The Fun in Funeral: Difference between revisions

* In the ''[[Deadpool]]'' issue ''Funeral for a Freak'', Deadpool, who had died in the previous issue when he turned against the agency he had been working for, was able to attend his own funeral. What made this issue unique was that the entire issue was "Silent", with no dialogue. Deadpool plays various gags on the mourners as a ghost, such as getting a blind woman -- Blind Al, for those familiar -- to fall into his grave. He eventually crosses to the afterlife, where [[Death]] is waiting to seduce him, but is returned to life before anything occurs.

** This [[The Fun in Funeral|funeral is so much fun]] that {{spoiler|the last scene of the sketch shows the funeral home's sign, telling passers-by that the funeral has been held over several weeks}}.

* In ''Revenge of [[The Pink Panther]]'', most of the world believes that Chief Inspector Clouseau has been killed, including his old supervisor Dreyfus, who had been committed to an asylum because of his murderous hatred for Clouseau. He recovers his sanity and his position upon Clouseau's death, and is asked to eulogize him, to which he ineffectively protests. Dreyfus, holding back his tears, delivers a moving performance -- struggling to suppress his laughter. Clouseau sneaks into the burial in disguise and reveals his face to Dreyfus, who falls stunned into the grave.

* In ''[[Man on the Moon]]'', after [[Andy Kaufman]] (played by [[Jim Carrey]]) found a bit of [[Gallows Humor]] in a fake treatment for his cancer, it cuts to his funeral... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roKZ1cN_N50 where he'd, apparently, requested a sing-a-long be performed] by those in attendance. A very weird mix of [[Tear Jerker]] and [[The Fun in Funeral]] ensue.

* ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'': The classic "funeral" episode, and widely hailed as the [[Crowning Moment of Funny|funniest sitcom episode]] ''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|ever]]'', is "Chuckles the Clown Bites the Dust." Aired early in the show's sixth season, Chuckles, the host of WJM-TV's children's show, is killed during a freak incident at a circus parade; an elephant goes wild and during the rampage, Chuckles -- dressed as a peanut -- is caught in the chaos, knocked down and trampled beneath the pachyderm's weight. When the death is announced, Mary had berated her fellow co-workers for taking Chuckles' death seriously and instead laughing at the silly circumstances of his death; "He was dressed as a peanut and the elephant tried to shell him," remarks one. Then, when the funeral takes place, Mary suddenly breaks out in uncontrollable hysterics ... and then the priest presiding tells her that, as a clown, Chuckles would ''want'' her to laugh, at which point she starts bawling uncontrollably instead..

* On ''[[Monk]]'''s [[Pilot]] episode, Monk drops his keys into the casket from a balcony seat, and proceeds to attempt to fetch them by lowering a paper-clip on a string into the casket. [[The Fun in Funeral]] comes when he accidentally hooks the corpse's sleeve, causing it to "wave" to the mourners.

** By the end of the speech, though, it's touched on touching. House says, essentially, that the person he is -- good and bad -- is because of his father.

* ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'' did something right with this one; Will's yelling at his uncle's Jerkass [[The Rival|political rival]] leads him to have a heart attack. When his funeral comes around, all the mourners turn out to hate him (for very good reasons, mind you: for example, one of them was a Mexican gardener whom the rival hired to tend his garden and when it was time to pay, ''called Immigration'') and most of them have showed up to make sure he is actually dead. Will -- wracked by guilt -- yells at them all for it saying they should respect the dead but when they ask who he is, he answers "I'm the dude that killed him" to [[Broken Aesop|rapturous applause]].

* ''[[Titus]]'' had a Christmas episode of all things that dealt with this. Titus goes to the funeral of an ex-girlfriend -- not because he loved her and wanted to say goodbye, but to make sure the funeral wasn't an elaborate ruse for her to attack him for dumping her (As mentioned in the episode, "Dad is Dead" and on the comedy special, "Norman Rockwell is Bleeding," Titus's first girlfriend was a 5'1, 100 lb. Jewish girl who, like Titus's mom, was beautiful, sexy, very smart, and a bipolar wackjob who often abused him and used sex to manipulate him).

** According to the comedy special "The 5th Annual End of the World Tour," Titus had to deal with his dad's funeral, who requested that he be put in a cardboard box <ref> Titus ended up putting his dad in a rental casket, with his brotehr, Dave, asking, "Who brought it back?"</ref> and peed on by everyone he angered in his life while Willie Nelson's "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" played. After the ceremony, Ken's body was to be cremated and Titus had to find a douche bottle and a hooker so Ken can be "run through one more time." Titus couldn't go through with that plan, so he spread his father's ashes all over some Victoria's Secret dressing rooms and at a Caesar's Palace casino in Lake Tahoe, Nevada while singing "Amazing Grace" with his brother, Dave, and his sister, Shannon.

* The cast of ''[[Lexx]]'' spends an episode hiding from authorities in an Ohio funeral parlor. The director has them attend to a grieving family -- unwisely, for as Xev puts it, "we're from a parallel universe, and people there are mostly put in the protein bank and fed to a giant insect."

* Season Five, Ep2 of ''[[Doc Martin]]'' plays this to the hilt with Joan's funeral. The hearse is late, the guests are weird<ref>er than normal</ref>, the pall-bearers drop the coffin, Martin turn's Joan's eulogy into a medical case history presentation-cum-public health lecture, the local police constable bemoans dealing with simple heart attacks and not something exciting, someone's mobile phone goes off playing "things can only get better" as a ring-tone. The usual for [[Quirky Town|Portwenn]] really.

** In one of the earliest episodes, "Bart the General," Bart -- fearing a run-in with the feared bully, Nelson Muntz -- imagines his funeral. As the parade of mourners pass by, Nelson grabs a cupcake Lisa had just left on her brother's forehead, oafishly punches Bart's corpse in the casket and remarks, "Hey, they've got food at this thing!"

* In recent years, North American funerals and memorial services have become less about tradition -- in the religious context, the reading of sacred texts, hymns sung by a vocalist, a sermon and prayers sanctifying and committing the dead -- and more about celebrating the lives of the deceased loved one. Such services often take place at a site other than a funeral home or church, such as at a golf course, community hall, park, or a place where the decedant loved to spend time. Attendees often wear no more than business casual clothes, and often are asked just to come in clothing as informal as a T-shirt and shorts, or dressed specifically (for instance, a football uniform or other shirt signifying the deceased's favorite NFL team, or a Halloween costume). While there may be a brief prayer or sermon, the gathering is more for having fun and celebrating the life just passed rather than mourning for the dead.

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