Not With A Bang

If you possess a functioning internet connection, you’re likely aware that NBC sitcomCommunity has just begun an extended hiatus. Bloggers and pop culture critics have shouted themselves hoarse over the scheduling decision, ratcheting up their outrage to levels usually reserved for Things Lindsey Lohan Wore to Court Appearances. Not even mild-mannered news sites have managed to stay above the fray. As Cord Jefferson deftlydescribed, passionate denizens of the blogosphere and the Twitterverse paint an overblown picture of the actual number of people watching Community on a weekly basis. But even by conservative estimates, more than 3 million comedy connoisseurs are out there weeping into their replica anus flags this week.  

Full disclosure: I’m one of them. I may not own a flag, but I will feel a certain sense of loss on spring Thursdays without Dan Harmon’s study group of misfit matriculators around. And as a card-carrying member of the Save Community movement, I’ve been surprised at the lack of inspiring ideas for a mass mailing campaign along the lines of the peanuts that saved Jericho or the millions of mediocre sandwiches that convinced NBC to throw Chuck a life preserver. That’s probably a good thing, since those campaigns tend to be time-consuming failures—and since the post-sandwich seasons of Chuck have been more like keelhauling a corpse than resurrecting it. But if Community fans are desperate to take action, and if that action must include mailing an assload of something to NBC, here’s my humble suggestion: Seagram’s 7 whisky and 7-Up. Enough to make an assload of Seven and Sevens.

Too bad I’m such a terrible drinker.