History Main / ComicallyInappropriateFuneralUrn

** For the prize task in "Always Forks and Marbles," Julian Clary brings in his friend's funeral urn: a yellow, spotted vase with the word "shit" written on it. He explains that he had bought it, by coincidence, a week before the friend had died, and that "shit" was the friend's favourite word. Julian brought the urn and ashes in as a prize [[Heartwarming/{{Taskmaster}} so that the friend, who had been a huge fan of ''Taskmaster'', could be on the show.]]

** For the prize task in "Always Forks and Marbles," Julian Clary brings in his friend's funeral urn: a yellow, spotted vase with the word "shit" written on it. He explains that he had bought it, by coincidence, a week before the friend had died, and that "shit" was the friend's favourite word. Julian brought the urn and ashes in as a prize [[Heatwarming/{{Taskmaster}} so that the friend, who had been a huge fan of ''Taskmaster'', could be on the show.]]

* ''Series/{{Haven}}:'' When [[DaChief The Chief]] [[LiterallyShatteredLives explodes]] on a beach due to the pressure of having to keep up TheMasquerade that the Troubles aren't back, Nathan ends up having to put the pieces in the nearest available receptacle...a cooler in the back of his truck. It ends up hanging out there while he and Audrey deal with next catastrophe caused by the Troubles. He asks Audrey to bury it if things go south, and Audrey refuses, scolding him that it's a waste of a good cooler. Later in the season, when [[ItMakesSenseInContext the Chief's ghost comes back to haunt Nathan]], he immediately asks what happened after he exploded. Nathan explains, and the Chief is [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike upset Nathan]] [[BrickJoke wasted a good cooler.]]

* ''Series/{{Haven}}:'' When [[DaChief The Chief]] ends up [[LiterallyShatteredLives exploding]] on a beach due to the pressure of having to keep up TheMasquerade that the Troubles aren't back, Nathan ends up having to put the pieces in the nearest available receptacle...a cooler in the back of his truck. It ends up hanging out there while he and Audrey deal with next catastrophe caused by the Troubles. He asks Audrey to bury it if things go south, and Audrey refuses, scolding him that it's a waste of a good cooler. Later in the season, when [[ItMakesSenseInContext the Chief's ghost comes back to haunt Nathan]], he immediately asks what happened after he exploded. Nathan explains, and the Chief is [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike upset Nathan]] [[BrickJoke wasted a good cooler.]]

->"They're gonna bury what's left of ya in a ''soup can''!"''

* In ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', the protagonists refuse to shell out $180 for an urn (the most modestly-priced receptacle offered by the crematorium) for the ashes of [[spoiler: their friend Donny]]. They end up going to the nearest Ralphs to buy a tin of Folgers coffee to contain the ashes.

* ''Series/{{Chalk}}'': Young Eric teases his domineering mother by waving a small vase at her. When he is grown up, the vase is revealed to be storing her ashes. [[spoiler: She is not actually dead: just wishful thinking on Eric's part.]]

--> '''Funeral House Manager:''' Sir, with all due respect to the dead...\\

* This was the twist of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FreakyStories''. A family in a {{Ruritania}} village monthly received a package from a successful relative in the United States. One month they received a jar with some powder, but a goat ate the letter it came with. They guessed it was some kind of spice and cooked with it all the time. They ran out of the powder, but next month they received a new package which was an urn where said relative wanted his ashes put in...ashes which had been contained in the jar.

* When Creator/CarrieFisher and her mother Creator/DebbieReynolds were laid to rest, the former’s ashes were placed in an urn shaped like a [[https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/carrie-fishers-ashes-placed-in-giant-prozac-pill-urn-115271/amp/ giant Prozac pill]]. Fisher had bought it years earlier, and her brother and [[Creator/BillieLourd daughter]] felt it was appropriate.

* "Film/AsteroidCity" After Augie finally breaks down and tells his children that their mother succumbed to her illness four weeks ago, he reveals she was cremated, and shows them the ashes -- which are being kept in a Tupperware bowl with a sealed lid.

->''"They're gonna bury what's left of ya in a ''soup can''!"''

->"They're gonna bury what's left of ya in a ''soup can''!"
-->- '''The Demoman''', ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''

A character has just died, and for one reason or another was cremated (Perhaps it was their will? Or their friends decided to have them incinerated?). There's just the small problem that the funeral urn sold by the crematorium is extremely expensive, well above the main characters budget, or the main characters are too cheap to shell out the cash for a "proper urn".

It doesn't matter if it's a coffee tin from the nearest grocery store or a Mason jar from your pantry. If it can hold something, there's no reason it can't hold funeral ashes (or more accurately, cremains), right?

Almost always PlayedForLaughs due to the sheer violation of the usual [[DueToTheDead respect towards the dead]]. This is also usually used as a satire of the funeral industry. See also AshesToCrashes, where something unfortunate happens to the ashes (such as being dropped to the floor). Be careful not to put the ashes in a coffee or hot chocolate powder tin, because there's a risk someone might [[IAteWhat drink it]] unwittingly!

--> '''Funeral House Manager:''' "Sir, with all due respect to the dead..."
-->'''Guy Who Phoned:''' "Are you implying we don't respect our jams?"

* In ''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/comedy/trailer-park-warlock/list?title_no=1512 Trailer Park Warlock]]'', Jake keeps his grandma's ashes in a mayo jar, when her ghost finds out she's a little annoyed at the indignity.

* ''Literature/EvidenceOfThingsNotSeen'' has an example played seriously. [[spoiler:Russ Simmons]] is found murdered, after which his family learns that he had a side business as a drug dealer and was murdered by a seventeen-year-old prostitute he was having an affair with. Urns at the funeral home start at $100, so his wife, who hates his memory and didn't want the ashes to begin with, takes them home in a beat-up cardboard box.

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* An episode of ''Series/{{Wings}}'' has the group try to help Fay scatter the ashes of her late husband George. As they're flying to the drop-off point in the plane, Brian breaks the urn and they have to vacuum up the ashes with a Dustbuster. They end up using that to scatter the ashes.

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* In the Quebec radio sketches ''Radio/LesDeuxMinutesDuPeuple'', the guy phoning the crematorium to have his dead grandfather-in-law incinerated is informed the cheapest urn would be 725$. He immediately asks his girlfriend if they still have Mason jars.
--> '''Funeral House Manager:''' "Sir, with all due respect to the dead..."
-->'''Guy Who Phoned:''' "Are you implying we don't respect our jams?"

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* In ''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/comedy/trailer-park-warlock/list?title_no=1512 Trailer Park Warlock]]'', Jake keeps his grandma's ashes in a mayo jar, when her ghost finds out she's a little annoyed at the indignity.

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* ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'': Ma-Ti's ashes are placed in a container of Quakers Oats.

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* This was the twist of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FreakyStories''. A family in a {{Ruritania}} village monthly received a package from a successful relative in the United States. One month they received a jar with some powder, but a goat ate the letter it came with. They guessed it was some kind of spice and cooked with it all the time. They ran out of the powder, but next month they received a new package which was an urn where said relative wanted his ashes put in...ashes which had been contained in the jar.

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* When Creator/CarrieFisher and her mother Creator/DebbieReynolds were laid to rest, the former’s ashes were placed in an urn shaped like a [[https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/carrie-fishers-ashes-placed-in-giant-prozac-pill-urn-115271/amp/ giant Prozac pill]]. Fisher had bought it years earlier, and her brother and [[Creator/BillieLourd daughter]] felt it was appropriate.
* You can get your very own ''Music/{{KISS}}'' [[https://www.oaklandtrading.com/product/the-official-kiss-cremation-urn/ urn]]. Of course this one isn't cheap.

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It doesn't matter if it's a coffee tin from the nearest grocery store, or a Mason jar from your pantry. If it can hold something, there's no reason it can't hold funeral ashes (or more accurately, cremains), right?

--> '''Guy Who Phoned:''' "Are you implying we don't respect our jams?"

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* When Creator/CarrieFisher and her mother Creator/DebbieReynolds were laid to rest, the former’s ashes were placed in an urn shaped like a [[https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/carrie-fishers-ashes-placed-in-giant-prozac-pill-urn-115271/amp/ giant Prozac pill]]. She had bought it years earlier, and her brother and [[Creator/BillieLourd daughter]] felt it was appropriate.
* You can get your very own ''Music/{{KISS}}'' [[https://www.oaklandtrading.com/product/the-official-kiss-cremation-urn/ urn]]. Of course this one isn't cheap.

* This was the twist of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FreakyStories''. A family in a {{Ruritania}} village monthly received a package from a successful relative in the United States. One month they received a jar with some powder, but a goat ate the letter it came with. They guessed it was some kind of spice and cooked with it all the time. They ran out of the powder, but next month they received a new package which was an urn where said relative wanted his ashes put in... Ashes which were contained on the jar.

* In ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', the protagonists refuse to shell out 180$ for an urn (the most modestly-priced receptacle offered by the crematorium) for the ashes of [[spoiler: their friend Donny]]. They end up going to the nearest Ralphs to buy a tin of Folgers coffee to contain the ashes.

Almost always PlayedForLaughs due to the sheer violation of the usual [[DueToTheDead respect towards the dead]]. This is also usually used as a satire of the funeral industry. See also AshesToCrashes, where something unfortunate happens to the ashes (such as being dropped to the floor).