50 Fun Facts About The Walking Dead Season 6

In The Walking Dead's season 6 finale, what name does Negan give the barbed-wire baseball bat he carries?

Lucille is the bat Negan introduces to a kneeling Rick, explaining that the night's roadblocks were staged only to decide who would meet it.

What does Carl Grimes lose when a stray gunshot hits him during the herd's invasion of Alexandria in The Walking Dead?

An eye is the price Carl pays, shot as Michonne cuts down the grieving teenager aiming at Rick. The injury is one of the comic book's major moments carried to the screen.

After Glenn Rhee's apparent death in The Walking Dead season 6, what did he crawl beneath to escape the walkers?

A dumpster saved him: knocked off its lid by a falling body, Glenn squeezed underneath and waited out the herd. The Hollywood Reporter declared the show had lost its credibility when he turned up alive.

One severed walker head seen in The Walking Dead season 6 was modelled on the head of which Hollywood star?

Johnny Depp was the model: the effects team had used his head as the basis for a clay sculpt of an emaciated dummy. It is among the heads Rick's group picks from before a night raid.

How does Negan choose which kneeling survivor to kill at the end of The Walking Dead's season 6 finale?

A counting rhyme does the choosing: Negan points his bat down the line of survivors as he recites it. He turns to the game only after failing to pick anyone himself.

What nickname do friends use for Paul Rovia, the long-haired scout who robs Rick and Daryl in The Walking Dead?

Jesus is what his friends call him, as he tells the pair before making off with their truck. The show changed his comic-book surname, Monroe, to avoid confusion with Alexandria's first family.

Which martial art does Morgan Jones learn from a cheese-making hermit in The Walking Dead's season 6 flashback episode?

Aikido is what Eastman teaches him, along with the belief that all life is precious. The lessons start only after Morgan learns the door holding him in was never locked.

The Walking Dead's season 6 finale drew a fan backlash for cutting away before revealing what about Negan's attack?

The victim's identity stayed hidden: the beating is shown from the point of view of whoever was hit. The A.V. Club graded the episode a C, its lowest mark for the show up to then.

Where do Rick and Morgan find thousands of walkers penned in near Alexandria at the start of The Walking Dead season 6?

A quarry had been trapping the dead and quietly keeping Alexandria safe, but its barricades were sure to fail. Rick's answer was to free the herd and march it 20 miles away.

What do Glenn and Enid send up outside Alexandria's walls to show Maggie he is alive in The Walking Dead season 6?

Balloons rising over the wall tell Maggie her husband is alive. The relief lasts seconds, because the wall beside her gives way at that very moment.

What do Negan's followers, who extort half of other communities' supplies, call themselves in The Walking Dead?

The Saviors take half of what a community produces in exchange for leaving it in peace. Daryl, Abraham and Sasha are stopped by a band of them on the road home to Alexandria.

Which gang of raiders scales Alexandria's walls and slaughters residents in the streets in The Walking Dead season 6?

The Wolves have no guns, and Morgan persuades the last of them to retreat by pointing out that the Alexandrians now do. Carol fights them disguised as one of their own.

Paul Rovia leads Rick's group to which farming community built around a mansion in The Walking Dead season 6?

The Hilltop grew up around Barrington House, a plantation the state had run as a living history museum. Its stockade is made of telephone poles from a nearby supply depot.

What secret does Maggie tearfully tell Aaron as they turn back from a sewer exit in The Walking Dead season 6?

She is pregnant, news Maggie shares after walkers block the tunnel she hoped would lead her to Glenn. Back inside, she and Aaron wipe his name off the memorial wall.

Which Alexandria leader and former congresswoman is bitten during the herd's invasion in The Walking Dead season 6?

Deanna, once bitten, stays behind and makes a last stand against the herd. About two months later her son finds what she became wandering the woods and buries her.

Which scar-faced follower of Negan kills Dr. Denise Cloyd with Daryl's own stolen crossbow in The Walking Dead season 6?

Dwight fires the bolt, using the crossbow he took from Daryl at gunpoint earlier in the season. Daryl had helped him escape his pursuers and had just offered to take him in.

How does Rick's group slip through the herd after walkers overrun their Alexandria refuge in The Walking Dead season 6?

In gut-smeared ponchos, made after Rick kills and guts two walkers, the group walks hand in hand among the dead. The disguise fails when a frightened boy freezes and his cries draw the walkers.

Rick and Michonne's romance begins in which light-hearted episode of The Walking Dead season 6?

The Next World ends with the pair on the couch talking over their day, then holding hands and kissing. One reviewer called it the funniest episode the show had made.

What sound from Alexandria pulls half of Rick's walker parade off course in The Walking Dead's season 6 premiere?

A horn starts blaring when a guard shoots the driver of a truck heading for the wall. By the time it stops, the rear half of the herd has turned toward the town.

What topples onto Alexandria's wall and lets the herd pour in during The Walking Dead season 6?

A church tower that had been deteriorating for a long time comes down on the very section Rick had been reinforcing. Hundreds of walkers pour through the three smashed panels.

Which actor's name left The Walking Dead's opening titles for three season 6 episodes while Glenn's fate hung in doubt?

Steven Yeun vanished from the titles after the episode in which Glenn falls into a herd, and returned when Glenn is shown alive. The showrunner had promised only that some version of Glenn would be seen again.

Which Emmy winner from Nurse Jackie joined The Walking Dead in season 6 as Alexandria's nervous doctor, Denise Cloyd?

Merritt Wever plays Denise, who confides that she has not practised surgery since medical school. Her character's death on screen differs from the one in the comics.

Which actor, Dr. Dre in Straight Outta Compton, plays Alexandria supply runner Heath in The Walking Dead season 6?

Corey Hawkins joined the show in the year the film came out. Heath is a long-running comic character and a loyal friend of Glenn, first seen returning from a two-week supply run.

Which actor, Norm Gunderson in the film Fargo, guest stars as Morgan's mentor Eastman in The Walking Dead season 6?

John Carroll Lynch earned a Saturn Award nomination for the role. One reviewer likened the episode to a two-man play carried by him and Lennie James.

Which Walking Dead star won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for her work in season 6?

Danai Gurira won as Michonne, ahead of two of her own castmates nominated in the same category. The season took three Saturns in all, including Best Horror Television Series.

Which makeup-effects chief directed four episodes of The Walking Dead season 6, including the premiere and the finale?

Greg Nicotero also directed the mid-season premiere, for which he and his team were Emmy-nominated for prosthetic makeup.

Which showrunner, in his third straight season running The Walking Dead, defended Glenn's fake death in season 6?

Scott Gimple argued the escape broke none of the show's rules, since Glenn had the luck of a body landing on top of him. He also wrote the season's Morgan flashback episode during Comic-Con.

How are the flashbacks following Pete's execution presented in The Walking Dead's season 6 premiere?

In black and white, a choice made so viewers could follow the jumbled timeline. The producers first tried boosting the present-day colour instead, but found it made the zombies look too pretty.

Whose arm does Rick sever with a hatchet to free Carl from her grip in The Walking Dead season 6?

Jessie cannot let go of her younger son as walkers take him, and they take her too. Rick, who had kissed her in her garage earlier in the season, has to cut Carl free.

Which season 6 episode of The Walking Dead takes its title from the last words a cornered Alexandrian says to Glenn?

Thank You is what Nicholas says before turning his gun on himself, and his fall carries Glenn down into the herd. Critics spent weeks debating whether Glenn had survived.

Which weapon, taken by Abraham from a dangling dead soldier, does Daryl turn on Negan's bikers in The Walking Dead?

An RPG launcher was slung on a reanimated soldier hanging from a bridge, and Abraham nearly died retrieving it. Daryl fires it after strangling the man sent to search him.

What do Daryl, Abraham and Sasha create to lure the herd away from the fighting inside Alexandria in The Walking Dead?

A burning pond does it: Daryl empties their fuel tanker into the water and sets it alight, and the glow in the night draws the dead. Until then the defenders were close to being overwhelmed.

Which leader of Paul Rovia's community is stabbed by one of his own people on Negan's orders in The Walking Dead?

Gregory is knifed by Ethan, whose brother Negan is holding hostage. He survives, and Maggie bargains with him for half of everything his people have.

Where does Paula's group hold Carol and Maggie captive while waiting for reinforcements in The Walking Dead season 6?

A slaughterhouse, where Negan's people have stashed supplies behind trapped walkers, becomes the pair's prison. The set was custom-built for the episode.

What does Eugene plan to manufacture in the machine shop he scouts with Abraham in The Walking Dead season 6?

Ammunition is the plan, and Eugene is so sure of himself that he tells Abraham he no longer needs protecting. Abraham walks off and tells him to find his own way home.

At the end of his season 6 flashback in The Walking Dead, Morgan Jones follows a sign pointing to which place?

Terminus is where the sign points, which places the flashback between Morgan's season 3 meeting with Rick and his return in season 5. He sets out after burying the man who saved him.

Before the outbreak in The Walking Dead, what was the job of Eastman, who assessed Georgia convicts ahead of release?

Psychiatrist, of the forensic kind: Eastman judged whether prisoners were safe to free. One of them escaped and murdered his wife and children, which is why his cabin has a cage.

Which soft drink does Dr. Denise Cloyd ask Rick and Daryl to find as a surprise for Tara in The Walking Dead?

Orange Crush turns up when Daryl breaks open a vending machine that a thief had dragged away behind their stolen truck. Later in the season she fights a walker to pull another orange soda from a car.

What does Daryl find in his forest captors' bag that makes him turn back in The Walking Dead season 6?

Insulin for the diabetic Tina is in the bag, so Daryl goes back and trades it for his captor's gun. Tina dies soon after, attacked by walkers sealed inside melted glass.

The only Walking Dead episode before season 6's Morgan flashback to feature a single regular followed which villain?

The Governor had an hour to himself in the fourth season's Live Bait. Lennie James is the only regular to appear in the Morgan episode, though Andrew Lincoln's voice is heard at the end.

The actor cast as Heath's supply-run partner in The Walking Dead season 6 is married to which of the show's stars?

Sonequa Martin-Green, who plays Sasha, is married to Kenric Green. He joined in the season premiere as a character from the comics, one of Alexandria's supply runners.

What does Carol use to ignite the gasoline that kills five of Negan's reinforcements in The Walking Dead season 6?

A lit cigarette finishes the job after Carol mimics Paula's voice on the radio to lure the men into a trap. Her own tally of the people she has killed was already keeping her awake.

What is the name of the goat Eastman keeps at his cabin, hoping to make cheese, in The Walking Dead season 6?

Tabitha's bleating is what first leads Morgan to the cabin, and he later leaves his unlocked cell to save her from two walkers. She ends up buried beside her owner.

Which kitchen gadget is Alexandria resident Shelly Neudermeyer set on getting hold of in The Walking Dead season 6?

A pasta maker is her fixation, and Carol offers to teach her to make pasta by hand instead. She is the first resident seen to die when raiders come over the walls.

Where does Carol hide the machine pistol she turns on Negan's men in The Walking Dead season 6?

Up her coat sleeve, from where she fires after pleading with the men. They take it for begging for her life; she is really asking them not to make her shoot.

Inside the compound raided in The Walking Dead season 6, Glenn finds a wall covered in what grisly trophies?

Polaroid photos of twenty head wounds hang on the wall like a serial killer's keepsakes. Glenn comes across them just after killing a living person for the first time.

In which Georgia city did filming for The Walking Dead season 6 begin in early May 2015?

Senoia hosted the start of a shoot that ran until mid-November. That meant the season's first episodes were already airing while its last ones were still being filmed.

Which Alexandria construction foreman does Carol kiss, then leave a farewell note for, in The Walking Dead season 6?

Tobin tells Carol she is a mother to most of Alexandria but something else to him, and she kisses him. Her note, left when she slips away, asks that nobody come after her.

Which Alexandrian, played by Ethan Embry, plots to kill Rick in The Walking Dead's season 6 premiere and is spared?

Carter is caught plotting in the armory and left on his knees at gunpoint, then spared. He is later bitten on the cheek during the herd drive, and Rick ends his screams with a knife.

What unusual treat does Carol bake and hand out around Alexandria in The Walking Dead season 6?

Acorn and beet cookies go to the children and her friends, and she leaves one on a boy's grave. That same night she adds up in a diary the people she has killed.