Six Feet Under: Difference between revisions

* [[Black Comedy]]

* [[Black Sheep]]: Nate.

* [[Brother Chuck]]: Played straight with Claire's best friend Parker; Averted with Claire's college friends who appear again in the last season.

** Ever since Season 1 there was the question of whether they actually did it. It was not confirmed until a later season that {{spoiler|they did not}}.

* [[Camp Gay]]: David, especially when alone with Keith. Also Robbie, from the florist.

* [[Fake American]]: Australian [[Rachel Griffiths]] as Brenda (quite convincing, I must say).

* [[Family Business]]: The funeral home, obviously.

* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: Biker Funeral! ''Porn-Star Funeral!''

** Lampshaded by the psychotic Billy when he {{spoiler|fakes his suicide}}. ("If you mix up the letters in 'funeral' you get 'real fun.'")

** Also referenced in one of the [[Parody Commercial|Parody Commercials]] in the pilot episode, which proclaims that their product puts [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc2ThRnNuz0&feature=related "fun, back into the funeral"].

* [[Gayngst]]

* [[Henpecked Husband]]: {{spoiler|Nate after marrying Lisa.}}

* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Brenda, so very much.

* [[Housewife]]: Ruth, subverted.

* [[In Space]]: Lampshaded with "Nathaniel and Isabelle: In Space!"

* [[It Always Rains At Funerals]]: Averted. Funerals almost invariably occur on beautiful, sunny days, since this is, after all, LA.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: Watch the last few episodes of the Fishers mourning after {{spoiler|Nate's death}}. Then watch the first few episodes after Nathaniel's death. Familiar, but different, wouldn't you say?

* [[Mega Corp]]: Kroner, the commercial funeral home from the early seasons.

* [[Mushroom Samba]]

* [[Never Got to Say Goodbye]]: {{spoiler|Nate, before Lisa disappears only to be found dead weeks later.}} {{spoiler|Ruth, when Nate dies while she is away camping.}}

** Also the driving force for much of the [[Wangst]] in the first few episodes after Nathaniel, Sr. dies. Even the audience feels this way after {{spoiler|Nate dies}}.

* [[No Medication for Me]]: Whenever an episode needs more drama, Billy will sometimes go through extreme examples of this trope.

* [[Nobody Over 50 Is Gay]]: Averted.

* [[Once an Episode]]: Every episode begins with the Death of the Week.

** Except in three occasions: The third-to-last episode, which continues on the death that occured at the end of the previous episode; an earlier episode where the lack of deaths is something of a plot point; and the finale, which begins with {{spoiler|a birth.}}

* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted, seeing as there are two characters named Nathaniel: Nathaniel Fisher Senior and Nathaniel Fisher Junior. Though it doesn't really matter seeing as Jr. is usually referred to as 'Nate'.

** A third Nathaniel is the character from the [[Show Within a Show|Book Within A Show]] ''Nathaniel and Isabel''. Shortly after having met Brenda for the first time, Nate gets a bit freaked out by the fact that she has a tattoo of his name on her back. (It actually refers to Billy, because the two siblings could identify very well with the book characters.)

** Subverted in the case of Nathaniel since his kids had no idea how open-minded he was. The only version of Nathaniel we ever see are hallucinations of what the characters ''think'' he'd say in the situation.

* [[Porn Stash]]: A [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when Keith and David's adopted sons find their porn, they are forced to toss it away. It's ''enormous'', taking up several full garbage bags. The two of them begin arguing at the dumpster about which ones are too good to throw away.

* [[Posthumous Character]]: Nathaniel Fisher Sr.

** Nate started the series as something of a [[Casanova]] and all the characters become sexually adventurous at some point. {{spoiler|[[Character Development|Everyone grows out of it]] except Nate. Nate's lack of growth is a plot point at the end of the series.}}

* [[Sibling Rivalry]]: Nate and David.

* [[Single Mom Stripper]]: Frederico has an affair with one for a while. [[Sarcasm Mode|Because we all know that strippers are slutty junky bitches, right?]]

* [[The Snark Knight]]: Claire.

* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Gabe.

* [[True Art Is Angsty]]: In-universe, averted with everyone but Claire. Claire attains some moderate artistic success with a more upbeat portfolio, but keeps trying to pitch her own work, which is all gloomy shots of gravestones. No one is interested.

* [[Yandere]]: Lisa.