Zombie Cliché Lookout: Inappropriate Comment is Inappropriate
Talk to enough emergency room nurses, cops, and soldiers, and you’ll find that many of them have developed a sense of “gallows humor” to help them cope with the often incredible stress of their day to day job responsibilities. To the casual outside observer, this might seem cold, cruel, or just out-and-out assholish, but to someone on the inside, it’s a valuable weapon in their survival arsenal. If regular people were suddenly pushed into incredible circumstances, their coping mechanisms would surely be varied in both technique and usefulness. But surely a few people would adapt this time-tested method for themselves.
Of course, some people are really just assholes.
About this Episode:
For whatever reason, I love it when characters in movies and TV shows acknowledge how cool something is. It’s a rare thing because writers generally want their characters to be above such things. They also don’t want to call out their own stuff for being awesome, which makes a lot of sense.
One recent example is from the FX series Justified (if you’re not already watching this, start). Early in the third season the main character, Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens, tosses a bullet at a guy he was just intimidating, and then says “The next one’s coming faster”. On its own, it’s a killer one liner, but the show amps it up a notch. That encounter comes up later in the season, and Raylan has to explain the whole thing to a couple of people. One man’s reaction was pitch perfect: “Deputy, that might just be the coolest thing I’ve ever laid ears on.”
Discussion Question: The One Liner
Another fun one for this episode. You’ve just fought off a small horde of zombies. After dispatching the last zombie by decapitating it with a machete, you have the time to make a quick quip. What’s it going to be?
“Because I’m Ben Baber that’s why!”
Bland? Boring? Hard to understand? Good, because who says I want you to understad.
Because I’m Ben Baber, and I do what I want.
That or I take from Skyrim and just yell.
“FUS RO DAH!”
Nothing like a good shout.
Seen Hot Fuzz? Nick Frost’s character quizes Simon Pegg’s character on whether he’s done any of the super cool action movie stuff in US action movies.
Hilarious!!
Have you ever fired a gun whilst jumping through the air?
Have you ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?
Love that movie.
Such a great movie, I watched it not to long ago. I was in envy of that farmers barn.
I think Cheryl should worry more about getting on the roof of the vehicle and less about what sort of personality Stewart has! 😀
Of course, this means we’re going to be here for another 5 episodes while we sort out another personality gone horribly wrong! 😉
Am I that predictable?
Yes, now if you hop to it we can get back to the storyline by the middle of the week after next! 😉
You know….just because you use a smiley doesn’t mean everyone doesn’t realize you’re being a complete ass. The man is sitting here putting a dozen hours into this a week on a site that doesn’t make a dime. You should show some maturity and send him an email and complain. It’s
[email protected]
Show some respect.
oh I forgot 🙂
See I said all of that with a smile.
Well I’m sorry you took it that way zombiemutts, it was meant as a tongue-in-cheek remark. Unfortunately I don’t know if this comment board has a tongue-in-cheek smiley emoticon. 😀
Lol Zombie, you get as defensive as I do.. I didn’t even pay attention to this comment originally.
Wait.. Can I go to the airport and say I’m a terrorist while I smile.. And get away with it?
“Honey, I think I’ll skip the lasagna tonight.”
“I swear, if I see one more zee, heads will roll!”
“Who sez I don’t have the guts to this job!?”
“If I only had a brain!” (Whistling and singing, from the Wizard of Oz)
“What we gonna do tonight, Brain?” ~ “Why Pinky, what we do everynight: Try to take over the world!”
“Heads and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes!”
That first one is gold, Luis.
Every day when I go into my last hour I say to my teacher.
“What are we doing today, Brain?”
He replies.
“Why Pinky, what we do everyday, attempt and plot the over throw of the world.”
Oh yeah! Like the kool aid guy! Or I’ll be back!
Love the Kool Aid man line.
I’d probably just scream my frustrations, anger, angst, etc. to the heavens in one long primal roar like a Klingon and move on to the next order of business, which would most likely be either burning the bodies or getting the hell out of dodge before any more show up.
In all honesty, that’s probably what I’d do too. Yelling is cathartic.
I tend to roar as well.. Some times I do it just to get it out of my system. As well it will help establish my dominance as a fear installing barbarian.
“I told you not to touch me…. I have issues.”
I’d use that after the zombie trying to grab me.
Awesome!
Ha, this made me think of a line in “The last Boy Scout”:
“This is the nineties. You don’t just go around punching people. You have to say something cool first.” …I guess it’s still true today.
Nice on, Yatkuu!
And on the question of which line to use – being a big fan of John McClane I’ll probably pick one out of the Die Hard trilogy – I particulary like this one: “Yippee-ki-yay, mother***r”
“Happy trails, Hans.”
“Not tonight. I have a headache.”
“I said, ‘No tongue!'”
“No glove, no love.”
Yeah, the funniest ones are sex related.
And yeah, it’s not just ER nurses that develop graveyard humor, but pretty much all nurses that deal with death regularly (which is a lot).
Good point on the ER nurse thing, Bo.
Funny thing, though. The nurses I’ve known with the least amount of graveyard humor are hospice nurses. I’m not saying that’s indicative or all hospice nurses, just the ones I’ve known.
Surgical transplant ICU nurses are probably the worst. >.<
Which game is it where they say.
“I said ‘No tongue!”?
I don’t know. I’m not a computer gamer.
I was sitting here thinking it was one of the duke nukem, or older games, but I just remembered it’s from Demsy in Nazi Zombies.
Ding dong motherf****r, DING DONG!
For a group of Zombies that busted through the door. lol
So many swears…
Kinda makes me think of the guy off of L4D that locked himself up in the room in the church and doesn’t let the playes through, and instead just rings a bell and yells.
“DING DONG, DING DONG!”
God I love that part.
Have you ever read the grafiti in the room?
Probably. I used to love reading all the graffiti in that game. Haven’t played it in ages though.
Boondock Saints 2 baby! love than movie.
Yeah it told a lot of stories after awhile.
God, I could just never get into Boondock Saints. I’ve watched it three times now, trying to figure out what I’m missing. I just don’t get the love for that movie.
I tried watching that, and I just couldn’t get into it for some reason.
I’ll be perfectly honest and say that I am shallow as hell and 2 irish boys shooting bad guys is just a turn on. lol
I think most other people like it because they are just bad ass but for a good cause.
I’ve gotta go with “Army of Darkness” on this one.
“Okay. Who else wants some?”
“Hail to the king, baby!”
“Gimme some sugar, baby!”
Every time it’s not brought up in a conversation, I remember most of the movie. But once it’s brought up I forget just about 80% of it.
“Lady I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to leave the store.”
My kid actually calls his toy shot gun (yes I am that kind of mom) a “boom stick!” I love that kid.
That’s pretty epic…
I find my transgression a bit odd. When I was younger I liked swords and shields, now I like high powered rifles and crow bars.
I was thinking of getting the nerf swords for him. The paper towel rolls we use now just don’t really have a good reach.
Trust me, the NERF melee weapons are one of the greatest advancements in play since the invention of the imagination.
You can make much sturdier boffers from foam and PVC.
If presented with the chance of a one liner?
Purposefully remain silent.
Love it.
I think my phrase would be…”Looks like they…*puts on sunglasses* lost their heads. Then someone screams “YEEEAAAAH” on the background.
As a backup line, I can always use “I’m Batman.” It never disappoints me.
hahahahahahahahaha!
I love the David Caruso line delivery..
David Caruso rocks! I would love to see him do a CSI: Zombieland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJSqkwyL1Zo&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL0E3E3E3AE23C9DB1!
SO glad that show’s finally cancelled.
How about “I told you not to stare” or “It’s rude to talk with your mouth full”
Both worthy of 80’s Arnold movies.
Probably just
“Eeeeeeewwww”
I would shout in a wheezy voice “You Mother****ing punk*** zombies, stay off my god**** lawn!”
“Did you miss me?”
“Hah, you should have seen your face, it was all bashed in and stuff.”
Hooray! Lego official zombies set released on my birthday, exclusive first look! 8D
Girl-zombie faces abound! http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120515064836/lego/images/e/eb/ZombiesBox.jpg
Not bad. Three zombies, including a female zombie. Looks like a mid-range set. I’m guessing around 40 bucks or so.
Looks like they will be taking a victorian styled theme to it.
Steampunk.
I’ll buy it for parts and zombie heads; but I’m not a fan. I’m waiting for a new space theme, since LEGO screwed me by cancelling Alien Invasion prematurely.
Ehh.. As a person that absolutely -loves- steampunk, I wouldn’t say it has enough.
“TSSSH PSSSH TSSSH PSSSH” and.
“I DO SAY!” in it.. There’s also a lack of mustaches.
I love the Victorian/Steampunk aesthetic, but I think most of the sets are a little on the weak site. Of course, the parts are awesome, so I’m not letting that bother me too much.
That’s true the parts are indeed awesome. They most likely went for that balance to incorporate enough parts for anyone to just go bat shit crazy with it anyways.
Shouldn’t the box say, instead of 8-14, 8-until you die because they’re too damned addicting.
I’m not really sure what Stew thinks is awesome about that, to be honest…
Question:
I’m reminded of the end of Terry Pratchett’s The Fifth Elephant, after Sam Vimes kills the Big Bad for resisting arrest. He thinks about some of the ironic things he could say, but doesn’t say any of them, because that would have made it murder. Instead he just throws up.
I don’t think I’d bother with one for myself, but I might think one up if I was with someone who I thought it might help. The trouble is that one-liners really need a fair bit of irony to them, so they would be specific to the scenario. A generalised scenario doesn’t really have anything to riff off of.