15 Most Annoying Mistakes You Never Noticed In The Walking Dead

Episode: Now (S6, E5)

Deanna Monroe, the former leader of the Alexandria Safe Zone before her untimely death in Season 6, was presumably a very learned woman. Pre-apocalypse she was congresswoman for Ohio so probably had a few college degrees under her belt and expressed she’d have been a poker player, a notoriously shrewd and smart bunch, if she hadn’t gone into politics.

So, she’s got to have a pretty impressive IQ but it seems her spelling skills might not be quite up to scratch. In Now, when she’s drawing a map of Alexandria and plotting how to live off the fat of the land she marks out an ‘alfafa’ patch. Did you mean ‘alfalfa’, Deanna? Because that’s how it’s actually spelt.

Maybe it was an elaborate literary reference to John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, whose character Lennie dies shortly after daydreaming of his own alfalfa patch, and a sign of Deanna’s impending death. The difference is though that Steinbeck could spell ‘alfalfa’ and Deanna couldn’t.