Beyond The Mirror: 'Jericho' Not Cancelled Here

Well, in our alternate world here, "Jericho" has been running strong for nine seasons. In fact, CBS made an expanded order this year of 35 episodes because families just can't enough of "Jericho."

Me, I'm not that big of a "Jericho" fan. Dropping bombs on cities and killing millions of people, that's what I used to watch in Saturday morning cartoons. It was very similar to a story point in one of my favorite cartoons in the 1980s called "Gargamel." I don't know if you had that cartoon in your universe or not, but the cartoon centers on this medieval wizard who has to battle this tyrannical army of little blue creatures called Smurfs. In one episode, after the Smurfs tortured Gargamel's poor cat Azrael for days, Gargamel was left with no choice but to completely bomb the Smurf city. Gargamel was seriously injured, and he managed to kill about 80 percent of the Smurfs, but those little blue creatures are survivors, and to this day there's still about 20 of them who try to deal with the loss of their massive army, and who have been conducting guerilla warfare against a man who never did anything to them in the first place.

So "Jericho" was geared toward families in my universe. It's kind of light fare, focused more on the survivors of a nuclear war rather than the invading troops, which I like even more. I don't know how far your "Jericho" got, but here we've had four civil wars that have had a lot of carnage, and it's been great.

The Mirror Hinman there says that your version of "Jericho" could've been more for families, but the network it aired on did a piss poor job of scheduling, which precluded families from watching. That's probably good, to be honest, because if it's anything like the rest of your programming in that universe, it was probably sweet, moving and touching -- three things that would never work in my universe.

So, sorry you've lost such a good show. But maybe someone at CBS is reading this and they can maybe look at doing a series focused on the "Gargamel" cartoon. I know it's hard to believe in little Smurf soldiers who make barracks out of mushrooms, but it's great mindless fun.

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