Dead Man Popping
Good old Orville Redenbacher has been dead now for over eleven years. Now, I'm told that two nights ago, during the Golden Globe Awards, a new Orville Redenbacher commercial aired featuring a digital duplication of the real (now dead) founder of the popcorn brand. Okay, it's one thing for KFC to have a cartoon version of Colonel Sanders dancing around and shouting hip-hop phrases, but it's quite another to see a dead man hawking popcorn (and sticking his zombiefied hand into the bowl as well).
They have the old zombie - who really doesn't even sound like Orville - listening to an i-Pod. Whoopee! Who gives a rat's a$$? I found the whole thing a little creepy when I finally got to see it on-line.
Orville's grandson, Gary - who appeared in some commercials with his grandpa in the early '90s - doesn't seem to have a problem with it. He told USA Today, "Grandpa would go for it. He was a cutting-edge guy. This is a way to honor his legacy".
Okay, Gary, but this self-avowed popcorn addict has lost a little of his appetite for the Zea mays everta.
They have the old zombie - who really doesn't even sound like Orville - listening to an i-Pod. Whoopee! Who gives a rat's a$$? I found the whole thing a little creepy when I finally got to see it on-line.
Orville's grandson, Gary - who appeared in some commercials with his grandpa in the early '90s - doesn't seem to have a problem with it. He told USA Today, "Grandpa would go for it. He was a cutting-edge guy. This is a way to honor his legacy".
Okay, Gary, but this self-avowed popcorn addict has lost a little of his appetite for the Zea mays everta.
posted by Robert Rouse at 4:20 PM
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