When George (Ellen Muth) was alive, she never read obituaries. Now it’s the reapers’ sports pages. Rube hands out the post-it notes. George only gets one. She goes to the farmer’s market, where a vendor says she smells propane, as divers go down a manhole. A Graveling tosses a discarded lit cigarette down the hole. The vendor, who gave George a flower, dies. George goes to Happy Time where she finds a note from her boss Delores (Christine Willes). She wants George to train the new guy, Brennan (Steven Grayham), the boss’s nephew, who is dumb as a bag of rocks, but cute as hell. George falls head over heels for him. They intend to date but Dolores doesn’t like the idea.
George’s Mom (Cynthia Stevenson) and Dad (Greg Kern) go to couples therapy. They spend so much time arguing that the therapist (Serge Houde) tells them they should be less honest with each other. That’s why the therapist and his wife are still together after all these years. Mom asks if the wife knows he’s gay. Roxie’s (Jasmine Guy) boss warns the meter maids to be careful out there, in a parody of Hill Street Blues, right down to the theme music playing as the meter-maid carts hit the street. Roxie has been warned not to mouth off to the public, but she describes a perp so perfectly that a cop tells her she’s in the wrong business, so she joins Police Academy. She gets free coffee at the Waffle Haus.
George kisses Brennan and now all the women at the office hate her. She cuts off her finger and Brennan carries her off like a prize before all the other women. Dolores catches them kissing and pulls George off Brennan watch. She gives George a promotion and a raise, but she can’t go out with Brennan, though she keeps his phone-number. George’s parents tell her sister (Brit McKillup) that they’re getting a divorce and start arguing again. Daisy reaps a little old lady whose wheelchair is crushed by a garbage lifter and steals her silver cross.
Rube (Mandy Patinkin) and Mason (Callum Blue) go to a clown agency, following a reapee named Lloyd Sondheim (David MacKay), and Mason has to dress up as a clown. He is a terrible clown, swearing and mouthing off to the kids and making phallic balloon animals. The future dead guy can’t get the pinata to break, so he lets a bigger guy hit it with a bat. The Graveling inside throws a piece of candy inside the reapees’s throat and he chokes to death. His soul is angry with Mason for ruining his last day with his daughter by being such a crappy clown. Mason takes this to heart, steals a bottle of whisky from a homeless guy and falls off the wagon, but he leaves money for the guy he robbed. George is unhappy. Life sucks and then you die, and it still sucks. Daisy says she’s sorry George died so young and missed so much. This episode begins the second season.