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* There's an episode of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' in which Blanche's spurned boyfriend, an obituary editor, runs her obituary to get back at her. Blanche is more upset that he claimed she was 68 than being listed as dead.
* One ''[[My Two Dads]]'' episode has a typo in an obituary causing everyone to think Joey was dead. He goes along with it for a while to sell art, because [[Dead Artists Are Better]].
* The ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Doppelgangland," in which meeting Vamp Willow causes [[Angel]] to report that Willow is dead. He then
* In the ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|
* In ''[[Coronation Street]]'' Jerry's father put his own obituary in the newspaper.
* The eventually-[[Back from the Dead|oft-killed]] Daniel Jackson had this happen to him in an early episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' -- they hold a eulogy for him and start going through his stuff before they realize they've just been tricked into ''thinking'' he's dead. And at the beginning of season 7, he reclaims a good many items which Jonas Quinn was using... ''You weren't using them'' was Jonas' ([[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|understandable]]) explanation.
** Of course, he differs from most of these examples in that most of the time he ''actually was'' dead. Later on, though, his teammates get [[Genre Savvy]] about it, and O'Neill outright ''refuses'' to hold a memorial service one of the
* Archie Bunker was misreported as dead by the Veterans Administration for one episode of ''[[All in The Family]].''
* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', John Sheridan was thought to be dead. "I was. I got better." He spends a long time cleaning up the consequences of this.
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* ''[[Game of Thrones]]'': "I see that the rumors of your demise were unfounded."
* Happens on more than one occasion in ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
** The Series 2 two-part finale [[Doctor Who/Recap/S28/E12 Army of Ghosts|"Army Of Ghosts"]]/[[Doctor Who/Recap/S28/E13 Doomsday|Doomsday]] begins with a voiceover from Rose [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|telling the viewer]] "this is the story of how I died." At the conclusion, it's revealed that she's actually alive and stuck in a parallel universe, but she's been declared legally dead in our universe.
** In the Series 5 finale [[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E13 The Big Bang|"The Big Bang"]], the Doctor, Amy and Rory meet a mortally wounded version of the Doctor from 12 minutes into the future, and watch him die. Turns out he was only faking it to allow the trio to create a diversion for 12 minutes, allowing the future-Doctor to [[The Slow Path|use those 12 minutes]] to wire up the Pandorica.
* Jonathan Doors is shot by a sniper in the pilot of ''[[Earth The Final Conflict]]'', protecting the Taelon ambassador Da'an. Turns out, it was all a setup. The sniper was working for Doors and was shooting blanks, as was the doctor who confirmed his death. The goal was to set up [[La Résistance]] to figure out the real reason the Taelons came to Earth. A few episodes later, Doors publicly outs himself, using a similar line to this trope.
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