The Walking Dead showrunner explains the use of a Weird Al song, Yankovic says he's "honored"

Watching 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the Walking Dead season 8 premiere, you might've thought you heard Queen's famous song "Another One Bites The Dust" playing in the background during Rick's visions of the future. After a💖ll, a song about people dropping dead on a show about the zombie apocalypse makes perfect sense, right? But it was actually Weird Al Yankovic's parody song, .
Viewers seemed to be caught more off-guard by the childish song than any of the show's violence (or threats of violence) or all the, you know, walking corpses that eat people. It truly was a bizarre moment, but showrunner Scott Gimple has a reason for using the song:
"Storywise, it had to be a song that I wanted Judith [Rick's daughter] to be into, but I didn’t want her to be into something necessarily typical," Gimple recently told . "I wanted to have it be distinctive. I will say there is a toddler in my life sort of obsessed with that song so that might have played into it a little bit. I try to check myself ꧃in those moments where I’m doing that for friends or whatever, but I put it in the script and was sitting there thinking about it."
Gimple went on to say that he picked the song precisely because it's strange to hear in such a seꦉ𒈔rious show, and it was meant to throw viewers for a loop. The song's use confused someone else too: Weird Al himself:
I’m just as confused as you are why “Another One Rides the Bus&rdqꦇuo; was featured in #TheWalkingDead season premiere, but I’m extremely honored! pic.twitter.com/CzCqcQOiie
The artist said at the time he had no idea why his song was being used in the episode, but that he was "honored" to have been included. And why shouldn't he be? The Walking Dead just showed that when the zombie apocalypse destroys mꦉost of humanity and civilization as we know it, we'll still have polka parody music.
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