Why didn't Ricky run in a zig-zag? Guarantee he woulda lived.Īnd Ricky just got shot. I always wondered why he didn't run in a zig zag. Screaming at fictional characters to zig-zag is an old tradition, and indeed sometimes characters do seem to listen! The In-Laws features the (in certain circles!) famous “Serpentine!” sequence, in which Alan Arkin runs comical zig-zags towards a car evading several of Tijuana's worst marksmen. Apocalypto gives us a memorable scene that features a complete lack of go-routes, as our hero and his doomed buddies flee Mayan arrows and spears with precise cuts and clear disdain for running in a straight line. However, Ricky’s legacy of fidelity to the straight-line has been taken up by another Rick, the scarcely seen and even more scarcely heard Rickon Stark.
Rickon’s final run, in this past season of Game of Thrones, immediately reminded basically the entire world of Ricky’s own dash to keep on living, and got us all chattering again.
