History Headscratchers / ShaunOfTheDead

*** I was under the assumption that the house wasn't a rental, but that Pete owned it, or perhaps Pete and Shaun had gone in on it together. It would explain why Pete didn't just kick Ed out on his ass; if Shaun owned half the house, he could let anyone he wanted stay over as long as they wanted to.

** As for not noticing, considering that Shaun was hours earlier able to walk to the corner shop, buy a Cornetto and a can of Coke and walk back again completely oblivious to the fact that the street was completely trashed and almost everyone around him was an animated corpse, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that there were plenty of people who were completely oblivious to what was going on (especially if, as was probably likely in the case of someone who was calling a dealer to get more supply, they'd been smoking weed). The zombies also didn't really seem to cause much of a fuss unless there was a crowd of them and they knew there was food inside the place they were surrounding; assuming you had a quiet Sunday in, didn't get seen by a zombie and didn't turn the TV on, you could probably go blissfully unaware about what was going on.

** Nice or not, many people sell their parents' houses after they die partly because they've made their own lives and homes outside of the parental one and partly because they simply can't face living / being there with so many constant reminders and memories of their deceased love one(s). Given how close he was to his mum, it's fairly safe to assume that Shaun would be one of the latter especially, and he and Liz simply stayed on in the rented house until they found a new place. Alternatively, they could have ended up buying the rented place -- there's a reasonable chance that Shaun's landlord could have been a victim of the ZombieApocalypse and it was going cheap in the post-apocalypse confusion. And they seemed to have done the place up fairly nice by the end, probably no doubt partly due to having a 'woman's touch' now that Liz is living there instead of three guys living together like previously.

** Nice or not, many people sell their parents' houses after they die partly because they simply can't face living / being there with so many memories of their deceased love one(s). Given how close he was to his mum, it's fairly safe to assume that Shaun would be one of these, and he and Liz simply stayed on in the rented house until they found a new place. Alternatively, they could have ended up buying the rented place -- there's a reasonable chance that Shaun's landlord could have been a victim of the ZombieApocalypse and it was going cheap in the post-apocalypse confusion. And they seemed to have done the place up fairly nice by the end.

* When we see Shaun and Liz at the end, they're living in Shaun's house. Fair enough, except with Shaun's mum and stepdad dead, wouldn't he inherit their house? Why wouldn't they live there? It's much nicer than the ''rented'' house Shaun was living in.

** If it has the muscle strength to lift its own arms it has the muscle strength to lift an air-filled ball and throw it.

** It still has muscles that function. If Shaun's step dad can reach over and turn off a car radio, then I assume a kid can toss a football.

* When Ed and Shaun leave the house for Shaun's mum, a zombified boy throws a football at them. Where did a zombie get the muscle strength to even pick up a ball, let alone throw it?

** It's implied that it's Noel, the obnoxious assistant from Shaun's work, trying to score some . He speaks on the phone to a friend of his during work hours, mentioning that "I spoke to him; he ain't got nuffin'", (the conversation which prompts Shaun to upbraid him for personal conversations in work hours, only to receive a call from Liz). We know Ed "deals a bit of weed", and in that conversation outside the pub he repeats that he has "nuffin'". This troper is pretty sure that you can hear Noel's voice if you listen closely enough. [[spoiler:He turns up in the final TV montage as the zombie pushing trolleys in the supermarket car park.]]

* When Shaun is buying flowers for his mum, outside the window we see Shaun spot a zombie grab a pigeon to eat. A bendy bus drives between the zombie and Shaun and a split second later, the zombie's gone. Stylistically, this is suitable enough for an Edgar Wright film, but it does beg the question: where (or more importantly, how) the hell did he go so quickly if he's a zombie?

* I know this is a very very small detail, but who was the guy who called Ed when they were outside the pub. Was that guy not aware of the ZombieApocalypse, was he trying to get help, or was he just TooDumbToLive like Ed.

** They're sort of like regular people, except slower, deader, stupider and hungrier.

** The zombies only seem to get really active when they're in groups. Recall that Ed has to throw a stone at Mary before him and Shaun get her attention and the zombified Pete just stands in the shower whilst clueless Shaun has a one-way conversation with him. Also, it's never entirely ruled out that the thing at the door ''wasn't'' an actual drunk.

*** Also, when Shaun is picking up the flowers, there was a zombie getting a pigeon to eat. So we know the zombies don't eat only human meat..

*** Well, there does seem to be some pretty heavy duty collar and manacles on him. A muzzle would be a good idea, though.