In a recent episode of The Walking Dead, viewers from around the world were shocked by the show’s most surprising death to date…..Rick’s beard.

The Walking Dead will never be the same again. What was Rick thinking? In a moment of reckless abandon he hacked away at his beard with scissors, removing his magical, majestic chin fluff, and with it went 90-95% of his cool points. For the beard is surely where he kept all of his wisdom, power, and crazy stored. I don’t think that I am overstating it in the slightest when I say that this the darkest day in television history. Damn you Rick, you beard murdering fool!