NBC "Green Week"

[Peter Paltridge]

All through this week, every NBC show will not only have a special environmental message inserted into the ads by a cast member of whatever show is on, but there will ALSO be an environmental message subliminally forced into each episode of everything that airs! Can you find the line in each show? I'll start you out:

Chuck
Mr. Tang, as he catches something thrown toward the trash: "I hope this was directed at the recycling bin, Morgan." Followed by something else about recycling.

I'm all for cleaning up the planet, but this kind of crosses the creepy line. Brainwashing ain't cool.

It reminds me of when ABC was about to air the Beatles Anthology and ordered every single one of their shows to include a Beatles reference that week. That was even more ridiculous....

[Jeff Harris]

Well, NBC's recycling episodes of Conan, Leno, and Carson this week . . . but I don't think that had to do with Green Week (though it would explain why the Heroes logo was green). Not a fan of the whole Universal Media Studios name and logo either.


It reminds me of when ABC was about to air the Beatles Anthology and ordered every single one of their shows to include a Beatles reference that week. That was even more ridiculous....I know all but one show used Beatles songs as their theme song (Boy Meets World used a Monkees song that night, because one of the Monkees was a guest star that week). Wonder if Grace Under Fire used the original version of Lady Madonna that week.

[Matt Hazuda]

It seems like a cheap stunt, like the old network crossover events like NBC Blackout Thursday or something. Also, all the NBC Univeral networks seem to have "green" logos for the week. I noticed it on NBC, MSNBC and USA last night, so I'd imagine CNBC, Shop NBC, Telemundo and Gay TV... I mean Bravo, probably followed suit.

Actually, that could've been relevant and interesting for the Thursday lineup, but the (then) impending strike and Scrubs being a Disney show would make setting up something like that rather difficult I'd imagine.

[Fan of Sponge]

NBC just wants to get the word out. Still I hope they won't get to the point of telling the University of Notre Dame's football team to wear their infamous green jerseys against Air Force on Saturday since NBC televises all Notre Dame home football games.

The whole going green thing was pretty much summed up in a recent Sherman's Lagoon strip as seen here: http://www.slagoon.com/cgi-bin/sviewer.pl?selectdate=10/21/07

Still, I would like to prevent global warming, I don't want this to become a fad that dies out. If you truely want to prevent global warming, just do it every single day and find technologies to prevent it.

[The Penguin]

I just think this whole week is really neat. It's cool to see a big group of networks like NBC-Universal doing something like this. I've worn green to work so far this week. As I think Matt mentioned all the NBC-Univeral network logos are green this week, from NBC to Sci-Fi.


Chuck
Mr. Tang, as he catches something thrown toward the trash: "I hope this was directed at the recycling bin, Morgan." Followed by something else about recycling.

I'm all for cleaning up the planet, but this kind of crosses the creepy line. Brainwashing ain't cool.Also on Chuck, there were a bunch of "hippie" students on the lawn at Stanford selling trees and encouraging people to save the planet.