This thread is going to serve as a shortcut to the post-brainstorm phase of AFF (Anchovies for Fry), our plan to get back at Fox by mailing them tins of Angry Norweigan Anchovies and argumentative letters on October 25th. For more details, refer to our site:
 http://ssfuturama.wz.cz/aff.php

If you still have questions after going through that (which I doubt), you can post a question here and a helpful PEEL member might answer your question.

Furthermore, now that our plan is complete, anybody willing to make overtures to other online communities and tell them about AFF should list their targets here, so anyone else considering helping can avoid repetition. I will be keeping track. Consult the list at the bottom of this page.

When doing this kind of thing, one must avoid spamming. Basically, make sure that the community has at least a potential interest in Futurama and stick to the appropriate forums if they are available (general discussion, movies and telvision). Also, while plugging AFF, one should take care to be conversational, encouraging people to share their feelings on Futurama etc.

Online Communities taken on so far:

adult swim (messageboard)
Futurama Forum-zone (messageboard)
GameFAQs (messageboard)
Imdb.com, futurama forum (messageboard)
Newgrounds (messageboard)
The Leela Zone (messageboard)

um, please give me the name of the community so  I can list it.

 

Originally posted by ouch:
um, please give me the name of the community so  I can list it.

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I'm getting his permission. He's a friend ya know? 

what "other forum" was this? I'm trying to keep a list here.

A co-worker has told me about a radio talk show called "The Buzz" mabe we could tell them about the fan base and how we took the cancleation. Perhaps this might help or even get the word out about AFF on there?

Yay! Good work Ouch. This will ge the massage through much faster.

Well we certainly have the right attitude it seems but it wont be long till anchovie day so what's our next formal step?

The step is getting a buddy icon up on all the major Futurama sites. I'm working on that now.

Oww! My virgin ears! Such language! Umm anyway, I dont think PEELers are the biggest stockholders. Most of the people here are fairly young, many in high school or college, so I dont think they're likely to be out there playing the stock market game.

KAH-

I was talking about this large movement OUCH is setting up... thats what oyu do... stocks go, the company goes...

ouch I'm sort of competent with photoshop, just give me an asignment and I'll get back to you post haste!

thanks everyone. I got zoidberg227 helping with photoshop. I think the most important think at this point would be to follow vida in sending those individual e-mails. Vida, which ones do you have so far? I've concocted a copy and paste recruit email:

Subject: Help us protest the cancellation of Futurama!

HI, I'm fellow Futurama fan working with others in organizing "Anchovies for Fry" the biggest simultaneous Futurama fan protest ever! Based on an old stunt that saved the show 'Roswell' from being cancelled, in which fans sent in endless bottles of Tabasco sauce(because the aliens on the show ate it all the time or something) we
are going to be sending FOX cans of anchovies to arrive October 25th. For more detials, check out our site:
 http://ssfuturama.wz.cz/aff.php

You should do it MOle, It'd be nice to have a few non n00bs doing this. 

Bad idea, the post office will dispose of them out if something smells rank.

I may be quitting AFF, I haven't decided yet. I just no longer feel the need for new episodes. After watching only the first few episodes of season 4 I feel a sense of completion. Maybe the reason I was so worked up about the cancellation is because somehow I felt like FOX was going to steal it away from me. Now that I have it all I'm content. I may still send in a tin and write a polite letter but that will be it. The vengefull stage of my fanship is over and I'm glad. Now I can enjoy the show for what it is and not what it could have been.

congrats KAH  I feel the same way.

I'm just lurking in this thread, waiting to send a tin along with all of yours.

Even though the last season was very satisfying, more episodes would be a good thing. And it doesn't hurt to try.

 

Originally posted by j_ohanley:
And it doesn't hurt to try.

It doesn't hurt to try, but when you make multiple attempts, with diminishing returns each time, you have to ask whether it's worth the effort anymore.

The original "Save Futurama!" online petition from 2002 got global press coverage, and gathered 130,000 signatures.  When we tried another petition earlier this year even CGEF ignored it, and it only got around 3000-4000 signatures.

Face facts, FOX aren't going to budge.  A petiton of 130,000 didn't change their minds, CN's ratings didn't change their minds, and unless Region 1's sales of Season 4 have been phenomenal, DVD sales won't make them change their mind.  So why should they be swayed by a few tins of fish through the mail?

That's assuming, of course, that the tins ever reach anyone important at FOX.  They'll probably get weeded out as a potential terrorist threat or something.

Personally I've reached the point where I think it's better to let it be.  We got four great seasons, and we were left wanting more, which is more than can be said of a lot of shows.

All right, but I'll completely give up hope when Matt Groening and David X. Cohen give up hope. There's really not much else we can do besides buying the DVDs and tuning in to the reruns. Still, if AFF don't send some kind of message, nothing will. And I think it's safe to say that if there were new episodes, they'd be fine. The crew seems to lament not being able to tell a lot of stories left in the pipeline.

And this is just a complete utter fool's hope, but Matt Groening's appearance on CN was pushed back to September for some reason. I doubt he was that busy. Maybe he had to wait for some sort of "official announcement" of some kind. If he does, that gives us time to abort AFF.

I am going ahead and send my can of anchovies on the new date of Oct. 25.  The worst that can happen is that nothing happens and I am out what max $5 for the entire deal.  And if it is fools hope then I am fool.