The Hiding Keys

I just finished watching the pilot for the AMC series The Walking Dead. It is a pretty good show. It is about this cowboy in Texas who just wants to find his wife and son, and so he rides on a horse all around looking for them. He even rides the horse in a city! I think it is Dallas! And also, there are zombies in it, but they're not a main plot point. The zombies in Dallas are the worst ones; they know how to do traps, like pretending to be really dead when they're actually just "walking dead." I think the cowboy's name is Rick, but the credits at the end of the episode didn't seem to be backing me up on that. But Wikipedia did.

There is a part where Rick runs out of gas in his cowboy-police car (I know I said Rick rides a horse - just stay with me for a second) and so he goes off on foot to find more gas, or petrol. He finds a house, but there is no one alive inside it, so no gas for Rick. Then he sees a pickup truck parked in the driveway. And this is where we come to the point of this weblog post: Rick goes to the pickup truck, and like everyone in any movie or TV show ever, first checks the ignition for the keys. And like everyone in any movie or TV show ever, Rick strikes out at the ignition. So then guess where Rick looks? Comfortable to stick with what seems to work in every movie and TV show ever, Rick checks behind the sun visor on the driver's side. Of course. Thankfully, however, the cliche ends there! Rick DOES NOT find the keys in the sun visor! Which was awesome to me, because what schmuck really sticks his car keys behind the sun visor?! Does this driver never flip the visor down to use it for its primary purpose - shielding his eyes from the sun? I guess not, because if he did, he would have keys falling all over his head!

So I was thrilled when Rick found no keys hiding behind that visor. Especially because it made it necessary for him to ride the horse that was watching him goof around in the pickup truck from inside a corral. Then later the horse gets to have a spaghetti party with the tricky zombies in Dallas. So I'm joining Team Rick, because he not only slays whatever zombies crop up to try and ruin a perfectly nice scene, but he also slays movie and TV cliches. So far. I hope you find your family, Rick. I saw where they are in another part of the episode, but I won't tell you, because you need to find them on your own. So you can grow as a person.