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* ARottenTimeToRevert: In the finale, Clancy, Glasses Man, Peggy, and her baby all end up getting infected and becoming zombies. Moments later, the mall scientists arrive in a fleet of jeeps with a cure for the zombie infection loaded into dart guns, and open fire on the horde: the cure works perfectly... but unfortunately, there aren't enough darts for everyone, so the cured characters end up regaining their humanity right in the middle of a crowd of zombies - and promptly being eaten alive. Clancy and Glasses Man are among them, though Clancy is able to [[ExtradimensionalEmergencyExit exit the simulated world before he can suffer fatal injuries]].

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* BattleCouple: Peggy and her boyfriend fight their way through hordes of zombies with ease; things only go wrong when the two of them are separated, resulting in the boyfriend getting swarmed and decapitated.



* EpicFail: Chuck Charles gets a very dramatic introduction in which he bursts into the mall and opens the door of his monster truck to present himself, complete with a LockAndLoadMontage... and he's immediately swarmed by zombies and eaten alive before he can do ''anything.''
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Peggy is armed with a handgun, while her boyfriend wields a butcher knife.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After the Giant Zombie breaks into the mall, Chuck Charles arrives to save the survivors. Trouble is, his DynamicEntry via monster truck punches the barricade, letting ''more'' zombies into the building, and swerving around only results in him killing several defenders, accidentally releasing the zombies from the carousel, and generally making a mess of the defences. And when Charles finally gets out of his truck, he's immediately dragged to the ground and bitten.

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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After the Giant Zombie breaks into the mall, Chuck Charles arrives to save the survivors. Trouble is, his DynamicEntry via monster truck punches right through the barricade, barricade around the mall, letting ''more'' zombies into the building, and swerving around the interior only results in him killing several defenders, survivors, accidentally releasing the zombies from the carousel, and generally making a mess of the defences. And when Charles finally gets out of his truck, he's immediately dragged to the ground and bitten.



* PregnantBadass: The pregnant woman doesn't let her impending labor stop her from performing acrobatic combat moves and shooting zombies. After she gives birth in a kiddie pool, she and her newborn quickly get back on their feet and flee from the zombie hordes.

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* PregnantBadass: The Peggy the pregnant woman doesn't let her impending labor stop her from performing acrobatic combat moves and shooting zombies. After she gives birth in a kiddie pool, she and her newborn quickly get back on their feet and flee from the zombie hordes.



* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A zombie apolcalypse is taking place as Clancy and Glasses Man discuss drugs, mindfulness, and Buddhism.

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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A zombie apolcalypse apocalypse is taking place as Clancy and Glasses Man discuss drugs, mindfulness, and Buddhism.
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* AllThereInTheManual: Peggy (the pregnant woman) is only named in the credits and IMDB.


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* HamsterWheelPower: The mall is powered by a carousel pulled by zombies. Unfortunately, Chuck Charles ends up accidentally releasing them in his big entrance.


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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: After the Giant Zombie breaks into the mall, Chuck Charles arrives to save the survivors. Trouble is, his DynamicEntry via monster truck punches the barricade, letting ''more'' zombies into the building, and swerving around only results in him killing several defenders, accidentally releasing the zombies from the carousel, and generally making a mess of the defences. And when Charles finally gets out of his truck, he's immediately dragged to the ground and bitten.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: When one of the zombies proves resistant to Glasses Man's barrage of gunfire, Clancy blasts it with a jet from the White House's coffee cistern.

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* ImprobableWeaponUser: ImprovisedWeapon: When one of the zombies proves resistant to Glasses Man's barrage of gunfire, Clancy blasts it with a jet from the White House's coffee cistern.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: When one of the zombies proves resistant to Glasses Man's barrage of gunfire, Clancy blasts it with a jet from the White House's coffee cistern.
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Episode's guest: [[Series/CelebrityRehabWithDrDrew Drew]] [[Radio/Loveline Pinsky]]

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Episode's guest: [[Series/CelebrityRehabWithDrDrew Drew]] [[Radio/Loveline Pinsky]]Drew Pinsky]].
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Episode's guest: Drew Pinsky as Glasses Man.

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Episode's guest: Drew Pinsky as Glasses Man.[[Series/CelebrityRehabWithDrDrew Drew]] [[Radio/Loveline Pinsky]]
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Clancy interviews the president in the middle of a zombie apocalypse.

Episode's guest: Drew Pinsky as Glasses Man.
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* JarPotty: The Oval Office contains several water cooler jugs full of urine.
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* WhileRomeBurns: Glasses Man plays pool, drinks coffee, and takes part in Clancy's interview while zombies are besieging the world.
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* ZombieInfectee: Glasses Man is bitten on the leg by a zombie during a scuffle, but it takes several minutes for him to transform into one.

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* ZombieInfectee: Glasses Man is bitten on the leg by a zombie during a scuffle, but it takes several minutes for him to transform into one.one.
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* ZombieGate: Lampshaded by Clancy, who jokes that he and Glasses Man could just stand still and not be in danger from the slow-moving zombies.

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* ZombieGate: ZombieGait: Lampshaded by Clancy, who jokes that he and Glasses Man could just stand still and not be in danger from the slow-moving zombies.
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* MustHaveCaffeine: Glasses Man pours himself two cups of coffee before playing pool. Clancy is shown sipping a cup of coffee in the opening scene, and later pours copious amounts of coffee directly into his mouth from the White House coffee cistern.
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* PregnantBadass: The pregnant woman doesn't let her impending labor stop her from performing acrobatic combat moves and shooting zombies. After she gives birth in a kiddie pool, she and her newborn quickly get back on their feet and flee from the zombie hordes.
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* ContemplateOurNavels: Clancy and Glasses Man spend most of the episode having an introspective conversation about mind-expanding drugs, mindfulness, and meditation.
* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Deconstructed. Clancy and Glasses Man discuss the ways that psychedelic drugs can produce visionary and transcendent experiences, but can just as easily produce negative experiences. Despite all their talk of epiphanic experiences with drugs, neither man comes across as terribly enlightened.
* {{Irony}}: Clancy talks about mindfulness at length, but seems oblivious to the gory zombie apocalypse. Glasses Man stresses the importance of dealing with reality on reality's terms, but seems unconcerned about the horrifying reality around him.
* KickTheDog: Glasses Man shows no gratitude to his obsequious assistant, and doesn't even notice when zombies devour him.
* PetTheDog:
** When Clancy and Glasses Man are hiding from the zombie hordes in the forest, Glasses Man gets cold. Clancy cuddles him to keep him warm.
** Clancy and Glasses Man discover a pregnant woman in labor in their vehicle. They pull over, and Clancy finds the woman a swimming pool so that she can have the water birth she wanted.
* UndeathIsCheap: At the end of the episode, scientists find a cure for zombification and cure several people by shooting them with antidote-filled darts. It doesn't do much good, since many of the cured people are devoured by zombies shortly after their recovery.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A zombie apolcalypse is taking place as Clancy and Glasses Man discuss drugs, mindfulness, and Buddhism.
* ZombieApocalypse: Clancy visits a world in which a zombie apocalypse is taking place.
* ZombieGate: Lampshaded by Clancy, who jokes that he and Glasses Man could just stand still and not be in danger from the slow-moving zombies.
* ZombieInfectee: Glasses Man is bitten on the leg by a zombie during a scuffle, but it takes several minutes for him to transform into one.

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