Avid TV fans are doing their best to re-viva Las Vegas. At least for one more episode.
After receiving the disheartening news that NBC was not only cashing in its chips on the series after five seasons on air, but doing so after a season cum series finale that featured the biggest cliffhanger in the show's history, fans began a creative campaign designed to convince the network execs to commission one more episode to give the show the resolution it deserves.
As it happens, the final show, which aired on Feb. 15 and even featured a "to be continued..." tantalizer at its conclusion, ended with the pregnancy of Molly Sims and Josh Duhamel's characters, Delinda and Danny, in jeopardy.
It was intended to be the first of a two-part storyline—the episode was even titled "Three Weddings and a Funeral, Part I"—and was three shows short of a full season. The show's creators have since chalked up the unceremonious cancellation as another casualty of the writers' strike.
The Las Vegas fans have been a little less accepting of the fate.
A group of hardcore devotees over at the series fansite lasvegas-theseries.com have launched the "Save Las Vegas: Operation Baby Booties" campaign in order to demand a proper resolution for the series.
As the name suggests, their crusade revolves around rallying fans to send as many boxes of baby socks as they can afford to NBC's head honcho, Ben Silverman, or alternately to donate money to enable the organizers to send baby booties on the fans' behalf.
"We launched this campaign because after the news of Vegas's [sic] cancellation so many people emailed us expressing outrage," the site reads. "Fans wanted to take action...Fans deserve a real ending to Vegas! They do not deserve to see the show canceled on a pivotal cliffhanger after watching loyally all these years. We deserve better than that!"
"It's time NBC respected the fans, especially ones of long-running shows."
While their choice of negotiating tool was an obvious selection to fans of the series, the site also took time out to clarify why they opted to soft-shoe their way into the hearts of NBC execs.
"We chose baby booties as our campaign item because it represents the biggest cliffhanger Vegas ended on: Delinda's unborn baby."
While their efforts may seem outlandish and futile, crazier things—or really, equally crazy things—have happened.
Last June, CBS announced that it would be resurrecting the previously axed, postapocalytpic series Jericho for seven new episodes after an overwhelming fan-launched campaign to save the show. Avid watchers of the series rallied together and shipped more than 25 tons—yes, tons—of peanuts to network execs in Los Angeles and New York.
The nutty idea that time around was born from a line in the show's season finale.