If you laugh at this you’re going to Hell
By You’ve been warned.
Luckily nobody has over-reacted or anything:
SAN ANTONIO —Miracle Mattress will close “indefinitely” after the San Antonio store’s advertisement for a 9/11-themed “Twin Tower Sale” received heavy social media backlash and media attention, the company announced Friday.
The now-deleted video, posted on the store’s Facebook page earlier this week, shows manager Cherise Bonanno and two employees boasting the promotion in front of two stacks of mattresses.
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“Effective immediately, our Miracle Mattress store will be closed indefinitely,” owner Mike Bonanno said in a letter posted to the store’s doors on Friday. “We will be silent through the 9/11 anniversary to avoid any further distractions from a day of recognition and remembrance for the victims and their families. We take full responsibility for our actions and sincerely regret the hurt and pain caused by this disrespectful advertising campaign.”
The company, which has apologized for its actions, said it will lay out “plans to offer support for the 9/11 Memorial and victim funds” in a statement next week.
“There is very little we can do to take away the hurt we have caused but we can begin with silence through the anniversary and then do our best to follow up with actions that reflect the seriousness of our mistake,” Mike Bonanno said in the letter.
. . . obviously the ad is horribly tasteless (if it makes a difference it was a video posted on the store’s Facebook page, as opposed to something that ran in conventional advertising formats) and basically suicidal from a business point of view, but the whole subject of black humor is pretty interesting. What about this, which was broadcast three (not 15) years after 9/11?
This scene takes place in the context of an episode where, among other things, a Holocaust survivor and a contestant from the show Survivor get into a fight at a dinner party about who suffered more. Is the mattress commercial worse because it’s a mattress commercial? (Full disclosure: I love Curb Your Enthusiasm and this is one of my favorite episodes),