RiffTrax

The Walking Dead: Season 1 Episode 1 (1x230)

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You asked for it, now it’s here: the relentless, all-devouring horde that is our riff of The Walking Dead! This is a riff of the very first episode. It’s a good time for fans of the show to revisit, as the new season is just about to start, and 3 or 4 more prequels and spinoff series are presumably being prepared. And for non-fans, it’s a good time to watch for the first time and wonder why all those fans are such fans! Unlike other zombie stuff you’ve seen, the zombies in The Walking Dead… hmm. Uh… well, they walk. They’re dead. There’s some kind of virus, probably. Oh, someone wakes from a coma to discover the world has changed, that’s new, right? No? That’s also not new? Hm. Well there is a lengthy discussion of why women don’t turn off light switches at the beginning of the episode, that part’s probably new, at least! Pick up a 2X4 with a nail in it, boil that copy of the Zombie Survival Guide you never actually read for stew, and shut yourself inside with Mike, Kevin, and Bill as we all try to survive The Walking Dead!