Hey there,
all you Greasers, it's time for Sha-Na-Na! all you Gilmore Geeks, it's time for another installment of . . .
Operation: Daisy Duke!Version 2.10 -- "Why Does Taylor Keep Injuring His Leg?"MISSION STATEMENT: Our overall goal with ODD is to send real daisies to everyone who could possibly be needed to get everyone back to the negotiating table in order to urge them to work one last time to revoke the cancellation of Gilmore Girls.
TODAY’S GOALS for “Operation: Daisy Duke” are:A)
To ask viewers everywhere to send daisies on their own to Dawn Ostroff, Lauren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Amy Sherman-Palladino and/or Pater Roth (President of Warner Television) at their office addresses. B)
To max out The CW's viewer comment line by no later than 8pm ET / 5pm PT M-F, call 1-818-977-6878 as early as you can in the day, to lodge your complaint about the changes to The CW's fall schedule, about the cancellation of Gilmore Girls and the opportunity that shouldn't be missed to revive Gilmore Girls now that American Idol has broken itself by voting the real winner off in third place.
Although the goal is to max out the comment line, please do NOT call the line yourself more than once per day. [/u](Note: I said once *per day,* not "once, period."

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Please get more and more people to call the comment line yourself. The more people calling the better, the more repeat callers, the worse. Feel free to mention where you're from, what CW station you watch, your age, how you feel about whatever happens to Veronica Mars and also about the terrible replacement for Gg in the 8pm Tuesday timeslot (HINT: It's Beauty and the Geek, which is nothing more than the network conceding the timeslot to Fox.), etc.
C)
To gently remind The CW and Lauren and Alexis that we think that virtually all of the show's complex storylines require one more season to be resolved.Without further adieu, I present to you “Operation: Daisy Duke.”
1) Why "Operation: Daisy Duke"? Because it just wouldn't be a Save Gilmore Girls campaign without a bizarro pop culture reference coming from left field. The show has made some very amusing equations between Lorelai and the hottest Dukes cousin, including having Lorelai drive a jeep (just like Daisy did), having Lorelai wear Daisy Dukes to her meeting with Headmaster Charleston on Rory's first day at Chilton, because Stars Hollow is the set where Hazzard County used to exist and because the exterior of Lorelai's house is the exterior of Uncle Jesse's house. And because the many ironies inherent in the show's premise strongly suggest that we'll have better luck than Max did with his daisies.
2) Besides the obvious reference to the episode "Love, Daisies and Troubadours," why daisies? Because nationwide flower delivery is faster than snail mail at this point (ie: next-day delivery) and it's our "tobasco sauce" campaign without a chance of frightening the network in these post 9-11 days.
3)
Yes, the series season finale has aired, but it's time to triple our resolve, not to give in! It's time to set up some infrastructure and dive into some serious save-the-show projects. Lauren's exit interview with Michael Ausiello at TV Guide does NOT mean that all is lost -- she was taken aback by the abrupt cancellation of the series (no matter how much she tries to spin it) and moreover, nobody looks forward to auditions (as she mentioned to Ausiello that she's having to start doing), so Lauren even noting it is a cry for help. Furthermore, Scott Patterson said in no uncertain terms in his exist interview with Ausiello that he is not happy with the way that the show ended. MOREOVER, Kelly Bishop and Liza Weil both voiced their unhappiness with the abruptness of the show ending in a Washiington Post article posted on Tuesday, May 15th at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/14/AR2007051401693.html (free and fast registration may be required.) Encouragingly, Farscape got its four-hour miniseries LONG after the show was cancelled. Firefly's "Serenity" epilogue was greenlit LONG after that show was cancelled -- and that became a theatrical movie. Also, Amy Sherman-Palladino voiced interest in a 2-hour Gilmore Girls movie to Michael Ausiello at the recent Upfronts for Fox (where her new series is). Not saying that Gg would go to the big screen, but the perseverance --
the hard work -- of these show's fandoms BEYOND their shows' so-called endings resulted in proper endings for those shows.
The sooner we voice our opinions, the sooner any sort of revival of the show gets made.4) Please send your daisies through your local florist. There are many sources from your local florist to the internet through which you can send daisies to Ms. Ostroff. Three of the biggest online alternatives include Teleflora, FTD.com and, 1-800-flowers.com, all of which operate national delivery services through local florists anyway. Many of the online florists only promote $40 vase arrangements of daisies, which may be beyond a Gg fan's budget, but you can probably ask them to send a much cheaper bouquet of a dozen daisies if you ask them (Can't blame them for promoting the more expensive stuff). A dozen daisies would likely come in a typical cellophane wrap if they're bought by the stem. Order the daisies in the way that is best for you.
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Send yellow daisies ONLY because that's the color of Lorelai. 6) Send your daisies to any or all of the following address:
Ms. Dawn Ostroff, President of Entertainment
The CW Television Network
4000 Warner Blvd., Bldg 168
Burbank, CA 91522-0002AND to at least Lauren and/or Alexis (especially Alexis) at the addresses of their management teams at:
Amy Sherman-Palladino
c/o Creative Artists Agency
2000 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Lauren Graham
c/o John Carrabino Management
100 North Crescent Dr.
G-400
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Alexis Bledel
c/o Flutie Entertainment
6500 Wilshire Blvd
Suite 2240
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Email: Michael Flutie: [email protected]
Email: Paul M. Brown: [email protected] Peter Roth
President, Warner Brothers Television
300 Television Plaza
Burbank, CA 91505You can, of course, send small message cards with your bouquet. The rule is this: BE POLITE AND POSITIVE. Do NOT write anything like "I hate you because you cancelled Gilmore Girls!" or "I'm sad that you cancelled Gimore Girls" or "I won't watch The CW ever again unless you uncancel Gilmore Girls." I totally understand, respect and even share those feelings, but, after all, it's not something that Lorelai or Rory would do in this situation. Instead, write something like "Please renew Gilmore Girls!" or "Please uncancel Gilmore Girls"
and sign it with at least your name and address so that they know how far Gg's fanbase has spread throughout the country and the world.7) DEADLINE:
EVERYDAY is the official deadline. Any day that Daisies or letters or voicemails or email arrive ESPECIALLY because the Fall Schedule was announced at the Upfronts WILL still help! They need the input about what you think about the fall schedule (and don't say, "It sucks because Gilmore Girls is not on it.")

There is no 8 yet. That’s the whole point.
9) Please post to this thread when you've sent a bouquet. Even one hundred bouquets of just a dozen daisies sent to Ms. Ostroff will surpass the 1000 mark of daisies mentioned by Lorelai and increased by a factor of, oh, ten by Max at the end of LD&T and I am sure that we'll send a lot more than that.
10) Please spread the word of "Operation: Daisy Duke" around to other MBs and forums that have enthusiastic Gilmore supporters. Some of the obvious boards are FanForum, the cwtv.com lounge, etc. We don't want to annoy people, especially since there are people who post to multiple MBs. But still, let us know which MBs it gets posted to and provide a link to this thread or to the Great 8 Mandate thread. If you so desire, please copy this entire post to that forum.
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If you can't afford to send real daisies, then we have an alternative with the aid of Snail Mail: Find a picture of a daisy, print and cut out lots of copies of them, send a dozen or two of them with your snail mail letter to the various contact addresses (Remember to BE POLITE). And when I mean cut out a lot of copies of them, cut out individual squares or rectangles of the pictures, whatever shape the picture is -- cutting out the outline of the daisy over and over again would, of course, be Paris-level insane. Enclose them in the letter when you fold it so that when the person has to open the letter, the paper daisies *have* to fall out. One creative thing to put in the mix -- maybe sub out one of the daisies and insert a Great8 Mandate logo instead.
Let's spread the word! "Operation: Daisy Duke" continues! -- Rob
PS: The CW's comment line at 1-818-977-6878 is still open as of 4:45pm ET/1:45pm PT. I know because I just got a message through.
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Season 8: Beacuse none of the viewership was happy with where *any* of the storylines finished, much less Lorelai and Luke's relationship was at the end of the
series season finale (Sorry, Lauren, but you were wrong when talking to Michael Ausiello about thinking that we'd be happy with it.) Thus, because those storylines remain unfinished, Lorelai and Rory's storyline, the main premise of the show, remains unfinished. Even in terms of "open" endings the show remains thematically and structurally unjustified.