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  • The Logo Joke with the iconic Columbia Pictures Torch Lady momentarily becoming an Action Girl and bludgeoning oncoming zombies with her torch. Doubles as an Awesome.
  • "You have a lot of choices when it comes to zombie entertainment and we appreciate you picking us."
  • Homer Zombies are a sub-set of zombies characterized as being fat and stupid to the point of being harmless.
    • The first one in the intro shows a Homer mistaking a metal statue for a human woman, pulling his tongue off on the cold metal.
    • The second one is seen during the horde coming after the gang at the RV, chasing a butterfly instead of coming after them, Columbus remarking that he would be a waste of a good bullet.
    • A third one is seen after the climax, running somewhat slower than the others to its death along with all of the T-800's and ignoring the humans around him.
  • Once again, Tallahassee might as well have his own tab above.
    • Tallahassee dresses up as Santa for a pretend Christmas morning. Little Rock is unamused, but Columbus can't resist the opportunity.
      Columbus: (sitting on Tal's lap) Do you know what I'd like for Christmas?
      Tallahassee: (shoves him off) I don't give a fuck what you'd like.
    • When he's forced to hear Columbus and Madison having sex.
      Tallahassee: That nut definitely ain't shuttin' up.
    • Following this, Columbus describes the sex as performing his #1 cardio rule (with the tea for the rule pumping like muscle). Tallahassee asks if it wasn't a case of #32 for Madison, followed by text popping up that reads "Enjoy the little things." The word "little" being made smaller than the others helps.
    • His boiling, ballooning rage as Wichita describes what kind of man Berkeley is, finally exploding when he learns he's a pacifist. Made even funnier when we see Columbus shaking his head, knowing full on how Tallahassee will react.
    • Tallahassee makes "It takes a real man to drive a pink Cadillac" as one of his rules, until he decides "rules are for pussies". He adds "No offense" to Columbus, who then points out that making rules is his whole thing, and Tal responds that it was personal.
    • Tallahassee and Albuquerque arguing over the use of the "driveway" after Tal sleeps with Nevada.
    • The mere fact that Tallahassee and Albuquerque, two grown men, aggressively argued over Nevada, a grown woman, as if they were teenage boys fighting over a teenage girl is gut-busting in and of itself.
    • His hatred of riding in the minivan is enough to needlessly destroy it with a grenade.
      • Less than a minute after he blows up the minivan, when Tallahassee balks at the idea of surrendering their guns to enter Babylon, an amused Columbus tells him he can stay in the van if he wants, causing Tallahassee to glance back at the burning van.
      • Earlier, Tallahassee's clear frustration while, as he's driving the minivan, Columbus, Wichita and Madison all note that their respective moms drove similar vans.
  • Just about every scene with Madison. Both her Dumb Blonde routine (i.e., using binoculars backwards and noting how "the old man is so small!"), along with how everyone else is startled/annoyed ("Do you know why she's still alive? Because zombies eat brains, and she ain't got any!") makes for comedy gold.
    • The other actors have admitted that working with Zoey Deutch - Madison's actress - was difficult at times. Not because she's a bad actress or rude or anything like that, but because she's just so funny that at times the others couldn't stop themselves from cracking up and having to re-do the shot.
      • A perfect example is when Madison tearfully says goodbye to Tallahassee, errantly calling him "Sally Tally," the camera immediately cuts to the next shot, because they could not get through it without the others laughing.
      • The binoculars scene too, as Jesse Eisenberg moves his head to keep from laughing and Emma Stone says "she's adorable!" with a big grin.
    • Madison describing how ridesharing apps would work and Wichita dismissing the idea of riding in cars with strangers, given their world was overtaken by zombies before Uber/Lyft appeared.
      • And this is another example of Zoey Deutch being too funny to work with; while describing ridesharing apps, Wichita actually starts laughing, but that was legitimate laughter from Emma Stone.
    • The One Dialogue, Two Conversations between Witchita and Madison regarding how Columbus originally gave the Hope Diamond to Witchita.
    Madison: I found it in the bedside drawer. I think it belonged to the First Lady?
    Witchita: You know what, I think you're right. It did belong to the [death glares at Columbus]...first...lady.
  • "In two minutes, she will become a [doing claw hands] 'RAWR-FFFFFT!' A zombie, not a velociraptor..."
  • Apparently, the term "Murraying" emerged for a situation when a survivor is accidentally killed because they looked like a zombie, named in such after Columbus' accidental murder of the man from the first movie, although nobody barring his travel mates know about his identity. After explaining this, Nevada goes on to threaten to kill the person responsible... right in front of Columbus, scared shitless.
  • Columbus and Flagstaff have a passive-aggressive argument over their rules (or "commandments" in the case of Flagstaff).
  • Columbus and Flagstaff playing Magic The Gathering as a Funny Background Event. It's made even funnier because it's never specified where they got the cards in the first place.
  • The Zombie Kill of the Year was done by an Italian man completely tipping over the Leaning Tower of Pisa to crush a small group of zombies.
    • How he does it is even more gut-busting. He sets up a bunch of mannequins loudly hoping that there aren't any zombies to take his "family" from him. Nearby zombies take the bait and begin attacking the mannequins, to which the guy then goes over to the Tower to tip it over using, of all things, a tire jack.
  • When Berkley introduces himself to Tallahassee, the older man yells out "Berkley!" in angry surprise at finally meeting his adoptive daughter's boyfriend. Berkley thinks Tallahassee is saying that he is also from Berkley and marvels about the coincidence as the others try to keep Tallahassee from attacking him.
  • Berkeley keeps on passing old songs as his. Little Rock eventually calls him out saying "even a twelve year old knows Bob Dylan, you poser!".
  • A Babylon leader points out that there's a rule against group sex. Once Columbus, Tallahassee and Wichita arrive, he says it, but points out he could go for one orgy...
  • The entire end credits stinger is a flashback to the very first day of the Zombie Apocalypse with Bill Murray, who in this universe made a third Garfield movie ("Drugs cost money!") and ends up battling many zombies in a press junket. What makes it hilarious isn't just him being unexpectedly awesome in how he dispatches them, but the fact that he's less terrified or enraged and more just kind of exhausted. And of course, he caps off the film with one last quip.
    Bill Murray: I hate Mondays.
  • The one girl begging Bill to save her says that she loves some of his movies. Even when asking him to save her life she can't say all his movies are good.

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