So we view the origin of zombie movies as beginning with
Night of the Living Dead, right?
And if Wiki is to be trusted,
this is highly amusing...
The Black Smurfs
In a little mushroom village live the Smurfs, diminutive blue-skinned humanoid creatures. One day, one of them gets stung by a black fly that turns his skin jet black, drives him insane and reduces his vocabulary to the single word "gnap!". He bounces around and bites other Smurfs on their tail, which turns them into black Smurfs as well. Soon, almost everyone in the village has become a black Smurf, and Papa Smurf, the leader, tries to find a cure and cease the tail-biting black epidemic.
And from all this, my hubby is going around telling everyone that zombie movies are all based on the Smurfs.
*giggles*