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The Vinyl Cafe (Radio)
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The Vinyl Cafe was a weekly variety show on CBC Radio One, hosted by Stuart McLean until his death in 2017. In 2020, the CBC began re-releasing episodes in podcast form due to popular demand.Every episode, Stuart plays songs from up-and-coming Canadian bands, while interspersing the music with his funny and nostalgic monologues on the often-overlooked and beautiful things in life. In addition, there are regular features like "The Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange" where listeners are invited to send in true personal stories to potentially be read on air, and the annual "Arthur Awards" to commend exceptional small good deeds performed by ordinary people.But the most famous segment of the show is Stuart's series of Slice of Life stories on the life of Dave, the owner of a small record store, and his family. Told in his signature wistful and quirky style, the stories made Stuart McLean nationally famous; his story of Dave's adventure in cooking a Christmas turkey has already became a classic Christmas special on CBC.The show is presented in one of two formats: studio episodes recorded in Toronto where McLean tells his stories while playing recorded music and performance episodes recorded on location in various venues with live audiences on his frequent tours predominately throughout Canada with a handful of US playdates with live musical performances. The main other difference is that for podcasting purposes, copyright laws dictate that studio episodes cannot be reproduced with the music recordings while the live audience episodes with their stage performances can be made available in their entirety. | |
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Letters to the Editor | |
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Letters to the Editor: The Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange. | |
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Hilarity Ensues: Especially in "Dave Cooks the Turkey". | |
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Comic-Book Time: Downplayed. Dave and his family have aged progressively over the years, but at a very slow rate. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: The entirety of "Dave Buys a Coffin", especially the opening funeral scene. | |
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Arcadia | |
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Arcadia: One of Stuart's main loves is small rural towns; he has a tendency to wax very poetic over them. One of his first books (which he occasionally reads from for his story segments) is composed of a series of in-depth portraits about small towns throughout Canada—the book clocks in at 500 pages. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths/Retired Badass: Dave tends to pass himself off as a harmless bumbler, but he used to be a successful touring manager to some of the craziest and most tempestuous of rock bands, so he can call up his experiences of controlling rock and roll musicians when needed. Most people assume that Dave is merely the owner of a used record store that is lucky to turn a small profit. They don't realize that he owns several commercial properties in town and possesses a music memorabilia collection that is so valuable, the big auction houses are constantly hounding him. | |
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Eccentric Townsfolk | |
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Eccentric Townsfolk: By the dozens. | |
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Strictly Formula | |
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Strictly Formula: The live shows had a standard format: Stuart would have a monologue about the local area, the guest musical act would perform a number, Stuart would then read a story from the Vinyl Cafe Story Exchange, then the musical act would perform again, there would be a Dave and Morley story, and the musical act would perform a final number before Stuart calls an end of the show with the credits announced. | |
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Flashback | |
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Flashback: GivenMcLean's fascination with the past, it is his signature style. He'll often put half of the story on hold to allow for a very extensive digression on a character's background. In one of the anthologies, there is a story with a flashback embedded in a flashback. | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Dave and Mary Turlington do not get along. Sometimes they deliberately go after each other but they're usually at odds due to Dave's bumbling and Mary's uptightness causing hilarious personality clashes. | |
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Carrying a Cake | |
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Carrying a Cake: One of Dave's misadventures involves being entrusted with a wedding cake, then eating it while trapped in a dumbwaiter at an old mansion. And the time he offered to make the fruitcake for the hockey rink fundraiser. | |
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Gaslighting | |
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Gaslighting: Kenny Wong and his father's plan to stop a racist from coming to their restaurant without making a big ruckus. The plan unfolded over the course of a entire year as they imperceptibly changed the restaurant to make him subconsciously feel more and more uncomfortable until he finally left on his own. | |
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Nostalgia Filter | |
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Nostalgia Filter: Stuart's default tone. | |
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Tongue on the Flagpole | |
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Tongue on the Flagpole: Stuart McLean plays with this trope in one of his stories. A man gets stuck on the roof in the middle of winter. He contemplates peeing on the TV antenna, though knowledge of this trope prevents him from doing so. | |
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AcCENT upon the Wrong SylLABle | |
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Accent Upon The Wrong Syllable: Stuart pronounces "schedule" with a soft "ch" and emphasizes the "p" in "raspberry". So many listeners wrote in about how they found his pronunciation strange that he dedicated an entire segment to speak with the editor in charge of the Canadian edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and they discussed the historical origins of Canadian English and how Stuart represents a small group of Canadians whose pronunciations reflect their country's British roots. | |
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Animated Adaptation | |
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Animated Adaptation: A credit for one is listed on Rough Draft Studios' website, but whether or not it actually exists beyond the listing is unknown. | |
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Retcon: Probably the fastest example in all of history. After describing Kenny Wong as being grossly out of shape, Stuart immediately goes back and describes him as being in top physical condition because his audience groaned at the original line. | |
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Short-Distance Phone Call | |
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Short-Distance Phone Call: In "Dorm Days," Stephanie and her roommate Becky spend a great deal of time e-mailing or Instant Messaging each other while they're both in the room. And since the room is very small (as freshman dorm rooms usually are), they're literally in arm's reach of each other during these conversations. | |
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Bumbling Dad | |
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Bumbling Dad: Dave. | |
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Happily Married | |
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Happily Married: Dave and Morley's next-door neighbors, Eugene and Maria Conte. They're an elderly Italian couple and still very much in love after several decades of marriage. | |
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Doom It Yourself | |
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Doom It Yourself: In "Odd Jobs", Dave tries to put in a new outlet where Morley wants to plug in the toaster. It eventually morphs into an entire home renovation project with Dave and multiple professionals working full-time for six months. After they've finally finished, it's revealed they never bothered to move the outlet for the toaster. | |
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Affluent Ascetic | |
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Affluent Ascetic: Dave owns a memorabilia collection that would make him very wealthy if he ever decided to sell it off. Instead, he chooses to live off the modest income that comes in from the music store and only occasionally sells pieces of his collection when he absolutely has to. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: The early stories tends to be quite dark, but his stories has shifted exclusively to light comic fare about the Zany Schemes of Dave and his neighbours. | |
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Dads Can't Cook | |
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Dads Can't Cook: "Dave Cooks the Turkey". Or rather, doesn't cook the turkey, but very creatively. | |
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No Full Name Given | |
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No Full Name Given: We never learn Dave and his family's last name. One guest character even addresses Morley as "Mrs. Dave", to the audience's amusement. | |
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Running Gag: If a story involves a turkey, someone will invariably bring up Dave's various failed attempts at preparing one for dinner. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Used in many stories, such as the roadkill in "Christmas on the Road" and the scent trick with the lightbulbs in "Dave Cooks the Turkey". | |
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