Remember the campaign going around the high school in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off? Ferris' absence from school, playing sick to the parents, got a group of students to start asking for donations to help get him a new kidney. Even a little later in the film painted on the water-tower in bold, black lettering is the slogan SAVE FERRIS.
Ferris Bueller wasn't actually in need of saving, maybe from Mr. Rooney or his parents if they found out he was really playing hooky, but come on, he was never in any real danger of being caught. However, there has been a young man who's sparked another SAVE campaign, and this one can definitely use all the help he can get. This would be a young man named Chuck Bartowski.
Chuck Bartowski, like Ferris Bueller, is a fictional character. Chuck is the lead in the NBC television show of the same name. A show about a guy who works as a part of the Nerd Herd at the Buy More, sort of like the Geek Squad at Best Buy. Chuck's ex-college room-mate, Bryce Larkin, sends him an email with a game they created back at Stanford. When he beats it images start to flash rapidly. An intersect, or computer, has been downloaded to his brain with government secrets. Chuck is now able to "Flash" on people who are involved in any government operation. The NSC and CIA send agents, John Casey of the NSC and Sarah Walker of the CIA to be Chuck's handlers, while he tries to find a way to get this intersect out of his head, and has to hide his new 'spy life' from his family, sister Ellie and her fiance, Devon a.k.a. Captain Awesome, and his best friend Morgan. The show is filled with action, comedy, and even a little romance and drama at times.
For the past season it has become unclear whether or not NBC is going to renew the show for a third season. It really isn't clear why the network would drop the show, it's entertaining (at least I think so) and has a pretty solid fanbase. In fact the fans of the show are letting their voices be heard with the Save Chuck campaign. Fans aren't the only ones getting in on this campaign either, TV critics have joined as well. The addition of these critics should be something to open up NBC's eyes to the fact that fans and critics alike don't want this show to go anywhere, at least not right now any ways.
Fans of the show have been purchasing sandwiches at Subway and on the comment cards writing "Chuck" as the person who purchased the meal. Zachary Levi even got into the action at a Subway in Birmingham, England when he lead a group to the deli-restaurant and stepped behind the counter to make the sandwiches himself. Zachary made a comment to the network that is practically holding his career in the balance at the moment,
"You see, NBC? This is what happens when you might cancel a show that people care about."
This isn't the only thing fans are doing to try and save the show. They are sending boxes of nerds to the president of NBC and a online petition to save the show, started Monday after the season finale, already has 7,600 signatures on it.
Will it suffer the same fate as the show Jericho, which was saved by fans only to be cancelled shortly after? Will the support of the fans and critics be able to keep Chuck around for a third season and longer?
Save Ferris...no, SAVE CHUCK!!
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