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Six Feet Under

A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business. When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challengin

(71 total)

Seasons

Season 1 (17)Season 2 (11)Season 3 (15)Season 4 (19)Season 5 (9)

Characters

Brenda Chenowith (17)Rachel Griffiths (17)Alan Ball (16)Peter Krause (15)Nate Fisher (15)Kate Robin (11)Bruce Eric Kaplan (9)Craig Wright (9)Rick Cleveland (8)Frances Conroy (7)

“Nate: Come on, Dave. I watch Will & Grace. I have gaydar. David: Okay, don't say gaydar.”

— Laurence Andries, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

Tagged: Will & Grace, Gaydar

“Thank you, Nate, I appreciate your honesty, wrapped as it was in such a bouquet of condescension.”

— Christian Taylor, David Fisher, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

Tagged: Honesty, Condescension, Backhanded Compliments

“Sometimes I wake up so fucking empty that I wish I'd never been born, but what choice do I have?”

— Alan Ball, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

Tagged: Empty, Vacant

“No mistake, you guys are undertakers. You take every fucking feeling you have, put it in a box and bury it.”

— Laurence Andries, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

Tagged: Undertakers, Feelings, burial

“Brenda: I don't want any children. Nate: Wow! Who said anything about children? Brenda: I was referring to you.”

— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

Tagged: Childish, Sick Burns

“I wish that just once people wouldn't act like the clichés that they are.”

— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Claire Fisher, Lauren Ambrose, imdb.com

Tagged: Cliches

“You both look so happy. Just enjoy it while it lasts. Which isn't very long. You think you have forever, but you don't. Soon you start to get on each other's nerves. Then you don't tell the other person as much as you used to, 'cause, really, what's the point? You thought they understood you, but th…”

— Bruce Eric Kaplan, Ruth Fisher, Frances Conroy, imdb.com

Tagged: Happiness, Relationships, Alone

“Well, we're all wounded. We carry our wounds around with us through life, and eventually they kill us. Things happen that leave a mark in space, in time. In us.”

— Christian Williams, Brenda Chenowith, Rachel Griffiths, imdb.com

Tagged: wounds, Emotional Wounds

“You can pump him full of chemicals. You can put makeup on him. You can prop him up for a nap in the slumber room; but the fact remains, David, that the only father we're ever gonna have is gone! Forever…and that sucks, but it's a goddamned part of life and you can't really accept it without getting…”

— Alan Ball, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

Tagged: Chemicals, Death, Corpses

“When I went backpacking through Europe after I quit school, I went to this island off the coast of Sicily—it’s this volcanic island—and on the boat over, there was this pine box. Somebody from the island was being returned to be buried there. And there were all these old Sicilians dressed up all in…”

— Alan Ball, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com

Tagged: Backpacking, Europe, Sicilian, funerals, Grief

“Old Man: You've done a nice job. She looks peaceful. David: Well, she is at peace now. Old Man: If there's any justice in the universe, she's shoveling shit in hell.”

— Alan Ball, David Fisher, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

Tagged: Rest in Peace, Hell