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* The depiction of Hell in ''Highway to Hell''. It included a diner and a strip club.
* ''[[Monty Pythons Meaning of Life]]'': Heaven is the cheesiest Vegas-style cabaret you could possibly imagine, complete with sub-Tony Bennett crooner and terrible dancers. And to make matters worse, it's always ''Christmas'' there.
* The film ''[[Wristcutters a Love Story]]'' featured an afterlife for suicides where everything was exactly like the real world only depressingly drab, broken, and [[Unnaturally Blue Lighting|devoid of color or warmth.]] Also, you weren't allowed to smile. In other words, [[Self
* In the Albert Brooks comedy ''[[Defending Your Life]],'' the "in-between" plane is an idealized resort setting where the dead dine in fine restaurants and generally enjoy themselves until it's time to be judged, after which time they will either be sent on to Heaven if they're deemed ready or reincarnated if the powers that be decide they still have more to learn on Earth. Their Judgment takes place in a courtroom setting, complete with lawyers and counselors. When it's time for the souls to go to wherever the powers have deemed they are to go, they travel there on trams like you'd see in Disney World.
* ''[[The Bothersome Man]]'' invokes this trope flawlessly, depicting afterlife as a consumerism urban life so ''normal'' it's devoid of all deep emotions and feelings (even the consumerist ones, including smell, taste and alcohol highs), complete with absolute contentment and indifference of all the people around (even if you've just cut off your finger on an office cutter). Needless to say it's vague about the city being Heaven, Hell or Purgatory.
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