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• Colors (10/26/2007)

  As near as I can tell, green represents life and red represents death on the show.  Once I noticed it, I couldn't stop seeing it everywhere!

  Red is for the dead.  Life has stopped.  Chuck is always dressed in red tones - pinks, yellows, reds, and oranges.  Digby is a golden retriever with reddish tones in his fur.  They were dead, and Ned touched them.  They may be walking around but that hasn't changed the fact that they were meant to be dead (Ned's own words about people he retuns to death by touching them again).  The funeral home is primarily red as is the home of Chuck's aunts (they've stopped living their lives because of agoraphobia and depression over Chuck's death).  Killers and characters who are about to die often wear red. 

  Green is for life.  Green is usually present on living characters and in things that people take joy from.  The Pie Hole is green because Ned likes to cook, eating is something that living people do, and really good food awakens the senses.  The vest Emmerson knit was green, because it was for warmth and because he enjoys his hobby (but the covers for the gun holsters - implements of death - were red!).  Even Pidge's new wing was green!  It allowed him to fly and live his life as a bird again. 

  Olive dresses in both greens and reds.  Usually greens when she's pining over Ned.  Usually reds when she's feeling jealousy or plotting to harm Chuck. 

  Emmerson typically wears brown with red accents, especially when he has a new corpse for Ned to talk to. He deals with death and the seedier side of life every day.

  Chuck's aunts often wear red or black.  Vivian, the more cheerful one, has been wearing more green. When they were the Darling Mermaid Darlings, and doing what they enjoyed for a living, the fishtails on their costumes were shades of green.

  Ned himself wears no-color clothing - blacks and grays and whites.  He's emotionally repressed and is a bridge between both life and death.