History YMMV / DeadLikeMe

** "Nomah's Land", played as a transgendered reap rants against God.

* CreatorsPet: Daisy

* TooGoodToLast: This was BryanFuller's first series. His other two pretty much followed the same path.

* NightmareFuel:
** We never actually see it happen, but Rube's description of how a soul goes bad if you leave it in the body when it should have died brings very unpleasant images to mind.
** Also, George fails to reap a man's soul before his death occurs. He's trapped inside his body while his autopsy occurs. It's exactly as disturbing as it sounds.

** "Boom Boom Ba", the song used in both ThePilot and the last scene of ''Life After Death''.

** "Boom Boom Ba", the song used in both ThePilot and the last scene of ''Life After Death''.

* TearJerker: Seeing how this show deals with ''death'' and often its impact on others, the [[{{TearJerker}} Tear Jerkers]] are bound to come in heaps at times. In an early episode where [[spoiler: George goes to visit her family and decides to tell her mother who she really is. She plans to tell Joy a story about a moment the two of them shared when George was little, because then she will surely realize that this is her daughter! And everyone will be happy! George walks confident up to the door, but when a mourning, angry Joy opens, she freezes up and the little of her story that she manage to stutter out is barely coherent. Joy ends up screaming at her to get the hell away from here then slams the door in her face. Shocked and saddened by the reality of the situation, finally realizing that she can't ever go back to her family, makes George cry her heart out later on the same day. Rube consoles her despite the fact that she went against his wishes, and the implications, vague as they may be, that Rube had tried the same thing makes it even sadder]].
** From the Season 2 episode "The Shallow End": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0NjcpfzAUY
** George's first reap, of a little girl.
*** And if the sequence didn't reduce you to a quivering puddle, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBIdw7e4jg0 music it was set to]] pretty much made sure there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
** Daisy's last thought.
** In the season two episode "Always", [[spoiler:Rube goes to see his daughter, who is now very old, in a nursing home right before she dies]].
** In "Reaping Havoc", [[spoiler:Betty's ascension into a higher plane of existence. George is very crushed by her leaving, and later, when talking about her alter ego Millie she says she had a sister (meaning Betty) "who was fearless."]]
** Daisy having to reap a woman killed by the man she was having an affair with.
** A man's WhatTheHellHero speech to Mason for ruining his daughter's birthday party in the season 2 premiere. It was so bad that Mason broke his sobriety.

** The song used in both ThePilot and the last scene of ''Life After Death''.

** The song used in both ThePilot and the last scene of ''LifeAfterDeath''.

** From season 2 episode "The Shallow End": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0NjcpfzAUY
** George's first reap, a little girl.

* [[NeverLiveItDown Never "Live" It Down]]: In Reaper circles, George will always be known as "Toilet Seat Girl."

* TheWesley: Daisy

** Daisy having to reap a woman killed by the man she was having an affair with. Daisy left a note for the police saying who killed her but still...

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** Daisy having to reap a woman killed by the man she was having an affair with. She couldn't even collect her.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: [[ActorAllusion Mandy Patinkin]]'s job is essentially to introduce himself to people and [[ThePrincessBride prepare them to die]]. Come ON, no ShoutOut? I could definitely see Rube impatiently reaping a [[JerkAss scumbag]] and going straight from "Hello, my name is Rube" to "a brick just fell on your head, prepare to move on." Especially if he was having a bad day.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The [[EarWorm theme tune]] played during the show's opening credits.
** Done by former member of {{The Police}} and {{Spyro the Dragon}} composer Stewart Copeland.
*** Here's an example of the rest of the soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxPYiWYYvfc

* CharacterDerailment: In the DVD movie a lot of Daisy's character and her growing relationship with Mason was dumbed down. She's now a flat fluttery headed drunken slut instead of just pretending to be, and she and Mason seem to be back to square one, even though [[spoiler: he gave her an engagement ring in season two, and in a very small way she accepted it.]] I guess we can only assume that something happened in the years between the show and the movie that changed them both.
** Mason also gets a good dose of this: the same guy who started drinking heavily upon realizing he royally fucked up the birthday party of a little girl whose father was his reap and gave a small boy about a quarter of his Halloween candy upon realizing the boy would die (and after having bragged about how big his load would be) now doesn't give two shits that a dead man's soul is trapped in his body. George also gets this retroactively, instead of merely ignoring Reggie as a little girl she was downright abusive of her.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: [[ActorAllusion Mandy Patinkin]]'s job is essentially to introduce himself to people and [[ThePrincessBride prepare them to die]]. Come ON, no ShoutOut? I could definitely see Rube impatiently reaping a [[JerkAss scumbag]] and going straight from "Hello, my name is Rube" to "a brick just fell on your head, prepare to move
on." Especially if he was having a bad day.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: Mandy Patinkin's job is essentially to introduce himself to people and [[ThePrincessBride prepare them to die]]. Come ON, no ShoutOut?

* HeyItsThatGuy: Hey! Rube is [[ThePrincessBride Inigo Montoya]]!
** Hey! [[CornerGas Hank]] is the Kitchen Guillotine guy!
** Hey! Roxy is Whitley Gilbert, the snotty rich girl from {{A Different World}}!
** Hey! [[{{Lost}} Martin Keamy]] is refusing to pay his parking tickets!
*** Hey! [[{{Lost}} Michael Dawson]] just snapped his neck doing yoga!
** Hey! Mason is banging [[{{Firefly}} Kaylee]]!
** Hey! [[{{Battlestar Galactica}} Cally]] is Reggie's babysitter!
** Hey! [[{{Eureka}} Jo]] is M.J. Bowers' sister!
*** Also: [[{{Eureka}} Fargo]] is George's IT guy and [[{{Eureka}} Vincent]] is an interviewee with irritable bowel syndrome!
** Hey! [[{{Sanctuary}} Will Zimmerman]] is hitting on George!
** Hey! [[StargateSG1 Apophis]] is hitting on George's mom!
*** And [[StargateSG1 Dr. Fraiser]] is selling their house!
*** And that priest is [[StargateSG1 Colonel Maybourne]]!

** Mason also gets a good dose of this: the same guy who started drinking heavily upon realizing he royally fucked up the birthday party of a little girl whose father was his reap and gave a small boy about a quarter of his candy upon realizing the boy would die (and after having bragged about how big his load would be) now doesn't give two shits that a dead man's soul is trapped in his body. George also gets this retroactively, instead of merely ignoring Reggie as a little girl she was downright abusive of her.