Nice, thanks for collecting these references to "zombie apocalypse" together. The common meaning appears to be as a synonym for "sh*t hits the fan" on a global scale, in an indescript manner, but also with this weird, underlying disbelief that a global systemic breakdown would actually happen. Or maybe that's my personal opinion coloring my interpretation of how the phrase is being used.
Interesting! More data: 28 Days Later is 2002, Google Ngram shows an inflection point in 2005 and World War Z comes out in 2006. Also my kid showed me the Halloween episode of Community this morning.
Nice, thanks for collecting these references to "zombie apocalypse" together. The common meaning appears to be as a synonym for "sh*t hits the fan" on a global scale, in an indescript manner, but also with this weird, underlying disbelief that a global systemic breakdown would actually happen. Or maybe that's my personal opinion coloring my interpretation of how the phrase is being used.
Interesting! More data: 28 Days Later is 2002, Google Ngram shows an inflection point in 2005 and World War Z comes out in 2006. Also my kid showed me the Halloween episode of Community this morning.