'The Walking Dead' recap, episode 207: 'Pretty Much Dead Already'

Most immature practical joke
Maggie, pulling the old egg in the hat bit on Glenn. Come on Maggie, grow up. What's next? You're going to go into the bathroom, wad up a bunch of wet toilet paper and chuck it at the ceiling? Or maybe trick Glenn into doing an atomic sit up? Actually, he'd probably like that if Maggie was the atomic part, and not someone like T-Dog or Dale.

Loudest eater
Hershel, while eating his canned peaches and reading the good book. He's breathing in and out of his nostrils all loud like he's been running a 5k or something. Jeez, Hersh, slow it down, this isn't the Golden Corral!

Worst character development
Daryl. A few episodes ago he was a bigger bad ass then Kid Rock and The Undertaker combined, now all he's doing is throwing hissy fits, telling stories about flowers and searching for little lost girls. That last part is admirable, but not badass. His biggest badass moment this episode was when Carol was ready to french kiss him, and instead he was just like "Just leave me be, stupid bitch!" That was just mean, and you don't know when the next french kiss opportunity is going to come along in this dystopia!

Tastiest looking meal
Those strangled eggs that everyone was shoveling down at the beginning of the episode looked mighty appetizing! They would have been even better with some shredded cheddar and bacon bits, but hey, you can't have it all.

Best application of peer pressure
Shane. He comes storming up to the group with a big bag of guns and starts handing them out like candy canes at Christmas time to all of the impressionable young men on the farm. He's such a cool bully, who can blame them for going along?

Most amicable end to a conversation between Dale and Shane
Dale: "I may not have what it takes to last long, but at least I can say that when the world goes to sh!t, I didn't let it take me down with it." Shane: "Fair enough."

I feel like they're making progress.

Biggest fool's errand
Rick, Hershel and Jimmy escorting the zombies to the barn with those Billy the Exterminator snare poles. Shane sees that scene and is just like "Oh hell to the no!"

A thing that I wish had happened
Jimmy comes running into the house and is like "Hershel! It happened again!" And they go rushing outside all serious like and eventually find the two zombies in the swamp. I wish that they had run outside and Jimmy was like "Follow me" and leads him to the back of the house where his Aerobie went up on the roof, and then Hershel has to get it down by using a stepladder and a push broom. And Hershel is like, "Never again, Jimmy, never again..."

I also wish that when Maggie was standing on the porch, glaring at Glenn and shaking her head to keep him from telling the secret about the barn, she had first held one finger up to her lips like "Shhhhhh!" and then she held her hand sideways and dragged it across her neck like a knife, like "or I'll slash your throat!"

Did you know?

• Dale's RV is a Winnebago Chieftain model. (Can anyone figure out the year?)
• Andrew Lincoln, the actor who portrays Rick, and Lauren Cohan, the actress who plays Maggie, are both from the United Kingdom. (Lauren, by the by, is also from the United Schwingdom.)
• The man mechanic zombie that they pulled out of the swamp looks sad when the woman zombie that they pulled out of the swamp gets shot, because in real life they are father and daughter stuntpeople.

Best video game reference
My reference to Duck Hunt (see below).

Second place: Glenn's reference to Portal. ("It's a video game." Maggie: "I know.")

Creepiest zombie
Probably the noseless one who was licking the barn doors while everyone was milling about outside. I think that one was Hershel's wife. Go figure.

Second place: Sophia. She didn't have too much decomposition (I feel kind of uncomfortable after typing that), but little girls in horror movies are always scary. (See: "The Ring," "Silent Hill," "The Shining," etc.)

Best zombie kill
None really stand out, but just for the hell of it I'm going to go with Rick plugging Sophia right between the eyes, because of the gravity of the situation. I could certainly see the argument for Shane icing Louise Bush though. He shoots her about half a dozen times in the chest and then runs straight up to her and puts one in her head like a cheater playing Duck Hunt by holding the Zapper against the TV screen.

P.S. Louise Bush (goes by Lou) was from the sweet corn farm up the road, and worked at Hatman's Bar on weekends. I like the sound of Hatman's Bar. I'd like to sidle up, have a few ice cold Budweisers in frosty mugs, spin some GnR on the juke and blow away a few eight-pointers on Big Buck Hunter.

Death count
Zombies: By my count 16 (14 in the barn, including Sophia, plus the two poor souls who had been trapped in quicksand) for a total of 60 on the season.

Humans: Two. Otis and Sophia.

Lingering questions
How did Sophia get bitten, who put her in the barn and did Hershel know that the little gal they were looking for was in the barn all along? (Answered! Kind of. On "Talking Dead," executive producer Robert Kirkman said that Otis had pulled her out of the swamp and put her in the barn, and was killed by Shane before he could tell anybody.) What did Jenner whisper to Rick? What has become of Merle Dixon and the father-son team of Morgan and Duane Jones? (Answered! Sophia was in the barn hangin' out with the walkers. Now she's dead x2.)