AMC's The Walking Dead ended its mid-season hiatus Sunday, and it returned to significant Twitter buzz. Aside from gory zombie deaths, one moment in particular catapulted the show back to the top of Nielsen's weekly Twitter TV Ratings chart.
Survivor Carl Grimes, the angst-filled son of lead protagonist Rick Grimes, once again wandered off alone into an abandoned home, found himself in a scary zombie attack and barely escaped from being bitten. Luckily, he only lost a shoe in the heart-pounding process.
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To celebrate his near-death experience, Carl consumed a 112-ounce can of chocolate pudding; that scene helped the show become the top-performing broadcast on Twitter for the week of Feb. 3 to 9. The episode, entitled "After," garnered 1,240,000 total tweets.

Although viewers also tweeted about the sword-wielding Michonne's backstory, Rick's enormously long nap and Carl's questionable behavior, viewers largely focused on the pudding scene:
If walkers don't get Carl, diabetes will for eating all that chocolate pudding. #TheWalkingDead
— The Walking Dead (@TheWalkingNews) February 10, 2014
Carl ate 15 pounds of pudding and is going to crap out something like Jurassic Park #TheWalkingDead
— Mikey (@fsmikey) February 10, 2014
carl at 112 ounces of pudding. hope he found some toilet paper too. #TheWalkingDead
— Brokey McPoverty (@brokeymcpoverty) February 10, 2014
Made this when I got home from food shopping <3 @WalkingDead_AMC @AMCTalkingDead #Pudding #Zombieland #Twinkies pic.twitter.com/p4T37KLEc3
— Al Tyte (@AlTyte_Music) February 10, 2014
Carl's #pudding is available at Sam's Club, if you were wondering. 112 oz = SEVEN POUNDS. #TheWalkingDead pic.twitter.com/x3Wrf1I8Hm
— Corinne Heller (@corinneheller) February 10, 2014
Rick: "How was your day?" Carl: "Well I almost got killed, ran head first into a door, lost my shoe & ate expired pudding." #TheWalkingDead
— Mike Mason (@MikeMason830) February 10, 2014
Rick is dehydrated and hemorrhaging but Carl can't even share his pudding with him. #WalkingDead
— Mirasol Fernandez (@famfernan) February 10, 2014
Carl - “I ate 112 ounces of pudding.”
Rick - “You’re a man.” #TheKeyToSuccess #WalkingDead
— Daniel Bostic (@debostic) February 10, 2014
And here's the zombie attack in which Carl loses his shoe:
[CONTAINS SPOILERS] Instant Replay: Carl vs. the walker #TheWalkignDead #StorySync http://t.co/sqCoqWD4uh https://t.co/VvVVSvZQ8T
— The Walking Dead AMC (@WalkingDead_AMC) February 10, 2014
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Remember this girl? She tried to claw her way through Rick in the pilot episode. #rude
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Glenn went through enough torture to keep the rest of the group's location a secret from Merle. This walker was like a boss level, except your hands are bound to a chair, which also happens to be your only weapon.
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