Every Reference in Shaun of the Dead | Vanity Fair
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- Here's every music, movie, tv show, and celebrity reference in Edgar Wright's 2004 zombie parody classic 'Shaun of the Dead.' From using the score in "Dawn of the Dead" to more obscure nods like Pop Larkin's "Perfick!" from 'The Darling Buds of May,' check out all the pop culture references and homages you may have missed from the classic zom-rom-com.
"This is pretty damn good. A few are unintentional (The Office, Brainded) and one I didn't find out about until way later (Brannigan). Still, enjoy!" - Edgar Wright
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In the movie, the characters fight zombies. This is a subtle nod to the fact that this is a zombie movie.
Now it makes sense
How about that!
BEaCaUsE iT iS a zOmBiE MoViE
@@cukman1643 you, my dear fellow have fallen into my trap I used ThIs fOnT to show that I understood the joke so r/woooosh
llamapocolypes YT dude who you taking to?
As the main characters huddle around Shaun holding the rifle in the Winchester as the first wave of zombies start to flow in, Shaun says "get behind me! Get behind me!" just like Han Solo in Star Wars, just as storm troopers are breaking though the doors of the cell block on the Death Star.
Remember when that character said hi? This is a direct reference to the 1984 film where the main character actually says the word hi
LMFAOOOO!!!!! I knew that 1984 movie quote too! He said that while he waved .....that was an awesome scene :P
But that 1984 film was actually already rainy homage to that classic 1957 film where the lead character says hi.
Yea, maybe I'm not sure about the 1957 one.
Still love that “We’re coming to get you Barbara!”
EGPMH ThErE comIng To GeT yOu BarBrA!
@@Drp_br_ that is what they were referencing, which is why I love that scene
@@Drp_br_ tHeY'Ve bEen DeAd A lOnG tIMe..
When Shaun says "He's got an arm off!" I think that's a reference to Monty Python
I think you're right. "It's only a flesh wound!"
And Tis but a scratch
The shop being called "Landis" is actually very clever as there used to be a very common shop in the UK called Londis.
Just to avoid copyright I bet
@@lewdyson4744 Well, not really if they were calling the shop Landis after John Landis.
Londis still exists
petrol station
used to be?
They missed that "Shaun" was actually in reference to the main character's name
That is not a reference.
The reference was that it's similar to Dawn of the Dead....they used Shaun instead so it'll be similar for that exact reason..
Just a Potato with a Face woooooosh aswell
Whooooooosh
Stephen Robinson your not very bright are you
Sees shadow
THATS JUST LIKE THAT ONE MOVIE!
Yeah I thought that one was a bit of a reach.
Sees actors eyes blink
JUST LIKE THAT OTHER MOVIE WHERE AN ACTORS EYES BLINK
Person walks.
IT'S LIKE IN THAT MOVIE SPIDERMAN WHEN PETER PARKER WALKS!!!!!!
This bit where he holds a shotgun is just like that bit, where another guy holds a shot gun 😂 but they skipped over Vernon Kay and all the other British references at the end?!
Charlie To0 Human omg and the Zombaid, Liveaid reference!
I think you would have done a better coverage if you just played the whole film. It is 99.9% References.
True. Kinda the point of a parody, isn't it?
Right
The entire cornetto trilogy references movies and the others in the trilogy
@@chrisbacon9210 Most films are these days aren't they. Postmodernism 'n all.
Correct
You forgot one Panic by the smiths with the lyric "panic on the streets of London"
when he was channel surfing and it made it sound like that's what the tv was saying. you know it cost £10,000 just for the right to use one second of that song?
@@synaesthesia2010 I didn't know that wow that's something cool
And "if you leave me now" by Chicago
Also forgot Don't stop me now.
I know! I got really surprised and excited at that part and then I remembered that Brits have better tastes in music than Americans and that it wasn't that weird.
That's one of my favorite songs of all time.
People laugh at me when I say that this is my favorite movie. But it is. It's a rarified quality of filmmaking. It works on so many levels. On one hand, it's possible to enjoy it without knowing any of the references. On the other hand, the fact that pretty much every scene in the film contains some sort of reference while still forming a cohesive story is almost unbelievable. Think about most movies that try to reference and parody pop culture: they're usually complete trash, with the references taking the place of storytelling while mocking their source materials. In SotD, Wright offers a really solid, and sometimes even emotionally powerful narrative while also weaving in hundreds of references (many more than this video identifies) to other films. That shows how much Wright and Pegg genuinely love the pop culture they reference in this film.
Well said!
@@mr.halloween87 thanks 🙂
Missed the timesplitters reference when ed is playing video games
I mean it's not really a reference, it's just a video game, but that was my favourite part seeing this movie for the first time all those years ago :) long live timesplitters!
And then it's worth a mention that Timesplitters 3 referenced Shaun of the Dead with Clip Clamps action "Do I Have Red On Me?"
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THANK YOU!! I'm so glad someone else saw it too
Girlfriend Liz lives at the Cunningham House. Friday the 13th (1980) was directed by Sean S . Cunningham
every 6th thing in the UK is named Cunningham xD
Cuntingham
Cummingham
@@z8eee cunninglingus
@@ReanimatorsMutilations Strummingham
When Shaun yells “Get behind me, get behind me” in the bar, that’s a reference to Han Solo in Star Wars.
The “Landis” reference is even smarter when you know that “Londis” is a brand of supermarket in the UK. So it’s a pun within a pun
You missed that Chris Martin is actually one of the zombies
On stage as well as in the movie.
@@Hellwyck super hardcore burn-o-rama!
Is he?, when?, he is at the end and is human, where is he a zombie?
@Naz Nomad aw cheers mate I'll keep a lookout on my next viewing
Edgar Wright is seriously one of my all time favorite creators and directors.
And you didn’t mention Trisha!
“You sleep with it??”
it's crazy how well-written this movie is, even in super fast forward.
"Don't stop me now" is playing and Shaun says "Kill the Queen" (reference to the band "Queen" and the song "Killer Queen"?
It just means "turn it off" or "quieten it".
@@Hellwyck Yeah, but it's a reference just as much as all of these.
Nahhhhhnn
The anthem is God save the queen
That is a reference - Simon Pegg has said as much. Their beating up the zombie during that scene also later became a staple of Edgar Wright's for the music and driving scenes of Baby Driver.
in this scene there is a tree and if you turn that into paper you can write the word alex, this is a referance to when shakespeare says this word when talking to a neighbour when he was 12
Comment of the year! Brilliant!
That clicking sound throughout was so infuriating
I couldn't stand it and stopped watching after 1 min :\
For some reason I loved it
That's why I don't watch Cinema Sins, that stupid ding every 5 seconds and they use it like 100 times in a video.
Just buy the DVD, all these and more without the obnoxious gloddle stop nosies.
You're weak and live a sheltered life. Go outside
The Shawn shadow at :52 is referencing “Doctor Tongue” at the beginning of Day Of The Dead
Some of these are super weak comparisons..
Wolf Haley You see, this person is blinking, and they did that in Day if The Dead!
Like what
Gotta get to 10 minutes or they don't get paid.
@@xDJJDxZombies "You see this part where he aims a gun at a zombie?" This is a reference to another show where he aims a gun at a zombie
Noire like the second one, this zombie walk when he wakes up refers to a zombie (walking in a different direction) in this film... thats weak 😂 why can’t he wake up walking like a zombie cause it’s a zombie film?
I love how he’s talking about a British movie and when shaun says ‘DONT POINT THAT GUN AT MY MUM’ he puts it in the subtitles as Mom, this is a reference about Americans not knowing about any English language differences in other countries.
At least if we every get attacked by zombies, or germans again, or martians, we can use
guns. You will have to use cricket bats and old vinyl record albums .
@@MrYfrank14 You'll just get attacked by other Americans again.
9'06" - I think that elevator was actually a reference to Aliens. Look at the controls she used.
Umm... The walk by Simon Pegg with "the shadow", was actually a reference to the first time you see a zombie in "Day of the Dead". Not the reference you named. It's under the title in the beginning. The shuffle and then pan up to see the zombie let out a moan the same was Shaun does, only in Shaun's case it was just a yawn.
Dr tongue!
They missed a HUGE one. The jumping on the trampoline to get over the fence is a BLATANT reference to "Zombies ate my Neighbors" for the SNES. 🧟♂️
When Shaun switches on the tv on the morning when they find the zombie panic by the smiths plays +1 music reference
The music at the end is "The Gonk" by Henry chappell. That piece stuck with me when I first saw it in the early 80's. I got the DVD in the 90's and since then "The Gonk" has been my ringtone for when my kids call.
Would've been nice to see a reference made to Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson) cameo, as well as some of the other small cameos and zombies (Tamsin Greig, Martin Freeman, Bill Bailey, Matt Lucas, etc). Also the brilliant Shining hedge maze reference with Bill Nighy's stepdad character.
Nico Liengme I thought Bill Bailey played two characters in Hot Fuzz because he wasn’t in Shaun of the Dead?
@@jamesmoore8207 You may be right there is no mention of Shaun of The Dead on IMDB www.imdb.com/name/nm0047155
The Hereditary clicking sound 😥
Yeah. Strong ptsd on that sound.
hereditary came out after this movie
It could be a game reference.
@@thehorriblebrightsame
hereditary has an actual click. this is an actual tongue 'cluck'
Jessica Hynes plays 'Yvonne'. That's a nod to Tom Savini, the special makeup effects on Day of the Dead, who also has a V in his name.
😂
Craig Jones lmaoooo
You also missed another Spaced reference..."how's that for a slice of Fried Gold" :)
"He's not my boyfriend, thanks babes"- stopped watching quite early but it had passed that part of the film so I assume it didn't mention it.
Wasnt expecting the Spaced References in the vid. Well done.
Charlton Heston reference was more likely to do with the fact he was president of the NRA and David was now holding the gun.
Or more directly The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston.
They forgot about the group they run into which I believe was in reference to "spaced"
.... no, not really...
The Spaced reference with Yvonne was when they first run into each other. She states that she hasn't seen Shaun since the uhn tjigga uhn tjigga uhn tjigga, which is a clear nod the rave episode. And thinking about it now I think that exchange was cut so.... ignore this.
However, in Yvonne's group there is Martin Freeman and Tamsin Greig. Obliviously a reference to Black Books...
Dexter is there too in Daisy’s group
Missed Gramdmaster Flash's "White Lines."
The tension created to scare is similar to the tension created to make an audience laugh. That's why horror and comedy can go together so well.
The ‘Battle Royale’ poster... pretty big pop culture reference you missed there.
"Yeah Boi" is a 2000 reference? Flav said that on It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back in 1988.
That's exactly what I was thinking.
Whoever made this video just did whatever they wanted to be honest.
My little brother who's never seen this film could probably do a better job at this.
You forgot to mention that Shaun of the Dead and every movie in the Living Dead series have the word ‘Dead’ in the title.
shaun; *breathes
Vanity Fair: this is actually a reference to humans. who edgar wright was a huge fan of
He was also a big fan of people who did not breath aka zombies hence the movie .
Also the "zombies" were actually breathing people called background actors who were fans of spaced tv show who were told to audition at fan meet of the show
Did you mean Zombie Nation BY Kernkraft 400
No, the song is Kernkraft 400 by Zombie Nation. For a long time I thought the same as you
@@ScottyM196 Bugger me, so it is. That's so stupid lmao
@@JontysCorner The Mandela Effect strikes again!
I too thought the same.
Well I'll be buggered
@@ScottyM196 I don't care that this is true, it's still wrong.
The guy who played the pub owner, isn’t he a stunt man
yes he was and Simon Pegg points out even more references in that one scene czcams.com/video/maq4ZIARaWw/video.html
yes he was and Simon Pegg can point out more references in that one scene czcams.com/video/maq4ZIARaWw/video.html
yes he was
You forgot the spaced reference "thanks babe"
7:53 "plays too much resident evil" mmmhm yeah, definatly not because he took too much "cheap speed" before playing resident evil....
You missed the part when they were drunk and Pete enters and throws the second disk he ever bought out the window. In that room he has a poster that says Shaun's DJ name
What's even better about the Charlton Heston reference is that Heston was one of the most famous supporters of guns' rights, exactly after the character took the gun. Love it.
Yeah, that's the real reference. Shaun is saying David has gone gun-crazy. Not sure how VF missed that.
You appear to have missed as many references as you cite. But then again it must be harder to get all of the English nuances if you're not a native.
This is brilliant. Thank you sooo much!
How did you miss the “Don’t Stop Me Now” song by Queen
That’s not a reference. That’s like hearing someone open a door and saying it’s a reference to doors.
Trixmay 988 yet they counted the end credits song as a reference?
@@TvReferences Well because it was the song playing in another zombie movie, so it was a reference to that movie... Then the Queen song You're My Best Friend begins with the lyric "you make me live" which is a reference to the fact that Nick Frost's character (Pegg's best friend) is undead
Felix Dawson What about when then we’re going through the records, all of those songs counted as references why wouldn’t “Don’t Stop Me Now”?
(Got you there like)
Yeah plus him saying "kill the queen"
Honestly one of the best films to come out of Britain
I was drinking a Pepsi when I first saw this movie, drove a Honda to the theater, and slept in a Tempurpedic mattress that morning.
Love when a presenter has no real clue over his references. Just did his homework assignment like a good boy 😂😂
You did some amazing job here. Appreciate that
What about queen? When they played dont stop me now in the fight scene
Most of these were pretty spot on, well done! One of my favorite movies, a cult classic for sure and now we see why! It was an amalgamation of edgar wrights love for zombie flicks.
you missed when they are hitting the zombie in the pub to the rhythm of the queen song "dont stop me now" is a directed reference to clockwork orange
You missed one... they play a game called "time splitters" on the ps2 2 times throughout. Time splitters is a game which is heavily based around zombies
Also, the Amon Tobin poster and other DJ/electro venues hanged on the walls in Shaun’s flat!
@@davidgraham3077 The plaid logo stickers (theres I think 3 in there)
@@davidgraham3077 YEAH!! especially that one!
You missed Shaun and Ed (and a passing zombie) doing "White Lines" as they left the pub.
Little did you know that these were all just coincidences and Elgar just takes the credit...
I’m not sure how quoting record names is a reference...
Are you kidding with the Dart Board...
It was because Lucy Davis played Dianne in SotD who threw the dart at Shaun, and she was the one who said "Don't throw that at my head" in The Office. Martin Freeman is also in both of them
I loved the style of video! Please make more! Though if you do, perhaps change the tongue clicking sound to something more pleasant-sounding.
One of my favorite movies. Some references were waaay obscure, but good job
Wow, I loved this video. Well put together and one of my favourite films. Wonder if you could do Hot Fuzz next?
Sammy Oliver i love the smiths
@@ainemc3515 you have a great taste in music then 👍
Sammy Oliver they forgot the reference to panic!
@@leomullaney1035 haha they did miss that. Love that TV scene, find it hilarious 😂
Nice PP bro
God I love this movie
Now we wait for the second movie
We've had the second movie, and the third. Hot Fuzz and World's End were parts 2 and 3 of The Cornetto Trilogy.
@@barneyallen5377 I guess he meant that we wait for them to be dissected in this fashion.
Don't forget Paul. Unofficial 4th in the trilogy.
@@Th3Pr0digalS0n Unofficial because it doesn't have the same running gags, was made by partially different crew and isn't considered in any way a part of the cornetto trilogy.
@Matthew Isenberg Well that's the gist of it. It's not because it's not. The cornetto trilogy is a collab between Wright and Pegg. Wright wasn't directing Paul.
You forgot one- Shawn and Pete are roommates, just like Bert and Ernie in Sesame Street. Oh and also, everyone has eyes, just like in the movie Smokey and the Bandit 2.
I don't think you can call crash zooms references, or say they're "now" part of Edgar's style, when he was doing them years earlier in the show that inspired Shaun (and years before that, in Dead Wright)
Excellent video
You see this shadow? Well this this other film also has shadows
Kind of like the big big shadow in your brain
You completely missed the dawn of the dead music that was used when shaun and Ed were planning their rescue/escape.
Brilliant. Absolutely friggin brilliant!!!
I can’t see Peter Serafenowicz without hearing his Neil Morrisey impression
Kernkraft is the artist, Zombie Nation is the track name.
You missed the second song (after the Dawn of the Dead intro) which is Ghost Town, by the Specials.
That's not a movie reference though.
@@mistertee5000 Re-read the description, where it says, "Here's every music, movie, tv show, and celebrity reference..."
The guy narrating sounds like hes young enough that shaun of the dead probably came out before he was born hahaha
Nice!!! Make more videos like that!
Half of these aren’t references, the other half are complete reaches
you really don't know Pegg and Wright that well
What are the reaches?
Mina F so by yer math, this video is worthless?
Please bless us with your expertise and knowledge oh great one. You must be the director? Clearly.....
Everything down to little sound effects make Edgar Wright's films the way they are. They're very well planned out. I recommend watching the commentaries on the films.
In the scene where Shaun and Ed meet up with Liz, Dianne and David, you can hear a fire bell in the background. *tHis is A nOd To ePisODE 14 sEasOn 5 of ThE oFfICE uS in WhiCh DwIgHt sImULaTes a FiRE iN tHE wOrkPlACE.*
That tires reference made me smile so much always loved that character.
So many more spaced references you missed and a huge Spaced reference.
Still I enjoyed your Vid.
Spaced posters of zombies.
The Tim & Daisy's meet up and awkward hug.....etc etc.
You forgot Don't Stop Me Now by Queen
This is a brilliant video, please do hot fuzz next
Hot fuzzz is a terrible movie not Shaun of the dead
take that back.
You sir obviously need to see hot fuzz again, and so I will discount your opinion
@@jtuck8832 Ooooo, you're in trouble
Blue Fin Tun duck you
Random thing Edgar right in the fight at the bar wanted it set to the happiest song he knew... And every hit is with the beat of the music.
some of these are very tenuous but, good video!
Happy 15th anniversary of Shaun of the Dead!
Holy crap has it been that long?! Now i feel OLD xD still my favourite movie after all these years.
Aaron Watson one of the all time greys for sure
More videos like this please. Try some Tarantino and Scorsese films!
I can’t believe a zombie bit Harriet Jones, Prime Minister.
Yes do this with every Edgar Wright film
Edgar Wright was one of my dad's best friends in school
How are they now?
The actors are playing roles just as in the movie "Star Wars"
Not funn
Ok
Who ever made this is amazing
Dude, this is sick!
You should've mentioned why Coldplay were even in the film in the first place! They're all very good friends of Simon but, especially Chris. Simon is often referred to as the "fifth member of Coldplay" for that same reason :)
What about the "why did he bite you" line which is a reference to resident evil 2 intro when the trucker asks "why'd he bite me?"
The dart board and pool cue attacks in the Winchester are a throwback reference to the Darts Night poster and "Killer" pool tournament advertised on the wall when Shaun is drowning his sorrows earlier in the film.
I didn't know whether or not to *SCREAM* like a crazed whirling dervish, or simply just fall asleep!!