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Award Winning Sitcom || Rudyard Funn and his equally miserable sister Antigone run their family’s failing funeral parlour, where they get the body in the coffin in the ground on time. But one day they find everyone enjoying themselves at the funerals of a new competitor – the impossibly perfect Eric Chapman! With their dogsbody Georgie, and a mouse called Madeleine, the Funns are taking drastic steps to stay in business…
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Wooden Overcoats makes funeral work fertile ground for precise ensemble comedy, sustained rivalries, and unexpectedly affecting turns.
Wooden Overcoats turns funeral work into tightly wound ensemble comedy, with Rudyard and Antigone Funn repeatedly colliding with the capable, maddeningly composed Eric Chapman.
The search for singing dogs reaches Dogs for the Blind; you can almost hear the phone slam.
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A damaged aircraft, a guilty survivor, and a farewell that keeps swerving into absurdity.
This single-episode review follows a farewell shaped by an aircraft going down, moving from a frantic exchange with a damaged plane to a telegram sent to a mother, then back into the memory of Brett, the co-pilot lost after a technical fault.
A dog funeral pushes Rudyard's bid to match Eric Chapman into a shabby, well-timed comic crisis.
Rudyard's funeral home is trying to show it can still handle the work in a village where Eric Chapman's example hangs over every decision. Jerry's dog funeral becomes the test: a grand send-off has been promised, the family is ready to blame Rudyard if it falters, and the plan…
A school visit gives this episode a sharp, character-led look at family history and dry classroom chaos.
The episode returns to Piffling St. Clouture with a memory-lane feel, folding in family history and the Fun twins' school days. The school rule that separates twins, Antigone's eagerness for the right answer, and the teacher's offer of a gold star or chocolate keep the classroom…
A graveyard job turns Eric Chapman and Antigone's rivalry into a neatly cruel little comedy of errors.
The episode turns a graveyard job into a small, uneasy embarrassment for Eric Chapman and Antigone, with Piffling Vale once again split by funeral-home rivalry and village scrutiny. The fun is in the sparring.
Wooden Overcoats season 4 episode 10, "A Fun Farewell," opens with a crash-call dream sequence before resetting to Eric Chapman's planned exit from Piffling Vale, which leaves Rudyard Funt delighted and overbooked.
Wooden Overcoats Season 4 Episode 9, "The Last Nail in the Coffin," follows Rudyard and Antigone after they send Eric Chapman over a waterfall and crack his ribs.
Wooden Overcoats: Season 4 Episode 7, “In the Buff,” follows Piffling Vale’s council as it plans a naked calendar to fund the restoration of Abigail Abernathy’s statue.
Wooden Overcoats: Season 4 Episode 6, “Radio Drama,” follows Georgie Cruces as Rudyard Fun’s funeral sabotage triggers an angry mob and a Piffling FM news frenzy.
Wooden Overcoats: Season 4 Episode 4, "A Match Made in Piffling," follows mortician Antigone Fun after she agrees to see doctor Henry Edgeware at the Piffling Royale Cinema.
Rudyard and Antigone Funn return to their old school for a careers fair, where flashbacks reveal their miserable childhood experiences with eccentric teachers, bullying, and Antigone's early interest in embalming.
The Funn siblings accidentally nearly bury Antigone alive at a funeral, leading to a series of mishaps.
Wooden Overcoats celebrates five years after its September 24, 2015 release with its cast, writers, directors, and production manager on a remote call.