History Main / WentToTheGreatXInTheSky

* In the ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'' episode "Axed by Addition", Pete is informed by doctors at the hospital that his son P.J. is gone. He misinterprets this as meaning that P.J. is dead and laments that his son has gone to the little playground in the sky.

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* [[Series/LabRats Lab Rats]]: In ''Drone Alone'', it was shown that Donald made an assistance video to help the others in case he dies, where he says that he must have gone to the big hard drive in the sky.

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* "The Great Gig in the Sky" is the 5th track on Music/PinkFloyd's 1973 album ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon''. (The phrase has become popular for this trope since then, especially regarding musicians dying.)
** It certainly helps that the song's main composer was Richard Wright, the first member of the post-Barrett lineup to [[UnusualEuphemism arrive at the gig]].

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* In a ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip, a spider wants to take revenge for his grandfather whom, as he says, Garfield sent to "that big web in the sky".
** Another strip of the same series mentions that Jon's curtains have gone to "that big bay window in the sky".

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* In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0222.html this]] ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'' strip, the wife of a dirt farmer, when reunited with him, states that she was afraid that he had gone to the "Great Dirt Pile in the Sky".

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* In ''[[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Yu-Gi-Oh Bonds Beyond Time: Abridged]]'', after Yugi's grandpa dies.
-->'''Yugi:''' It finally happened, he went up to that great big basement in the sky.

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-->'''Shriek:''' You're going to that great big litter box in the sky!
-->'''Lube:''' ''(Looks up)'' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Where?]]

-->'''Jon:''' My guitar is crushed! It's gone! Kaput!
-->'''Garfield:''' Gone to that big tuning fork in the sky, huh?
* From the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' episode "Gummis At Sea":

** [[spoiler: It was actually a DisneyDeath for Tummi, but still...]]

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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' compilation special "The Pertwee Years," Jon Pertwee talks about how the story "Inferno" featured the final appearance of William Hartnell's original TARDIS console, before it was sent "to that great junk-heap in the sky."

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' episode "Smog Hog", Wheeler reacts to [[CrazyJealousGuy Hoggish Greedly's son Junior flirting with Linka]] by saying that he'll send him to the great pigsty in the sky.

** The episodes "Over Cooked Beans" and "Are You There, S.M.I.T.S.? It's Me, Samson!" have the campers (or at least Lazlo) use "Scout Master in the Sky", or "Smits" for short, as an UnusualEuphemism for {{God}}.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'', the campers (or at least Lazlo) use "Scout Master in the Sky", or "Smits" for short, as an UnusualEuphemism for {{God}}. One episode centers on an air-conditioning unit that drops out of an airplane and becomes something of a Holy Grail in the middle of a heat wave. In another episode, Lazlo says the campers went to the "great big cabin in the sky" when he believes the other campers have been eaten by a snake. It turns out they are all sitting in a nearby tree.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' saw Shaggy use the line "great big boneyard in the sky" after seeing Scooby-Doo apparently [[TakenForGranite turned to stone]] by the VillainOfTheWeek. [[spoiler:It turned out to be quick-mix cement.]]

An UnusualEuphemism used to describe a character's death (regardless of whether it has actually occured), where X is a place that exemplifies the deceased's personality, interests or habits.

May or may not be a subtrope of NeverSayDie (depending on the target audience of the work) and, should that be the case, a SisterTrope (albeit more versatile) to HeDidntMakeIt. It may also overlap with NoLongerWithUs (in which case it is almost always PlayedForLaughs) if the character has really gone to some great X in the sky (and this is mistook as an euphemism), or if the character has really died (and others believe that he has gone to the great X in the sky).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' AdventureGame, the babies' Reptar toy accidently ends up in the garbage can outside. Angelica says that Reptar is going "To that biiig dump truck in the sky!". Phil responds "They have those?".
* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', one of the game over messages said by [[spoiler: the hallucination Joker]] is that Batman has gone to join mom and dad in that big country club in the sky.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' episode "So Life Like", Throttle makes a quip about the Biker Mice's evil duplicates going to the big syndicated channel in the sky.

* In the ''Barracuda'' miniseries, Barracuda asks his old army associate what might've put the local mafia family on his ass, "Outsida the same ol' lista complaints they always got." He responds with "Outsida all them guineas you sent to the great olive garden in the sky, you mean."

* In ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'', the campers (or at least Lazlo) use "Scout Master in the Sky", or "Smits" for short, as an UnusualEuphemism for {{God}}. One episode centers on an air-conditioning unit that drops out of an airplane and becomes something of a Holy Grail in the middle of a heat wave.

* In the direct-to-TV movie ''TopCat and the Beverly Hills Cats'', T.C. and the gang regretfully inform the niece of Gertrude Vandergelt that her aunt has "gone to the great country club in the sky".

* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog''

* In ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' towards Cat:

* In the ''WesternAnimation/WildWestCowboysOfMooMesa'' episode "Circus Daze", the Great Bovini gets his clown henchman to retrieve his hypnotizing crystal by threatening to send him to the Big Top in the sky.

* Subverted in ''TheHairBearBunch'' episode "The Bear Who Came To Dinner": Square Bear is faking an injury and Peevly is forced to take care of him. Peevly tries to prove Square is faking when the superintendent arrives and wants to know why Square is in Peevly's bed. Hair Bear tells him that Peevly helped pull Square back "from that big bear cave in the sky."