Current mood:	annoyed
Entry tags:	television

That's just morbid
While watching Criminal Minds tonight, I saw the most sick and disturbing thing--yes, the commercials featuring a reanimated Orville Redenbacher. If you haven't seen it, it's not an old film clip or anything--it's basically CGI of a man's corpse dancing around. I'm sorry, but that's just freaking creepy. I wrote Redenbacher's obituary about 10 years ago, when I was working for a news digest for children. He had a heart attack while in the bathtub and drowned--I remember it because I was new on the job, and I wasn't sure how much detail I should put into these obituaries, and that sequence of events struck me as a little too detailed for our intended audience of children.

So, yeah--that's what I think about when I see that commercial: having a heart attack and drowning in the tub, and how that's really going to be disturbing to children, and how morbid and wrong it is to bring a real person's corpse back to life in order to sell popcorn. Not exactly the sort of thing that makes me want to rush out to purchase snack food, is it?

(Copyranter, um, rants about this same subject here.)