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** While travelling across the country looking for survivors, Phil leaves messages reading "Alive in Tuscon", which is how Carol [[spoiler:and Melissa]] find him.
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* MinimalistCast: Outside of a flashback, a dream sequence and in a movie being watched, Phil and Carol are the only humans seen.
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* MinimalistCast: Outside of a flashback, a dream sequence and in a movie being watched, Phil and Carol [[spoiler:and later Melissa]] are the only humans seen.
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''The Last Man on Earth'' is a FOX Network television series that debuted on March 1, 2015. It stars Creator/WillForte and Creator/KristenSchaal.
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''The Last Man on Earth'' is a FOX Network television series that debuted on March 1, 2015. It stars Creator/WillForte Creator/WillForte, Creator/KristenSchaal, and Creator/KristenSchaal.
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* OddCouple: Phil and Carol, with the whole world as their apartment.
* PervertedSniffing: Before he even meets her, Phil grabs Carol's bra off a clothesline and smells it.
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* OddCouple: Phil and Carol, with the whole world as their apartment.
* PervertedSniffing: Before he even meets her, Phil grabs Carol's bra off a clothesline and smells it.
* PervertedSniffing: Before he even meets her, Phil grabs Carol's bra off a clothesline and smells it.
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* LethalChef: She does her best, but Carol's not a stellar cook even accounting for the lack of resources.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: A short commercial bumper spoiled Carol's existence about a week before the show premiered.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: A short commercial bumper spoiled Carol's existence about a week before the show premiered.
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: No, Phil isn't the last person on Earth.
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: No, Phil isn't the last person on Earth. Just the last ''man''.
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* TomboyishName: Carol's middle name is "Andrew".
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: A short commercial bumper spoiled Carol's existence about a week before the show premiered.
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* OrderVsChaos: There's Carol, who wants to maintain morals and decency, and Phil, who takes advantage of the world essentially being a giant playground.
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* TheLastManHeardAKnock: TheSeries.
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* TheLastManHeardAKnock: TheSeries.Phil is about to commit suicide when he sees a campfire in the distance.
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** To Film/TheQuietEarth where another last man on Earth fills a mansion with stuff.
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** To Film/TheQuietEarth ''Film/TheQuietEarth'', where another last man on Earth fills a mansion with stuff.
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* EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth: Phil has nice, clean pearly-white teeth befitting an actor, despite having spent five months (possibly more) drinking every day and begin generally slovenly. He shouldn't be missing any teeth or have them horribly discolored, but they would certainly not be as clear as portrayed.
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** To Film/TheQuietEarth where another last man on Earth fills a mansion with stuff.
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* BlatantLies: Phil tells Carol he doesn't know who took her tomatoes even though he is the other half of the known human race and has tomato on him.
* DepopulationBomb: There is no one else to be seen, no bodies, stores are left as if they were just stocked up before opening.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/CastAway''. Phil rigs up a DVD player to a generator, watches the movie, and mocks the idea of talking to a volleyball. Sure enough, pretty soon he is doing just that, and conceding that the makers of ''Cast Away'' got it right.
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* ShoutOut: To ShoutOut:
**To ''Film/CastAway''. Phil rigs up a DVD player to a generator, watches the movie, and mocks the idea of talking to a volleyball. Sure enough, pretty soon he is doing just that, and conceding that the makers of ''Cast Away'' got itright.right.
**To ''Film/NightOfTheComet'' where the end of the movie a character points out that you don't have to pay attention to traffic signals after the world has ended.
**To ''Film/CastAway''. Phil rigs up a DVD player to a generator, watches the movie, and mocks the idea of talking to a volleyball. Sure enough, pretty soon he is doing just that, and conceding that the makers of ''Cast Away'' got it
**To ''Film/NightOfTheComet'' where the end of the movie a character points out that you don't have to pay attention to traffic signals after the world has ended.
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* MinimalistCast: Outside of a flashback and seen on a movie being watched, Phil and Carol are the only ones seen.
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* MinimalistCast: Outside of a flashback flashback, a dream sequence and seen on in a movie being watched, Phil and Carol are the only ones humans seen.
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Forte plays Phil Miller, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin last man on earth]], or so he thinks. After a mysterious virus wipes out humanity in 2018, Phil spends two years looking for survivors. Failing to find anyone, he returns home to Tucson, UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}}, and occupies a mansion. The crushing loneliness drives him to despair, and Phil is about to commit suicide, when he finally finds another human being, fellow plague survivor Carol Pilbasian (Schaal), who has come to Tucson after seeing the signs Phil left up. They instantly dislike each other.
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* FlashBack: Phil has one when he marks his birthday off a calendar.
* GilliganCut: Notable in that when Carol demands they go to the hardware store, Phil only gets as far as "We are n-" before the cut happens.
* GilliganCut: Notable in that when Carol demands they go to the hardware store, Phil only gets as far as "We are n-" before the cut happens.
* MinimalistCast: Outside of a flashback and seen on a movie being watched, Phil and Carol are the only ones seen.
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* SoleSurvivor: Or so Phil thinks.
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* OddCouple: Phil and Carol, with the whole world as their apartment.
* PervertedSniffing: Before he even meets her, Phil grabs Carol's bra off a clothesline and smells it.
* SoleSurvivor:Or so Phil thinks.Most of the first episode centers on this.
* PervertedSniffing: Before he even meets her, Phil grabs Carol's bra off a clothesline and smells it.
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* RunningGag: One of the running jokes in the first two episodes is Phil's collection of priceless artifacts that he picked up on his travels. Phil has a collection of formerly valuable art, he has an Apollo spacesuit, he lounges around the house in Michael Jordan's Bulls jersey, he uses the U.S. Constitution as a napkin, etc.
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* RunningGag: One of the running jokes in the first two episodes is Phil's collection of priceless artifacts that he picked up on his travels. Phil has a collection of formerly valuable art, he has an Apollo spacesuit, he lounges around the house in Michael Jordan's UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan's Bulls jersey, he uses the U.S. Constitution as a napkin, etc.
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Forte plays Phil Miller, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin last man on earth]], or so he thinks. After a mysterious virus wipes out humanity in 2018, Phil spends two years looking for survivors. Failing to find anyone, he returns home to Tuscson, Arizona, and occupies a mansion. The crushing loneliness drives him to despair, and Phil is about to commit suicide, when he finally finds another human being, fellow plague survivor Carol Pilbasian (Schaal), who has come to Tucson after seeing the signs Phil left up. They instantly dislike each other.
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Forte plays Phil Miller, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin last man on earth]], or so he thinks. After a mysterious virus wipes out humanity in 2018, Phil spends two years looking for survivors. Failing to find anyone, he returns home to Tuscson, Arizona, Tucson, UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}}, and occupies a mansion. The crushing loneliness drives him to despair, and Phil is about to commit suicide, when he finally finds another human being, fellow plague survivor Carol Pilbasian (Schaal), who has come to Tucson after seeing the signs Phil left up. They instantly dislike each other.
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* AdamAndEvePlot / OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: Carol just assumes that she and Phil have to mate in order to repopulate the human race. Like most other instances of this trope, this ignores not only a lack of genetic diversity but the fact that their children [[BrotherSisterIncest would have to have sex with each other]].
* AdamAndEvePlot / OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: Carol just assumes that she and Phil have to mate in order to repopulate the human race. Like most other instances of this trope, this ignores not only a lack of genetic diversity but the fact that their children [[BrotherSisterIncest would have to have sex with each other]].
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* SoleSurvivor: Or so he Phil thinks.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The series is set in 2020, two years after ThePlague wiped out the human race.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The series is set in 2020, two years after ThePlague wiped out the human race.race.
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I think this is more Lawful Stupid, but in any case, Lawful Stupid is not YMMV
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* LawfulNeutral: Carol insists on obeying the laws of civilization, even though, as Phil points out, they no longer apply. She insists on stopping at stop signs and not using the handicap parking spots, and demands that Phil marry her before procreating.
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* LawfulNeutral: LawfulStupid: Carol insists on obeying the laws of civilization, even though, as Phil points out, they no longer apply. She insists on stopping at stop signs and not using the handicap parking spots, and demands that Phil marry her before procreating.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Phil almost kills himself by driving into a rock, but stops himself when he sees the smoke from Carol's camp.
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* InterruptedSuicide: Phil almost kills himself by driving into a rock, but stops himself when he sees the smoke from Carol's camp.
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* DescriptionCut: Carol tells Phil that "a man's home is a reflection of his soul." Cut to Phil showing her the pool he uses as a toilet.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Phil almost kills himself by driving into a rock, but stops himself when he sees the smoke from Carol's camp.
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* LawfulNeutral: Carol insists on obeying the laws of civilization, even though, as Phil points out, they no longer apply. She insists on stopping at stop signs and not using the handicap parking spots, and demands that Phil marry her before procreating.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Phil discovers Carol's camp, and as he faints of exhaustion, Carol is visible (out of focus) in the background.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: Phil discovers Carol's camp, and as he faints of exhaustion, Carol is visible (out of focus) in the background.
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* TrashOfTheTitans: Five months after settling into a new home, Phil has filled it to overflowing with garbage. He even has designated a nearby pool as a personal dump.
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* ApocalypseHow: Class 3b, extinction of the human race via natural means.
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* ApocalypseHow: Class 3b, extinction of the human race via natural means. (Presumably natural, although the origin of the Virus has not yet been explained.)
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* ThePigPen: Phil descends to this level. When Carol goes to confront him about stealing her tomatoes, she catches him with chunks of tomato stuck in his bushy, filthy beard.
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* ThePlague: No details given as to exactly what the nature of "the Virus" was, but it seems to have wiped out humanity pretty much completely. Phil criss-crossed all of the Lower 48 as well as much of Canada and Mexico and did not find anyone alive.
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* ThePlague: No details given as to exactly what the nature of "the Virus" was, but it seems to have wiped out humanity pretty much completely. Phil criss-crossed all of the Lower 48 as well as much of Canada and Mexico and did not find anyone alive.
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* StoppedCaring: Having failed to find anyone, Phil reverts to an essentially feral existence, turning a swimming pool into a giant latrine and allowing the mansion he occupied to fill up with garbage. Carol starts to bring him out of this, as shown when he rigs up an irrigation system to water her tomato garden.
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* StoppedCaring: Having failed to find anyone, Phil reverts to an essentially feral existence, turning a swimming pool into a giant latrine and allowing the mansion he occupied to fill up with garbage. Carol starts to bring him out of this, as shown when he rigs up an irrigation system to water her tomato garden.garden.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The series is set in 2020, two years after ThePlague wiped out the human race.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The series is set in 2020, two years after ThePlague wiped out the human race.
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* ShoutOut: To ''Film/CastAway''. Phil rigs up a DVD player to a generator, watches the movie, and mocks the idea of talking to a volleyball. Sure enough, pretty soon he is doing just that, and conceding that the makers of ''Cast Away'' got it right.
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''The Last Man on Earth'' is a FOX Network television series that debuted on March 1, 2015. It stars Creator/WillForte and Creator/KristenSchaal.
Forte plays Phil Miller, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin last man on earth]], or so he thinks. After a mysterious virus wipes out humanity in 2018, Phil spends two years looking for survivors. Failing to find anyone, he returns home to Tuscson, Arizona, and occupies a mansion. The crushing loneliness drives him to despair, and Phil is about to commit suicide, when he finally finds another human being, fellow plague survivor Carol Pilbasian (Schaal), who has come to Tucson after seeing the signs Phil left up. They instantly dislike each other.
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* AdamAndEvePlot / OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: Carol just assumes that she and Phil have to mate in order to repopulate the human race. Like most other instances of this trope, this ignores not only a lack of genetic diversity but the fact that their children [[BrotherSisterIncest would have to have sex with each other]].
* AfterTheEnd: In 2018, a virus wiped out the human race. After spending two years wandering around North America looking for survivors, Phil returns home in 2020.
* TheAloner: Until he finds Carol.
* BeardOfBarbarism: Phil's facial hair gets out of control.
* BlackComedy: It's a comedy set after an apocalypse that has wiped out humanity.
* CompanionCube: After mocking this while watching ''Film/CastAway'', Phil winds up with a whole crowd of Companion Cube balls with drawn-on faces, keeping him company.
* CosyCatastrophe: It isn't a particularly happy one, as Phil is driven to the depths of despair, and Carol doesn't want to live like an animal. But the world is strangely neat and well-ordered. There are no bodies anywhere and no signs of the chaos and devastation that one might assume would be associated with the end of the human race.
* DreamSequence: In the pilot Phil is being woken up by an insanely gorgeous woman. It turns out to be a dream, and he's really being revived by the decidedly more average-looking Carol.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: To the point that he has a whole array of Companion Cubes and almost goes out on a date with a mannequin.
* GrammarNazi: One of the ways Carol irritates Phil is her pedantic insistence on the "don't end a sentence with a preposition" rule.
* KilroyWasHere: When he's about to kill himself, Phil paints an "RIP Phil Miller" message that dates his death to "Novemberish 2020".
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: Phil gives himself one. This is accompanied with a sad {{Flashback}} to a birthday party for Phil in happier days before the Virus. It's after this that Phil decides to kill himself.
* ThePlague: No details given as to exactly what the nature of "the Virus" was, but it seems to have wiped out humanity pretty much completely. Phil criss-crossed all of the Lower 48 as well as much of Canada and Mexico and did not find anyone alive.
* PrepositionsAreNotToEndSentencesWith: Carol the GrammarNazi rides this non-rule right into the ground, castigating Phil every time he ends a sentence with a preposition.
* RunningGag: One of the running jokes in the first two episodes is Phil's collection of priceless artifacts that he picked up on his travels. Phil has a collection of formerly valuable art, he has an Apollo spacesuit, he lounges around the house in Michael Jordan's Bulls jersey, he uses the U.S. Constitution as a napkin, etc.
* SoleSurvivor: Or so he thinks.
* StoppedCaring: Having failed to find anyone, Phil reverts to an essentially feral existence, turning a swimming pool into a giant latrine and allowing the mansion he occupied to fill up with garbage. Carol starts to bring him out of this, as shown when he rigs up an irrigation system to water her tomato garden.
Forte plays Phil Miller, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin last man on earth]], or so he thinks. After a mysterious virus wipes out humanity in 2018, Phil spends two years looking for survivors. Failing to find anyone, he returns home to Tuscson, Arizona, and occupies a mansion. The crushing loneliness drives him to despair, and Phil is about to commit suicide, when he finally finds another human being, fellow plague survivor Carol Pilbasian (Schaal), who has come to Tucson after seeing the signs Phil left up. They instantly dislike each other.
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* AdamAndEvePlot / OnlyYouCanRepopulateMyRace: Carol just assumes that she and Phil have to mate in order to repopulate the human race. Like most other instances of this trope, this ignores not only a lack of genetic diversity but the fact that their children [[BrotherSisterIncest would have to have sex with each other]].
* AfterTheEnd: In 2018, a virus wiped out the human race. After spending two years wandering around North America looking for survivors, Phil returns home in 2020.
* TheAloner: Until he finds Carol.
* BeardOfBarbarism: Phil's facial hair gets out of control.
* BlackComedy: It's a comedy set after an apocalypse that has wiped out humanity.
* CompanionCube: After mocking this while watching ''Film/CastAway'', Phil winds up with a whole crowd of Companion Cube balls with drawn-on faces, keeping him company.
* CosyCatastrophe: It isn't a particularly happy one, as Phil is driven to the depths of despair, and Carol doesn't want to live like an animal. But the world is strangely neat and well-ordered. There are no bodies anywhere and no signs of the chaos and devastation that one might assume would be associated with the end of the human race.
* DreamSequence: In the pilot Phil is being woken up by an insanely gorgeous woman. It turns out to be a dream, and he's really being revived by the decidedly more average-looking Carol.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: To the point that he has a whole array of Companion Cubes and almost goes out on a date with a mannequin.
* GrammarNazi: One of the ways Carol irritates Phil is her pedantic insistence on the "don't end a sentence with a preposition" rule.
* KilroyWasHere: When he's about to kill himself, Phil paints an "RIP Phil Miller" message that dates his death to "Novemberish 2020".
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: Phil gives himself one. This is accompanied with a sad {{Flashback}} to a birthday party for Phil in happier days before the Virus. It's after this that Phil decides to kill himself.
* ThePlague: No details given as to exactly what the nature of "the Virus" was, but it seems to have wiped out humanity pretty much completely. Phil criss-crossed all of the Lower 48 as well as much of Canada and Mexico and did not find anyone alive.
* PrepositionsAreNotToEndSentencesWith: Carol the GrammarNazi rides this non-rule right into the ground, castigating Phil every time he ends a sentence with a preposition.
* RunningGag: One of the running jokes in the first two episodes is Phil's collection of priceless artifacts that he picked up on his travels. Phil has a collection of formerly valuable art, he has an Apollo spacesuit, he lounges around the house in Michael Jordan's Bulls jersey, he uses the U.S. Constitution as a napkin, etc.
* SoleSurvivor: Or so he thinks.
* StoppedCaring: Having failed to find anyone, Phil reverts to an essentially feral existence, turning a swimming pool into a giant latrine and allowing the mansion he occupied to fill up with garbage. Carol starts to bring him out of this, as shown when he rigs up an irrigation system to water her tomato garden.
