Considering you’re just as likely to find a dented Hyundai Elantra outside of Woodbury as you are a promotional photo of Rick Grimes without a gun or Daryl Dixon with a gun, ’cause he’s rugged you see, it should come as no surprise that, according to Funeralwise.com, The Walking Dead is the “deadliest show” on TV.
In its second annual TV Body Count Study examining the death toll on 40 TV series during the fall 2012 season, the zombie drama topped the list with an average of 38 dead bodies per episode — 91% of them zombies. Coming in second was Cinemax’s Strike Back, with 26 dead bodies per hour, followed by NBC’s Revolution with 11. All the deceased on both Strike Back and Revolution, however, were human. (Via)
Also, the word “dead” is in the show’s title, so this survey kind of feels like cheating, like doing a list on the goofiest movies and putting A Goofy Movie at the top of the list. Or maybe I’m just bitter that the Walking Dead body count isn’t one digit higher. Other key findings include:
Men were hit the hardest. Males represented 86% of the dead bodies observed in the study. While females experienced much fewer onscreen deaths, they were most likely to be killed by means other than a gun, including beatings and strangulation.
That number would be a lot higher if Gyp Rosetti had his way.
The dead are rarely mourned, and there are few funerals on TV. This study observed 11 funerals. This is up slightly over the 8 that were seen in the previous study.
Who needs a funeral when you can just pray to the great T-Dog in the sky.
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Dear Funeralwise,
Your study did not include Spartacus: Vengeance. Your study is invalid.
Love,
the Internet
I don’t know, I’d argue that anything with full-on battle scenes should be excluded. That kind of carnage is hard to count.
I would have liked to see them count the number of deaths on Spartacus when they destroyed the stadium.
Still for regular cable, that’s a lot of people watching on-screen deaths. Apparently, it’s okay since they’re dead. The next progressive step is to showing nudity on-screen for regular cable. The only disclaimer is that the bodies would too have to be dead.
“Obama’s America” -Pierce Hawthorne
For people that don’t watch it, Strike Back is actually quite a good show.
Wait, does that mean, for the people that do watch it, it sucks?
Nah it’s actually quite good. It has some of the same selling points of Spartacus (nudity, violence) except even with out those things its still a very good show.
/Yes, I realize you were making fun of my punctuation
//Should have been a colon, not a comma
assuming that they didn’t include animated shows because Superjail would’ve won by a significant margin.
The first season alone had over 1000 deaths, according to this thing [adult swim] did a few years back:
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The Walking Dead is also the most overrated “good” show on television.
I too was upset that Downton Abbey was not at the top of this list
anyone who has anything negative to say about the walking dead can jump off an overpass…..
Who do you think is in charge of keeping the group’s Hyundai show room clean?
Hyundai? No bullshit, I assumed that H meant that Honda had changed their logo.