LETTERKENNY, eh?

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

keep wondering, with each of my problems, how i'm gonna fuck this pig

turns out that it's often inappropriate

daxy and ronsy are incredible

anyway new season this sunday/monday

also shoresy is great, maybe even better than letterkenny, in that there’s something of a plot

(yah so…)

FUCKING EMBARRASSING

i don't know what happened to you dusters but fuck me do you FUCK DOG

finally started this and now hooked. mostly due to all of the slang I don't understand but is enthralling

boomtown!

Did he?

Dum Diddy do

Ready to shred the red?

Allegedly.

Great fishin' in kyu-bec!

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

yeah it actually was jarring to me at first to see Keeso's face in the first Shorsey episode, I mean obv I knew it was always him playing both parts on Letterkenny, but it's just weird to go from that gag to seeing Wayne-face without squint.

but...actually pretty intriguing, and the locker room trash talk with the coach was hilarious.

His affect as Shoresy is different enough that I actually can almost forget it's Wayne. An advantage of character acting, and he's good at those two.

yeah his voice and facial expression/demeanor are very diff.

yeah i had no issues making the jump

Keeso plays Shoresy with this total hound dog face, usually with a dip, needing a shave and a baseball hat on backwards. It does not really look like the same guy.

That show actually at times has a bit of a plot in an episode too.

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

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