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Or maybe the characters will play an [[Of Corpse He's Alive]]. This is the generally the opposite of the heartwrenching [[Meaningful Funeral]], but there can be [[Gallows Humor|some]] [[To Absent Friends|overlap]]. Compare [[And There Was Much Rejoicing]] or [[Speak Ill of the Dead]], where the non-dead characters may indulge in this.
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== Anime ==
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{{quote| Sgt. Landsman: "If I was ever dead in some gutter, I'd want you to catch the case, {{spoiler|Jimmy}}."<br />
Bunk: "Jay, if you were lying dead in some gutter, it was probably {{spoiler|Jimmy}} that done ya! }}
* ''[[My Hero (TV)]]'' had an episode where Thermoman's [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] acting up led to his secret identity, George Sunday, being thought dead by everyone. The idea was that he'd sit up in the coffin during the ceremony before his cremation and make [[Smug Snake|Dr. Piers Crispin]] look like an idiot (which isn't particularly difficult). Two things combined to put it under this trope: a sudden attack of that same BAB problem that caused all this in the first place, and a B-plot featuring Mrs. Raven fusing therapeutic and stage hypnosis. [[Hilarity Ensues]]:
{{quote| '''Vicar''': One...<br />
'''Ella''': Take me now my stallion Stanley, ravage me you raving beast! (Out of character as all hell)<br />
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'''Janet's Parents, Arnie, and Piers''': (complete with the dance) [[Village People|YMCA...It's fun to stay at the YMCA]]<br />
...<br />
([[Bizarre Alien Biology]] is acting up, so George hasn't sat up on schedule, and Janet is trying to stop the coffin from entering the [[Buffy
'''Priest''': She's got the strength of ten!<br />
'''The Same Four As Before''': (Start doing the Chicken Dance. Mrs. Raven falls out of her seat laughing) }}
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** In addition, one of the spoof funeral supply commercials in the Pilot had the product being advertised with the song "Shake Your Booty" playing, dancers dancing and the announcer saying that it "Puts the fun, back in the funeral". The actual product appears during Nathaniel Sr.'s funeral which is anything ''but'' fun. {{spoiler|Except for Nathaniel Sr. himself maybe}}.
*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=[[Uc 2 Th Rn Nuz 0]]&feature=related
** In "A Private Life," Nate goes to pick up a body in an abandoned building, and finds a candle-lit trail of photos with captions by the psychotic Billy, culminating in a covered body and leading Nate to assume he's committed suicide. Nate pulls back the cover, whereupon Billy jumps up and yells "Gotcha!" When Nate [[Dude, Not Funny|fails to see the humour]] in his prank, Billy says, "If you mix up the letters in 'funeral' you get 'real fun.'"
* Geordi LaForge and Ro Laren get a nice bouncy wake when they are presumed dead in a [[Teleporter Accident]] (in reality, they have become [[Intangible Man|"out of phase"]] due to a Romulan device) in a ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' episode, in the spirit of the New Orleans example at the end.
* ''[[All in The Family]]'' had Archie's friend Stretch Cunningham die, with Archie chosen against his will to deliver the eulogy. It's only at the funeral that Archie discovers that Stretch was Jewish...Bunker-esque [[Hilarity Ensues]] with his improvised speech.
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== Video Games ==
* [[Fake Ultimate Hero|Captain Qwark]]'s memorial in ''[[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal]]'' features not only Ratchet (who knew damn well that Qwark was about as heroic as [[Buffy
{{quote| '''Ratchet''': "And he had a unique... "fashion sense"...}}
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgXW-cKI1bw&feature=player_embedded# This infamous 2006 video] of a ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' funeral getting crashed by a guild of [[Troll|self-proclaimed assholes]] for laughs, especially considering that the player died of a terminal illness. [[Soundtrack Dissonance|The PvP carnage is set to]] "[[Scatman John|Scatman (Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)]]" for extra funeral fun. For better or for worse, ''WoW'' players learned from this incident and now hold funerals in non-PvP zones so as to remove the fun from them. On the other hand, the deceased was a fairly hardcore [[Pv P]] player, and the "crashing" players were merely paying their respects in their own, cross-faction way.
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'''Tucker''': "Why not, dude? I eulogize myself all the time. Wait. I think I don't know what the word 'eulogize' means..."<br />
'''[[The Ditz|Caboose]]''': "I know how to do this! *ahem* Dearly Beloved: we are gathered here today to witness the joining together of Church and Tex in... togetherness... uh... speak now! Or forever rest in peace! With liberty and justice for all! The end!" }}
* In ''[[Suburban Knights]]'', {{spoiler|Ma-Ti's}} funeral alternates between serious and funny all the time (on his overall heartwarming eulogy, [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] has to explain why he was cremated - [[You Don't Want to Know]] how - and put in a can of Quaker Oats, and describes him as the most {{spoiler|"[[Buffy
* From season 2, episode 6 of [http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DEBCC868724EAA19 Kpts4tv, mac_sly56, and Arkonid's] ''[[Death Note the Abridged Series Kpts 4 tv (Web Video)|Death Note Abridged series]]'':
{{quote| '''Souichiro:''' Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to pee on the grave of a man who died unloved and hated by everyone.<br />
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** Yet another had [[Casper]]'s cousin, Jasper the douchebag ghost, possessing the corpse at a funeral for some hijinks.
* ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' has Gumball mistaking a pet funeral for a date with Penny, because she wanted some emotional support. He gives a very brief and uninterested eulogy and {{spoiler|is later attacked by the supposed dead pet, ending up in the hospital}}.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': During "Hearts and Hooves Day", Sweetie Belle jumps on the back of a priest, noogies him, calls him "too old" for Cheerilee, and jumps away. During a musical number. ''With a coffin visible on the side of the screen.'' One wonders what the mourners thought of a singing filly jumping into the funeral and giving the priest a noogie.
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