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It wasn't that unbelievable to the populous [sic]. Nor did anyone feel particularly sympathetic towards her for her current situation. Some might have for lack of knowing her, but Chloe had carved herself a special place in the memories and hearts of nearly every Parisian. There was nobody who didn't know of her or have some experience with her by this point. So when it came out that she was arrested and facing criminal charges, the response was...rather telling.

Practically everyone was calling loved ones as soon as they heard, resulting in high phone and internet traffic. The Ladyblog crashed after making the announcement. Several people threw parties. People over the internet started coming up with a list of "Things We Will Be Allowed To Do Once Chloe Is In Prison", with a count that currently rested at 139 and was rising quickly. One guy bought 500 cupcakes and just started passing them out to people on the street singing a jaunty little tune from some late 1930's cult classic American movie. The school had closed down for a couple of days due to several teachers calling out sick—possibly with hangovers from celebrating a bit too hard. Various Queen-related hashtags and memes were trending with each seeming to fight for the top spot of most used. #let her eat cake was currently in the lead. And Mr. Ramier somehow orchestrated a 21 pigeon salute. On Chloe's rooftop.

Film - Live-Action

Ding-dong, the witch is dead!
Which old witch? The wicked witch!
Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead!
The Munchkins, The Wizard of Oz

Borat: You say my wife is dead?
Hotel Employee: Yes, sir. I'm sorry to inform you, but that's what the telegram says.
Borat: High five! Great!
Borat

On behalf of all the people who have gathered here,
I would just like to say, if I may.
That our unanimous attitude,
Is one of lasting gratitude,
For what our friend has done for us today.
And that is why, I'd simply like to say!
Thank you very much,
Thank you very much.
That's the nicest thing that anyone's ever done for me!
Tom Jenkins and everyone else who owes the late Ebenezer Scrooge money, Scrooge (1970)

Literature

When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices;
when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.
The Bible, Proverbs 11:10 (New International Version)

We did it, we bashed them, wee Potter's the one!
Now Voldy's gone moldy, so let's have some fun!
Peeves the Poltergeist, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Live-Action TV

Sophie: (Grinning) Good morning!
Rachel: Oh, Sophie, I guess you didn't hear about Joanna.
Sophie: I sure did!
Friends, right after Joanna is killed in a car accident.

"I suppose I should be expressing some ambivalence about the targeted killing of another human being, and yet, uh, no."
Jon Stewart on Osama bin Laden's death, The Daily Show

"I hope I am never again this happy over someone's death. And I'm sure - I know that if I saw myself in the mirror, I would be appalled by the look on my face. (pulls out a hand mirror) Nope, I like this!"
Stephen Colbert on Osama bin Laden's death, The Colbert Report

"She's as dead as disco! Hahahahaha! Who wants champagne?"
Frank Reynolds on the death of his ex-wife, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

"Death isn’t always sad. This week, the Reverend Jerry Falwell died, and millions of Americans asked, 'Why? Why, God? Why didn’t you take Pat Robertson with him?"

"Ding dong, the Wuntch is dead! Bagels for everybody!"
Raymond Holt, Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Music

Did a large procession wave their torches
As my head fell in the basket
And was everybody dancing on the casket?

We'll exhale
We'll high-five
We will know at last
How great it is to be alive
We'll be lining up
And buying tickets
And then we'll be jumping
Up and down on your grave
They Might Be Giants, "When Will You Die"

Ha ha you're dead
And I'm so happy
In loving memory
Of your demise
When your ship is going down
I'll go out and paint the town
Ha ha you're dead, ha ha you're dead, ha ha you're dead
Green Day, "Ha Ha You're Dead"

Stand-Up Comedy

"I just watched the footage of Saddam Hussein's execution... It made me wonder if there is anything on the internet that I wouldn't masturbate to."

"For £3 million, they could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we would dig a hole so deep that we could hand her over to Satan personally."
Frankie Boyle, on Margaret Thatcher's funeral costs, Mock the Week

"My heart goes out to COVID."
Chris Rock on Donald Trump being hospitalized with COVID-19, Saturday Night Live note 

Theatre

Good news! She's dead!

Video Games

"Do you know the best part about Dave? He's dead."
Karima, Borderlands 2

Tensay: Beast Master! What of Batari?
Takkar: The sun daughter is dead!
(Wenja villagers cheer, and Tensay does a brief dance with Takkar)
Tensay: Many moons from now, Wenja tell stories of Takkar the Beast Master! The hunter who ends Batari! (offers Takkar a blood potion) Drink the juice of life! Good for spirit! (to Wenja villagers) Tomorrow we hunt sun walkers! Tonight we dance with spirits!

"Dare I hope…? That the last of the unsundered… is gone?"
Fandaniel, Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers

"I have said it many times: Hugo Kupka was a murderer—but he was also a thief. A thief who robbed us of our happiness. Of our hope. And though I know it is wrong to revel in the death of another, we can take solace in the fact that he will never steal anything from us ever again. His story is ended. Thank you, Clive."
Harpocrates II Hyperboreios, Final Fantasy XVI

"Klogg is dead and we wanna celebrate it, he's pushin' up daisies, former immolated, bad guys ask why we're elated? Well, Klogg is dead!"

"The townspeople, bitter and still angry watched him frantically thrash and dive into the river until he never came back to the surface of the water. Although not what they wanted, the shop keepers were satisfied."

Webcomics

Ansem: As you know, the Kairi's tragic death...
Zexion: Tragic? We had a party, you were invited, you ate the "Hooray Kairi's Dead" cake.
Ansem: Yummy death cake aside...

"I wish I could properly express my deep sorrow over her passing, but I would first have to FEEL actual sorrow, rather than, for example, mild amusement. As the shrew has perished, we are no longer bound by the anchor that has hung around our necks these last weeks. Let her death ring in a new era of freedom for the 'Order of the Stick'!"
Vaarsuvius, The Order of the Stick #246

Commander Foxworthy: It's just wrong to bring cake and champagne to their funeral.
Captain Tagon: Somebody assassinated King Xinchub last night.
Foxworthy: I'll fab some party hats, maybe some of those noisemaker thingies.

Web Original

RIP BOZO
Rest in piss you won't be missed
Smoking that X pack
Common internet catchphrases used to celebrate a death or downfall.

Here is where I remind you that the Raiders’ original proposed stadium design included an eternal flame in memory of Al Davis, which seems redundant, given that Hell itself is ablaze 24/7. The Davis Cauldron was scrapped from the plans—I assume funds were reallocated for the stadium’s inevitable need for in-house correctional facilities—but the whole saga is a helpful reminder that the only thing worse than having your team run by a living Al Davis is having your team run by a dead Al Davis.

My father was driving in rich-man-ville Maryland and saw Daniel Snyder out by his driveway, fucking around with his rich man car bought with the tears of Skins fans. He realized a simple turn of the wheel would solve all of our problems... And though every muscle in his body was saying, “DO IT, DO IT!”, he just couldn’t. We’re still convinced he would have escaped the law via justifiable homicide, and he might have become a DC folk hero. Honestly, I’ve had an aching disappointment in the man since he told me this story.

This is the second time Cosby & Co have tried to get Justice Steven O’Neill to recuse himself. Last time, in an effort to derail his retrial, they claimed O’Neill was biased because his wife works as an advocate for sexual assault victims, but the Magic 8-Ball came back “my reply is no“. This time Bill’s legal team shook the Magic 8-Ball and it came up “concentrate and ask again” so they are now claiming a long-standing political bias against him... Prosecutors claim that he went “above and beyond to avoid giving truthful testimony” and that this motion by Cosby & Co is nothing but the latest in an ongoing attempt to “avert a long overdue day of reckoning”, to which the Magic 8-Ball says “without a doubt“. Judge O’Neill has yet to rule on this latest request but I hope the Magic 8-Ball comes up with a big old “don’t count on it”.
DListed, "Prosecutors Accuse Bill Cosby Of Trying To Delay His Sentencing"

But in spite of all of that, the very worst thing about Khomeini was that he had absolutely no sense of humour, claiming, “There is no room for play in Islam: there are no jokes, there is no joy, there is no humour. It is deadly serious about everything.”'' We, at least, found joy in his joyless death.'
Rational Wiki on Ruhollah Khomeini

FOX had a camera on Pimp Mama Kris’ face the moment they told her that her talk show would not be coming back and they plan to sell the footage to psychiatrists who will use it as a visual anti-depressant on their patients. Because nothing will make you feel like a ball of sunshine like seeing a piece of Pimp Mama Kris’ Whore Kingdom come crumbling down. FOX is going to wait a week or three to announce it and they plan to slip the news out on a Friday afternoon, hoping that nobody will notice. It will be hard not to notice when everyone’s screaming the news from the top of rainbows and skipping down the streets while toasting each other with cups full of Andre.
Michael K., "Or maybe Universal Studios will buy it from FOX to use in their Addams Family attraction since it’s kind of hard to reproduce creepiness like that"

Web Video

And then, Luthor died, and everyone was happy.

Real Life

"I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."
Clarence Darrow

"You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”

...Kennedy Center, a real estate metaphor for the arts in America. As a member of the Advisory Council on the the Arts (my advice had been, Don't build the center), I was at the groundbreaking. The Kennedys were all on display... President Johnson wore a white camel's hair coat and a suit of rich green never before seen on a first magistrate, or perhaps anywhere on earth. He shoveled the dirt with casual contempt, more Kennedy gravedigger than keeper of the flame.
Gore Vidal, Palimpsest

"There is no such thing as society" - Margaret Thatcher, 1985
"There is no such thing as Margaret Thatcher" - Society, 2013.
— British joke in the wake of Thatcher's final retirement

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