The Walking Dead Logo Decays A Little More Each Season

The Walking Dead Logo Decays A Little More Each Season

The Walking Dead has tons of Easter eggs tucked away in episodes, but did you notice the show’s logo has decayed season by season?

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Eagle-eyed fans of The Walking Dead may have noticed the logo in the show’s opening credits has been subtly decaying a little more with each season – here’s the logo’s evolution (or devolution) explained. The Walking Dead is known for the fun little Easter eggs its makers sneak into episodes for the amusement of fans. As executive producer Greg Nicotero got his start in the industry working with George A. Romero, homages to the godfather of the zombie genre are a frequent theme in Walking Dead’s Easter eggs – like when a walker almost identical to Day Of The Dead’s domesticated zombie Bub popped up during season 4.

Back in the early days of The Walking Dead a couple of Easter eggs teased the show was connected to fellow AMC hit Breaking Bad, like Merle Dixon’s drug supply being full of a substance that looked suspiciously like Walter White’s Blue Sky meth. And before Negan finally made his long-awaited debut in the season 6 finale, there was more foreshadowing than you could shake a barbed-wire covered baseball bat at.

One of The Walking Dead’s most consistent Easter eggs is the ever-changing logo seen during the opening credits for each episode. Season by season, the once white lettering of The Walking Dead logo has taken on a slightly more decayed and cracked appearance. Executive producer Gale Anne Hurd explained to The Huffington Post in 2015, “For the observant fan, it’s an Easter egg. We are reflecting the world. The world is more decayed, the walkers are considerably more decayed, so it really is reflective of that.” Check out the evolution of The Walking Dead logo in the video below courtesy of Wochit Entertainment:

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Interestingly, The Walking Dead’s decaying logo only continued up to the eighth season. With Rick Grimes’ departure and a six-year time jump, there were some big changes in season 9 and the logo morphed once more to reflect that. Rather than further decay, however, the lettering appeared more solid and took on a greenish hue to symbolize a chapter of new growth. Newly appointed showrunner Angela Kang explained the change to Insider in 2018:

“In previous seasons, the logo in the main titles was gradually decaying along with the world and the zombies in the show. The solid stone letters overgrown with greenery in the season 9 logo reflects the fact that we’re jumping into a new chapter of the story where our characters are re-building and nature is thriving.”

The Walking Dead logo isn’t the only thing that’s seen an overhaul in the past couple of seasons. After Angela Kang’s promotion to showrunner, the whole title sequence got a makeover too with a more graphic feel that nodded to The Walking Dead’s comic roots. Like the logo, the new title sequence – with its blossoming trees and flowers – suggests a new era of growth in which both nature and the survivors are clawing their way back almost a decade after The Walking Dead’s in-world zombie apocalypse began.

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