Petition ABC Family to Cancel "Greek"

[SigKapCoug]

ABC family is NOT a family channel ("a new kind of family")

Its some sort of weird contract thing where they have to keep the family name even though they are not.

And lets be serious. ABC Family is NOT MTV. How many people actually WATCH ABC family? Who is actually going to be swayed by a dumb tv show?

[Drolefille]

Name me one internet petition that's done jack crap. The other recent petitions on that site are:
Jail Paris Hilton
Don't Free Paris Hilton
Stop WBC/Phelps from protesting at VT funerals
Free Paris Hilton
Draft Al Gore: Gore for President 2008

Yeah, they're gonna do some good.

[KyleMcGuire1983]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Name me one internet petition that's done jack crap. The other recent petitions on that site are:
Jail Paris Hilton
Don't Free Paris Hilton
Stop WBC/Phelps from protesting at VT funerals
Free Paris Hilton
Draft Al Gore: Gore for President 2008

Yeah, they're gonna do some good.

It was these kind of petitions that caused CBS to bring Jericho back for season 2 when they cancelled it. If there was BIGTIME outpour it could have an effect.

p.s. I hope Al Gore runs for president on a third party green ticket....SPOILER!

[James]

Its just free publicity for them . .

Originally Posted by KyleMcGuire1983

It was these kind of petitions that caused CBS to bring Jericho back for season 2 when they cancelled it. If there was BIGTIME outpour it could have an effect.

p.s. I hope Al Gore runs for president on a third party green ticket....SPOILER!

[KyleMcGuire1983]

Originally Posted by James

Its just free publicity for them . .

eh who knows, then again when you think about it we don't bitch and whine about Animal House and Old School we have theme parties based on them (Toga Parties were supposedly extremely rare pre-Animal House and everyone at my school has at least one a year)

[James]

The problem with toga parties is that most people don't have the bodies for it

Originally Posted by KyleMcGuire1983

eh who knows, then again when you think about it we don't bitch and whine about Animal House and Old School we have theme parties based on them (Toga Parties were supposedly extremely rare pre-Animal House and everyone at my school has at least one a year)

[kathykd2005]

Originally Posted by James

The problem with toga parties is that most people don't have the bodies for it

What exactly do bodies have to do with draped sheets? To be perfectly honest, I have not seen too many people--even those who are super buff--who look fabulous in a sheet.

[dekeguy]

Originally Posted by KyleMcGuire1983

(Toga Parties were supposedly extremely rare pre-Animal House and everyone at my school has at least one a year)

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My Dad tells me that Toga Parties were a long established tradition with DKE when he was an undergrad in the 1960's. There were several other houses that had them as well during his time there. That suggests to me Toga Parties were a regular thing more than 40 years ago.
While negative stereotypes are annoying we do have to admit that Greek Life is not ALL about philanthropy and being ever so nice-nice. In all honesty while it is primarily about brotherhood and sisterhood not all brothers are valiant and not all sisters are virtuous, to use an old fashioned phrase. A house is an extended family and we all have some bad boy/bad girl members. Frankly, if we didn't we would be a pretty boring lot. We all have stories and memories of the things that we or our fellow members got up to. In large part these are the sources of our sometimes embarassing stereotypes. So long as certain obvious limits are not crossed I think its not such a bad thing to be a bit outrageous now and then. It was, afterall, our last chance before facing the real world. The transition to solid citizen is pretty much inevitable but not totally lacking in a few "last hurrahs", nor should it be.
My Grandmother says that in her day, in her house (Pi Phi) the "received wisdom" was that DEKEs made the worst boys but the best men. Depending on your house that could probably apply to many orgs. I don't think that is such a bad rep. Do you?

[DeltAlum]

Originally Posted by dekeguy

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My Dad tells me that Toga Parties were a long established tradition with DKE when he was an undergrad in the 1960's. There were several other houses that had them as well during his time there. That suggests to me Toga Parties were a regular thing more than 40 years ago.

That's true on many campuses. Where does everyone suppose that Animal House got the idea? It is allegedly based on a particular chapter of a national fraternity.

[exlurker]

More Episodes Ordered

Variety reports that ABC Family has ordered 10 more episodes, in addition to the 10 originally ordered. The short article also mentions the show's demographics.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=14&cs=1

This makes me happy personally. I like the show, but mostly because I like over dramatic and outrageous shows in general . It'd be funny if Greek did a little bit in one of the episodes about an online discussion board for greeks. It'd be like "The Valley" on The OC and then "Serman Oaks: The Real Valley".

Originally Posted by James

Its just free publicity for them . .

Ditto. If you actually think those petitions work, ha! Think again.

If you want to do something more effective, write to the companies who buy ad time during the episodes. Or don't watch at all. If people don't watch, they'll (hopefully) pull out, and no more TV show.

The networks don't care about some silly online petition.

[kathykd2005]

Originally Posted by OTW

Ditto. If you actually think those petitions work, ha! Think again.

If you want to do something more effective, write to the companies who buy ad time during the episodes. Or don't watch at all. If people don't watch, they'll (hopefully) pull out, and no more TV show.

The networks don't care about some silly online petition.

True. Online petitions are silly, most of the time. Not watching it or writing to the company, or someone else in your local, state, or federal government would be much more effective.

[KyleMcGuire1983]

wow it's be negative and &*$% all over Kyle day huh?

well whatever, I just found it and posted it. the rest of you can whine and sit back and do absolutely nothing.

[minDyG]

Originally Posted by kathykd2005

True. Online petitions are silly, most of the time. Not watching it or writing to the company, or someone else in your local, state, or federal government would be much more effective.

Really? Writing to someone in the government to try to get the show pulled off the air? If this were even a viable option (which I really doubt it would ever do any good), would you WANT to live in a country where that kind of censorship was allowed to go on? Thank God for free speech, eh?