Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,141
edits
Pet Heir: Difference between revisions
→Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy: added example
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (image markup, standardized section headers, replace disambiguation link, markup) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (→Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy: added example) |
||
| (One intermediate revision by one other user not shown) | |||
Line 27:
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Discworld]]:
** In ''[[
** This forms a major part of the plot in ''[[
* A young adult novel (the title of which this troper cannot recall) featured a variant of this trope. A [[Uncle Pennybags|wealthy old lady]] left her estate and [[Big Fancy House|house]] to her cat for the rest of its natural life, under the care of a trustee; after the cat's death the house is to go to the city for a park. The book opens with the protagonists becoming suspicious of how long the cat has lived under the guardian's care, and they [[You Meddling Kids|start to investigate]].
* In H. Allen Smith's 1946 novel ''Rhubarb'' ([[The Film of the Book|filmed]] in 1951), a [[Eccentric Millionaire|cranky millionaire]] leaves everything—including a major league baseball team—to his [[Cats Are Mean|cat]] Rhubarb. The team's players and the millionaire's disinherited daughter are among those who have problems with this.
Line 49:
* [[David Cross]] had a hilarious bit once about rich people who die and leave their vast fortunes to their cats.
{{quote|"And all my money goes to Miss Cinderella, so she can live in luxury, like the princess she is. Also, fuck the homeless."}}
* The famous "Last Will and Temperament" sketch by [[The Frantics]], in which family members gathered for a [[Will|will reading]] all receive a "boot to the head", plays with this trope when it appears that the late Mr. Muldoon's cat Mittens will receive "...my entire vast ... ''boot to the head!''" <THUD> (Cue [[That Poor Cat]].)
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
Line 80 ⟶ 81:
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]
[[Category:Just for Pun]]
[[Category:Pet and Animal Companion Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Pet Heir]]
[[Category:Will and Inheritance Tropes]]
| |||