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Ellis' stories (List)

By Pudding

A list of Ellis' stories in Left 4 Dead 2 (Source: Left 4 Dead wiki). You need to stay inside the starting saferoom long enough (approx. 3-5 minutes) for Ellis to tell his stories. He has at least one story to tell in every chapter (except chapter 1) in all campaigns. Some of the stories in The Passing are heard when the two groups of survivors reunited and during the finale. Enjoy.

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Category: Characters, Classes, Co-op, Story or Lore

Languages: English

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2 Jul, 2021 @ 7:26am

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Guide Index

Overview

Dancing for money

Camping on top of a building

Jimmy Gibbs Jr. and a goat

Home made bumper cars

Drowning in the Tunnel of Love

Sneaking paint ball guns on a roller coaster

Falling out a roller coaster

Making fireworks

Deep frying a turkey

Mud and shack

Rolled by a gator

Driving off a cliff

Sugar cane field

Fighting five floors of zombies

Suck the heads

Visiting Graceland

Water balloons

Falling down an open manhole

Living in a graveyard

Bombs

Sneaking into a wedding

Starting a historic tour

Tattoo

Car dropped off a bridge

Jumping the river without the bridge

Making sushi

Thanks for reading!

Comments

Dancing for money

Ellis: Man I love malls. I do. Once, I was in this mall, up in Atlanta, and these guys were dancing for like money and stuff and my friend Dave and I was all like...
Nick: Ellis. Is now the best time?
Ellis: Ain't that a load of s***!
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In game, he says "Okay." but I saw Criken's Funny Moments of getting owned video and heard Ellis saying that instead.

Campaign: Dead Center

Camping on top of a building

Ellis: My buddy Keith tried camping out on top of a building once. He was shooting crows, but the police were too busy tear gassing him to ask what he was doing up there. He screamed for an entire YEAR every single time he opened his eyes! Oh, man. At first it was funny, then it just got sad, but then it got funny again! Oh, man.
Coach: We ain't got time for this, Ellis.
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: Dead Center

Jimmy Gibbs Jr. and a goat

Ellis: Jimmy Gibbs Jr. is the man. I mean, I don't know anybody like that, man. But there was this guy I knew, he was racing dirt track, not stock cars but open wheeled cars you know, and he was racing once and a goat...
Rochelle: Ellis, sweetie, can this wait?
Ellis: Okay. But there was a goat.

Campaign: Dead Center

Home made bumper cars

Ellis: I ever tell you about the time me and Keith made home made bumper car ride with riding mowers in his back yard? Mower blade wounds over ninety percent of his body. I didn't run him over, either. He somehow managed to fall under his own.
Nick: Ellis. Is now the best time?
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: Dark Carnival

Drowning in the Tunnel of Love

Ellis: I ever tell you about the time my buddy Keith drowned in the Tunnel of Love? You wouldn't think it would happen cause the water's so shallow, but that's how he gets you, man: Over confidence. Keith was with his lady at the time and he was yelling for her to save him but she didn't wanna get wet--
Coach: We ain't got time for this, Ellis.
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: Dark Carnival

Sneaking paint ball guns on a roller coaster

Ellis: I ever tell you about the time me and Keith snuck up paintball guns on a roller coaster? I never heard of anybody else doing it, so I thought we might have invented a sport. So Keith called the patent office but--
Rochelle: Ellis, sweetie, can this wait?
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: Dark Carnival

Falling out a roller coaster

Ellis: I ever tell you about the time my buddy Keith fell out the roller coaster? Yeah, he didn't drop far, mind you, just onto the tracks, but the carnival people wouldn't stop the ride cause all the other people paid good money and Keith snuck on for free, so he had to dodge for like twenty minutes or so.
Nick: Ellis. Is now the best time?
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: Dark Carnival

Making fireworks

Ellis: I ever tell you about the time Keith and I made fireworks? Now, I didn't know s*** about chemistry, but Keith figured, "Gasoline burns, doesn't it?". Third degree burns over ninety-five percent of his body. Man, people in the next city over were calling to complain about the smell of burning skin.
Nick: Ellis. Is now the best time?
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: Dark Carnival

Deep frying a turkey

Ellis: I ever tell you about the time Keith tried to deep fry a turkey? Third degree burns over ninety percent of his body. His doctor called up, like, other doctors to look at him cause they'd never seen burns on top of existing burns--
Rochelle: Ellis, sweetie, can this wait?
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: Swamp Fever

Mud and shack

Ellis: Man, all this mud remind me of my friend Keith. Yeah, he was goin' to build a shack once, to live in and all, and I know most people here, they build houses and they become shacks, but Keith, he was about jumpin' right to the shack stage. But he had no wood. So he got some mud and was makin' what we were all thinkin' was gonna be this adobe bricks, you know, like when them people out west made bricks and s***? Well, he had mud and...
Rochelle: Ellis, sweetie, can this wait?
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: Swamp Fever

Rolled by a gator

Ellis: I ever tell you guys about the time my buddy Keith got rolled by a gator in a swamp? Man, he didn't agonize it or nothing, we were just trying to grab two so we could p*** 'em off and get 'em into a fight. Well anyway, the third time Keith went under, I realized something was wrong, so I--
Nick: Ellis. Is now the best time?
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: Swamp Fever

Driving off a cliff

Ellis: I ever tell you about the time my buddy Keith drove a car off a cliff, broke both his legs? It's not a funny ha-ha story so much as a make-you-think story. For instance: Windshields look pretty durable, right? Not the case, according to Keith. Son of a b**** flew right through that sucker--
Rochelle: Ellis, sweetie, can this wait?
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: Hard Rain

Sugar cane field

Ellis: I ain't never been to a sugar cane field before. I mean, I seen 'em and all, but no real reason to go into one, but now you go into a peach grove, you find all sorts of cool s***. This one time I was in...
Coach: We ain't got time for this, Ellis.
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: Hard Rain

Fighting five floors of zombies

Ellis: I ever tell you about the time my buddy Keith and I were on the top of a burning building and we had to fight our way down like five floors of zombies? Wait a second. I guess that was you guys. Aww, s***, man, I can't wait to tell Keith about that one.
Coach: We ain't got time for this, Ellis.
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: Hard Rain

Suck the heads

Ellis: Do you know what suck the heads means? Cause I came down here with Keith once, and he didn't know and...I mean, it ain't nothin' bad. It's about eatin'.
Nick: Ellis. Is now the best time?
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: The Parish

Visiting Graceland

Ellis: Did I ever tell you about the time me and my grandpa took the bus the Memphis to go visit Graceland and...
Nick: Ellis! ELLIS! We don't have time for that right now!

Campaign: The Parish

Water balloons

Ellis: I ever tell you about the time me and Keith filled up water balloons with our own--
Coach: We ain't got time for this, Ellis.
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: The Parish

Falling down an open manhole

Ellis: I ever tell you about the time buddy Keith fell down an open manhole? He was unconcious down there for like a week. During that time, unbeknownst to Keith, they paved over him. Keith had to--
Rochelle: Ellis, sweetie, can this wait?
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: The Parish

Living in a graveyard

Ellis: My buddy Keith lived in a graveyard once for a whole year. It wasn't a dare or nothin', he just got kicked out of his house. He said he NEVER saw a single ghost 'cept for this one time when a ghost stabbed him from behind and took all his money, and he might've just been a homeless guy, 'cause he had a robe on with two eyes cut out his face...
Coach: We ain't got time for this, Ellis.
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: The Parish

Bombs

Ellis: One time, the army bombed my buddy Keith. He went camping and didn't bother to read the signs, and I guess they were just testing bombs that day. All sorts of stuff too, not just regular bombs. Like biological nerve gas bombs, shrapnel bombs, these bombs that break up in the air into like a hundred smaller bombs--
Nick: Ellis. Is now the best time?
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: The Parish

Sneaking into a wedding

"I ever tell you about the time my buddy Keith snuck into a wedding? He thought he was being smart getting all dressed up and like...but it seems the preacher wasn't there and they thought he was the preacher and, well, he married them the best he could. I think that counts for them being married but, I don't know, maybe not. I think they named one of their..."

Campaign: The Passing

Starting a historic tour

"This one time, my buddy Keith started up a historic tour, on account of his mom took him to Colonial Williamsburg, and it's like a license to print money at them places. Now you might ask yourself how an honest attempt to recreate the majesty of Colonial times turned into raccoon fights at five bucks a pop in Keith's backyard, ha-ha. Man, the answer to that particular question is that Keith is sharing a place with his two brothers and them being a******* who wouldn't let them do it anywhere but the backyard; well, add that to Keith didn't technically have any, y'know, history to put on display, but he did have a whole family of raccoons living in the chassis of an old car and you'd begin to understand."

Campaign: The Passing

Tattoo

Ellis: This one time, my buddy Keith, on a DARE, got a tattoo: "I'm a moron" right across his forehead, man. 'Course, he made two hundred bucks off that, so...you ask yourself: Who's the REAL moron, huh?
Nick: Ellis. Is now the best time?
Ellis: Okay.

Campaign: The Passing

Car dropped off a bridge

"Yo, my buddy Keith had his car drop in a lake off a bridge just like this one here... Yeah, see, he was driving over it late at night and there in the middle of the bridge was what looked like, In Keith's estimation, like a dead bear, so Keith gets out his car to find a stick to poke at it right? Well, it turns out it's just some lady's fur coat that musta fallen out her car, so, hey, free coat, right? Now, owls won't normally attack a man, but in this case, they were hungry, and that made them reckless, man. Keith reckons that they musta been there for hours watchin' what they thought was a bear carcass, 'cause as soon as he picked it up, them owls had claws in him inch deep. Well, Keith figures his best bet is to jump in a lake, 'cause owls can't swim. Well, them owls could. He fought them for like 20 minutes treading water, and during that time, a boat came, bridge went up and down went Keith's car. Man, sometimes nature's just tryin' to teach us, if we'd only listen."

Campaign: The Passing

Jumping the river without the bridge

"Hey, y'all, yeah, I like this bridge you got. You know, this reminds me my buddy Keith and I were once on a bridge just like this, man. Well, kinda, I mean, I was on the bridge and Keith was sure he could jump the river without the bridge, so I raised the bridge and well... Did you know cars can float? I mean, for a little while at least..."

Campaign: The Passing

Making sushi

"I ever tell you about the time my buddy Keith made sushi? Yeah, his mom took him to a sushi place for his birthday and he didn't want to go, but he turned out he LOVED it, man. But it's like 10 bucks a su-sho in one of them places, so Keith figures, "Hey, how hard can it be to roll up some raw food in seaweed," right? As it turns out, it's hard. Now, they say experience is the best teacher, and experience taught Keith that if you ever eat three pounds of raw chicken, it kills you. Now luckily, Keith's brain went into self-defense mode and started shutting organs down to head the chicken off at the pass, and the doctors were able to get 'em out before his heart stopped. But to this day, Keith has no sensation in his right foot, and he doesn't recognize his own brother Paul no more."

Campaign: The Passing

Thanks for reading!

I'm sure you are all worn out from the story-telling. If not, here's an extra: a list of everything Francis hates in the game.

http://steamproxy.net/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=769717737

124 Comments

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Matt 29 May @ 11:10pm

Ellis, is now the best time?

Dinarte 16 May @ 10:37am

Ever tould you abouth that time when my buddy Keith...

DoomEspacial 13 May @ 3:09pm

Okay, Nick :(

Mark 27 Apr @ 3:30am

shut up nick

Nick 6 Apr @ 10:45am

you know what i like about your storeis ellis the sound they make when they stop

eggman 20 Mar @ 9:55am

Isn't there like a story about tf2

enemy 7 Mar @ 3:28pm

i could go for a bbq bacon burger

LeGrandAutismo 23 Feb @ 9:46am

Ok I can't be the only one who wants to hear how these stories end.

Double it and give to next persn 2 Feb @ 4:16am

Thank you

Auditor 21 Jan @ 1:49am

I ever tell you about the time Keith and I made fireworks? Now, I didn't know s*** about chemistry, but Keith figured, "Gasoline burns, doesn't it?". Third degree burns over ninety-five percent of his body. Man, people in the next city over were calling to complain about the smell of burning skin.

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