For all the popularity of zombie apocalypse series the Walking Dead, the one thing that it has never offered its fans is wacky slapstick humour.
Series 8 is set to change all that.
“If there’s one thing that Walking Dead has really focused on, it’s a realistically brutal post-apocalyptic nightmare of survival amongst the undead,” said showrunner Scott Gimple.
“Which is great, but I do think that it means we’ve been forced to overlook the slapstick humour that the show’s been crying out for.”
“For example, when Rick has to run for his life to escape a hoard of undead, wouldn’t it be great if he turned the corner and the street was just covered in banana skins.”
Mr Gimple struggles to contain his laughter.
“He’d be slipping around, the zombies would be slipping around, it would be absolutely hilarious.”
He stops himself.
“Wow, I need to be careful, I’m giving away the cold open of the third episode.”
As well as the banana skin scene, he revealed that this latest series will feature ‘significantly’ more slapstick than previous series, with buckets of water falling from doors, a number of pies in the face, and a ‘crazy’ scene with a whoopee cushion.
It is understood that the planned season 9 will retain the slapstick, but will introduce a strong core of farce as well, with a planned scene of Rick’s trousers falling down as a zombie vicar starts chasing him
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