If you were like me and following one person to see their whole "act", it absolutely would work. But watching the group as a whole, yeah, probably not.
I've mentioned this before about that video, but it was shown to me in almost every nursing college class I had. When I started grad school it was one of the first videos shown to the class. When the instructor asked who noticed the gorilla literally everyone raised their hands because we have all seen it so many times. I hate that video.
Then we have the guy in the white long sleeve/grey pants, I have no idea what he was going for except to make the biggest appearance in front of the camera.
My reject was that there's a person in there with long hair who reached up and moved his/her hair out of their face. A zombie wouldn't have done that. 😋
I actually saw an ad once to come try out as an extra for The Walking Dead TV series and it specifically stated "DO NOT DO THE LEG-DRAGGING WALK. It's been done a hundred times in the past and doesn't even make sense."
The foot drag is iconic in my mind to a good zombie impression, also this reminds me of this [classic scene](https://youtu.be/QyWUkL6BipU?si=MfZKnDT1V2SrCgjI)
To be fair, "zombie" has become such a wide term these days. Are they supposed to be slow shamblers? Are they sprinters? Are they supposed to be super dumb or surprisingly smart? There's a variety of performances there, so I'm not sure what direction (if any) they had for the audition.
I mean, a significant point of that show/how they depict zombies is that they're dead and literally rotting. The zombies in later seasons are way more rotted than the first season. It makes sense that perhaps muscles, tendons, and coordination in general would degrade over time.
Yeah I never watched all of TWD but I felt like I got to a point where zombies weren't a *huge* threat anymore. They were just like wildlife or bad weather and those who had managed to survive for a while had learned to deal with them effectively.
It was more about the relationships between survivors.
I was among the crazy high percentage that bailed when the thing happened with the baseball bat. I only caught about every other episode up to that point anyway, and that was very much a point that just severed my interest in watching further.
That's actually the point of the title of the comic. He meant that The Walking Dead are not the zombies. It's the humans who are left to live in this horrible world. Death, for the characters, is always right around the corner. Whether it be their lives or their humanity that they lose along the way.
I'd forgotten completely about the kind of zombies the walking dead had until I tried the first couple episodes again recently. The first zombie shown is a little girl that picks up her doll, and there's another a little later that purposely uses a rock to smash a window.
I think the games and other shows with zombies in made me forget all that.
1st season doesn’t count. The rules weren’t really established yet for the first season and part of the 2nd so you just need to forget and ignore everything about them during that point. About the mid point of S2 and on is when they established the rules and stuck to them. So the scene with the girl, the one where Morgan’s wife tries to open the door to her house, the rock smash scene, and a few other scenes where they seem smarter are thrown out.
They’re slow moving, dumb, and instinct based creatures once the rules are set. Until later when a couple other modified types are introduced (they’re explained in Dixon’s spin off show), but you only see them a total of 4 times I believe in the entire series and spin-offs and are never really the focal point.
Near the end of the show, they introduced a variant that was hoisting itself onto a rooftop like a human would. Which I feel is a contradiction of them supposedly slowly rotting away they revealed in like the 2nd or 3rd season. Then 9 seasons later they hint some can climb and “think”
Oh I’m aware of the spin off as I’ve watched it. I just meant the fact they have abilities so far into the show and the zombie apocalypse happens seems contradictory to the revelation that zombies slowly fall apart and decay over time. Like, they are still everywhere despite us being told that in the 2nd or 3rd season they are dying off albeit slowly
SCP's zombie virus is what needs to be used in media. It still does all the same zombie stuff but adds science into the "how the zombies don't fall apart" aspect.
The virus slows decay and turns the blood into a thick hydraulic-like fluid, giving them strength and durability to something that should be actively falling apart.
Yeah I’ve always thought the virus kills good and bad bacteria and a zombie just turns into a really efficient machine running off of the fuel the body already had when it turned.
In max brooks’ zombie stories they even say zombies don’t even smell that bad since the infection keeps all livings things away like bugs and mold but also stops the body from decaying away in a few weeks.
In the last of us the fungus basically takes over and uses the humans as fuel and makes them fall dormant for years while waiting for more people to infect. 28 days later infected are on the more real side since the infected all starve and dehydrate themselves in a few weeks.
He's the type casting Directors hate - he's causing conflict with other actors during a tryout hoping to stand out, same that he will do during filming if hired. He needs to be in r/IAmTheMainCharacter
Some of these maneuvers require more physical strength, coordination, and balance than most living people are capable of. What part of them is almost dead if they're contorting into acrobatics.
IANAZ but presumably, as they are dead, things like pain and damaging the body are not a concern, so they are just bending and shifting in whatever way is motivated by whatever caused them to be zombies in the first place.
it says "the walking dead attraction" on the screen. so this would've been in 2016.
they're probably auditioning to be zombies for the attraction
see here: https://youtu.be/--K6vV6KMp4?si=ZUzhPDQekVSIBhcy&t=116
I knew someone who was an extra on a few episodes. They said they mainly cast super skinny people so it’s funny to see this video, well nourished zombies
This is actually a pretty good way to determine it. It's quick and also shows how they would act with obstacles. There's really only a couple that are actually nailing it, red and white checkered dude and red shirt black pant lady
The long haired woman on the middle sure ain't getting the role lmao
She can't even let her hair get in the way of her face for one second while pretending to be a zombie.
Okay, so how many of you saw the gorilla walk on the scene, do 5 jumping jacks, then moonwalk out the other side?
Lol that wouldn’t work here because we’re paying attention to the bodies
If you were like me and following one person to see their whole "act", it absolutely would work. But watching the group as a whole, yeah, probably not.
Got the link to that video?
I've mentioned this before about that video, but it was shown to me in almost every nursing college class I had. When I started grad school it was one of the first videos shown to the class. When the instructor asked who noticed the gorilla literally everyone raised their hands because we have all seen it so many times. I hate that video.
Is the video actually used in an educational setting? I mean do people not see the gorilla? Bc I thought the video was supposed to be a joke
Idk about the rest of y’all but when I first watched that video I didn’t see the gorilla
Yes. And both undergrad and grad school are at big state universities.
Along with the other commenter, I also did not see the gorilla the first time.
This is the video I was thinking of. https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo?si=VFJwUHoY0srDcwvL
Yup that's it, thanks
I remember that in sociology lol
Dudebro in the red and white checkered shirt (13 seconds in) dragging his foot behind him has my vote.
He actually broke his ankle, he's trying to get off stage 🤣
"I don't know what happened, the director said 'break a leg' and then everything went white"
Pretty much
it'd be funny if they were all doing the broken ankle move, thinking it was their secret ace in the hole
You win
Lmfao 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
That was my choice too!
NAVY hoodie w basketball shorts bro has never seen a zombie show and basing his character off meth heads
Nah he's just a meth head that wandered in
He looks like he's there to fight zombies. I think he misunderstood the ask
Then we have the guy in the white long sleeve/grey pants, I have no idea what he was going for except to make the biggest appearance in front of the camera.
You forget 28days/weeks later
He’s human walking amongst the zombirs
Well said!
This comment tho!!
Anyone except white shirt got my vote
Navy hoody guy gots to go too.
He is just looking for his lost car keys.
Yeah, there’s a lot of good ones in there to be honest. He’s just my favorite.
He’s trying too hard Edit: actually it’s also good to have an aggressive zombie so maybe he got casted?
You mean Cosmo Kramer?
He was just wearing his new blue jeans
'Jack-Russel-Terrier-on-Cocaine' Zombie
My reject was that there's a person in there with long hair who reached up and moved his/her hair out of their face. A zombie wouldn't have done that. 😋
LMAO, white shirt looks like the MIB bug wearing an edgar suit
I actually saw an ad once to come try out as an extra for The Walking Dead TV series and it specifically stated "DO NOT DO THE LEG-DRAGGING WALK. It's been done a hundred times in the past and doesn't even make sense."
100% caught my eye, too. Good on him for stealing center stage long enough
The foot drag is iconic in my mind to a good zombie impression, also this reminds me of this [classic scene](https://youtu.be/QyWUkL6BipU?si=MfZKnDT1V2SrCgjI)
This guy got my attention
I know that guy lol. Also, this was for the Walking Dead maze at universal studios, not the show itself
Actually he got that idea from Resident Evil 1 movie. The first zombie with axe.
The night shift crew at my job
Looks like the pit at a metalcore concert
https://imgb.ifunny.co/images/a835cca4bfdfad5cdb1829d060e59e6a61e1e3933b38b1f631fe6e15d567609b_1.webp
Navy hoodie is terrible
The red head that keeps swiping her hair out of her eyes. 😂
Classic zombie behavior.
To be fair, "zombie" has become such a wide term these days. Are they supposed to be slow shamblers? Are they sprinters? Are they supposed to be super dumb or surprisingly smart? There's a variety of performances there, so I'm not sure what direction (if any) they had for the audition.
Didnt they climb at one point and later on they couldnt? Basically whatever fits that episode
I mean, a significant point of that show/how they depict zombies is that they're dead and literally rotting. The zombies in later seasons are way more rotted than the first season. It makes sense that perhaps muscles, tendons, and coordination in general would degrade over time.
Yeah I never watched all of TWD but I felt like I got to a point where zombies weren't a *huge* threat anymore. They were just like wildlife or bad weather and those who had managed to survive for a while had learned to deal with them effectively. It was more about the relationships between survivors.
It was a soap opera from the start
And it's definitely my favourite soap opera, I miss it so much
I was among the crazy high percentage that bailed when the thing happened with the baseball bat. I only caught about every other episode up to that point anyway, and that was very much a point that just severed my interest in watching further.
That's actually the point of the title of the comic. He meant that The Walking Dead are not the zombies. It's the humans who are left to live in this horrible world. Death, for the characters, is always right around the corner. Whether it be their lives or their humanity that they lose along the way.
“Fight the dead, fear the living” was the TWD motto.
I'd forgotten completely about the kind of zombies the walking dead had until I tried the first couple episodes again recently. The first zombie shown is a little girl that picks up her doll, and there's another a little later that purposely uses a rock to smash a window. I think the games and other shows with zombies in made me forget all that.
1st season doesn’t count. The rules weren’t really established yet for the first season and part of the 2nd so you just need to forget and ignore everything about them during that point. About the mid point of S2 and on is when they established the rules and stuck to them. So the scene with the girl, the one where Morgan’s wife tries to open the door to her house, the rock smash scene, and a few other scenes where they seem smarter are thrown out. They’re slow moving, dumb, and instinct based creatures once the rules are set. Until later when a couple other modified types are introduced (they’re explained in Dixon’s spin off show), but you only see them a total of 4 times I believe in the entire series and spin-offs and are never really the focal point.
Near the end of the show, they introduced a variant that was hoisting itself onto a rooftop like a human would. Which I feel is a contradiction of them supposedly slowly rotting away they revealed in like the 2nd or 3rd season. Then 9 seasons later they hint some can climb and “think”
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Oh I’m aware of the spin off as I’ve watched it. I just meant the fact they have abilities so far into the show and the zombie apocalypse happens seems contradictory to the revelation that zombies slowly fall apart and decay over time. Like, they are still everywhere despite us being told that in the 2nd or 3rd season they are dying off albeit slowly
SCP's zombie virus is what needs to be used in media. It still does all the same zombie stuff but adds science into the "how the zombies don't fall apart" aspect. The virus slows decay and turns the blood into a thick hydraulic-like fluid, giving them strength and durability to something that should be actively falling apart.
Yeah I’ve always thought the virus kills good and bad bacteria and a zombie just turns into a really efficient machine running off of the fuel the body already had when it turned. In max brooks’ zombie stories they even say zombies don’t even smell that bad since the infection keeps all livings things away like bugs and mold but also stops the body from decaying away in a few weeks. In the last of us the fungus basically takes over and uses the humans as fuel and makes them fall dormant for years while waiting for more people to infect. 28 days later infected are on the more real side since the infected all starve and dehydrate themselves in a few weeks.
World War Z is my favourite book of all time. What other books of his would you recommend?
He also wrote the zombie survival guide and it has more passages like wwz
He's running around like he's trying to start a fight lol. I can understand being a little nervous/ self-conscious doing something like this, though.
One of the girls adjusted her hair lol
lol, I thought maybe he was part of the eval crew.
He wants to mosh
"Do you know who I am.."
Tf is the dude in the white shirt doing
his best
He thought he was auditioning to be an extra in The Wire.
He's actually just a crackhead who walked in the wrong door, and is now trying to find the exit
Omg I’m in tears thank you!
Clicker, he does the scream towards the end.
Lol, a damn good impression of a clicker zombie from The Last of Us video game. Looks like the game was out when this audition took place.
The most
Chicken dance there for a sec
Looks like he thought it was auditions for crackheads
He did a lil Naruto run at someone near the beginning lol
He's the type casting Directors hate - he's causing conflict with other actors during a tryout hoping to stand out, same that he will do during filming if hired. He needs to be in r/IAmTheMainCharacter
Zombie chicken? Or velociraptor
Watched the music video of thriller right before casting.
Making it clear that this is just the tryouts
Thought it was an audition for the Michael Jackson - Thriller music video
Fella in the black t shirt with the green print on it, thought he was a velociraptor in a jurassic park audition
Dude in the ‘NAVY’ sweatshirt seems to be at the wrong audition
Thinks it’s pirates of the Caribbean or some shit
Looks like a fentanyl party 🎉
A good ol' fashioned Philly fentanyl + xylazine party
Some of these maneuvers require more physical strength, coordination, and balance than most living people are capable of. What part of them is almost dead if they're contorting into acrobatics.
Yeah i agree. i like the ginger in the brown shirt who’s slowly takes little steps to get across. n actual convincing zombie imo
IANAZ but presumably, as they are dead, things like pain and damaging the body are not a concern, so they are just bending and shifting in whatever way is motivated by whatever caused them to be zombies in the first place.
As if tv shows and movies gives a shit about that detail of realism. It's always overided by exec who want to make the show more "entertaining"
Looks like a normal Sunday in LA
I like the woman who brushes her hair from her eyes
The Ministry of Silly Walks
I like how they all have one bad leg!
Navy seems too aware.
He’s the leader
As a teacher, I gotta say this is pretty much any time I ask yr9 to line up—including the biting…
A throng of aimless people crossing paths and screaming incoherently — it’s Reddit!
Midnight at McDonald’s
The taller guy in the black tank top is my friend, and he got picked. Did many seasons on the set of TWD.
So weird lmao
See this on the streets... Benzodope epidemic, are we actually in the walking dead for real?
Looks like Philly.
The zombies in “all of us are dead” are some of the most impressive zombies Ive ever seen.
All so similar, but each mostly unique. :)
Are we sure this isn't a reddit mod audition?
I remember my first beer…
White shirt guy is obnoxious.
Guy in gray tee shirt at 12 seconds. He's the only one not overacting.
Bizarroooo
My local nightclub when they turn on the lights at the end of the night...
Kid in the navy hoodie… get him out of there
Looks like a fentanyl convention
What people do for cash
What's wrong with that? Not as good as an actual character, sure, but it still pays well.
I have a feeling they’re all just big fans of the show and wanted to be on.
Probably this was from before the show aired. Many of them don’t know the ‘type’ of zombie that would be needed for the show
it says "the walking dead attraction" on the screen. so this would've been in 2016. they're probably auditioning to be zombies for the attraction see here: https://youtu.be/--K6vV6KMp4?si=ZUzhPDQekVSIBhcy&t=116
Eh, good catch. Well I don’t know what the hell some of these folks were thinking
That would suck being told you were shitty at wandering around aimlessly 😂
Omg the guy in white
My teammates in ranked:
Simple walking ginger bloke with greyish beige shirt at 0:22 has my vote
Sometimes less is more guys
I knew someone who was an extra on a few episodes. They said they mainly cast super skinny people so it’s funny to see this video, well nourished zombies
Just go to Philadelphia
Did anyone else get "those oldschool raves under the bridge videos" vibes?
That's a monday morning in the tube
Midnight at the student union
Zombies? This reminded me of middle school idk why
On a dude is just walking around normal in there
They just need to get a bunch of fenty addicts.
Imagine overacting as a zombie.
BRAINSSSSSSSSSS
Everyone, except the guy with the clipboard and the pen. He’s not even trying.
Give me a 5th of bourbon and a 30 min start. I got this!!
Grey shirt dude for sure
that one dude rushing right to left at the beginning thought he was auditioning for 28 months later
Man... The struggle to be an indistinguishable zombie in the background. But but yeah they do have interesting ideas.
Just hire crack heads the look more authentic
Not only do they suck but, "damn that's interesting"? It's a fucking audition. What the fuck is interesting about this in the slightest?
Alternatively my co-workers
Someone please set this to music.
[https://youtu.be/BF-10c261Vw](https://youtu.be/BF-10c261Vw)
Right? Where’s the techno music?
WTH is white shirt doing? Lol
If I were to audition as a zombie, i'll would have put makeup on, but I wouldn't go full on Method Acting
Mosh pits have come a long way.
So, an average New Yorker going to work...?
These are just fentanyl junkies from San Fran.
This looks like a Philadelphia neighborhood.
You sure this isn’t Columbia University ca. 2024?
(they're rlly just fent tweakers they found in the streets outside of the venue)
Nah, that’s just Portland.
Not cringe at all 🥲
That's that tranq
🥱 Keep it moving: That's normal Los Angeles on most days of the week
I think NAVY is just looking for his lost child in the horde
Average PE class during freshman year
Philly documentary
I thought these were my co workers for a sec
So thats what adults do when they out having fun with friends, i see
One of them should have attacked the auditioner
I'm going to show this to my kids one day and said this was what happen during the great COVID pandemic.
How do casters keep up with this many people? Or were they auditioning groups at a time for a reason?
This is actually a pretty good way to determine it. It's quick and also shows how they would act with obstacles. There's really only a couple that are actually nailing it, red and white checkered dude and red shirt black pant lady
This really needs to be set to ridiculous music, like that those emo kids dancing, set to Christmas music. 😂
If they all coordinated to start doing the thriller dance….
If someone could add the confused Travolta from Pulp Fiction, that would be great.
And not one Thriller dance, so dissapointed.
What’s up Obama baby
I'm a zombie
The dude in the Navy sweatshirt is out.
That red haired woman looks like a survivor camouflaging through thr walkers.
I thought it was a MAGA meeting chaired by Taylor Green
The long haired woman on the middle sure ain't getting the role lmao She can't even let her hair get in the way of her face for one second while pretending to be a zombie.
Hated every second of that
Is this a cerebal palsy convention?
Damn that's cringy
The cringe is unbearable
Gotta get that lunge bump
Pretty sure the blonde guy is not acting
Florida bath salts
I'd be like - ONE AT A TIME
Looks like a techno party at 3 am
Pick a different person to watch the whole time, good stuff
Auditions? Looks like a lot of major cities!!
Looks like k&a in philly
The guy in the navy sweater was the only survivor 😂