History Fridge / ShaunOfTheDead

** Also because Philip turned in the Jag, they were forced to abandon it and walk through everyone's backyards, leading to [[spoiler:Barbara being bitten, Shaun having to kill her, David being ripped apart and then Ed getting bitten and zombified.]] Jesus ''Christ'', Ed. UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom ''indeed''.

** Another example is [[spoiler: Barbara, note that when she rises, she isn't hostile at all, she's just blankly staring at Shaun, even when he has a gun pointed at her, but when David yells for Shaun to shoot her, she snarls, but she doesn't snarl at the nearest person (Shaun) she turns her head and snarls at ''David.'']]

** Likely helped by their speed. One of the DVD extras shows that, compared to Shaun, the zombies were moving so slowly that he would have to stop and wait for them a considerable amount of time every 50 meters to let them catch up and continue the chase. And the fact that they were so easily fooled by him ducking into a dumpster following the old "out of sight out of mind" cliche. He was so hungover that it took them too long to catch on that he wasn't one of them, he walked too fast for them to get too good a look at him before he was gone, and once he was around a corner, in the store, or in his house, the zombies that might've had the mind to follow would've had no way of knowing where he went.

* Whilst [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction underplaying his injury]] in true StiffUpperLip fashion - "I ran it under a cold tap!" - Phillip references him and Barbara having had their vaccinations when they went on holiday to the Isle of Wight, a seaside island community off the southern coast of the UK; a wight is also an old English name for an undead creature, not dissimilar in nature and appearance to a zombie, as ''TV/GameOfThrones'' fans may well recall.

* Whilst [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction underplaying his injury]] in true StiffUpperLip fashion - "I ran it under a cold tap!" - Phillip references him and Barbara having had their vaccinations when they went on holiday to the Isle of Wight, a seaside island community off the southern coast of the UK; a wight is also an old English name for an undead creature, not dissimilar in nature and appearance to a zombie, as ''[[TV/GameOfThrones]]'' fans may well recall.

* Whilst [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction underplaying his injury]] in true StiffUpperLip fashion - "I ran it under a cold tap!" - Phillip references him and Barbara having had their vaccinations when they went on holiday to the Isle of Wight, a seaside island community off the southern coast of the UK; a wight is also an old English name for an undead creature, not dissimilar in nature and appearance to a zombie, as ''[[GameOfThrones]]'' fans may well recall.

* Whilst [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction underplaying his injury]] in true StiffUpperLip fashion - "I ran it under a cold tap!" - Phillip references him and Barbara having had their vaccinations when they went on holiday to the Isle of Wight, a seaside island community off the southern coast of the UK; a wight is also an old English name for an undead creature, not dissimilar in nature and appearance to a zombie, as ''[GameOfThrones]]'' fans may well recall.

* Ed got Philip killed (or rather, killed more quickly). It's very heavily implied that Ed purposefully wrecked his and Shaun's original car so that they'd be forced to let him drive Philip's Jaguar, and given that Philip and Barbara's neighbourhood was quiet right up until Ed smashed the car, it's only logical to presume that the zombies were drawn by the noise, and as Philip was already injured, he wasn't able to fight back or notice the zombie shambling up behind him until it was too late.

** Also because Philip turning in the Jag, they were forced to abandon it and walk through everyone's backyards, leading to [[spoiler:Barbara being bitten, Shaun having to kill her, David being ripped apart and then Ed getting bitten and zombified.]] Jesus ''Christ'', Ed. UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom ''indeed''.

** Also because Philip turning in the Jag, they were forced to abandon the it and walk through everyone's backyards, leading to [[spoiler:Barbara being bitten, Shaun having to kill her, David being ripped apart and then Ed getting bitten and zombified.]] Jesus ''Christ'', Ed. UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom ''indeed''.

* That zombie Ed hits on the way to Liz's, there is a good chance that he wasn't a zombie when they hit him, seeing as the news mentioned that it was the "bodies of the recently deceased" rising, which implies you only have to die to rise, not be bitten.

* The reason why [[spoiler:Dianne was able to survive on the meat of David's leg according to the plot hole comic on the DVD. He was torn to pieces and there was no chance that the cause of zombification could've infected the leg]].

* Why does Yvonne [[spoiler: appear to be the SoleSurvivor of her group?]] Her film has a higher budget, [[spoiler: and studio execs often force higher body counts [[RatedMForMoney in order to make the film more marketable]].]]

* Shaun not getting butchered between his house and the shop after the outbreak. His hungover state meant he more or less blended in.

* The joke involving the winchester rifle in the titular bar is instantly more clever once you remember the rule of ChekhovsGun "If a rifle is mentioned in the first act, then in the second or third act, it absolutely must go off!"

** This actually makes more sense once you consider the fact that since zombie!Pete can remember things while he was alive, other zombies should be able to as well. They just remember him being a prick and would rather straight up kill him than turn hi.