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Finally, [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|something considerably smaller compared to what came before]] (such as a man on a tricycle or an old lady with a cane) runs the [[MacGuffin]] over one last time just to sprinkle one last pinch of salt in the emotional wounds.
 
[['''Crush Parade]]''' is essentially an [[Exaggerated Trope|exaggerated]] form of [[Squashed Flat]] where an item that's either highly valued or greatly needed by a character that winds up falling into a street to be predictably crushed and flattened is [[Played for Laughs]] in an over-the-top, absurdly comedic fashion, usually at the expense of [[The Woobie]] or The [[Chew Toy]].
 
When this happens to actual characters, this can be a more literal form of a [[Humiliation Conga]] or a variant of [[Rasputinian Death]].
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* In "[http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt.drwho.creative/msg/36c79c70cacb9478 Space Vixens!]", an anime-esque ''[[Doctor Who]]'' elseworld, the protagonists' ship is almost sabotaged by two insurance agents -- untilagents—until the vital control unit gets a lump of shrapnel through it. Fortunately (from their point of view), that only breaks the screen. Unfortunately, what's left promptly gets trodden on by two different people, and shatters into a dozen fragments.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* At the end of ''[[The Naked Gun]]'', [[Big Bad|Vincent Ludwig]] falls off a high ledge onto a street below where he gets hit by a bus, flattened by a steam-roller, and then trampled by a marching band playing "Louie Louie."
{{quote| '''Ed:''' Oh, Frank! It's horrible. It's so horrible!<br />
'''Frank:''' ''(Comforting Ed)'' I know...<br />
'''Ed:''' My father went the same way... }}
 
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** Also, when Filbert is [[It Makes Sense in Context|fired by Rocko]], he himself ends up in the street, where he is run over by a marching band, cars, a cruise liner, a bullet train, and a stray moon.
* [[They Killed Kenny|Kenny's first ever death]] on ''[[South Park]]'' sees him blasted onto a road by an alien raygun, trampled by a herd of stampeding cows, and the killing blow comes when he's run over by Officer Barbrady's police cruiser. After that, his body is eaten by rats.
* A variation occurs in ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and& Mandy]]'', after Billy's bike crashes into a tree, it is hit by a meteor and swallowed up by the Earth.
* Happened in one episode of ''[[Chowder]]'' with the object being Mung's childhood bicycle, I mean Dice Cycle.
* Happens to Candace on an episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' when she's given her new cellphone, told if she loses this phone she won't be getting a new one. Cue Candace tripping on a rug, her phone flies out of her hand, out the window, onto a branch, onto a sunflower and landing seemingly safely in a bunch of leaves. In comes the delivery man for Phineas and Ferb's project of the day, puts down a heavy box on the phone, drives over it, backs over it not two, not three... but '''EIGHT''' times.
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