Things We Saw Today: Cookie Monster Flees Gingerbread Zombies in This Walking Dead Parody

In advance of The Walking Dead‘s eighth season premiere, Sesame Street has created another one of their allusions-for-the-adults parody sketches, with Cookie Monster serving as Sheriff Rick Grimes in their parody of The Walking Dead. In “The Walking Gingerbread,” zombie cookies called “crumbies” come after Cookie Monster and devour all his cookies. Truly evil! (via Nerdist)

• After Tyler “Evilore” Malka, the owner of gaming forum NeoGAF owner, was accused of creepy sexual behavior, more than half the moderators quit and the site went down. (via Kotaku)
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi is projected to have the second-highest-grossing opening weekend ever, with an estimated $215 million take that would put it just below Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ record. (via Collider)
• Netflix shared a new Stranger Things poster to get everyone hyped up for the Season 2 premiere in five days. (via CBR)
  

  5 days. #StrangerThings pic.twitter.com/2Qo5okOJgm

  — Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) October 22, 2017

• Like my heart, Mars has been cold and dead for far longer than anyone previously understood. (via NASA)
• Americans are buying newspaper subscriptions at record rates, specifically to counteract Trump’s attacks on journalism, and millennials are leading the way. For all the boomer headlines that accuse us of “killing” industries, it looks like our real legacy is taking down Applebee’s and golf clubs and saving the Fourth Estate. You’re all welcome. (via Politico)
• Boo 2! A Madea Halloween crushed the box office competition this weekend, including disaster movie Geostorm. (via Empire)

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