Zombie Family Car Stickers

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Earlier this week, Cory posted about fun "My Monster Family" car stickers. Coincidentally, our pals at GAMAGO just released their terrific Zombie Family Car Stickers! Calvin, zip up your pants and run for your life! Zombie Family Car Stickers

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CharredBarn

When are the Manson family car stickers coming? Seems like the logical next iteration.
holyalmost

I worked in a decal shop last year and we made SO many of the super happy stick people families. It was amazing how much money people were willing to spend on these things and getting them to look perfect. The sad part was that they are everywhere and despite customizing them to each customer’s design preferences, they somehow all looked the same. Would love these as a comment on broadcasting the apparent achievement of the North American Dream.

“Look at my not so perfect family! Look at it!”
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This is not the Zombie Family stickers I want. What I want is a family of zombie fighters taking headshots to a bunch of Zombies in the distance.
Can’t find that.
sarahnocal

I really don’t understand these sort of stickers..what are they supposed to say? Who are they for? If they are for me I don’t get it….is it bragging that you can multiply? I don’t understand this sort of promotion.Do they think people care how many are in their family and what age/ sex they are? Do people really care about these things?
I see these sort of stickers, ribbon magnets, etc. and I really wonder what is the thinking behind them, because I just don’t get it. Do people in cars feel anonymous and feel the need to let people know how interesting and unusual they are? People that they don’t even know and will never meet? Please explain to me.
- holyalmost
  
  I think it’s people depicting their family as another object or achievement they have. It’s like they’re shouting at everyone on the road: “This car is mine, and this happy family is mine! These things define me as a person and I’m proud of that!”
  
  There’s nothing wrong with this of course, but it’s the implied judgement of anyone else who doesn’t have this that is frustrating. As a single 32 year old woman who is more interested in my career than men or babies at the moment, I can tell you how weirded out other people get by my lifestyle. They always ask if I’m seeing someone. Always. Because if you’re not working toward the happy nuclear family and all the stuff that goes with it, then you’re weird. You’re a social deviant. The decals are a broadcast to the world that they are not social deviants. They have the happy perfect family.
  - clarkie604
    
    It’s just a sticker. It’s not a social statement.
    
    But I have to admit I do this all the time with my single friends. Not asking about current relationship status so much, because that seems kind of rude. More, talking incessantly about my kids. I’m sure you get that too, and I have to say — I’m sorry. The problem is, I don’t have anything better to talk about because they sort of take over your life. There, see, I’m doing it again.
    - IronEdithKidd
      
      I disagree. To the people plastering the stick figures all over their minivans and SUV’s*, the stickers are a social statement. They are bragging, as sarahnocal suggests, that they’ve multiplied.
      
      *The only time I’ve seen any of these stickers on an actual car, it’s been two moms and a couple animals or a baby, or two dads and a couple animals or a baby.
      - walk0080
        
        If I put a these stickers w/ mom+dad+dog (no kids) am I bragging too? I think they are just fun and if you have kids they are probably fun for the kids too.
  - pete davidson
    
    I kind of like the variation with two smiling adults and a large sack of money myself..
    - walk0080
      
      Awesome
- futnuh
  
  I’d be willing to wager that you don’t have kids. The stickers aren’t intended for you, the anonymous driver following the vehicle on the highway, they’re for the kids in the car. And no, my car doesn’t have a single decal on it.
- WillieNelsonMandela
  
  Wow. I heard Andy Rooney’s voice as I read that.
xzzy

Were I ever to disgrace the back end of my car with stickers, my spin on these stick figures would be to render machines of war laying destruction to each other.. which is what my notebook margins were filled with back in grade school.
Sparrow

I am frequently tempted to put the non-zombified version of these stickers on my car door, as trophies, like on a WW1 airplane.
MollyMaguire

The decal I want is Calvin peeing on Calvin peeing on LOGO.

But I have to say that I find the display of un-branded stickers representing you and your family a lot less annoying than gear/clothing/shoe/stuff logos that are not really unique to you at all and only advertise for a corporation to which you more than likely have no personal connection.
CG

So, for those who think these style of family stickers are obnoxious, do you also object to stickers for sports teams, charities, Cthulu fishies and/or rainbow flags?

You put what’s important to you on your car.
- IronEdithKidd
  
  Yes. It gets quite obnoxious when you live in one of America’s bumper sticker arms race hot-spots. Unfortunately, I live in a hot-spot. It rather colors my opinion on the matter.
  - CG
    
    Well, at least you’re consistent :)
    
    I just heard about bumper sticker wars in America http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/01/12/f-rfa-macdonald.html
    
    It’s not something we have up here (yet). Hopefully never, really.
    - IronEdithKidd
      
      Keep a sharp eye. You’ve got that fab Harper fellow folks are upset about, you might be seeing more stickers in the days ahead.
    - Ito Kagehisa
      
      Interesting article – I especially liked Romney with the nuclear mushroom growing out of his head. What did it have to do with zombie bumper stickers?
      - CG
        
        There was a line in there about bumper sticker battles.
      - IronEdithKidd
        
        It’s pretty cold in Kanukistan this week, cut him some slack for wandering, eh?
pjcamp

What we need is a zombie Calvin. I’d totally go for that (and so would Calvin).
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