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When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth - or so the saying goes. Well, we got the same problem right here in Daten City. Only we got angels, and dildos. You'll see. |
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"...Of the Dead" (…オブ・ザ・デッド, ...Obu Za Deddo) is the fourteenth episode of season one and the fourteenth overall episode of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt. It first aired on November 19, 2010.
Synopsis
Panty and Stocking are holed up in a town full of zombies.
Plot
The episode starts with a narrator, who says nothing in life is permanent, and that humans have always fought against death. The setting changes to the inside of Romero & Carpen Town's police station, where Panty, Stocking, Garterbelt, and a few other humans are trying to repel a horde of zombies trying to get inside. Panty tries shooting a zombie dog, but it is unaffected.
Everyone inside the station tells the angels to kill the zombies already, but Panty explains that their weapons don't work against zombies, making it impossible for them to do anything. The humans start calling the angels impostors when suddenly a policeman reveals to them that the zombies' weakness is fire.
Stocking disapproving of Panty's methods of killing zombie ghosts.
Garterbelt explains that zombies can be defeated, but since he has diarrhea, he goes back to the bathroom before he can reveal their weakness. Meanwhile, a policeman lights a chair on fire and throws it at the zombies, but nothing happens. The zombies are able to get inside the station and soon transform many of the remaining humans into zombies.
Garterbelt comes out of the bathroom once again and tells the Anarchy Sisters that in order to defeat a zombie, they needed to destroy their brains. Stocking says there had to be a more elegant way of defeating them; however, Panty goes ahead and smashes a zombie's head.
Panty assures them that all they really need to do is get into the weaponry shop nearby, and throws a gas container to the zombies outside, making it explode after shooting it. The remaining survivors run to the shop, but it turns out to be a sex shop. The Anarchy Sisters start blaming Garterbelt for making them cops for a day.
Meanwhile, from a good distance, Scanty and Kneesocks are watching the scene unfold. It is revealed that they are the ones behind the zombie incident, turning dead people into zombies just by dripping the zombie liquid they ordered from a demon catalogue on them. A zombie cat delivers the demons' message to Panty and Stocking, who become enraged and started fighting the cat.
Panty and the others preparing their weapons.
The remaining survivors prepare themselves to battle the zombies, but one of the survivors - already bitten by the undead - says he is willing to act as a decoy in exchange for someone publishing the book of his stormy life. However, he spends too much time preparing to distract the horde, and thus turns within moments of exiting the store.
As the few remaining humans fall to the relentless legion of zombies, Garterbelt orders the angels to get inside See Through, and then come pick everyone up. Panty and Stocking narrowly manage to reach their vehicle, but plan to simply ditch the others and escape the ravaged town. However, they are attacked by Chuck, who was turned into a zombie earlier.
The newly-zombified Panty and Stocking then come after Garterbelt, who is now the only remaining survivor. Panty claims that she feels liberated by the experience, but wonders if they can change back to normal; Stocking suggests that they may revert at dawn, but insists that they discuss the matter after getting fresh meat from their former caretaker.
Scanty and Kneesocks being surrounded by zombie ghosts.
Musing that his charges' bodies are now as rotten as their minds, Garterbelt calmly pulls a second shotgun from his afro and opens fire. Meanwhile, Scanty rejoices in victory upon seeing her foes reduced to undead. Unfortunately, her joyful jumping causes her to splash the zombie liquid all around the hill.
By the time Kneesocks gets Scanty to stop, the demon sisters find themselves surrounded by ravenous ghouls, with nothing to eat but themselves.
As dawn breaks, Panty and Stocking sit atop the sex shop's roof, munching on the remains of Garterbelt. Panty notices that they haven't changed back, prompting Stocking to wonder what they should do next.
As the zombified demon sisters lurch by on the street, the angels decide to sit back and relax; far away, church bells ring.
Features
Characters
- Anarchy Sisters
- Garterbelt
- Chuck
- Daemon Sisters
- Fastener
- Zombie Ghost (debut)
Objects
Locations
- Romero & Carpen Town
- R&C Town's Police Station
- Unnamed sex shop
- Hell (mentioned)
Music
- Zombie - Barricade
- Epilogue - Garter appears
- Ghost Town - The zombies make it in
- Beverly Hills Cock - Escape to the shop
- Burrrrrp - A sex shop
- Theme for Scanty and Kneesocks - The villains are revealed
- Cherryboy Riot Part 2 - Everyone arms themselves
- Schranz Chase - Plan B
- See-Through (track) - The zombies take the upper hand
- Technodildo - Zombie angels
Trivia
- This is the first episode in which See Through had its roof up, which confirms that the car has a retractable roof. It is seen again in "The Brothers from Heaven".
- The series' OVA, "Panty & Stocking in Sanitarybox", includes a short titled "Geek of the Dead" which takes place five hours after the events of this episode.
- Despite the fact that Panty and Stocking failed to kill all of the zombies and became zombies themselves, the church bell still rung, signifying that they succeeded in their mission.
- This marks the first time that Panty and Stocking failed to kill the ghosts in an episode (excluding "Sex and the Daten City", which doesn't feature any ghosts).
- While Panty and Stocking believed that they and everyone else will probably stay zombified, they are reverted back to normal in the very next episode. "D.C. Confidential" later proves that this episode is indeed canon, but it is unknown how everyone reverted back to normal.
- In the Japanese dub, the fourth wall was broken when one of the zombie survivors tell Panty and Stocking that he has been with them since Scene 19. He then noted that he "even had lines".
Cultural references
- The episode's theme, including the town's name, is a reference to the American film series Living Dead.
- The episode's title and title card are references to the 1978 American film Dawn of the Dead.
- The name of Romero & Carpen Town is a reference to George A. Romero and John Carpenter.
- Panty and Stocking's first day as cops in Romero & Carpen Town, before the city was overrun by zombies mere hours later, is a reference to the 1998 video game Resident Evil 2.
- Garterbelt uses his shotgun in the same manner as the reverend from the 1996 film From Dusk Till Dawn.
- The dildo contraption Panty uses as a weapon is a direct reference to a similar weapon used by George Clooney's character in From Dusk Till Dawn.
- One of the inmates bears a resemblance to Danny Trejo, who played a bartender in From Dusk Till Dawn.
- One of the convicts looks very similar to Francis, a character from the 2008 video game, Left 4 Dead.
- Some of the town's citizens accused Panty and Stocking of being impostors. Apparently, they had been expecting three angel-cops, which is a reference to the 1976 drama series, Charlie's Angels.
- The show's title is even name-dropped in both Japanese and English dubs of the episode.
- The town population being 666 is a reference to the devil's number.
- When Stocking impales the cat zombie's skull, she lets out some funny Bruce Lee-style noises.
- At one point, some of the survivors decide to throw a burning armchair at the mass of zombies to distract them, just like Ben did in the first part of the Living Dead series.
- In the English dub, Scanty states that Kneesocks got the zombie liquid from Publishers Cursing House, a reference to the publishing company, Publishers Clearing House.
- In the DVD extra, "Outtakes", Garterbelt's opening narration for this episode references the Cranberries' 1994 single, "Zombie".
Errors
- When Kneesocks holds the zombie liquid, a green swirl is seen on the label. However, when she pours the liquid on the cat, the swirl is no longer seen.