It's BEWITCHED, bee-yotch!

Courtesy of our friends at WP:
'Bewitched' Statue Bothers Some In Salem (WP 05102005)

Executives at TV Land surely expected gracious applause when they announced plans for a bronze statue of Samantha Stephens in "Bewitched." And why not...?

Well, it seems like the residents of Salem, Mass weren't too pleased about the idea. And I quote:

"It's like TV Land going to Auschwitz and proposing to erect a statue of Colonel Klink," says John Carr, a former member of the Salem Historic District Commission. "Putting this statue in the park near the church where this all happened, it trivializes the execution of 19 people."

YB's take: Hey, people of Salem... somehow I doubt that tourism is booming in your lil' podunk town. By establishing your town (which happened to kill a few witches) with a pop-culture icon like Samantha Stevens... well, you can't GO WRONG. I love Bewitched. Think of all the tchotchkies you can pawn off to the tourists! Capitalism, baby. Capitalism.

(twinkle-twinkle-twinkle!)