History Main / BlackComedyPetDeath

** Fizzy kills William's pet chicken in Episode 651, "Fizzy's Crime"... in the episode where they were building a ''courthouse''. Naturally, Stampy orders Fizzy to be [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin placed on trial for murder]] the moment they finish construction, leading to a CourtroomEpisode two episodes later.

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->'''Max''': We killed your dog.\\
'''Elf''': Oh no!\\
'''Sam''': Yep. He or she ran in front of our car and, well...\\
'''Max''': I tried to draw you a picture, but I ran out of red crayon!

!! Examples:

* A well known one involves a contractor hired to replace a family's livingroom carpet. After the job is done, he notices a lump under the middle of the carpet. Assuming it's a pack of cigarettes he must have dropped while working and not wanting to go through the trouble up pulling the whole thing up, he instead takes a hammer to the lump, flattening it. The family soon comes home and while the contractor is showing the parents the new carpet, their child runs in yelling about how the door to their hamster cage is open, with the pet nowhere to be found. As the parents console the child, [[OhCrap the contractor notices a red spot where the lump was.]]

** Geo is said to be the fourth hamster after three others died in the past.

* A well known one involves a contractor hired to replace a family's livingroom carpet. After the job is done, he notices a lump under the middle of the carpet. Assuming it's a pack of cigarettes he must have dropped while working and not wanting to go through the trouble up pulling the whole thing up, he instead takes a hammer to the lump, flattening it. The family soon comes home and while the contractor is showing the parents the new carpet, their child runs in yelling about how the door to their hamsters cage is open, with the pet nowhere to be found. As the parents console the child, [[OhCrap the contractor notices a red spot where the lump was.]]

* A well known one involves a contractor hired to replace a family's livingroom carpet. After the job is done, he notices a lump under the middle of the carpet. Assuming it's a pack of cigarettes he must have dropped while working and not wanting to go through the trouble up pulling the whole thing up, he instead takes a hammer to the lump, flattening it. The family soon comes home and while the contractor is showing the parents their new carpet when their child runs in yelling about how the door to their pet hamsters cage is open, with the pet nowhere to be found. As the parents console the child, [[OhCrap the contractor notices a red spot where the lump was.]]

* Played with in ''Manga/SPYxFamily''. The Forger family's dog, Bond, has [[{{Seers}} the ability to see the future]], and at one point he has a vision of his own death, due to eating [[LethalChef Yor's cooking]]. At one point while trying to think of something to prevent it, he has an ImagineSpot where Yor stabs him to death [[DisproportionateRetribution for refusing to eat her food]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':
** In the episode "Spike Runs Away", the Pickles family gets a pet tarantula, only Grandpa Lou thinks he's a pest and kills him.
** In "Autumn Leaves", the babies experience their first autumn and think the leaves are changing because there is something wrong with the tree, and they think the reason something's wrong with it is that Chuckie spilled apple juice on a maple tree, which is like feeding a goldfish bird food. Phil remarks, "Oh, so that's why Flippy had to go to the hospital in the potty."

* A well known one involves a contractor hired to replace a family's livingroom carpet. After the job is done, he notices a lump under the middle of the carpet. Assuming it's a pack of cigarettes he must have dropped while working and not wanting to go through the trouble up pulling the whole thing up, he instead takes a hammer to the lump, flattening it. The family soon comes home. The contractor is showing the parents their new carpet when their child runs in from their room, yelling about how the door to their pet hamsters cage is open, with the pet nowhere to be found. As the parents console the child, [[OhCrap the contractor notices a red spot where the lump was.]]

* In the third ''Film/ScaryMovie'' film, the trope is part of a throwaway joke where George has to break the news to Sue that her teacher Brenda just died. George does an awful job at it by basically screaming the news at her face while also bawling put that he just ran over Sue's dog about five minutes prior when he was parking his car in the driveway.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E9IAnnoyedGruntBot I (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot]]", Snowball II (already a replacement for another cat, hence her name) dies and the family tries to replace her but the cats keep dying, until they get one last cat and name her Snowball II (otherwise known as Snowball v) to pretend it never happened.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS15E9IAnnoyedGruntBot I (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot]]", Snowball II (already a replacement for another cat, hence her name) dies and the family tries to replace her but the cats keep dying, until they get one last cat and name her Snowball II to pretend it never happened.

* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', Sadness (a being responsible for creating sadness in the girl Riley) likes "the funny [[Film/OldYeller movie where the dog dies]]". Joy is so flabbergasted by this, it's funny.

** In "I (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot", Snowball II (already a replacement for another cat, hence her name) dies and the family tries to replace her but the cats keep dying, until they get one last cat and name her Snowball II to pretend it never happened.
** In "Trash of the Titans", the Flanderses try to have a funeral for their bunny, only for trash to break through the surface, resulting in the family getting the shit scared out of them by the bunny's corpse suddenly popping out.
** In the episode "The Boys Of Bummer", Lisa tells Bart that his pet bunny died when he was at camp because Homer accidentally [[BuriedAlive buried the poor thing alive]]. The black comedy comes from how she says it:
--->'''Lisa (deadpan)''': Bart, Cottontail died. Dad buried him in the backyard -- but not {{in that order}}.
** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E7LisaGetsAnA "Lisa Gets An 'A'"]], Homer purchases a lobster to eat but he falls in love with it and accepts it as a pet, calling it 'Pinchy'. In the final minutes of the episode, in a showcase of [[LethallyStupid lethal stupidity]], he accidentally boils the poor thing by giving it a hot bath and leaving it alone... and then we cut to Homer approximately a half-hour later, feasting on Pinchy's boiled corpse and [[MoodDissonance quickly alternating]] between crying for his dead pet and blissing out on the taste. He even refuses to allow any of the other members of the family to have a bite because "[being eaten only by me] is what Pinchy would have wanted".

** In "Stop or my Dog Will Shoot", Bart brings his pet snake to school for show and tell at the same time Martin brings his pet rabbit. Martin tells the class how he's trained the rabbit to hop to music then gets ready to show them only to see the bars of its cage bent and the rabbit hopping from inside the snake before being digested.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Xmas Story", Fry buys Leela a parrot as a present, only for the parrot to be killed by the BadSanta and cooked by [[LethalChef Bender]] and eaten by [[ExtremeOmnivore Nibbler]].

* In a ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fic, the Assassin wife of wizard Ponder Stibbons is sitting vigil at the death of a pet dog that has been her companion for twelve years. She wonders, briefly, why her five-year-old daughter goes wild with rage and is crying and kicking out at thin air. Ponder, and a Witch friend who is present, grab the little girl and have to physically pull her away, still kicking. Ponder Stibbons is stammering apologies at an unseen third party while the witch is grinning quietly.[[note]]As she later points out, only the magically gifted can see Death. she's a witch, Ponder. [[/note]]. Although tearful for her dead pet, Assassin Johanna is gratified, in an odd sort of a way, that her daughter can get angry enough over the death of a beloved pet to launch an attack on Death himself.

* In ''Film/MaryPoppins'', when Mary, Albert, Bert, and the kids are floating from laughter[[labelnote:Why?]]Albert is said to have a condition that causes him to float when he laughs and which is contagious.[[/labelnote]] and need to think of something sad to get down, Albert tries, but then it turns into a joke: A woman answers the door and there's a man who apologises for running over her cat, then says he wants to replace it, and she replies, "That's fine with me, but how good are you at catching mice?".

* ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'': [[http://nonadventures.com/2016/04/23/doolittle-too-late/ When Wonderita tries to adopt a kitten]], Wonderella recites how superhero pets can break your heart-- like her pet crab who cut the wrong wire on a bomb, her pet goldfish who she took up to zero-gravity, and an adorable terrier who couldn't stop an intercontinental missile.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut'', Sadness (a being responsible for creating sadness in the girl Riley) likes "the funny [[Film/OldYeller movie where the dog dies]]".

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* Made into a RunningGag in ''Fanfic/SecondChance'', where Walt, Geo, and Hops all get unceremoniously killed off over the course of the fic, the first two getting eaten off-screen by [[RightHandCat Marceline]] (revealed by her burping up a feather) and [[SavageWolves One Eye]] respectively, while Hops gets vaporized by [[BenevolentAI Fenton]] (due to the former being on a rampage after getting into contact with Lisa's PsychoSerum). [[BusCrash It was done because the author couldn’t think of any roles for them to play]], unlike Charles, Cliff, and Fang.