Six Feet Under/YMMV

• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming and Crowning Moment of Awesome: the last scene, which cuts between Claire driving off to New York City and flash-forwards of all of the deaths of the surviving main characters. It's surprisingly heartwarming in context.
  • Heartwarming, Awesome, and thought-provoking:

Nate Sr.: You can do anything, you lucky bastard, you're alive! What's a little pain compared to that?
David: It can't be that simple.
Nate Sr.: What if it is?

• • Ditto the above:

Grieving Widow: Why do people have to die?
Nate: To make life important.

• Crowning Moment of Funny: The entire sequence when David goes paintballing.
  • Claire. Gabe. A stolen foot. Hilarity Ensues.
  • "We should all work with dogs" dinner scene.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: Brenda at one point makes fun of what was likely an embolism that Nate had during his sleep. Nate responds by jokingly suggesting that he got a brain tumor from formaldehyde exposure. Oh dear.
  • This was likely just as much deliberate Foreshadowing however.
    • In the same scene, Brenda says there was 'teeth grinding' and Nate says 'that explains the headaches', which makes it even more likely that this was deliberate foreshadowing.
  • A better example would be in the Deadly Distant Finale where David and Keith get married. On the DVD Commentary, Alan Ball said this would take place in 2009 because he thought same-sex marraige would be legal in California by then. Jump forward to November 4, 2008....
• Jerkass Woobie: Brenda.
• Jumping the Shark: Opinions vary, but the most frequently cited moment is the episode where David is kidnapped.
• Narm (It's the Trope Namer.)
• Nightmare Fuel David's experience with the hitchhiker. Lisa's decaying, partially shark-eaten corpse. Many gruesome deaths are depicted on screen.
• Romantic Plot Tumor: Nate and Lisa, Ruth and George Sibley.
• The Scrappy: Lisa. The Clingy Jealous Granola Girl Housewife and tedious Romantic False Lead. A waste of perfectly good Lili Taylor.
• The Woobie: Ruth. Oh, Ruth. Arthur as well, to a degree.
  • That scene when she was eating dinner alone....
  • David, most of the tragedies happen to him, mainly, being kidnapped.
  • Claire too, from having her inability to orgasm being broadcast, finding out her father is dead while on crystal meth, finding out she's pregnant and her child's father is having sex with her teacher., dating a criminal and a sociopath, and making a fool out of herself while high at dinner.