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Has anyone been following the news about the protests? Fans of Jericho have been sending tons of peanuts to CBS to protest its cancellation through a website called Nutsonline.com . I hope it's successful. If not, I hope the furor the cancellation has caused will cue another network to pick it up. Rumor has it that TNT is considering the possibility. Any Jericho fans in here?

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Jericho is about america after we get nuked, and how the people of the town jericho survive afterwards. Its like a "The Morning After" but serialized.

 

I personally love post-apocalyptic movies and series, but I could never catch the show when it was on because I was at work.

 

Network tv has always cancelled the best shows, opting instead to air crap like "reality" shows. So its no wonder than they are wanting to do it to Jericho too.

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Meh.

 

Caught it a couple of times, and it worked better than Nytol for me.

 

You have to see it from the beginning. They still have every episode posted on the CBS website.

 

To stingerhs: Nutsonline is a business that started getting orders for roasted peanuts to be delivered to CBS executives in protest for the cancellation of the show. The reason for sending nuts is because, in the last episode, Jake Green was told to surrender the town of Jericho to the leader of the next town, New Bern. His response to the demands was "Nuts!" Meaning they were crazy to think they would give up without a fight! And, so, the fans took that to heart and started bombarding the network with nuts to show them that we won't give up without a fight. So far, there have been nearly 12 TONS of nuts ordered. I pitched in too!

 

And, for those of you who think it can't possibly work, it worked for Roswell. Fans of that show sent thousands of tiny bottles of Tabasco sauce to that network when they canceled the show and they were convinced to bring it back for another season. Evidently, the choice of Tabasco was because it was the aliens' favorite condiment.

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*snip*

 

Actually the more famous and real incident happened during WWII. Which I sure is what inspired the writers for this scene.

 

Gen. Anthony Clement McAuliffe is best remembered for uttering a single word -- no mean feat, considering that even the shortest Bible verse has two. Commanding the U.S. Army’s beleaguered and surrounded 101st Airborne Division during World War II’s Battle of the Bulge, McAuliffe received a German surrender ultimatum. "Nuts!" he replied, and became a lasting symbol of American courage and determination under fire.

 

A 1918 West Point graduate, McAuliffe held various field artillery positions before World War II. On the eve of D-Day, McAuliffe jumped with the first wave as a commander of division artillery, although he had never received formal parachute training.

 

In December 1944, during the siege of Bastogne, Belgium, McAuliffe was acting commander of the 101st in Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor’s absence. The Americans had been holding the Belgian town "at all costs," and on Dec. 22, Gen. McAuliffe received the encouraging news that the 4th Armored Division was beginning its drive north to relieve the 101st. Later that morning, members of the division’s glider regiment saw four Germans coming up the road carrying a white flag. Everyone hoped they were offering surrender. Instead, they presented two pages demanding the Americans’ surrender: "To the USA Commander of the encircled town of Bastogne. . .There is only one possibility. . .the honorable surrender of the encircled town."

 

McAuliffe glanced at the message and said, "Aw, nuts!" When he told his commanders he didn’t know what answer to send, Lt. Col. Harry Kinnard said ‘That first crack you made would be hard to beat, General." Everyone laughed as a sergeant typed up the succinct response: "To the German Commander: Nuts! The American Commander."

 

Between this stoic reply, Patton’s troops from the south, and a change in the weather that allowed air reinforcement the following day, the 101st was able to hold Bastogne. Their victory resulted in the first full-Division Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation.

 

McAuliffe’s actions at Bastogne helped assure the final defeat of the Germans. Gen. McAuliffe continued to serve on active duty, including assignments as Head of the Army Chemical Corps, Commander, 7th Army, and Commander-In-Chief of the U.S. Army, Europe, until his 1956 retirement. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1975 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

 

http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent?file=ML_mcauliffe_bkp

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To Arátoeldar:

 

Thanks for the history lesson! I know the Gen. McAuliffe story was the basis for the comment on Jericho (they even said so earlier in that episode). I just didn't delve deeper into it for the sake of time. But thanks again!

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they better not cancel it. I love Jericho.

I'm with ya on that one. I liked watching it and in fact I insisted that my dad record it for me if i couldn't make it so I can watch it. I will be pissed if the netwrok decideds to cancel. reality TV bites and is stupid.

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