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[[File:DavinaDeadSet.jpg|frame|You have 30 minutes to say your goodbyes, then I'm coming to get you!]]
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'''Patrick:''' ...[[Not Herself|Sort of.]] }}
How many of you have watched ''[[Big Brother]]'' and thought, "This is the beginning of the apocalypse"? Well, it seems you're not the only one.
''Dead Set'' is the not-so predictable crossover of ''[[Big Brother]]'' [[X Meets Y|meets]] the [[Zombie Apocalypse]], particularly the fast plague-zombies of ''[[
The show was written by TV columnist [[Charlie Brooker]] of ''[[Screenwipe]]'' fame and is about as satirical as you might expect. He went on to create another drama series called ''[[Black Mirror]]''.
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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: [[Zombie Apocalypse|And then come back and make the other characters die, too.]] {{spoiler|[[Kill Em All|Which happens to the entire cast by the end.]]}}▼
* [[Anti Hero]]: Kelly, a zombie apocalypse kinda force you into this.▼
▲* [[Anyone Can Die]]: [[Zombie Apocalypse|And then come back and make the other characters die, too.]] {{spoiler|[[Kill
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Anything from Class 0 to Class 2. We just don't know.
* [[Author Tract]]: Patrick's awesome rant as he feeds the zombies.
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* [[Black Dude Dies First|Black Chick Is First Housemate To Be Bitten]]
* [[Camp Gay]]: Grayson, the bitchy transvestite male nurse.
* [[Character
* [[Caught
* [[Celebrity Survivor]]: Most of the characters.
* [[Cliff Hanger]]: Marky spots Riq approaching the Big Brother house and, thinking he is a zombie, opens fire. Cut to black.
* [[Cluster F
* [[Creator Cameo]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA94AV0vawg#t=0h0m18s Charlie Brooker appears as one of the undead.]
* [[Death
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Space agrees to open the Diary Room -- so Kelly can make a [[Bolivian Army Ending|futile attempt to fight her way out]] -- only after seeing a zombie Pippa hammering on the glass outside.}}
* [[Determinator]]: Kelly has some shades of this.
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* [[Divided We Fall]]: In typical Big Brother fashion, they find it difficult to get along and agree. {{spoiler|They all die.}}
* [[Dumb Blonde]]: Pippa.
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* [[Genre Savvy]]: Kelly and Alex.
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Patrick uses this on Joplin in the final episode. {{spoiler|It succeeds and costs everyone their lives.}}
* [[Hostage Situation]]: In the final episode, {{spoiler|Patrick takes Kelly hostage, holding a gun to her head.}}
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]:
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'''Space:''' Where'd you learn that from, man?
'''Marky:''' Saw [[
'''Pippa:''' No! S'not real life, is it? No! If we're doin' this, we're smashin' his ankles like in that film... "[[Misery|Mystery]]". }}
* [[Idiot Ball]]: {{spoiler|Joplin}}. Ramming a van through an iron gate and countless zombies, in hope that it will carry you to a safe place? Risky. ''Opening the gate before'' in hopes of getting to the van on time? Absurdly, flat-out unbelievably stupid.
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* [[Ignored Vital News Reports]]: Patrick. Well, not ''entirely'' ignored - he just wanted to know if the next bulletin would interrupt ''Big Brother''.
* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Patrick}}, who gets the most gruesome, ''[[Day of the Dead]]''-style tribute death. And {{spoiler|the surviving housemates in the last episode for treating Joplin like a [[Butt Monkey]] the whole series, causing him to pull a [[Face Heel Turn]] and get everyone killed.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Kill
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Patrick. In ''spades''.
* [[Manipulative Editing]]: Patrick is seen indulging in this. {{spoiler|It backfires and makes the manipulatee suicidally open the gates and let the zombies flood in.}}
* [[No
* [[Not Using the Z Word]], though one person does quote ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]''.
* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]]: Kelly.
* [[Ratings Stunt]]: Subverted; the housemates initially think that Kelly is a mentally ill woman added to boost ratings. Joplin comments to the cameras, "I think this is in very poor taste."
* [[Reality TV Show Mansion]]: The BB House.
* [[Regret Eating Me]]: {{spoiler|Patrick}} yells the famous "[[Shout
* [[Self
* [[Scenery Gorn]]
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]
* [[Shout
* [[Smug Snake]]: Joplin. For all his snark and looking down on everyone else, he ends being the most stupid of all.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: Davina McCall has her throat ripped out by a zombie and is left to die to the tune of "Grace Kelly" by Mika.
* [[Springtime for Hitler]]: Joplin admits that the only reason he applied to be on the show in the first place was in order to decry it nationally.
* [[Tempting Fate]]:
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''(Later Patrick flees from a zombie Davina McCall into the Green Room, only to find it's occupied by a hysterical Pippa)''
'''Patrick:''' Not you! Fuck, not you! }}
* [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot]]: The second episode opens with Veronica puking her guts up after witnessing Kelly smashing a zombie's head open with a fire extinguisher.
* [[While Rome Burns]]: Pippa reads a magazine while Zombie Davina bangs on the door outside. Marky obsesses about what the papers say about him.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Firmly in the mold of ''[[
* [[Zombie Infectee]]:
** Averted with {{spoiler|Alex}} who, when infected, calmly hands {{spoiler|Riq}} her axe. He knows what he has to do without her even asking him to.
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