History Main / BlackComedyPetDeath

** At the beginning of another sketch, Mrs Premise tells Mrs Conclusion that she just spent four hours burying her cat. "It wouldn't keep still--wriggling about, howling its head off." In a CallBack to a previous sketch, she clarifies that it wasn't dead, "but it's not at all a well cat." Her rationale is that it's more convenient to bury ailing pets before she goes off on vacation than have them sicken and die in her absence.

** At the beginning of another sketch, Mrs Premise tells Mrs Conclusion that she just spent four hours burying her cat. "It wouldn't keep still--wriggling about, howling its head off."

* The famous 'Dead Parrot' sketch from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'', which plays a pet owner's attempt to return his dead-on-arrival parrot for laughs.

* ''Series/That70sShow'': After Kelso [[spoiler:seemingly]] [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace shoots Hyde in the eye with a BB gun by accident]], Donna points out [[NoodleIncident Kelso had done the same thing to Eric's hamster Snowball when they were in the 4th grade]].

* In ''ComicBook/RainbowRowellsRunaways'', Old Lace's consumption of Dr. Hayes' cats is played for laughs, with Old Lace being shown rubbing her stomach like she's had a big dinner.

* 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.

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* ''Videogame/DeepRockGalactic:'' The Beastmaster perk allows dwarves to tame lower-tier Glyphids and have them kill their hostile brethren. They're ''always'' called Steeve, they can be given fond petting, and since there's so many glyphids out there, the position of Steeve has a HighTurnoverRate. This makes the dwarf's reaction to its death increasingly comical, since they're bound to replace it within the minute and lose that one in the next five minutes too.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' episode "[[Recap/BobsBurgersS3E2FullBars Full Bars]]", Bob goes to Teddy's Halloween party and accidentally crushes Teddy's pet guinea pig Francis to death while putting on a sumo suit. Teddy spends the rest of the party trying to figure out who killed Francis, getting increasingly irrational in his investigation.

* In an episode of ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'', Doña Cleotilde is seen putting bird seed in an empty birdcage. Don Ramón asks Quico about this and Quico explains that she's hoping that her pet sparrow that seemingly escaped will come back, but that's not gonna happen. When Don Ramón asks why, Quico pulls out a slingshot.

* In ''Fanfic/JonathanJoestarTheFirstJoJo,'' Joseph mentions hot dogs while talking to Jonathan, who, in a misunderstanding, believes that they're made from ''actual'' dogs, which then causes him to be reminded of the [[KillItWithFire gruesome way]] Danny had died.

* 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]]. Althopugh 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.

* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': "Requiem for a Dead Briard" has the family (or at least Kelly) grieving Buck's death via hit by a car. While she is hysterical and inconsolable, Buck is in heaven "on trial" with a cat as a judge and ''Ben Stein'' as a bailiff dressed like a chicken and the rest of the family crack jokes. Even at one point when Kelly says that he didn't know how to roll over and play dead, Al quips "until now".

* In an episode of ''Series/PeepShow'', Jez acidentally runs over the dog of a girl he was going out with and spends most of the time trying (and failing) to get rid of the body without her finding out, including trying cremating the poor animal... which leads to Jez [[ItMakesSenseInContext eating it's charred body while claiming it's turkey]] in front of the owner and her family until they find out.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode ''Hilloween,'' the resident busybody-ehem, MoralGuardian runs over her cat while chasing Bobby and Hank in her car. She presents his sad carcass to the town hall meeting where she gets Halloween cancelled, to cries of "poor kitty!" and a distraught man making a beeline for the doors. The comedy is more in people's reaction to her dumping him out of a cooler onto a desk in full view of everyone.

** 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 because Chuckie spilt 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."

-->'''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".
** Snowball II's entire purpose for existing is this. It's been shown that the they used to have a white cat that they named Snowball who was hit by a car so they bought a black cat and named it [[NonIndicativeName Snowball II.]]
** 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 it's cage bent and the rabbit hopping from inside the snake before being digested.

* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'': In the episode "My Mother the Alien," Mary reluctantly allows Dick to take care of her tank full of tropical fish when she takes a trip to visit her mother. After she leaves, Dick decides the fish need a new "friend" and puts a large angelfish in the tank. The next morning, he discovers the new addition has eaten all the other fish. (This is actually not TruthInTelevision; while angelfish are carnivorous, they normally eat insects, worms, small shrimp, and ordinary commercial fish food, not other tropical fish).

** The woman asks if the man is ''sure'' it was her cat. "What did it look like?" (The teller assumes a "dead" pose) "No, no, ''before'' that!" (The teller assumes a terrified, DeerInHeadlights pose)