A Reminder

I went with Turkey and Black Forest Ham on wheat, myself. But I might mix it up with my Chuck-supporting 2nd sandwich tonight for dinner….

I went with the Veggie Delite, while my co-worker had Ham and Cheese. No comment cards at the franchise, so I submitted a form on the subway.com website instead.
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I can’t help but think, though, that this support is still too indirect. Wouldn’t the best solution be subscriptions or pre-orders for a show? Pay $20 to the producers to get a whole season downloaded or on DVD. Kind of like a PBS pledge drive, only show-specific. I think someday that’s how shows will get produced and delivered.

@nycgeoff — I don’t think it’s too indirect to go to the show’s largest sponsor and give them a huge day of sales. Subway wants to advertise to receptive audiences, and an audience of a show that goes OUT OF ITS WAY to buy Subway in a show of support for the show speaks volumes for the success for Subway of advertising on Chuck. Advertisers pay the bills at networks like NBC, so if the advertisers are happy, so is the network. And when other companies see Subway reap the benefits of the “Save Chuck with Subway” campaign, they too will want to brand themselves with Chuck, increasing the pressure on NBC to keep the show (something it already is considering doing, so this all just makes the decision easier)…

It was a lukewarm Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki for me. I forgot to fill out a comment card, I just told them “Chuck sent me.” It was pretty gross, though. I probably won’t go back unless ESPN threatens to cancel Bill Simmons’ podcast.

I am still on the fence if I care enough about Chuck to go and buy a Subway sub. Chuck, while a perfectly appealing show, is my 3rd favorite Monday night program. It has to fight for a spot in my top 10 currently airing shows and I loath the franchise.
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Minor tangent, all the angst about Chuck and Dollhouse has caused me to be positively depressed that Pushing Daisies didn’t get any send off fan fare. I would happily sacrifice those two for another season of Pushing Daisies. I wonder why ABC cancelled it so much sooner then NBC with Chuck, Fox and Dollhouse I understand, cause it was a midseason show, but I wonder if there is any strategic reason for announcing a shows death sooner rather then later. It strikes me that the network is always in a better position if it holds off as long as it can.

@Ashman — if I may, that’s the problem with NBC: they put Chuck on (arguably) television’s most competitive night/timeslot. Going up against Dancing With the Stars/House/Big Bang Theory-HIMYM/Gossip Girl, is it any wonder that Chuck (while critically adored) does not have higher live-airing ratings (although it is one of the most popular time-shifted DVR’d shows)?
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If you move Chuck to Tuesday (or, in my dreams, Thursday as the lead-in to 30 Rock-Office), all of a sudden its must-see television, just by getting out of the time-slot of death. Any show on a significant number of viewers’ top-10 lists (like you say Chuck is, or near-to, on your own) SHOULD be no-brainers for pick-ups — you just have to put them in a good time-slot to succeed.
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(As for Pushing Daisies, I’m totally with you…I miss the show too. But it’s gone, and will not come back, whereas we can still do something about Chuck. I do wish, though, that DirecTV would have figured out a way to save Pushing Daisies, just because I loved that show’s whimsy as a sorbet to my weekly television viewing…)

Turkey breast on the Hearty Italian with lettuce, mayo, and extra pickles. I may go with the normal Italian for dinner, and maybe a normal amount of pickles (some people interpret “load up the pickles” differently than others, and the guy at lunch went to town… but it was legendary awesome).

James, why wait until next April and just submit it as an expense report?
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I’m on the west coast tonight, so I have to wait a while longer than I’m used to… and it’s Veggie Patty sandwich for me.

I too went with the Chicken Breast footlong on wheat (we were supposed to limit ourselves to the $5 Footlong promotion, yes?). Although not a frequent Subway customer, I didn’t personally notice any extra volume of customers.

(I too had an employee that gave me equal amounts pickles to meat (by weight). Did you hit the one on KK & Olkahoma Dave?)

After that episode, I think I’d eat at Subway every day for a year if it kept Chuck on the air. Awesome. Just….awesome. Anything to keep Chuck (and, more accurately, Yvonne Strahovski) on my television, I’m happy to do.

I don’t know if anyone has seen this but it’s pretty awesome.

@Tom – I work downtown, so we went to the Subway in Grand Avenue. Maybe it’s a Milwaukee area thing, because for dinner I went to a random Subway in Tosa, and didn’t ask for extra pickles, and they still loaded it on. Crazy.
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Now, are you actually a Milwaukeean, or did you just pick out a random Milwaukee Subway from their website to try to mess with my head?

Yes, I’m also Milwaukeean (live in Bay View) – I thought I had mentioned that before. Chalk another one up to the vagaries of the internet.

I’m sure you have, but I think you have a wider breadth of commenting here, so I just missed it. Crazy… it’s a small Internet, I guess.

You know the reverse could work as well if the temptation to chuck Chuck continues. “A day without Subway” or a week even.