Zombies

Zombies are dead bodies that have been reanimated by outside forces. Typical zombie traits include walking slowly after their prey, eating the brains of the living, and moaning. They are usually brain dead and, unlike other horror creatures such as vampires, possess no special abilities. Outside of brain-eating, they share some similarities with mummies.
Originating from Haitian folklore, Zombies have been popularized in pop culture in such films and TV shows as White Zombie, Plan 9 from Outer Space, Night of the Living Dead, and The Walking Dead, and characters such as Jason Voorhees from Friday the 13th, the DC Comics version of Solomon Grundy, Michael Jackson's character in Thriller, the White Walkers in Game of Thrones, and the monster from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
==References==
* A scripted street scene for Sesame Street Episode 0030 that didn't make the final cut includes Oscar the Grouch presenting the letter Z as standing for zombie.
* A Sesame Street animated segment from the first season features a salesman listing words that start with Z to a potential customer. One of the words is "zombie," which the salesman temporarily imitates.
* After Doc finishes building his computer with 64 kilobytes of RAM and six peripherous slots on the motherboard in the Fraggle Rock episode "The Challenge," he introduces Sprocket to a small library of software he's eager to try. Sprocket shows no interest until his owner lists off "Zombie Attack," in which the player must "chase the alien enemy zombies through outer space, hurling flaming marshmallows."
* Andy and Randy Pig have written a sketch for Heather Locklear called "The Hardy Pig Boys in the Mystery of the Zombie Queen of the Amazon Outer Space Jungle Bee Woman Case based on the novel by Jane Austen" in episode 203 of Muppets Tonight. However, the topic has nothing to do with zombies and more to do with the pigs throwing together a hodgepodge of pulp fiction tropes.
* Count von Count does his own rendition of "The Monster Mash" on the 1998 album Elmo Says BOO! in which he counts "1, 2, 3 zombies were having fun."
* The bonus art gallery in Muppet Monster Adventure includes a drawing of a zombie by Jim Henson Interactive producer Bret Nelson, who is vocalizing the typical zombie call, "uuuurrr..."
* Cookie Monster dresses as a zombie for Halloween in the 2014 stage show Who Said Boo? and demonstrates how a zombie moves by leading the cast in a dance performance of Chubby Checker's "Doin' the Zombie."
* The Facebook version of the May 29, 2015 Jokes! with Fozzie video features Fozzie Bear telling a joke: "These two zombies were talking and one zombie says to the other, 'Who was that lady I saw you with last night?' And the other zombie says, 'That was no lady, that was my lunch!'"
* The Electric Mayhem tweeted on October 3, 2016, "Some people have said that our music is loud enough to wake the dead. Maybe we'll play a zombie-only gig this Halloween!" 
* A segment called "The Walking Gingerbread" from Sesame Street Episode 4635 features half-eaten gingerbread cookies referred to as "crumbies" playing the role of zombies whose only drive is to single-mindedly devour cookies.
* On May 31, 2018, Gonzo tweeted, "I took Latin as a foreign language in school. Yeah, I know it's a dead language... but when I'm the only one who can talk to zombies about must-see TV, you'll be SO jealous!" 
* Fozzie tweeted a joke on Halloween in 2018, "What do zombies wear on Halloween? Cos-TOMBS!" 
* The Electric Mayhem once proposed writing a song called "Zombie Zydeco" in a tweet from October 12, 2022: "As soon as we remember what zydeco sounds like, we'll get to work." 
* The Swedish Chef takes on moldy bread standing in for zombies in the "Walking Bread" segment of The Muppets Take the Bowl and The Muppets Take the O2. After massacring the dough-based creatures, he finishes them off with a kitchen torch declaring, "You're toast!"
==Merchandise==
Various pieces of merchandise have depicted Muppet characters as Zombies:
* Sesame Street phone cases (Zazzle)
* Sesame Street Zombies plush (Sanrio)
* Sesame Street Zombies keychains
* Sesame Street pocket puzzles
* Sesame Street hats (New Era)
* Night of the Living Grover t-shirt
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