When smart, cynical 18-year-old George is killed by an errant toilet seat falling from space, she joins the ranks of an undead group of grim reapers. As she clumsily learns to adjust to her new role in the afterlife, George haphazardly hurtles towards her first dreaded assignment: to collect the soul of a little girl.

George tries to shirk her new grim reaper responsibilities, but discovers that doing so leads to nasty consequences for the souls. She also attempts to get a real job by once again gracing the doorway of the Happy Time Temp Agency.

George discovers the price that the dead pay when they try to hang on to their past.

George finds a loophole in the "reaper rules" and decides to spare her next soul, but quickly learns that if you flip off Fate, Fate flings it back at you ten-fold.

George realizes that even the undead need friends, but she loses one when a reaper decides to jump to the other side.

George meets her new roommate, Daisy Adair, a glamorous, but annoying 1930s ingenue-turned-reaper who has joined their group.

George gets her first post-mortem kiss from a doomed schizophrenic who can see the gravelings.

George gets a pet and Rube takes a shift on the grill at Der Waffle Haus.

George makes a new friend and discovers her dad is not the person she thought he was, while Roxy's actions cause an obnoxious lout to find religion.

Daisy enlists George's help in fleecing a wealthy society matron's son, and Roxy faces her annual struggle to come to terms with her death.

George panics when Rube is assigned to pop a soul at her family's home.

Death takes a holiday and the reapers use the break to catch up on some paperwork.

While George tries to get her old job back, her family prepares to visit her grave.