History Headscratchers / TheLastManOnEarth

** Generally speaking, the virus wiped out animals, birds, insects, and sea life in addition to humans. However, some individual animals are known to have survived it. To date, these include one bull, one cow, one catfish, and a population of crickets. Several caterpillars also survived, but they were never exposed to the virus. There was also a dog that survived by avoiding exposure. Presumably there are others out there scattered about, but they are few and far between since the characters rarely encounter them. Also a moose and a couple of dozen birds can be seen in this show trailer: https://youtu.be/BwnQ-SbtJug although it may not be canon since the scene never appeared in the show.

** Generally speaking, the virus wiped out animals, birds, insects, and sea life in addition to humans. However, some individual animals are known to have survived it. To date, these include one bull, one cow, one catfish, and a population of crickets. Several caterpillars also survived, but they were never exposed to the virus. There was also a dog that survived by avoiding exposure. Presumably there are others out there scattered about, but they are few and far between since the characters rarely encounter them. Also a few can be seen in this show trailer: https://youtu.be/BwnQ-SbtJug although it may not be canon since the scene never appeared in the show.

* Why the hell didn’t Melissa tell anyone she had to take antipsychotic meds and that she didn't have any left? A lot of needless losses and headaches could have been avoided had she bothered to mention it instead of being so secretive about her pre-virus life. Unless Melissa was dumb enough to think she could fight back her psychosis without them using sheer willpower, since she knew what kind of meds she had to take. What's even worse about this is that nobody bothers to call her out on it once they find the right pills and she's restored to sanity.

*** Or, maybe they didn't commit suicide...

* '''Living in empty Tuscon and not noticing other people.''' Melissa says she's there for over a week and didn't see Carol and Phil until they ran into each other. Todd said he was almost ready to leave when he saw the fireworks. The two new girls already have a house staked out when they meet Phil. This is silly when you think about it (but it's a work of fiction, Administrivia/TropesAreTools), because all of those people should be leaving an imprint on the city as they live there. Phil has left messes and dead, burnt-out cars all over the city. He used a gun to open class doors. After this long, quite a few grocery stores and supply places should have obvious signs of being used. The campfire the people at the cul-de-sac should stick out like a sore thumb at night. If Todd and Melissa playing "She drives me crazy" could be heard across the street that loud, you should have been able to hear it across town.

* What happened to the other astronauts on the space station? It's implied in several episodes that Mike is [[spoiler: not immune to the virus, he just survived because in space he was never exposed to it]] If that's the case, what killed them off? He evidently has enough food and it seems unlikely that his crew mates would have left him behind alone on the station.

*** To be fair on that one, there's "thinking the worst of someone" and then there's "ignoring the blatantly obvious out of nothing but pig-headed stubborn intransigence". There's clearly been a fire, the fire's been put out, Tandy is the only one present who could have put out the fire, hence Tandy put out the fire. Plus, they might think the worst of him, but they probably don't think he wants to risk burning to death by letting a fire burn out of control nearby him either.

* '''Living in empty Tuscon and not noticing other people.''' Melissa says she's there for over a week and didn't see Carol and Phil until they ran into each other. Todd said he was almost ready to leave when he saw the fireworks. The two new girls already have a house staked out when they meet Phil. This is silly when you think about it (but it's a work of fiction, TropesAreTools), because all of those people should be leaving an imprint on the city as they live there. Phil has left messes and dead, burnt-out cars all over the city. He used a gun to open class doors. After this long, quite a few grocery stores and supply places should have obvious signs of being used. The campfire the people at the cul-de-sac should stick out like a sore thumb at night. If Todd and Melissa playing "She drives me crazy" could be heard across the street that loud, you should have been able to hear it across town.

** Generally speaking, the virus wiped out animals, birds, insects, and sea life in addition to humans. However, some individual animals are known to have survived it. To date, these include one bull, one cow, one catfish, and a somewhat significantly sized population of crickets. Several caterpillars also survived, but they were never exposed to the virus. Presumably there are others out there scattered about, but they are few and far between since the characters rarely encounter them. Also a few can be seen in this show trailer: https://youtu.be/BwnQ-SbtJug although it may not be canon since the scene never appeared in the show.

** Based on an interview with Lord, Miller, and Forte about trying to keep any wild animals from appearing in a shot, as well as Carol's line about how "meatballs are never going to be a thing again," the safe assumption is that they did.
** An animal finally appears in episode 8.
** A few can be seen in this show trailer: https://youtu.be/BwnQ-SbtJug Of course,it may not be canon.
* What about birds and insects? I assume most of them were wiped out too since Phil's trashed mansion/pool should otherwise be swarming with flies and there weren't any seagulls or scavengers in the dead whale scene.I notice one of the upcoming season two episodes is titled "crickets", so maybe there will be some light shed on this.
** There hasn't been any insect noises all the nights they've sat outside in the dark, or signs of birds in Malibu. According to a Kristen Schaal interview on Conan, they eat the crickets. Either they find some and eat them, which seems likely as of "C to the T" where they mention all the packaged stuff expiring, or they find already dead crickets. Only time will tell.

** The episode "Crickets" confirms that nearly all animals, fish, and insects were wiped out. Enough crickets apparently survived to reproduce into a small population.

** Maybe they couldn't handle it and committed suicide?