Parents' Guide to

Do You Want to See a Dead Body?

By Joyce Slaton, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 15+

Rude jokes and violence in absurd, over-the-top comedy.

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A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this TV show.

  • Do You Want to See a Dead Body? Series: Two men face each other; one is sitting on the ground and the other looks confused and upset.
  • Do You Want to See a Dead Body? Series: A man stands inside a darkened trailer, surrounded by rubber sex dolls; he is smiling gleefully.
  • Do You Want to See a Dead Body? Series: A man and a woman clink champagne glasses, both are covered in some kind of bluish goop.

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What's the Story?

All over Los Angeles, there are dead bodies waiting to be discovered, and Rob Huebel is the man who somehow knows how to find them. On each episode of this series (which began as a Funny or Die sketch), Huebel runs into a different comic you'll recognize, and asks them the question of the hour: DO YOU WANT TO SEE A DEAD BODY? Even if they don't, they eventually will -- after suffering through a series of absurd events with Rob.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
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Death isn't funny, corpses aren't funny -- but this series starring Rob Huebel and a bunch of comic actors you'll recognize is very, very funny indeed. The corpses, you see, are just an excuse for Huebel to drag a bunch of hilarious people around on ridiculous adventures: hosting an ice cream party in a morgue, going on a romantic double date to see a deceased farmer with Terry Crews (and two game women), trying to rescue John Cho when he gets stuck in quicksand, tricking Adam Scott into hanging out with him by pretending Scott hit him with his car. "You saw me at Chip's party and you blew me off," says a petulant Huebel. "You were with the guys in Hot Tub 2 and you acted like you didn't even know me."

On the way to find the body Huebel somehow knows about, Scott and Huebel rob a pharmacy and make a run by Huebel's apartment, which he apparently lives in with Morgan Freeman, who threatens to give Huebel a spanking for waking him up before he was ready. Then when Scott and Huebel find the body, a man in a parachute rig who died stuck in a tree, Huebel and Scott regard the body with comic awe. "Thanks for bringing me here, bro," says a humbled Scott, while Huebel muses, "We don't even know what happened. It could be a hitchhiker, or a drug overdose, or a bear attack." It wasn't. It was a parachute accident. But it's a funny moment, and Do You Want to See a Dead Body? is a hysterical show, if the idea of making comic hay from death and mayhem doesn't offend you.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about parody. Do you think Do You Want to See a Dead Body? is funny? What makes it different from a crime drama? Do you have to be familiar with the genre to appreciate the humor here? Could viewers who don't get the humor be offended by some of the jokes?

  • How would this show change if its stars were looking for something else, like a house to buy, bargains at a store, missing pets, or the answer to a mystery? Would it still be funny? Is it only death that's being satirized here, or are places or people mocked?

  • Rob Huebel plays a man who's particularly good at finding bodies. Why doesn't the show explain how he does this? Is it important? Is the point of the show really finding dead bodies, or is the appeal actually just watching funny people set in absurd situations?

  • What other shows can you name with this kind of "different guest stars on each episode" setup? Is this series funnier or less funny? How is it like or different from these similar shows?

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