History Main / PickedFlowersAreDead

When you give someone flowers, you expect her to talk about how beautiful they are or how good they smell. Not about how the poor flowers are dead or dying because you severed them from their roots. Yet, that's what happening here. Maybe she's some kind of MagicalNativeAmerican or just very much CloserToEarth, but whatever her reason she's feeling sorry for the poor flowers or even see them as something bad in a necromantic sort of way. If the complainer is a third party, they may criticize the receiver for enjoying the gift.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "Buster and Babs Go Hawaii", when their plane lands, they're greeted by Shirley who puts flower necklaces on them and says, "Like, welcome to Hawaii. Enjoy these ultra-rare flowers that, like, ''died'' for you, you ''murderers!"''

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "Buster and Babs Go Hawaii", when their plane lands, they're greeted by Shirley who puts flower necklaces on them and says, "Like, welcome to Hawaii. Enjoy these ultra-rare flowers that, like, died for you... YOU MURDERERS!"

** "The One Where Rachel Quits": Free-spirited Phoebe gets sad when she realizes Joey sells Christmas trees. Joey tries to convince her it's their life purpose to make people happy at Christmas. She sort of accepts that but is horrified when she sees trees getting destroyed even before they're sold. Monica and Rachel's apartment then gets filled with all of the old Christmas trees from Joey's work. Phoebe is excited the trees are saved. Chandler snarks it's like ''Night of the Living Dead Christmas Trees''.

* Poison Ivy of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' is known to react this way.
* The Creator/ECComics story "Gee, Dad... It's a Daisy!" (''[=Shock SuspenStories=] #2''): "Flowers and plants are alive! Just because they don't cry out doesn't mean they don't feel pain!" This leads to a SpaceWhaleAesop with PlantAliens picking apart a human, heard playing "Loves me...loves me not" over their universal translator.

* The Creator/ECComics story "Gee, Dad... It's a Daisy!" (''[=Shock SuspenStories=] #2''): "Flowers and plants are alive! Just because they don't cry out doesn't mean they don't feel pain!" This leads to a SpaceWhaleAesop with PlantAliens picking apart a human.

** In ''Literature/TheBFG'', the Big Friendly Giant comments that since he can hear the voices of plants, anytime somebody picks a flower he can hear the plant screaming as though somebody were having their arm twisted off. Sophie wonders whether she'll ever be able to pick flowers again.

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* In Stefan's second appearance in ''Series/FamilyMatters'', by Laura's request, Steve made him more sensitive and caring since in his first appearance, he was too self-centered and shallow. In one scene, Stefan ends up giving Laura a potted plant, explaining he couldn't bare to harm a flower by plucking it.

** "The One where Rachel Quits": Free-spirited Phoebe gets sad when she realizes Joey sells Christmas trees. Joey tries to convince her it's their life purpose to make people happy at Christmas. She sort of accepts that but is horrified when she sees trees getting destroyed even before they're sold. Monica and Rachel's apartment then gets filled with all of the old Christmas trees from Joey's work. Phoebe is excited the trees are saved. Chandler snarks it's like ''Night of the Living Dead Christmas Trees''.

'''Phoebe''': Have fun. Oh wait, no, don’t! I forgot I am totally against that now.\\

** "The One with the Ball": Phoebe's boyfriend Gary wants to ask Phoebe to move in with him. The friends think it might be too soon, but he thinks it's the right step. Monica gets excited, but advises him not to bring her flowers because Phoebe cries when they die.

'''Phoebe''': No, no, I am against innocent trees being cut down in their prime, and their, their corpses grotesquely dressed in like tinsel and twinkly lights. Hey, how do you sleep at night?\\

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* Ellen at the start of ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'' when she receives some from Hutter at the beginning. Yep, OlderThanYouThink.

* In ''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'' during a {{Flashback}} Killia recalls when he picked a flower for Lieze. Lieze yelled at him saying that the flower was dead now. Killia then stopped time around it using his almia ice sculpture overload and asked if she was happy with that. Lieze was speechless at that and stormed off.