History Trivia / SixFeetUnder

* TropeNamer: For {{Narm}}. Beware, major season 5 spoiler in the trope description.

* NamesTheSame: The band not only shares their name with the popular TV show above, but also a hit song by Billie Ellish. Chris has even jokingly thanked the song's search results for helping more people discover the band's music.
** Chris himself shares his name with voice actor Creator/ChristopherDanielBarnes and a professional bowler. Him and the latter even follow each other on Twitter and often converse.

** Chris himself shares his name with [[a famous voice actor Creator/ChristopherDanielBarnes]] and a professional bowler. Him and the latter even follow each other on Twitter and often converse.

* NamesTheSame: The band not only shares their name with the popular TV show above, but also a hit song by Music/BillieEllish. Chris has even jokingly thanked the song's search results for helping more people discover the band's music.

* AbsenteeActor: Rachel Griffiths is, of the main cast (the ones in the opening credits, at least), absent in the most episodes. She misses ''four'' in season 3, because of her pregnancy. Her second pregnancy was written into the show, though.
** Freddy Rodriguez is missing from a season 1 episode and Mathew St. Patrick is absent for three, also in season 1, after David and Keith have a brief breakup.
* TheCastShowoff: Michael C. Hall and Lauren Ambrose are both fantastic classically trained singers and got to show their skills during various {{Imagine Spot}}s and in David's choir arc.
* DawsonCasting: Lauren Ambrose was 22 when she started playing 17-year-old Claire.
* ExecutiveMeddling: An oddly positive example: During the making of the pilot, the HBO executives commented that the show felt "too safe" and asked Alan Ball (the writer) if he could make it [[DarkerAndEdgier even more fucked up]]. He gladly complied, after he "picked his jaw off the floor".

* AbsenteeActor: Rachel Griffiths is the only one of the main cast (the ones in the opening credits, at least) to be absent in any episode. She misses four in season 3, because of her pregnancy. Her second pregnancy was written into the show, though.
** Not entirely true. Freddy Rodriguez is missing from a season 1 episode and Mathew St. Patrick is absent for three, also in season 1, after David and Keith have a brief breakup.

The Show:

** Not entirely true. Freddy Rodriguez is missing from a season 1 episode and Matthew St. Charles is absent for three, also in season 1, after David and Keith have a brief breakup.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Plenty of then unknowns have made their way onto this show either in supporting roles or bit parts. Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer, Dean Norris, Sandra Oh, Adam Scott, Anna Gunn, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Sarah Rafferty, David Hornsby, Josh Radnor, Jim Beaver, Ken Davitian, and Nicholas D'Agosto are just a few.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Plenty of then unknowns have made their way onto this show either in supporting roles or bit parts. Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer, Dean Norris, Sandra Oh, Adam Scott, Anna Gunn, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Sarah Rafferty, David Hornsby, Josh Radnor, Jim Beaver, Ken Davitian, and Nicholas D'Agosto just to name a few

* RetroactiveRecognition: Plenty! Just to name a few: Dean Norris, Sandra Oh, Adam Scott, Jenna Fischer, Anna Gunn, Chris Pine

* TheCastShowoff: Michael C. Hall and Lauren Ambrose are both fantastic classically trained singers and got to show their skills during various ImagineSpot[=s=] and in David's choir arc.

* HeyItsThatGuy:
** David Fisher is of course Series/{{Dexter}}.
** Ruth dates [[Film/StarTrekFirstContact Zefram Cochrane]]! And he is apparently already constructing [[spoiler: a bomb shelter]], in order to survive WorldWarThree and then invent the warp drive... HilariousInHindsight: One season before, Ruth already took a self-help seminar presented by the Borg Queen.
** Before he's hired at Dunder Mifflin, [[TheOffice Dwight Schrute]] does a stint as the awkward apprentice Arthur Martin.
** [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Crewman Daniels]] shows up as a rather camp member of the gay chorus that David joins.
** [[Series/{{Heroes}} Zachary Quinto]] makes a brief appearance as one of Claire's class members prior to Olivier's entry.
** Mike Nelson apparently left his home town of TwinPeaks to work for Kroehner's.
** Among the Fisher's "clients" are:
*** [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Dr. Phlox]], who dies by the hand of his wife. (Probably statistically a common cause of dead among Denobulans, since they have so many wives...)
*** [[Series/HowIMetYourMother Ted Mosby]], whose corpse gets found in a crashed car decades after the accident that killed him happened. During his funeral, attended by his children who hardly knew him, his "ghost" ironically remarks that he would have been an awful dad.
** Claire's fellow student and temporary love interest Edie used to be an innocent choir's girl called [[AmericanPie Heather]]. Oh, and she [[spoiler: almost]] [[Film/AmericanBeauty seduced Kevin Spacey]].
** During her sister's [[spoiler:vicodin withdrawal]] Ruth befriends [[Film/{{Misery}} Annie Wilkes]].
** [[Series/GreysAnatomy Cristina Yang]] is a porn star that attends the funeral of a late colleague.
** Claire dated [[Film/XMenTheLastStand Angel]] and got her first orgasm from [[{{Film/Twilight}} Carlisle Cullen]].
** Nate had a One-Night Stand with [[{{Series/BreakingBad}} Skylar White]].
** Speaking of Series/BreakingBad, Hank Schrader appears as a cop in season one.
** ChrisPine appeared as a former high school friend of Nate's.
** David had a date with Ben from ''Series/ParksAndRecreation''.

** David had a date with Ben from ''ParksAndRecreation''.

* ExecutiveMeddling: An oddly positive example: During the making of the pilot, the HBO executives commented that the show felt "too safe" and asked Alan Ball (the writer) if he could make it "a little more fucked up". He gladly complied, after he "picked his jaw off the floor".

* ExecutiveMeddling: Inverted by HBO's note to the writers after reading the first few scripts: "Can we make these people [[DarkerAndEdgier even more fucked up]]?"

* DawsonCasting: Claire.