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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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* Dr Romano of ''[[ER]]'' died quite horribly, but he was such a [[Jerkass]] only one character really gave a damn. Another even twisted the knife posthumously by naming a wing for LGBT patients after the notorious homophobe.
* In one of the final episodes of ''[[Oz]]'' Beecher unknowingly kills Vern Schillinger, in a [[The Scottish Trope|staged performance of Macbeth]]. When the audience of prison inmates finds out, everyone immediately starts cheering to high heavens and pumping their fists. Granted Schillinger was a malicious Nazi rapist, who performed [[Complete Monster|a good deal of horrible actions throughout his lifetime]].
** This appears to be the response to any act of violence witnessed by the inmates. A notable exception is when Simon Adebisi, a [[Scary Black Man|feared Nigerian gangster]] who's been ruling Em City as a trustee, is
* In an episode of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' where Sabrina uses these products to make Harvey [[Ambition Is Evil|more ambitious]], to the point where he's alienated from Sabrina and only cares about his ambitions of being a money-making businessman, she shows him what could happen if he continues (a la ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''). At the end of the montage they see a party which is Harvey's funeral. They're happy because he was a jerk who didn't spend time with his family and cut down all of the trees (except one) in Westbridge.
* An episode of ''[[The Commish]]'' had two police officers agonizing endlessly over the best way to break a death notice to a man's family, only to find they're overjoyed about his death.
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* The Dixie Chicks' ''Goodbye Earl'', about a woman who, with the help of a high-school friend, kills her abusive husband Earl. In the video, the whole town celebrates Earl's death.
* In French, ''The Lion Sleeps Tonight'' was translated as ''Le lion est mort ce soir'', which means ''The lion died tonight''. So the lyrics' tone changed to somewhat fit this trope...
* ''[[Dos Gringos]]'', a band comprised of [[Yanks With Tanks|United States Air Force]] fighter pilots, has a song called ''The Predator Eulogy''
* Steam's "(Kiss Him) Goodbye" (Na Na Na Na/Hey Hey/Goodbye) is often used as such. On occasion, Ray Charles' "Hit the Road, Jack" as well.
* [[Elvis Costello]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t4-zDem1Sk Tramp The Dirt Down]" is about how he'll celebrate when Margaret Thatcher dies.
** As is Hefner's "The Day That Thatcher Dies", complete with a [[Kids Rock|children's choir]] singing "[[The Wizard of Oz|Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead]]!"
* "Ringo" by Lorne Greene (of ''[[Bonanza]]'' fame). The spoken-word narrative, which reached No. 1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1964, is a first-person account of an ex-outlaw-turned-Western lawman, and his encounters and relationship with the title character and antagonist, a notorious gunfighter who spread terror as he engages in a crime spree in the Old West. Toward the end of the song, the two meet (for the first time in several years) and engage in a gunfight.
* [[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]] anticipate this kind of end—up to and including bank holidays—for the unnamed "you" of "When Will You Die?"
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== Web Original ==
* The cast of ''[[Kickassia]]'' cheer when they've beaten [[The Nostalgia Critic]] to death ([[Disney Death|he's really just unconscious]]), and then they fight over who gets his hat and therefore, get to be the ruler of the nation. Big on [[Gray and Gray Morality]] that special.
* A bit of a subjective case, but the fact that ''Encyclopedia Dramatica'' was shut down made some users rejoice. Or, to put it better, the [[Troll]] [[Hatedom]]<ref>
* During his review of ''[[A Troll in Central Park]]'', [[The Nostalgia Critic]] cheered when [[The Scrappy|Stanley]] was [[Taken for Granite]] near the end of the movie.
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*** Again with Mr. Burns, when he disappeared and was believed dead, so many people decided to spit on his grave it became a pool of spit.
** During the funeral for Homer's mother, Abe commented that he'd imagined himself dancing on it but no longer had the mood. (He was wearing tap shoes during the funeral)
** In the Season 8 episode "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show," the introduction of the character [[The Poochie|Poochie]] (a dog "with an attitude") as an attempt to regain falling viewershp is universally panned, save for Homer (who coincidentally is Poochie's voice). The Poochie character is such a spectacular failure that the production company is forced to immediately abandon the character and hastily write him out before his second cartoon. When that cartoon
* In ''[[The Smurfs]]'' episode "For The Love Of Gargamel", Gargamel and Azrael get [[Taken for Granite|turned to stone]] by [[Hoist by His Own Petard|the very potion]] the evil wizard intended to use on the Smurfs. The Smurfs take advantage of Gargamel's demise by having a celebration. Of course, Papa Smurf, realizing that they would be no better than Gargamel for leaving him and his cat in such a frozen state, does not join in the celebration, but rather has the Smurfs [[Save the Villain|gather ingredients for a potion to unfreeze Gargamel and Azrael]]. Of course, [[Ungrateful Bastard|Gargamel still rants and raves about getting even with the Smurfs]] after he and his cat are de-petrified.
** In the Season 2 intro, the Smurfs do a merry circle dance around a staked-down Gargamel and Azrael.
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