LETTERKENNY, eh?

one of their best openers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q47Uq96lILA

Crush some sandos, boys!

i could watch kids fall off bikes all day, i don't give a shit about your kids

i actually grew up... about an hour's drive from the town letterkenny is based on, where plenty of people sounded exactly like these guys (especially mcmurray, my god, i knew some mcmurrays). there's even an episode that NAMES THE TOWN I GREW UP IN which kinda blew my mind

i still kinda sound like this irl sometimes. i haven't lived there for a long time so it's faded but i'll tell you when i first watched this show it came back

it’s the fights that i truly love tho

love when Wayne looks genuinely taken aback, showing his kind of prudish tendencies

also, I knew that video was going to be the "butts stuff" one from the get-go. lol

I like this opening

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWsVpAbT7JE

classic

i'm not sure i dig the narrowness of the entire story model from the eps i watched a while ago, maybe i should revisit. does the series develop much?

and that "stoic violence" thing is a behavior model that exists but its actual outcomes should be noted.

when i saw the youtube of the ou sooner wr getting his orbital bone shattered and his bro getting utterly destroyed by the mma kids in the bathroom barfight last week, i immed thought of letterkenny style "justice." it is different, because mma kids aren't everywhere. but is it?

depends on what kind of development you’re looking for. there are more characters that get things to do, and there’s some minor evolution of a few characters, but the format remains “this is some stuff that happened to these people” where the stuff changes but the people remain the same

does the series develop much?

I looked up the Wikipedia entry while still watching season one expecting to have to dodge some spoilers and laughed when the description of the nine-season series as a whole could've applied to any episode I'd already seen.

Yah it doesn’t evolve it’s just about the banter, pretty much that’s it lol.

I used to play pool with some guys at a sorta-rough pool hall and they were all about some ideal bar fight experience where they get into a fistfight with some dude and then buy him a drink afterwards and become friends... then someone got knifed at the pool hall and they stopped talking about it.

Canada versh of prarie home companion is a whole lot less intellectual and nostalgic than mn’s.

heh, i got into and out of this show before the thread started. Enjoyed the first six episodes and felt it ran its course by season 7. Any improvement in the recent ones?

"six seasons"

also "littlekenny" is unwatchable

yeah i just started season 7 and it seems to be a step down

me and the missus had just started using "pitter patter" as shorthand around the house when we landed on that season and bailed

7 def feels like a step down, wonder if there was some kind of issue w/ writing during covid and they still had to meet a deadline or something. didn't really have any storylines, it felt like. i'm sure they'll get a million more seasons since it's like the only hit crave has i think? hopefully they right course.

so who saw 8/9? did it improve?

thought 8 and 9 were as good as any other season

going through s9 now but so far prefer 8+9 to 6+7

good to know

it kinda dipped a little since S6 but its an easy watch and there's generally at least one scene per episode that i laugh at. Got plenty of laughs out of s8-9. littlekenny i watched about 30 seconds of and bounced.

pence's eye juice (Hunt3r) at 2:57 3 Mar 21

Canada versh of prarie home companion is a whole lot less intellectual and nostalgic than mn’s.


as someone who grew up in rural MN it's a hell of a lot more familiar feeling than PHC

wait maybe im not thinknig of 7. whatever the latest season is. that's the one that feels weird and unfinished.

think i said some of this in the hulu thread, but to me a comprehensive list of reference points must include:

-king of the hill (rural sensibilities in the modern world! and a lot of sitting around drinking and shooting the shit)
-jody hill (slow motion violence with cool songs, also often rural)
-kevin smith (most of the characters are written in the author's voice, fondness for hockey)

there's generally at least one scene per episode that i laugh at

can't really explain it but just watched the one where shoresy, talking shit the entire time, routs the shamrockettes. which was fine, but then he ends all the chirping with 'short shifts!' and i almost choked

the existence of shoresy is such a ridiculous comedy bit, but I end up laughing at the character nearly every time

He inspired me to start showering upside down.

give your balls a tug, you titfuckers

Your mitt looks like the back of Kelsey Grammer's head circa Frasier '94, if the cast each autographed his bald spot with multi-coloured lipsticks.

"pitter patter' did stick in my head til i thought it's just great northern "git 'er dun," then it was gone

the guy who plays dierks does a really good job

all caught up; s08 and s09 were fine -- i just didn't like the crack n ag premise in s07

think my favorite moment of all is glenn's joy division/interpol song at the talent show

supposedly there's to be a shoresy spinoff??

not sure how you do a show without seeing the main character's face tho

Some of the episodes where they only sit and crack puns gets a bit much, but every single one of the slow motion fight scenes are hilarious. I kinda like the back and forth with the hockey dudes and skids sometimes more than the regular gang in-front of the vegetable stand.

It is a show where I would like to see more from some of the obscure characters. I liked that they finally had Joint Boy and Tyson get more lines in them working with Stewart to get him ready to fight.

I'd obviously like to see more of Scottie, who keeps bad company with the Ginger and Boots.

I would love to see Cyrus' character from Trailer Park Boys cross over ala Richard Belzer's Munch into Letterkenny, as I think he was funny and I could see that dude building up to one of those beat downs with Cyrus in charge of some degens up to no good.

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

fuck you, shoresy

Still haven't watched it, but half my teaching days are in Listowel, the town all of this is based on. There's a golfer from there who's in the Top 10 or 20 right now.

If you do watch it, tell us how accurate its depiction of it is. I assume there's a bit of exaggeration for comedic effect, but I'd be interested to know just how much of it is exaggerated

it's *wildly* exaggerated, ffs PMcP

anyway the first two shoresy episodes are now oot

obviously not a huge departure, but we do get a non-squinting keeso. needless to say, everyone in sudbury is v. good-looking

https://www.reddit.com/r/Letterkenny/comments/4s01pb/is_letterkenny_a_fairly_accurate_portrayal_of/

I found this thing earlier--the geography at least seems very accurate:

https://letterkenny.fandom.com/wiki/Letterkenny_(location)

I'll try to watch, but just being in and out--I've probably had 50-60 days there this school year--I don't really have any sense of the place. I half-wish I'd stop getting called out there so often: it's an hour's drive. A full day's okay, but I get half-days, too, and they're hardly worth it with the gas.

One line caught my eye from that wiki link: "Since the mid-2000s, various outsiders have characterized Perth County, Huron County, Oxford County, or various other locations in southwestern Ontario as the "crystal meth capital" of the province." I do encounter some strange kids up there.

up-country d-gens, in the parlance

Ha! Ontario-wise, I can see that being the case. I assume no other city beats us (Vancouver), though

Aaand I had to search for it and I'm already debunking/taking back what I said

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/five-canadian-cities-had-their-wastewater-tested-for-drugs-these-are-the-results-1.4566272

Edmonton!

shoresy is hilarious

settle down

yes its much more linear

Finale surprisingly moving

shoot the fucking puck frankie

so dumb

Finale surprisingly moving

i was pretty shook about marie-fred but yes

omg Katy's thing that she can't stand in movies is something that used to annoy me that I hadn't thought about in years. Ally Walker used to do it

I'm out of episodes :(

Time for a Trailer Park Boys rewatch?!

gail's talent show contribution is among the funniest things i've ever seen

my tattered journal isn't too far behind

needs more tanis

mookie when are we doing our ontario/quebec tour

grebt fishing in ontario/quebec

Gail is about one of the funniest characters I've ever seen.

kweebeck

fuck, can they run

I've come across A LOT of good 17th- and 18th-century Quaker names over the past 3.5 years, as I've worked on my thesis. Now that my thesis is done and submission is near, it's time to share the more than 90 wildest early Quaker names I've found (in alphabetical order): pic.twitter.com/Qj18jPELMI

— Isabella Rosner (@IsabellaRosner) May 16, 2023

If I had a request, I would love to see the character 'Cyrus' somehow cross over from Trailer Park Boys as a degen on Letterkenny.

your terms are acceptable

i made a playlist of letterkenny music:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE1-7P1reTFhkfefnhY0rJLVGVDZX1AqJ

really good workout music!

i have had this percolating unplayed and haven't found a space and time, but i will!

good, cause you're going

whole new season of Shoresy

the best team ever

i need to get into shoresy. i don't know what i've been waiting for.

wasn't into shoresy s02e01, but i watched them all straight through yesterday and re-found the love. not too sure about 'if someone tries a lacrosse/michigan goal, i get to make them bleed all over the ice' but tbf keeso *did* play Don Cherry in a biopic

also i'm sorry but the woman wandering around the apartment in the t-shirt jfc

only seen s2e1 this season and man that opening sportstalk segment is so um—
not as good as last season’s— they always seemed obv overly broad and dumb but they flowed right. not the s2e1.

the rest of the ep was ok i guess.

just announced new season dropping dec 25/26 and apparently its the final season:

You can watch the final season of Letterkenny on @CraveCanada December 25th and on @hulu December 26th if you want to.

From @newmetricmedia. pic.twitter.com/a1dJ44bI3i

— Letterkenny Problems (@LetterkennyProb) November 2, 2023

pitter patter

The first few episodes of this most recent season were running on some serious fumes but they eventually found their footing. A pale shadow of their peak but there's still some gas in the tank.

really thought the end of last season was the end. (i suspect it should have been)

degens are degens, but jivin pete was given a shot and he fucked up; where else to end but wayne going at him

who will touch me thar
is it christ
or wayne?

Say, have ya heard of that Rihanna song Disturbia

shoresy season 2 was fine. some good lols. 7/10

also i'm sorry but the woman wandering around the apartment in the t-shirt jfc
― mookieproof, Wednesday, November 1, 2023 7:40 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

every cast member on shoresy is hot lol

the struggle for dary’s soul

this was fine, had its moments

obviously you can't service 80 characters in six shows but i'd have rather spent less time on degens and more time with actually funny characters

i guess concentrating on hicks/hockeys/skids is understandable

but also idgaf about this lily woman and am personally disappointed that marie-fred did not show up at the very end

sun darts is amazing tho

Both these shows capture a slice of hockey culture better than any thing since Slapshot imho.

recently been wandering around, *not* wearing a turtleneck, thinking to myself 'you lose a lot of heat in the neck'

let's get on the go b'ys!

learn how to fuckin drive