Little Mosque on the Prairie

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I’m not Canadian and never have been, but I watched the shit out of this show back in college; someone put the whole first and season on Youtube. Right now, the first three seasons are on Hulu.

This show is amazing. For what is, essentially, a boilerplate domestic sitcom with a gimmick (most of the characters are Muslims living in a small Canadian town), it is done with such heart, such tenderness, and such brilliant comedic timing… Carlo Rota, who plays Yasir, is tremendously funny. All the actors are good at what they do, and this really is a tour de force show.

At least, I have a good time with it.

Has anyone else seen this show? Any Canadopers want to chime in?

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US Doper here but I looooove this show as well. Sadly, it ended this season. But I watched it all the way through.

I think it’s sort of shitty as a sitcom (it’s not Community, or even Corner Gas), but you just can’t beat the subject. The every-day lives of Muslims? BRILLIANT!!

Carlo Rota is my favorite part of the show, but there’s something I like about single character. Even the hardcore Muslim dude Baber is a fantastic character.

I would love to see this on US television. I’d love for everyone in the US to watch this.

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What’s the Islamic view of zombies? :stuck_out_tongue: I just finished watching all 6 seasons on Hulu, and have to say this show was really good, but it did do down hill after season 3 when they started losing actors. I really missed Yaser, and Babar became throughly Flanderized. Also it felt like they were using Fatima and Fred alot less even though those actors stayed. Fred’s radio program got alot less screentime. Anybody else wonder why no one ever suggested just putting the prayer barrier down the middle? :smack: What the entire show filmed in the summer? :confused: Except for the Christmas episodes it looked like Saskatchewan was as sunny and warm as California, and I now that’s not true (Corner Gas did this as well).

I read enough that I knew the show would end with them getting there own mosque, but not about the church fire specifically. I still figured that something would happen to the church forcing the Anglicans to rent out space in the mosque.

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it wasn’t filmed in Saskatchewan. Unlike CTV with Corner Gas, CBC just filmed it all in Ontario.

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I’m pretty sure Ontario isn’t that bright & sunny year round either.