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'''Balloons:''' "YAY! To the Mesosphere! '''FINALLY, WE CAN DIE!"'''|''[[Adventure Time]]''}}

* Neil in the pilot episode of ''[[The Young Ones]]'' has built a gallows in the toilet that plays "Rock Around the Clock". Unfortunately for him it just pulls the overhead cistern over and he gets soaked. Meanwhile when the other three Young Ones hear it playing "Rock Around the Clock" Rick mutters, "Well, that's put the rent up by a third."

** And again when Rick melodramatically attempts to kill himself by grabbing a bottle of pills and shoving a fistful in his mouth.

* There are a few jokes in ''[[Father Ted]]'' about Jack trying to top himself.

* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' turns this into a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when a giant, existential teddy bear that's been brought to life by the wish of a six-year-old-girl attempts to kill himself (complete with a suicide note written on a ''toy blackboard''). [[Hilarity Ensues]]. This is serious [[Mood Whiplash]] however, when compared to how [[Love Martyr|depressingly straight]] the show portrays death and suicide otherwise.

** The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es0t50H44IE Kamikazee Scotsmen] sketch.

** One of Terry Gilliam's animations had a man threatening to kill himself. He eventually shot himself in the head and knocked out one of his eyeballs.

"No, very well." }}

* The short-lived [[Sitcom]] ''[[The Powers That Be]]'' focused on a US Senator and his dysfunctional family, including a suicidal son-in-law (a member of the House of Representatives). One memorably darkly funny bit had the son-in-law reading ''Final Exit'' (a book detailing various methods of suicide) with commentary ("tried it, tried that twice, like ''that's'' going to work,....")

* One Christmas episode of ''[[The Jack Benny Program]]'' had Jack shopping for presents. A [[Mel Blanc|clerk]] helps him with a gift and message, but Jack keeps recalling the gift so he can change the message. Finally, Jack decides to return the gift and get a cheaper version. The increasingly frazzled clerk ([[Mel Blanc]], at his hysterical over-the-top best) [[Suicide as Comedy|ultimately leaves to shoot himself.]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Jack hears the gunshot, then realizes he'll have to make his own change from the register.]]

** In another Christmas episode, the same clerk tries and fails to do it again.

== Theatre ==

* [[The Nostalgia Critic]] is always seen contemplating suicide as a result of the movie's he's watching, though this usually says more about the movie than the Critic.

** And like Linkara before him, he averted this [[Tear Jerker|tearjerkingly]] near the end of his "Commercials Special". If it hadn't been for his [[He's Back]] moment after, its made pretty clear that he would have died out of depression.

* [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]]'s magic gun also doubles as a ''suicide gun''. [[Driven to Madness|One famous instance]] had him attempting to ''slit his wrists'' with the gun and wailing "Why doesn't it work?!"

** {{spoiler|Heavily averted in Silent Hill Dead/Alive, when he realistically attempts suicide in horror when he was told he killed his daughter.}}

** [[Dude, Not Funny|Disturbingly averted]] by Bart in "The Boys of Bummer".

** A classic from "Three Men and a Comic Book," when Bart and Lisa discuss [[Only Six Faces|the resemblance]] between [[Casper the Friendly Ghost|Casper]] and [[Richie Rich]].

'''Marge:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|Kids, could you lighten up a little?]] }}

* ''[[Family Guy]]'':

** In a [[Manatee Gag]], Stewie is playing frisbee with a still-living [[Casper the Friendly Ghost|Casper]]. When he reappears as a ghost, Stewie apologizes, but Casper says he planned to off himself in a few days anyway.

* The ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' episode "Dumber Dolls" featured a doll named "Happy Time Harry" who is so depressingly cynical, he causes the perpetually optimistic doll Jiggle Billy to lose hope and commit suicide. Jiggle Billy's head assures Meatwad that he isn't actually ''dead'', but he ''is'' still depressed.

** Like ''[[South Park]]'' (though to a slightly lesser extent), the show has an unnerving fondness for this trope. Characters have killed themselves numerous times, though perhaps none as spectacularly as Shake in the episode "Video Ouija"; he [[Crosses the Line Twice|overdoses on sleeping pills, then slits his wrists in an electrocuted pool of piranhas while sucking on an exhaust pipe]].

* A ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon has Porky Pig admonishing his hunting dog for failing to catch a groundhog. The dog tries to kill himself with a water pistol.

** At the end of "Coon vs Coon & Friends" {{spoiler|Mysterion tired and wants to go to sleep, so he shoots himself since doing so causes him to wake up in his bed the next day}}.

* ''[[Adventure Time]]'' mentions this in passing with a group of suicidal helium balloons.

** Clarence kills himself on-screen in the episode "Ghost Princess." He is so depressed that he takes to drowning his sorrows in squeezy cheese. Eventually, he becomes so broken he decides to just put his mouth to the cheese nozzle and gorge himself on the stuff until his body fills up, like a balloon, with cheese, until he explodes. It's both hilarious and disgusting. His famous last words? "MY LIFE IS LIKE A FAAART!!!"

* In the episode of ''[[Regular Show]]'' "Death Metal Crash Pit," Muscle Man is locked in an RV as an awful death metal band plays on top of said RV. Muscle Man desperately tries to break out of the RV, screaming desperately: "HELP! This music SUCKS!" Eventually, he drives the RV into the crash pit (a big hole where Muscle Man drives broken down cars for fun), and everyone dies. And it's hilarious. The scene ends with Muscle Man as a ghost, high-fiving his friend High-Five Ghost (who was already a ghost), saying: "Best crash pit EVER!"