A surprising number for what's otherwise a comedy. Mood Whiplash doesn't begin to do some of it justice:
- Shaun's tears as his mother dies.
- Even worse than that was the moment where he breaks down in the Winchester basement. "I couldn't save any of them!" Just for a second he's way over the Despair Event Horizon, and he just thinks this caps off all the failures in his life...
Shaun: (sarcastically) "Hey! Let's go to the Winchester"! (breaks down)'' Whose fucking idea was that?- Made even worse with David, who proceeds to rub salt in the wound by telling him that he did the right thing. He deserved that punch very much.
- It's also harsh considering that Simon Pegg, so he could convey the character's emotions better, imagined his own mother dying and turning into a zombie, so the emotions were real.
- Barbara gives Liz her necklace, saying that Shaun's biological father gave it to her and she wants Liz to have it just before dying."I didn't want to cause a fuss."
- The scene where an infected Ed volunteers to be left behind to die so he won't slow Shaun and Liz down:Ed: I'll stop doing them when you stop laughing.
Shaun: I'm not laughing. (and he's not) - Philip telling Shaun that he loved him then dying. Gah.Shaun: He's not my dad!
Barbara: Shaun—!
Shaun: Mum, he was, but he's not anymore!- And the bit just before that, when Diane asks Shaun if 'his dad' is all right, Shaun repeats the old refrain of "He's not my dad!" and Philip looks heartbroken.
- It is mostly played for laughs in the movie, but jeez, you just want to hug Shaun when he looks at you like that with tears in his eyes when he's in the pub with Ed after Liz dumped him.
- Minor, comparatively, but Shaun's reaction to discovering Pete as a Z-word in the bathroom. He's in total denial about it, speaking to him as if he's the same as ever, and is visibly upset. They have, after all, been flatmates for five years, and known each other since at least college.Ed: Pete'd be so pissed off if he knew I was driving his car, ey?
Shaun: [thoroughly shaken] I don't think so. - Shaun exploding at Ed when the latter decides to take a phone call while zombies are still around. Shaun bluntly states how much he covers for and enables Ed's antics, and all it gets him is more trouble. He might have said a lot more if not for it being pointed out to him that the zombies are paying attention.
- While he was a colossal twat for the entire movie, David's death is a little sad due to its sheer gruesomeness, the rest of the group trying in vain to save him and him being just about to apologize to Shaun for his behaviour throughout the movie. There was also a deleted scene that showed him successfully apologizing before getting killed.
- It's revealed in the DVD that Dianne survived, but has since moved in with her aunt in Birmingham and is now on a Christmas card relationship with Shaun and Liz, who was previously her best friend.
- Shaun having to shoot his zombified mum is heartbreaking. His soft apology to her just before pulling the trigger and his expression after doing so makes it oh so much worse...
- Before that, when David points the gun at Barbara as she's dying, Shaun's scream at him to put the gun a way from his mum is palpable...
- During most of her short time as a zombie, Barbara isn't hostile, simply staring blankly at her son, even as he has a gun pointed at her. The most she does before being shot is snarl viciously and even then, that was only after David demanded Shaun to shoot her, notably turning her head to David instead of Shaun despite her son being the closest. It's almost as if, even in her undead state, Barbara seemed to recognise Shaun and didn't want to harm him... But he had to put her down for everyone else's sake...
- The blink and you'll miss it moment showing a father and a couple of kids running out of a house from the zombified mother, and her catching one of the kids and dragging him back.
- At the end, where Shaun, Liz, and Ed are (seemingly) trapped in the basement:Liz: How many we got left?
Shaun: Two. S'pose we could take a few of 'em out if they stood in a line.
Liz: Wasn't thinking about them.
Shaun: I know.
