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* Parodied in series 4 of ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]'', where they decide they need to [[Tonight Someone Dies|kill someone off]] to inject some pathos into the show. They choose the bit player who happens to be reading the [[Fatal Family Photo|Facebook page of his beloved girlfriend]] -- and, post-montage, reveal that they fed him into a wood chipper.
* Done on ''[[Suddenly Susan]]'' when the character Todd dies. Like the ''[[Father Ted]]'' example above, [[Real Life Writes the Plot|it was especially tragic because]] [[Artist Existence Failure|the actor who played Todd had died in real life]]. Actor David Strickland committed suicide, requiring the show to find a tasteful way to write Todd out of the show. (The relatively [[Very Special Episode|joke-light]] episode revolved around the other characters trying to track down Todd when he didn't show up for work on time. At the end of the episode they learn he'd been killed in an accident on the way to work.)
* Used in the recent miniseries ''[[The Kennedys]]'', when [[Robert F Kennedy]] is assassinated. The death of [[John F. Kennedy|his brother the president]] earlier in the same episode is treated less sentimentally.
* {{spoiler|Mike Delfino}} gets this in the final season of [[Desperate Housewives]] just before {{spoiler|he is shot by a mobster}}.
* Any time someone dies on ''[[The Walking Dead (TV series)|The Walking Dead]]'' (and it happens [[Anyone Can Die|a lot]]), its follow-up, ''The Talking Dead'', will typically have such a montage, to close out the episode, and include everyone who died in the episode--those who died and then are ''re''killed as zombies are, of course, included twice.
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