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SpecializedA specialized [[Montages|montage]] mostlyassociated limited towith [[Award Show|award shows]]s, which strings together film clips featuring everyone from the show's specific field of endeavor who died during the previous year. Typically synchronized with a medley of stirring and/or sad music, with theme songs thrown in for good measure when the deceased worked in television or film.
 
Too often it degrades into a weird sort of popularity contest for the people at home, as the actors and actresses featured inevitably get more applause than the costume designers and writers. You have to wonder why they just don't go for the moment of silence.
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Not to be confused with a [[Really Dead Montage]].
 
{{noreallife|Real Life does not have montages.}}
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== [[Live -Action TelevisionTV]] ==
 
* Every broadcast of the [[Academy Awards]], the Grammys and the Emmys includes one.
** One Emmy telecast also had a parody courtesy of ''[[South Park]]''—the — the montage presented by the boys brought up [[Once an Episode|Kenny again and again]], and apparently ''God'' died too. And then Kenny died ''again'' when a setpiece crushed him.
** During the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, this was parodied with a montage of ''[[Deader Than Disco]]'' performers (i.e., Vanilla Ice) set to [[Michael Jackson|Michael Jackson's]] "Gone Too Soon".
* The US Sunday morning news programs, like ''This Week'', also will have montages of notable deaths during the past seven days.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
 
* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons]],'' there is an Obituary Montage for words that were taken out of the dictionary.
** In another episode, Homer daydreams about making an acceptance speech and a robot killing him for going over the time limit. The robot then segues into an Obituary Montage, of which the first photo is Homer himself.