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Greetings to Lillibet the wonderful Wonder Girl, Orc Queen Danielle and Professor Dave (he of the voice like smooth, rich chocolate).

Not zombie-related and only tangentially connected to Halloween, but after listening to your thoughts on The Princess Bride I decided to submit to you another work featuring the great Mandy Patinkin: the TV show Dead Like Me.
The premise of this show is that Death, rather than being the one directly involved in taking lives, acts as "upper management", merely deciding who is to die, and leaving the dirty work to his minions. The actual act of dying is caused by gremlin-like creatures known as Gravelings, while the Grim Reapers have the task of collecting the soul of the deceased and help them cross over. This should preferably be done before the actual death, in order for the person to feel no pain.
Grim Reapers, it should be noted, used to be normal human beings who become Death's assistants by mere luck (or lack of it, depending on your perspective). When you become a Reaper, Death attributes you with a random number of souls to collect; you'll never know what that number is until you reach it, at which point you'll be allowed to cross over, and the last soul you've collected will become a new Reaper.
We learn of this strange underworld of Gravelings and Reapers through the eyes of Georgia Lass, better known as George, who dies at the age of 18 when she is hit by a toilet seat from the de-orbiting Mir space station. She joins the team of Reapers specialized in deaths by "external influence" (i.e., murders, suicides and accidents) from her home town, Seattle. The fact that she's still close to the people and places she knew while she was alive add an extra amount of drama to the story since, besides having to cope with her new "life" as a Grim Reaper, she also has to witness how her dysfunctional family tries to cope with losing her. A funnier link to her old life is the fact that she goes back to work at her old job, and builds an interesting friendship with her insane and inappropriate boss Delores, who is probably one of Bryan Fuller's greatest comedic creations.
But back to the other Reapers. The head of the "external influence" group is Rube, played by Mandy Patinkin. He's the one who receives Death's list, handing to the others their assignments on post-it notes. (Something tells me Lillibet and Peggy will like him.) He becomes a surrogate father figure for George, whom he calls "Peanut", and is often frustrated by her.
Next is Roxy. I'm not going to tell you how she dies, since it's a big spoiler, but the very 1980s manner in which she died has made her a very angry and bitter woman.