Book
- After his Muslim family decides to seek refuge in Israel, Saladin Kader tells his father that he's going to join a youth-based terrorist group in the name of his faith. The father - normally quiet and docile - suddenly erupts with anger, beating Saladin viciously for even considering such a thought.Some martyr I turned out to be. I cried all the way to Cairo.
- After one of Raj-Singh's monkey subordinates witnesses his Heroic Sacrifice and celebrates that the Himalayan safe zone was genuinely safe: "But instead his little penis popped out and he peed in my face." Indian monkeys know how to ruin a moment.
- The story of ridiculously cheery T. Sean Collins recounting his time as a mercenary guarding a bunch of celebrities making a reality show in a fortified mansion. There's not much to dislike with this one:
- The descriptions of the celebrities in question, (most notably "that little rich, spoiled, tired-looking whore who was just famous for being a rich, spoiled, tired-looking whore").
- Then there's the show itself, consisting of the celebs reacting to footage being aired on the news. One guy on the TV straps a meat cleaver to a hockey stick and rollerblades down the street looking for zombies to kill, only for one to come out of a sewer drain and drag him in by his ponytail.I remember thinking I had less respect for the ones who tried to fake some tears than I did for the little spoiled whore who called the rollerblading guy a "dumbass." Hey, at least she was being honest.
- Finally, the climax where, instead of zombies, the place is overrun by normal humans looking for refuge.I met the whore's rat dog as we were both heading for the back door. He looked at me, I looked at him. If it'd been a conversation, it probably woulda gone like, "What about your master?" "What about yours?" "Fuck 'em."
- After the International Space Station's crew being stuck in space, alone, for five years without resupply, a rocket (specifically, Virgin Galactic, the private rocket group) is finally launched to the ISS. The first thing the rocket's cheerful, cowboy-hat-wearing Texan captain says is, "Did anyone order takeout?"
- A former White House chief of staff who ignored the various warnings that the Zombie Apocalypse was impending has a new job after the war is over... shoveling manure.
- General Travis reflects on the futility of waging Total War among any society. It's impossible to devote one's entire existence to winning a conflict with an enemy, every waking moment of every day being spent to win the war against the Undead. As he so eloquently puts it:What if you're taking a dump? Is that a Dump for Victory?
- During the epilogue, Joe Mohammed and his friends are watching a porno in a garage for a buddy's bachelor party. The "scene" involves two people going at it on the hood of a car, but while his friends are cracking jokes about what's on screen, all Joe can think of is what it would take to build one of those cars in the aftermath of the zombie war.
Film
- The Zombie's tendency to click their teeth repeatably.
- This is apparently a widespread reaction. There are quite a few reports of audiences bursting into laughter when the zombies do that repeated chompy-chompy bitey-bitey at nothing motion.
- Not to mention the hospital zombies' tendency to hunch over and make strange noises that make them look for all the world like chickens.
- "Looks like we just woke the dead. Out of respect to others, please turn off all pagers and cell phones."
- A Black Comedy one, when Gerry asked where the documents are, the soldiers replied "you're free to look". (They were burned along with the zombies.)
- Definitely Black Comedy, but Dr. Fassbach slipping on the airplane's slick ramp and shooting himself in the head.
- The Captain coming into combat with Zeke driving the fuel tank and flattening everything that stands in his way with a delighted "Woohoo!"''I'm gonna clear a path through Zeke! You paddle like hell!"
- Well Gerry, you just became invisible to zombies. Whatcha gonna do? Drink a Pepsi!
- Although completely understandable considering he's been without food for awhile, been under extreme duress and endless escapes, and just infected himself with a disease. Given that he finally has a chance to catch his breath, and is near a distraction he'll need anyway, it's funny in its humanness that he opts to drink one before carrying on.
- You can practically hear the Mission Passed Respect + theme from GTA San Andreas.
- Hey, it's probably going to be a while before anyone gets back to making soft drinks, so why not?
- The zombies running past him, even pushing him aside to get at the noise. It even comes off as a perverse Pepsi commercial: "Zombies can't resist the great taste of Pepsi!"
- The moment when The Littlest AIDS Patient is dodged by zombies has a dark kind of humour, as he watches the zombies swarm for him, then break aside. It's like the movie's saying, "What's more evil than zombies? AIDS!"
- Mexican audiences loved the "Mexico City has been declared a total loss" bit near the end of the film. It's like a "P.S., Just in case you were wondering."
- The iconic wall climb ends up coming across as ridiculous due to the zombies going splat on the ground.
