These great moments in American television are culled from the fall episodes (current short-lived seasons) of "The Walking Dead" ("TWD") and "American Horror Story: Coven" ("AHS"), and so therefore -- Spoiler Alert! In no particular order (except somewhat chronological):
-AHS: Eat Your Heart Out, Django! As pictured above,19th Century slaveholder Kathy Bates is transplanted into modern times (don't ask), where she promptly starts letting the racist epithets fly at African-American witch Queenie. Bad move, as the non-witch Bates ultimately ends up as Queenie's "slave." But that one quickly goes awry (as one might imagine) when Queenie for some reason tries to seduce Bates' previous monstrous creation -- a half-bull, half-slave individual known as the Minotaur Man. Ouch.
-TWD: It's Raining Zombies, Hallelujah! Daryl and others from the prison clan make a road trip to try to lift supplies from an abandoned superstore. Little do they know, however, that a crashed helicopter has weakened the structure's roof and a horde of zombies is up on that roof! On the bright side, the alcoholic Bob resists the temptation to get his drink on inside the store, but that poignant moment is ruined when the roof starts giving way and dozens of zombies fall from the sky to attack the humans. (Open question: How in the hell did all those zombies get up on the roof in the first place?!? They can't climb stuff! They're dead -- they're all messed up!)
-AHS: Innocent Bystander. Hottie witch Madison (before "The Supreme" Witch Jessica Lange whacks her out) is drugged and raped at a frat party, but takes her just revenge on the offending frat creeps by imposing her mental powers and causing their party bus to fly into the air and crash in a fiery mess. Unfortunately, however, innocent Kyle is also killed in the melee, leading to Madison's rather ill-conceived decision to create a Frankenstein Kyle from various hand-picked body parts from the bus crash dead (as pictured above; storyline continued below).
-TWD: Stuck in Traffic. As pictured above, it's a reunion of HBO's "The Wire," as Tyreese Cutty and D'Angelo Bob (with Michonne riding shotgun) hop into the back seat of Daryl's souped up rod for another road trip to go find antibiotics to cure the deadly flu afflicting the humans staying at the prison. But when the foursome quickly encouters a zombie horde of 1000s out on the road, Daryl is forced to put the car in full reverse and quickly gets the back wheels stuck on a pile of zombie corpses (spewing zombie parts everywhere as Daryl spins his wheels in futility). (Another open question: After Michonne blamed the coarse-looking Daryl for giving her "flees" earlier in the episode, why in the hell was she riding up front with him anyway?)
-AHS: The Revenge of Frankenstein. So Madison creates Frankenstein Kyle; then witch Zoe props up Frankenstein Kyle head-first against Mama's front door, rings the doorbell, and runs away (that was hilarious!). Mama (who thought Kyle be dead) is SO happy to see her boy, although he no longer speaks in coherent words and doesn't appear to be quite the same person as he once was. The happy homecoming really goes sour when Mama promptly resumes her prior molestation of Kyle (who, as a result of Madison's tinkering, now has a porn-star size Anthony's Weiner), but Kyle's unable to reach climax (as Mama laments). Pervert Mom does get her comeuppance, however, when sonny soon thereafter caves her head in.
Memorable moments like these, and much more I would assume, are still to come as AHS and TWD continue this week on Wednesday and Sunday nights. Hell, we're only three episodes in!
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