Reality Bites: MythBusters Zombie Special  No offense guys, but
I'm picking Merle for my zombie apocalypse team. There are a
millions reality shows on the naked television. We're going to
watch them all, one at a time.  Even as an avowed fan of the
genre, I worry about the pervasiveness of zombies in pop
culture. Then again, it's almost Halloween, so I can get away
with it here.  Zombies are so ubiquitous at this point that I'm
not sure why the recent MythBusters special even raised an
eyebrow. It wasn't a naked ratings grab, as far as I could tell
(the show is consistently among Discovery Channel's most
popular), and there was little danger of hosts Jamie Hyneman and
Adam Savage taking things too seriously (though the concept of a
"zombie apocalypse" has aggravatingly crossed the boundary from
genre construct to potential reality for some people).
Fortunately, they treated the whole endeavor with exactly as
much gravity as it deserved.  Adam informs us there's a myth(?)
that axes are superior to guns for com