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{{quote|'''Narrator''': [[Grim Up North|In the frozen land of Nador]], [[No Party Like a Donner Party|they were forced to eat]] [[Incessant Chorus|Sir Robin's minstrels]]. [[Trope Namer|And there was much rejoicing]].<br />
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Popular in horror, thriller, and disaster movies as it allows the threat to dispatch a character or two without hurting anyone that either the other protagonists or the audience really cares about ... and may in fact be better without. The character can be (but need not be) [[Too Dumb to Live]] or [[The Millstone]].
The polar opposite of [[Antagonist in Mourning]] and [[Alas, Poor Scrappy]]. Compare AND contrast [[Lonely Funeral]]. A staple of [[Black Comedy]]. See also [[Asshole Victim]], a [[Sister Trope]]. See also [[Break the Haughty]] and [[Humiliation Conga]].
Not quite the same as [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]].
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{{quote| "They were forced to eat Robin's minstrels, and there was much rejoicing." <br />
"Yaaaaaay." }}
** Double entendre there considering that in the UK, [
* The most famous example is the song ''Ding dong the witch is dead'' from ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]'', after the Wicked Witch of the East is killed.
* At the end of [[Return of the Jedi]], universe-wide celebrations begin as soon as the Death Star explodes
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* Subverted in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0246.html this strip] of ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]''.
** The only subversion is that Miko's still alive. Maybe Elan wouldn't have specifically celebrated, but no one would've been sorry to see her go (she's routinely sent off on missions that keep her out of the country for years at a time, because not even her fellow paladins like her).
** Ironically, when she ''did'' [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0464.html die], [[Alas, Poor Scrappy|no one celebrated]].
* The cast threw a party to celebrate Kairi's death in ''[[Ansem Retort (Webcomic)|Ansem Retort]]''. They even had yummy 'Hooray Kairi's Dead' cake.
* ''[[Sequential Art (Webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' had this when Kat accidentally gives her old [[Sadist Teacher]] a fatal heart attack. Kids leaving the classroom were singing ''[[The Wizard of Oz|Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead]]''.
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** Then again, on the "Karaoke Party" DVD bonus feature, he's heard singing "Stayin' Alive" from ''inside'' the dragon, so it's seems he's [[Not Quite Dead]].
*** So that would mean [[Fridge Horror|he was slowly digested to death.]]
** In ''Shrek the Third'', the crowd witnesses the [[All Part of the Show|on-stage death]] of Prince Charming and proceed to treat it like the happy ending to a play (complete with an "Awww!" when Shrek and Fiona kiss). Of course, while Charming was the hero in the play, most of the audience still didn't [[Zero
* On ''[[Family Guy]]'', Lois and Brian celebrate when Peter's dad dies. Then the episode explains that wasn't his real father.
* On ''[[The Simpsons]]'', the family is driving to the funeral of one of Marge's relatives. Naturally, the family treats the situation with great dignity and tact.
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