New Look at the Standing-Patiently-at-the-Door Dead
What? So what if it’s another quick preview for AMC’s The Walking Dead — these zombies are locked in a hospital room (the morgue, perhaps?), so they’re not walking anywhere, no matter how much they’d like to be. Thus they’re not the Walking Dead, they’re the Standing Around Dead. Hey, I call zombies as I see ’em.
Meanwhile, you Futurama fans know that show’s Twilight Zone parody The Scary Door? Is this not the scariest motherfucking door you’ve ever seen? If I were Rick I’d run back to my room and hook my catheter back up, because I’d be pissing my pants in horror for the next three days straight.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.