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* On ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'', the control-freak Bree changes her dead husband's tie in the middle of the service.
** Also, during the aftermath of the tornado in the 4th season Gabrielle causes havoc in Carlos's accountant's wake while trying to find the right documents of her husband's foreign bank account.
* One episode of [[Gene Wilder]]'s short lived sitcom "[
* In ''[[House (TV)|House]]'', the titular character is forcibly taken to his father's funeral, and has to deliver the eulogy. (He hated his father and didn't want to go.) He uses this as a chance to get a piece of his father's skin to subject to a DNA test, which confirms his long-standing suspicion that the man was not his biological father. He also comments on his father's weak qualities in the eulogy, and says that 'if he was a better father, maybe I'd have been a better son'.
** 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.
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** Cultural Note: This was partly based on the until recent tradition of holding all the services and such at a private residence. "Sitting Up with the Dead" was the practice of somebody staying awake and with the casket during the night so that it was never left unattended. Now think about ''that'' poor sap.
* A perfect example of this may well be the Newfoundland folk song, ''[http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/06/diedjb.htm The Night that Paddy Murphy Died]''.
** Also, [
* Less about shenanigans and more about ritual celebration, ''The Saints Go Marching In'' is about the hope of going to heaven after death. It's one of the jauntiest tunes in existence.
* The music video for [[Rammstein (Music)|Rammstein]]'s ''Haifisch''. Let's see, two women Till slept with get in a fight, the remaining band members discuss ''right there'' who to replace him with, said band members spend it fantasizing about how ''they'' would have killed Till (well, except Paul, [[Ho Yay|he just fantasized about getting spanked by Till]]), ''they'' get into a fight, and to top it all off, {{spoiler|Till had faked his death the entire time}}.
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* [[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-Speak|something not very heroic]]) listing Qwark's "wonderful qualities" as including being really tall and having a chin with "kind of a butt shape", but also has Clank ( {{spoiler|actually [[Evil Twin|Klunk]]}}) responding to the Galactic President's heartfelt speech with "What a load of [[Curse Cut Short|bullsh-]]".
{{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 [[
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** Another strip had [[Pee Jee]] sending a wreath to the funeral of a female supervisor who'd spent the last few weeks sexually harassing her (and was threatening to sue her when she was killed by a Canadian Trapdoor Alligator). Unfortunately, the floral service screws up the order... and a giant "You'll Always Be My Valentine!" wreath shows up instead.
** Another [http://somethingpositive.net/sp04062011.shtml reveals] that when Aubrey and Peejee were passed out from alcohol, Jhim [[Ho Yay|stripped them naked, posed them together in Davan's bed, and took pictures]], which he then [[Comedic Sociopathy|arranged to have on display at the reading of his will]].
* A [[Near
** "[http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20060907 Well played, little sister, well played]."
* As one of the entries on the [[The Fun in Funeral/Quotes|quotes page]] shows, in ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'', {{spoiler|Xinchub's}} funeral, and the events leading up to it, is treated like this, because the main characters hate him. Then they get paid to steal his corpse ''and'' act as security for the funeral. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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'''Souichiro:''' Dammit Matsuda, stop ruining my eulogy! I will never forget the last time I saw him smile—it was the day he took away Matsuda's innocence. Oh how we laughed and Matsuda cried when {{spoiler|L}} told Matsuda that cartoon animals were just people in costumes. Where was I? Oh, right, {{spoiler|Watari}}! Come on everyone we're gonna go dance on his grave next!<br />
''The taskforce leaves''<br />
'''Light:''' [[Evil Laugh|Muwahahahaa]][[Laughing Mad|hahahaha hahahaha!]] (''crawls on top of {{spoiler|L}}'s grave'') [[Freak
'''Ryuk:''' Light, uh... [[Horrifying the Horror|you're scaring me.]]<br />
'''Light:''' Oh Ryuk, I haven't even ''begun'' to scare you yet! }}
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* ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'', "A Ladder to Heaven": Cartman drinks Kenny's ashes, mistaking them for chocolate milk mix.
** At Cartman's grandmother's funeral, a crate is opened to release some doves... only to have them fall out, dead.
* There's great fun to be had in the funeral scene in ''[[Drawn Together]]'''s 16th episode, ''[
* ''[[As Told By Ginger (Animation)|As Told By Ginger]]'', "Losing Nana Bishop" has Hoodsey eulogizing his late paternal grandmother.
* ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'': Several:
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** This definitely doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]... beautiful, in its own way.
* The esteemed author [[Hunter S Thompson]] had his [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4168266.stm ashes fired from a cannon topped by a double-thumbed fist.]
* For a long time, New Orleans had a lot of musicians but not a lot of cars. So funeral processions were always done on foot through town, and set to music, [
** Truth in Television: in the [[James Bond]] film ''[[Live and Let Die (Film)|Live and Let Die]]'' such funerals are seen twice, although the first one doesn't liven up until the secret agent is stabbed and then put into a casket ("Whose funeral is this?" "Yours."). To coin a Pun, he was late to his own funeral.
* [[Star Trek|Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett]] both had their cremated remains launched into space.
** As did James Doohan, but unfortunately [
* The cast of [[The Goon Show]] were noted for their dark humour. [[Peter Sellers]] requested that the Glenn Miller song "In the Mood", which he hated, be played at his funeral. [[Spike Milligan]] claimed to hope that his fellow cast member [[Harry Secombe]] died before him, so that he couldn't sing at his funeral. Sure enough, Secombe died less than a year before Spike; nevertheless, a recording of Secombe singing was played at his funeral.
* Puerto Rican comedian Jose Miguel Agrelot reportedly was asked by a friend to make jokes on his funeral if he died first. He did indeed die, and Agrelot showed up at the funeral, apologized for what he was going to do- and then launched into a tirade (mostly ''insulting'' his late friend!) so funny that even the grieving widow cracked up!
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* A soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev was depicted as an advocate of Fun Funerals (or rather as a half-conscious clot) in this joke:
{{quote| '''Brexhnev makes a speech:''' Comrades, this is unacceptable! Yesterday, at the funeral of our beloved comrade Suslov...by the way, where is he?.. when the music started, I was the only one who showed the courtesy of inviting the widow to a dance.}}
* A [[
* Many traditional slave funerals in 18th and 19th century America were often times of joyous celebration due to death being seen by some slave cultures more as transcendence than as an end, due to strong animist spiritual traditions and the toil and suffering of slave life. There would be shouting, dancing, and loud music as the deceased was buried. These traditions live on in the form of the New Orleans jazz funerals mentioned above.
* The people charged with escorting the coffin of [[Billy Mays]] were dressed in his iconic uniform.
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