- Francis's hate of almost random things. "I hate vans." "I hate small towns." "I hate stairs." "I hate hospitals, and cops, and lawyers." And of course, "I hate Ayn Rand." He actually gets called out on this at one point.Bill: Francis, is there anything you don't hate?Francis: Know what I don't hate? I don't hate vests.
- Hilariously turned around in the promo for The Passing when Francis and Rochelle seem to find something in common.Rochelle: I hate those stairs.Francis: I know!!Rochelle: I hate that bridge!Francis: It's so stupid!Rochelle: I hate your vest!Francis: ...what now? Ugh. I don't think this is going to work out.
- When going down a flight of stairs in an office complex, Bill, having injured his leg in the war, actually agrees with him.Francis: I hate stairs!Bill: Amen!
- Hilariously turned around in the promo for The Passing when Francis and Rochelle seem to find something in common.
- The notorious "WE ARE THE REAL MONSTERS" graffiti - not for the message it's trying to convey, but for the Troll-like responses scrawled underneath it...with the real kicker being the whimsical, "I miss the Internet."
- Also done in the Crash Course safehouse, where an 'Alison' writes a Glurge-y poem about her beloved Jonathan, who died. The poem is torn apart in an identical manner. Examples include;
- "Cool story bro!"
- "Jesus, lady. I'm hiding from zombies and reading this was the most terrible thing to happen to me today."
- "Alison, Reading your poem ruined heaven. Thanks a lot, Jonathan's Ghost."
- "GO BACK TO POETRY SCHOOL"
- "You should hit a zombie with your thesaurus."
- In the Passing, the graffiti from 28 Days Later is duplicated ("REPENT - THE END IS EXTREMELY FUCKING NIGH"), but someone has blotted out the curse word. Comments scrawled below the graffiti include "There's no call for such language" and "I agree - even if it's the end of the world we have standards".
- Continuing on from basic decency in a zombie apocalypse, some graffiti in a bathroom:JUST BECAUSE IT'S THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE DOESN'T MEAN THERE'S NO TIME TO FLUSH.I flushed it 50 times, and now it DOESN'T WORK!
- In the same toilet, a list of "For A Good Time, Call..." scrawls:Call Teresa for a good time.DEADKasie's up for anything.turned into a boomer, don't callFor a good time, don't call CEDA. They'll put you on hold.
- Yet again from the same toilet:So true.She was a great mother.Tough but fair.
- "Went to save my dog. If I'm not back in fifteen minutes, everyone drop everything and come save me."
- "WE DESERVE THIS!!!" "Maybe You Did I Didn't Do Anything"
- In Dark Carnival's finale you can find wall posts in the safe room about the Night Riders being dead and all the replies say positive/loving things about the band, but then a new post reveals they are fine and they escaped in a helicopter, immediately the replies become more negative, saying the band had always sucked, and that they're all cowards.
- In the first Safe Room of The Parish, there's an "I hate zombies" message that's naturally responded to with snark such as "Really? I love zombies!" and "I want to take zombies out on a date." This is all capped off with "Would someone please hide the pens?"
- Also done in the Crash Course safehouse, where an 'Alison' writes a Glurge-y poem about her beloved Jonathan, who died. The poem is torn apart in an identical manner. Examples include;
- The dialog exchange between the survivors and the crazy church guy in Death Toll. Francis says it best:Crazy Church Guy: Who's out there!?Francis: Well let's see. I'm Francis, and that's Grandpa Bill, and THERE'S ZOMBIES OUT HERE, OPEN THE GODDAMN DOOR!
- Louis: "Mister, if any of us die out here, I will shoot this door down and beat you to death with my gun!"
- If you fall on a zombie, from any height, you take no damage and it dies.
- Due to the collision detection if you walk over zombies that have not gotten up yet, you automatically kill them. With good timing and a bit of luck you can even run across the zombies' heads and use them as a bridge.
- Similarly, if you're standing over the top of a ladder or any wall that the zombies can scale, they'll climb up normally and then die the moment their head touches your feet. So long as there are no Smokers or Jockeys around, you can just stand there as the zombies happily throw their lives away.
- Boomers explode when they die. Like everything else, they take damage from falls and can die from them. Since Infected will often leap off buildings to get from place to place, it's not uncommon to hear a Boomer explosion echo throughout an otherwise peaceful night. It's even more hilarious to watch it happen. It's especially amusing in that Boomers emit a long, drawn-out belch when they fall so you'll occasionally hear the Boomer "dive" vocalization before they pop like a zit in the distance.
- The sequel has its moments, too. Especially Ellis's Keith stories. Classic, just classic.
- In a complete and total aversion of Afraid of Needles, the Adrenaline Shot, when administered, gives a relief sigh (subtitled "shaking self awake") for any of the survivors. Except Ellis, who goes "WUBUBUBUBUBU!
" (Which happened to enjoy some time as a meme when the game was new). - The locations of where the infected spawn are purely random, but sometimes they appear in the weirdest places, such as a Tank inside the woman's bathroom.
- In the Dark Carnival finale on higher difficulties, a huge horde tends to spawn in one of the small bathrooms on the way to the arena.
- Speaking of the Infected, the Hunters seem to die in ways that make everyone on a server laugh a lot of the time due to the knockback of the weapons turned on it, and if he's in the air.
- Upon reaching the Atrium of Dead Center.Rochelle: It turns out, the reason the mall looks deserted is because it is deserted.
- This bit from The Parish, right after all the alarmed cars:Nick: What do you know? We're gonna make it!
[A bomb explodes a few meters in front of them, taking out the bridge]
Nick: OH COME ON!- Alternatively:Coach: MOTHERF-
- Alternatively:
- From The Passing:Ellis: Aw, c'mon Coach, that biker guy seemed nice.Coach: He's probably stolen the Jimmy Gibbs Jr. by now.Ellis: He is a dead man. HE IS A DEAD MAN. Folks, New Orleans is gonna have to wait. We're gonna hunt that biker man down.Rochelle: Gee thanks, Coach.
- The reactions to friendly fire are sometimes over the top but also funny at the same time, with lines like "GOD DAMMIT, WATCH YOUR FIRE!" or "I can't believe you just shot me again!"
- In one safe room, Francis and Louis find some graffiti scrawled in Japanese. Louis is able to translate it: "Taki, I love you. Goodbye." He explains that he interned in Tokyo.Francis: Bullshit. Say "Bill's an idiot" in Japanese.
Louis: ビルさんばかです。note
Francis: Nice! - Some of the lines spoken in certain maps can provoke laughter, such as this scene in the 4th map of Death Toll:Louis: Riverside's a bust. Let's just head to the river.Francis: That's better than my plan.Bill: What was that?Francis: I didn't have one.
- Echoed in the sequel:Ellis: Let's find Jimmy Gibb's stock car. All we have to do is gas it and we'll drive out of here.Nick: Well it beats the hell out of my idea: Staying here and dying in the mall.
- Also in the sequel (At one point of "Swamp Fever") if too many friendly fire incidents occur:Rochelle: So, what do you think is going to kill us, the malaria, the swamp fever, the alligators, or the zombies?Nick: You're forgetting something. From the way we've been shooting? Each other.
- Echoed in the sequel:
- Of course, any dialogue involving the crazy church guy is also a barrel of laughs:Francis: I'm going to tear that bell down and shove it up your ass!Bill: The guy's nuttier than candy bar shit.
- The song Re: Your Brains was confirmed to be a jukebox song in Left 4 Dead 2.
- And when it gets played, it syncs perfectly with a zombie attack.
But here's an FYI,
You're all gonna die screaming!
(Zombie Attack) - Most of Nick's banter in Left 4 Dead 2. Especially when it sounds like he's channeling Tourettes Guy.
- "Ah, tits!"
- And the Shout-Out: "You're really gonna shoot a guy in a $3000 suit? COME ON!"
- Any bit of setpiece commentary by Ellis. ANY.
- "My buddy Keith, lived in a graveyard once for a whole year. It wasn't a dare or nuthin', he just got kicked outta' his house..."
- "We ain't got time for this, Ellis."
- "Okay, but there WAS a goat."
- "My buddy Keith, lived in a graveyard once for a whole year. It wasn't a dare or nuthin', he just got kicked outta' his house..."
- Some classic Ellis lines:
- "Holy shit guys, KIDDY LAND!"
- "Sometimes it feels like we babysitting, doesn't it?"
- "It's like a five-year-old with guns. And a comprehensive grasp of every swear word in the English language."
- There's an equally hilarious variation of the above line in the game's files. ("worldc2m2c19.wav" to be exact)Ellis: Holy shit guys, it's goddamn Kiddie Land!Ellis: We gotta run the Coaster? OH MY GOD, IT'S CHRISTMAS!
- "Holy shit guys, KIDDY LAND!"
- Coach while in the Mall."Please lord, let the food court be okay.""... Poor food court never stood a chance...""If I see a zombie running up to me with a sample tray, I ain't shootin' it..."
- Sometimes followed by this:Rochelle: Dear lord, please have mercy on Coach and spare the food court.
- Sometimes followed by this:
- Coach contacts the military, who ask him if he's encountered the infected. His reply: "Encountered?! Boy, I am covered in zombie blood and puke, and eyeballs, and twenty other parts I don't even recognize! We are as immune as shit!" Doubles as a Moment of Awesome.
- After Coach suggests they use a rock concert to signal for rescue, Nick replies with "That's the stupidest plan I've ever agreed with."
- How about this piece of alternate dialog, where Ellis sums up his plan?Ellis: So we have to set up to rock, and then fight zombies. (beat) This is the best day of my life!"
- And this response to when Coach asks if he's ready:Ellis: I was born ready, so yes!
- The displayed message isOnscreen Text: Start the rock concert to signal the chopper.
- Don't forget this:Rochelle: And that'll signal the chopper pilot! Coach, that's brilliant! I'm sorry about all the bad stuff I said about your crappy band.
- How about this piece of alternate dialog, where Ellis sums up his plan?
- The fact that one of the new Versus achievements shares the name with a Team Fortress 2 achievement involving throwing jars of your own piss at people.
- This hilarious line from Bill:Bill: You call this a zombie apocalypse? It don't hold a candle to the great zombie attack of 1957.
Zoey: What?
Bill: Nah, just horse-shittin' ya. - After reading "GOD IS DEAD" on the walls of the airport terminal:Zoey: Oh no! The zombies killed God!"
- One of Coach's reactions to a Jockey attack is to yell: "Ellis?! Is that you?!" in a horrified voice.
- Rochelle in "Dead Center" after the cola mission:(Quietly) "Oh, shit. I think I grabbed diet cola, we better get outta here."(Much louder, to Whitaker) "HEY THANKS MISTER!"
- Clown Uncommon Infected. When they run, you can hear their squeaky shoes, and when you melee them in the face, their big red nose honks.
- What caps this is the achievement you can get for doing so 10 times - Cl0wned.
- L'il Peanut, the Whispering Oaks mascot; or more specifically, Nick's reaction to Li'l Peanut.
- The Passing DLC gives great lines while running through the sewers:Nick: I am breathing shit air into my lungs, it is being absorbed into my bloodstream. I am literally, full of shit.Ellis: Oh man, I found a candy bar! (Beat) Whoops. False alarm.
- Nick drops this line in the tunnel of love.Nick: I guess you could call this a cement river, Ellis.
- Speaking of the Tunnel of Love, this line, which any of the survivors can say, making it four times as funny.Into the Swan Maintenence Room of Love!
- Ellis can even affix it to items that spawn inside the tunnel.Ellis: Katana Sword of Love here.Ellis: Grabbing the Shotgun of Love!Ellis: Incendiary Ammo of Love here!
- Not to mention Nick's line "Coach, this bring back any memories? You, a cheeseburger, romance in the air?"Nick, crawling through an air duct: This isn't very romantic.
- Another classic Coach line from this sequence.Coach: I don't remember the Tunnel of Love being this long. Guess I had other things on my mind...
- And Rochelle gives this gem sometimes:Rochelle: So when you came here, Nick, did they give you a smaller swan to ride on by yourself?Rochelle: I bet Nick remembers the Tunnel of Love being this long.
- Speaking of the Tunnel of Love, this line, which any of the survivors can say, making it four times as funny.
- One of the endings to The Passing shows that some of Ellis's habits have rubbed off on Zoey:
- Zoey: Did I ever tell you about the time when my buddy Ellis took a sports car and drove over some zombies?Francis: No, never heard that one before.
- Using a chainsaw is a barrel of fun, but aiming it at a Jockey or Hunter as they try to pounce you, only to jump right into the chainsaw, will get you laughing for a good minute.
- After Zoey kills the helicopter pilot (who had turned into a zombie), Francis continues to tease her about it during Crash Course.Francis: Here they come! Zoey, just pretend they're all helicopter pilots!Zoey: Zombies, Francis! He. Was. A. ZOMBIE!
- The similar exchange from the sequel was also quite awesome.Ellis: Nick, what the hell, you shot the pilot.Nick: Well he wasn't doing a very good job once he became a zombie, now, was he?Ellis: True, true, he was a zombie, but he was also our only pilot.Nick: I shot a zombie. He was a zombie, Ellis. He must have gotten bitten before he picked us up.
- The similar exchange from the sequel was also quite awesome.
- From 'The Sacrifice' comic:
- Part 1: The group gets rounded up by the military. Francis indicates Bill and says "I think you'd better cavity search him. He seems suspicious." Then, after the military starts dragging them along, "Oh, I get it! You guys might want to cavity search each other!" His answer is a bash in the face by a machine gun butt.
- And that's followed in Part 2, with Francis waking up in a cell next to Louis.Francis: Did I get hit with a gun butt again?Louis: Yup.Francis: Was it the guys I told to cavity search each other?Louis: That'd be them.Francis: Makes sense.
- Later in the same comic, Francis taunting the two soldiers.Jeff: Does he know we can't hear him?Annie: I'm guessing not.
- And that's followed in Part 2, with Francis waking up in a cell next to Louis.
- Pretty much the entirety of Francis's dream at the start of the fourth part.Francis: Yayyyy!
- Which turns into a disturbingly amusing Brick Joke later on in the comic. Louis getting his leg nearly torn off by a Witch? Not funny. Louis nearly getting his leg torn off by a whole boatful of BIKINI WITCHES? Funny.
- And then, when they find the other boat.Francis: Louis, why don't you stick your leg in, see if there's any witches.
- Part 1: The group gets rounded up by the military. Francis indicates Bill and says "I think you'd better cavity search him. He seems suspicious." Then, after the military starts dragging them along, "Oh, I get it! You guys might want to cavity search each other!" His answer is a bash in the face by a machine gun butt.
- Francis tells Lt. Mora that everything was Louis' fault. When he gets up after Bill knocked him, the first thing he does is to try and kill Louis.
- Francis gets sick of Louis' optimism and lets him know it, but the exchange in the first safe room in The Sacrifice stands out:Francis: Louis, if you don't stop being positive, I'm gonna sink that boat just to make you sad!Louis: Thinking positive got me where I am today, Francis!Francis: About to die in a brick factory? Cause I'm about to do that too, and I got to complain about shit the whole time.
- Some of Francis's voice lines from the end of The Sacrifice are funny in a Crosses the Line Twice fashion:Francis (If Zoey sacrifices herself): Nooooo! You monsters! Take Louis instead!Francis (If he sacrifices himself): Stay there! (Beat) Goddammit, it shoulda been Louis.Francis: Don't try to talk me out of this! (Beat) Anyone?Francis: I hate suicide missions.
- Some of Louis's lines from the end also approach sheer black comedy if he sacrifices himself:Louis: Hey guys?! Remember when I said 'Don't come after me'?! OOOH GOOOOD!Louis: Hey guys?! Remember when I said 'Don't come after me'?! I was kidding! Can someone come get me?! HEEEEELP!
- Some of Louis's lines from the end also approach sheer black comedy if he sacrifices himself:
- Really, for that matter, everything out of Francis's mouth. Especially in the flashback where he gets caught stealing a TV from a pawnshop and tries (poorly) to talk his way out of it by Impersonating an Officer.Cop: (unconvinced) Okay, officer. And why are you stealing a flatscreen TV?
Francis: Um. It's ... evidence. For a crime.
Cop: (unconvinced) Uh-huh. And which crime would that be?
Francis: Uh. This one? Alright, don't shoot. 'Caaaause I'm gonna run now.- And in the opening of The Passing, Francis may try impersonating a cop. Badly.
- When Valve finally managed to fix an exploit in No Mercy's Left 4 Dead 2 port, this was the note that announced it.
- Seeing a Tank kill one of its own as it tries to get to you. Hilarity Ensues if an AI-controlled Tank kills a Hunter that pounced you or knocks you out of the Smoker's grip. Raging ensues if said AI Tank does this to you while playing as the infected in VS mode.
- There's a downloadable map called "Fallen" that includes a massive tower, a landslide, and a wind turbine tunnel. Seeing zombies fall off of the tower by the dozen will make anyone laugh. The reaction to the surprise landslide and the water slide-like trip that ensues along with the survivors flying around with zombies in the wind tunnel is even more hilarious.
- In the first chapter of Dead Center in Left 4 Dead 2, get a bile bomb jar and throw it off the ledge. Then watch as the zombies flood out of the building and run off the ledge.
- Francis on teamwork: "Hey! Alright. While you guys were gone, I came up with a plan. To do this quicker, we should break up into teams. Guys, you're shirts. Everybody else, skins...Now let's go!"
- This exchange between Francis and Louis:Francis: I can't believe I'm saying this...but I think I wanna hang out with Louis!Louis: Really? Thanks, man!
- And the opening for Left 4 Dead, we get this at the end:Louis: I can't believe we made it!Bill: Son, we just crossed the street. *lights cigarette* Let's not throw a party 'til we're out of the city.
- This pair of lines from Nick and Ellis:Ellis: Hey Nick, what kind of car do you drive?Nick: Your mom's car.Ellis: See that was just uncalled for.
- Coach's love of food produces a few great lines, including this one:"Cotton candy, the wise pharaoh of food, sittin' a top the food pyramid, passing judgment on all the lesser foods."
- At the end of The Passing, Zoey will occasionally say "Remember: Soylent Green is people."
- The Midnight Riders Christmas song you can hear on the jukebox in The Passing. The lyrics are about kicking Santa's ass after he steals your woman.
- This becomes even funnier when you read on the Youtube text for the song that they only made it in order to avoid 30,000 hours of community service. Before that, they had refused to do a Christmas charity album for children because it "just makes 'em weak, man."
- This becomes even funnier when you read on the Youtube text for the song
- Ever seen a Tank board your rescue vehicle? "Yakety Sax" comes to mind.
- Replacing the normal tank music with "Yakety Sax" is possible via the Steam Workshop.
- Hunters can occasionally do funny things, such as pouncing and missing you completely or running headfirst into trees.
- During The Sacrifice, Francis admits he has a legitimate fear and hatred of islands. Louis spends the next thirty seconds psyching up Francis, culminating in some of the funniest lines in context."Punk-ass bitch island, you better watch yo'self!"
- This is best done from high places, like the beginning of Dead Air. Throw a pipe bomb, watch dozens of infected sprinting towards it, and then BOOM!
- Similarly you can throw a pipe or bile bomb out the window at the beginning of Dead Center and watch dozens of infected jump to their deaths!
- Due to Artificial Stupidity, it's not uncommon to see AI Chargers try to charge at the survivors through walls, off a cliff, or even in the opposite direction of the survivors! A really hilarious sight to see.
- The intro at the beginning of Hard Rain:Rochelle: This should be easy. We just gotta find some diesel.Nick: Wanna hear my prediction?Everyone: NO.
- In the final Safe Room of The Parish, the other survivors shut down Nick's cynical snark hard.Coach: Alright, alright. Here's the plan: We're gonna stroll across that bridge, and the army's gonna take care of us.Nick: Or, they're gonna line us up against a wall and shoot us.Coach: Well you're free to make yourself a new life right here in this room, Nick.—-Nick: Before we run across this bridge right towards the people who've been dropping bombs on us, anyone wanna talk about a plan B?Everyone (In order): Nope!Nick: Laughs Alright, let's go.
- In The Sacrifice, when the survivors are near the Tank trapped in a train car. Zoey and Francis spend some time getting someone that's not them to open it:Francis: Hey Louis, I don't think that's a Tank in there. I think it's a puppy. You should check it out.Zoey: Hey Francis, guywhoopensthetraindoorsayswhat?
- Zoey in Crash Course:Zoey: Pilots licence, revoked. DUN DUN DUUUN.
- Community-made content is often full of this, thanks to the creative minds behind such works. A sampling:
- "I Hate Mountains" features an unexpected escape in the second stage, where the survivors ascend to the attic of a mansion and call for a rescue. Then, they must rush down back through the same route past the hordes, out to the chopper pad in the front lawn. The chopper descends... then promptly spins out of control and explodes, revealing the path to the safe room.
- This happens every single time. The zombies keep rebuilding the fence. They're kinda assholes like that.
- "Death Aboard"'s finale has you ascending to a cliff-based lighthouse, where you summon the rescue and, most likely, hold out... only to find out that the rescue is a hot air balloon. And on top of that, it lands on the beach back you presumably passed without a second thought on your way up. The mad dash and sudden shock is hilarious if you don't pay attention and realize it's coming.
- Earlier in the campaign, you pass through a half-sunken boat and happen upon its load of cargo containers. There's only one path through, and you have to open one of the containers, suspended at an angle, to pass through it. There's a car inside that falls out and in case anyone unlucky enough to be standing underneath it. Even better when you convince an unwitting player to do it so you can watch and laugh.
- "Suicide Blitz 2" is a fan favorite, and for many reasons. One simple one is its custom melee weapon found in the finale: a giant foam finger, as you make your way through the football stadium to reach rescue. Oh, and watch out for the quarterback Tanks.
- In the first level, you can find our old pal Gnome Chompski. You're rewarded if you carry him through to the final level with a very unique Easter egg. Taking it to a small room that would otherwise be boarded up without the gnome, you find yourself entering Aperture Laboratories. GLaDOS forces you through a few tests specialized for zombie survivors, then forces you to fight a horde and trolls you with some Tanks that die immediately, only to give up and eject you back into the start of the level with a few health packs for your troubles. Totally optional, completely hilarious, and very memorable.
- Most custom safe room graffiti qualifies.
- In the custom campaign "Blackout Basement", one of the safe rooms contains graffiti that writes that the CEDA trucks are going to send people to "CEDA death camps". note Just like the aforementioned "WE ARE THE REAL MONSTERS" graffiti, it's followed by Troll-like responses like "DUMB SHIT" written in red ink, another response is saying the city itself is already a death camp, while another writes "I was hoping all of these dumbasses would have become zombies by now"
- There is a Scout soundpack for the common infected. It successfully turns a nerve-wracking battle against hordes of mindless zombies into a hilarious crusade to shut the Scout up. Also available in the Workshop for Left 4 Dead 2.
- "I Hate Mountains" features an unexpected escape in the second stage, where the survivors ascend to the attic of a mansion and call for a rescue. Then, they must rush down back through the same route past the hordes, out to the chopper pad in the front lawn. The chopper descends... then promptly spins out of control and explodes, revealing the path to the safe room.
- At some points in 2 (The Passing campaign), you can find cases with cash and pistols in it, but if you find it with Coach, you get this.
- Hit a Witch with Bile. Sure, you probably won't outrun her, but the whole situation just cries for Yackety Sax. Hell, you might even end up owing your life to zombies.
- One group of players had a glitch that made their run look far more hardcore than it likely actually was.◊
- After falling in an incredibly disgusting and smelly sewer that Nick is completely, incredibly grossed out at (and especially because of his expensive suit):Ellis (or Rochelle): Hey, Nick... splash fight?Nick: DON'T YOU DARE./ NOO!!!
- By extension, when jumping into a sewer in "The Parish", Coach reminds him of previous smelly trips (The Passing underground, Swamp Fever...)Coach: Hey, Nick, good news: we're headed down into the sewers again!
Nick: I am NOT climbing into th- ah, screw it, let's go.
- By extension, when jumping into a sewer in "The Parish", Coach reminds him of previous smelly trips (The Passing underground, Swamp Fever...)
- From the opening of the second game:Coach: (Winded as the group make their way up to an evac point) Who the hell... puts an evac station... up thirty flights of goddamn stairs?
Nick: C'mon Coach... maybe the helicopter... Maybe it's made of chocolate. (He chuckles, Coach starts to do so too, but then shoots a Death Glare) - The infamous "NO ZOMBIE IS SAFE FROM CHICAGO TED"
- This guy found out a glitch which made him skip a good chunk of the Bridge Finale with hilarious results. note
- This line when entering the Tunnel of LoveCoach: Into the Tunnel of Love
Nick: Tunnel of Love? Jesus Christ! - Pills tend to spawn in rather bizarre areas. One example of this is that sometimes in the final stage of Dead Center, in the toilets before you reach the atrium, you can find pills inside the toilet bowls, upside-down. Good thing there's only one lethal virus in the L4D2 world.
- This line at the beginning of The Passing.Nick: I'm telling you the last goddamn time: Lower the goddamn bridge so we can get our goddamn car across, you greasy vest-wearing monkey!Francis: Bite me, Colonel Sanders!
- Some of the opening dialogs to Crash Course can provide a chuckle, especially with what Francis says.
- Francis tries to come up with something witty with Zoey helping him out.Francis: Goddamnit, where'd they buy this helicopter? At the ... uh... um... hold on...
Zoey: The shitty pilot store?
Francis: Yeah! Stupid helicopter. - Francis says something that causes Zoey to be concerned.Francis: Wow! I love helicopters! I love 'em so much!
Zoey: You what? Francis, are you feeling alright?
Francis: Whoa. Must have hit my head in the crash. I'm okay now. I hate helicopters. - Francis's gamble on their chances of survival.Francis: See? I told you. Helicopter crashed. We're not saved. We're all gonna die. Pay up.
Louis: Francis, why would you bet that we're doomed?
Francis: Cuz it's money in the bank. Remind me to explain gambling to you some time. - Louis tells the party they will have to walk.Louis: Well boys, I guess we're walkin.
Francis: I hate walking.
Louis: But five minutes ago you hated flying.
Francis: And it turns out I was right about that.
- Francis tries to come up with something witty with Zoey helping him out.
- This possible exchange between Rochelle and the team when in the Safe Room at the start of The Underground chapter in The Passing.Rochelle: (to herself) Motivated. Okay, we've got to get motivated. (to group) Hey Ellis, I heard that there's a stock car museum in New Orleans!Ellis: Get outta here! Alright!Rochelle: Coach, we make it to New Orleans, there's a cheeseburger museum!Coach: Oh, in my heart, I'm there already.Rochelle: Hey Nick, there's a—Nick: Yeah, no, I'm good. I'm good.
- Much like Francis, anything that comes out of Coach's mouth. ESPECIALLY the friendly fire lines.Coach: I SWEAR TO GOD YOU CAN'T SHOOT WORTH SHIT!Coach: OH, EXCUSE ME? EXCUUUUSE ME?!Coach: BOY, QUIT POINTIN' THAT THING MY WAY!Coach: There's gonna be some biblical shit happening to you if you do that again!Coach: Hey, Nick. That was my ass you shot.
- The friendly fire quotes when a tank shows up is also hilarious to some degree.Ellis: Shoot the tank ya blind son of a bitch.
Coach: DO I LOOK LIKE A TEN-FOOT MONSTER!?
Nick: IT'S TWELVE-FEET TALL, SIX-FEET WIDE, HOW ARE YOU SHOOTING ME!?
Nick: It's the size of a truck, how are you missing? - Each of the chapter endings are potentially hilarious as the zombie AI bugs out since the player characters are in escape vehicles they can no longer get to. Tanks will sometimes inexplicably die, zombies will run off buildings as they futilely try to reach the now-rescued survivors, do silly walk cycle animations, or hitting an invisible wall meant to represent the moving escape vehicle, the animation of which can be easily interpreted as disappointment, anguish, or shame.
- At The Passing finale, Francis may mistake Coach for being Rochelle's father. Coach naturally lets out a Big "WHAT?!" while Rochelle just laughs and decides to roll with it and even call him dad.
- One of the possible introduction dialogues in the Dead Center elevator has Nick making fun of the other survivors for not knowing how to shoot a gun. Cue all of them protesting:Coach: You can call me Coach. And I DO know how to shoot a gun.
Ellis: My name's Ellis, and I've been shooting guns since before I could walk!
Rochelle: My name's Rochelle. And this is my first time shooting a gun, give me a break. - In the starting saferoom of Dark Carnival's Fairgrounds, Coach has a chance to burst into song upon seeing the Midnight Riders poster. Rochelle is less than impressed.Coach: (singing) Every lady's crazy when her daddy's not around, dun-nun-na-na-na-na-na-nah!
Rochelle: Every lady present's getting a headache. - Thanks to mods, it is possible to invoke Soundtrack Dissonance in the game. Wanna hear Sugar Rush play while you're trying to avoid getting crushed by a Tank? No problem. Wanna have Living in the Sunlight play in the background as a Witch chases you? You got it. The possibilities are endless and hilarious.
- Some custom campaigns are worthy of a chuckle:
- "Left 4 Mario". Who thought Super Mario Bros can be hilariously terrifying (or difficult?) Highlights include a moving platform in the third part where survivor bots are very easy to dead with, and the final escape being a question mark box where either Toad or the Princess should be housing a beanstalk ladder leading to the clouds
- "RMS Titanic" ends with a So Bad, It's Good punk-rock remix of "My Heart Will Go On".
- "One 4 Nine" is one of the most outlandish scenarios there, set in an underground bunker leading to an unearthed Combine spaceship and a monolith. The escape involves turning the monolith on, and the survivors are transported into space.
- Panic in Pallet Town is a survival map in Pallet Town, with a good amount of Pokemon jokes, ranging from "Blu was here, Red is babies," losing count after 250 pokemon, and having to fight the Tank with either Blazing Battlefield (anime's version of the trainer battle theme), or either version of the Gym Leader battle theme playing. One of the boards in the protagonist's home blames the creator of the map, stating "For the record, I blame Porkchop."
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