In a recent episode of Fox's hit show Glee, the choir boys put on an impressive performance in costume and makeup by "Thriller" by Michael Jackson mixed with "Heads Will Roll" by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. What made the show noteworthy, aside from the quality of the zombie outfits and, of course, the singing and dancing, was the context of the show itself. The episode aired in February, so there's no sense of any connection to Halloween, nor does it suggest any particular nostalgia for the '80s. Given that the zombie routine was not only the highlight of the episode, but also played a vital role in the plot arc (as a ploy to win the big game), how can we understand the use of such a way apparently out of the ordinary? inappropriate reason? A closer examination of the episode provides a potential answer. This February episode focuses on several reversals and upheavals in the status of the main characters. The football players, who have spent the first season and a half tormenting the glee club, are forced to join them in a show and quickly become victims of the hockey team's all-too-familiar bullying (complete with Slushee attacks). As a result, football players decide not to perform and lose their eligibility to play in the big game. Their absence is filled on the field by the show choir girls, who prove to be a precious resource in their own way. As the football team, the show choir, and the zombie horde score the decisive touchdown, the most talented cheerleaders (the Cheerios) leave instead of abandoning their cheerful friends, thus setting in motion the downfall of the Cheerios' coach. cheerleader, Sue Sylvester, who not only loses the national competition she was favored, but is humiliated by a Katie Couric interview... in the middle of a sheet of paper... who wants to be here. Francine: What the hell am I? Peter : It's us, that's all, when there's no more room in hell. Stephen: What? Peter: Something my grandfather used to tell us. Do you know Macumba? Voodoo. His grandfather was a priest in Trinidad. He used to tell us, “When there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.” Here Romero not only criticizes our rampant consumerism (see Figures 1 and 2), but also connects that lifestyle to a kind of cosmic punishment. If hell is full, then many people have been damned for their misdeeds. The zombie plague becomes a kind of punishment for our rampant moral failures, large and small. This point is emphasized through zombie mimicry; what they do is not very different from what we do, but we more easily recognize the monstrosity of the action when it is performed by a monster.