A Mars Bar for Veronica? *UPDATED 10/6* June 7, 2007
Posted by jackal in : TV , trackbackOK - it’s stupid. Veronica Mars is dead. I know this. It’s one of the cold, hard facts of life, as miserably true as death and taxes. But what the hell …
Hercules over at AICN has started a campaign to get VM fans to send Mars bars to CW network head Dawn Ostroff. The official deadline for renewing the show apparently falls on 15 June, so the hope is to convince them to exercise the option before then. It’s probably doomed to fail, of course, but hey, it’s only money. If you fancy wasting some of yours, go here, where for a couple of bucks your Mars bar will join the others soon landing on Dawn’s desk. Type in the code VERONICA at checkout and get free shipping. You can also get them direct from the Amazon seller’s website here. If you’re feeling generous, why not send a pack of six? The address you want to send them to:
Dawn Ostroff
President of Entertainment
The CW Network
4000 Warner Boulevard, Bldg 168
Burbank, CA 91522-0002.
You’d be hard-pressed to think up a more noble waste of $2. 
According to the Amazon seller’s blog, several thousand bars are due to be delivered to the CW from orders so far, and they’re now branching out into marshmallows (bulkier and cheaper - more bang for your buck). Not a bad start …
*UPDATE - 10 June*
In addition to burying the CW in marshmallows and mars bars, another thing now being planned is for VM fans to head over to itunes this TUESDAY (12th June) and buy the season 3 finale “The Bitch is Back” en masse, hopefully sending it to the top of the download charts. The episode costs just $1.99, so even if (like me) you’ve already got a *cough* illegally downloaded copy, why not just make the gesture anyway? The itunes link is here
*UPDATE - 9 June*
OK, now that the entire US supply of Mars bars has been exhausted by this campaign (I kid you not), they’ve switched to marshmallows (since in the pilot episode Veronica is referred to as a marshmallow). 350 lbs of the stuff has been bought so far, but MORE is needed. Forget the Amazon links now - go here for details of how to contribute to buying enough marshallows to bury the CW. Part of my brain is aware of how stupid that sounds … but I just don’t care. 
Also check out Herc’s latest plug for the campaign on AICN here.
I will get back to posting actual movie-related stuff here soon (honest), but until then, here’s a glossy pic of Veronica herself, Kristen Bell, to relieve the boredom. Yowzzzzzzzza.
Comments»
This is a desperate stab at emulating the ‘Nuts for Jericho’ campaign which just this week got the ‘cancelled’ show Jericho renewed for a few more episodes.
You can read all about the campaign here:
http://www.nutsonline.com/jericho
Although this one worked, it is only a temporary renewal (7 or 8 episodes) - plus they really had to send a lot of nuts (over 40,000 lbs!). I doubt this Mars thing is going to have the same effect.
Thanks - yeah, I heard about the Jericho thing. I think it kinda gave VM fans a kick up the arse to do *something* even if it’s 99% sure to be unsuccessful. The fan sites are passing round the news, so I had to help out (got a couple of links from other sites so maybe I sold a few bars). Plus it gave me an excuse to post a Kristen Bell pic.