Dead Like Me
18-year-old George Lass (Ellen Muth) dies when a toilet from the MIR space station falls from the sky and hits her. Upon her death she discovers that she has been slated to become a reaper, a figure who removes souls from others just before death to ease them into thier individual afterlives. Rube (Mandy Patinkin), her new boss in the afterlife introduces her to fellow reapers Roxy (Jasmine Guy), Mason (Callum Blue), and Betty (Rebecca Gayheart). In addition to reaping George discovers she must find a way to support herself in the afterlife and takes a job at a temp agency working for Delores Herbig (Christine Willes) where she had worked at the time of her death. The series also follows the continuing drama of how George's family is dealing with her death as she follows the lives of her mother Joy (Cynthia Stevenson), father Clancy (Greg Kean) and sister Reggie (Britt McKillip).
Georgia, 18, a college dropout in Seattle, gets a filing job. She gets killed by a falling Mir toilet seat on her first workday. Two grim reapers have her join their rank.
George is still dealing with her transition, sneaking home at night, shirking her reaping duties and meeting Brendan's parents. Reggie is also having some difficulty, and starts lying and stealing toilet seats. Mason comes up with a new scheme to gather money, and Roxy is not very appreciative.
A caged bear mutilates some protesters, and makes an appearance later as well. George keeps going home, and this time finds all of her old stuff boxed up. Betty continues chaperoning George. Plus, George is stuck answering phones at Happy Time while everyone else has cake.
When one of Roxy's reaps doesn't show up, George gets the idea to "help" fate along, with very dire consequences. Mason tries smuggling drugs, and Rube gets stressed at the airport. George catches Crystal messing with some workstations, and get into a little office war.
George goes looking for a friend, and gets into a scrapping with Delores. We also get to see how Betty died and became a reaper. Betty, Rube, and George go to a family reunion for a reap. Mason, meanwhile, spends some quality time with the recently dead owner of a house. And, George gets her first paycheck.
Daisy Adair shows up to replace Betty, and promptly moves into George's apartment. George tries her hand at bowling, and Joy discovers Reggie's toilet tree. Rube talks to Joy while waiting for his reap. Mason reaps the new guy in the Happy Time office. George starts to live a little as her own person, rather than just trying to avoid everything.
George finds herself in a strange and potentially romantic relationship with a man who can see gravelings.
George gets a pet and Rube takes a shift on the grill at Der Waffle Haus.
George makes a new friend and discovers her dad is not the person she thought he was.
George is saddled with a tedious collating task and Daisy recruits her and Mason to make money from her reap. Roxy grieves her own death.
George is changing jobs to be able to buy a bike. Daisy takes a painting when she reaps an artist, but he doesn't want to move on while she has it. Mason spends time with a gay couple he is supposed to reap.
George has insomnia and goes to the diner where she finds Rube proctoring the other Reapers doing self-evaluation tests. She discovers that Rube has a reap scheduled in George's family's driveway, causing anxiety for George.
The Gravelings have the day off so the reaping is replaced with paperwork for Rube and the Reapers. George convinces Rube to computerize the data at Happy Time. George's family takes their first vacation since George's death.
George takes Delores and her cat to the vet, where they encounter a young pet Reaper. Rube reaps a yoga instructor, and George's family prepares for a ceremony dedicating her gravestone.
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Mandy Patinkin | Rube Sofer |
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Callum Blue | Mason |
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Cynthia Stevenson | Joy Lass |
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Jasmine Guy | Roxy Harvey |
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Ellen Muth | Georgia 'George' Lass |
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Christine Willes | Delores Herbig |
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Britt McKillip | Reggie Lass |
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Greg Kean | Clancy Lass |
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Laura Harris | Daisy Adair |
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Crystal Dahl | Crystal |
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Talia Ranger | Young George |
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Laura Boddington | Un George |
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Rebecca Gayheart | Betty Rhomer |
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Patricia Idlette | Waitress |
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Deanne Henry | Casey |
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Harold Perrineau | Aroun Levert |
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John Kapelos | Angus Cook |
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Kevin Durand | Charles |
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Daniel Bacon | Michael |
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Peter Kelamis | Patty Melt Guy |
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Colin Lawrence | Businessman |
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Kwesi Ameyaw | Airport Security Guard |
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Matthew Currie Holmes | B.M. Moore |
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Brendan Beiser | Sportscar Driver |
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Raugi Yu | Cheery Co-Worker |
| Edition | The Complete First Season |
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| Packaging | Custom Case |
| Nr Discs | 4 |
| Screen Ratios | Fullscreen (4:3, Letterboxed) |
| Audio Tracks | Stereo Dolby Digital 5.1 [English] Dolby Digital Stereo [English] Dolby Digital 5.1 [German] Dolby Digital Stereo [French] |
| Subtitles | Dutch | English | English (Closed Captioned) | French | German | German (Closed Captioned) |
| Distributor | MGM Home Entertainment |
| Layers | Single side, Single layer |
| Edition Release Date | Jun 15, 2004 |
| Regions | Region 1 |