The 20 Funniest Lines From ‘Shaun of the Dead’ on Its 20th Anniversary

Twenty years ago today, zombie comedy fans got the first look at the defining film of the genre with the release of Shaun of the Dead. Two decades later, we’re still laughing — how’s that for a slice of fried gold?

Shaun of the Dead was the first installment of the legendary Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy from director/writer Edgar Wright and star/writer Simon Pegg, followed by the equally beloved 2007 cop comedy Hot Fuzz and the slightly anticlimactic sci-fi dramedy The World’s End in 2013. Shaun of the Dead established both Wright and Pegg as serious forces in the film industry after years of TV work, and it helped to launch the mid-to-late-aughts zombie movie movement that arguably failed to produce a finer work than the one Wright, Pegg and co-star Nick Frost premiered on April 9, 2004 in the U.K.

Wright celebrated this momentous anniversary with the announcement that Shaun of the Dead will return to U.K. cinemas for limited screenings in the near future. Since no such special events have been announced for us American Shaun of the Dead fans, we’re forced to commemorate this historic date by doing what we’ve been doing for the last 20 years – repeating our favorite lines back and forth while waiting for all of this to blow over. Here are the funniest quotes from the funniest zombie movie ever made, starting with…