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== [[Film]] ==

* The only character who earns an honest living in the [[Clint Eastwood]] film ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'' is the the undertaker. And he's pretty cheery too, until Clint wipes out the remaining gang members (upset about running out of business?)

Joe: My mistake. Four coffins... }}

** Also the cooper in ''[[Yojimbo]]'', the film Dollars was based on.

* Done cheerfully in ''[[Back to The Future]] III'' right before Marty's gunfight.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''The Undertaker'' was a series of paperback westerns about an undertaker-turned-gunslinger.

 

== [[Manga]] and [[Anime]] ==

** This ties the archetype in to the many coroners seen in crime dramas where the professionals involved are either cheery eccentrics.

*** Or, you know, ''[[Bones]]''.

** Also used in the Tex Avery cartoon ''Little 'Tinker'', in a series of gags in which a skunk is attemtping to woo female forest creatures by impersonating Frank Sinatra, and some [[Anvilicious|not-too-subtle]] jabs at how skinny Sinatra is are made by showing the skunk fall through a knothole on the stage, singing from an iron lung, being outweighed by a feather on a scale, and of course, at one point an undertaker comes up from behind him and measures him for a casket while he's singing.

** In the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "Drip-Along Daffy", the undertakers have the tallest building in town.

* An undertaker is seen measuring and hammering a coffin together for ''[[Rango]]''

* On a ''[[The Flintstones]]'' episode where Fred is made sheriff of a western town, he initially mistakes the undertaker as a tailor measuring him for a suit.