- Date First Aired: 07/01/2016
The family (and Dorien) are having a normal day (albeit with some complaining from Dorien about a lack of sex life) when the police come with some shocking news.
Darryl, ex-husband of Tracey, is dead, having fallen to his death whilst trying to break into a warehouse in Wrexham.
Tracey doesn't want to give him a funeral, but she's convinced to change her mind after Lenny comes back and reveals that Darryl's funeral will be paid for by his fellow gangsters. However, the funeral doesn't go too well - the majority of people there are gangsters and Dorien ends up having sex in the back of a hearse with a gun-loaded gangster named Vince, who ends up spooking the horses away when the gun goes off. Tracey does manage to give Darryl a good send-off though. However, it all goes to hell again when the men manage to drop the coffin revealing some manipulation of the corpse. And that's before everyone comes back to find that they've been burgled...
Tropes In This Episode:
- Acting Unnatural: When the police come for Garth, Sharon tells Dorien and Travis to "act natural". Cue Dorien reading a book upside down and Travis and Sharon just freezing in place.
- Auto Erotica: Vince and Dorien attempt to have sex in the back of a hearse.
- Bank Robbery: When Garth shows up with money, Sharon's first assumption is that he robbed it at a bank.
- Brick Joke: Early in the episode, when Tracey asks how Darryl managed to try to rob a warehouse from its roof, Sharon brings up his rooftop protest on Strangeways. Sharon later manages to incorporate it into her eulogy for Darryl.
- Character Death: Darryl had been a major character for the first seven series, only to die after spending five series as The Ghost.
- Chekhov's Gun: Not in this episode, but the jacket that Garth shows off at the beginning of the episode will prove to be important next episode when the girls' possessions are stolen and Dorien gets a lead from seeing Poxy Cohen walk by her wearing the piece of clothing in question.
- Cliffhanger: The episode ends with them coming back to find that Tracey's house has been robbed.
- Closet Shuffle: Sharon directs Garth to the nearest cupboard when the police come looking for him.
- Continuity Nod:
- Lenny from "Hearts for Sale" reappears for Darryl's funeral, with Sharon reacting in disgust at his appearance.
- Barry Farmer from "Tracey's Choice" reappears, with Tracey recalling her previous affection for him
- Disappeared Dad: This aspect of Travis' upbringing is put into focus when he doesn't care too much about his father's death, pointing out that he only saw him 5 times and that only one of said sightings wasn't in prison.
- Disney Villain Death: Robber Darryl's death came about as a result of plummeting through a warehouse roof in Wrexham. For bonus points, he was attempting to break into it during it.
- Fee Fi Faux Pas: Tracey complains about how Darryl never gave her anything legitimate, right in front of her and Darryl's sons. She apologizes after they complain about it.
- Fictional Document: Dorien has started work on a new manuscript called 80 Shades of Ecstasy, although her publisher didn't like it.
- The "Fun" in "Funeral": Dorien has sex with Vince at the back of a hearse and winds up spooking the horses carrying it. After she comes back, the pallbearers wind up dropping the coffin containing Darryl's corpse.
- Killed Off for Real: Darryl, a formerly major character, is killed off this episode after a fall into a warehouse in Wrexham.
- Killed Offscreen: Darryl does not die on-screen.
- Making Love in All the Wrong Places: According to Sharon, she once had sex in a skip behind a Screwfix.
- Never Learned to Read: Vince admits that whilst he's heard of Dorien's novel, he's never read it as he can't actually read.
- Noodle Incident: Darryl once held a rooftop protest at Strangeways after nicking a bottle of tranquilizers.
- Plot-Triggering Death: It's Darryl's death that kickstarts the plot of the episode.
- Reckless Gun Usage: The reason why the hearse went running off was that Vince kept a loaded gun in his trousers, which went off whilst he and Dorien were having sex.
- Rushed Inverted Reading: Dorien reads a cookbook upside down when everyone is Acting Unnatural.
- Shout-Out: Dorien comments that she's suddenly "living with The Sopranos".
- Silver Fox: Vince is an aging yet handsome man who Dorien gains attraction for. Dorien even describes him as having a wolfish appearance to him.
- Speak Ill of the Dead: Travis is happy enough calling his recently deceased father a "loser" despite the annoyance of his brother, pointing out that he doesn't have as much of an attachment to him as he had only seen him 5 times.
- Waxing Lyrical: Sharon quotes from the Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves theme tune when trying to convince Tracey to hold a funeral for her ex-husband. Dorien lampshades it.Sharon: You gotta do something, Trace. Darryl loved you. Everything he did, he did for you.Dorien: Wasn't that the theme song from Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves? Just asking.
