--- title: Even Zombies on Hoverboards Are No Match for Daryl Dixon description: While the apocalypse survivors have been busy fighting off hordes of walkers, they've missed out on a lot of today's inventions. canonical: https://time.com/4235362/hoverboard-zombies-daryl-dixon-jimmy-kimmel/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-24T16:02:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:26.253Z og:title: Even Zombies on Hoverboards Are No Match for Daryl Dixon og:description: "Futuristically funky" og:url: https://time.com/4235362/hoverboard-zombies-daryl-dixon-jimmy-kimmel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Even Zombies on Hoverboards Are No Match for Daryl Dixon twitter:description: "Futuristically funky" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Even Zombies on Hoverboards Are No Match for _The Walking Dead'_s Daryl Dixon  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 24, 2016 4:02 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 24, 2016 4:02 PM UTC In the world of [_The Walking Dead_](http://time.com/4213661/over-100-walking-dead-facts/), zombies took over back in 2010\. So while Rick, Carol and the rest of the apocalypse survivors have been busy fighting off hordes of walkers, they’ve missed out on a lot of today’s inventions. But on Tuesday’s episode of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_, Norman Reedus’s Daryl Dixon came face-to-face with a technological threat he hadn’t encountered before. **Read More:** [The Definitive Ranking of _The Walking Dead_‘s 20 Most Evil Villains](http://time.com/4194632/walking-dead-villains-ranking/) In the clip, our favorite crossbow-wielding hero ventures into a parking garage on a supply run. After finding a van full of empty boxes of “futuristically funky” [self-balancing scooters](http://time.com/4069830/hoverboards-illegal-london/), he’s caught off guard by a group of [hoverboard-riding](http://time.com/4144547/hoverboard-riding-thief-robs-supermarket/) undead. Luckily, with the help of a nearby staircase and a hand grenade, Daryl is able to take care of them pretty easily. Watch the full video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4235362/hoverboard-zombies-daryl-dixon-jimmy-kimmel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4235362/hoverboard-zombies-daryl-dixon-jimmy-kimmel/"},"headline":"Even Zombies on Hoverboards Are No Match for The Walking Dead's Daryl Dixon","datePublished":"2016-02-24T16:02:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:26.253Z","description":"\"Futuristically funky\"","url":"https://time.com/4235362/hoverboard-zombies-daryl-dixon-jimmy-kimmel/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","The Walking Dead","Zombies","Jimmy Kimmel","TV","jimmy kimmel live"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"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/4235362/hoverboard-zombies-daryl-dixon-jimmy-kimmel/","name":"Even Zombies on Hoverboards Are No Match for The Walking Dead's Daryl Dixon"}}]}] ```