--- --- # _The Walking Dead_ Works Strangely Well With the _Friends_ Theme Music by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 12, 2015 2:37 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 12, 2015 2:37 PM UTC _The Walking Dead_ [returned](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/10/11/walking-dead-andrew-lincoln-season-6-premiere) to television for its sixth season Sunday night. To celebrate, [the Woodcreek Faction](https://www.youtube.com/user/TheWoodcreekFaction/about) decided to create a brand new set of opening credits using the iconic intro music from _Friends._ Weirdly, it ends up working quite well. At first, it’s pretty bizarre to see some of _The Walking Dead_‘s most gruesome scenes set to the upbeat _Friends_ theme song (“I’ll Be There For You” by the Rembrandts.) After a while, though, it kind of starts to make sense. Nobody told Rick Grimes that life was going to be this way! And the members of his group _will_ be there for him! Really, all that’s missing is a coffee shop. Walking Dead Season 6: Friends Intro Music Mashup ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4069829/walking-dead-friends-mashup/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4069829/walking-dead-friends-mashup/"},"headline":"The Walking Dead Works Strangely Well With the Friends Theme Music","datePublished":"2015-10-12T14:37:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:51.358Z","description":"The zombies seem kind of ... happy-go-lucky","url":"https://time.com/4069829/walking-dead-friends-mashup/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4069829/walking-dead-friends-mashup/","name":"The Walking Dead Works Strangely Well With the Friends Theme Music"}}]}] ```