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** Beth is 16-18. Emily Kinney is 28.
** Laurie Holden started playing the 36 year old Andrea when she was 40-41.
* [[Dueling Shows]]: Despite being very different in tone, the fact that they're both about the [[Zombie Apocalypse]] makes this inevitable with ''Z Nation''. In terms of sheer popularity, ''The Walking Dead'' is the clear winner, but ''Z Nation'' has been getting a push from Netflix. Furthermore, ''Z Nation'' has less than one-third the budget per-episode, and was made for a much less
* [[Dyeing for Your Art]]: Michael Rooker has been a pretty big guy for years, and was perfect for Merle in Season 1. He then lost twenty pounds to play Merle post-amputation in Season 3.
* [[Enforced Method Acting]]: The ''Talking Dead'' recap for the episode "Prey" revealed that this was used to great effect in the warehouse scene between Andrea and The Governor. Laurie Holden had the general idea of what David Morrisey was going to do in the scene, but had no clue WHEN he was going to do it. As a result, her surprised reactions when he busted out the glass and his all around creepiness were all real.
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** [[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|Elliot Stabler's former partner]] shot his wife - Test Subject 19.
** [[The Vampire Diaries|Rose]] has a pretty wicked swing with a baseball bat.
* [[McLeaned]]:
* [[Shrug of God]]: What caused the outbreak? Kirkman is on record for saying it will never be stated.
* [[Significant Birth Date|Significant Series Premiere Date]]: The pilot episode aired on Halloween of 2010.
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** Daryl's "You look ridiculous!" comment upon seeing Carol in her step ford wife outfit in "Remember" was Norman Reedus' actual reaction to seeing Melissa McBride in the getup for the first time. Nicotero told him to say it when they filmed because it was something Daryl would say too.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
** Had Frank Darabont not been fired, the second-season premiere (as indicated in preview trailers and leaked information from various sources) would have resolved the "Vatos" plotline introduced in the first-season episode of the same name. After leaving the CDC, the group goes to the Vatos camp to warn them that things are much worse than they expected. {{spoiler|They find the retirement home overrun (with Guillermo and the rest of the Vatos recently killed), and proceed to take down every walker in the vicinity before having to hide. Shane almost gets overtaken by a mob of walkers while escaping the home, and is saved by Dale in his R.V.}}. The encounter with the horde of walkers on the highway is the only major remnant of the original premiere (as most of the footage was, according to AMC, "unusable") - in total, just 1/3 of the filmed material remained. The Vatos resolution also counts as an [[Aborted Arc]].
** In addition to this, [http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=52265 there was another series of webisodes planned] which would have explained the story of the soldier walker in the tank; who, as it turns out, was played by [[Sam Witwer]]. But with Frank Darabont being fired, his plan for this fell through. According to Witwer, there were dozens of other little things like this that Darabont had plans for in the future.
* [[Word of God]]: The ''Talking Dead'' tie-in talk show interviews with series executives and actors provides a good deal of [[All There in the Manual|information not available within the show itself
** Creator Robert Kirkman stated that in the universe of the TV show, the George A. Romero's ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'' was never created, and there was never a boom of zombie pop culture like in our world. This is why the word "walker" is more commonly used, as none of the characters have any knowledge of the concept of "zombies
** He also confirmed that [[Raising the Steaks]] will be averted.
** According to ''Talking Dead'', {{spoiler|Otis}} was the one who {{spoiler|found and corralled the undead Sophia into Hershel's barn, but Shane killed Otis before Otis knew of a missing girl in the group, meaning that the whole search and Daryl's near death was all for naught}}.
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