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* CelestialBureaucracy: Thomas is a human who died while dressed as an animal mascot. He says he wound up in the animal afterlife because of a computer error.
* GoodNewsBadNews: How Al breaks the news over what Grandma Wanker did to the new pet bird.
-->'''Al''': Well, uh... I've got some good news, and I've got some bad news. The good news is Tweety knew over 150 words.\\
'''Bud''': Well, what's the, um, what's the bad news, Dad?\\
'''Al''': Bad news is that none of them were "Please don't eat me."
-->'''Al''': Well, uh... I've got some good news, and I've got some bad news. The good news is Tweety knew over 150 words.\\
'''Bud''': Well, what's the, um, what's the bad news, Dad?\\
'''Al''': Bad news is that none of them were "Please don't eat me."
* InelegantBlubbering: Kelly does this in response to Buck's death.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'', courtesy of ''Creator/BenStein'' as he checks his list.
-->[[BrokenRecord Bundy...? Bundy...? Buck Bundy?]]
* TemptingFate: Near the end of the episode, Kelly believes Buck has given her a sign to find another dog as replacement. Al argues that it's past 9 P.M. and he's too broke to get another dog, only for Buck's reincarnated canine form to appear in the Bundy household before he finishes his argument.
-->[[BrokenRecord Bundy...? Bundy...? Buck Bundy?]]
* TemptingFate: Near the end of the episode, Kelly believes Buck has given her a sign to find another dog as replacement. Al argues that it's past 9 P.M. and he's too broke to get another dog, only for Buck's reincarnated canine form to appear in the Bundy household before he finishes his argument.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** To ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'', courtesy of ''Creator/BenStein'' as he checks his list.
-->[[BrokenRecord --->[[BrokenRecord Bundy...? Bundy...? Buck Bundy?]]
** Al describes his mother-in-law as Film/FreeWilly.
** Kelly names her new (and not long for this world) bird [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Tweety]].
* TakeThat: Finding himself in the afterlife, Buck questions where he is.
-->'''Thomas''': You're where animals go when they die.\\
'''Buck''': I'm in Oprah's refrigerator?!
* TemptingFate: Near the end of the episode, Kelly believes Buck has given her a sign to find another dog as replacement. Al argues that it's past 9 P.M. and he's too broke to get another dog, only for Buck's reincarnated canine form to appear in the Bundy household before he finishes hisargument.argument.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Buck is reincarnated as Lucky in the Bundy household in a flash, the characters all gather around and marvel over this. Trying to get bearings, the new puppy observes the voices sound very familiar.
** To ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'', courtesy of ''Creator/BenStein'' as he checks his list.
** Al describes his mother-in-law as Film/FreeWilly.
** Kelly names her new (and not long for this world) bird [[WesternAnimation/SylvesterTheCatAndTweetyBird Tweety]].
* TakeThat: Finding himself in the afterlife, Buck questions where he is.
-->'''Thomas''': You're where animals go when they die.\\
'''Buck''': I'm in Oprah's refrigerator?!
* TemptingFate: Near the end of the episode, Kelly believes Buck has given her a sign to find another dog as replacement. Al argues that it's past 9 P.M. and he's too broke to get another dog, only for Buck's reincarnated canine form to appear in the Bundy household before he finishes his
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Buck is reincarnated as Lucky in the Bundy household in a flash, the characters all gather around and marvel over this. Trying to get bearings, the new puppy observes the voices sound very familiar.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Al is crying about Buck's death because the funeral cost him $1200.
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* BigNo: The episode ends with Buck, now reincarnated as Lucky, letting out this line upon realizing that he's sentenced to live another lifetime as the Bundy family dog.
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* BigNo: The episode ends with Buck, now reincarnated as Lucky, letting out this line upon realizing that [[FateWorseThanDeath he's sentenced to live another lifetime as the Bundy family dog.dog]].
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* GraveHumor: Al's reaction to Kelly naming the new dog "Lucky".
-->'''Kelly''': Let's call him "Lucky" -- Lucky Bundy.
-->'''Al''': Gee, I was saving that name for my tombstone.
-->'''Kelly''': Let's call him "Lucky" -- Lucky Bundy.
-->'''Al''': Gee, I was saving that name for my tombstone.
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* KangarooCourt: What else can it be when you're a dog on trail in a court, your judge is a cat that hates your guts, and your defense lawyer is a mouse that gets devoured by said cat?
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* KangarooCourt: What else can it be when you're a dog on trail trial in a court, your judge is a cat that hates your guts, and your defense lawyer is a mouse that gets devoured by said cat?
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* BlackComedyPetDeath: While Kelly is upset over Buck's death, he's 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 Marcy says that he didn't know how to roll over and play dead, Al quips "until now".
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* BlackComedyPetDeath: While Kelly is upset over Buck's death, he's in heaven "on trial" with a cat as a judge and ''Ben Stein'' ''Creator/BenStein'' as a bailiff dressed like a chicken and the rest of the family crack jokes. Even at one point when Marcy says that he didn't know how to roll over and play dead, Al quips "until now".now".
* BrokenRecord: To be expected when ''Creator/BenStein'' makes a ShoutOut to ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''.
-->Bundy...? Bundy...? Buck Bundy?
* BrokenRecord: To be expected when ''Creator/BenStein'' makes a ShoutOut to ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff''.
-->Bundy...? Bundy...? Buck Bundy?
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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'', courtesy of ''Creator/BenStein'' as he checks his list.
-->[[BrokenRecord Bundy...? Bundy...? Buck Bundy?]]
-->[[BrokenRecord Bundy...? Bundy...? Buck Bundy?]]
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* BlackComedyPetDeath: While Kelly is upset over Buck's death, he's 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".
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* BlackComedyPetDeath: While Kelly is upset over Buck's death, he's 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 Marcy says that he didn't know how to roll over and play dead, Al quips "until now".
* IronicName: Kelly names the new dog "Lucky". [[FateWorseThanDeath Buck, now reincarnated as the new dog in the same Bundy household as punishment for the misdeeds in his previous life]], would beg to differ.
-->[[BigNo NOOOOOOO!]]
-->[[BigNo NOOOOOOO!]]
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: When Kelly is upset after Buck's death, Jefferson gets a friend of his, a crooked customs agent who would smuggle in endangered animals for a fee, to get [[ReplacementGoldfish a rare South American bird as a replacement]]. Kelly really likes it, but then [[BigEater Grandma Wanker]] gets hungry...
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: When Kelly is upset after Buck's death, Jefferson gets a friend of his, a crooked customs agent who would smuggle in endangered animals for a fee, to get [[ReplacementGoldfish a rare South American bird as a replacement]]. Kelly really likes it, but then [[BigEater Grandma Wanker]] gets hungry...hungry...
* TemptingFate: Near the end of the episode, Kelly believes Buck has given her a sign to find another dog as replacement. Al argues that it's past 9 P.M. and he's too broke to get another dog, only for Buck's reincarnated canine form to appear in the Bundy household before he finishes his argument.
* TemptingFate: Near the end of the episode, Kelly believes Buck has given her a sign to find another dog as replacement. Al argues that it's past 9 P.M. and he's too broke to get another dog, only for Buck's reincarnated canine form to appear in the Bundy household before he finishes his argument.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: When Kelly is upset after Buck's death, Jefferson gets a friend of his, a crooked customs agent who would smuggle in endangered animals for a fee, to get a rare South American bird as a replacement. Kelly really likes it, but then [[BigEater Grandma Wanker]] gets hungry...
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* ReplacementGoldfish: "Bird" in this case, as [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections Jefferson uses his connection to get a rare South American bird as a replacement pet for Kelly]]. It would have worked out fine, had it not met Grandma Wanker when she's feeling hungry...
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: When Kelly is upset after Buck's death, Jefferson gets a friend of his, a crooked customs agent who would smuggle in endangered animals for a fee, to get [[ReplacementGoldfish a rare South American bird as areplacement.replacement]]. Kelly really likes it, but then [[BigEater Grandma Wanker]] gets hungry...
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: When Kelly is upset after Buck's death, Jefferson gets a friend of his, a crooked customs agent who would smuggle in endangered animals for a fee, to get [[ReplacementGoldfish a rare South American bird as a
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* BigNo: The episode ends with Buck, now reincarnated as Lucky, letting out this line upon realizing that he's sentenced to live another lifetime as the Bundy family dog.
-->NOOOOOOO!
-->NOOOOOOO!
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* FateWorseThanDeath: When Buck dies and is taken to Animal Heaven, he is denied entrance for being a very bad dog (especially where cats are involved). His punishment? He is sentenced to live ANOTHER horrible lifetime with the Bundys as the reincarnated Lucky.
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* KangarooCourt: What else can it be when you're a dog on trail in a court, your judge is a cat that hates your guts, and your defense lawyer is a mouse that gets devoured by said cat?
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* KangarooCourt: What else can it be when you're a dog on trail in a court, your judge is a cat that hates your guts, and your defense lawyer is a mouse that gets devoured by said cat?cat?
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: When Kelly is upset after Buck's death, Jefferson gets a friend of his, a crooked customs agent who would smuggle in endangered animals for a fee, to get a rare South American bird as a replacement. Kelly really likes it, but then [[BigEater Grandma Wanker]] gets hungry...
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: When Kelly is upset after Buck's death, Jefferson gets a friend of his, a crooked customs agent who would smuggle in endangered animals for a fee, to get a rare South American bird as a replacement. Kelly really likes it, but then [[BigEater Grandma Wanker]] gets hungry...
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The episode starts with the official death of Buck the dog, which leaves Kelly hysterically upset, with everyone else trying to help console her. In the meanwhile, Buck is on trial in dog heaven for his fate, which goes badly for him when the judge is a cat that hates him and the defense lawyer is a mouse.
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The episode starts with the official death of Buck the dog, dog after a car struck him, which leaves Kelly hysterically upset, with everyone else trying to help console her. In the meanwhile, Buck is on trial in dog heaven for his fate, which goes badly for him when the judge is a cat that hates him and the defense lawyer is a mouse.
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* BlackComedyPetDeath: While Kelly is upset over Buck's death, he's 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".
* KangarooCourt: What else can it be when you're a dog on trail in a court, your judge is a cat that hates your guts, and your defense lawyer is a mouse that gets devoured by said cat?
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* BlackComedyPetDeath: While Kelly is upset over Buck's death, he's 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".
* KangarooCourt: What else can it be when you're a dog on trail in a court, your judge is a cat that hates your guts, and your defense lawyer is a mouse that gets devoured by said cat?
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"Requiem For A Dead Briard" is an episode in the tenth season of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.
The episode starts with the official death of Buck the dog, which leaves Kelly hysterically upset, with everyone else trying to help console her. In the meanwhile, Buck is on trial in dog heaven for his fate, which goes badly for him when the judge is a cat that hates him and the defense lawyer is a mouse.
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The episode starts with the official death of Buck the dog, which leaves Kelly hysterically upset, with everyone else trying to help console her. In the meanwhile, Buck is on trial in dog heaven for his fate, which goes badly for him when the judge is a cat that hates him and the defense lawyer is a mouse.
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