I just hope [Robin Strasser is] able to work again.

She will be. I'm willing to bet the part of the industry that isn't involved with soaps has no idea what she's saying right now, or much cares.

wow I never heard of this but your link shed some light. It is actually a comic track from 50s comedian Stan Freberg, and I guess this commercial used it.

Sheds light on this Mad Men fan!!!

I was so attracted to their scenes in this episode for some reason, yet I really had NO idea where it came from or what it meant.

Hoover! This sh!t just keeps getting realer by the minute.

BUT, while we have the spotlight on us, psychotic soap fans, someone needs to move to the forefront and do something worthwhile that will truly save these soaps. As someone who's been watching ABC Daytime under Frons since he first took the job, I know damn well that we're not saving our shows because we've been loving the last eight years so much. This has to be MORE than just "Keep 'em on the air!" This has to be FIRE. BRIAN. FRONS. Sweeney's a grasp, we can't get to that lousy hack. But we can get Frons. We gotta crack Brian Frons. We crack Frons, and we crack his whole dirty history.

Crack.

Sheds light on this Mad Men fan!!!

I was so attracted to their scenes in this episode for some reason, yet I really had NO idea where it came from or what it meant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcDiB4y9oOE

If anyone wants to make a serious effort at this it would help if DAYS and GH fans were roused. Those shows have spurned their fans for so long, especially GH, but for many years, no shows had more passionate fan bases than GH and DAYS.

A part of me wonders if Hoover was going to end their ads anyway and this is PR...but still, it's a surprise. I had read before that advertisers prefer soaps to the filler programs the networks are now churning out - if so then this might be the first sign.

I'm willing to bet this decision has more to do with Hoover's internal issues than the soaps but kudos to their PR people for seizing a PR opportunity. They're going to use this as an opportunity to build goodwill with potential customers and probably reduce their advertising costs.

Ok - it's official - Food Network has an agenda this week. (Some of you may not care, but I think it's VERY interesting!)

Now Iron Chef is on and they are playing the 2006 repeat of Mario Batali (who is no longer an Iron Chef) vs. Richard Blais (Top Chef winner - following Carla Hall's appearance on Paula Deen's show aka "The Chew host").

They rarely show repeats this old.

Baba would not have gone out and shilled for Frons if it wasn't serious.

Exactly. Barbara's journalism days are long behind her and she is now a highly paid corporate shill. Obviously, she was instructed to try to take some heat off Frons and ABC. Good luck with that.

Somebody needs to make a a Obama/ Team Conan logo only with Erica Kane instead.

But I thought Farah didn't NEED us to like her.

Considering that OLTL is about to become television history, I'd say she does. ;-)

I can't STAND Barbara Walters, but that's another story.

If anyone wants to make a serious effort at this it would help if DAYS and GH fans were roused. Those shows have spurned their fans for so long, especially GH, but for many years, no shows had more passionate fan bases than GH and DAYS.

Why would Days and GH fans care?? Well GH fans but Days??

robinstrasser robin strasser HOOVER pulling ABC adverts!? Great products. If stinkin' economy allows you: clean house! with a super-duper new Hoover vac! Hoover Rocks!

Why would Days and GH fans care?? Well GH fans but Days??

This move by ABC is the not so unofficial death of all soaps, and while Corday/Higley are doing enough to kill DAYS on their own, at least if a big fuss is made over this move of ABC's there might be more of a chance of the show not being flat out canceled by NBC in 2013.

robinstrasser robin strasser OLD Drama Queen (ODQ) I can say it, if u do, suggest u (lol)..Today Hoover, what other concience-minded corps will follow? it's NOT over.