The Walking Dead season 2

[What Would Kevin Do?]

Originally Posted by Requiem If the zombies can't smell them though, then what's stopping them from just going all shaun of the dead and walking around like zombies? Stupid plothole is stupid.

The executive producer chimed in on this, and he pretty much echoed what I already thought... They're zombies. They don't have super senses. They can smell in the same way humans can smell for the most part. Yeah, a zombie can smell a human, and know there's something "different" about it, but they're not basset hounds. Just like you could smell a dog next to you, but you may not smell one several feet away.