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six feet under poster banned
By Dabitch
Created Jun 1 2003 - 01:24

Advertising posters for US drama "Six Feet Under" have been banned.

Depicting corpses the posters sold luxury to die for [1] , embalming fluid and wound filler presented the same way luxury perfumes. The ads parody cosmetics adverts.

The body copy carries on to say that the items are available from Fisher & Sons funeral home - the name of the fictional funeral home in the show.

The Advertising Standards Authority received nine complaints from people upset by the corpses advertising funeral products.

count'em, nine.


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Source URL: http://commercial-archive.com/node/104369

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[1] http://www.luxurytodiefor.com/
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