ZomBGone is about the generation after the zombie apocalypse. Zombies ended the world in 1979 but in 6 short years a new society was established. Now, 35 years later, the first generation to grow up in the post-post apocalypse tries to live up to their parents famous footprints.
TODAY Zombies are now used as cheap and stinky slaves with Control Collars. Cities have walls to keep roaming waves of zombies in the wastelands. Only nuts and mutants live outside the cities.
WORLD
Henry Crabtree started ZomBGone in 1985. He was a hero of the apocalypse, saving the town of Ashland with his legendary exploits. For 30 years he kept the city’s zombies in check, killing and capturing zombies to be fitted with Control Collars.
When he retired, his son Ron took over for him. Ron coasted on Henry’s good will and the ZomBGone name. He hired his best friends and they take care of the town through a haze of weed smoke with their wacky schemes and DIY methods. They don’t have money for the expensive tools so they make do with what they make in their free time.
Characters
Ron Crabtree - Ron runs ZomBGone. First generation to be born in a world with zombies. Ron is an egomaniac with a self esteem problem and hates authority, even his own. He is a natural at zombie killing, often times out of bizarre luck. But he takes pride in his ability to get the job done, to the point where he ignores the other aspects of the job. He has a weak stomach and gore makes him vomit, a bad problem for a zombie killer.
Damon Howard - best friends with Ron since they were in Kindergarten. Damon is smart and inventive. He invents gadgets to make jobs easier, but they often backfire. He is sweet and creative and working at ZomBGone with his best friend and his wife is a dream come true for him.
Mandy Howard - Damon’s wife. She does the accounting and odd jobs around the office, but NEVER the cleaning. She is feisty and brassy and thinks Damon’s potential is wasted at ZomBGone. She’s been part of the crew since childhood and has a sister-like relationship with Ron.
Vance Petty- Vance started as an extra hand for one job and never went away. He is the town lothario and a really relaxed dude. He always has weed on him and is always down to smoke anyone up. A redneck and a millennial, he loves guns, but also loves his artisanal coffee. Whenever he thinks up a hairbrained scheme he immediately starts it.
Henry Crabtree - the now retired founder of ZomBGone. He represents the masculine fantasy of a zombie apocalypse. His smarts and strength showed mankind's fortitude in the face of extinction. He is weirdly nostalgic for the apocalypse. He still comes into the office everyday and backseat drives everything.
Georgia Roomer- Ron’s ex wife runs the Control Collar and Used Zombie Lot. ZomBGone sells captured zombies to them for extra profit. She used to work at ZomBGone but branched out and started her own business. It has thrived and has lots all over the state. Ron just isn’t ambitious enough for her. She proves to be too ambitious, sometimes in evil ways. ZomBGone doesn’t trust her, but everyone else finds her delightful.
Season 1 Arc
ZomBGone is going out of business and the team is trying to save it. When the corporate zombie control companies decide not to set up shop, the town gets it in their head to privatize zombie control. The idea, set forth by Georgia, causes her to start a rival exterminator company to get the lucrative town contract, but her shady tactics to boost her extermination numbers end up causing a zombie flare up that over run the whole town and it’s up to ZomBGone to save it.
Each episode consists of workplace and small town situational comedy coupled with gore effects and zombie/monster drama.
Sample Episodes
TAIL OF THE COMET - When a satellite comes down and passes through the tail of a comet, it lands on townie turning him into a radioactive glowing Zombie that spits a green sticky goo that immobilizes people.
HAVE YOU HEARD WHAT I HERD? - Vance gets a tip from Georgia that there is a zombie herd in the plains south of town. Seeing an opportunity to get lots of zombies to sell, the boys go out there, only to have the battery die in the van. Georgia starts releasing zombies in town to exterminate and build her reputation.
TOWN MEETING - City Council is having a meeting about privatizing zombie extermination. It would be a good contract with consistent money. The night of the meeting tho ZomBGone keeps getting called away with emergencies, secretly being set up by Georgia.
PILOT - A corporate zombie company, ZClean, sets up shop in Ashland, and they immediately eat up all the buisness. Set to close, ZomBGone takes one last job that leads them to the infested ZClean offices. They get cornered there without weapons and have to fight their way out.
THE HILLS HAVE LIES - When the Used Zombie Lot is full and they won’t buy any more Zombies, ZomBGone investigates the strange redneck mutant family who is selling them, only to find they are creating zombies to sell.
FAST ZOMBIES - When two teenagers die in the woods while drag racing, they rise as zombies and start getting into cars and driving around town racing each other and terrorizing citizens, and the ZomBGone van is not fast enough to catch it.