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  • Glen torturing the locked up Mall Cops...with the story of how he discovered his sexuality.
  • This exchange:
    C.J.: These are all your problems, not mine.
    Kenneth: If I put my foot up your ass, would that be your problem?
  • Kenneth and Andy exchanging messages via sign-board:
    FORT PASTOR GONE NO HELP COMING
    WHAT'S THE BAD NEWS?
  • In the DVD extra scenes featuring Andy's video log, he feels guilty over taking part in the game where they shoot zombies who look like celebrities. Not for taking part, but for shooting "Burt Reynolds".
    • Plus the celebrity-shooting scene itself.
    Steve: Ooh! Rosie O'Donnell! Tell him to get Rosie!
    Tucker: Nah, too easy. Give him something hard.
    • And Ana's wry reaction to Kenneth, Steve, Terry, Tucker, CJ, and Andy finding such amusement in it.
    "You guys had rough childhoods, didn't you? A little bit rocky?"
  • The banter between CJ and Ana when she's asking to bandage Kenneth's arm.
    CJ: What are you? A fucking doctor?
    Ana: No, I'm a fucking nurse.
  • CJ passes time in jail by reading an article on the Top 10 qualities of a successful relationship. When he's trying to persuade Michael to give him a weapon to fight zombies, he says "Trust: important quality in a successful relationship".
  • The one zombie in the parking lot getting hit in the head by Steve's golf ball and just falling over.
  • In the Emergency Broadcast bonus feature, the sheer audacity of the author trying to promote his book and the news anchor quickly cutting away in quiet anger over the waste of time that was the whole interview.
  • During the climax of the film, as the mall is being overrun by the dead, the cast escapes via the elevator. Mood Whiplash is in full effect here since elevator music is playing as they're making their way down to the parking lot. CJ's line is the capper for this scene, though.
    CJ: I like this song.
  • The mall's coffee shop is named Hallowed Grounds.
  • CJ takes the irony of his Heroic Sacrifice in stride.
    Fucking figures.
  • The montage after the death of Frank set to Richard Cheese's cover of "Down with the Sickness". 'Nuff said.
  • In the deleted scene where Andre and Michael are getting the truck refugees into the mall, there's just something funny about the combination of the lack of ambient noises, and the flailing arms of the zombies pinned between the truck and building wall reaching up through the gap and trying to grab whatever they can.
  • Another deleted scene involves Terry trying to impress Ana, but failing miserably and being dorky in the process. First he makes a show of making a triple macchiato for her, only to be asked for a simple latte once he's done. Then he tries to have a conversation about Ana's read, but he knows nothing about the subjects she's reading about, digging himself deeper with each line.
  • There's a certain amount of Fridge Black Humor in the fact that, after so much struggle and peril and in-group conflict, the film's presumptive Sole Survivor winds up being Chips. At least, if the mall herd's actions are typical, the Stinger's zombies won't be inclined to attack him either, meaning he's the only cast member to actually find safety on the island.
  • This legendary line:
    Andy: Goddamn, those bastards bite hard.
    (Cue Steve doing his best "God fucking damnit" face)
    • Becomes something of a Tearjerker in Andy's video log extra, where he admits he didn't want to make Kenneth worry, implying he knows exactly what a bite means.
  • When Andre and Michael are about to bust the door open to help the truck survivors, there's tension as the two get pumped up, the music builds, Michael charges the door... And is stopped dead because it's still locked, to which Andre casually unlocks it with an exasperated "Come on, man!"

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