I see. And race is important to you because...?

Submitter's hopes are too high.

Two-Dog, we hardly knew ye.

/Two-Dog monolog demonstrating compassion and humanity, followed almost immediately by death by zombie, in 3...2....1..

born_yesterday: Two-Dog, we hardly knew ye.

/Two-Dog monolog demonstrating compassion and humanity, followed almost immediately by death by zombie, in 3...2....1..

Who the hell was Two-dog?

Of course the black guy has to be a convict...racists.

Fish in a Barrel: born_yesterday: Two-Dog, we hardly knew ye.

/Two-Dog monolog demonstrating compassion and humanity, followed almost immediately by death by zombie, in 3...2....1..

Who the hell was Two-dog?

The new guy, the prisoner that was accepted into the group after T-Dog's untimely passing. The guy who likes comfy slippers.

AverageAmericanGuy: I see. And race is important to you because...?

Because people other than white males enjoy television, and it doesn't exactly hurt to see someone that you can relate to on the screen from time to time. Bonus points if he actually has a name.

Obligatory:

born_yesterday: Fish in a Barrel: born_yesterday: Two-Dog, we hardly knew ye.

/Two-Dog monolog demonstrating compassion and humanity, followed almost immediately by death by zombie, in 3...2....1..

Who the hell was Two-dog?

The new guy, the prisoner that was accepted into the group after T-Dog's untimely passing. The guy who likes comfy slippers.

Is that a Fark thing? I haven't seen that name used anywhere else. Plus, he's still alive. Are you assuming they'll kill him off as soon as another black guy joins the cast?

/was that the joke?

Where the hell is Black Jauer?

Fish in a Barrel: born_yesterday: Fish in a Barrel: born_yesterday: Two-Dog, we hardly knew ye.

/Two-Dog monolog demonstrating compassion and humanity, followed almost immediately by death by zombie, in 3...2....1..

Who the hell was Two-dog?

The new guy, the prisoner that was accepted into the group after T-Dog's untimely passing. The guy who likes comfy slippers.

Is that a Fark thing? I haven't seen that name used anywhere else. Plus, he's still alive. Are you assuming they'll kill him off as soon as another black guy joins the cast?

/was that the joke?

Yeah, that's the name FARK gave him when T-Dog was unceremoniously killed off in one of the first episodes in which he had extensive dialog. Not sure if the new guy is going to suffer the same fate, but he does seem expendable so far...

I guess that means they'll kill off the TOKEN BLACK GUY to make room for this new character, seeing that you can only have one TOKEN BLACK GUY per series at a time.

SineSwiper: I guess that means they'll kill off the TOKEN BLACK GUY to make room for this new character, seeing that you can only have one TOKEN BLACK GUY per series at a time.



Omar says: "STFU, cracka, Omar comin'"

Fighting through farked-up zombies? Yeah, he's been there.

born_yesterday: Fish in a Barrel: born_yesterday: Two-Dog, we hardly knew ye.

/Two-Dog monolog demonstrating compassion and humanity, followed almost immediately by death by zombie, in 3...2....1..

Who the hell was Two-dog?

The new guy, the prisoner that was accepted into the group after T-Dog's untimely passing. The guy who likes comfy slippers.

Who doesn't like comfy slippers? Especially after a long day of killing zombies, don't you think it would be nice to take of your boots and slip into a nice pair of slippers?

And did you see the way Daryl looked at him when he explained why he was so excited about the slippers? Daryl didn't look at him like "You are crazy" or "You are a dumb ass", he looked at him like "I get them on Tuesdays and Thursdays".

So this basically means that Oscar will get exactly enough character development to make us feel something when he gets ganked. Can't have more than two black guys afterall.

AverageAmericanGuy: I see. And race is important to you because...?

Because with the show being set around Atlanta, Georgia, statistically more, if not most, of the characters should be black. TV shows set in diverse cities are notoriously always really white (unless they're by David Simon). I'm not one to get overly sensitive about race, but it stands out if you're familiar with the area.

Say that again, Subby. I dare you.

I love this show as much as the next, but I haven't read the comics, but based on the speculations it appears they want a black gay dog to join the cast, prison outfit and all so Rick can have his way with him.

Im just going by what the comments say, because there has been a rash of to many gay farkers lately.

AverageAmericanGuy: I see. And race is important to you because...?

Because with the show being set around Atlanta, Georgia, statistically more, if not most, of the characters should be black. TV shows set in diverse cities are notoriously always really white (unless they're by David Simon). I'm not one to get overly sensitive about race, but it stands out if you're familiar with the area.

statistically - you are gay. jerk off more to lori.

And did you see the way Daryl looked at him when he explained why he was so excited about the slippers? Daryl didn't look at him like "You are crazy" or "You are a dumb ass", he looked at him like "I get them on Tuesdays and Thursdays".

You blew your load too huh? Macy's is having a sale too - run in high heels....

Fighting through farked-up zombies? Yeah, he's been there.

Thanks to you my vasoline stick is holding out this winter.

Disposable Rob: AverageAmericanGuy: I see. And race is important to you because...?

Because with the show being set around Atlanta, Georgia, statistically more, if not most, of the characters should be black. TV shows set in diverse cities are notoriously always really white (unless they're by David Simon). I'm not one to get overly sensitive about race, but it stands out if you're familiar with the area.

Well the main character is from Kentucky. And there was was that delightful group of traditional urban players in the first season. I am sure they are doing jolly well staying in Atlanta.........

comhcinc: Disposable Rob: AverageAmericanGuy: I see. And race is important to you because...?

Because with the show being set around Atlanta, Georgia, statistically more, if not most, of the characters should be black. TV shows set in diverse cities are notoriously always really white (unless they're by David Simon). I'm not one to get overly sensitive about race, but it stands out if you're familiar with the area.

Well the main character is from Kentucky. And there was was that delightful group of traditional urban players in the first season. I am sure they are doing jolly well staying in Atlanta.........

Are you talking about the cholo gang who apparently got lost on the way to Los Angeles?

Disposable Rob: AverageAmericanGuy: I see. And race is important to you because...?

Because with the show being set around Atlanta, Georgia, statistically more, if not most, of the characters should be black. TV shows set in diverse cities are notoriously always really white (unless they're by David Simon). I'm not one to get overly sensitive about race, but it stands out if you're familiar with the area.

Yeah. A show with mostly black main characters wouldn't last a few episodes on a major network, unless all of the main black characters are criminals and they are being pursued by white folks, or the main black character is a palatable comedian that also pushes pudding pops.

As a gay man, I'd like to have sex with every man I see, including every single male character on this show including the zombies.

Tyler Perry in Tyler Perry presents Tyler Perry's The Walking Dead with Tyler Perry playing himself, Tyler Perry.

He looks perfect in The Wire promo images, but in more recent photos he looks a bit too old and tubby for Tyrese.

MrHappyRotter: As a gay man, I'd like to have sex with every man I see, including every single male character on this show including the zombies.

Ha! I actually noticed a good-looking male zombie a couple of episodes ago.

They rarely cast attractive dudes as zombies, but it makes sense that at least some reanimated corpses would have started out farkable before the zombie apocalypse hit.

Funbags: SineSwiper: I guess that means they'll kill off the TOKEN BLACK GUY to make room for this new character, seeing that you can only have one TOKEN BLACK GUY per series at a time.

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Omar says: "STFU, cracka, Omar comin'"

I'll take Chalky White in my corner any day of the week

Funbags: SineSwiper: I guess that means they'll kill off the TOKEN BLACK GUY to make room for this new character, seeing that you can only have one TOKEN BLACK GUY per series at a time.

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Omar says: "STFU, cracka, Omar comin'"

That show had more black people in it than white people. You can't show The Wire in a conversation about Token Black Guys.

Seven percent of Americans are Black Men. Why do we expect fifty percent of TV characters to be Black men?

Fish in a Barrel: born_yesterday: Fish in a Barrel: born_yesterday: Two-Dog, we hardly knew ye.

/Two-Dog monolog demonstrating compassion and humanity, followed almost immediately by death by zombie, in 3...2....1..

Who the hell was Two-dog?

The new guy, the prisoner that was accepted into the group after T-Dog's untimely passing. The guy who likes comfy slippers.

Is that a Fark thing? I haven't seen that name used anywhere else. Plus, he's still alive. Are you assuming they'll kill him off as soon as another black guy joins the cast?

/was that the joke?

No, it's a net thing. You'll find it on a lot of Walking Dead boards. I think it's dumb but I get the point of the people who created the nick name (I liked O-Dog to describe his Replacement Token Neg.ro status, myself, but Two-Dog is more blatant about TWD's idiocy).

And I like Oscar. I just don't see any hope of seeing him stick around if they're going to introduce Tyreese.

And, of course, there's the fan speculation about what would happen if MORGAN came back.

Morgan and Tyreese in the same season or within episodes of each other, is that even possible, or would the TWD universe explode?

SineSwiper: I guess that means they'll kill off the TOKEN BLACK GUY to make room for this new character, seeing that you can only have one TOKEN BLACK GUY per series at a time.

I'm mad tvtropes still doesn't have an entry for the One N@gg@ Rule. I guess the Token entry is doing double entry, even though what the One N@gg@ Rule represents is slightly different from mere tokenism.

Funbags: SineSwiper: I guess that means they'll kill off the TOKEN BLACK GUY to make room for this new character, seeing that you can only have one TOKEN BLACK GUY per series at a time.

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Omar says: "STFU, cracka, Omar comin'"

Speaking of Oz...................................... who was the official main character of that show?

And does August Hill count as a main character, or as Greek chorus?

Everyone always told me skin color shouldn't matter. Except when it does I guess.

Solid Muldoon: Seven percent of Americans are Black Men. Why do we expect fifty percent of TV characters to be Black men?

The show is based around Atlanta, Georgia. Don't go to Atlanta if you're expecting not to see a lot of black folk.

Like I said elsewhere, the show is implicit proof that survivors hook up with each other predominantly by race. Just like how everything else works in the real world. That's life.

We don't see the all-black, all-Latino, all-(insert Asian group), all-Indian groups (with smatterings of everyone else, making each other and whites the tokesn) on this show because this show is concerned with the all-white groups. And the one Latino group we did see got annihilated by one of the all-white groups.

TheLopper: Everyone always told me skin color shouldn't matter. Except when it does I guess.

It does matter. It matters so much that folks who have reported reading the comics before reading the show have noted that there's a major difference in how non-whites are treated in the comic versus how they're treated on the show.

In the comic, it really is more like 'people are people'. Tyreese is described as Rick's right hand, but not his lackey. In the comic, there is no 'Disagree with the Ricktatorship, Die' clause. So the question for fans becomes.... what will Tyreese's role be in the dynamic of the show, if Tyreese were introduced at this point?

fusillade762: WHY ARE THERE NO GAY CHARACTERS?!?!

Gays already got mad at that, over that particular change from comic to show. Doesn't bode well for the Alexandria storyline, if that comes to pass.

fusillade762: WHY ARE THERE NO GAY CHARACTERS?!?!

If you don't like Will there's nothing wrong with you, there is something wrong with Will. He's a homosexual.

srhp29: Funbags: SineSwiper: I guess that means they'll kill off the TOKEN BLACK GUY to make room for this new character, seeing that you can only have one TOKEN BLACK GUY per series at a time.

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Omar says: "STFU, cracka, Omar comin'"

That show had more black people in it than white people. You can't show The Wire in a conversation about Token Black Guys.

The problem is that it's one of the few you can't.

/McNulty wasn't originally the main character/audience proxy?

I'll be more impressed when they get Bunk and McNulty



Bunk, "Zombies, ahh fark"

McNulty, "fark"

Bunk "fark, fark fark."

Or have Bunk tell Rick "There you go. Givin' a fark when it ain't your turn to give a fark"

Now that would be epic.

Cutty Wise? Damn, I was hoping for Omar or Chris Partlow.

What ever happened to Lennie James from the first episode?

Zombie Hitler: AverageAmericanGuy: I see. And race is important to you because...?

Because people other than white males enjoy television, and it doesn't exactly hurt to see someone that you can relate to on the screen from time to time. Bonus points if he actually has a name.

They have BET. Not my problem. Nor should it be yours.