So yeah, I'm writing a zombie story and its meant to be funny, so I need ideas to help keep it that way. Cliches are good, but I would also like something that is new. Its going to be about a bunch of teenagers from different social groups trapped in a mall surrounded by zombies. If you have ANY ideas on how to make that type of situtaion funnier, please share. Anything is helpful.
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oct. 2, 2007 - 16 19
Have someone become a zombie and no one can tell the difference.
Have the social groups care more about their social status/group than survival...
Have some characters be stupider than the zombies.
Have someone try to treat the zombies as a misunderstood minority.
There's a few for now.
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oct. 2, 2007 - 16 49
Haha those are good ones! Thanks so much, I will deffinetly use some of them.
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oct. 2, 2007 - 17 53
I really like that last one.
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oct. 2, 2007 - 21 50
Have a vegetarian zombie. ("Graaaaaaaaains.")
Have a dysfunctional zombie. ("Liiiiiiiiver.")
Have an abnormally clever zombie. (Such as, to get at someone on top of a building, it detaches a hand, ties a rope to it, and sends it scuttling up the wall like a repulsive spider.) Bonus if it turns out to be on the side of the 'good guys' because it hates the taste of brains or whatever.
Zombie head soccer. Don't let the ball bite you...
Have people reference the Zombie Survival Guide for ideas. (This is an actual book!)
Have a zombie attack a little old lady and get mashed to bits by her wildly flailing purse.
Make groups of zombies just smart enough to form basic tactics and Redneck Engineering Ideas, such as crude catapults to fling each other over walls and such.
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Have a philosophical zombie (Graar! Brains! Wait a second, why brains? Wouldn't it be greater to have an influx of souls, since the soul is eternal? Ah, but to find the soul...Graar! Souls!)
----------Have cliques within the zombies (Brains! But OMG, not with those loser skater zombies)
The guy who everyone thinks is a zombie, but has a hard time convincing everyone else that he's not, even though he clearly looks and acts like a normo.
Zombie shi-tzus, Brokeback Zombie, Drunk guy who thinks he's a zombie, GAP employee unaware of zombie infestation, gamer who quickly realizes his skills in Dead Rising will not help him (Zombies! Quick, to the camera store, I've got pictures to take!)
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oct. 3, 2007 - 00 04
Three words: Brain-flavored lattes.
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oct. 3, 2007 - 02 42
Have the zombies try to drag victims to the food court so they can eat them.
----------Have a character fall in love with a zombie and get in a fight with the other characters about it. Bonus points if two characters fight 'over' the same zombie.
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oct. 3, 2007 - 17 09
Hahaha, these are all so awesome guys, thanks so much. I really really like that zombie head soccer idea lol... I really think I'll have to find a way to fit that into my story lol. And I would use the brain flavored lattes idea, but grosses me out everytime I think about it lol, so I'm thinking I'll have to pass on that one lol. But yeah, these are great ideas and they were sooo helpful.
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oct. 4, 2007 - 05 53
Zombies meet red tape. (Head into the DMV for brains? Fill out this form in triplicate, get it notarized, go to the other line, etc etc.)
A zombie in the mall might be great too. Walking past the perfume counter. Having shop girl offer to give zombie a make over. You could even have what would amount to a montage.
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oct. 12, 2007 - 15 49
You could try having evil rodent zombies that are extremely intelligent and destructive. Or a new fashion created by zombies that makes its wearers easy to target and is like sooooo popular! (:
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oct. 12, 2007 - 16 51
Me too.
----------I picture some tree-hugging hippy preaching free love and getting mauled by zombies.
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oct. 12, 2007 - 17 33
Have a zombie not know it's a zombie... like someone gets bitten and doesn't realize they've turned. Bonus if everyone in the party keeps reminding them.
A zombie who is having an existential crisis.
Zombie celebrities
A cannibalistic zombie who keeps trying to eat other zombies
Zombies trying to fit in with normal people.
Maybe reverse the zombie/human roles and the story be like a zombie society where humans come in.
I hope those help. The suggestions have been really good so far.
On a side note, I once wrote a short zombie play and this was in it:
Zombie Leader: Okay, now our objective here is to get inside the house and eat the people.
Zombie 1: Couldn’t you just go in there and get them for us?
Zombie Leader: No. As my father once said, ‘You can give a zombie a person and feed him for a day, or you can teach a zombie to kill and feed him for life.’
Zombie 2: Your dad was a zombie?
Zombie Leader: Well… no, but he was just eccentric and said stuff like that.
Zombie 1: And will it really be for the rest of our lives? I mean, we’re not really alive, we’re just reanimated corpses…
Zombie Leader: Fine, for the rest of your undead existence, okay? Now, no more questions, let’s go.
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oct. 12, 2007 - 20 38
This image just popped into my head of a zombie taking a swing at someone, only to have his rotting arm go splat and leave some poor kid standing there covered in zombie arm.
Also, I really like "Have someone become a zombie and no one can tell the difference", and "Graaaaaains", to the point that I'm actually considering having a zombie attack in my story just so I can use those.
Actually, on the flip side of "Have someone become a zombie and no one can tell the difference", you could have some goth or something who everyone thinks IS a zombie, even though they actually aren't. Bonus points if they either end up saving everyone or get fed up and join the zombies after all.
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oct. 13, 2007 - 11 01
Have you heard David Sedaris' rant about vegetarian zombies? I saw him speak in Kansas City last spring, and for some reason I've been really interested in that idea ever since (that's also where I got a hankering to read "The Zombie Survival Guide"). I don't know that vegetarian zombies would be much threat to a group of teenagers, though. I once thought maybe there would be a bunch of them by a farming community or something, so the farmers had to fight back to save their crops.
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oct. 16, 2007 - 06 06
Oh my. I believe this will be an EXCELLENT book!! Please post excerpts as your write, will you??
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P.S. I think you should watch "Shaun of the Dead", if you haven't already. It's a British RomZomCom (Romantic Zombie Comedy) and it might spark some ideas.
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oct. 16, 2007 - 10 01
Have Zombie fangirls/boys who constantly follow the zombies and practically beg to be infected.
Even better, get the zombies to refuse on the grounds that stalker brains taste bad or something...
This is going to be a totally awesome novel, you know.
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oct. 17, 2007 - 15 04
Thanks for the support guys, I will totally post exerpts and keep you guys posted. I hope it turns out awesome, but with these ideas, what could go wrong?! well..... lots of things, but i wont go there.
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oct. 17, 2007 - 15 41
Haha that teenager to zombie or vice versa is brilliant. Like a druggie or dark eyeliner-emo/goth kid... Nice... very nice...
All very good ideas - I like that gap salesclerk not noticing the invasion. Good possibilities for an ongoing joke throughout the whole novel. Aaaand I really have nothing to add. Just laughing to myself at everything already said and just being generally unhelpful. =D
Good luck!
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oct. 18, 2007 - 21 29
Extra points if the clerk puts one of the z--one of them (we're not using the zed word)--into a changing room and keeps offering to bring different sizes.
Second the Shaun recomendation. It's brilliant.
How intelligent are they? Because your options may vary based on whether or not they can figure out things like elevators...
Ideas? They discover and love the sound that the scanners make at the cash register... They are terrified of the escalator... Someone spills a slippery beverage (on purpose?)... Think about the setting, all of the normal things that are in a mall, and how they would interact. As in...
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oct. 21, 2007 - 05 27
Never even heard of the guy.
And a vegetarian zombie would be a terror for people who run a health food store. "GRAAAAAINS!" "Oh god, not the imported organically grown tropical nut mix! We're losing a fortune!"
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oct. 21, 2007 - 12 46
Have a couple of the teenagers dressed up as zombies because they were on their way to a fancy dress party. They alternate between fear that the others will kill them by mistake, and making fun of the others by pretending they really are zombies for a cheap laugh. Eventually they get bitten and turn into actual zombies, but no one pays them any attention.
Edit: Ah, I see a similar suggestion has already been made.
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oct. 21, 2007 - 18 53
If you haven't heard "RE: Your Brains" by Jonathan Coulton, you should do so immediately. It's on his Myspace page.
"Things have been okay for me, except that I'm a zombie now..."
Oh, man I love that song. :D
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oct. 22, 2007 - 05 38
I was a fair way into comedy zombie screenplay based around a very self aware bunch of geeks who have seen all the zombie films about and play by the movie rules "First things first we need to get to the mall" head shots only things like that.
The running gag was shouting 'Zombies DON'T run' at the undead hordes ( a swipe at the dawn of the dead remake)
Guess I better think of something else now
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oct. 22, 2007 - 05 40
I was a fair way into comedy zombie screenplay based around a very self aware bunch of geeks who have seen all the zombie films about and play by the movie rules "First things first we need to get to the mall" head shots only things like that.
The running gag was shouting 'Zombies DON'T run' at the undead hordes ( a swipe at the dawn of the dead remake)
Guess I better think of something else now
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oct. 22, 2007 - 05 48
Wow triple post-a-rama
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Sorry folks.
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