I've recently begun watching a show called Dead Like Me - it's about a girl named George who, on her way to her first day of work, is killed by the toilet seat from the Mir Space Station. Because she has unfinished business, she is made a reaper, and has to sort out the dead.
It's pretty funny, when George's family isn't onscreen (they're pretty boring), but the rest of the cast is great.
Well, you know how most TV shows have a cafe or bar where they always hang out? In Dead Like Me, that place is a Belgian Waffle Bar.
George (short for Georgia) has to work with the other reapers - but reaping is just a part time job, except for the guy in charge, Rube. They all meet up in the waffle bar every day where Rube gives them a PostIt note that says who dies that day. In the first few episodes, it's all about how George is unwilling to let people die, and questions most of their actions.
They're really undead, as in they died, but because they have to stay on as reapers, they now look like completely different people to the living - so that they can't freak out their families.
George works as a temp for a company called Happy Times, or something - the same company she was going to work for before she died. Mason - another reaper (I think he must be like Spike on Buffy - he's the token guy with a British accent) is pretty much homeless - and is always involved in some dodgy scheme. Then there's Roxy, who works as a parking inspector.
Throughout a few episodes, the show has covered how a few of the other reapers died, but I think Mason's was best. In the '60s (they don't age while they're reapers), Mason was a real stoner, and thought that if he drilled a hole in his head, he'd have a permanent high. He decided to try it out, and it surprisingly didn't work.
Oh yeah, you can't have a fantasy show without a token British guy (mainly because the British pretty much invented fantasy, but that's beside the point.) Though from the sound of it, he was a bit of a dumb-ass. To die like that...someone call the Darwin Awards people!
Yeah - but because of that, they can make decent jokes about them.
Like how weird George's supervisor is. When she stays at her boss's house, her boss says something like "I've taken in my fair share of vagrants over the years. Oh, the homeless are desperate, passionate lovers, but they will rob you blind..."
It's an Australian sketch show, with a little bit of sitcom thrown in.
Basically, Eagle and Evans are two guys who work as a warm-up act for a popular, fictional entertainer, Blaze De Silva. Around that loose story is a whole lot of random (yet recurring over several episodes) skits.
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It's pretty funny, when George's family isn't onscreen (they're pretty boring), but the rest of the cast is great.
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Killed by the MIR toilet seat?
Made into a reaper?
That's very...random.
Sounds very interesting. Tell me more.
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George (short for Georgia) has to work with the other reapers - but reaping is just a part time job, except for the guy in charge, Rube. They all meet up in the waffle bar every day where Rube gives them a PostIt note that says who dies that day. In the first few episodes, it's all about how George is unwilling to let people die, and questions most of their actions.
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So people reap on a part time basis. What do they do for the rest of their time -they're dead.
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They're really undead, as in they died, but because they have to stay on as reapers, they now look like completely different people to the living - so that they can't freak out their families.
George works as a temp for a company called Happy Times, or something - the same company she was going to work for before she died. Mason - another reaper (I think he must be like Spike on Buffy - he's the token guy with a British accent) is pretty much homeless - and is always involved in some dodgy scheme. Then there's Roxy, who works as a parking inspector.
Throughout a few episodes, the show has covered how a few of the other reapers died, but I think Mason's was best. In the '60s (they don't age while they're reapers), Mason was a real stoner, and thought that if he drilled a hole in his head, he'd have a permanent high. He decided to try it out, and it surprisingly didn't work.
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Though their jobs all sound pretty sucky.
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Like how weird George's supervisor is. When she stays at her boss's house, her boss says something like "I've taken in my fair share of vagrants over the years. Oh, the homeless are desperate, passionate lovers, but they will rob you blind..."
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Basically, Eagle and Evans are two guys who work as a warm-up act for a popular, fictional entertainer, Blaze De Silva. Around that loose story is a whole lot of random (yet recurring over several episodes) skits.
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Though if I recall correctly, it wasn't considered hugely fantastic.
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Which is why I'm happy that we're still inexplicably recieving The Comedy Channel for free.
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The best part about digital is the music channels - no video clips or ads, just music of a certain genre. And there's over 30 channels of it, too.
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