noun
pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune.
ORIGIN German, from Schaden ‘harm’ + Freude ‘joy.’
A gold ring found on the body of a drug addict leads the Cold Case squad to the long-closed murder case. A rich and successful surgeon loses everything after a close friend dies on his operating table. Schadenfreude. The dead man’s wife takes him to the cleaners. More Schadenfreude. The doc’s well insured wife is killed in their home. Even more Schadenfreude. The jury in the 1982 case doesn’t believe his story about a pair of intruders. Yet still more Schadenfreude. It’s a veritable smorgasbord of Schadenfreude.
It’s a new post in KM UK’s Summer Of HD 2013 but the name of the episode escapes me…
223 Full HD (1080p) Lilly screencaps from the episode can now be found in the Gallery.
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