25 Facts You Probably Didn't Know About The Walking Dead

19. Do The Math!

While regular cast members are frequently bumped off on The Walking Dead, viewers still watch hoping that their favorites will survive and even find a way to live without fear one day. However, the odds of that ever happening may be even slimmer than you realize... It turns out that the 'walkers' outnumber the living by about 5, 000 to 1, so even if the principal characters all hook up to repopulate the earth, the numbers aren't exactly in their favor. That's before you even factor in all the psychotic humans who either went crazy after the apocalypse hit or simply took advantage of the situation to break whatever laws they wanted.

18. Walker School

Actually, forget maths! The only education anyone really needs is to learn how to act like a zombie. It turns out that the actors cast as 'walkers' on the show have to undergo rigorous training before they can appear on The Walking Dead in order to move in the correct manner. Obviously, the 'walkers' need to move with slow, deliberate actions, but guess what their key instruction is... To look like they're coming out of a bar at 2 a.m. The moral of the story here is that getting drunk near the AMC Studio may give you a shot at appearing on The Walking Dead. Busting out some dance moves may also give you a distinct advantage...

17. Segregation Is Wrong!

Don't get too drunk though! As an 'undead' actor on The Walking Dead, you'll be forced to eat your meals separately from the human actors in order to enhance the divide between the two groups on set. While this may seem like a bid by the producers to create more authenticity in everyone's performances, it could just be that the stars of the show are bored of having to take zombie selfies with the extras. Either way though... segregation is just plain wrong! I have a dream...

16. The Never-Ending Story

Creator Robert Kirkman originally envisioned The Walking Dead comic as "the zombie movie that never ends" and this is what sets the show apart from similarly themed films. The ongoing format of television provides the writers with the opportunity to explore what could happen to the survivors long after the credits would have normally rolled. You may not have noticed, but in order to show the passage of time, the walkers makeup has decayed more and more as the seasons have progressed. It may be subtle, but the difference is definitely there. Either that or the makeup artists just got lazier and lazier by the end of each season...