ABC Declares "National Stay At Home Week" To Promote Fall TV

ABC's urging its viewers to conserve gas by staying indoors the week of Sept. 21 -- it's "National Stay at Home Week."

The Alphabet's marketing team dreamed up the holiday as a way to promote the start of the season. "National Stay at Home Week" not-so-coincidentally coincides with TV's premiere week.

Consider it the flip side of the annual April event "TV Turnoff Week" -- something the networks haven't been as eager to embrace.

The promo spots and companion website take a tongue-in-cheek approach to the whole idea that audiences can save money and help the environment by staying home that week and watching TV instead.

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Comments

[shockmagog]

I have to work. And when I get home I have to work. If I have any free time, it's the Internet.
If I had a TV, I would watch Metalocalypse 24/7.
http://www.adultswim.com/shows/metalocalypse/

[johnnygoodwud]

you kidding me, watching most shows on ABC gives me gas

[mergina]

JUST what america needs, to be told to stay home and get fatter. Americans are told to accept war, to accept greed and corruption that will take your dreams of owning a home right out from under you. Americans are told to understand as their jobs hemorrhage to other countries. Americans are asked to sacrifice, while those that do the damage live in luxury. A NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION IS LONG OVERDO. The time is coming to take back this country from the powers of greed that control it now.

[Triangle1]

Americans don't like to be told what to do. The best way to get Americans to stop using so many resources is to proclaim National Gluttony and Resource Depletion Month. People will be outraged to the point of inflating their car tires to the proper air pressure. http://mespace.wordpress.com

[mergina]

Sad to say, but MOST AMERICANS SIMPLY DON'T GIVE A CRAP.

[mistlesuede]

When I am home, I definitely don't watch ABC.

[kroses98]

AMEN to that!!! Especially since that last debate. They will have a cold day in HELL, before I watch them again!!! I will stay home, and watch MSNBC!!!!!!!

[SwingVoter]

And while you're at it, watch ABC...

[soulfulnotes]

Right. How 'bout riding your bike, or walking? Americans are fat.

[Imzadi]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... The "All Banality Channel"

[mergina]

THERE IS STILL AN ABC?