His window isn't even barricaded. Those rotters are gonna get in. That's why they call them crashers.

I like how Shaun of the Dead addresses that. "Don't say the Z word", "why not?" "because it's ridiculous".

I love how he went from "runners" to "joggers" and then finally to "walkers" lmao

It seems like every zombie movie is like "we need to get away from the infected before it's to late, lets go hide in an abandoned hospital."

Imagine if people did this with vampires. "I don't know how to tell you this... but... I'm a sucker."

Plot twist: there aren’t any zombies, they just hate everyone.

"Zombie?" _"That's offensive, don't say that."_ ".. Undead?" _"Get out of this house."_

Theres a comic called Boyfriend Of The Dead where the main guy (who is a zombie) gets fucking pissed off that the human resistance group refuses to call them zombies so he just writes “ITS ZOMBIE” really big in an whiteboard.

This is one of the reasons the first Dead Rising game has a special place in my heart. In the intro/tutorial Frank West is all "what are these things?" and one of the NPCs just yells at him "THEY ARE ZOMBIES YOU MORON!"

"I call them walkers because they walk" Joel = Shakespeare confirmed.

The z-word is THEIR word and only they can use it

Ah yes; the movies where nobody knew what a Zombie was until they became real, despite the fact that those same movies tend to take place where we are right now.

"Because they're back from the dead, AND THEY'RE JOGGIN"

"Land of the Dead" had one of the worst ones: Stenchers.

Was waiting through the entire video for him to say "walkers" and I was so happy when he finally did. I liked how he built up to it with "runners" and "joggers".

“Any zombies out there” “Don’t say that” “Say what” “That, the ‘Z’ word” Shaun of the Dead-2004

“Don’t say that.” “Don’t say what?” “The Z Word” - Shaun of the Dead

Ran into a couple Hobnobblers the other day......Jesus, Jackie, she just.....couldn't....stop.....hobnobbling.....

“Walkers” is the funniest one and I could never take the series seriously after that.

It's even funnier because if there was a real zombie apocalypse someday, everyone would actually call them zombies.

*'Cause they're back from the dead, ... and they're JOGGING*

“Zombies” is an offensive term, refer to them as mortally challenged.

Character 1: "Those fucking eaters! They're everywhere!" Character 2: "Eaters? Why?" Character 1: "You know... because they... eat" Character 2: "Okay but I mean... just call them zombies!" Character 1: "What?? (laughs) Are you kidding me?? This is real life, not a movie. It's ridicolous. Zombies aren't real." Character 2: "......"

"Dude, y'know this one time I lost my dog to a breather" "Breather?" "Yeah. I call them breathers because they breath"

My head canon is everyone who knows the word zombie died in the outbreak and only the dumbasses who know nothing about zombies survived. Based on the intelligence of the characters this is usually the best explanation.

Over in England we call them shimbly shamblies

Me, guessing: "Walkers." Joel: "Runners" Me: *feels pretty good about myself*

And thats why I respect Dying Light. For ACTUALLY calling them Zombies.

It's so weird how the term "zombie" doesn't seem to exist in those universes

"If only we had some popular fiction that determined the name to give to the dead coming back to life" Those damn vampires

I love how they kept downgrading them from runners to joggers to walkers

Imagine a world where, instead, we over-applied the term "zombie" and had to keep adjusting our language. Like first a cloud of neurotoxic powder blows through a small town and everyone who was outdoors at the time develops spongiform encephalopathy in their prefrontal cortex. They first become passive and compliant, grow apathetic to the point of catatonia, and finally reactivate and become capable of sudden violence as their empathy and inhibitions are lost. The causes and effects are similar to the original zombie concept from Haiti (where a voodoo sorcerer used neurotoxins to create compliant slaves) and the affected townsfolks behavior and appearance deteriorates to the point they earn the moniker. But then it turns out the cloud was a harbinger of an alien invasion. Vermiform parasites spreading via fluid through mucous membranes and burrow into the brain. The human hosts act with seemingly mindless violence and the condition spreads by bites. We'd want to call them zombies because that quickly communicates the danger and mode of operation even though the human host never died. We'd also want to start referring to the first group as something else because they're no longer as much of a threat but their presence should be noted. Something like sleepers/sleepwalkers or maybe veggies would be appropriate. Someone coming from the catatonic rural outskirts to get help from someone in the 'burbs would have to be caught up on the nomenclature of this new threat. The carnage left behind by the human / zombie conflict is gathered up by another entity with much more decided purpose. Behind the second wave of violence the invaders direct sleepers and hosts to build a factory of horrors in either a church's graveyard, a hospital's morgue, or a bloody slaughterhouse. Fresh bodies join the multitude of old corpses found at this facility. Here flesh is crafted and reanimated with alien medicine to create perfect, golem-like vessels to replace the stumbling, shambling hosts and limp, languid shells. These reanimated dead would technically be closer to the cultural definition of zombie, but their role in the invasion doesn't involve mindlessly attacking or infecting others, so they get a different moniker as well. To recap: _sleepwalkers_ fit the original definition of zombie as a mindless human being but they were always alive and don't particularly behave like a zombie; the _zombie hosts_ perform the function of zombies as understood in popular media but they have an outside alien puppeteer which is uncommon in such stories; and _reanimated vessels_ fit the common understanding of zombies as the undead but the threat they pose is unlike that of a "zombie outbreak" as popularly told.

“We have to do something about these damn Dancers.” [Looks outside to see zombies have formed a chorus line]

that last line was delivered just how I wanted it to be delivered cause I hate when movies do this too LOL

I love that he says "You think you're the only one who's experienced loss?" And that all of these names for zombies vaguely sound like racial slurs

Wait this actually brings up a good question, what’s the etymology (word origin) of zombie? Wikipedia: The English word "zombie" is first recorded in 1819, in a history of Brazil by the poet Robert Southey, in the form of "zombi", actually referring to the Afro-Brazilian rebel leader named Zumbi and the etymology of his name in "nzambi". The Oxford English Dictionary gives the origin of the word as Central African and compares it to the Kongo words "nzambi" (god) and "zumbi" (fetish). In Haitian folklore, a zombie (Haitian French: zombi, Haitian Creole: zonbi) is an animated corpse raised by magical means, such as witchcraft. The concept has been popularly associated with the religion of voodoo, but it plays no part in that faith's formal practices. How the creatures in contemporary zombie films came to be called "zombies" is not fully clear. The film Night of the Living Dead made no spoken reference to its undead antagonists as "zombies", describing them instead as "ghouls" (though ghouls, which derive from Arabic folklore, are demons, not undead). Although George Romero used the term "ghoul" in his original scripts, in later interviews he used the term "zombie". The word "zombie" is used exclusively by Romero in his script for his sequel Dawn of the Dead (1978), including once in dialog. According to George Romero, film critics were influential in associating the term "zombie" to his creatures, and especially the French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He eventually accepted this linkage, even though he remained convinced at the time that "zombies" corresponded to the undead slaves of Haitian voodoo as depicted in White Zombie with Bela Lugosi.

"Damn Defecators got us locked in, defecating all around the building we'll never get out of here"

“If only we had some popular fiction to determine what to call the dead coming back to life” LMAO bruh moment 😂😂

Yeah, honestly I never understood why some movies refuse to use the word “zombie.” That would be like a vampire movie that refuses to say “vampire.” It honestly just seems strange. And it’s not like there would have to be a pre-existing name for them before the fictional apocalypse. The word zombie just describes someone who acts in a lifeless or brain-dead manner; mostly unresponsive and only semi-conscious. That’s a perfectly valid description of how a zombie behaves, so why not just call them zombies?! LMAO! 🤣 Anyway, great job, Joel! You rock!

plotwist: his wife just literally wanted him to kill joggers for no reason at all

whats even worse is when movies have the characters acting like they dont know what a zombie is and instead just think the people have gone crazy

Werewolves be like: “I’m a furry”

What would be interesting is a movie where a debilitating disease causes zombie like symptoms and these infected are actually called zombies except they don't hunt and eat people rather they waste away. It's basically a pandemic genre movie with the zombie/infected trope flipped around.

The absolutely terrible zombie novel I wrote when I was like 15 called them “Things” I am the pinnacle of creativity Tolkien WISHES he were me /sarcasm

The game Days Gone had one of the worst ones. “Freakers”

even in a universe where the term zombie was never used, they'd at *least* use the word people actually used before zombie was popular which is just "undead"

If only Joel knew that using the label "jogger" would provide many of us with a sensible chuckle.

"I cant deal with these Ryobi 18V 5.0Ah 25cm/30cm Line Trimmer Kit s" I call them that because I saw one of them holding it once

Ok but the wife calling him “husband” instead of his name is a really underrated joke 😂

"Damn, screw those POGGERS"

Francis from "Left 4 Dead": I hate those VAMPIRES.

As an rpg guy: undead is always my favorite, because it covers all of them " most of the time "

"They're back from the dead and they're JOGGIN'."

whenever I hear the line "one of those... things" I cringe into oblivion because literally every zombie movie or series has this line. Just say zombie. Don't be stylish and call them ridiculous names, you aren't inventing a new genre.

"Sniffers" got me.

The sunglasses really sold it.

When you do something to avoid a cliché but that becomes the cliché

imagine if the word "wizard" didn't exists in the harry potter universe

Please make a mini series like this, love the overly serious post apocalyptic zombie scenario.

I just imagine that they're actually talking about killer joggers that died, came back to life but mumble a lot.

The other cliche is when zombie fiction doesn't exist, and so people do EVERYTHING except aim for the head. Like I get they don't know what a zombie is, but maybe after a few shots to the body, maybe one to the nuts just to check, a human being would IMMEDIATELY aim for the head. Isn't that the place we usually aim for anyway?

These joggers. This aged Beautifully

Man this channel is addictive i just go and watch the next videos i think i've been here for hours

And that kids, is why you don't run the movie script in Grammarly.

Barfers was my absolute favorite part. wtf is up with zombies showing up in the only reality that dont have zombie stories?

I think the best one was some random guy in the Walking Dead calling them “geeks”

years later & this video is still so funny

Is it just me, or does the incredible similarity of most versions of zombies make this more annoying? There seem to be two types in near future post apocalyptic stories- fast ones and slow ones... which move fast and slow respectively. Since so many zombie based works come out and just shove these bare bones no differentiation needed monsters in, they go overboard in calling them some sort of new name to try to hide that they only have two flavors of walking cannibalistic putrescence. Also, having seen a littel of The Walking Dead, I really wonder what the point of zombies is in the later seasons, since the main characters apparently have vorpal blades- sniker snak, a head is what the zombie lacks. What's the point of having these undead abominations if they just become some ordinary smelly pest. "Oh, look, Rick another bunch of zom-'Walkers'- whatever will we do?" "I know what to do Glenn. Walk right up to them, unsheathe our machetes and chop their barely attached heads off. And don't even have the common curtosey to clean up. Just leave an undead abomination's still snapping head lying around for some poor person to step on in the night. After all, months, nay years, after civilization has broken down, everybody has Uranium laced sneakers, right. Same stuff that's in cars!"

"You think you're the only one who's experienced loss?" - the man in the Rangers hoodie

"Zombies" can't be copyrighted.

I was waiting for him to say eaters, because they eat

Every single video of yours is so funny damn, it really helped me cheer up in difficult situations; thanks for sharing your joy

The web serial "Worth the Candle" plays with this: "zombie" is a taboo word to call the undead, because of a necromancer who established a business based on undead labour, branding them as zombies, only for it to be discovered that his particular technique of necromancy rendered the minds of the living awake inside the corpses- "locked into their body, fully able to feel everything that happened to them, but unable to take any action on their own. The ‘zombies’ would sit there doing assembly work, watching as their bodies slowly and inevitably decayed, unable to speak, unable to stop, watching their own demise at a remove."

I call them Sayers 'cause they're always writin' incisive essays about my character flaws.

Your humor is great. Glad I'm being recommended your vids.

0:36 "My sister, my own flesh and blood" I feel like that line is a bit too underappreciated

Stragglers, Draggers, Bumblers,Stumblers, lol

At least Shaun of the Dead made it into a joke “the zed word, it’s ridiculous”

"The first rule of Zombieland; Cardio. When the zombie outbreak first hit, the first to go, for obvious reasons... were the fatties." -Columbus

My theory has always been if they say the word "zombie" it's a comedy your watching, not a horror movie. Not 100% foolproof theory, but it mostly holds up.

Tier list of names: 1- bumpers 2- sniffers 3- mufflers 4- boinkers 5- barffers

protagonists trying to have a worse back story than the other:

Fantastic worldbuilding. I didn’t even realize that this movie was in the genre of “zombie movie” until I saw the title.

The blood thirstiers, the skull chasers, the yellow teeth, the walkers, the diners, the chubby chewers, the silent whisperers, the living dead, the ass wanderers, the pleat lickers, the blood seekers, the night inhabitants, the green grey rottin men, the jean sneakers, the rollin corpses, the cold ones Rick and Morty here you have 10-20 names for Rick to call the zombies in a meta joke, you are welcome

When the Word "Zombie" doesn't exist but there's a "Zombie" apocalypse

"I hate how the Walkers got us, highly resistant to gunpower, impervious to pain and only stop to the most forceful killblows... Almost as if they were zombies... Damn Walkers"

The filter used for this is just... *chef's kiss*

“I’m sick of these goddamn grabbers! Grabbin’ around, tryna eat yah!”

One of the best names, "shambler," was taken by Quake. But at least it was given to the coolest monster ever, a yeti with massive bloody claws and no eyes.

Them damn slow-meandering-once-not-dead-people-whom-crave-the-flesh-of-the-living-soon-after-arising-from-their-not-so-eternal-slumberers!

lost it at "we got 200 boinkers running in the streets"

"Kill as many of those joggers as you can" LOL

Ah, I was bitten and now there's a full moon... I'm going to turn into a doggy boy.

Never gonna forget when Glen was first introduced in TWD and called them "Nerds"

Thanks for doing this I always thought this in my head

These damn subbers. They keep coming in and subbing to Joel. They are gonna overwhelm us. Thanks God.

“I call them walkers, because they walk.” I think I might be a walker too!

Call them “Rots” for multiples and “Rot” or “a Rot” for just one of them. Cause they rot.

Bruh they act like “Zombie” is copyrighted

10 IQ: *Walkers* 100 IQ: *Shamblers* 1000 IQ: *Promenaders* 1960's IQ: *Movers and shakers*