AMC’s The Walking Dead is like one, long, expansive, immensely enjoyable zombie movie (Season 1’s total runtime hovers around 4.5 hours over 6 episodes).

Frankly, there’s a lot not to like. Many episode plots are unsurprisingly predictable, and feel like they’ve been done before. I’ve seen everything from Resident Evil’s waking up alone in the hospital in the middle of a fallen stronghold city to I Am Legend’s last scientist alive…and I’m sure even those motifs had been done multiple times before…AND we’re only six episodes deep. That said: it’s really well done. And again, at the very least, it’s one, long, expansive, immensely enjoyable zombie movie. If you’re into that sort of thing.

While I’m in the zombie mindset, here’s a couple of original zombie ideas (at least, as far as I know):

1. A zombie comedy movie (Zombedy?). As per standard procedure, zombie outbreak befalls, and hungry zombies spread their wares via bite. However, in this instance the inverse also holds true: protagonists can save their friends by biting zombies first. Maybe they discover that the cure is actually in human saliva and equip themselves with Super Soakers, or maybe it’s inexplicably simply the act of being perforated by teeth, and the protagonists go digging through cemeteries of healthy, dead people to collect jawbones for ammunition. Invariably, the love interest of a secondary protagonist will turn into a zombie, the two will bite each other at the same time and alternatively transform from zombie to human and back into recursion. Take plenty of comedy cues from Zombieland, or hell: use this as the plot for a sequel.

2. A zombie reality TV show. Seriously. Doesn’t the zombie trope have the perfect makings of reality TV? Your goal as a contestant is to survive the longest (“Survivor?” Hah!), and you’ll have to work in teams to accomplish tasks that are actually relevant: collect food, cross a zombie-infested city block to gather more supplies, zombie-proof your shelter, etc. Contestants can be eliminated mid-episode if they’re not fast enough. Better yet, eliminated contestants can return as zombies in later episodes. Or maybe, even better yet, the show’s premise pits a team of zombies against a team of survivors.

Me, excited about a reality TV show? Once, about as realistic a prospect as the prospect of enjoying movies in 3D.