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-> Seek, seeks, wreck, wreckage, disturb, disrupt, destroy, sabotage, funeral, next, revenge, kill, beat, rival, must, go, room, only, for, one, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers indigo]].
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-> Seek, seeks, wreck, wreckage, disturb, disrupt, destroy, sabotage, funeral, next, revenge, kill, beat, rival, must, go, room, only, for, one, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers indigo]].indigo.
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Not the trope. The show still remains a comedy, and it doesn't turn grimdark from the character development
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* CerebusSyndrome: The show remains a comedy throughout, but Season Two and ''especially'' Season Three have a lot more CharacterDevelopment and emotional moments--though the seeds were planted as early as "Georgina and the Waves."
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* BogglesTheMind: In the second episode, Funn Funerals have a meeting to decide what to do using Boggle. Georgie's "cat", "bin", "photograph" seems irrelevant but foreshadows later events with Rudyard being accused of throwing a cat in a bin. Antigone comes up with Nouvelle and Vague as she's still thinking about sex scenes in French films (Rudyard points out that she was meant to come up with English words.) Rudyard, meanwhile...
-> Seek, seeks, wreck, wreckage, disturb, disrupt, destroy, sabotage, funeral, next, revenge, kill, beat, rival, must, go, room, only, for, one, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers indigo]].
-> Seek, seeks, wreck, wreckage, disturb, disrupt, destroy, sabotage, funeral, next, revenge, kill, beat, rival, must, go, room, only, for, one, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers indigo]].
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* WhipItGood: Marlene Magdelana carries a whip with her everywhere and uses it to intimidate her subordinates (i.e., everyone). Georgie practically swoons.
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* WhipItGood: WhipOfDominance: Marlene Magdelana carries a whip with her everywhere and uses it to intimidate her subordinates (i.e., everyone). Georgie practically swoons.
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** Eric, Antigone, and Georgie are in a [[TriangRelations type five]]. Antigone likes Eric (not that she'll admit it), but he doesn't notice, and instead harbors feelings for Georgie. Georgie does go on one date with him, but is rather aloof towards him at best.
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** Eric, Antigone, and Georgie are in a [[TriangRelations type five]]. Antigone likes Eric (not that she'll admit it), but he doesn't notice, and instead harbors feelings for Georgie. Georgie does go on one date with him, but is rather aloof towards him at best.
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* CaptainObvious: PlayedForDrama. After Eric [[spoiler:has the Funns run one of his funerals]] he's shocked when his clients are happy with the ceremony despite being so devastated. His client bluntly responds, “Of course I’m devastated. It’s a funeral.” [[spoiler:The fact that Eric couldn't understand something so blatantly obvious shatters his confidence to the point he's ready to give up the business and leave the island.]]
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Rudyard ''loathes'' Eric, and wants to run him out of town, or at least out of business. [[spoiler:But when Jerry tries to murder Eric, Rudyard attempts to stop him, even outright standing between them.]]
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* EveryoneHasStandards: EveryoneHasStandards:
** Rudyard ''loathes'' Eric, and wants to run him out of town, or at least out of business. [[spoiler:But when Jerry tries to murder Eric, Rudyard attempts to stop him, even outright standing between them.]]]]
** Despite everything, Rudyard takes funerals seriously and treats them with the respect they deserve. He's not mad at Chapman for running successful funerals, he's mad at Eric bringing what he considers frivolities into what's supposed to be a somber and serious affair. [[spoiler:Eric himself will [[JerkassHasAPoint admit Rudyard has a point there.]]]]
** Rudyard ''loathes'' Eric, and wants to run him out of town, or at least out of business. [[spoiler:But when Jerry tries to murder Eric, Rudyard attempts to stop him, even outright standing between them.
** Despite everything, Rudyard takes funerals seriously and treats them with the respect they deserve. He's not mad at Chapman for running successful funerals, he's mad at Eric bringing what he considers frivolities into what's supposed to be a somber and serious affair. [[spoiler:Eric himself will [[JerkassHasAPoint admit Rudyard has a point there.]]]]
* GrandFinale: Series 4 Episode 10, "A Funn Farewell", features [[spoiler: The Funns finally on top with Eric preparing to leave Piffling, only for them to realize that they enjoyed having the free time to pursue other hobbies and don't want to be the only competition on the island any more. Chapman comes to terms with his grief over his past, and realizes that Piffling is his home and can't leave. Conversely, Georgie realizes she doesn't need to stay on Piffling forever and leaves on holiday with Jennifer. Finally, Piffling is officially upgraded from a village to a town.]]
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* GrandFinale: Series 4 Episode 10, "A Funn Farewell", features [[spoiler: The Funns finally on top with Eric preparing to leave Piffling, only for them to realize that they enjoyed having the free time to pursue other hobbies and don't want to be the only competition on the island any more. Chapman comes to terms with his grief over his past, and realizes that Piffling is his home and can't leave. Conversely, Georgie realizes she doesn't need to stay on Piffling forever and leaves on holiday with Jennifer. Finally, Piffling is officially upgraded from a village to a town.]]
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** To his own surprise, Rudyard actually makes a solid historian and archivist.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Georgie and the Funns are completely oblivious to the several books Madeleine's written about them, though Eric knows. [[spoiler:They find out in the GrandFinale]].
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* ComicallyLopSidedRivalry: Chapman's VS Funn Funerals. Chapman's an incredibly talented and universally beloved funeral director so successful he's tarted open a half-dozen other ventures; the Funns are despised, barely competent and on the brink of bankruptcy. Fight! [[spoiler:According to Madeleine, they actually start evening out in the epilogue.]]
** In the final episode, Eric admits that Rudyard honestly has him dead to rights when it comes to running funerals. [[spoiler:While Chapman may make funerals fun, funerals ''aren't really supposed to be fun'', and Chapman focuses so much on keeping people happy because he doesn't know how to help them in their grief.]]
* MaybeEverAfter: After their UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo, the GrandFinale ends with [[spoiler:Antigone agreeing to ''maybe'' get that coffee together.]]
* MeaningfulName: The florist, Petunia Bloom.
* MellowFellow: {{Gender Flip}}ped by Georgie, who is utterly unflappable, rolling with the punches and not getting bothered by anything. Antigone, annoyed by this spends most of "Flip Flap Flop" trying to get under her skin, and failing. [[spoiler:But when the other undertakers disrespect Rudyard and Antigone, Georgie ''loses it''.]]
* MeaningfulName: The florist, Petunia Bloom.
* MellowFellow: {{Gender Flip}}ped by Georgie, who is utterly unflappable, rolling with the punches and not getting bothered by anything. Antigone, annoyed by this spends most of "Flip Flap Flop" trying to get under her skin, and failing. [[spoiler:But when the other undertakers disrespect Rudyard and Antigone, Georgie ''loses it''.]]
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* MeaningfulName: The florist, Petunia Bloom.
* MellowFellow: {{Gender Flip}}ped by Georgie, who is utterly unflappable, rolling with the punches and not getting bothered by anything. Antigone, annoyed by this spends most of "Flip Flap Flop" trying to get under her skin, and failing. [[spoiler:But when the other undertakers disrespect Rudyard and Antigone, Georgie ''loses it''.]]
* MellowFellow: {{Gender Flip}}ped by Georgie, who is utterly unflappable, rolling with the punches and not getting bothered by anything. Antigone, annoyed by this spends most of "Flip Flap Flop" trying to get under her skin, and failing. [[spoiler:But when the other undertakers disrespect Rudyard and Antigone, Georgie ''loses it''.]]
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* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: Antigone spends the better part of the show pining for Eric, but by the end of season 3 she's started to get over it just as he's starting to look her way. [[spoiler:The show ends on a MaybeEverAfter]].
-->'''Antigone:''' ''Now'' I’m important to him. Typical.
-->'''Antigone:''' ''Now'' I’m important to him. Typical.
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* YouWereTryingTooHard: The Funns finally realize this in the penultimate episode. [[spoiler:They were trying so hard to compete with Chapman's "fun funerals" that they forgot to focus on what they're actually good at - giving their customers a solemn funeral to say goodbye and begin the first steps of moving forward. With that in mind, they run their first successful funeral in a long time.]]
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* HundredPercentAdorationRating: Eric Chapman. Out of the entire village, there are only three people who don't like the guy: Rudyard, Georgie, and [[spoiler:Marjorie]]. (If asked, Antigone will insist she doesn't like him either, of course.)
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* LovedByAll: Eric Chapman. Out of the entire village, there are only three people who don't like the guy: Rudyard, Georgie, and [[spoiler:Marjorie]]. (If asked, Antigone will insist she doesn't like him either, of course.)
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* EmergingFromTheShadows: It's the only way Antigone appears. She can even do it [[UpToEleven in places without shadows.]]
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* EmergingFromTheShadows: It's the only way Antigone appears. She can even do it [[UpToEleven in places without shadows.]]
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* AerithAndBob: Among names like "Eric," "Georgie," "Agatha," "Desmond," and "Nigel", the names "Rudyard" and "Antigone" stick out like sore thumbs.
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* AerithAndBob: Among names like "Eric," "Georgie," "Agatha," "Desmond," "Eric", "Georgie", "Agatha", "Desmond", and "Nigel", the names "Rudyard" and "Antigone" stick out like sore thumbs.
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* RepetitiveName: Mayor Desmond Desmond.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: Though everyone is going through some changes - Rudyard is now the town archivist, Antigone is going to pursue writing more, Georgie is going on holiday, and Eric is rededicating himself to doing proper funerals - the series ends with Funn Funerals and Chapman Funerals continuing their quest to be the best funeral homes on the island (though in a more friendly manner)]].
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* GrandFinale: Series 4 Episode 10, "A Funn Farewell", features [[spoiler: The Funns finally on top with Eric preparing to leave Piffling, only for them to realize that they enjoyed having the free time to pursue other hobbies and don't want to be the only competition on the island any more. Chapman comes to terms with his grief over his past, and realizes that Piffling is his home and can't leave. Conversely, Georgie realizes she doesn't need to stay on Piffling forever and leaves on holiday with Jennifer. Finally, Piffling is officially upgraded from a village to a town.]]
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* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Madeleine writes several memoirs about her experiences with the Funns and Piffling at large. [[spoiler: At the end of the series, Rudyard and Antigone find a copy of the first one]].
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The first series consisted of eight episodes released between September and November 2015. Two more eight-episode seasons have been released, and a fourth season was expected to release in the summer of 2020. However, due to UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic and the ensuing lockdown, production of Season Four had to be postponed, with the release date being pushed back to January of 2022. The creators have confirmed that the fourth season will be the last.
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The first series consisted of eight episodes released between September and November 2015. Two more eight-episode seasons have been were released, and a fourth season was expected to release in the summer of 2020. However, due to UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic and the ensuing lockdown, production of Season Four had to be postponed, with the release date being pushed back to finally airing starting in January of 2022. The creators have confirmed that the fourth season will be the last.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Madeleine's opening to Season Four acknowledges the long break between this episode and the last, without directly mentioning the [[UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic reason for that]].
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:In "The Body Snatchers," Antigone knows Eric is so beloved by the town that even if he confessed to his rather stupid mistake, they'd be willing to forgive and help him fix it in no time. However, she ''also'' knows that he's so unwilling to be seen as imperfect and is convinced his reputation would tank that he jumps on the chance to avoid having to tell anyone, which means he agrees to her demand that he close up shop for a whole month and let the Funns take on all his business in exchange for them taking the blame.]]
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* GraveRobbing: "The Body Snatchers" revolves around Eric recruiting the Funns to help him do this. Despite the title, they're not removing dead bodies, or even stealing anything; Eric lost his bracelet in one of three coffins he worked on in the same day, and didn't realize until they'd all been buried. He's too embarrassed by his mistake to go through the official channels to get it back, so he and the Funns sneak into the cemetery in the middle of the night to dig the coffins up.
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* HypocriteHasAPoint: In "The Body Snatchers," Antigone chews Eric out for being so unwilling to be seen as less than perfect, he won't even ask for help when he clearly needs it. Eric fires back, correctly, that Antigone herself is reluctant to admit she needs help, much less accept it. This doesn't change the fact that Antigone's also completely right, as this conversation occurs when they're ''digging up a grave'' because Eric couldn't own up to a mistake to the village.
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* WhamLine: "The Body Snatchers" ends with Madeline getting a look at [[spoiler:the ID bracelet Eric had lost]].
-->'''Madeline:''' [[spoiler:The name on it... was ''not'' "Eric Chapman".]]
-->'''Madeline:''' [[spoiler:The name on it... was ''not'' "Eric Chapman".]]
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* XanatosGambit: Antigone pulls off a rather clever one in "The Body Snatchers." Eric asks for the Funns' help digging up some graves because he won't admit to a mistake he made to the rest of the village. Antigone says they'll only do so... if Eric doesn't do any funerals for two weeks, thus giving them all the business. Every outcome favors the Funns. If Eric agrees, the Funns get all his business for two weeks. If he ''doesn't'' agree, he has to admit to his screw-up, possibly dampening his reputation. [[spoiler:In the end, Antigone agrees to take the fall for him... on the grounds that he close up shop for a ''month''. He agrees, and as she points out, Funn Funerals already has such a bad reputation, they can't actually lose any goodwill because they have none to begin with. Ergo, they had nothing to lose and could only benefit. Unfortunately for her, Eric manages to maneuver the situation to get the last laugh anyway.]]
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Mentioned once, where [[spoiler: after Antigone agrees to do a funeral for forty clowns pro-bono, she resorts to stuffing them everywhere she can--the fridge being no exclusion.]]
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* AllTherapistsAreMuggles: As Eric learns the hard way in "The Sunshine Treatment," no, grief counselling is not as simple as making people feel happy. You need actual training, and the grieving process is long, complicated, and a ''hell'' of a lot more than can be accomplished in a couple sessions. No amount of good cheer and good intentions can change that.
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* RealityEnsues: As Eric learns the hard way in "The Sunshine Treatment," no, grief counselling is not as simple as making people feel happy. You need actual training, and the grieving process is long, complicated, and a ''hell'' of a lot more than can be accomplished in a couple sessions. No amount of good cheer and good intentions can change that.
