he asked to be buried with was drank near dry by the time he was lowered into the grave. |
| 269 | * Creator/TheCynicalBrit had, for a number of years, funded a ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' Esports team. Said team won a championship and got a trophy. When he died in 2018, his last will was for the trophy to be used as his urn. |
| 270 | * Creator/BillyMays's pallbearers wore his iconic [=OxiClean=] blue shirt/khaki pants outfit. |
| 271 | * 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. |
| 272 | * The funeral of UsefulNotes/{{KFC}} founder Colonel Sanders had him dressed in his signature white suit, black tie, and glasses. |
| 273 | * Creator/GrahamChapman's death led to the CheerfulFuneral one would expect from Creator/MontyPython, with Creator/JohnCleese doing [[https://www.funeralwise.com/celebration-of-life/eulogy/chapman/ a very informal eulogy]] that started with a recollection of the Dead Parrot sketch and at times bordered on TheRoast, along with including a PrecisionFStrike, and Creator/EricIdle starting a singalong of [[Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life"]]. |
| 274 | * According to [[Creator/JohnWayne John Wayne's]] daughter Aissa her father had told the family on a number of occasions to have a party instead of a traditional funeral. However, she went on to say that Wayne had not made provision for a party in his will, and his family held a more traditional Catholic funeral when he died in 1979. |
| 275 | * At the funeral service for Creator/TerryThomas, the musical selections included the jaunty title theme for one of his films, ''Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines''. |
| 276 | * The tone of Irish wakes varies, but it's not uncommon for them to have a tenor that's more social than sombre. In particular, if the deceased lived a long, full life, then a rowdy wake with music, stories, and drinking is seen as a sign of how beloved they were in the community. |
| 277 | * Creator/RodneyDangerfield's headstone reads "[[SelfDeprecation There goes the neighborhood!]]" |
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