15 ‘The Walking Dead’ Memes That Infected the Internet over the Last Decade

After 11 long seasons and waves of incoming and outgoing viewers, AMC’s mainline The Walking Dead series has at long last come to an end. 

Back in 2010 when the series first aired, the world was still warming up to meme culture. Part of The Walking Dead’s appeal was its presence in the advent of social media; it’s one of the earliest TV series to feed into it, and all the early memes that came with it.

While we may have a Rick and Michonne reunion, a Daryl Dixon solo adventure, a Maggie/Negan escapade, and more Fear the Walking Dead to look forward to, we don’t think anything quite as iconic as the list below from the OG series will ever come to fruition from the upcoming projects.

To celebrate the end of this era in television history, we present you with 15 memes from The Walking Dead that infected the internet over its t12 year runtime.

Don’t Dead, Open Inside

Kicking things off, let’s cast our minds back to the very beginning, when Rick awakened in a hospital following the initial clamor and panic following the beginning of the zombie apocalypse, to discover the handiwork of someone with really bad grammar.

Dale Face

Another familiar, but long-deceased face from the early days was Dale, who spent approximately nine out of every 10 minutes of his screen time looking at people with the level of disgust you’d expect when someone’s left an upper decker on your toilet.