Continuity mistake: The waitress played by Patricia Idlette is named Kiffani starting with episode 12, but in the first couple of episodes of the first season her name badge reads "Gerri."
Continuity mistake: Dead Like Me: Life After Death DVD movie: In the scene outside the theatre, the flower appears in Daisy's hand before Mason has given it to her.
Continuity mistake: After George dodges the toad on the floor, she walks backwards up onto some steps, yet she walks up the same step twice.
Continuity mistake: When Rube and Betty are speaking to George at the site of her death, Betty's scarf continuously changes positions.
Continuity mistake: When Mason and George are about to go into the house of the murdered accountant they show the lock from the inside of the apartment and it's unlocked. When they show it again it's locked and then Mason unlocks it.
Continuity mistake: When George delivers the files to some guy, while at her job, her hair keeps on changing position over her shoulder.
Continuity mistake: When George is filing, she is told it is her lunch hour. Between shots her hair flips over her shoulder.
Continuity mistake: George drops the red file from her stack of files to deliver, yet in the next shot you can still see the red file in the stack.
Continuity mistake: When George is flicking through files in a drawer, they change positions between shots, when the man tells her its her lunch hour.
Continuity mistake: When the first Reaper who touched George magically disappears, people in the background appear out of nowhere and disappear out of nowhere.
Continuity mistake: When George is sitting on the train, watching the little girl she is supposed to reap, the position of the ticket on the seat beside her changes.
Continuity mistake: When Betty is leaving the diner table to meet someone, she puts her bag on her shoulder. In the next shot, it's in her hands.
Continuity mistake: When Rube sits down on the bus station bench, before George gets on the train, to reap her first person, he crosses his legs twice.
Continuity mistake: When George writes "moist" on the fridge, to give her mum a sign, the position of the 'T' magnet changes between shots.
Continuity mistake: When everyone is lying on the bank floor during the robbery, George crawls over to Mason. In the following shot she is back where she was before.
Continuity mistake: When George delivers the files to the guy at work, the top file on the stack changes positions between shots.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Rube shakes hands with the animal protesters, he is not wearing the trash bag while shaking their hands. He is wearing the trash bag immediately before and after. (00:04:45)
Suggested correction: He is wearing the trash bag because one of the posters commits on it.
Continuity mistake: Dolores walks to the computer and tells Georgia "Apparently Stinky5000 votes for 'Ferns and Flowers'." The first look we get at the screen shows the message "Could you tell us what the dog's name is?" and nothing else. The next two glimpses of the screen we get shows "You forgot to put detergent into the dishwasher" and nothing else. It's after the next cut that Dolores says Hungrygirl wants to know the dog's name. As Dolores walks away from the computer, we get a last look at the screen. You can see Stinky5000's message "I vote for "Ferns and Flowers'" appearing on the screen. (00:29:40)
Continuity mistake: When Guggenheim is sitting on the bench after he dies, he reaches for the pink index card and his fingers pass through it. But then how did the index card get to the bench? He had it when the gas tank hit him, so it could make sense if he still had it "with" him, like his clothes, but if he can't touch it now, then it should have stayed with his body, inside the building.
Continuity mistake: When the reapers are inputting the data, they are only typing in the final thought. However, in every shot of the spreadsheets, there are entries for final thought, name, date, and location.