I found the show amusing. In the first season everybody was lovably quirky. It quickly developed that everyone was actually an asshole. They pair off two assholes for the A story and another two assholes for the B story.
I also enjoy watching RedGreen, though I could hardly blame anybody for complaining that they tell the same jokes every week in the same order.
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I found the show amusing. In the first season everybody was lovably quirky. It quickly developed that everyone was actually an asshole. They pair off two assholes for the A story and another two assholes for the B story.
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I’ll submit to you my theory that everyone on sit-coms are assholes. Nice people doing nice things for nice reasons just wouldn’t be funny.
(And then there’s the whole badly-kept secret that small town people actually are assholes. They’re a different kind of asshole from big city people, but assholes nonetheless.)
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I love Corner Gas to pieces, but one piece of advice I have for anyone thinking of trying it out is to make sure you watch from the beginning of an episode. Coming in in the middle of one usually sucks.
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[Sarcasm]Yeah because you’ll have no idea what’s going on…[/Sarcasm]
Seriously I don’t understand how anybody could watch this show (same with “Little Mosque”).
The I watched 8 minutes of an episode of “Little Mosque” and I just had to shake my head. The jokes were not funny, and the show was so predictable (that was the really funny part).
I rank “Corner Gas” up there as well…
“Corner Gas” = “Corner Pass”
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Not me - this is a great show.
I also loved Brent Butts’ stand-up before hand.
We are keeping our fingers crossed for a possible cameo.
There seems to be a lot of hyperbole in this thread (well, on the internet in general, really). Depending on who you believe, Corner Gas is either the best show ever or the worst show ever. Allow me to try to clear things up: The show is good. It’s in the same league as the best current U.S. sitcoms, IMO (and there are some really good U.S. sitcoms out there now). If you get a chance to watch it, watch it.
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There seems to be a lot of hyperbole in this thread (well, on the internet in general, really). Depending on who you believe, Corner Gas is either the best show ever or the worst show ever. Allow me to try to clear things up: The show is good. It’s in the same league as the best current U.S. sitcoms, IMO (and there are some really good U.S. sitcoms out there now). If you get a chance to watch it, watch it.
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If you’re talking about “2 and a Half Men” or “Everybody Loves Raymond” yes you’re right! If you’re talking about “The Office” no it is not good…
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It is typical Canadian humour - broad, predictable and unsophisticated.
Consider yourselves warned!
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Jeez, it’ll probably be the break-out hit of the fall if that’s the case.
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If you’re talking about “2 and a Half Men” or “Everybody Loves Raymond” yes you’re right! If you’re talking about “The Office” no it is not good…
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I’m talking Scrubs, My Name is Earl, and yes, maybe even The Office. We get it, McDeath, you don’t care for Corner Gas. Lots of canadians like it, though, and I’ll bet that a lot of americans will like it too.
I don’t even think the humour is always “predictable and unsophisticated.” I think it’s actually surprisingly subtle at times. And the moments when you think they’re talking about something and they cut away to show it are almost always unpredictable. I won’t argue too much about “broad,” though. The best thing about it is that it isn’t on CBC, so the black-wearing über-pretentious set haven’t had a chance to suck all the funny out of it (like “Little Mosque on the Prairies”).
My friends who live in Ottawa that I went to see last month showed me one episode and I was hooked. Yet another reason why I love Canada!
It’s a pretty funny show, “Pow!”
It’s no Alienated but still is a funny 1/2 hour show. Kinda like Robson Arms without the pot, sex or big-city attitude.
Robson Arms is a different kind of funny. That is, the unfunny kind of funny. It’s mostly about the tragic comedy of tortured souls screaming in a medicore wilderness on their unyielding march to the grave. It’s the kind of sitcom Sartre would watch.
Scrubs meets Seinfeld is my typical comparison for this one. My father is uncomfortably similar to Oscar.
Little Mosque, OTOH, is awful. It’s exactly what you’d expect from a CBC show jumping on the bandwagon of the idea of a prairie sitcom.
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Scrubs meets Seinfeld is my typical comparison for this one. My father is uncomfortably similar to Oscar.<snip>
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I think everyone from or who has relatives in SK knows someone like Oscar. Except they’re usually not as warm and fuzzy as Oscar is.
Nail on the head. I would love to get a job at CBC headquarters and see exactly how they are doing what they do there. From the outside it seems like a massive circle jerk that is completely disconnected from what actual Canadians are interested in. With really good sports coverage.
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I’m a relatively young urbanite and I like it. It’s a perfect combination of Northern Exposure and Scrubs but without the pretentiousness and devil-worship.
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Devil worship?
A Canadian show funnier than Trailer Park Boys? No…no, I don’t think so. I’ll watch it, though.
Yay! I’m going to dig out my “World’s Biggest Hoe” t-shirt just for the occasion.
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Devil worship?
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It’s subtle, I admit.
I wrote this thread off as Canadian chauvanism, until I actually sat down and watched a couple of episodes. Now it’s #4 on my Tivo list. It’s a great “Watch while eating dinner” show. Subtle, yet strange. Just like Saskatchewan.
psst - silenus - for more news of Saskatchewan, check out this thread.