Six Feet Under/Trivia


 * Dawson Casting: Claire.
 * Executive Meddling: 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."
 * Fake American: Australian Rachel Griffiths as Brenda (quite convincing, I must say).
 * Fake Russian: Ruth's Russian employer/boyfriend Nikolai was played by Ed O'Ross (real last name: Orosz), a Pittsburgh, PA native of Czechoslovakian descent.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!
 * David Fisher is of course Dexter.
 * Ruth dates Zefram Cochrane! And he is apparently already constructing, in order to survive World War Three and then invent the warp drive...
 * Among the Fisher's "clients" are:
 * 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...).
 * 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.