(Walking) Dead, and Loving It.
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Weeks out from The Walking Dead's 100th episode, the crew over at Robot Chicken, along with the cast and creators of Walking Dead, have swung their own version of Lucille at the show's noggin, lovingly taking shots at all seven seasons of the saga with "Look Who's Walking" - a rapid fire barrage of gags designed to skewer the show's most famous elements.
The results, as expected, were hit or miss, but if you know Robot Chicken (which I'm sure you do) then you know that the jokes come at you fast and you don't tend to linger too long on any one bit, whether they're killing or reaching. There's hardly time to catch your breath before you're onto the next morsel.
One fun element here, which just adds to the experience as a whole, is the inclusion of Walking Dead stars, both old and current, to the mix, playing their characters from the series. Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Danai Gurira, Melissa McBride, and more voice their famous zompocalyse characters - joined even by long-dead Walking Dead players like Sarah Wayne Callies, Jon Bernthal, Scott Wilson, and - yes - Michael Rooker.
As a funny Easter egg too was the singing voice of Daniel Radcliffe, who actually came on board to sing the Terminus song because original Terminus baddie Andrew J. West couldn't carry a tune apparently (so the story goes). Yes, the fact that "Look Who's Walking" is a big collaboration makes for a pretty special moment. One that almost shines brighter than many of the jokes, in fact.
Nothing here is mean spirited, and fans expecting gags along those lines need only but turn to the rest of the internet, but we did get some pretty funny segments that directly touched on (hilarious) hallmarks from the series. The search for Sofia, Merle's horrible racism, Carol's ruthlessness, Carl's long hair, and Negan's trademark "lean back" (or "dip") were all given tremendous mini-sendups.
The over-arching premise too was pretty good, as all of this took place in the future, long after a cure was discovered, at a Walkerpocalypse museum where an old version of Carl tried to explain everything that really happened to a dweeby guest. Its a fun, side-eye(ish) sort of bookending since The Walking Dead, as both a series and a story, has no built-in happy ending or promised closure. The only way anything could get wrapped up, in a way that allows viewers to leave the show knowing everyone will be okay, is if they somehow took the "cure" route, which they really can't do at this point. Even this episode taking place in the future is sort of designed to sync up with some of the Season 8 teaser elements that show Rick with a grey beard (is it a dream or a flash-forward?).
There were some solid bits and bites in here, though there were also a couple of duds that seemed felt like outlying fragments of perverse whimsey. Rick having to provide sexual favors to a lecherous unicorn and Negan's bat having Kal-El-esque origins were a couple of the segments that landed with a thud, but, as mentioned, nothing here lingered and and the pacing kept everything at a steady chuckle. The standouts, I suppose, personally, were the Walker POV part ("Hello, I am hungry.") and Merle's love duet with a walker. Also, directly calling out the fact that, after seven seasons, there's still no official name, either in-show or for fans, for Rick and his crew/gang/survivors, was a nice touch.
The Verdict
"Look Who's Walking" was nice treat for Walking Dead fans, celebrating the show's most famous (and sometimes most confounding) moments from all seven seasons. It plays nicely, here ahead of the she series' 100th episode, even if things never quite rise above a polite chuckle.
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