New Walking Dead Promo Recycles A Familiar Idea For the Fourth Year Running

There's what appears to be a new TV spot for AMC's The Walking Dead floating around--and it's [...]

By Russ Burlingame

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There's what appears to be a new TV spot for AMC's The Walking Dead floating around--and it's not clear yet whether it's official or a fan-edit, but one thing's for sure: either way, it's been done before. The trailer, which you can see below, takes footage that we've seen in other ads for the upcoming second half of The Walking Dead Season Four and sets the images and actions to the tune of Gary Jules's "Mad World," a bleak reimagining of the Tears For Fears song of the same name that has found pop culture significance since it was used in Donnie Darko. Here's the purported Season Four trailer...

And because it's difficult to be sure that it's an official release, we took to YouTube to see whether anybody else had this same ad, which might be a good indicator it was made available on a press site somewhere and we just missed it. We didn't find anything like that, but we did find this fan-made video from a year ago...

...and this one, from two years ago...

...and this one, from three years ago...

...by which point the fans working on the videos had actually run out of footage from the TV series.

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