Zombie (cocktail) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• Scottish comedian and actor Billy Connolly advised his audience during his An Audience With... show to try the Zombie, citing that it's "in an extraordinary concept; drunk from the bottom-up".
• In M*A*S*H, Season 3, Episode 17, Trapper John McIntyre orders a Zombie at the officers' club and says "Keep them coming until I turn into one."
• The Zombie cocktail also appears as one of many of the namechecks found in Steely Dan songs, appearing in the song "Haitian Divorce" on the album The Royal Scam.
• In 1940, pianist Fats Waller recorded a novelty song called "Abercrombie Had a Zombie" about the effects of the cocktail on a previously law-abiding citizen who has a few zombies and becomes a public menace. The song also mentions Aquacade and other features of the 1939 New York World's Fair where the drink was popularized.
• In the "Is It Magic or Imagination?" episode of Bewitched, Darrin orders a Zombie for Samantha. When she makes them leave before receiving the drink, Darrin says "if you didn't want the zombie I would have drank it" so she conjures one for him.
• The drink is mentioned by the doctor in the 1943 film I Walked With a Zombie as the final example of what the definition of a zombie might entail. Frances Dee's character responds, "I tried one once, but there wasn't anything dead about it."
• In the 1981 film comedy Modern Problems, Nell Carter (as voodoo maid Dorita) makes a big tray of really nice looking Zombies for vacationing guests Chevy Chase, Patti D'Arbanville, Mary Kay Place and Brian Doyle-Murray in the living room of their beach house getaway. Chevy Chase's character drinks the entire Zombie all at once, stunning the rest of the guests, and portending the weekend of chaos to come.
• In the skit entitled "Scandalous Weekend" in season two of the sketch comedy show The Kids in the Hall the recurring character Cathy Strupp, played by Scott Thompson, orders a Triple Zombie in a bar called the Love Boat Disco.
• In the "Catch a Falling Star" episode of Quantum Leap, a number of the characters order Zombies.
• The Zombie appears in The Fiery Furnaces' album Rehearsing My Choir; the narrator states 'it just bombed me', during "A Candymaker’s Knife in my Handbag"
• The Zombie is mentioned by rapper Common in the track "8 Minutes to Sunrise" off his "Sensibility" album (02:00).
• In the Gilligan's Island episode "Voodoo Something to Me," Gilligan informs Mrs. Howell the Professor has been turned into a zombie by a witchdoctor. She asks Thurston what a zombie is; he starts giving her the recipe for the cocktail, but wonders why she asked. She explains the Professor has been turned into one. Thurston suggests they go see if they can help- and bring some straws!
• In All in the Family episode "New Year's Wedding", a wedding guest asks for a Double Zombie.
• The Zombie cocktail is mentioned in the Men at Work song "Land Down Under". Travelling in a fried out combie; On a hippie trail, head full of Zombie.