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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|'''Sheldon''': What do you wanna be when you grow up, Dante?~~<br />~~ '''Dante''': I'm not sure. I like working with people... But I like being alone, too...~~<br />~~ '''Sheldon''': How about being a mortician--best of both worlds.~~<br />~~ '''Dante''': Heeeey... Not bad.\|''[http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/020212.html Sheldon Comic]''}} Line 9: If they accidentally encounter a living person instead of an expectedly dead one, it may be related to [[Waking Up At the Morgue]] or [[Buried Alive]]. Also see [[Black Comedy]]. {{examples~~\|Examples:~~}} == [[Film]] == * Tony Todd's character in the first two ''[[Final Destination]]'' movies seemed to know a ''lot'' more about recent goings-on than he let on. Oh, and he also sounded like the Antichrist. * This character is a staple of bad movies, if the morticians of [[~~MST3K~~Mystery Science Theater 3000]] are any indication. The mortician from ''Agent for HARM'', for example (played by Robert Donner, better known as Exidor from [[Mork and Mindy]]): {{quote\| '''Morgue Attendant:''' (grinning) Mr. Chance? Dr. Stefanik? May I present Mr. Henry Manson? (solemnly) I'll prepare the autopsy room.~~<br />~~ '''Mike Nelson:''' My apologies for my odd performance. }} There's also Smolken, the gravedigger in ''[[The Undead (~~Film~~film)\|The Undead]]'' who'll sing death or plague-related songs on a dime. * Averted in ''[[Return of the Living Dead]]'', in which Ernie the embalmer is portrayed as a regular guy, albeit a tad quick to pull a pistol if someone surprises him in his workshop. Which is justified even before the [[Zombie Apocalypse]], as his mortuary is in a bad neighborhood. == [[Literature]] == * In Neil Gaiman's ''[[~~American Gods (Literature)\|~~American Gods]]'', Ibis and Jacquel's Funeral Parlor is run by two Egyptian gods, one of whom consumes a part of every organ of the deceased. == [[Live Action TV]] == * The ''[[CSI]]'' series and its spinoffs, as most criminal shows, features forensic pathologists as side characters. They're particularly fond of [[One -Liner\|one liners]] whenever they find anything interesting about the person's corpse or death during the autopsy. * ''[[~~Murdoch Mysteries (TV)\|~~Murdoch Mysteries]]'' has a woman pathologist as one of the main characters - a lady capable of "quoting poetry while cutting a man's body open". * ''[[Six Feet Under]]'', a series about a family-run funeral home, subverts this trope. The characters have their issues, but they always attempt to treat the deceased with respect and provide some consolation to the families. * ''[[Kolchak the Night Stalker\|Kolchak: The Night Stalker]]'' has morgue attendant Gordon "Gordy the Ghoul" Spangler, an exceedingly chipper fellow who runs a lottery at the morgue for crime reporters. Played by none other than [[Winnie the Pooh\|Piglet]]! * Sam leaped into a mortician in an episode of ''[[Quantum Leap]]'', who was already regarded as rather distasteful by the people in town, and then he started trying to solve the murder of his most recent corpse, asking questions and pawing through her things. Since he was the protagonist it didn't really play that way, but when a guy whose job involves his arms being elbow-deep in the recently deceased starts demanding answers to questions about your sex life... * ''[[~~NCIS (TV)\|~~NCIS]]'' gives us Dr Donald "Ducky" Mallard. His habits include going into unnecessary detail in describing what he is doing around the team, talking to those he is performing an autopsy on, and his criminal psychology degree means that he talks about the mess in a killer's mind with almost as much detail as he describes the mess in the body of their victims. Also, Gibbs will occasionally bring an uncooperative suspect down so Ducky can explain to them ''exactly'' what will happen to their bodies if they continue not to cooperate. == [[Radio]] == * The '40s and '50s radio (and later TV) sitcom ''The Life of Riley'' had a comedic version of this in Riley's pal Digby "Digger" O'Dell, "The Friendly Undertaker", who specialized in hilariously morbid [[~~Pun\|puns~~pun]]s referencing his line of work, such as his usual greeting ("Hello, Riley. You're looking very...''natural'' today") and signoff ("Well, goodbye, Riley. I'd better be...shoveling off"). == [[Theatre]] == Line 47: [[Category:Occupation Tropes]] [[Category:Creepy Mortician]] ~~[[Category:Trope]]~~