Bible Fail

The latest in the line of bible/pop culture crossover fails:

"Apples to Apples - Bible Edition"

Seriously? 

Apples to Apples is a decent game.  If you've never played, basically, you've got a stack of cards with adjectives on them (those are the ones that describe nouns, right?), and each player has a handful of cards with nouns on them (people, places, things, events).  An adjective card is flipped, and each player throws down a noun card out of his/her hand which best fits the adjective.  The judge for the round gets to pick the winner (funny  or serious, which one fits best) and awards the winner for the round 1 point.  For example: the card reads 'smelly', and the players throw in 'feet', 'ape', 'the super bowl', 'Gandi', and 'prunes'.  Which do you pick as the winner?  Good game.  The tag line for the game is 'the game of hilarious comparisons' - which it is; it can get pretty silly.

So why ruin that game with a bible edition?  Really?

The example play shown in the ad I saw was this:  "amazing" - "Michael the Archangel", "Prince of Peace", Nicholas Copernicus", "Isaac", and a couple others I couldn't read.  Wow, can you feel the hilarity?  I am so excited to play this game.  It might just be the most fun I've had all day* - but I doubt it (I do work in an office punching numbers into a calculator all day after all).

The marketing doorknob who thought up the brilliant scheme to mesh 'Christian' and 'bible' with successful pop culture games should be locked in a room and forced to play these terrible games for weeks at a time.  They're not good.  They're not fun.  And, generally, they just add a whole bunch of awkwardness to the game as players carefully sidestep offending other players.  For example... what if in that play above, someone threw in 'Satan' into the mix?  Play that with Gramma in the room; someone would have some serious explaining to do!  (Unless of course, 'Satan' isn't even a word on any of the cards... which I wouldn't doubt.) 

These games are made for one reason - to make some schmuck more money (and possibly to make Christians look like morons who don't know how to have real fun).  Please don't ever purchase one of these 'bible' games for me, nor ever ask me to play (unless of course there's alcohol involved... that might help a little bit... maybe, but I doubt it).



*remember? blue = sarcasm