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A CHUCKLE INSTEAD OF A FATWA

Night_of_the_living_dead_1I saw the commercial only once a few weeks ago, but I immediately had the same thought as Kathy Shaidle expressed in her blog "Relapsed Catholic":

>>What I want to know is: what is Burlington Coat Factory thinking? They're running b&w Night of the Living Dead-themed spots with zombies shuffling along, and the voice over is, "High prices have turned the Easter parade into a horror show".

>>So the agency's pitch was what: "Easter! Jesus rose from the dead! Zombies!! Huh, am I right? Huh?"<<

The commercial is, of course, profane, but I couldn't help but laugh at the cluelessness of the smarmy ad execs who must have thought the zombies were a clever tie-in to Easter.  Not exactly charitable of me, but better than issuing a fatwa against them.  In fact, it triggered one of those serendipitous cascade of ideas that lead to "What Zombies Don't Know".

Posted by Wm Tingley on April 12, 2006 at 05:00 PM in Theology |

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