Woke Up Dead is an American horror/comedy

Comedy horror

Comedy horror, also known as horror comedy, is a literary and film genre, combining elements of comedy and horror fiction. The comedy horror genre almost always inevitably crosses over with the black comedy genre; and in some respects could be considered a subset of it.The short story "The Legend...

 web series

Web series

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 starring Jon Heder

Jon Heder

Jonathan Joseph "Jon" Heder is an American screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker. His feature film debut came in 2004 as the title character of the comedy film Napoleon Dynamite...

 (best known for Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 comedy film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess and stars Jon Heder as Napoleon Dynamite. The film was Jared Hess' first full-length feature and is partially adapted from his earlier short film, Peluca....

) as a young man who awakes in a full bathtub after 'drowning' and has no heartbeat, prompting his friends to believe him to be a zombie

Zombie

Zombie is a term used to denote an animated corpse brought back to life by mystical means such as witchcraft. The term is often figuratively applied to describe a hypnotized person bereft of consciousness and self-awareness, yet ambulant and able to respond to surrounding stimuli...

. The show premiered on Sony Pictures Entertainment

Sony Pictures Entertainment

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 owned Crackle

Crackle

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 on October 5, 2009. Woke Up Dead is a production of Electric Farm Entertainment, a company that produced Afterworld, which currently runs on Crackle

Crackle

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, along with Gemini Division

Gemini Division

Gemini Division is an American science fiction series of five-to-seven minute long episodes created by Electric Farm Entertainment which went into production in March 2008. Based on an original story by Brent Friedman the online series was developed by Joshua Stern. The show currently airs on...

and Valemont

Valemont

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. The show is executive produced by Brent V. Friedman, Stan Rogow

Stan Rogow

Stan Rogow is an American music manager, writer and producer of film and television.His television credits include Fame, Lizzie McGuire, Flight 29 Down, Darcy's Wild Life, State of Grace, Nowhere Man, the internet series Gemini Division, Woke Up Dead and Afterworld...

, and Jeff Sagansky. Heder's co-stars are Krysten Ritter

Krysten Ritter

Krysten Alyce Ritter is an American actress and former model. Ritter is well known for her critically acclaimed turn as Jane Margolis on AMC's Breaking Bad where she first appeared as the property manager and neighbor of Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman...

, Josh Gad

Josh Gad

Joshua “Josh” Gad is an American film-, television-, and stage-actor best known for playing Elder Arnold Cunningham in the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon and the role of Ryan Church in the television series Back to You. Gad has also appeared in episodes of ER, The Daily Show, Modern Family...

, and Wayne Knight

Wayne Knight

Wayne Eliot Knight is an American actor, comedian, and voice actor perhaps best known for his role as Newman in the TV sitcom Seinfeld...

. New episodes streamed weekdays through the end of October 2009. The first episode was included on the Zombieland

Zombieland

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DVD and the entire first season is currently airing in Australia on the Sci Fi Channel

Sci Fi Channel (Australia)

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. A season one DVD was produced, not as episodes but as a continuous film of approximately 90 minutes. There will not be a second season.

Plot

Drex Greene (Jon Heder

Jon Heder

Jonathan Joseph "Jon" Heder is an American screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker. His feature film debut came in 2004 as the title character of the comedy film Napoleon Dynamite...

) accepts a pill from a stranger and proceeds to wake up in a bathtub after being under water for over fifteen minutes. His roommate, Matt (Josh Gad

Josh Gad

Joshua “Josh” Gad is an American film-, television-, and stage-actor best known for playing Elder Arnold Cunningham in the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon and the role of Ryan Church in the television series Back to You. Gad has also appeared in episodes of ER, The Daily Show, Modern Family...

), films the happenings from there, which involve morgues, a cute med student named Cassie (Krysten Ritter

Krysten Ritter

Krysten Alyce Ritter is an American actress and former model. Ritter is well known for her critically acclaimed turn as Jane Margolis on AMC's Breaking Bad where she first appeared as the property manager and neighbor of Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman...

), detective work, and an unknown stalker.

Cast

• Jon Heder
  Jon Heder
  Jonathan Joseph "Jon" Heder is an American screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker. His feature film debut came in 2004 as the title character of the comedy film Napoleon Dynamite...
  
   as Drex Greene
• Krysten Ritter
  Krysten Ritter
  Krysten Alyce Ritter is an American actress and former model. Ritter is well known for her critically acclaimed turn as Jane Margolis on AMC's Breaking Bad where she first appeared as the property manager and neighbor of Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman...
  
   as Cassie
• Josh Gad
  Josh Gad
  Joshua “Josh” Gad is an American film-, television-, and stage-actor best known for playing Elder Arnold Cunningham in the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon and the role of Ryan Church in the television series Back to You. Gad has also appeared in episodes of ER, The Daily Show, Modern Family...
  
   as Matt
• Wayne Knight
  Wayne Knight
  Wayne Eliot Knight is an American actor, comedian, and voice actor perhaps best known for his role as Newman in the TV sitcom Seinfeld...
  
   as Andy
• Jean Smart
  Jean Smart
  Jean E. Smart is an American film, television, and stage actress. She is known for her comedic roles, one of the best known being her role as Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the CBS sitcom Designing Women. She later gained critical acclaim for dramatic work, with her portrayal of Martha Logan on 24...
  
   as Drex's mother
• Ellia English
  Ellia English
  Ellia English is an American singer, stage and film actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Aunt Helen on The Jamie Foxx Show. English was featured in a central role in the show, and was paired onscreen with Garrett Morris, who plays her husband Junior King.-Background:English was born...
  
  
• Taryn Southern
  Taryn Southern
  Taryn Southern is an American singer, actress and comedian. She was part of American Idol season three's Top 50. Southern gained national attention with her video Hot4Hill during the 2008 Presidential race...
  
   as Drex's ex-girlfriend
• Meital Dohan
  Meital Dohan
  Meital Dohan is an Israeli comedian, stage, television and film actress, and playwright known in the U.S. for her recurring role as Yael Hoffman in the Showtime series Weeds, for her role of Abby in the Anthony Neilson play Stitching, and her work on the Sony Pictures web comedy Woke Up Dead...
  
   as Aurora

Season 1

Episode #	Title	Original streaming date

External links

• Woke Up Dead
• Woke Up Dead at the Internet Movie Database
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