The Walking Dead has convincingly put a tiger on television. They kill zombies week in and week out. The show literally bashed two skulls and made someone’s eye popped out.
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And it all looked pretty real.
On Sunday night, though, the AMC series brought a deer to television that was astoundingly computerized. Viewers got the point of the scene: Rick wanted to kill the deer because he owed one to his ex-girlfriend. However, they were left wondering how in the world such a poorly computerized deer made the cut of cable’s top rated series.
Since Sunday night, the Internet has had a field day with the fake deer. On the following slides, we take a look at some of the best reactions to Say Yes‘ fake game.
Helping Out
The Walking Dead has always had cheesy CGI. But they just tried to pass this off as a live deer in tonight’s episode: pic.twitter.com/c6bXZjZkAD
โ Bryan Griffith (@Notorious_B_A_G) March 6, 2017
Some fans just want to see The Walking Dead succeed.ย
As a result, they have taken to Twitter to share their personal work creating fake deer, just in case The Walking Dead might need a little bit of help with it in the future.ย
More realistic than that CGI deer on The Walking Dead tonight. pic.twitter.com/QTvxGqxFTF
โ Sir Kumference (@sirkumference) March 6, 2017
Deer You May Have Missed
Last night’s episode of #WalkingDead #FakeDeer pic.twitter.com/cGK4WW2rDO
โ Simon Crow (@SimonCrow) March 7, 2017
Some eagle-eyed viewers watching The Walking Dead on Sunday night caught a few other deer than the one Rick tried to track down for Michonne. They posted their unbelievable pictures to social media.
Applying for the new intern position at @AMC_TV #TheWalkingDeadSeason7 #deer #WalkingDead #TWD #Richonne #CGI #TalkingDead #fakedeer pic.twitter.com/xzxruw73yf
โ Ope Aaron (@ope_aaron) March 6, 2017
Plus, a very surprising cameo.
Finally watched the latest episode of #thewalkingdead I saw complaints saying the deer looked fake. It looks real to me. #TWD pic.twitter.com/dzZZScr6BT
โ Herman Brown (@ninjasmacks) March 7, 2017
Say Yes
‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7, Episode 12 Review: ‘Say Yes’ To Fake Deer via @forbes https://t.co/6tPNqAv75G pic.twitter.com/MSePzR4mZX
โ Erik Kain (@erikkain) March 6, 2017
Even some ofย professional critics are chiming in on the fake deer fun.
Forbes writer Erik Kainย used The Walking Dead Episode 7×12’s title against itself in his review title, offering the headline, “‘Say Yes’ To Fake Deer.”
Film School 101
LMAO that cg deer on #WalkingDead was straight out of like semester 1 of after effects. WTF @amc that was sooooooo bad
โ Bearded Batman (@Bark4Soul) March 6, 2017
Film students are getting in on the banter. Bearded Batman learned how to insert animals into scenes in his first round with Adobe’sย After Effects classes.
and the fake deer was the funniest part. Everyone was laughing looking at how obvious the fake looking deer was with all the lighting ?
โ N. (@nununharis) March 9, 2017