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* TheCavalry: When the incumbent president's campaign team pulls strings to annul the malcontent dead soldiers' votes (and, implicitly, use other shenanigans to turn the election back in their favor), not only do said soldiers come back to life ''again''... but so does '''''EVERY OTHER DEAD AMERICAN SOLDIER.''''' (It's unclear whether only those who died violent deaths come back to life, but [[spoiler: David's brother]] being one of the revenants means that even those who didn't die while fighting a war did come back; at the very least all the dead at Arlington rose back up.)
* CoconutSuperpowers: At the end, ''every'' dead American soldier, even going back to the Revolution, comes back to life... but we still only see the more recently dead ones since there's no budget for a bunch of skeletons.
* CoconutSuperpowers: At the end, ''every'' dead American soldier, even going back to the Revolution, comes back to life... but we still only see the more recently dead ones since there's no budget for a bunch of skeletons.
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* TheCavalry: When the incumbent president's campaign team pulls strings to annul the malcontent dead soldiers' votes (and, implicitly, use other shenanigans to turn the election back in their favor), not only do said soldiers come back to life ''again''... but so does '''''EVERY OTHER DEAD AMERICAN SOLDIER.''''' (It's unclear whether only those who died violent deaths come back to life, but [[spoiler: David's brother]] brother being one of the revenants means that even those who didn't die while fighting a war did come back; at the very least all the dead at Arlington rose back up.)
* CoconutSuperpowers: At the end, ''every'' dead American soldier, even going back to the Revolution, comes back to life... but we still only see the more recently dead ones since there's no budget for a bunch of skeletons.
* CoconutSuperpowers: At the end, ''every'' dead American soldier, even going back to the Revolution, comes back to life... but we still only see the more recently dead ones since there's no budget for a bunch of skeletons.
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* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Philip kills David this way, making him join the army of the dead.]]
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* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Philip Philip kills David this way, making him join the army of the dead.]]
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Philip didn't die in the war. He was accidentally killed at home by a very young David, who was playing with his gun.]]
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* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Philip didn't die in the war. He was accidentally killed at home by a very young David, who was playing with his gun.]]
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: President Shelly is an obvious stand-in for UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush and Jane is a parody of Ann Coulter.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: President Shelly is an obvious stand-in for UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, Kurt Rand is one for Karl Rove, and Jane is a parody of Ann Coulter.
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* WriterOnBoard: '''Duh.''' It's little wonder what dide the makers themselves voted for, isn't it?
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* WriterOnBoard: '''Duh.''' It's little wonder what dide side the makers themselves voted for, isn't it?
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: You may claim that some of the issues denounced have become sadly timeless, but at the very least, David's age can only mesh so well with being a small child in the Vietnam War.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: You may claim that some of the issues denounced have become sadly timeless, but at the very least, David's age can only mesh so well with being a small child in the Vietnam War.
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Directed by Creator/JoeDante and based on a short story by Dale Bailey. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything America is fighting an unpopular war]] as the next presidential election is nearing. When confronted by the mother of a fallen soldier on live TV, David Murch (John Tenney), a publicity agent for the current government whose own brother was killed in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, declares his conviction that the fallen soldiers would support the war if given the choice to come back. Unfortunately for him, they're about to. And they don't.
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Directed by Creator/JoeDante and based on a short story by Dale Bailey.[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything America is fighting an unpopular war]] war as the next presidential election is nearing. When confronted by the mother of a fallen soldier on live TV, David Murch (John Tenney), a publicity agent for the current government administration whose own brother was killed in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, declares states his conviction that the fallen soldiers would support the war if given the choice chance to come back. Unfortunately for him, they're about to. And to... and they don't.
Directed by Creator/JoeDante and based on a short story by Dale Bailey.
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: David becomes this after his own people cross too many lines trying to stop the zombie soldiers from having a say in the election and finding out the truth about his brother's death.]]
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: David becomes this one after his own people cross too many lines trying to stop the zombie soldiers from having a say in the election and finding out the truth about his brother's death.]]death.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: It is unlikely anyone actually wanted the undead soldiers to rise, but they still asked for it.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: It is unlikely anyone actually wanted the undead soldiers to rise, but they still asked for it.
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* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten: Jane Cleaver, played by Thea Gill.
* CasualKink: David's phone rings while he is having a BDSM session with Jane. He answers the phone, but she keeps whipping him a bit just to embarrass him in front of his boss.
* TheCavalry: When the incumbent president's campaign team pulls strings to annul the malcontent dead soldiers' votes (and, it's implied, use other shenanigans to turn the election back in their favor), not only do said soldiers come back to life ''again''... but so does '''''EVERY OTHER DEAD AMERICAN SOLDIER.''''' (It's unclear whether only those who died violent deaths come back to life, but [[spoiler: David's brother being one of the revenants]] means that even those who didn't die while fighting a war did come back; at the very least all the dead at Arlington rose back up.)
* CoconutSuperpowers: At the end, ''every'' dead American soldier, even going back to the Revolution, comes back to life...but we still only see the more recently dead ones since there's no budget for a bunch of skeletons.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There are references to the Iraq War, Guantánamo and the 2000 Florida voting controversy.
* GhostlyGoals: The undead soldiers only drop dead after being allowed to vote. They come back to life again when the government decides to not consider their votes as valid.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: President Shelly is an obvious stand-in for UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush while Jane is a parody of Ann Coulter.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Talking (though it hurts), fully conscious, can't be killed and do not want brains.
* PostMortemConversion: Deconstructed. The InvisiblePresident makes [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor a wish]] in one of his speeches to the nation, wishing for the dead American soldiers of the Iraq war to come back and express how they feel, implying that they would all support him. Cue the zombies! The dead soldiers are coming back, [[spoiler:but they are not here to eat brains. Instead, they are here to vote... for the other guy!]]
* CasualKink: David's phone rings while he is having a BDSM session with Jane. He answers the phone, but she keeps whipping him a bit just to embarrass him in front of his boss.
* TheCavalry: When the incumbent president's campaign team pulls strings to annul the malcontent dead soldiers' votes (and, it's implied, use other shenanigans to turn the election back in their favor), not only do said soldiers come back to life ''again''... but so does '''''EVERY OTHER DEAD AMERICAN SOLDIER.''''' (It's unclear whether only those who died violent deaths come back to life, but [[spoiler: David's brother being one of the revenants]] means that even those who didn't die while fighting a war did come back; at the very least all the dead at Arlington rose back up.)
* CoconutSuperpowers: At the end, ''every'' dead American soldier, even going back to the Revolution, comes back to life...but we still only see the more recently dead ones since there's no budget for a bunch of skeletons.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There are references to the Iraq War, Guantánamo and the 2000 Florida voting controversy.
* GhostlyGoals: The undead soldiers only drop dead after being allowed to vote. They come back to life again when the government decides to not consider their votes as valid.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: President Shelly is an obvious stand-in for UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush while Jane is a parody of Ann Coulter.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Talking (though it hurts), fully conscious, can't be killed and do not want brains.
* PostMortemConversion: Deconstructed. The InvisiblePresident makes [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor a wish]] in one of his speeches to the nation, wishing for the dead American soldiers of the Iraq war to come back and express how they feel, implying that they would all support him. Cue the zombies! The dead soldiers are coming back, [[spoiler:but they are not here to eat brains. Instead, they are here to vote... for the other guy!]]
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* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten: Jane Cleaver, a parody of Ann Coulter played by Thea Gill.
* CasualKink: David's phone rings while he is having a BDSM session with Jane. He answers the phone, but she keeps whipping hima bit just to embarrass him in front of his boss.
* TheCavalry: When the incumbent president's campaign team pulls strings to annul the malcontent dead soldiers' votes (and,it's implied, implicitly, use other shenanigans to turn the election back in their favor), not only do said soldiers come back to life ''again''... but so does '''''EVERY OTHER DEAD AMERICAN SOLDIER.''''' (It's unclear whether only those who died violent deaths come back to life, but [[spoiler: David's brother brother]] being one of the revenants]] revenants means that even those who didn't die while fighting a war did come back; at the very least all the dead at Arlington rose back up.)
* CoconutSuperpowers: At the end, ''every'' dead American soldier, even going back to the Revolution, comes back to life... but we still only see the more recently dead ones since there's no budget for a bunch of skeletons.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:There are Obvious references to the Iraq War, Guantánamo Guantanamo, and the 2000 Florida voting controversy.
* GhostlyGoals: The undead soldiers only drop dead after being allowed to vote. They come back to life again when the government decides to notconsider count their votes as valid.
* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Philip kills David this way, making him join the army of the dead.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: President Shelly is an obvious stand-in for UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBushwhile and Jane is a parody of Ann Coulter.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Talking (though it hurts), fully conscious, can't bekilled killed, and do not want brains.
* PostMortemConversion:Deconstructed. DeconstructedTrope. The InvisiblePresident makes [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor a wish]] in one of his speeches to the nation, wishing for that the dead American soldiers of the Iraq war to come back and express how they feel, implying that they would all support him. Cue the zombies! The dead soldiers are coming back, [[spoiler:but but they are not here to eat brains. Instead, they are here to vote... for ''for the other guy!]]guy!''
* ReturningWarVet: With the twist that the vets are undead, but many aspects of the trope are otherwise ticket off - i.e. the government is happy to use the soldiers in the war and for sympathy points in speeches, but not to deal with them and the changes made on them by the war once they are back home.
* CasualKink: David's phone rings while he is having a BDSM session with Jane. He answers the phone, but she keeps whipping him
* TheCavalry: When the incumbent president's campaign team pulls strings to annul the malcontent dead soldiers' votes (and,
* CoconutSuperpowers: At the end, ''every'' dead American soldier, even going back to the Revolution, comes back to life... but we still only see the more recently dead ones since there's no budget for a bunch of skeletons.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
* GhostlyGoals: The undead soldiers only drop dead after being allowed to vote. They come back to life again when the government decides to not
* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:Philip kills David this way, making him join the army of the dead.]]
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: President Shelly is an obvious stand-in for UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Talking (though it hurts), fully conscious, can't be
* PostMortemConversion:
* ReturningWarVet: With the twist that the vets are undead, but many aspects of the trope are otherwise ticket off - i.e. the government is happy to use the soldiers in the war and for sympathy points in speeches, but not to deal with them and the changes made on them by the war once they are back home.
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* RevenantZombie: The episode is about dead US soldiers rising from their graves to vote the [[StrawCharacter Straw Conservatives]] out of office.
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* RevenantZombie: The episode is about dead Dead US soldiers rising rise from their graves to vote the [[StrawCharacter Straw Conservatives]] out of office.
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* WriterOnBoard: '''Duh.'''
* ZombieApocalypse: Double Subverted. The undead soldiers make it pretty clear they aren't mindless bodies there to eat people. They're entirely civilized (though a little grumpy for obvious reasons) and the only people they are shown killing did something to deserve it. In a hilarious turn, they settle for occupying Washington D.C. and forcing the re-elected Shelley to flee as a way to show their continuing discontent.
* ZombieApocalypse: Double Subverted. The undead soldiers make it pretty clear they aren't mindless bodies there to eat people. They're entirely civilized (though a little grumpy for obvious reasons) and the only people they are shown killing did something to deserve it. In a hilarious turn, they settle for occupying Washington D.C. and forcing the re-elected Shelley to flee as a way to show their continuing discontent.
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* WriterOnBoard: '''Duh.'''
''' It's little wonder what dide the makers themselves voted for, isn't it?
* ZombieApocalypse: Double Subverted. The undead soldiers make itpretty clear that they aren't mindless bodies there come to eat people. They're entirely civilized (though a little grumpy for obvious reasons) and the only people they are shown killing did something to deserve it. In a hilarious turn, they settle for occupying Washington D.C. and forcing the re-elected Shelley to flee as a way to show their continuing discontent.
* ZombieApocalypse: Double Subverted. The undead soldiers make it
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* BlackGuyDiesFirst: An interesting variation. The return of the first zombies is witnessed by a young black serviceman. The zombies slowly approach him, shrug off his bullets, corner him against a wall... and then he gets gunned down by the crossfire of another serviceman. The zombies leave without killing anyone.
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* BlackGuyDiesFirst: BlackDudeDiesFirst: An interesting variation. The return of the first zombies is witnessed by a young black serviceman. The zombies slowly approach him, shrug off his bullets, corner him against a wall... and then he gets gunned down by the crossfire of another serviceman. The zombies leave without killing anyone.
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Directed by Creator/JoeDante and based on a short story by Dale Bailey. [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything America is fighting an unpopular war]] as the next presidential election is nearing. When confronted by the mother of a fallen soldier on live TV, David Murch (John Tenney), a publicity agent for the current government whose own brother was killed in UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, declares his conviction that the fallen soldiers would support the war if given the choice to come back. Unfortunately for him, they're about to. And they don't.
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: David becomes this after his own people cross too many lines trying to stop the zombie soldiers from having a say in the election and finding out the truth about his brother's death.]]
* BlackGuyDiesFirst: An interesting variation. The return of the first zombies is witnessed by a young black serviceman. The zombies slowly approach him, shrug off his bullets, corner him against a wall... and then he gets gunned down by the crossfire of another serviceman. The zombies leave without killing anyone.
* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten: Jane Cleaver, played by Thea Gill.
* CasualKink: David's phone rings while he is having a BDSM session with Jane. He answers the phone, but she keeps whipping him a bit just to embarrass him in front of his boss.
* TheCavalry: When the incumbent president's campaign team pulls strings to annul the malcontent dead soldiers' votes (and, it's implied, use other shenanigans to turn the election back in their favor), not only do said soldiers come back to life ''again''... but so does '''''EVERY OTHER DEAD AMERICAN SOLDIER.''''' (It's unclear whether only those who died violent deaths come back to life, but [[spoiler: David's brother being one of the revenants]] means that even those who didn't die while fighting a war did come back; at the very least all the dead at Arlington rose back up.)
* CoconutSuperpowers: At the end, ''every'' dead American soldier, even going back to the Revolution, comes back to life...but we still only see the more recently dead ones since there's no budget for a bunch of skeletons.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There are references to the Iraq War, Guantánamo and the 2000 Florida voting controversy.
* GhostlyGoals: The undead soldiers only drop dead after being allowed to vote. They come back to life again when the government decides to not consider their votes as valid.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: President Shelly is an obvious stand-in for UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush while Jane is a parody of Ann Coulter.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Talking (though it hurts), fully conscious, can't be killed and do not want brains.
* PostMortemConversion: Deconstructed. The InvisiblePresident makes [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor a wish]] in one of his speeches to the nation, wishing for the dead American soldiers of the Iraq war to come back and express how they feel, implying that they would all support him. Cue the zombies! The dead soldiers are coming back, [[spoiler:but they are not here to eat brains. Instead, they are here to vote... for the other guy!]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Philip didn't die in the war. He was accidentally killed at home by a very young David, who was playing with his gun.]]
* RevenantZombie: The episode is about dead US soldiers rising from their graves to vote the [[StrawCharacter Straw Conservatives]] out of office.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Philip and, arguably, several of the undead soldiers.
* StrawmanPolitical: Several characters, with Jane being the most notable.
* WarIsHell: Invoked in the final line of the episode.
* WriterOnBoard: '''Duh.'''
* ZombieApocalypse: Double Subverted. The undead soldiers make it pretty clear they aren't mindless bodies there to eat people. They're entirely civilized (though a little grumpy for obvious reasons) and the only people they are shown killing did something to deserve it. In a hilarious turn, they settle for occupying Washington D.C. and forcing the re-elected Shelley to flee as a way to show their continuing discontent.
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: David becomes this after his own people cross too many lines trying to stop the zombie soldiers from having a say in the election and finding out the truth about his brother's death.]]
* BlackGuyDiesFirst: An interesting variation. The return of the first zombies is witnessed by a young black serviceman. The zombies slowly approach him, shrug off his bullets, corner him against a wall... and then he gets gunned down by the crossfire of another serviceman. The zombies leave without killing anyone.
* BlondeRepublicanSexKitten: Jane Cleaver, played by Thea Gill.
* CasualKink: David's phone rings while he is having a BDSM session with Jane. He answers the phone, but she keeps whipping him a bit just to embarrass him in front of his boss.
* TheCavalry: When the incumbent president's campaign team pulls strings to annul the malcontent dead soldiers' votes (and, it's implied, use other shenanigans to turn the election back in their favor), not only do said soldiers come back to life ''again''... but so does '''''EVERY OTHER DEAD AMERICAN SOLDIER.''''' (It's unclear whether only those who died violent deaths come back to life, but [[spoiler: David's brother being one of the revenants]] means that even those who didn't die while fighting a war did come back; at the very least all the dead at Arlington rose back up.)
* CoconutSuperpowers: At the end, ''every'' dead American soldier, even going back to the Revolution, comes back to life...but we still only see the more recently dead ones since there's no budget for a bunch of skeletons.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: There are references to the Iraq War, Guantánamo and the 2000 Florida voting controversy.
* GhostlyGoals: The undead soldiers only drop dead after being allowed to vote. They come back to life again when the government decides to not consider their votes as valid.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: President Shelly is an obvious stand-in for UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush while Jane is a parody of Ann Coulter.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Talking (though it hurts), fully conscious, can't be killed and do not want brains.
* PostMortemConversion: Deconstructed. The InvisiblePresident makes [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor a wish]] in one of his speeches to the nation, wishing for the dead American soldiers of the Iraq war to come back and express how they feel, implying that they would all support him. Cue the zombies! The dead soldiers are coming back, [[spoiler:but they are not here to eat brains. Instead, they are here to vote... for the other guy!]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: Philip didn't die in the war. He was accidentally killed at home by a very young David, who was playing with his gun.]]
* RevenantZombie: The episode is about dead US soldiers rising from their graves to vote the [[StrawCharacter Straw Conservatives]] out of office.
* ShellShockedVeteran: Philip and, arguably, several of the undead soldiers.
* StrawmanPolitical: Several characters, with Jane being the most notable.
* WarIsHell: Invoked in the final line of the episode.
* WriterOnBoard: '''Duh.'''
* ZombieApocalypse: Double Subverted. The undead soldiers make it pretty clear they aren't mindless bodies there to eat people. They're entirely civilized (though a little grumpy for obvious reasons) and the only people they are shown killing did something to deserve it. In a hilarious turn, they settle for occupying Washington D.C. and forcing the re-elected Shelley to flee as a way to show their continuing discontent.
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