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Corner Gas
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A Sitcom set in the Saskatchewan town of Dog River, Corner Gas follows the lives of the town's residents: Brent, the owner of the titular establishment, his parents Oscar and Emma, his assistant Wanda, his friend Hank, restaurant owner Lacey, and local police officers Davis and Karen.Known for its sly sense of humour, sharp writing, and especially notable for being authentic (actor/writer Brent Butt grew up in small-town Saskatchewan), Corner Gas was eventually brought to a close after its sixth season to allow the show to go out at the top of its game (a move which the cast and crew supported).Another notable aspect about the series is its wide range of cameos: from two Canadian prime ministers, two premiers of Saskatchewan and one mayor of Regina to Stanley Cup. It seems like Dog River is the most popular place in the country.The series launched in Canada on CTV and The Comedy Network in 2004. It was picked up for syndication by WGN America in the United States in 2007. It ended in April 2009.In 2014, a feature film adaptation titled Corner Gas: The Movie was funded using Kickstarter and shown in Canadian theatres for a limited five-day engagement starting on December 3 of the same year, with TV airings and a DVD/Blu-Ray release later that month.In December 2016, an animated revival titled simply Corner Gas Animated was announced, which began broadcasting on The Comedy Network in April 2018. Most of the original main cast and crew have returned, with the exception of Janet Wright (Emma), who passed away in 2016.All seasons of the original, the animated series, and the movie can be streamed in Canada on the CTV app and on Crave, and in the United States for free on Freevee. | |
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"Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome | |
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"Flowers for Algernon" Syndrome: When Davis regains his sense of smell that he lost as a child, he becomes a Sense Freak and goes nuts smelling things. However when he discovers that things can also smell bad, he wants to lose it again. He ends up compromising by wearing cologne. | |
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Noisy Nature | |
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Noisy Nature: When Brent, Oscar and Davis go on a camping trip, Davis enjoys hearing birds sing in the morning, but Oscar stumbles out of his tent and snaps, "Stupid birds woke me up!" The swarms of mosquitoes in "Mosquito Time". | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other | |
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Oscar and Emma. Especially the entire sugar bowl lid dispute where Oscar apologizes with the amethyst jewelry gift. Two other really good examples come from the episode where Oscar attempts to go to a resort with Emma, but it turns out to be a mediocre motel, and they bond on the car ride home, and in the episode where they attempt to get married, and Lacey, thinking that Oscar is illiterate, reads aloud the love letter he wrote for Emma. The look on her face says it all. Other episodes show that they go crazy without bickering with each other all the time, presumably because they're so used to it. When Oscar is absent because he's helping out at Corner Gas, Emma Goes Mad from the Isolation and tries to get Oscar back because "his weirdness keeps me sane". When Emma hears that bickering drove another couple to divorce and resolves to be nicer to Oscar, he gets freaked out by her uncharacteristic behaviour and becomes a Stalker with a Crush towards Wanda because she insults him. | |
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Look Behind You | |
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Look Behind You: In "Slow Pitch", Lacey is running late for the softball game and Brent's team doesn't want Wes's team to realize they're short a player: | |
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Strictly Professional Relationship: Karen and Davis, two small-town cops that have a relationship something like an older brother and younger sister. A few times in the series, other people (Lacey) mistake them for getting together, but this is, every time, a misunderstanding. Even the last episode alludes to it with the credits say "Karen and Davis eventually fell in love and got married...but not to each other". | |
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Daydream Surprise | |
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Daydream Surprise: Used frequently, most notably in the fourth-season finale, which plays out as if it's the final episode of the entire show, with characters moving away, character arcs being resolved, a Bittersweet Ending and the eponymous gas station being taken over by a megacorporation as Dog River goes from being a small town to a proper city... before it's revealed that all of this is just a prolonged daydream sequence on the part of Hank. | |
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No Accounting for Taste | |
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No Accounting for Taste: Oscar and Emma normally tend to fall in this trope, though some episodes show that they do really seem to love each other. | |
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Victory Is Boring | |
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Victory Is Boring: When Brent gives Emma his old MP3 player, she listens to it practically 24/7. Oscar quickly finds out that he can get away with anything because she can't hear him ("If you're not okay with me doing this, then just say something." (Beat) "Okay then, thank you!"). After revelling in it for a while, he realizes that it's not all upside, such as when he keeps losing at poker and tries to quit for the night, but his buddies make fun of him and say he has no excuse not to keep playing if his wife isn't forbidding him. Eventually he steals the MP3 player and smashes it with a hammer. | |
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Former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson. Apparently she really hates barns. But what red-blooded Canadian wouldn't want to tear down a barn? | |
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The Millstone | |
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The Millstone: Hank, thanks to him being that show's ditz. | |
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Cannot Keep a Secret | |
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Cannot Keep a Secret: One episode revolved around Brent and Lacey competing to see which one of them is a better confidant. Another episode reveals that Davis can't either. After finding out Brent and Oscar's yearly camping trip is a lie, Davis says he's good at keeping secrets. Several Howler front pages are then shown: | |
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Badly Battered Babysitter | |
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In one episode, Brent and Lacey are failing to control Wanda’s bratty son Tanner, and finally call in Emma, who promptly puts the kid in line with a Full-Name Ultimatum, addressing him as Tanner Vincent Dollard. The Aesop being? It can scare anyone. Combined with the fact that Emma can scare anyone. | |
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No Such Thing as Bad Publicity | |
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No Such Thing as Bad Publicity:invoked Hank's opinion of the whole "world's biggest hoe" thing, him being one of the few people who understood the Accidental Innuendo. | |
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Parenting the Husband | |
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Parenting the Husband: Emma with Oscar. Not only does she give him an allowance, but we also get this conversation: | |
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Cannot Tell a Joke: Hank. That's what she said! | |
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Geographic Flexibility | |
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Geographic Flexibility: Residents of Dog River, Saskatchewan often refer to (and drive to) "the city" but it's unclear whether it's Saskatoon or Regina they're going to. In some cases Regina is implied, but in one case Moose Jaw is mentioned explicitly, i.e., "You went to Moose Jaw for a morning swim?" The show also subverts the trope, often having a character declare emphatically that Dog River doesn't have an item that many sitcom towns tend to have for story convenience. For example, the above-mentioned "morning swim" comment was the result of Brent pretending that his case of pink eye was the result of taking a dip in an over-chlorinated pool, but Hank and Wanda point out that there's not a swimming pool anywhere in Dog River. Dog River is based on series creator Brent Butt's hometown of Tisdale, north of Saskatoon. | |
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After a series of smaller arguments in "Poor Brent", Oscar deciding to walk around the house unexpectedly nude, as he used to when he was single and living by himself. Emma retaliates by deciding to stop informing him beforehand when she invited her female friends over for sewing circles. Oscar finds out the hard way. | |
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Freeze-Frame Ending | |
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Freeze-Frame Ending: Every episode ends this way, and it is actually lampshaded in "Lacey Borrows". | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Davis and Brent's competition over who has the smaller cellphone resembles a competition over who has the bigger penis, with frequent phrasing to match it. Fittingly, they go back to the usual Bigger Is Better train of thought appropriate for such an allegory by the end of the episode after Lacey mocks their small cellphones as being girly and are seen using the kind of old brick-like cellphones that were used for the Status Cellphone trope. From the same episode, Oscar's addiction to the Claw game is portrayed like alcoholism or a gambling addiction. In another episode, Emma discovering that Karen was the one to cook the meal supposedly cooked by Oscar is treated as if the two parties had been having an affair. In an episode where Brent starts hanging out with Karen at the gas station, Hank starts to feel rejected and tries hanging out with Davis instead. The whole situation is treated like Hank got dumped and is dating someone new. He even gets nervous hanging out with Davis and says it's because he's on the rebound. | |
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Wondrous Ladies Room | |
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Wondrous Ladies Room: One episode has the signs on the washrooms in the gas station swapped by accident. The men enjoy the cleanliness of the ladies room while the women complain about the filthiness of the men's room. When the signs are swapped back, the men start to complain (Hank: How am I supposed to eat in there now?!), even going so far as to compare it to Paradise Lost. Brent promises to make them the same, which he does by making the ladies room dirtier to match the men's room. | |
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Men Can't Keep House | |
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Men Can't Keep House: Oscar. According to Emma, he once put a loaf of bread in the dishwasher while trying to make a sandwich and broke the toaster while trying to make breakfast (and they weren't even having toast). He doesn't even know what the washing machine looks like, let alone how to use it. Of course, this is Oscar we're talking about. His level of incompetence is pretty consistent across the board. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Inverted. After going 40 years without receiving much (if anything) in the way of praise or fatherly pride from Oscar, when Brent finally does get some he just considers it creepy because of how out-of-character it is. | |
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Misplaced Wildlife | |
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Misplaced Wildlife: Invoked in a flashback of Oscar and Brent watching a nature show in which a lion attacks a dingo. Lacey points out that lions and dingoes don't live on the same continent, to which Oscar responds that she's ruining his enjoyment of it. | |
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Kafka Komedy | |
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Kafka Komedy: This often happens to Fish out of Water Lacey, to the point that during one entire episode she refuses to get involved—and everyone else involves her anyway, either by misinterpreting what she says when she declares that she doesn't want to be involved, or by simply assigning her a position because she's from Toronto. | |
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Strangely Arousing | |
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Strangely Arousing: Karen and Davis both find Hank's discussions on fishing to be oddly passionate and sensual. Hank himself is quite surprised when Karen mentions it to him, exclaiming "Fish talk ain't sexy!" in response. Karen nearly achieves a similar effect toward Hank when talking about shooting, but fails to have the analogy keep its poeticism as she goes on. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: The series title in most episodes, though the following episodes also have their official titles mentioned within: "Tax Man", "Grad '68", "Cousin Carl", "Cell Phone", "Comedy Night", "Poor Brent", "Security Cam", "Bingo Night", "Hurry Hard", "Air Show", "Slow Pitch", "Harvest Dance", "Fun Run", "Ruby Newsday", "Dog River Dave", "Mother's Day", "Potato Bowl", "Wash Me", "The J Word", "Outside the Box". | |
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Gone Horribly Right | |
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Gone Horribly Right: Lacey creates a sandwich called the Ruby Club and adds it to the menu. It becomes a huge hit and it's the only thing anybody ever orders, which quickly gets on her nerves. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Often lampshaded, such as when Brent and Hank are talking about Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and a character named Dave played by Colin Mochrie walks by just as Brent complains about how "that bald guy has to make a cameo in everything", or having sports stars randomly show up saying things like "Hi, I'm six-time Olympic medallist Cindy Klassen." Or having someone randomly asking former Canadian Governor General Adrienne Clarkson if she wants to help tear down an old barn. And she accepts. A few scenes later shows her in a Gilligan Cut swinging a sledgehammer, yelling, "Take That!, you stupid barn!" | |
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The Ghost | |
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The Ghost: Wanda's son Tanner. The Movie adds Karen's husband, who isn't even given a name. It's mentioned that he's in the military and stationed in the Mediterranean, getting to enjoy the beaches while Karen is stuck in Dog River having to do her police duties... while pregnant. | |
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The Movie | |
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One episode shows that Oscar is quite adamantly against the idea of divorcing Emma because he doesn't want her to get half of his magazine collection. In The Movie, the now-a-couple Brent and Lacey say that they aren't planning to have kids because Brent doesn't want to share his comic books. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: In "Demolition" Brent, Hank and Oscar try to demolish Cecil's barn by pulling down its main beam with Cecil's tractor (Hank has also brought dynamite just in case). It doesn't work, and Cecil tells Oscar to just use the dynamite and blow up the barn. Oscar yells back to Hank "Cecil says not to bother with the tractor. He says we should just blow it up!" Due to Oscar's poor word choice, Hank rigs his dynamite to the tractor instead of the barn, disappointing the large crowd that had gathered to watch the barn explode. From the beginning of the same episode, when Cecil is asking Hank to tear down the 60-year-old barn, he only refers to the barn as "she" and "her". Hank thinks Cecil wants him to kill the cow standing in front of the barn, which makes him promise that he'll be done by tomorrow. | |
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Fictional Document | |
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Fictional Document: At the end of "Comedy Night", Brent does an "if you want to find out more, visit your local Library!" segment with the books featured in the episode. One of them he mentions is something the prop guy made for the episode, but it's surprisingly still a good read. | |
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Meddlesome Patrolman | |
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Meddlesome Patrolman: Karen and Davis occasionally do this. | |
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Artifact of Attraction | |
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The Clavet Cup, the trophy for the local curling bonspiel named after Dog River's most legendary curler, Archie Clavet. Everyone in town (except Karen and Lacey) treats it with great reverence. It's later revealed that it's just a cheap generic trophy and Davis has had several copies made in case of loss or theft. | |
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Heh Heh, You Said "X" | |
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Heh Heh, You Said "X": In "Cat River Daze": The entirety of the episode "Doc Small" from season two, in which a Doctor from a town smaller than Dog River hears about others' goings-on out of context, leading her to believe that there is a great deal of relationship drama going on there. In the episode "World's Biggest Thing", the town gets the idea to make its own biggest object. Unfortunately, while out of ideas, Fitzy's grandmother's suggestion for a hoe (the garden tool) becomes predominant because no one wants to mention this Fitzy's grandmother, or are simply oblivious to it. In "Slow Pitch", Emma is shopping at the gas station and Hank starts tossing her cans of soup around to test his new baseball glove. She finally snaps, "Stop playing with my cans!" Brent and Wanda are visibly trying not to laugh, but Emma just says, "What?" | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
Corner Gas / int_1e7487cd | comment |
Breaking the Fourth Wall: Continually skirts this with things like the Boom Mike gag, Cameos, and such. | |
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1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_1e7487cd | |
Corner Gas / int_1e7c47ab | type |
Stealth Pun | |
Corner Gas / int_1e7c47ab | comment |
Stealth Pun: In an Imagine Spot of the future, Brent and Oscar imagine Corner Gas becoming Corner Brothel to change business suiting a need people will always have... it's a suitable name considering the phrase "working the corner." | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_1e7c47ab | |
Corner Gas / int_1e8f4221 | type |
Fingore | |
Corner Gas / int_1e8f4221 | comment |
Fingore: When Josh decides to quit being the Ruby's bus boy and fulfill his dream of being a llama farmer, Lacey tries to dissuade him by claiming that the llamas will bite his fingers off. Sure enough, at the end of the episode he is working at the Ruby again, with his hand heavily bandaged. In "Super Sensitive", Brent gets his thumb caught in the hinge of a ladder and when he removes it, it's bent back into a rather unnatural position. | |
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1.0 | |
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Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_1e8f4221 | |
Corner Gas / int_20a18a93 | type |
I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham | |
Corner Gas / int_20a18a93 | comment |
I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: One episode features Lacey getting Brent, Oscar, and Emma hooked on various expensive food and drink. Sometimes it is a food they haven't tried before ("To be honest, I'm not really big on X."), and sometimes it is a more expensive version of something they already enjoyed, and were unable to go back to after trying the more expensive version because their standards had been raised ("I've been bumped up to a new X bracket!"). To get revenge on Lacey they invite her to brunch with lots of expensive and hard-to-make food, but she shows up late and they eat everything before she arrives. She ends up eating some leftover meatloaf and getting hooked on that, much to the Leroys' annoyance, as it's the cheapest, easiest thing they know how to make. Of course, she still falls victim to this trope in the end, as Hank gives her a fancy pen with expensive refills, and she is unable to go back to ballpoint pens because of how smoothly it writes. | |
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Corner Gas / int_20a18a93 | |
Corner Gas / int_20d98ac7 | type |
Nine out of Ten Doctors Agree | |
Corner Gas / int_20d98ac7 | comment |
Nine out of Ten Doctors Agree: Parodied when Wanda admitted that she hadn't seen a dentist since 1992. | |
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1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_20d98ac7 | |
Corner Gas / int_224c9aef | type |
Laugh Track | |
Corner Gas / int_224c9aef | comment |
Laugh Track: Used for the imaginary Show Within a Show Pyro and the Idiot in "Self-Serving". | |
Corner Gas / int_224c9aef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_224c9aef | |
Corner Gas / int_2256c48a | type |
Wraparound Background | |
Corner Gas / int_2256c48a | comment |
Wraparound Background: Subverted when Oscar and Emma are shown in the cab of their RV, and trees passing by in the background indicate they are moving. Cut to an outside shot that shows the RV is parked outside The Ruby and a convoy of flatbeds full of trees is driving by in the opposite direction. | |
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-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_2256c48a | |
Corner Gas / int_2260cfe3 | type |
Like Father, Like Son | |
Corner Gas / int_2260cfe3 | comment |
Like Father, Like Son: One gag involves Wanda telling Brent that he's becoming more like Oscar every day. Brent then calls her a jackass, followed by an Oh, Crap! face as he realizes what he just said. One episode shows that Oscar is quite adamantly against the idea of divorcing Emma because he doesn't want her to get half of his magazine collection. In The Movie, the now-a-couple Brent and Lacey say that they aren't planning to have kids because Brent doesn't want to share his comic books. | |
Corner Gas / int_2260cfe3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_2260cfe3 | |
Corner Gas / int_22867424 | type |
Strike Episode | |
Corner Gas / int_22867424 | comment |
Strike Episode: Defied. There is an episode wherein the policemen of Dog River decide to do a "work-to-rule" strike, and tell so to the town mayor. The mayor just brings out the rulebook. They decide it's not worth the hassle. Played straight in "Get The F Off My Lawn" when Wanda goes on strike from the gas station and makes several demands. Brent hires Hank as a scab, but even he starts making demands! | |
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Corner Gas / int_22867424 | |
Corner Gas / int_235a2706 | type |
Baseball Episode | |
Corner Gas / int_235a2706 | comment |
Baseball Episode: "Slow Pitch" (well, softball). | |
Corner Gas / int_235a2706 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_235a2706 | |
Corner Gas / int_237404cc | type |
Ironic Echo | |
Corner Gas / int_237404cc | comment |
Ironic Echo: Hank's car is impounded and accidentally sold to Wanda. Wanda rubs it in by saying "There are no words to describe how pleased I am with myself." To get revenge, Hank gets Wanda's car impounded and buys it, then attempts to perform an Ironic Echo but fails miserably, mangling the quote to a level of incomprehensibility: "I can't express happy words how I feel right." Which makes it all the more funny because he quite literally can't express how pleased with himself he is. | |
Corner Gas / int_237404cc | featureApplicability |
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Corner Gas / int_237404cc | |
Corner Gas / int_24321e44 | type |
Only Sane Man | |
Corner Gas / int_24321e44 | comment |
Only Sane Man: Brent or Lacey, although the title passes to Emma, Wanda or Karen occasionally. Oscar, of all people, becomes this is "You've Been Great, Goodnight", albeit temporarily. | |
Corner Gas / int_24321e44 | featureApplicability |
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Corner Gas / int_24321e44 | |
Corner Gas / int_243cbd0d | type |
Dope Slap | |
Corner Gas / int_243cbd0d | comment |
Dope Slap: Delivered by Brent to Hank in the first episode after destroying Hank's protest sign against the changes to the Ruby. | |
Corner Gas / int_243cbd0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_243cbd0d | |
Corner Gas / int_26eb6287 | type |
Funny Background Event | |
Corner Gas / int_26eb6287 | comment |
Funny Background Event: In "Lacey Borrows," there's a close-up of Hank talking to Lacey while eating lunch at The Ruby. Twice we see Davis's hand reach over from offscreen and steal some of Hank's fries. A few moments later, Hank looks at his plate and asks Lacey why she's "so stingy with the fries." | |
Corner Gas / int_26eb6287 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_26eb6287 | |
Corner Gas / int_27b9c950 | type |
Road-Sign Reversal | |
Corner Gas / int_27b9c950 | comment |
Road-Sign Reversal: Oscar changes a sign warning about a pothole in the road to one warning about a speed bump that was built over it by flipping the sign upside down. He tries to do it again when they go back to the pothole at the end of the episode (because it "looks more natural"), but it won't hold in place, so he says they have to build the speed bump again. | |
Corner Gas / int_27b9c950 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_27b9c950 | |
Corner Gas / int_2809a15a | type |
Old-School Chivalry | |
Corner Gas / int_2809a15a | comment |
Old-School Chivalry: When Wanda shows up to work in a skirt one day and is on the receiving end of an uncharacteristically chivalrous act from Brent, her and Lacey hypothesize that his natural male instinct took over, and that the more feminine she looks and behaves, the more chivalrous he will act. It seems to work too, until we Whip Pan to Brent talking to Emma about the real reason he's treating her differently: He thinks Wanda's gone totally nuts and that he should take it easy on her for a while. | |
Corner Gas / int_2809a15a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_2809a15a | |
Corner Gas / int_285b4246 | type |
Birthday Hater | |
Corner Gas / int_285b4246 | comment |
Birthday Hater: Wanda openly professes her hatred for birthdays and asks that nobody do anything for her birthday, but when people actually listen to her and don't do anything, she ends up feeling like nobody cares about her. At the end of the episode, she throws a surprise party for herself, and the final shot is her saying "You guys know I hate this birthday stuff!" with a big smile on her face. | |
Corner Gas / int_285b4246 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_285b4246 | |
Corner Gas / int_2a090d00 | type |
Lampshade Hanging | |
Corner Gas / int_2a090d00 | comment |
Lampshade Hanging: When talking about a mocking radio personality called "Dog River Dave" (in the episode of the same name), Brent is surprised someone would ever want to watch/listen to a show about him. Hank then remarks "You could have some cool star cameos!", and then suddenly, coming in through the door: "Hi! I'm six-time Olympic medalist Cindy Klassen!" On Jonathan, Oscar and Emma's Kenyan foster child: | |
Corner Gas / int_2a090d00 | featureApplicability |
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Corner Gas / int_2a090d00 | |
Corner Gas / int_2b3fa921 | type |
Down on the Farm | |
Corner Gas / int_2b3fa921 | comment |
Down on the Farm: The Canadian equivalent is parodied relentlessly whenever an out-of-towner visits. | |
Corner Gas / int_2b3fa921 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_2b3fa921 | |
Corner Gas / int_2bfabe7 | type |
Trespassing to Talk | |
Corner Gas / int_2bfabe7 | comment |
Trespassing to Talk: Davis is trying to get two of his friends to purchase a home security system. One day, they wake up to find him standing over their bed with a tray. He cheerfully informs them that he could've been a burglar bringing them breakfast. They buy the system just so he'll leave. | |
Corner Gas / int_2bfabe7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_2bfabe7 | |
Corner Gas / int_2c13a6ce | type |
Complaining About Things You Haven't Paid For | |
Corner Gas / int_2c13a6ce | comment |
Complaining About Things You Haven't Paid For: In the pilot episode, Hank complains about a terrible cup of coffee, to which Brent says, "Oh, well, let me refund your money. What'd you pay for it, zero?" In "Whataphobia", the owner of the local minigolf course refuses to certify Oscar's apparently record-breaking score because no one witnessed it, causing Oscar to swear the course owner has lost a customer...only for him to point out he lets Oscar play for free anyways. Brent never charges Hank for gas (or at least doesn't make him pay right away), but in "The Eight Samurai", Hank complains that Brent doesn't do anything special like other gas stations: | |
Corner Gas / int_2c13a6ce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_2c13a6ce | |
Corner Gas / int_2d364c81 | type |
Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
Corner Gas / int_2d364c81 | comment |
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Generally speaking, Karen, Emma and especially Wanda are the tomboys, in contrast with Lacey as the girly-girl. This is especially prevalent in "Comedy Night" and "The J-Word". | |
Corner Gas / int_2d364c81 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_2d364c81 | |
Corner Gas / int_2d4d16d9 | type |
I Know You Know I Know | |
Corner Gas / int_2d4d16d9 | comment |
I Know You Know I Know: The players on the Corner Gas softball team try to hide their public drinking during the games from Davis and Karen who are also on the team. Davis and Karen know about the drinking and don't care, but don't say anything because they all work so hard to hide it that it would just cause an awkward moment. Then it turns out that the rest of the team knows that Davis and Karen know about the drinking, but they don't say anything because Davis and Karen work so hard to pretend they don't know that it would just cause an awkward moment. Indeed, when the team wins the game and celebrates at the bar, Karen raises a glass and gives a toast "to beer that you don't have to pretend is iced tea", it causes a very awkward moment amongst everyone and she gets chastised by Davis for doing so. | |
Corner Gas / int_2d4d16d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_2d4d16d9 | |
Corner Gas / int_2d60b137 | type |
Zillion-Dollar Bill | |
Corner Gas / int_2d60b137 | comment |
Zillion-Dollar Bill: Parodied with Brent's $100 note. | |
Corner Gas / int_2d60b137 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_2d60b137 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_2d60b137 | |
Corner Gas / int_2dc96e6c | type |
Police Code for Everything | |
Corner Gas / int_2dc96e6c | comment |
Police Code for Everything: A subversion when Davis finds what he thinks is an alien Crop Circle: In "Whataphobia", Karen reports a 10-19 to Davis, who responds with, "Trouble at the mini-putt?" | |
Corner Gas / int_2dc96e6c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_2dc96e6c | |
Corner Gas / int_301476a3 | type |
Car Meets House | |
Corner Gas / int_301476a3 | comment |
Car Meets House: At the beginning of "Good Tubbin", Brent says he heard that "some lunatic" drove through Hank's kitchen. A flashback reveals that the "lunatic" was Hank himself. | |
Corner Gas / int_301476a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_301476a3 | |
Corner Gas / int_308a5ff0 | type |
Strange Minds Think Alike | |
Corner Gas / int_308a5ff0 | comment |
Strange Minds Think Alike: Practically a staple of the show. Must come from a lifetime of living in a small town together. Brent asks Lacey to identify a song by poorly making guitar sounds with his mouth. Lacey asks "How can anyone identify a song just from that?" but both Wanda and Hank immediately recognize it. In an episode where Lacey wants to start a Pilates class, at least 3 other characters ask her why she'd start a class named after the guy who killed Jesus. When Lacey would say that Pilates isn't the guy who killed Jesus, the characters would say "Well, he gave the order..." After Oscar finds a pair of pants on the side of the road and decides to keep them (to everyone else's revulsion), Emma throws them and several other pieces of his found garbage out the car window. The episode ends with another old man finding them and deciding to keep them, using the exact same line as Oscar. "Look at this. A perfectly good pair of pants." Both Hank and Davis separately get admonished for bragging about men's ability to pee standing up. They both reply with "No brag, just fact." | |
Corner Gas / int_308a5ff0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_308a5ff0 | |
Corner Gas / int_3149c4b0 | type |
It Will Never Catch On | |
Corner Gas / int_3149c4b0 | comment |
It Will Never Catch On: Brent (jokingly) says that the internet is just another fad that'll be over in a week. | |
Corner Gas / int_3149c4b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_3149c4b0 | |
Corner Gas / int_314afdb | type |
In-Universe Factoid Failure | |
Corner Gas / int_314afdb | comment |
In-Universe Factoid Failure: One of the Howler's more visible faults; ie. claiming that "Moose Jaw gets NBA franchise". | |
Corner Gas / int_314afdb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_314afdb | featureConfidence |
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Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_314afdb | |
Corner Gas / int_31a2a33c | type |
Stuff Blowing Up | |
Corner Gas / int_31a2a33c | comment |
We are treated to a montage of Stuff Blowing Up in Oscar's face, ending with a salad (see Lethal Chef below). | |
Corner Gas / int_31a2a33c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_31a2a33c | |
Corner Gas / int_31ae6183 | type |
Got Me Doing It | |
Corner Gas / int_31ae6183 | comment |
Got Me Doing It: In an early episode, Lacey complains about the others habit of spitting on the floor when the neighboring town of Wullerton is mentioned. By the end of the scene, she's doing it and realizes she's become one of them. In "The Littlest Yarbo", Hank talks incessantly about how a stray dog is really the Littlest Hobo and Wanda keeps telling him what a stupid idea that is. Then she sees the dog herself and exclaims, "Hey! Littlest Hobo!" | |
Corner Gas / int_31ae6183 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_31ae6183 | |
Corner Gas / int_3202a9b0 | type |
Money Song | |
Corner Gas / int_3202a9b0 | comment |
Money Song: "Capital Cash" by Fast Exit, note Brent Butt's high school band according to The Other Wiki with a dash of Rock-Star Song and even some Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!. | |
Corner Gas / int_3202a9b0 | featureApplicability |
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Corner Gas / int_3202a9b0 | |
Corner Gas / int_325ef3ab | type |
Incredibly Obvious Bomb | |
Corner Gas / int_325ef3ab | comment |
Incredibly Obvious Bomb: In "The Eight Samurai", it's said that Hank ruined the relationship between Dog River and their old twin town in Denmark by sending them a gift that represented various aspects of their town including a bag of fertilizer, a can of gas from Corner Gas, and a truck battery, which the town easily mistook for a bomb. When the question arises as to what gift to send their new twin town in Japan, Hank suggests (and produces) a novelty bowling ball candle that looks like a Cartoon Bomb. Later, he suggests an assortment of "toys from Dog River" including a hunk of plasticine, some pipe cleaners, and a toy clock. | |
Corner Gas / int_325ef3ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_325ef3ab | |
Corner Gas / int_32c930e8 | type |
Eccentric Townsfolk | |
Corner Gas / int_32c930e8 | comment |
Eccentric Townsfolk: Though Dog Riverians are portrayed as “quirky� from the very beginning, the xenophobic, paranoid, irrational and even Kafkaesque elements of the local culture are played up more and more as the series goes on. What the locals choose to treat as Serious Business, especially in relation to newcomer Lacey, becomes essentially arbitrary and unpredictable. | |
Corner Gas / int_32c930e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_32c930e8 | |
Corner Gas / int_35ae6a23 | type |
Lethal Chef | |
Corner Gas / int_35ae6a23 | comment |
Lethal Chef: Oscar. According to Brent, his homemade beer tasted liked he "beat a skunk to death with a salmon." When Hank is hired to demolish a barn and decides to blow it up, Oscar offers to help him. When Hank asks him what he knows about blowing things up, we are treated to a montage of stuff blowing up in Oscar's face, the last one being a salad. Brent himself may not be a particularly bad cook, but because he eats all his meals at the Ruby he doesn't keep much food around the house. So when he gets into an argument with Lacey and stops eating at the Ruby out of spite he has to choke down sandwiches such as pickles-and-jam and olives-and-sour-cream for lunch. He pretends he thinks they are delicious in front of Lacey but obviously has trouble getting through them. | |
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Corner Gas / int_35ae6a23 | |
Corner Gas / int_36135fb0 | type |
Official Couple | |
Corner Gas / int_36135fb0 | comment |
Official Couple: Brent and Lacey apparently became one between the series and The Movie, and in fact had been a couple for some time. But nobody else in Dog River seemed to notice. | |
Corner Gas / int_36135fb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_36135fb0 | |
Corner Gas / int_3684532f | type |
Never Heard That One Before | |
Corner Gas / int_3684532f | comment |
Never Heard That One Before: The guy from the cable company who comes to Dog River in "Cable Excess" can't ask for service at any business without getting a snarky "How about next Tuesday, sometime between 8 and 4?" as a reply. He first hears it from Brent when he pulls up to the pumps for gas, then from Karen when he reports his cable van was egged, then from Lacey when he orders some food at the Ruby. Judging from his reaction to Brent's use of the joke, it had already reached this status long before he came to Dog River. The worst part? He's not even a repairman, which ruins the entire point of the joke. | |
Corner Gas / int_3684532f | featureApplicability |
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Corner Gas / int_3684532f | |
Corner Gas / int_37141022 | type |
Can't You Read the Sign? | |
Corner Gas / int_37141022 | comment |
Can't You Read the Sign?: In "Lost and Found", Lacey tells Karen not to play with her hackey sack in the restaurant. Karen says that if it's a rule, there should be a sign posted, to which Lacey replies "We don't have a sign for everything. Read the sign!" and then points to a sign that reads "We don't have a sign for everything. —Lacey". | |
Corner Gas / int_37141022 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_37141022 | |
Corner Gas / int_3773f8d5 | type |
Status Cell Phone | |
Corner Gas / int_3773f8d5 | comment |
Status Cell Phone: In the first season episode "Cell Phone", Dog River is in the middle of nowhere and has really lousy cell reception. The residents are forced to use special cellphone with bulky signal boosters. When it is announced that a new cell tower will be erected in the town, the main characters get new cellphones and a try to show up each other by getting progressively smaller cellphones. However, when the plans for the new cell tower are abandoned, they have to go back to their old bulky models. | |
Corner Gas / int_3773f8d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_3773f8d5 | |
Corner Gas / int_382c7a57 | type |
Now You Tell Me | |
Corner Gas / int_382c7a57 | comment |
Now You Tell Me: When Brent becomes a food critic for The Ruby's daily specials, he gives a scathing review of a plate of macaroni and cheese while Emma is sitting behind him, becoming visibly incensed. Lacey then points out it was Emma's cooking, not The Ruby's. In "Telescope Trouble", Wanda warns Karen to "watch the door" after the broken gas station door smacks her on the rear end. | |
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Corner Gas / int_382c7a57 | |
Corner Gas / int_39297f53 | type |
Bigger Is Better | |
Corner Gas / int_39297f53 | comment |
Davis and Brent's competition over who has the smaller cellphone resembles a competition over who has the bigger penis, with frequent phrasing to match it. Fittingly, they go back to the usual Bigger Is Better train of thought appropriate for such an allegory by the end of the episode after Lacey mocks their small cellphones as being girly and are seen using the kind of old brick-like cellphones that were used for the Status Cellphone trope. From the same episode, Oscar's addiction to the Claw game is portrayed like alcoholism or a gambling addiction. | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_39297f53 | |
Corner Gas / int_39899a44 | type |
Hypothetical Fight Debate | |
Corner Gas / int_39899a44 | comment |
Hypothetical Fight Debate: Happens a few times. Davis debates with a few people about who would win if Star Wars fought Star Trek. Also, Hank apparently has these types of debates with himself inside his head, such as who would win if a werewolf fought a robot... or if a werewolf fought Wanda. Referenced in the opening scene of The Movie. Wanda is revealed to be a robot and fights a robber trying to hold up the gas station who turns into a werewolf. Then Hank wakes up. | |
Corner Gas / int_39899a44 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_39899a44 | |
Corner Gas / int_39bb9133 | type |
SomeGuysStoreOfRandomObjectsAndUnrelatedServices | |
Corner Gas / int_39bb9133 | comment |
Some Guys Store Of Random Objects And Unrelated Services: The liquor/insurance store, though such places actually exist. In fact, they got the idea from the town that they filmed the show in! | |
Corner Gas / int_39bb9133 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_39bb9133 | |
Corner Gas / int_39d750cb | type |
Hand Rubbing | |
Corner Gas / int_39d750cb | comment |
Hand Rubbing: Referenced by Brent after they invite Lacey to their "revenge brunch". | |
Corner Gas / int_39d750cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_39d750cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_39d750cb | |
Corner Gas / int_3b10dda5 | type |
Diaries Are Girly | |
Corner Gas / int_3b10dda5 | comment |
Davis writes in a journal, not a diary. It has a lock on it like a diary, but it's totally different! | |
Corner Gas / int_3b10dda5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_3b10dda5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_3b10dda5 | |
Corner Gas / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
Corner Gas / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: Played for laughs with Hank's biking class instructor job. He says that it involves a red cat and a tornado, the camera cutting short to the end of the story "... and that's how I got the job." A few seconds later, he repeats the story in whole: He was watching a tv show about a red cat and a tornado when someone called to offer him the job and he said yes. In "Slow Pitch", Brent refers to Oscar as "the guy who once punched a skunk," and Oscar says the skunk had it coming, but we don't hear any more details about this incident. In "Friend Of A Friend," Wanda refuses to give Oscar a discount on milk at Corner Gas and he threatens to leave and buy milk at the co-op instead. Wanda replies, "You were barred from the co-op two years ago, so unless you have a bucket and a stool, you're paying for the milk. (beat) Oh, you'd also need a cow." There's no mention of what exactly Oscar did to get barred from the co-op. In "Dog River Dave," Wanda says that Lacey once found a raccoon in her sock drawer, but there's no explanation of how the raccoon got in there or how Lacey reacted. One episode had Brent asking if the Howler had said that Canada "was at war with Switzerland again". | |
Corner Gas / int_3c0a4666 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_3c0a4666 | |
Corner Gas / int_3cb6468e | type |
Bad Liar | |
Corner Gas / int_3cb6468e | comment |
Bad Liar: Lacey is an abysmal liar, and this fact is often lampshaded. | |
Corner Gas / int_3cb6468e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_3cb6468e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_3cb6468e | |
Corner Gas / int_3e95582f | type |
The Greatest Story Never Told | |
Corner Gas / int_3e95582f | comment |
The Greatest Story Never Told: When a comedian steals Brent's best and funniest story and tells it on TV, therefore ruining Brent's ability to tell it without people thinking he's the one stealing it, Oscar says that he purposely does not tell anyone about funny stories that happen to him, and keeps them all in his head so that only he can enjoy them, and nobody can steal them from him. He then thinks of one and walks off laughing. | |
Corner Gas / int_3e95582f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_3e95582f | |
Corner Gas / int_3eee0728 | type |
Captain Obvious | |
Corner Gas / int_3eee0728 | comment |
In "Meat Wave", Curtis' Meat Market's slogan is, "The market where you can buy meat!" | |
Corner Gas / int_3eee0728 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_3eee0728 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_3eee0728 | |
Corner Gas / int_402a598d | type |
Standard Police Motto | |
Corner Gas / int_402a598d | comment |
Standard Police Motto: Karen and Davis have a long, drawn-out argument over whether or not the slogan on their patrol car should read "To Protect and Serve" or "To Serve and Protect." | |
Corner Gas / int_402a598d | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_402a598d | |
Corner Gas / int_40bb59d0 | type |
Blatant Lies | |
Corner Gas / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
Davis pretty much avoids fishing with Hank now, faking an important aromatherapy class to get out of it, and he has no sense of smell. | |
Corner Gas / int_40bb59d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_40bb59d0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_40bb59d0 | |
Corner Gas / int_40c4d32b | type |
Pick a Card | |
Corner Gas / int_40c4d32b | comment |
Pick a Card: Brent attempts this trick in "World's Biggest Thing." | |
Corner Gas / int_40c4d32b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_40c4d32b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_40c4d32b | |
Corner Gas / int_41379078 | type |
Instant Seduction | |
Corner Gas / int_41379078 | comment |
Instant Seduction: An inversion: in one episode, Karen becomes attracted to Hank after he waxes poetic about fish. Not because she's into fish at all, but because he's into fishing so much that it brings out his poetic and sensitive side; we even see him from her point of view and he's in soft focus. It's subverted later in the episode after they decide not to continue with things, only for Karen to start in on how she likes gunnery practice, and Hank sees her in soft focus... then she fumbles for words and the moment's lost. | |
Corner Gas / int_41379078 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_41379078 | |
Corner Gas / int_4192763e | type |
Malaproper | |
Corner Gas / int_4192763e | comment |
Malaproper: Oscar does it several times in The Movie. One example is when he refers to "The Four ''Norse''men of the Apocalypse". | |
Corner Gas / int_4192763e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_4192763e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_4192763e | |
Corner Gas / int_41dce76e | type |
Small Town Boredom | |
Corner Gas / int_41dce76e | comment |
In-universe, various characters often joke about how small and/or boring Dog River is. And: In "Doc Small," Dr. Garner says that Dog River overwhelms her because she's accustomed to a slower pace. Emma says, "There's a slower pace?" | |
Corner Gas / int_41dce76e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_41dce76e | |
Corner Gas / int_42148628 | type |
Everyone is Jesus in Purgatory | |
Corner Gas / int_42148628 | comment |
Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory: invokedWhen Brent draws cartoons for Lacey's newsletter, Karen and Davis interpret a bunch of non-existent symbolism as Brent taking cheap shots at them. They even convince Lacey that he's taking shots at her too. When Brent tries to make it up to them by drawing cartoons explicitly praising them, they just complain that they aren't funny because he isn't insulting anyone. | |
Corner Gas / int_42148628 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_42148628 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_42148628 | |
Corner Gas / int_42839f8b | type |
Sound-Effect Bleep | |
Corner Gas / int_42839f8b | comment |
Sound-Effect Bleep: A large rant by Lacey (the least likely character to do so) is blocked out by the camera cutting to a very loud passing train, and ends with her putting $20 in the Swear Jar. In the episode "Face Off", Wanda is announcing at a hockey game and exclaims, "The Dogs score! Holy sh—" Then she accidentally hits the buzzer. | |
Corner Gas / int_42839f8b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_42839f8b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_42839f8b | |
Corner Gas / int_42a055ac | type |
Happy Place | |
Corner Gas / int_42a055ac | comment |
Happy Place: Brent Leroy's happy place has two scantily clad women, pudding baths, chili cheese dogs and once, The Man from Glad. Brent may have more than one happy place. In "Poor Brent," he's eating lunch with Oscar and Emma. They start arguing and when Oscar tries to get Brent involved in the argument, Brent turns away and says, "I'm on a tropical beach right now." | |
Corner Gas / int_42a055ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_42a055ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_42a055ac | |
Corner Gas / int_42cd1d02 | type |
Fundraiser Carnival | |
Corner Gas / int_42cd1d02 | comment |
Fundraiser Carnival: There's one in the episode "Cat River Daze". Davis and Hank are both so excited about the dunk tank that they compete with each other to annoy the townsfolk so people will want to dunk them. | |
Corner Gas / int_42cd1d02 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_42cd1d02 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_42cd1d02 | |
Corner Gas / int_43964f3 | type |
Worst News Judgment Ever | |
Corner Gas / int_43964f3 | comment |
Worst News Judgment Ever: The Dog River Howler; this is noted by the characters, though. To Lacey's dismay though, despite how they'll seem to accept just about anyone in town writing for the paper, it turns out that for some reason, they won't accept her. | |
Corner Gas / int_43964f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Corner Gas / int_43964f3 | |
Corner Gas / int_43b154c9 | type |
Not Even Bothering with the Accent | |
Corner Gas / int_43b154c9 | comment |
Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Canadian actor Mark McKinney as an American tourist in "An American in Saskatchewan" doesn't bother imitating an American accent. This is most noticeable when he says "bilingual."note pronounced "by-LIN-gyoo-al" in Canada, but "by-LIN-gwal" in the U.S. In "Cable Excess", there's a gag where The View is planning to sue Wanda, Lacey, and Emma involving an American executive (singled out as such by an American flag on his desk and not knowing how to pronounce Saskatchewan), but the actor speaks with a very obvious Canadian accent. | |
Corner Gas / int_43b154c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_43b154c9 | |
Corner Gas / int_443f9d8a | type |
Ask a Stupid Question... | |
Corner Gas / int_443f9d8a | comment |
Ask a Stupid Question...: When Brent walks into Oscar and Emma's living room while they're putting up Christmas decorations: When Lacey plays a game of horseshoes against Hank: When Brent and Hank find a 30 year old Dingle Puff. They phone the company, first wondering if they have a "food museum" to put it in, then wondering if they can eat it: Subverted in "Face Off" when it turns out the question wasn't so stupid after all: | |
Corner Gas / int_443f9d8a | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Corner Gas / int_443f9d8a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_443f9d8a | |
Corner Gas / int_44989f6f | type |
"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot | |
Corner Gas / int_44989f6f | comment |
"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: When Oscar and Emma's wedding photos can't be found and they claim they were never married, then reveal they are married and had an Elvis-themed wedding, Brent — who had been called a bastard the entire episode and was angsting over the idea he might have born out of wedlock — points this out. In the same episode, Lacey thinks Oscar is illiterate. When she tells Oscar this, he points out she's seen him read many times by now. | |
Corner Gas / int_44989f6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_44989f6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_44989f6f | |
Corner Gas / int_44c385ee | type |
That's What She Said | |
Corner Gas / int_44c385ee | comment |
That's What She Said: In one episode, Hank uses this line repeatedly (completely missing the point of the phrase in the process), only to be confronted with the perfect opportunity—only to decide that 'she' wouldn't say that, because 'she' is not that kind of girl. | |
Corner Gas / int_44c385ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_44c385ee | |
Corner Gas / int_45007296 | type |
Metaphorgotten | |
Corner Gas / int_45007296 | comment |
Metaphorgotten: Happens several times. One example: Another one: From the finale: | |
Corner Gas / int_45007296 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_45007296 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_45007296 | |
Corner Gas / int_46754750 | type |
Inadvertent Entrance Cue | |
Corner Gas / int_46754750 | comment |
Inadvertent Entrance Cue: From "Dog River Vice": In "Bingo Night", Karen is hanging out at The Ruby after being temporarily suspended from the police force: | |
Corner Gas / int_46754750 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_46754750 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_46754750 | |
Corner Gas / int_469e3e2f | type |
In-Universe | |
Corner Gas / int_469e3e2f | comment |
Then there's the actual name of an In-Universe country musician. Later, Brent notices a poster of Guff Brooking and points it out, chuckling. | |
Corner Gas / int_469e3e2f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_469e3e2f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_469e3e2f | |
Corner Gas / int_47bf7e16 | type |
Local Hangout | |
Corner Gas / int_47bf7e16 | comment |
Local Hangout: The Ruby. Also, the characters frequently socialize at the bar of the Dog River Hotel. | |
Corner Gas / int_47bf7e16 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_47bf7e16 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_47bf7e16 | |
Corner Gas / int_47e9f862 | type |
My Grandma Can Do Better Than You | |
Corner Gas / int_47e9f862 | comment |
My Grandma Can Do Better Than You: In "Face Off," Wanda does commentary for the River Dogs/Saints hockey game: | |
Corner Gas / int_47e9f862 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_47e9f862 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_47e9f862 | |
Corner Gas / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
Corner Gas / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Hank and sometimes Lacey. | |
Corner Gas / int_47fea76b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_47fea76b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_47fea76b | |
Corner Gas / int_48078a7 | type |
Cool Versus Awesome | |
Corner Gas / int_48078a7 | comment |
Cool Versus Awesome: Hank debates at length robots versus werewolves. | |
Corner Gas / int_48078a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_48078a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_48078a7 | |
Corner Gas / int_482c31d4 | type |
No Hugging, No Kissing | |
Corner Gas / int_482c31d4 | comment |
No Hugging, No Kissing: While the show isn't completely devoid of romance, the level is incredibly low for a show about six single, middle-aged characters (and Oscar and Emma), and the few episodes do deal with romance bring up pairings just to dismiss them. The closest the series got was the episode (discussed several times on this list) in which Karen and Hank "hooked up" during a fishing trip, and in the first season finale Brent and Lacey have a "charged moment" which they agree to forget about in the second season premiere. | |
Corner Gas / int_482c31d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_482c31d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_482c31d4 | |
Corner Gas / int_4864031b | type |
Informed Attractiveness | |
Corner Gas / int_4864031b | comment |
Informed Attractiveness: Played for laughs when the women of Dog River think that Brent is some sort of unattainable sex god, much to Lacey's bafflement. | |
Corner Gas / int_4864031b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_4864031b | |
Corner Gas / int_4a3e547f | type |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
Corner Gas / int_4a3e547f | comment |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: A great example is this exchange when Hank gets an electronic organizer: The very first lines of The Movie are Hank asking "How long has it been?" and Brent responding with the exact date that the final episode of the show was first aired. A few seconds later, Brent admits that he doesn't actually know what Hank is talking about and that he just made up a date at random. | |
Corner Gas / int_4a3e547f | featureApplicability |
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Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_4a3e547f | |
Corner Gas / int_4abd0b32 | type |
I'll Take Two Beers Too | |
Corner Gas / int_4abd0b32 | comment |
I'll Take Two Beers Too: A slight variation. | |
Corner Gas / int_4abd0b32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_4abd0b32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_4abd0b32 | |
Corner Gas / int_4ae4e6e1 | type |
Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure | |
Corner Gas / int_4ae4e6e1 | comment |
Popcultural Osmosis Failure: When Emma delivers wise words to Brent, he tells her, "You're like Yoda." Emma calmly replies, "I don't know what that means." Emma explains that Oscar is a "Trekkie" (i.e., he's a fan of Neil Diamond). Brent pranks Oscar by writing names like Marge Simpson and Jean-Luc Picard on the whiteboard of people who have tried to pass bad checks at the gas station. | |
Corner Gas / int_4ae4e6e1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_4ae4e6e1 | |
Corner Gas / int_4af55b78 | type |
Credits Gag | |
Corner Gas / int_4af55b78 | comment |
Credits Gag: There's been at least one. | |
Corner Gas / int_4af55b78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas / int_4af55b78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_4af55b78 | |
Corner Gas / int_4b17763f | type |
Technology Marches On | |
Corner Gas / int_4b17763f | comment |
Technology Marches On: In the very first episode, which takes place in the summer of 2003, Brent begins renting movies on VHS at the gas station and it's shown that Oscar has never rented a video nor even hooked up and operated a VCR in his life. By the end of the live-action show's run, VHS was pretty much a completely obsolete format in real life, all the characters watch movies on DVDs, and Oscar at least knows how to program a VCR to record a show. In another first season episode, "Cell Phone", the titular technology is still being treated as somewhat of a novelty, at least in rural Saskatchewan; in real life and in the show, things changed very quickly. In an in-universe example, Oscar apparently thinks digital clocks still cost $800. | |
Corner Gas / int_4b17763f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_4b17763f | |
Corner Gas / int_4b1afa0d | type |
Spiteful Spit | |
Corner Gas / int_4b1afa0d | comment |
Spiteful Spit: Residents of Dog River all reflexively turn their heads and spit on the ground (or floor) at the mention of their rival, neighboring town of Wullerton. Lacey is horrified when she starts to do it too. At one point, several characters spit on the floor of the Ruby when Wullerton is mentioned... right in front of the health inspector. | |
Corner Gas / int_4b1afa0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_4b1afa0d | |
Corner Gas / int_4cecb933 | type |
Signs of Disrepair | |
Corner Gas / int_4cecb933 | comment |
Signs of Disrepair: Dog River's grocery store used to say "FOOD MARKET", but some of the letters have fallen off, so it now says "FOO- MAR—T" (The sign read FOO- -AR-ET in the first season only). Evidently the store management was too cheap and/or too lazy to bother replacing the missing letters, so it's now known as the Foo Mart. They even have a jingle. In the movie, they replace the missing letters in order to make the town look more presentable. Lacey loses the F and the E off her "CAFE" sign. After a few "Where's your F 'n' E?" jokes, she gets the F back. Then a kid who has seen the E comes in and asks Lacey "Are you the owner of this caf?" | |
Corner Gas / int_4cecb933 | featureApplicability |
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Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_4cecb933 | |
Corner Gas / int_4d74ae51 | type |
Blasé Boast | |
Corner Gas / int_4d74ae51 | comment |
Blasé Boast: When Lacey hears about Brent not being allowed to enter an eating contest because it wouldn't be fair, she half-jokingly asks if he's some kind of pro. | |
Corner Gas / int_4d74ae51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_4d74ae51 | |
Corner Gas / int_4dd6313f | type |
It's Always Spring | |
Corner Gas / int_4dd6313f | comment |
It's Always Spring: The show is eternally spring or summer, despite being filmed on location in a province where winters are quite long and brutal. Creator/writer/star Brent Butt has expressed his lack of interest in filming in winter (aside from the Christmas episode). In particular, the first season episode “I Love Lacey� explicitly takes place on November 16, 2003, the day of that year’s Grey Cup game in Regina. While the characters are all dressed for autumn, the trees are green and leafy, which they never are come November in that region. In real life, Regina’s weather was fairly frosty that day, with the temperature not even getting above freezing. | |
Corner Gas / int_4dd6313f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_4dd6313f | |
Corner Gas / int_4e3d253b | type |
Downer Ending | |
Corner Gas / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: The fourth season finale had Brent selling Corner Gas, Davis being transferred to Wullerton and, saddest of all, Lacey moving back to Toronto. Fortunately, it was All Just a Dream. | |
Corner Gas / int_4e3d253b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
Corner Gas | hasFeature |
Corner Gas / int_4e3d253b | |
Corner Gas / int_4eb2ce94 | type |
Sensitivity Training | |
Corner Gas / int_4eb2ce94 | comment |
Sensitivity Training: In "Super Sensitive", Karen (a blonde) complained to the mayor about Davis telling dumb blonde jokes at work, so Davis had to attend sensitivity training. He became obsessed with political correctness after this (for example, Karen ordered black coffee and he corrected her by saying, "African-American!"), which Karen actually found more annoying than the blonde jokes. | |
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Lazy Bum | |
Corner Gas / int_4efe80e1 | comment |
Lazy Bum: Hank. Oscar as well. Emma can't get him to do any household chores without issuing stern orders or using outright threats. And even this technique isn't always effective. | |
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Go Mad from the Isolation | |
Corner Gas / int_4f3c14ca | comment |
Other episodes show that they go crazy without bickering with each other all the time, presumably because they're so used to it. When Oscar is absent because he's helping out at Corner Gas, Emma Goes Mad from the Isolation and tries to get Oscar back because "his weirdness keeps me sane". When Emma hears that bickering drove another couple to divorce and resolves to be nicer to Oscar, he gets freaked out by her uncharacteristic behaviour and becomes a Stalker with a Crush towards Wanda because she insults him. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Compared to the second season onward, the first season of the show uses a noticeably grainier film stock, dimmer lighting and colour correction, a subtler and more naturalistic style of acting, and a gentler and less “goofy� style of humour. Starting with the season two premiere, the picture becomes cleaner and brighter and more colourful, acting choices and characterizations become broader and more sitcom-like, and the jokes and plotlines become a little sillier. | |
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Kavorka Man | |
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Kavorka Man: Brent, even though he doesn't have any sex throughout the entire run of the show (that we know of). Why not? All of the women except Lacey think he's way out of their league. Lacey reasons that because the rest of the men in Dog River are so repulsive Brent in comparison seems much more attractive than he actually is, but the other women don't believe her. Exaggerated when Brent trades his usual blue work shirt for a black one, his attitude immediately gaining a flair of danger and mystery. | |
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Convenience Store Gift Shopping | |
Corner Gas / int_4f769d67 | comment |
Convenience Store Gift Shopping: In "Road Worthy", Oscar tells Wanda that he can't decide on a gift for Emma, to which she says, "Well, coming to the gas station was a great start. There's motor oil, antifreeze, two-liter bottles of pop..." Oscar says that Emma likes pop, but Wanda tells him, "Don't get her pop." Wanda tells Emma that she does all her Christmas shopping at the dollar store, which prompts Emma to wonder about that bracelet Wanda gave her. Wanda trails off and quickly changes subjects. Then at the cash register, the cashier notices that Emma's bracelet is identical to those at the impulse buy 99 cents bin. Hilarity Ensues. | |
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I Have This Friend | |
Corner Gas / int_4fb23aa8 | comment |
I Have This Friend: In "Cable Excess", Hank eggs a cable van and then feels guilty about it. He calls a local cable show called "Peggy's Pets": | |
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Sarcasm-Blind | |
Corner Gas / int_4fff0dfe | comment |
Sarcasm-Blind: Various characters will have moments of this if a joke calls for it. Karen is apparently unaware of the existing classic rock radio stations in Saskatchewan: One instance had Brent faking it just to turn the sarcasm back at Lacey. | |
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Seinfeldian Conversation | |
Corner Gas / int_500696c6 | comment |
Seinfeldian Conversation: Almost any conversation initiated by Hank. Brent and Davis frequently join him on those with opposing arguments, such as who would win if Star Wars fought Star Trek. | |
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Body Horror | |
Corner Gas / int_504a1991 | comment |
Body Horror: Brent seems to consider Fitzy's face slowly turning bright red as he makes a very pained expression to be this. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: Played for laughs in "Face Off": | |
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Donut Mess with a Cop | |
Corner Gas / int_50f50a5e | comment |
Donut Mess with a Cop: In "Road Worthy", Hank criticizes Davis and Karen for acting stereotypical by eating donuts. They try to eat healthier by switching to zucchini muffins, but they can't stand them and gradually make adjustments to try and mask the zucchini flavour like using double the butter and adding chocolate chips and frosting. Eventually they end up being even more sugar-and-calorie-laden than donuts, so they decide to go back to donuts. Karen invokes this for Self-Deprecation when Oscar asks what qualifies her to judge a jam contest: When Brent draws cartoons for Lacey's coffee shop newspaper, Karen and Davis get offended at a cartoon about two cops passing by a maternity ward, saying "Let's skip these, they're the day-olds". They invokedinterpret it as a personal attack on them, and confront Brent, who insists it doesn't mean anything and is confused about why they are so mad. During the talent show in "Cousin Carl", Davis does a ventriloquist act that makes fun of Karen, so she gets a male puppet wearing a police uniform and says in a dopey voice, "Hello, I'm Sergeant Davis. I like to eat dooonuts." | |
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Crazy-Prepared | |
Corner Gas / int_50f66629 | comment |
Crazy-Prepared: Davis has the papers already drawn up to have Oscar committed, in case Emma ever needs them. Hank's pants with pockets everywhere. He challenges everyone to name something he's not carrying, and systematically pulls them out of his pockets no matter how improbable the guesses become. Also applies to the things Davis keeps in the trunk of his car. A one-off joke has Brent pull out things that three separate people need, right at the gas station counter, without even looking up from his comic book. The last was a specific set of several tools, which he happened to have sitting in one container! | |
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Almost Famous Name | |
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Almost Famous Name: When a strange man comes into the Ruby in "The Eight Samurai", Brent exclaims, "Look everybody, it's Al Gore!" This prompts Lacey to point out that the man in question looks nothing like Al Gore, and Brent in turn must clarify that his surname is spelled "Goar" and he sells fertilizer for a living. | |
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Hurricane of Euphemisms | |
Corner Gas / int_51561f43 | comment |
Hurricane of Euphemisms: Wanda uses several euphemisms in a row for jail, confusing and annoying Brent. | |
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Spinning Paper | |
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Spinning Paper: Used quite often and parodied in "Wedding Card": | |
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Hong Kong Dub | |
Corner Gas / int_51a12a6f | comment |
Hong Kong Dub: "American Resolution" opens during New Year's Eve, where everyone makes their New Year's resolutions. After the opening credits, the show is back to its usual It's Always Spring setting. Throughout the episode, whenever somebody mentions how long it's been since New Year's, they just make random mouth movements while a deadpan male voiceover says "SIX MONTHS". The joke seemingly being that they recorded multiple voiceovers to be swapped into the episode depending on how long it's been since New Year's in real life (which they didn't, it's always six months). | |
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Not What It Looks Like | |
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Not What It Looks Like: Davis's trunk contains a shovel, rubber gloves, and lye. Karen tells him how suspicious it looks, then we're treated to a series of flashbacks showing that he was asked for each of the items by a different person, on three completely separate occasions, and felt useless when he couldn't produce the items on the spot. | |
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Bookends | |
Corner Gas / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: The first shot in the first episode of Corner Gas is a close-up of the Corner Gas sign, as is the last shot of the last episode. According to the making-of special "It's Been a Gas", the first and last episodes are also the only two episodes to feature the "surveillance bush". | |
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I Resemble That Remark! | |
Corner Gas / int_535865be | comment |
I Resemble That Remark!: After Oscar tells Emma that Brent is "turning the gas station into a movie theater": In "Lost and Found", Wanda comments that Brent is becoming more like Oscar every day, and Brent snaps, "Oh, don't be a jackass!" Lacey tells Brent that she wants to take the Ruby Club sandwich off the menu, but she doesn't want to have to White-Out the menus. Carl asks Brent if they can have one nice family dinner without Brent acting "weird and defensive": | |
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Never Bareheaded | |
Corner Gas / int_5400ad8 | comment |
Never Bareheaded: Oscar is almost never seen without his signature green hat. Hank always wears a hat too, except when he had his first good hair day in 20 years, or when he found out he had been reading the wrong horoscope for years and was actually a Libra, so he resolved to act more Libra-like. | |
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Dreaming of a White Christmas | |
Corner Gas / int_5485efbf | comment |
Dreaming of a White Christmas: There's plenty of snow on the ground in Dog River during the "Merry Gasmas" Christmas episode, and when Lacey asks Wanda what a "traditional Dog River Christmas" is like, the first thing Wanda says is, "Well, there's snow...". Later, Lacey's travel plans are spoiled by a massive winter storm. Justified since the Canadian Prairies are well-known for their harsh winters. | |
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City Mouse | |
Corner Gas / int_55365db5 | comment |
City Mouse: Lacey. | |
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Mistaken for Gay | |
Corner Gas / int_561dab6b | comment |
Mistaken for Gay: In "Doc Small", Brent is mistaken for gay (and thought to be involved with a man into bestiality) as a result of Hank, a logic puzzle and a $100 bill. He doesn't notice. In one episode, Lacey, having just been told that Brent is some kind of unattainable hunk who she could never hope to have a chance with, is feeling sensitive about her own appearance and asks Karen if she's attractive. Karen thinks that she is being mistaken for gay and even brings up the lesbian cop stereotype while explaining that she's straight, so it must happen to her a lot. | |
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Crack is Cheaper | |
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Crack is Cheaper: invokedOscar attempts to track down a certain toy wagon that he badly wanted when he was a kid, but couldn't afford. It cost $12 back then, so he should be able to afford it easily now that he's a grown man, right? Nope, it's now a collector's item that costs $6000. | |
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Threat Backfire | |
Corner Gas / int_57c004fc | comment |
Threat Backfire: Emma wants to hire someone to paint the top floor of the Leroy home, and Oscar says he'll find another place to sleep if she does. Emma tells him if that's a threat, he should make it less appealing. | |
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Snark-to-Snark Combat | |
Corner Gas / int_583ec33e | comment |
Snark-to-Snark Combat: When Lacey's friend visits Dog River and acts rude to everyone, many characters say that they would love to see her and Wanda go head-to-head. Wanda herself even gets excited about taking her on. At the very end of the episode, they finally meet... and almost instantly become friends and start making fun of Lacey together. | |
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Sitcom Arch-Nemesis | |
Corner Gas / int_5860c090 | comment |
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Brent has had two. In one episode it was his cousin Carl. In another it was a teenage boy. Both times Brent managed to get some sort of victory in the end. Carl went on an angry rant in front of everyone and exposed himself for the Jerkass that Brent was always saying he was. The teenager spent an episode being superior to Brent in every way (a better guitar player, a nicer car, a girlfriend), until Brent finds out that the kid doesn't know how to tune a guitar without a tuner. This is something Brent finds very easy. He messes up the tuning on the kid's guitar even further and walks away laughing. | |
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Baby Talk | |
Corner Gas / int_59196f87 | comment |
Baby Talk: Lacey when she finds an abandoned virtual pet at the Ruby. | |
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Acquired Error at the Printer | |
Corner Gas / int_592fa231 | comment |
Acquired Error at the Printer: Promotional mugs for Corner Gas and The Ruby come back reading 'Corner G and The Rub'. Brent decides this is A Good Name For A Hip Hop Band. | |
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Onion Tears | |
Corner Gas / int_597d7dad | comment |
Onion Tears: In "Cat River Daze", Oscar starts tearing up when they bring the stray cat he's been caring for to a cat farm. After a moment, he says, "Is there an onion farm around here?" and stomps off. | |
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Even the Guys Want Him | |
Corner Gas / int_598ad6e2 | comment |
Even the Guys Want Him: Quoting Davis: "Hank's... different... when he's fishing." Also Lloyd the bed salesman. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: Davis and Karen tend to be a bit lax with their police work. | |
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Ambiguous Syntax | |
Corner Gas / int_5aa4ec8a | comment |
Ambiguous Syntax: In "Demolition," when Brent, Hank and Oscar are demolishing a barn and end up damaging a tractor in the process, the owner asks why they're bothering with the tractor and wishes they would just blow up the barn. Oscar relays this to Brent and Hank, which ends up with the tractor, rather than the barn, exploding in front of a crowd. In "Friend of a Friend," Lacey's friend is rude to everyone, and eventually this is pointed out to her. | |
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Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films | |
Corner Gas / int_5ae63861 | comment |
Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films: Although Brent is hardly a kid, it's revealed he has never seen a slasher flick due to being too scared. Oscar, Emma, and Wanda make fun of him for it, and force him to watch one in order to "make him a man". The inverted version of the trope ends up being used, where Brent ends up being the only one of the four not too scared to go into a dark room after watching the film. Even Oscar was scared, and he slept through the whole movie. | |
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The Conspiracy | |
Corner Gas / int_5b8c285b | comment |
Also, both bartenders (Phil and Paul) are Cree. Paul speaks some Cree, enough to know the original name of Dog River. (Not that Emma would let you find out where the name came from...) | |
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Talk About the Weather | |
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Talk About the Weather: Averted in "Slow Pitch" when Lacey is chairing a meeting of the Harvesters' Club and she's in a hurry to end it because she's late for the softball game: | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
Corner Gas / int_5beef860 | comment |
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: An entire episode is based on the fears that the characters have. | |
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City Shout Outs | |
Corner Gas / int_5c26386e | comment |
City Shout Outs: In "Comedy Night", Lacey gets revenge on a comedian Brent has a grudge against by convincing him that he is in Wullerton, not Dog River. As a result, he makes all of his shout-outs to Wullerton, Dog River's archrival, and nearly gets lynched as a result. | |
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The Mountains of Illinois | |
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The Mountains of Illinois: Averted and lampshaded, since the show is filmed on location in Saskatchewan. When a traveler asks if the local vistas aren't boring, Deadpan Snarker Brent points out the lack of mountains in the distance, not being "all purple and majestic". | |
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Insult Comic | |
Corner Gas / int_5dbf3287 | comment |
Insult Comic: Hank at comedy night. Lacey gives him a list of insults to use on hecklers, but he uses them instead of an actual act. The crowd calls him "Mean Hank" and demands he come back after another comedian bombs. | |
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Big Eater | |
Corner Gas / int_5fcedca | comment |
Big Eater: Brent (and Lacey, when she wins the perogie eating contest). Brent even eats an entire bowl of perogies in under five seconds, and says it isn't his best time. He only took so long because Lacey fed him a big plate of chili cheese dogs before their eat-off in an attempt to fill him up. | |
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Names to Run Away from Really Fast | |
Corner Gas / int_60fa92ac | comment |
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: When Wanda is checking the yellow pages for a dentist. | |
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Corner Gas / int_6159beb1 | type |
It Tastes Like Feet | |
Corner Gas / int_6159beb1 | comment |
It Tastes Like Feet: Brent says Oscar's cooking tastes like bug repellent. Considering that in one episode, Wanda questioned his placement of bug repellent and cooking spray on the same shelf... Similarly, the band Thunder Face's music is compared to various small rodents caught in a piece of heavy machinery. From another episode, Brent's description of Oscar's homemade beer: | |
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Corner Gas / int_61b576af | type |
I Take Offense to That Last One | |
Corner Gas / int_61b576af | comment |
I Take Offense to That Last One: In "Friend of a Friend", Lacey's friend Connie calls Oscar a "crazy homeless". Oscar's response? | |
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Corner Gas / int_627264e0 | type |
Death Glare | |
Corner Gas / int_627264e0 | comment |
Death Glare: Emma is wonderful at this, going right back to the pilot episode. Oscar and Brent are having an argument and Emma silences them by narrowing her eyes menacingly and asking, "Do you want me to come over there?" | |
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Corner Gas / int_62df005b | type |
Self-Restraint | |
Corner Gas / int_62df005b | comment |
Self-Restraint: Davis voluntarily goes to jail for charity; the jail cell hasn't had a proper lock for years. | |
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Corner Gas / int_6375f746 | type |
Drill Sergeant Nasty | |
Corner Gas / int_6375f746 | comment |
Lacey takes losing pretty hard. When sponsoring a kids' soccer team, she turned borderline Drill Sergeant Nasty on them for losing. When she herself lost a game of horseshoes to Oscar, she fell into a pretty deep pit of depression and self-loathing that made the quality of food at the Ruby suffer. | |
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Corner Gas / int_6375f746 | |
Corner Gas / int_6480c255 | type |
Robbing the Dead | |
Corner Gas / int_6480c255 | comment |
Robbing the Dead: On the way to the Grey Cup, Oscar and Hank stop in to see Oscar's friend (who owes him money), and find him dead on the floor. Oscar immediately goes for the guy's nice belt to even the debt, making up a story to Hank about the guy saying Oscar could have his belt when he died. | |
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Corner Gas / int_653c5c73 | type |
Cannot Spit It Out | |
Corner Gas / int_653c5c73 | comment |
Cannot Spit It Out: Wanda regarding her crush on Joe, the milk delivery guy. | |
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Corner Gas / int_653c5c73 | |
Corner Gas / int_6554e8fb | type |
Pick Up Babes With Babes | |
Corner Gas / int_6554e8fb | comment |
Pick Up Babes With Babes: Brent refuses to babysit Wanda's son Tanner for her, at first. Later, he hears Lacey say that "there's something really attractive about a man who loves kids", at which point he offers to babysit Tanner (Lacey wasn't there to hear him refuse before). It backfires when he asks Lacey to help, and she flatly says "No way, I hate kids." | |
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Corner Gas / int_65bc52c5 | type |
The Key Is Behind the Lock | |
Corner Gas / int_65bc52c5 | comment |
The Key Is Behind the Lock: Hank had a combination lock that stored the lock's combination. Then there was the time he locked his keys in his truck, and didn't notice that his passenger side window was down. In one episode, the trunk release on the patrol car was broken, so Karen needed to open it with her keys ... except she couldn't, because she had accidentally locked her keys in the trunk. | |
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Corner Gas / int_65bc52c5 | |
Corner Gas / int_65bc92fc | type |
Four-Temperament Ensemble | |
Corner Gas / int_65bc92fc | comment |
Four-Temperament Ensemble: Wanda (choleric), Emma (choleric/melancholic), Karen (melancholic), Brent (melancholic/sanguine), Hank (sanguine), Davis (sanguine/choleric), and Oscar and Lacey (leukine/phlegmatic). | |
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Corner Gas / int_65bc92fc | |
Corner Gas / int_66dfe36a | type |
Missing Mom | |
Corner Gas / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Missing Mom: Davis's mom left when he was very young, wanting to become a rock star. For the longest time, he thought that the cleaning lady was his mom. | |
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Corner Gas / int_66dfe36a | |
Corner Gas / int_67fe4b8e | type |
Ship Sinking | |
Corner Gas / int_67fe4b8e | comment |
Ship Sinking: While Karen/Davis may or may not be a popular ship among fans of the show, the last episode specifically said they "eventually fell in love and got married." (Beat) "But not to each other." A potential ship between Brent and Lacey was sunk in the second season premiere. And made canon in The Movie. | |
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Corner Gas / int_67fe4b8e | |
Corner Gas / int_6977c45e | type |
Purple Prose | |
Corner Gas / int_6977c45e | comment |
Purple Prose: The taste of Lacey's Ruby Club is described as "zesty, without being too preachy". | |
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Corner Gas / int_6977c45e | |
Corner Gas / int_69916bfa | type |
Amusingly Short List | |
Corner Gas / int_69916bfa | comment |
Amusingly Short List: In episode "Hair Loss", Lacey tries to make Brent feel better about losing his hair by listing attractive bald celebrities. She manages to think of three before resorting to Elmer Fudd of Looney Tunes. Lampshaded: | |
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Corner Gas / int_69916bfa | |
Corner Gas / int_69cc2a27 | type |
Hilariously Abusive Childhood | |
Corner Gas / int_69cc2a27 | comment |
Hilariously Abusive Childhood: Brent's. | |
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Corner Gas / int_69cc2a27 | |
Corner Gas / int_6ad19559 | type |
Wine Is Classy | |
Corner Gas / int_6ad19559 | comment |
Wine Is Classy: In quite a few of the bar scenes, former city-dweller Lacey is drinking a glass of wine while everyone else is drinking beer (except for Brent, who likes rye and water). She also brings a bottle of wine to dinner at Oscar and Emma's; they decide to buy another bottle of it later, but they're shocked at the high price. | |
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Corner Gas / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
Corner Gas / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: Many examples, including: The Clavet Cup, the trophy for the local curling bonspiel named after Dog River's most legendary curler, Archie Clavet. Everyone in town (except Karen and Lacey) treats it with great reverence. It's later revealed that it's just a cheap generic trophy and Davis has had several copies made in case of loss or theft. Hank's LEGO model of Dog River. When he runs out of lego to include the only shed not present in his model, he burns down the shed instead of suffering the inaccuracy. That shed was the very first building of Dog River's foundation. Pie making contests. Fitzy mentions that the one year they tried holding it without a judge, there were several fistfights. Windshield wiper fluid. It's supposed to be blue!!! This one isn't just limited to Dog River, as somebody from another town mentions that they also don't like the red wiper fluid, but put up with it because it's cheaper. Meanwhile, the cheaper price of the red fluid is actually the main reason people from Dog River hate it, because they think that because it's so cheap, it probably doesn't even work. You do not mock the Yield sign! "You know how I feel about CFL jokes." In "All That and a Bag of Chips", Karen accidentally leaves The Ruby without paying for a muffin and the rest of the town starts acting like she's a kleptomaniac or a hardened criminal. The scandal even makes the front page of the local paper. According to Brent, after someone started a macramé class in Dog River, several people picketed the class because "they said it was a waste of string." Whenever Lacey makes a change at The Ruby, even something minor like buying new water pitchers or switching from Equal to Sugar Twin, the townspeople freak out and act like it's a major upheaval in their lives. Davis was the first one to freak out about the Sugar Twin, and he uses regular sugar! | |
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Corner Gas / int_6b8c8d72 | type |
Our Slogan Is Terrible | |
Corner Gas / int_6b8c8d72 | comment |
Our Slogan Is Terrible: At the Dog River annual talent show: In "Meat Wave", Curtis' Meat Market's slogan is, "The market where you can buy meat!" | |
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Corner Gas / int_6b8c8d72 | |
Corner Gas / int_6bc499da | type |
Diplomatic Impunity | |
Corner Gas / int_6bc499da | comment |
Diplomatic Impunity: Brent brings his car to a screeching halt in front of Davis and Fitzy, in "An American In Saskatchewan" | |
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Corner Gas / int_6bc499da | |
Corner Gas / int_6bccf2ba | type |
Supreme Chef | |
Corner Gas / int_6bccf2ba | comment |
Supreme Chef: Emma's jam and Davis' perogies both qualify as their Magnum Opus with several other instances of their great cooking skill displayed when the plot calls for it. Karen is a very good cook, and can do Lacey's job better than she can. In universe, Lacey's Magnum Opus was the Ruby Club. It was so good that it was all that anybody ever ordered, to the point that Lacey had them taken off the menu just so that she could actually make something else for a change. Emma had an "enchanted" potato bowl that made any potatoes served in it taste delicious. Wanda accidentally breaks it and desperately searches for a replacement to avoid Emma's wrath. They turn out to be really cheap on eBay. Soon everyone in town has one or more, and yes, they all work. | |
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Corner Gas / int_6bccf2ba | |
Corner Gas / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
Corner Gas / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Dog River. A plot point in the episode where Lacey is asked to write the text of a commemorative plaque and seeks to find the origin of the name of the town. She quickly finds herself chasing down a Dark Secret with witnesses suddenly changing their stories shortly after Emma beats her to them. Emma eventually reveals the truth: Lacey's great-great-uncle Eli had drowned a dozen dogs in the river and the town council, made aware of this fact, inexplicably adopted "Dog River" as their name. Lacey swears herself to protect the secret as part of The Conspiracy. | |
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Corner Gas / int_6bda9a30 | |
Corner Gas / int_6bfd0c5c | type |
When the Planets Align | |
Corner Gas / int_6bfd0c5c | comment |
When the Planets Align: Played for laughs: | |
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Corner Gas / int_6bfd0c5c | |
Corner Gas / int_6c0d7fbd | type |
That Poor Plant | |
Corner Gas / int_6c0d7fbd | comment |
That Poor Plant: When Oscar tries making his own beer after the liquor and insurance store won't take a case of empty stubby bottles he found while looking for plant food. The results are so awful he dumps it out on Emma's tomato plants. This makes them grow like crazy offscreen, as she finds giant tomatoes at the end. | |
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Corner Gas / int_6c0d7fbd | |
Corner Gas / int_6d7026fa | type |
Punny Name | |
Corner Gas / int_6d7026fa | comment |
Punny Name: Hank and Oscar get a gumball machine and name it "Corner Gum". Karen gets one of her own and names it "The Chewby" after The Ruby. Lacey's Coffee News-style paper, "Ruby Newsday". | |
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Corner Gas / int_6d7026fa | |
Corner Gas / int_6d9c238 | type |
Fake Food | |
Corner Gas / int_6d9c238 | comment |
Fake Food: For drinking scenes, the beer bottles were filled with non-alcoholic beer and Brent’s signature glasses of rye were actually watered-down cola. The squeeze-bottle mayo that triggers Hank’s PTSD in “Oh, Baby!� was mixed with glue and caulking so it would come out of the bottle slower. In “The Littlest Yarbo�, the steak that the dog steals at the end was made of rubber, so the dog actor wouldn’t just eat it. Averted with the chili on the chili cheese dogs; the crew used real chili from a recipe developed by the propmaster’s father (the secret ingredient is condensed tomato soup). | |
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Corner Gas / int_6d9c238 | |
Corner Gas / int_6da90c4d | type |
Full-Name Ultimatum | |
Corner Gas / int_6da90c4d | comment |
At the end of the episode, Brent tries to give Lacey a Full-Name Ultimatum after learning that she tricked him into calling Emma in order to win a bet. He fails miserably because he doesn't actually know Lacey's middle name and can't guess it (although we do learn that it's not Esther, Charlene, Gertie, Sunshine, or Fern). | |
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Corner Gas / int_6da90c4d | |
Corner Gas / int_6e2163a3 | type |
Crossword Puzzle | |
Corner Gas / int_6e2163a3 | comment |
Crossword Puzzle: When a tarot card reader refers to the 18th letter of the alphabet and Wanda immediately says, "R!" Everyone looks at her strangely and she says, "I do thirty crosswords a day." | |
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Corner Gas / int_6e2163a3 | |
Corner Gas / int_6f31ba7 | type |
Calling Shot Gun | |
Corner Gas / int_6f31ba7 | comment |
Calling Shot Gun: Hank does it during a ride-along, causing Karen, the actual policewoman, to ride in the back of the car. Later in the episode, Karen tries calling shotgun, but is told to grow up. | |
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Corner Gas / int_6f31ba7 | |
Corner Gas / int_6fa6c39b | type |
Time Capsule | |
Corner Gas / int_6fa6c39b | comment |
Time Capsule: Dog River buries one every year which they open... the next year. Brent explains that at first it was 25 years, then 10 years and eventually just became an excuse to get drunk once a year. It's usually filled with various mugs and Hank's hat. | |
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Corner Gas / int_6fa6c39b | |
Corner Gas / int_71dc4b06 | type |
If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You | |
Corner Gas / int_71dc4b06 | comment |
If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You: Or rather, "if it's bad for you, then it must taste good". When Brent tries the chicken Kiev at the Ruby, he is unsure how he feels about it until he learns that it's unhealthy, at which point he decides that he likes it. | |
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Corner Gas / int_71dc4b06 | |
Corner Gas / int_71e514b5 | type |
Don't Try This at Home | |
Corner Gas / int_71e514b5 | comment |
Don't Try This at Home: After Hanks gets hurt doing a stupid tricycle stunt in "TV Free Dog River", Brent turns to a nearby group of kids and says this. One of the kids replies, "Uh, doy." | |
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Corner Gas / int_71e514b5 | |
Corner Gas / int_727a65e0 | type |
Gaslighting | |
Corner Gas / int_727a65e0 | comment |
Gaslighting: Oscar insists his memory isn't going, so various town members start playing tricks on him to make him think he's forgotten things. First it's Brent and Wanda with Oscar's Alphagetti, then Brent, Lacey, and Emma with a hamburger, and finally it expands to the whole town about to convince Oscar it's simultaneously his sixtieth and seventieth birthdays. This is the point at which Emma tells Brent to quit it and apologize, which he reluctantly does, only for Oscar to have forgotten the whole thing. | |
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Corner Gas / int_727a65e0 | |
Corner Gas / int_7286e96d | type |
Idiot Ball | |
Corner Gas / int_7286e96d | comment |
Idiot Ball: In "Whataphobia", Lacey is revealed to be terrified of balloons. The rest of the episode centers around different reactions to this fear, such as Hank's misguided attempts to "cure" this fear. In fact, pretty much anything Hank does. | |
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Corner Gas / int_7286e96d | |
Corner Gas / int_73470774 | type |
Similar Squad | |
Corner Gas / int_73470774 | comment |
Similar Squad: The professional firefighters hired in one episode are named Carol and David and are almost exact copies of the two cops Karen and Davis. Needless to say, Karen and Davis fail to notice this similarity and are overcome with jealousy regarding the firefighters. Used as a brief gag in "Shirt Disturber" when Hank and Brent run into two guys who look like them at a comic book signing. | |
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Corner Gas / int_73470774 | |
Corner Gas / int_738fa379 | type |
New Job Episode | |
Corner Gas / int_738fa379 | comment |
New Job Episode: The characters' one-episodes jobs are lampshaded by Oscar in the series finale: | |
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Corner Gas / int_738fa379 | |
Corner Gas / int_73e51847 | type |
Missing the Good Stuff | |
Corner Gas / int_73e51847 | comment |
Missing the Good Stuff: An episode has everyone attempting to go to the Grey Cup, getting stuck in random sitcom situations, and never going. Every single one of them bluffs to the others that they saw the game and it was great. | |
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Corner Gas / int_73e51847 | |
Corner Gas / int_7426582d | type |
Token Minority | |
Corner Gas / int_7426582d | comment |
Token Minority: Davis is the only nonwhite regular; befitting the show's setting in rural Saskatchewan, he is Aboriginal (Cree, to be specific, much like the actor who plays him). However, this is treated as wholly incidental to his character, and he acts no more or less quirky than anyone else in Dog River. The first season finale (the Grey Cup episode) is pretty much the only time in the entire series his ethnicity is acknowledged. Also, both bartenders (Phil and Paul) are Cree. Paul speaks some Cree, enough to know the original name of Dog River. (Not that Emma would let you find out where the name came from...) | |
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Corner Gas / int_7426582d | |
Corner Gas / int_74e2ef76 | type |
Orphaned Punchline | |
Corner Gas / int_74e2ef76 | comment |
Orphaned Punchline: Mild subversion in "Safety First": One scene begins with the punchline, and then the next scene includes a flashback that explains the joke. In "Potato Bowl", a scene opens with Brent finishing a humorous anecdote, but the context is left to the audience's imagination: | |
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Corner Gas / int_74e2ef76 | |
Corner Gas / int_762b9223 | type |
Played for Laughs | |
Corner Gas / int_762b9223 | comment |
Played for Laughs by Brent in "Super Sensitive" after Hank brags about his streak of bad luck being over: | |
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Corner Gas / int_77aae115 | type |
Hated by All | |
Corner Gas / int_77aae115 | comment |
Hated by All: Dog River's local curling legend Archie Clavet. | |
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Corner Gas / int_77aae115 | |
Corner Gas / int_78270847 | type |
Curse Cut Short | |
Corner Gas / int_78270847 | comment |
Curse Cut Short: In "Get the F Off My Lawn", when Lacey realizes that the F and E are missing from her "Cafe" sign: When a curse jar is set in Brent's gas station, Lacey lets out a long string of curses covered up by a nearby train's horn. When the horn dies down, everyone stares at Lacey in disbelief who drops a twenty in the jar. In an effort to escape her Teacher's Pet status at a spin class taught by Hank, Karen takes out a bar of soap and writes on his windshield "MR. YARBO IS A DIC-" before Hank shows up and catches her. Also used in The Movie: | |
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Corner Gas / int_78270847 | |
Corner Gas / int_78410584 | type |
She Is Not My Girlfriend | |
Corner Gas / int_78410584 | comment |
She Is Not My Girlfriend: Karen—"I did not sleep with Hank!"... disagreed with by a billboard made for The Ruby and Corner Gas at the end of the episode. Also Brent and Lacey, particularly in the second season premiere after they almost kissed in the first season finale. | |
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Corner Gas / int_78410584 | |
Corner Gas / int_78c895c8 | type |
Amusing Injuries | |
Corner Gas / int_78c895c8 | comment |
Amusing Injuries: Oscar has suffered so many over the years that Brent is able to compile an entire photo album of them, categorized by type of injury. Hank suffers a few of these in "TV Free Dog River", the first when he rides a tricycle down a slide resulting in a crash, and the second when he tries to open a beer bottle with his teeth. In both cases, he was imitating a stunt he had seen on TV. This exchange from "One Piano, Four Hands" suggests that Hank has had many of these injuries in the past: In "Crab Apple Cooler", Brent and Hank pass by the home of the Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult from their childhood, and decide to climb over the fence and steal the crab apples off his tree for nostalgia's sake. They fail miserably, with Hank banging his knee on the fence and Brent pulling his groin. | |
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Mistaken for Racist | |
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Mistaken for Racist: After Davis loses the Grey Cup tickets:note This is actually one of the only moments in the entire series in which the fact that Davis is a First Nations individual is acknowledged.) | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran | |
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Shell-Shocked Veteran: Hank gets several "traumatic" flashbacks of his experience babysitting Wanda's boy. He also points out another guy in the bar who once babysat for Tanner and, as a direct result, can no longer go for more than 10 seconds without looking behind him. "Mosquito Time" has another comedic example of this. Oscar helps out at the gas station for awhile and spends most of his time getting on Wanda's nerves. At the end of the episode, she's apparently started having flashbacks about this: | |
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Eagleland | |
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Eagle Land: Parodied and inverted. A second-season episode features an American tourist who is polite and understands and appreciates Canadian culture more than most Dog River residents do. Hank's reaction to him is Flavor 2 of this trope played straight, but his attempts at making the tourist look ignorant continually backfire and make him look stupid himself. | |
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Unishment | |
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Unishment: Brent and Hank raid the backyard of the local Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult to retrieve the toys he took from them when they were kids. He catches Brent but Hank ditches him to save his own ass (payback for Brent doing the same thing to him earlier). The old man punishes Brent by making him eat 4 buckets of crab apples, which worked well on Hank earlier but doesn't faze a Big Eater like Brent in the slightest. He even asks for more when he's finished. | |
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Prim and Proper Bun | |
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Prim and Proper Bun: It's not uncommon to see this style on elderly Dog River women like Fitzy's Grandma and Myrtle. Karen also wears a conservative updo when she's in uniform, although she prefers to wear her hair down when she's off duty. | |
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Distinction Without a Difference | |
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Distinction Without a Difference: Karen didn't lose the Clavet Cup, she's just "unable to ascertain its whereabouts at this juncture". From the pilot: Davis complains that Lacey tricked him into helping her move: Lacey explaining her rule about not using white-out on her menus: | |
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"Rashomon"-Style | |
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"Rashomon"-Style: In "Super Sensitive", Hank describes how he broke a mirror seven years ago: he's shown in flashback driving a truck full of mirrors and then getting onto a collision course with a truck full of rocks. "All I can say is, thank God for that marshmallow truck." Brent says that's not how he remembers it. In his flashback, Hank is fixing a bookshelf, notices a fly has landed on the mirror and hits the mirror with the hammer to kill the fly. Hank admits Brent is telling the truth, but says his truck story is better. | |
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"What Do They Fear?" Episode | |
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"What Do They Fear?" Episode: After Lacey is shown to be afraid of balloons, Davis reveals he shares this phobia as well. The others share their phobias except Wanda who claims not to have any. Cue Hank risking multiple Wanda-related beatings trying to discover what she fears, only to fail entirely. The final scene of the episode shows that Wanda is agoraphobic—she is afraid of wide open spaces. And as the show's closing tune plainly points out, Saskatchewan "is a great big place full of nothing but space", explaining why she works all day long in Brent's gas station and keeps her curtains closed at all times in her home. | |
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Character Name Alias | |
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Character Name Alias: In "World's Biggest Thing", Brent adds the names Peter Parker, Marge Simpson and Jean-Luc Picard to a list of people who have bounced checks at the gas station. Oscar doesn't recognize the names, gets very angry about the bounced checks, and tells Brent, "Don't take checks from Marge Simpson or that French guy!" Brent finds this hilarious and a few minutes later he tells Lacey that Oscar is still trying to track down Arthur Fonzarelli. He does recognize the name Marge Simpson, but he just assumes it means she's bounced checks at the gas station before. | |
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THeUnfavorite | |
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The Unfavorite: Brent actually becomes this in one episode, despite being an only child. Oscar and Emma once sponsored an Kenyan foster child, who grew up to become a successful doctor and came by one day to thank them for all their help. Oscar even refers to him as his "good son" at one point. Inverted in that Brent doesn't mind, it's the Kenyan guy who gets fed up with Oscar and Emma's smothering. Brent pretends he feels left out just to give him an excuse to leave without hurting Oscar and Emma's feelings. Brent was also the Unfavorite to Hank once after Hank got Emma a Mother's Day present and Brent didn't. | |
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Sore Loser | |
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Sore Loser: Do not beat Hank at golf unless you want him to follow you around the clock, making a high-pitch whining screech for a whole week. He will even call you on the phone while you're trying to sleep to keep on going. Lacey takes losing pretty hard. When sponsoring a kids' soccer team, she turned borderline Drill Sergeant Nasty on them for losing. When she herself lost a game of horseshoes to Oscar, she fell into a pretty deep pit of depression and self-loathing that made the quality of food at the Ruby suffer. Emma went completely insane after losing a jam contest that she wins every year, to the point that Oscar was terrified of her. She only came back to her senses when it was revealed that the winner of the contest was using a recipe that she stole from Emma. | |
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Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever | |
Corner Gas / int_7ccd3698 | comment |
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Brent acts this out in "Block Party," pretending that his hand is a giant monster named Handzilla attacking Hank's Lego model of Dog River. | |
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How We Got Here | |
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How We Got Here: The Movie opens with Hank picking up a woman from a national newspaper who is judging the Quaintest Town in Canada contest. He drives her through a badly wrecked Dog River. Everyone is fighting and yelling at each other, the police car is on fire, and Brent is badly injured. The rest of the movie shows the events leading up to how the town got like that. All of it happened seconds before Hank and the newspaper woman arrived, in one big chain of Disaster Dominoes. His truck was visible from town before it all started. | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In the pilot, when Brent and Hank are discussing Lacey and the reopening of the Ruby, the following exchange occurs: | |
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Star Wars (Franchise) | |
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Happens a few times. Davis debates with a few people about who would win if Star Wars fought Star Trek. Also, Hank apparently has these types of debates with himself inside his head, such as who would win if a werewolf fought a robot... or if a werewolf fought Wanda. | |
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Never Mess with Granny | |
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Never Mess with Granny: Emma can toss a cinder block one-handed from the curb in front of the house near a skunk poking around in her garden behind the house. Davis has compared her to the Hulk on one occasion, and Wanda once described her as having arms like Lou Ferrigno (who, funny enough, is well known for playing the Hulk on TV). | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Oscar, jackass! His actor Eric Peterson is actually quite soft-spoken and calm when out of character. | |
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Pun | |
Corner Gas / int_83445b04 | comment |
"Lacey Borrows" has a doubleheader in a flashback scene: Brent with his feathered hair on a date with a girl who has puffy permed hair. | |
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Rouge Angles of Satin | |
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Rouge Angles of Satin: Happens frequently with the local paper. When confronted with a badly-spelled newspaper headline (which reads "HANK IS PHYCIC"), Wanda dryly cracks a joke about buying a spellchecker. Brent then follows this up by saying that he's going to continue reading, and that the story is "contunied on page 30". In another episode, Karen says that the criminal Davis caught was barely a thief. Cue the Spinning Paper, which inverts two letters in "Cop Nabs Barely Thief". Davis points out the thief stole a truckload of barley. Plus he stole the truck. | |
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Instant Taste Addiction | |
Corner Gas / int_84e52fb4 | comment |
Instant Taste Addiction: In "Pandora's Wine", Lacey gifts the Leroys expensive foods that they become addicted to (fancy wine for Oscar and Emma, marmalade for Brent), leaving them no longer able to enjoy the cheap alternatives they used to like. They plot a revenge brunch to get her addicted to other expensive foods in turn, but Lacey shows up after they've already eaten everything and all they have to serve her is some leftover meatloaf from a previous meal. Lacey becomes addicted to the meatloaf, which is the cheapest, easiest thing they know how to make. Hank then tries to gift the Leroys some expensive chocolate, since he heard they've been into fancy food lately, but they refuse the gift because they don't want to become addicted to the chocolate too. | |
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Where the Hell Is Springfield? | |
Corner Gas / int_8504b817 | comment |
Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The exact location of Dog River, Saskatchewan is never revealed, though it's said to be "sixty clicks [kilometres] from nowhere" and when characters refer to or drive to "the city" both Saskatoon and Regina are apparently close enough to qualify. Word of God says that "the city" is Regina. (In several episodes in which characters are shown going to "the city", the location is clearly Regina.) Some of the locations in the show are actual businesses in Rouleau, Saskatchewan (the gas station isn't, but the bar is), which is about 40 kilometres southwest of Regina and about 200 km south of Saskatoon. In addition to location filming being done in Rouleau, the studio space (which contained the Ruby set among others) was in Regina, making it much easier to film "city" scenes there for convenience. One episode has Oscar driving about 45 minutes to Weyburn, which is about the same time it takes to drive there from Rouleau. A couple of episodes suggest it’s fairly close to Moose Jaw, which is about the same distance from Rouleau by car as Regina is. Season 1’s “Oh Baby!� has Wanda stay overnight in Saskatoon for a dentist appointment in the morning, suggesting Dog River is just a little too far away to just drive over the same day conveniently. | |
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Streaking | |
Corner Gas / int_8554af5f | comment |
Streaking: In "The Good Old Table Hockey Game," Karen says she's ready to start the game "now that Hank put his shirt back on." Hank replies, "What? There's always a streaker!" | |
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World of Snark | |
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World of Snark: Most characters will get make a sarcastic statement at some point, so the the show's Deadpan Snarkers are just the ones who do it the most. | |
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Small Town Rivalry | |
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Small Town Rivalry: Residents of Dog River have a deeply entrenched dislike for nearby Wullerton (spit). (Truth in Television: The Dog River/Wullerton rivalry was inspired by the real rivalry between Brent Butt's hometown of Tisdale, Saskatchewan and nearby Melfort.) Exploited by Emma in "TV Free Dog River": "Gopher It" shows us that this rivalry is entirely one-sided. Although since the whole episode is one long Imagine Spot by Hank, we don't know that this is true until The Movie.. Lacey exploits this when a stand-up comedian who stole a story from Brent the last time he was in town is about to go on stage. She tells him that this is Wullerton and that everybody here hates Dog River, so he praises Wullerton and insults Dog River in his act, getting him booed off the stage. | |
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Duck Season, Rabbit Season | |
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Duck Season, Rabbit Season: Hank claims that this trick is unrealistic and wouldn't work in real life, which starts an argument with Brent during which, of course, Hank falls for it. | |
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Super Identikit | |
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Super Identikit: Subverted when Karen decides she needs to improve her drawing skills and we are treated to a flashback where she listens and sketches as a perpetrator is described, then holds up a page full of squiggles and asks if it looks like the thief. The witness looks at the squiggles and adds "He had a hat." Hank eventually confessed to the crime. | |
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Truth in Television | |
Corner Gas / int_875615dd | comment |
The combined liquor and insurance store is a real feature of the town of Rouleau where the show is filmed; since the government of Saskatchewan is in the business of selling both things and the town has limited infrastructure due to its size, it’s not actually that weird for one store to sell both. | |
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No Communities Were Harmed | |
Corner Gas / int_87629455 | comment |
No Communities Were Harmed: Corner Gas takes place in Dog River, Saskatchewan, which does not exist. Rouleau, Saskatchewan, where the show is filmed, does, and the show itself is inspired by Brent Butt's upbringing in Tisdale. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
Corner Gas / int_8797239c | comment |
Bait-and-Switch: Happens quite a bit. One example: | |
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Teacher's Pet | |
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In an effort to escape her Teacher's Pet status at a spin class taught by Hank, Karen takes out a bar of soap and writes on his windshield "MR. YARBO IS A DIC-" before Hank shows up and catches her. | |
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Sidetracked by the Analogy | |
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Sidetracked by the Analogy: | |
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Shoehorned Acronym | |
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Shoehorned Acronym: This is a Running Gag in the episode "Doc Small": | |
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Parental Sexuality Squick | |
Corner Gas / int_89cf0914 | comment |
Parental Sexuality Squick: In one episode, Brent accidentally records his parents beginning to act out a sex fantasy on the gas station's security camera. Afterwards he rips the camera out of the wall and denies that it was ever there. Also: In "Wedding Card", Emma starts to say that she and Oscar couldn't keep their hands off each other when they were younger. Brent interrupts with, "Okay, I'm instantly repressing that." | |
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I Knew It! | |
Corner Gas / int_8a0fc1a4 | comment |
I Knew It!: In-universe, Davis knew it: He saw the ending to Battlestar Galactica coming back in 2004. Although, he was probably talking about the original. | |
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Artistic License – Law Enforcement | |
Corner Gas / int_8a8f37f9 | comment |
Artistic License – Law Enforcement: Dog River would most likely have an RCMP detachment instead of its own department (which was the original plan, but they couldn't get approval to do so). Strangely, some elements are more in line with an RCMP detachment than an independent municipal department, such the absence of a commissioner/superintendent, chief or captain above Davis, the apparent existence of a higher regulatory body outside Dog River (mentioned when Karen is promoted) and Davis' comment of coming to Dog River "as a cop" (this could indicate he transferred from another department rather than being posted there). | |
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'80s Hair | |
Corner Gas / int_8b4f2a4f | comment |
'80s Hair: Brent is embarrassed by high school photographs of himself because he had shoulder-length feathered hair at the time. "Lacey Borrows" has a doubleheader in a flashback scene: Brent with his feathered hair on a date with a girl who has puffy permed hair. In "Bend It Like Brent", we see an old audition tape that Wanda made for a college broadcasting course, and she's sporting a heavily teased and sprayed hairstyle. In "Grad '68", Hank denies ever having had a mullet, but a flashback scene in "Final Countdown" reveals the truth; he did have a mullet at some point during the last 20 years, and it was very spiky. | |
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Grammar Correction Gag | |
Corner Gas / int_8be2ef8d | comment |
Grammar Correction Gag: Another frequent attribute of the Howler; take for instance the headline "HANK IS PHYCIC". | |
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Creepy Doll | |
Corner Gas / int_8bff32a8 | comment |
Creepy Doll: The lawn gnome in "Picture Perfect" that resembles Oscar. The end of the episode reveals that it was one of a pair. The other one, of course, looks like Emma. | |
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Ultimate Job Security | |
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Ultimate Job Security: Fitzy and his position of mayor. He doesn't seem particularly good, and at one point is afraid of losing it, only to be told that "nobody wants your job". Averted in one episode though. Emma runs for mayor and wins. The exception is A) She flat out admits during an interview that she doesn't even want the job, she's simply running out of spite over Fitzy telling her husband to shut up, and B) the entire episode was just a dream anyway. Brent and Lacey's businesses appear to be the only ones of their kind in the town. The employees of the Dog River Hotel. It's the only hotel in town and it houses the only bar in town, so the staff doesn't have to worry about people taking their business elsewhere. Being the only cops in a small town, neither Karen nor Davis ever really suffers any consequences for failures or breaches of procedure. | |
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I Need to Go Iron My Dog | |
Corner Gas / int_8ca89acb | comment |
I Need to Go Iron My Dog: In "Oh, Baby", Wanda asks Brent if he wants to babysit her son. Brent ducks the question by saying, "Ding ding! Oh, someone's at the pumps!" and walking out of the gas station. In "Comedy Night," Oscar doesn't want to be around for Emma's book club meeting, so he says he's going out for a smoke. Emma sees through this right away because she knows he doesn't smoke, and Oscar admits he was just making an excuse to leave the house. Emma says, "Never feel you need an excuse to leave the house." | |
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Literal Metaphor | |
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Literal Metaphor: In "Comedy Night," Hank says he was "literally rolling in the aisles" during Bob Lang's comedy act. Davis assumes he misspoke and meant to say "figuratively," but Brent says, "I wish he was figuratively rolling in the aisles." In "Friend Of A Friend," Brent asks Wanda if his hands are dirty and she says, "Well, we're none of us innocent." Brent was literally asking if his hands were dirty because Lacey's rude friend had just insulted his hygiene. From "Key To The Future": In "Pilates Twist," Wanda asks Brent what he has in a bag and Brent says, "Coffin nails." Wanda thinks he means cigarettes, but Brent means actual coffin nails (he bought them for Oscar, who was trying to build a coffin in the basement). In "Lost And Found," Brent tells Wanda that Hank has some fencing to do, "Not the skinny sword kind of fencing." Wanda takes this to mean that Hank is going to buy some stolen goods. Brent actually meant that Hank needed to repair a fence on his cousin's farm. | |
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Corner Gas / int_8d612fe6 | type |
Swapped Roles | |
Corner Gas / int_8d612fe6 | comment |
Swapped Roles: Lacey and Wanda get into an "If you think this job is so easy, then YOU do it!" argument and swap jobs for the episode. Both of them find the other's job too hard, so Wanda pawns Lacey's job off on Karen while Lacey pawns Wanda's job off on Emma. Turns out Karen is much better at doing Lacey's job than Lacey herself, and the same goes for Emma doing Wanda's job. | |
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Dumb Blonde | |
Corner Gas / int_8e4a0f15 | comment |
Karen sends Davis to sensitivity training because he was making Dumb Blonde jokes with Oscar in front of her. He comes back as a triade of Political Overcorrectness (example: When Karen orders black coffee, Davis tells her "it's African-American!"), so she teams up with Oscar to get him back to normal. | |
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Sickeningly Sweet | |
Corner Gas / int_8ee72ccd | comment |
Sickeningly Sweet: The Movie finally shows us what Wullerton (*spit*) is like. It's an idyllic Sugar Bowl of a town where everybody is so friendly, cheerful, and selfless all the time that it becomes incredibly creepy. That's why Dog River hates them so much. | |
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Crazy Enough to Work | |
Corner Gas / int_8f9f71a8 | comment |
Crazy Enough to Work: Many of the schemes tried by Brent Leroy and Hank Yarbo (and a pretty significant chunk of the schemes everyone else in the main cast try) fit into this trope. Most of the time the plans fail miserably, but even when they work, the success just creates another problem they hadn't anticipated. | |
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Quirky Household | |
Corner Gas / int_906d5d1f | comment |
Quirky Household: Oscar, Emma, and Brent. | |
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Corner Gas / int_91cab736 | type |
Major Injury Underreaction | |
Corner Gas / int_91cab736 | comment |
Major Injury Underreaction: Played for laughs in "Dog River Vice". Brent accuses Emma of being addicted to knitting and Emma says that knitting never hurt anyone. Then there's a cut to a woman with a knitting needle stuck completely through her arm. She doesn't seem to be in any pain; she just looks at the needle with a perplexed expression and says, "Now how did I do that?" | |
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Corner Gas / int_935212c | type |
Feminine Women Can Cook | |
Corner Gas / int_935212c | comment |
Feminine Women Can Cook: Karen enjoys cooking and is quite good at it, but keeps it a secret out of fear of losing respect as a police officer. Considering that Davis is a talented and enthusiastic cook himself, this would likely have the opposite effect and increase his confidence in her. Of course, it's probably not Davis' respect for her that she cares about, considering how little respect she has for him. | |
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Corner Gas / int_936581e6 | type |
TastesLikeFeet | |
Corner Gas / int_936581e6 | comment |
Oscar. According to Brent, his homemade beer tasted liked he "beat a skunk to death with a salmon." When Hank is hired to demolish a barn and decides to blow it up, Oscar offers to help him. When Hank asks him what he knows about blowing things up, we are treated to a montage of stuff blowing up in Oscar's face, the last one being a salad. | |
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Corner Gas / int_9432b844 | type |
Best Out of Infinity | |
Corner Gas / int_9432b844 | comment |
Best Out of Infinity: When Hank and Emma play pool. | |
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Corner Gas / int_944cd768 | type |
Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up | |
Corner Gas / int_944cd768 | comment |
Schoolyard Bully All Grown Up: Oscar meets his. Even as an old man, he still has his Gang of Bullies backing him up, and they can still intimidate and terrify Oscar just as well as ever. There is even a montage of him bullying Oscar throughout the years: first in high school, then at their high school reunion, then in the present moment. However they get scared off by either Emma or Karen (it's unclear which). | |
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Corner Gas / int_94680696 | type |
Shaped Like Itself | |
Corner Gas / int_94680696 | comment |
Shaped Like Itself: In "The J-Word", after Karen locks Davis in a car trunk so he can reenact a movie scene: Also: | |
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Corner Gas / int_95be648c | type |
Creepy Basement | |
Corner Gas / int_95be648c | comment |
Creepy Basement: Oscar and Emma's basement isn't particularly scary-looking as far as basements go, but after they watch a gruesome horror movie, they go through a phase of being too frightened to go down there. | |
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D.I.Y. Disaster | |
Corner Gas / int_96dea090 | comment |
D.I.Y. Disaster: Wanda's attempt to install a new toilet for Oscar and Emma. Among other things, she shuts off all the water to the house without realizing it. When Lacey wins a charity auction to have Hank as her Handyman for a Day. She only wanted him to hang pictures, but he notices the tiles in her bathtub need to be grouted, so he destroys the wall. Then he ends up breaking the fridge while getting himself a snack and has to fix that too. Not to mention that he'll only work for about 20 minutes a day before leaving (see Exact Words below). Eventually Lacey gets fed up and fixes everything herself. Except she didn't reconnect the pipes in the bathroom, so Hank destroys the wall again and says he won't be able to hang up the pictures because it's going to take him the rest of her handyman time to fix her mistake. | |
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Adaptation Displacement | |
Corner Gas / int_972aceef | comment |
Adaptation Displacement: In Universe with the book club. "I didn't know there were James Bond books, now I've read two." | |
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Corner Gas / int_973d220f | type |
Never My Fault | |
Corner Gas / int_973d220f | comment |
Never My Fault: Hank once borrowed Brent's car without asking and drove out of town. Then the car ran out of gas and had to be towed to somewhere even farther out of town. According to Hank, this was Brent's fault for not putting enough gas in the car; apparently he was supposed to know that Hank was going to take his car without permission. Oscar tries to get rid of a pile of leaves by pouring a gallon of gasoline on it and setting it on fire. Naturally, the fire quickly rages out of control. Oscar blames this on Emma because she was the one who told him to get rid of the leaves. Speaking of Oscar and fire, when Brent needs someone to watch the gas station, Oscar offers his services since he ran the place for 37 years. Brent remarks that in that time there were 7 fires, of which Oscar claims most were not his fault. Later, when Oscar is watching the station by himself, he accidentally sets a small fire while fooling around with a lighter, and still claims that it's not his fault. | |
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Brand X | |
Corner Gas / int_978937d6 | comment |
When Brent and Hank find a 30 year old Dingle Puff. They phone the company, first wondering if they have a "food museum" to put it in, then wondering if they can eat it: | |
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Corner Gas / int_980647af | type |
Visible Boom Mic | |
Corner Gas / int_980647af | comment |
Visible Boom Mic: Done deliberately after Brent complains that all the good movies available at the gas station have already been rented out, leaving only low budget crap. Wanda says that you don't need a big budget to make a good movie as long as the characters and writing are good, followed by the boom mic falling into view and clonking her on the head. | |
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Corner Gas / int_982037d0 | type |
Tickle Torture | |
Corner Gas / int_982037d0 | comment |
Tickle Torture: Hank does this to Wanda in one episode when she's trapped under a deck. Wanda is not amused. | |
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Corner Gas / int_9820c37a | type |
Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior! | |
Corner Gas / int_9820c37a | comment |
Screw Politeness, I'm a Senior!: Oscar Leroy is stubborn, inconsiderate, prone to demanding the RCMP detachment arrest whoever annoys him, and browbeats every public official with, "My taxes pay your salary!" Of course, in his point-of-view jackasses don't deserve respect. One of his Catch Phrases is "I'm a senior!" At one point Brent points out that, since he's 63 years old, he isn't technically a senior yetnote 65 is the magic number in Canada[/note]], but Oscar completely ignores this. | |
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Corner Gas / int_9843be73 | type |
As You Know | |
Corner Gas / int_9843be73 | comment |
As You Know: During a curling match, Hank mentions that only one shot is needed to win. Wanda mentions that she's been watching the whole thing with him and already knows that, at which point Lacey says that it's helpful information for anyone who hasn't seen the entire match. Hank then recaps the entire match, and afterwards Wanda shouts out "Did everyone get that??" | |
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Corner Gas / int_9858c391 | type |
Chick Magnet | |
Corner Gas / int_9858c391 | comment |
Chick Magnet: Hank, but only when he's talking about fishing. Even the Guys Want Him when he does. Well, Davis does, and he once spent half the year's police budget decorating a wedding. He also buys Cosmo every month. Davis pretty much avoids fishing with Hank now, faking an important aromatherapy class to get out of it, and he has no sense of smell. Also Brent when he had his black shirt. In fact, Brent is this normally. See Kavorka Man. | |
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Corner Gas / int_98aaf983 | type |
Comically Small Bribe | |
Corner Gas / int_98aaf983 | comment |
Comically Small Bribe: In "Hurry Hard", Brent and Wanda and Oscar and Emma each want Lacey to be their fourth for an upcoming curling bonspiel. Oscar and Emma rush to ask Lacey, "Lacey, will you join our curling team?" Wanda then tells Brent to up the ante and he asks, "Lacey, will you be on our team please?" And Wanda sarcastically says "Good ante-ing." Also the offer to keep Brent on the Dog River hockey team when a rumor has him traded to another team: several coupons, a free sub card (two tokens short) and a roll of police line tape. Davis initially looks like he's going to try to bribe Wes with a plank of wood in order to get him to get rid of his ATM. Turns out, the bribe is a whole pile of wood! | |
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Corner Gas / int_99a7aa94 | type |
Seven Deadly Sins | |
Corner Gas / int_99a7aa94 | comment |
Emma offers to make Brent a four-cheese lasagna in exchange for doing chores around the house. Brent is very conflicted, and says that his Gluttony is fighting with his Sloth. Cut to a black void with two Brents arguing. | |
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Corner Gas / int_9a8c7632 | type |
Dumb Is Good | |
Corner Gas / int_9a8c7632 | comment |
Dumb Is Good: In The Movie, Wanda's son Tanner is just finishing high school (though still The Ghost). From how Wanda describes him, he's far from the diabolical mastermind he was as a kid. Now he's apparently really nice, except he's also dumb as a rock. | |
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Corner Gas / int_9ae0cca6 | type |
Character Blog | |
Corner Gas / int_9ae0cca6 | comment |
Character Blog: Hank's blog "Hank Talkin'" from "Blog River" appeared on the official website for a short time. | |
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Corner Gas / int_9c055e85 | type |
Ghost in the Machine | |
Corner Gas / int_9c055e85 | comment |
Ghost in the Machine: One episode had this, in Hank's head. Lacey almost shows him how to open a notoriously difficult carafe, but he stops her, saying he has a limited amount of room in his head. Cut to a white void with Hank sitting at a desk in front of some boxes. Another Hank comes up to him and asks where he should place a box of Bananarama lyrics. The Hank at the desk tells him to put them next to the knock-knock jokes. A minute later, Hank tries to tell a knock-knock joke, but he says "Bananarama" instead of the proper punchline. Cut to his head again, where the boxes have all fallen and mixed together. Emma offers to make Brent a four-cheese lasagna in exchange for doing chores around the house. Brent is very conflicted, and says that his Gluttony is fighting with his Sloth. Cut to a black void with two Brents arguing. | |
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What the Fu Are You Doing? | |
Corner Gas / int_9c3a9415 | comment |
What the Fu Are You Doing?: Wanda confesses to Brent that she broke the mop handle while doing karate kicks in the store, something Brent had specifically ordered her not to do. Her defence is that she had just finished watching a Jet Li movie and was "in a weird head space." | |
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Corner Gas / int_9c63834f | type |
BoringYetPractical | |
Corner Gas / int_9c63834f | comment |
Boring Yet Practical: The shuttle run from the Canada Fitness Guide. Davis feels there is no real-world value to it, until his Hardy Boys books are nearly run over by a truck and his shuttle run rescues them from being covered in treadmarks. | |
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Corner Gas / int_9dab0a6e | type |
Continuity Nod | |
Corner Gas / int_9dab0a6e | comment |
Continuity Nod: In the season one episode "Oh, Baby", Brent babysits Wanda's son Tanner, who keeps throwing toy cars at his head. In the season three episode "Merry Gasmas", Wanda asks Brent if he wants to see what she got Tanner for Christmas. Brent immediately says, "Is it something hard he can throw at my head?" In "Hero Sandwich," Hank asks Brent to loan him some cash and Brent says, "Is that like your official greeting now?" A few episodes later in "Air Show", Brent is the one who needs money. He asks Hank if he can borrow 20 bucks and Hank replies, "Is this like your official greeting now?" with a big smile on his face. In "Cable Excess" from season 5, Lacey reminisces about watching the fireplace on TV at Christmas time as a kid. In "No Time Like the Presents" from later in season 5, Emma is buying Christmas gifts for everyone in the summer. It flashes forward to the ensuing Christmas, where Emma is about to hand everyone their gift. Lacey has to be called away from the floor... where she is sitting and watching the fireplace on TV. In the pilot episode, the Howler writes a disparaging article about Lacey and Hank suggests that she get revenge by egging the newspaper office (and also throwing a few watermelons because "they make a big splat"). In "Dog River Dave," Hank and Oscar pelt a radio DJ with eggs because he had been making fun of Brent on the air. In "Cable Excess," Hank confesses to Brent that he egged a cable van and Brent says, "What is it with you and egging things?" | |
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Corner Gas / int_9dfd7154 | type |
Fridge Logic | |
Corner Gas / int_9dfd7154 | comment |
Fridge Logic:invoked When Karen theorizes that Dog River was named that way because from the top the river looks like a dog, Lacey immediately asks how the colonists could look from the top in the prairies. At the end of the episode Lacey returns to that theory and even finds the Hand Wave that satisfies everyone. note "They used air balloons" | |
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Corner Gas / int_9f541b68 | type |
Brand Name Takeover | |
Corner Gas / int_9f541b68 | comment |
Brand Name Takeover: Discussed by Karen when she insists that people refer to her hackey sack as a "foot bag" because she did not buy one with the Hackey Sack brand name. Similarly, when Emma makes a batch of Nanaimo bars, but tells people not to call them that because they weren't made in Nanaimo. She settles on calling them "Nanaimo-style Saskatchewan bars". | |
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Corner Gas / int_9f7c2eb7 | type |
Location Theme Naming | |
Corner Gas / int_9f7c2eb7 | comment |
Location Theme Naming: The last names of all the main characters—as well as many of the recurring and minor characters—are the names of towns in Saskatchewan. This apparently came about after series creator Brent Butt noticed that his own middle name Leroy, which he used as the last name for his character, was also a Saskatchewan town name and decided to run with it. One exception is Mayor Fitzy Fitzgerald; there is no such place as Fitzgerald, Saskatchewan. Brent (the character)‘s middle name is Herbert, which is both the first name of Brent Butt’s real-life father and the name of a town in Saskatchewan. | |
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Corner Gas / int_9f80e1da | type |
Sarcasm Mode | |
Corner Gas / int_9f80e1da | comment |
In the pilot episode, Hank complains about a terrible cup of coffee, to which Brent says, "Oh, well, let me refund your money. What'd you pay for it, zero?" | |
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Corner Gas / int_9fe18440 | type |
Whip Pan | |
Corner Gas / int_9fe18440 | comment |
Whip Pan: Used when it shows what someone's thinking. | |
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Corner Gas / int_a10775b7 | type |
Mean Boss | |
Corner Gas / int_a10775b7 | comment |
Mean Boss: Lacey in "Queasy Rider" to Karen and Davis when she has them help her move. Brent also qualifies, albeit to a much lower degree, since his greatest sin against the work ethic is laziness. | |
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Corner Gas / int_a1154544 | type |
Grumpy Old Man | |
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Grumpy Old Man: Good Lord, Oscar. Oscar complains to the police so often, demanding they arrest everyone who does something he dislikes or which inconveniences him, that when Karen and Davis don't hear any complaints from him for a while they assume he must be dead. | |
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Left the Background Music On | |
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Left the Background Music On: The final scene of "Gopher It" is accompanied by "Bad Timing" by Blue Rodeo. When the episode is revealed to be a long Imagine Spot by Hank, Wanda asks him why he spent so long staring out into space and then suddenly started humming a Blue Rodeo song. In "Rock Stars", scene transition music plays after a punchline... and then Hank and Oscar stare at Brent, who tells them that that's all he's figured out for the song he's playing on electric guitar. A variation: Brent is at the gas station when a friend tells him that he may own an antique worth quite a bit of money. Immediately, the classic (cha-ching!) noise is heard—then Brent glances down and closes the cash register, commenting that he needs to get it fixed to stop it from popping open at random. Later, at an antiques shop, the man at the counter confirms that they have a valuable antique, and the (cha-ching!) is heard again; the antiques dealer closes his register, and Brent says, "Hey, mine does the same thing!" Also this scene: | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: In "The Littlest Yarbo", Hank is convinced a random German Shepard Dog is actually The Littlest Hobo. The episode even ends with the theme song to The Littlest Hobo rather than the normal ending music. The big joke is the dog seen in the episode looks nothing like the dog associated with the classic series. | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish" | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Hank's password is "password". He later changes it to "notpassword" after telling people "I changed my password—and this time it's not password!" He then changes it again... and forgets it. He teams up with Wanda to crack it, but both fail in their combined efforts to "think like Hank" (yes, even Hank was trying to think like Hank) until Brent walks up to the laptop and nails it on the first try. | |
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ClaspYourHandsIfYouDeceive | |
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Clasp Your Hands If You Deceive: Wanda teaches Lacey on when to use "schemey fingers." In "Seeing Things", Brent tells Wanda that he's going to get contact lenses to keep Lacey from finding out that he was afraid to have laser eye surgery: | |
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Compressed Abstinence | |
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Compressed Abstinence: One episode followed Hank, Wanda, and Karen as they competed to see who could keep their New Year's resolution the longest. The winner was Lacey, who manipulated the other three into agreeing to a three-way tie, then revealed she hadn't broken her resolution, as revenge for them saying she was no good at scheming. | |
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Authority in Name Only | |
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Authority in Name Only: Mayor "Fitzy" Fitzgerald. Also the cops. As of The Movie, it turns out they just stopped bothering handing out tickets. Earlier, in "All That And A Bag Of Chips," Davis commented that everyone in town had an unpaid parking ticket and that this was "no big deal." | |
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Naked People Are Funny | |
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Naked People Are Funny: After a series of smaller arguments in "Poor Brent", Oscar deciding to walk around the house unexpectedly nude, as he used to when he was single and living by himself. Emma retaliates by deciding to stop informing him beforehand when she invited her female friends over for sewing circles. Oscar finds out the hard way. In "Spin Cycle", Lacey learns that the women of Dog River have a nude calendar every few years or so and she is tasked to find people to sign up. Karen and Wanda are about to strip wherever they were and Lacey stops them each time. Turns out Emma thought Lacey wouldn't bother with being in the calendar so Lacey goes to her and the photographer and strips naked. Then it turns out that Emma couldn't get the photographer and the guy sitting next to her was just a customer of the diner. | |
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Enfant Terrible | |
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Enfant Terrible: Wanda's son, Tanner. Babysitting him is an... experience. He tied Hank to a chair and then hung a bird in a cage over his face so it would poop on him. Hank also points out a rather large and imposing man, who has been unable to go ten seconds without looking over his shoulder ever since the night he babysat Tanner. | |
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Animated Adaptation | |
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Animated Adaptation: One came along in 2018, simply titled Corner Gas Animated. | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: "Merry Gasmas" has three consecutive scenes of people having holiday shopping problems and each saying the same line to a clerk: | |
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Large Ham Radio | |
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Large Ham Radio: In "TV Free Dog River", Karen and Davis start a radio station. Davis wants it to be a jazz station and talks in a smooth voice, but Karen is more interested in being a zoo host on a classic rock station. Eventually, after Davis realizes he's the only one in Dog River even remotely interested in jazz, he becomes an even wackier zoo host than Karen and completely upstages her. | |
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Scrabble Babble | |
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Scrabble Babble: Hank, in the first move of the game, decides to start things off with "abang". After being told that's two words, he decides to play... "A". | |
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Imagine Spot | |
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"Gopher It" shows us that this rivalry is entirely one-sided. Although since the whole episode is one long Imagine Spot by Hank, we don't know that this is true until The Movie.. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname: "Fitzy" is most likely a nickname that comes from shortening his last name, Fitzgerald, although signage in several episodes shows he goes by the name "Fitzy Fitzgerald". And Hank's full name is Richard Henry Yarbo. | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity: Oscar and Emma are tired of Brent's freeloading, so they make Brent cook dinner for them. However Brent has never cooked before and doesn't know the first thing about it, so he pretends to be even more hopeless than he already is so that Emma will get frustrated at his incompetence and cook the meal for him. Then he takes all the credit and gets a reputation as a great cook. | |
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame | |
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Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: From "Picture Perfect": In the movie, Brent suffers physical pain whenever he and Oscar agree about something. | |
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Welcome Episode | |
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Welcome Episode: Lacey moves to Dog River in the first episode. Also "Doc Small", where Lacy tries to convince a doctor thinking of moving to Dog River that it is a normal place. Turns out that to Dog River, "normal" is Cloud Cuckoo Land. | |
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Holiday Volunteering | |
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Holiday Volunteering: Parodied in episode Merry Gasmas where Hank attempts to help out a seemingly poor family, the Buckles, before Christmas, enlisting the help of Davis and Karen to gather collections. In the end, it turns out the Buckles were just being frugal and waiting for the sales after Christmas and didn't need the handout. | |
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Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult | |
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Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult: Brent and Hank had a history with one of these when they were kids. One episode has them crossing paths with him again. | |
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Totally Radical | |
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Totally Radical: Invoked by Brent when Lacey lights incense at the gas station and Brent thinks it "smells like hippies": | |
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Middle-of-Nowhere Street | |
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Middle-of-Nowhere Street: Takes place entirely in the fictional town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, Canada. The series rarely showed its main characters away from the town. | |
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Ambulance Cut | |
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Ambulance Cut: The Christmas episode "Merry Gasmas" uses this trope four different times. The first three are flashbacks to previous Christmases. Emma tells Oscar to be careful with the sharp carving knives, cut to an ambulance. Emma says her eggnog tastes off and Oscar tells her to drink it anyway, cut to an ambulance. Emma again tells Oscar to be careful with the knives, so Oscar gives them to a very young Brent, cut to an ambulance. At the end of the episode, Brent climbs onto a shaky ladder to take down some mistletoe, time for another ambulance cut. Emma watches the ambulance pull away and says, "Same damn thing every year." When Emma tricks Lacey into delivering her soup order: | |
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Spell My Name with a "The" | |
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Spell My Name with a "The": Inverted dramatically when, in the episode "Tax Man", a tax man repeatedly demands to be not referred to with a "the". Wanda later points out that saying the tax man in his absence is correct because it refers to a specific tax man. | |
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Work Off the Debt | |
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Work Off the Debt: Lacey catches Oscar counterfeiting. When she says she has something in mind for him, the scene cuts to him washing dishes. Lacey walks in and tells him she just wants him to pay her off in real money. | |
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There Are No Rules | |
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There Are No Rules: Subverted when Lacey describes her new bulletin boards. This phrase is met with complaints that if it has that rule then there are rules and it's decided that the new bulletin board is too confusing. | |
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Weirdness Censor | |
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Weirdness Censor: The police seem to have one of these where Hank is concerned. In "Security Cam", Hank wants the police to taser him, so he starts lurching around and screaming that he's freaking out, but the police ignore him and continue a debate about bullet-resistant vests versus bulletproof vests. In "The Littlest Yarbo", Hank falls to the ground and pretends to have a seizure; Davis merely comments that he's going to get grass stains on his clothing. In the same episode, Hank starts walking into traffic with a blindfold on; the police glance at him briefly and then resume their previous conversation. | |
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Dissimile | |
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Dissimile: When Wanda is rejected for a credit card after being told she was pre-approved, Hank attempts to console her. | |
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Exploited | |
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Exploited by Emma in "TV Free Dog River": | |
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What Were They Selling Again? | |
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What Were They Selling Again?: "Hook, Line and Sinker" sees Brent and Lacey make up signs next to the highway for advertising their establishments, but fail to agree on a sign and pretty immediately start insulting each other more and more on the sign instead eventually without even mentioning either of their businesses at all. However, this gives them more customers as people driving by want to see they'll put up next. After figuring this out and trying to take advantage of it, their next sign utterly fails until they replace it with "Karen slept with Hank". | |
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Trademark Favorite Food | |
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Trademark Favorite Food: Chili cheese dogs for Brent; he can easily pack away several per day. Brent Butt loves chili cheese dogs in real life, and claims he wrote them into the show to give himself an excuse to eat them. One of the official episode guide books even includes a recipe for the chili the props department put on the dogs (the key ingredient is canned condensed tomato soup). Brent’s favourite drink at the bar (again, like that of his actor and creator) is rye and water. Both Brents are whiskey enthusiasts in general, with the fictional Brent having hidden away a bottle of 20-year-old scotch at age 20 with the intention of drinking it on his 40th birthday. Lacey’s drink of choice is red wine. Most of the other characters are drinking Molson Old-Style Pilsner when they’re at the bar, it being one of the most popular beers in Saskatchewan. Wanda is often seen eating ropes of red licorice, which is a favourite of actress Nancy Robertson in real life; in the season 6 episode “American Resolution�, she resolves to stop eating it on New Years Eve, and six months later she’s hallucinating the jar of it at Corner Gas begging her to eat from it. Hank is fond of Pop Rocks. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: While all the characters in the series get a share of this (see also the page quote), Wanda is the most frequent. | |
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Caustic Critic | |
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Caustic Critic: When Lacey encourages Brent to try new foods instead of just eating chili cheese dogs, he quickly evolves into one of these, unable to enjoy any food (not even Emma's cooking) until eating a chili cheese dog returns him to normal. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: In the finale, when the characters discover that Brent has been going into the city to perform stand-up comedy: Wanda's a repeat offender. In "No Time Like The Presents", she can't remember if her cousin's name is Nora or Myrna. Oscar and Emma's bank statements are addressed to "Omar" and "Elna". In "Slow Pitch", when Oscar cuts out of the Harvester's Club meeting early. | |
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Catchphrase | |
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In "Lost and Found", Wanda comments that Brent is becoming more like Oscar every day, and Brent snaps, "Oh, don't be a jackass!" | |
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Offscreen Crash | |
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Offscreen Crash: In "Poor Brent," Oscar decides to rearrange the living room furniture. A few scenes later, he has an argument with Emma and storms out of the kitchen. Then we hear a thump, a cry of pain, and the words, "Who put the couch here!?" "Bend It Like Brent" features a videotape of Wanda auditioning for a college broadcasting course. At one point on the tape, she starts tossing a football around while pretending to be a sportscaster. The ball slips out of her hands and flies offscreen, then there's a sound of breaking glass. | |
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Spoof Aesop | |
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Spoof Aesop: In "Blog River", Brent says that he hurt Hank with a careless lie, which taught him a valuable lesson about lying more convincingly. At the end of "TV Free Dog River", Brent tells the audience that although the characters in this episode got out of trouble by lying, people in real life should never do this "unless you're in a real bind and telling the truth is just gonna cause a big hassle and make somebody mad at you." | |
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Epic Fail | |
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Epic Fail: We are treated to a montage of Stuff Blowing Up in Oscar's face, ending with a salad (see Lethal Chef below). Oscar's efforts at carpentry inevitably end up as this, lampshaded by Emma. | |
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The Lad-ette | |
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The Lad-ette: Wanda. Karen, being a woman in a traditionally male job of police officer, attempts to seem more masculine than she actually is, but does enjoy cooking and wears signficantly girlier clothing than Wanda does when off-duty. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Two shots at Sweden in "Ruby Newsday": | |
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ColdOpen | |
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Cold Open: Typically of the kind that sets up the plot for the rest of the episode while also making a quick joke. | |
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The Ace | |
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The Ace: Both Brent's Cousin Carl and Terry, the door guy. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
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Starcrossed Lovers: Parodied in one episode where Hank falls for a girl from Wullerton (spit) and decides that he'll have to dump her. She's actually from Gimli, Manitoba and is merely staying with her parents while they vacation in Wullerton. Upon discovering this, he then dumps her because he liked the idea of being Starcrossed Lovers. | |
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Mundane Luxury | |
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Mundane Luxury: Brent is a man of modest desires, as shown when he's asked how he's doing at one point while he's having a sandwich at the Ruby. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: A particularly notable example is when it becomes a plot event—planning to go to a comic book convention to get one signed by a comic book artist, Brent doesn't tell Hank about, fearing he'll be 'a boob' there. Naturally, Hank does find out, and plans to do an impression of a character amongst other things there when meeting the artist. Brent specifically tells him not do a number of things... and immediately starts stuttering and doing the impression, forgets to get his book signed, and spills coffee on the artist after trying again. The two spend the rest of the episode trying to get it signed. Another example... A Meta example of hypocritical humor: Brent and Wanda are having a discussion about substance vs. production values, and the boom mic falls into the middle of the shot and thunks Wanda on the head. Karen locks her keys in the trunk of the police cruiser and Davis spends a great deal of time lecturing her about how stupid and irresponsible this was. When Hank fixes the trunk release and the trunk pops open, it turns out that Davis had locked his keys in there as well. In "Security Cam", Wanda comments to Karen that Brent never does any work at the gas station "unless drinking coffee and playing games with your belly is considered work." Wanda, of course, spends the majority of her workdays hanging out at The Ruby, reading, doing crossword puzzles and playing Solitaire. Also: | |
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Bothering by the Book | |
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Bothering by the Book: In "Dog River Dave", Davis and Karen decide to "work to rule" and do the bare minimum required in the job description as a form of protest. When they tell the mayor they're working "by the book", the mayor happily gives them a copy of the rule book, which is an encyclopedia-sized tome. They end up doing more work than ever, so they decide to go back to work normally. | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue | |
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"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: Done in the finale, Animal House style. | |
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Name One | |
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Name One: In "Lacey Borrows": Also: | |
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Eternal Employee | |
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Eternal Employee: Wanda seems to always be working at the gas station. But to be fair, her boss Brent lets Wanda get away with everything she wants to do, so she probably enjoys practically living there if only Brent would leave her alone. Likewise, the town's only two police officers are rarely seen off-duty, although they don't do much to begin with. The final episode epilogue shows that Wanda eventually gets a degree in physics and uses it to negotiate a small salary raise from Brent. When Brent and the others discuss their phobias and fears, Wanda denies having one until the end of the episode where she has to take the garbage out to the dumpster. The camera shifts to an uncomfortable trembling view and Wanda being stricken with fear, showing she has agoraphobia. | |
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Short-Distance Phone Call | |
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Short-Distance Phone Call: Oscar steals the new wireless phone from Corner Gas and uses it as a cell phone. When he gets home, Emma asks "What is that?" Oscar calls Emma on the phone to explain, despite her being one foot away from him. In "Mail Fraud", Oscar and Emma have an e-mail argument about who's going to make lunch. They're in the same room and taking turns writing e-mails on the same computer. In "Hero Sandwich," Karen and Davis are staked out looking for jaywalkers and talking to each other over their police radios, even though she's literally right around the corner from him. Then she walks over and speaks to him face-to-face and he practically jumps out of his skin. | |
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A Good Name for a Rock Band | |
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A Good Name for a Rock Band: After promotional mugs made for Corner Gas and The Ruby come back reading 'Corner G and The Rub', Brent decides this will be the name of his act if he ever decides to become a rapper. Then there's the actual name of an In-Universe country musician. Later, Brent notices a poster of Guff Brooking and points it out, chuckling. | |
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Future Me Scares Me | |
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Future Me Scares Me: Brent has a daydream about meeting himself twenty years from now. He looks like an older version of present-day Brent with a moustache and lives in a large mansion. The two Brents chat about how well Future Brent has done for himself when Oscar shows up, wearing dirty, tattered clothes. | |
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Ironic Echo Cut | |
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Ironic Echo Cut: In "Oh, Baby", Brent is babysitting an out-of-control child but he says he won't call Emma for help because, "I'm a grown man. He's six. I should be able to handle it." Cut to Emma on the phone with Brent, saying, "You're a grown man. He's six." Hank wins a few hundred dollars in the lottery and complains that everyone wants a piece of him: | |
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Catch-22 Dilemma | |
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Catch-22 Dilemma: Brent tries to repair the frames of his glasses, but he can't see well enough to do this unless he has his glasses on. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: Corner Gas was always a family-friendly show, so unless you consider the word "jackass" to still be naughty in the 21st century, language on the show is never on the raw side. The closest it got was an episode in which a bunch of kids end up in Oscar's front yard holding a giant cardboard letter F, leading to Oscar hollering: "Get the F off my lawn!" There's also this conversation, which fits the nature of the trope: | |
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We Sell Everything | |
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We Sell Everything: Dog River has a store that sells both liquor and insurance of all things. The titular store also is pretty well-stocked for a gas station. Justified in that Corner Gas is said in the second episode to be the only gas station and convenience store for many miles around; in the first episode, Brent explicitly states that if Corner Gas didn’t offer video rental, people in Dog River would have to drive to Wullerton to rent movies. The combined liquor and insurance store is a real feature of the town of Rouleau where the show is filmed; since the government of Saskatchewan is in the business of selling both things and the town has limited infrastructure due to its size, it’s not actually that weird for one store to sell both. | |
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You Are What You Hate | |
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You Are What You Hate: The first (oblivious) version, overlapping with Closet Geek. Brent and Hank go to a comic book signing. Immediately upon entering, Brent makes a comment to Hank about how the place is full of nerds. They are then approached by two guys who look very much like them asking if they know where the back of the line is. Brent and Hank are weirded out by the resemblance and walk away, at which point Not-Hank points over his shoulder at the two of them and makes the same comment to Not-Brent about how the place is full of nerds. | |
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Berserk Button | |
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Berserk Button: Do not pick up the cordless phone at Corner Gas before it's fully charged or Wanda will totally bite your head off. Teasing Wanda about her height is a very bad idea. If you work for Canada Customs and Revenue, do not mention this fact to Oscar. Actually, to be on the safe side, just don't mention taxes at all when Oscar is around. Chances are, he'll mention them first anyway, particularly how his taxes pay your salary. Hank will not tolerate CFL jokes. | |
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Putting on the Reich | |
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Putting on the Reich: Wanda's reaction to Brent's new black shirt is to do her job much more efficiently than usual. Completely unintentional on Brent's part. Oscar's reaction to Brent suggesting that Corner Gas employees wear uniforms is that people would think they were Nazis. | |
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Motion Parallax | |
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Motion Parallax: The "at the top of the water tower" background in "Grad 68" is produced by a motion parallax layer between the tower proper and the scenery behind. It's a tad uncoordinated with the zoom, though. | |
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Accidental Kiss | |
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Accidental Kiss: After watching a French movie, Hank starts greeting people by kissing them on the cheeks. When he tries to do it with Emma, he accidentally kisses her on the lips instead. He later decides to talk to her about it, which gives us the line "What kiss? You mean when you hit me in the face with your lips?" | |
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Did They or Didn't They? | |
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Did They or Didn't They?: Hank and Karen on the fishing trip. She denies it, though in a way that most others don't believe her, while Hank doesn't like people being told it happened, but never outright denies sleeping with her | |
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Must Have Caffeine | |
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Must Have Caffeine: Brent tries to give up coffee in "Dog River Vice". It doesn't go well: When Wanda joins Brent and Hank at the bar (where Brent tries to replace coffee with alcohol), she finds him asleep on his stool. In "Jail House," Wanda is late for work and doesn't have time for her morning coffee. She arrives at Corner Gas acting even grumpier than usual. | |
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Ring-Ring-CRUNCH! | |
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Ring-Ring-CRUNCH!: In the episode that Brent gives up coffee, there is a montage of Brent repeatedly hitting the snooze on his alarm clock until he finally wakes up and says "Whoa. What a weird dream. I dreamed that I had an alarm clock. I should probably think about getting one of those." Later in the episode he dreams that he gets one and smashes it to pieces when it wakes him up and says "Oh yeah, that's why I didn't have one of those." At the end of the episode, he also smashes Hank's new electronic organizer when its alarm goes off and wakes him up. | |
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Sexophone | |
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Sexophone: Each time Hank's fish talk starts to affect Karen. | |
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Sense Freak | |
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Sense Freak: In a rare human example, Davis is revealed in one episode to have lost his sense of smell as a child. He gets it back during the episode and goes a little nuts with it. Eagle-eye viewers will note in other episodes Davis is never the first to notice a truly awful smell, but rather always seems to add reactively "Yeah that does smell bad"... basically, he's covering up his missing sense! Which doesn't really make sense, since he had told everybody about it already, including Brent, who just wasn't paying attention (in fact his plot in the episode involved him learning to pay attention to other people when they talk). | |
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With Due Respect | |
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With Due Respect: | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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One episode ends with what appears to be an elderly Brent sitting alone on a bench. A group of kids come up and ask him to tell them the story of what just happened in the episode. Brent looks at them and says "That was weeks ago, kid. Can't you see I got a costume party to go to?", at which point Hank walks by dressed as a vampire. | |
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No Longer with Us | |
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No Longer with Us: Hank asks Emma for some Motherly Advice. Emma tells Hank that he should just ask his own mother, but Hank says she's in a better place. Emma points out that they have phones in Saskatoon. In "Cat River Daze", Oscar and Karen become attached to a cat and are horrified when they find out it might have to go to "a better place." Naturally, this turns out to be the name of a cat farm. | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud | |
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Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud: When Davis is trying to sell Oscar and Emma a home security system, he reads his sales pitch from a cue card, including the phrases, "Smile assuringly," and, "You should now be inside the customer's home." | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: The episode "Doc Small". Wanda enjoys writing her name in wet cement. For the longest time, Davis doesn't realize it's her because he thinks "WANDA" is an acronym for something. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Davis in "Physical Credit" just before he dashes to rescue his Hardy Boys books. | |
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A Bloody Mess | |
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A Bloody Mess: When Emma calls up Brent and speaks in a hushed whisper, standing over a large red puddle. Turns out she spilt a can of tomato juice and didn't want Oscar to find out. | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Paul Kinistino, the owner and manager of the bar, disappears from the show without a trace after season 3 and is replaced by Suspiciously Similar Substitute Phil Kinistino, presumably a relative of Paul. | |
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Broken Glass Penalty | |
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Broken Glass Penalty: While practising for the upcoming slow pitch game, Davis hits a baseball and a window is heard breaking in the distance. Davis and Karen run away. Later, they are called to Fitzy's Grandma's house to investigate some "vandalism". At the end of the episode, Emma finally manages to hit a ball after failing to during the entire game (and several hours of trying after the game). We then see Fitzy's Grandma sitting in her house next to two windows, one of which is the broken window from earlier. The ball crashes through the other one. | |
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Felony Misdemeanor | |
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Felony Misdemeanor: Davis makes fun of how Lacey can't pronounce "especially", and gets big laughs from the townsfolk. To try and get him back, Lacey makes fun of how Davis can't wink, and how he can't do the Vulcan Salute despite being a big sci-fi geek, but both times the townsfolk tell her she's just being overly mean. Ends up inverted when she finally ends up getting big laughs by making fun of him for having a Missing Mom. | |
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Insane Troll Logic | |
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Insane Troll Logic: When someone asks, "What are the chances that we have a riot in Dog River?" Karen answers in all seriousness, "I'd say 50-50: either we get a riot, or we don't." Any zany scheme suggested by Hank. Lampshaded mercilessly by the others. From "The Eight Samurai": In "No Time Like The Presents," Hank decides to move 12 hours ahead into his own time zone and has the following dispute with Karen: | |
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We Want Our Jerk Back! | |
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We Want Our Jerk Back!: Karen sends Davis to sensitivity training because he was making Dumb Blonde jokes with Oscar in front of her. He comes back as a triade of Political Overcorrectness (example: When Karen orders black coffee, Davis tells her "it's African-American!"), so she teams up with Oscar to get him back to normal. An example of "We Want Our Ignoramus Back": Brent discovers that Davis has no sense of smell, and was the only one who didn't know. Davis reveals that he had told Brent about it many times, but he just wasn't playing attention. Brent vows to be more perceptive to the people around him, and as a result ends up saying unintentionally hurtful things that make people think he is a "monster", so he goes back to being completely ignorant of everyone around him. | |
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Blah, Blah, Blah | |
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Blah, Blah, Blah: Lacey in "I, Witness" when Oscar and Emma try to explain how to play bridge to her. In the same episode, Wanda fills in for Karen to give a speech about eyewitness testimony. When we see this from Davis' point of view, not only is she saying "blah blah blah," but these are also the only words written on her PowerPoint presentation. In "Super Sensitive," Davis complains that he shouldn't have to attend sensitivity training just for telling some blonde jokes: | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The climactic series in "The Good Old Table Hockey Game" between Brent and Karen is essentially a fictionalised re-creation of the 1972 Summit Series between Canada and the USSR, with Brent as Team Canada and Karen as Team USSR. This includes the table hockey game being a 1972 edition, the first four games being played at Oscar and Emma's house while the second four are played in the police station, Game 3 ending in a tie (to everyone's collective amazement), Brent losing Game 4 and being booed by the "home audience" and giving a speech which liberally quotes Phil Esposito's reaction to the booing at Game 4 in the Summit Series, and Brent having to win the last three games to salvage a 4-3 series victory (including a last-minute goal in Game 8). Karen even remarks at the end of the series that it all seems somehow familiar, while Wanda claims that people will still be talking about it thirty years later. | |
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"Which Restroom?" Dilemma | |
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"Which Restroom?" Dilemma: The "Grad '68" episode starts with Lacey replacing the signs on the doors with the Roman symbols for male and female, which Brent believes will confuse people. While arguing about it, Hank walks out of the women's bathroom. | |
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Rage Breaking Point | |
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Rage Breaking Point: In "Tree's A Crowd", Emma and Oscar's single friend Peggy keeps flirting with Oscar in a very obvious manner, and when Emma brings this up, Oscar denies that it's happening. Emma manages to keep her anger about this in check. Then she sees that Oscar has put the spoons away wrong and starts yelling at him to, "STOP MOVING SPOONS!" Oscar is insightful enough to realize that something other than spoons is bugging her, but he just asks, "Is this about the salad forks?" | |
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Description Cut | |
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Description Cut: Multiple times—in many cases, without the cut. "Tax Man": "Cousin Carl": Two examples from "Block Party", with the cut this time: While discussing the renaming of Main Street to "Centennial Street" in honour of Dog River's 100th anniversary: Later in the episode, after Hank burns down a shed to maintain the accuracy of his Lego model of Dog River: | |
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Self-Deprecation | |
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Self-Deprecation: After Hank says "You can sell any kind of crap with a well-placed ad.", the show immediately cuts to a short ad for Season 4 of Corner Gas on DVD. When discussing Canadian television shows, Hank suggests Street Legal was good. Oscar yells "Street Legal sucked!" Eric Peterson (Oscar) was on Street Legal. | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting | |
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Two Lines, No Waiting: Has two or three storylines per episode, which is merely one of the reasons it's often compared to Seinfeld. Its larger main cast (more than four) divides up pretty evenly among the storylines. This is most interesting when the divvying of the storylines doesn't happen according to the common pattern (the two police officers, the old married couple, the gas station workers—Hank functions as a wildcard, who may have his own storyline like a Good Hair Day). Referenced in "The Littlest Yarbo" where Hank discusses his plot, and Brent randomly starts talking about his own: | |
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Word of God | |
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Word of God says that "the city" is Regina. (In several episodes in which characters are shown going to "the city", the location is clearly Regina.) | |
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Politician Guest-Star | |
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Politician Guest-Star: Two consecutive Prime Ministers make cameos (Paul Martin and Stephen Harper), as do two consecutive Premiers of Saskatchewan (Lorne Calvert and Brad Wall), along with a smattering of Members of Parliament and mayors. The appearances by Martin and Harper marked the first and second time that sitting prime ministers had appeared in a Canadian sitcom. Martin's appearance had a bit of timely irony as it aired the night before a government sponsorship scandal broke that led to the downfall of his government; he was defeated by Harper. Though Wall had been elected Premier in 2007 (defeating Calvert), he did not appear on the show until the penultimate episode in 2009. Former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson. Apparently she really hates barns. But what red-blooded Canadian wouldn't want to tear down a barn? | |
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SwearJar | |
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Swear Jar: See Sound-Effect Bleep above. | |
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Stock Lateral Thinking Puzzle | |
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Stock Lateral Thinking Puzzle: Several in "Doc Small". "The Doctor's Son": Hank ends up suggesting that the doctor is a ghost. Brent didn't get it either and asks for clarification of why Hank's theory couldn't be true. "If a plane crashes exactly on a border, where are the survivors buried?" Hank first asks whether the plane is distributed more on one side than the other, and then when Karen emphasizes the word "survivors", he answers. "Oh! One on each side." "If a rooster lays an egg on the exact peak of a barn, which side does it fall?" Hank's answers include "The Alberta side" (referring to the plane crash example above), "The roof is flat," and "The egg is square!" | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
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Cassandra Truth: Lacey's old college friend Connie comes to visit and acts incredibly rude to everyone. The characters attempt to tell Lacey that her friend is rude and she reacts with offence, typical for the trope. After the "record Connie being rude" scheme fails, the trope ends up being averted when Lacey says she knew all along that Connie is rude and she's always been that way. | |
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Muscles Are Meaningless | |
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Muscles Are Meaningless: Discussed when Brent explains to Lacey that arm size doesn't directly translate to arm-wrestling victory... well, unless they're Lacey-small. | |
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Crop Circles | |
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A subversion when Davis finds what he thinks is an alien Crop Circle: | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
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Mundane Made Awesome: In "Face Off", Oscar and Emma get ready to drive to the hockey game, but they can't be sure the car will start because it's been making funny noises lately. As Oscar starts the car, we see dramatic close-ups of his hands and hear epic music. | |
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Cue O'Clock | |
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Cue O'Clock: In "Face Off", Oscar and Emma quickly make a bet that, if Oscar can't start their car so they can get to the hockey game on time, Emma will choke him with an extension cord, but if he can, she has to shut up about it. After a tense situation, Oscar gets the car to start. Emma tells him to go, so he glances at his watch and smugly says "Oh that's right, it's almost... Shut-Up-O'Clock." | |
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Daydream Believer | |
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Daydream Believer: Davis believes that the events of Battlestar Galactica actually happened, and regularly meets with others who agree. | |
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Canada, Eh? | |
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Canada, Eh?: An episode involved Oscar finding out that he lost his Canadian citizenship because he was in the United States on a fishing trip when he turned 24. Brent and Emma then play a prank on him, telling him that he's legally an American and will get deported if anyone finds out, so they get him to act as stereotypically Canadian as possible. This lasts until Emma feels it's gone too far and tells Oscar that all he has to do is fill out a form and wait a few weeks to get his citizenship back. | |
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Elvis Impersonator | |
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Elvis Impersonator: In "Wedding Card", it's revealed that Oscar and Emma had never been married. Near the end of the episode, at their rehearsal dinner, it was revealed that they are married, but had lied to cover up their embarrassing "Elvis wedding". The townspeople all agree that being married by a guy dressed as Elvis isn't something that they should be embarrassed about. Later, Oscar and Emma are seen burning their wedding photos in a fire. They're the ones dressed as Elvis. Both of them. | |
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CloudCuckooLander | |
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Cloud Cuckoolander: Hank. He often daydreams about various oddities, sometimes confusing other characters. In one episode, he not only wonders who would win if robots fought werewolves, but also mentions how impressed Vikings would be if they could travel through time and see all the glow in the dark stuff we have. He also spouts sexy, poetic language while on fishing trips, causing other characters to be attracted to him regardless of their sexual orientation. One episode of the series takes place almost entirely in Hank's mind because someone told him to think before he spoke. Oscar's rants and complaints often border on downright incoherence, to the point that other characters will say things like, "Do you even listen to yourself anymore?" or, "Do you even care about making sense anymore?" | |
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Eagleland Osmosis | |
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Eagleland Osmosis: In "Hair Comes the Judge", Lacey (who paid Hank $100 to varnish the Ruby's deck) addresses impromptu judge Wanda as "Your Honour" during the latter's first case. Though flattered, Wanda promptly informs Lacey that judges in Canada are supposed to be addressed as "My Lord." | |
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Waxing Lyrical | |
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Waxing Lyrical: In season 2's "Rock On!", Brent gives the boot to a band of "local kids" who were practicing in his garage, who are played by The Tragically Hip. When the lead singer complains that they had been working on lyrics, Brent responds, "Don't tell me what the poets are doing!", a line from The Hip's song "Poets". | |
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Shower of Awkward | |
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Shower of Awkward: In "Tree's A Crowd," Emma suspects (wrongly) that Oscar is having an affair with Peggy, so she goes to Peggy's house to confront them. Peggy says Oscar isn't there. Emma says, "Then who's in the shower!?" and opens the bathroom door. A completely different guy named Marvin is in the shower. He's partially covered by the curtain, but the moment is still very awkward. | |
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You Need a Breath Mint | |
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You Need a Breath Mint: In "All My Ex's Live In Toronto" Hank pretends to be Lacey's boyfriend when her ex-fiance visits. He gives her a big kiss and then says, "Do you want to introduce me?" Lacey exclaims, "Yeah, to toothpaste!" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Fitzy's grandma was known to many in Dog River only as "Fitzy's grandma" until she entered a jam contest. | |
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Company Cross References | |
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Company Cross References: Whenever a character appears on or watches another TV show or interacts with one of its hosts, it's usually a show on CTV or one of its sister channels. In "Tax Man", Brent imagines himself appearing on a CTV News broadcast, talking remotely with anchor Dan Matheson. In "Hook, Line and Sinker", Brent imagines himself competing on Canadian Idol in a scene filmed on the show's actual set, with the judges making cameos. At the end of "Face Off", Brent dreams that he's being interviewed on TSN's Sports Centre by Darren Dutchyshen and Jennifer Hedger. In "Poor Brent", Brent's new TV has such high fidelity that he can apparently interact with CTV National News anchor Lloyd Robertson. In "Dog River Vice", Ben Mulroney's first cameo shows him introducing himself on eTalk Daily. "The Littlest Yarbo" is one long extended reference to the 1980s version of The Littlest Hobo, which was produced by CTV. In "Gopher It", Hank fantasizes that Wanda begins appearing regularly on the morning show Canada A.M. after charming one of the hosts during a remote broadcast. | |
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Old Cop, Young Cop | |
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Old Cop, Young Cop: When Hank and Oscar are hired to do the town census, they start acting like this. Of course, since Hank has done the census before, he plays the Old Cop to Oscar's Young Cop. | |
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Follow in My Footsteps | |
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Follow in My Footsteps: In the final episode it's said that Oscar and Emma burned Brent's acceptance letter from college so that he would be around to run the gas station after Oscar retired. In the same episode, Emma is disapproving of Brent trying his hand at being a stand-up comedian, thinking that at his age he should instead be "stuck in a rut with a wife and kids, living the Hell we all lived". Oscar, on the other hand, is strangely supportive. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Parodied in "Dark Circles" when Brent starts wearing a black uniform shirt. Wanda starts acting scared of him, but Lacey gets all dreamy and high school crush-like. | |
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Mondegreen Gag | |
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Mondegreen Gag: Brent repeatedly mishears the name of Marvin Drey, a taxman, as "muffin tray". Brent Butt mentioned on one of the Season 1 DVD commentaries that he tries to use these often as he always finds them funny. Other examples include "coffin plans" as "coffee plants", "child psychology" as "chives on top of me", "liquid dish soap" as "licky disco" and "MP3 player" as "empty tree player". Karen and Davis have a cell phone conversation while she's buying him a muffin: From "Game, Set, and Mouse": In "Friend of a Friend," Brent and Wanda introduce a rewards card with multiple loyalty levels. Oscar complains about having "merely" a Gold card, with an Imagine Spot of people bragging about their card being higher, such as "Plutonium!" Germanium!" "Platypus." | |
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I Was Never Here | |
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I Was Never Here: In "Cable Excess", Hank is trying to avoid the cops in case they find out that he egged a cable van: | |
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What's a Henway? | |
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What's a Henway?: In "Crab Apple Cooler": | |
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Did Not Do the Bloody Research | |
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Did Not Do the Bloody Research: In "Bend It Like Brent", when Davis feels the need to use British English words ('football') over their Canadian English counterparts ('soccer'). Given the entirely-innocent grin on Davis' face as he said "wanker", he likely didn't realize how offensive the word was and the joke was the trope applying to him. | |
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Cat Scare | |
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Cat Scare: In "Lacey Borrows", when watching a scary movie, the experienced horror movie watchers try to predict this, but as it turns out, a buzzsaw pops out and kills someone instead. | |
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Worst Aid | |
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Worst Aid: Parodied when Brent and Hank move Wanda (specifically, toss her up and down) because they don't believe her back is really hurt... and this makes her get better. Karen and Davis discussing the pronunciation of "Heimlich" while Hank is choking on a pickle. Turns out neither of them had first-aid training of any kind. | |
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Hollywood Board Games | |
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Hollywood Board Games: In "The Brent Effect", Emma challenges Hank to a game of pool to recover the money Oscar, her husband, gave to him. Manchild Hank brags about being great at it and... he's right! He keeps winning round after round. However, Emma is a persistent, patient woman (explained by her old age), so she doesn't give up and manages to bore the much younger Hank with her constant "Best Out of Infinity" requests. As a result, he just hands her the money so he can go and do something else. | |
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A Taste of Their Own Medicine | |
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During the talent show in "Cousin Carl", Davis does a ventriloquist act that makes fun of Karen, so she gets a male puppet wearing a police uniform and says in a dopey voice, "Hello, I'm Sergeant Davis. I like to eat dooonuts." | |
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Unsportsmanlike Gloating | |
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Unsportsmanlike Gloating: Lacey has quite the competitive streak and engages in this when she wins at something, the exception being her embarrassment at winning an Eating Contest. | |
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Landmark Declaration Gambit | |
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Landmark Declaration Gambit: Played for Laughs in "Cell Phone" when Lacey, a City Mouse and Naïve Newcomer to small-town Saskatchewan, overhears some Grumpy Old Men muttering darkly about the pending demolition of the town's historic grain elevator, so she successfully lobbies to have it protected as a landmark. She then learns that it's a rat-infested ruin that was due to be replaced with a cell phone tower, and they were looking forward to it being knocked down. | |
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Deathbringer the Adorable | |
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Deathbringer the Adorable: Brent names all of his baseball pitches with intimidating names like "Hammer of Thor", but since he's in a slow pitch league... | |
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Pass the Popcorn | |
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Pass the Popcorn: After Lacey confronts Karen about having just borrowed her house to watch a scary movie in, Brent comments on how there should be some scary music playing. Emma and Wanda, who already had popcorn because they were watching the movie, watch the standoff and eat some popcorn. One episode has the entire town agreeing to not watch TV for a week. In order to entertain himself another way, Brent sets it up so that Hank and Wanda constantly get mad and fight each other while he sits back with popcorn. He even gets other townspeople to enjoy the "Hank and Wanda Show". | |
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Manchild | |
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Manchild: Hank. Frequently Brent when he shares a plotline with him. Wanda shows signs of this on occasion. She comments that the ball pit at the Swedish furniture store is "a blast" and when Karen says her kid must really enjoy it, Wanda looks slightly uncomfortable and says, "Yeah, my kid." When Lacey sets up a bouncy castle for kids in "Cat River Daze", Wanda insists on jumping in too. When she buys a robot goat toy for her son's Christmas present, she can't resist playing with it herself. When someone annoys her, her reaction often resembles a child's temper tantrum. | |
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Who Would Want to Watch Us? | |
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Who Would Want to Watch Us?: Hank describes what Brent's life would be like if it were a TV show, causing him to respond: | |
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Literal-Minded | |
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Literal-Minded: When Davis misplaces the Grey Cup tickets, Karen suggests looking in the glove compartment. Davis condescendingly responds that they're not in the glove compartment because "that compartment's for gloves, you're not supposed to put other things in there". They were in the glove compartment. Played for Laughs by Brent in "Super Sensitive" after Hank brags about his streak of bad luck being over: | |
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The Ditz | |
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The Ditz: Hank, of course. Also Lacey in later seasons. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Not to mention the episode involving Davis, the Cosmo-reading somewhat Ambiguously Gay police officer, being locked in a jail cell with Hank, the village idiot. Davis ends up escaping, which leads to this exchange between Karen (Davis' partner) and Hank: | |
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Egopolis | |
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Egopolis: In the series finale, Wanda is excited by the possibility that Brent will go on tour as a stand-up comedian, because it would mean that she would be in charge of the gas station. She's thinking of renaming it "Wandaland". | |
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Godwin's Law | |
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Godwin's Law: Oscar initially refused to wear a Corner Gas uniform with the excuse that people would mistake the gas station workers for Nazis. | |
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CloudCuckooLand | |
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Also "Doc Small", where Lacy tries to convince a doctor thinking of moving to Dog River that it is a normal place. Turns out that to Dog River, "normal" is Cloud Cuckoo Land. | |
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We Need a Distraction | |
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We Need a Distraction: In a flashback scene in "Grad '68", Emma needs to sneak out of the house and distracts Oscar with a Rubik's Cube. | |
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Disaster Dominoes | |
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Disaster Dominoes: In "Telescope Trouble", Hank borrows Wanda's TV. As he's walking down the porch steps with it, he bumps into her birdbath and breaks it. This causes the TV to fly out of his arms... right through the window of Wanda's car. And this cycle only repeats itself. Hank decides to get Wanda a new birdbath. He leaves it outside the gas station, where Wanda promptly bumps into it while trying to carry her large telescope. The birdbath breaks and the telescope flies through Brent's car window. Birdbaths can cause widespread destruction if you're not careful! | |
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The "Fun" in "Funeral" | |
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The "Fun" in "Funeral": A Season 5 episode has Oscar and Wanda crash funerals together for different reasons (Wanda does it to skip work. Oscar does it because Emma gets a job and he doesn't want to have to make his own food). Wanda later puts out sandwiches stolen from the funeral at her kid's birthday party. The episode where Oscar's subplot has him build his own coffin in the basement to save money. | |
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Beat | |
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While Karen/Davis may or may not be a popular ship among fans of the show, the last episode specifically said they "eventually fell in love and got married." (Beat) "But not to each other." | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Insistent Terminology: Karen stubbornly refers to her hackey sack as a footbag, because she did not in fact purchase a Hackey-Sack brand footbag. Marvin Drey is a tax man, not the tax man. He considers being called the latter dehumanizing. Davis writes in a journal, not a diary. It has a lock on it like a diary, but it's totally different! | |
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No Budget | |
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No Budget: In-Universe, Fitzy frequently struggles with the town's finances. Even though he is the mayor, he can't even afford a real desk for his office, and uses a door laid on top of two filing cabinets. He also bankrupts the town by investing all of its money into real estate in Detroit, kicking off the plot of The Movie. | |
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A-Cup Angst | |
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A-Cup Angst: It's implied in "Tax Man" that Wanda has some degree of this; she sometimes wears a push-up bra to work in case the cute milk delivery guy shows up. | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial | |
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Suspiciously Specific Denial: In one episode, Oscar buys an outboard motor from Hank using money he "borrowed" from Emma. So Emma decides to go after Hank and we get this little gem: In another episode: In "Security Cam," Oscar and Emma are on a car trip and Oscar suddenly blurts out, "We're not lost!" Emma hadn't said anything about them being lost. | |
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New Year's Resolution | |
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New Year's Resolution: One episode involved Wanda, Hank, and Karen competing to see who could keep their resolution the longest. The winner is Lacey, who orchestrated a plot to get the three of them to quit together and call it a draw, then revealed she still hadn't broken her resolution. | |
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Mildly Military | |
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Officers Davis and Karen (the entire police force) decide to work to rule. Partly subverted because they don't bother with the rules most of the time anyway (and Davis, the senior officer, had never even seen the rulebook and thought it much thinner) while the mayor is happy letting them dig their own grave with the townsfolk, so the entire episode ends up with Karen and Davis trying to get out of it. | |
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Never Learned to Read | |
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Never Learned to Read: One plot involves Lacey thinking Oscar is illiterate after walking in late on his Opinion Myopia about a ketchup bottle. | |
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Younger Than They Look | |
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Younger Than They Look: Oscar is both a real-life and in-universe example; in “World’s Biggest Thing�, Oscar complains to Lacey that he’s 63 years old but looks 73. In reality, his actor Eric Peterson was only in his late fifties when the episode was filmed. | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: Officers Davis and Karen (the entire police force) decide to work to rule. Partly subverted because they don't bother with the rules most of the time anyway (and Davis, the senior officer, had never even seen the rulebook and thought it much thinner) while the mayor is happy letting them dig their own grave with the townsfolk, so the entire episode ends up with Karen and Davis trying to get out of it. In the episode "Oh, Baby", Brent asks Tanner to stop throwing toy cars at his head. So Tanner throws a truck. Brent is leaning against a wall talking to Emma while she washes dishes. Emma says that if he's just going to stand there, he should help her, so he says "I better not stand here then" and leaves. Hank auctioning himself off as "Handyman for a Day" for charity. Yes, it implies that you'll get 8 hours of work out of him, but it doesn't mean he'll work for 8 hours in a row. Karen is assigned to guard a new sidewalk and keep anyone from writing in the wet cement. Wanda offers to take her place for a while and make sure "no kid will touch it." After Karen leaves, Wanda writes a note in the wet cement to tell her that no kids touched it. In "Poor Brent," Brent eats Oscar's lunch after Oscar leaves the table during an argument. He tells Lacey that he's having a great day because "business is good, I'm getting tips now, I just had my dad's lunch..." Then he orders a chili cheese dog and Lacey says she thought he already had lunch. Brent replies, "No, I said I had my dad's lunch." In the pilot episode, Hank is impatiently waiting for the coffee shop to reopen. Brent tells him, "Look, we all want the coffee shop to be open again. God knows I miss Ruby's chili cheese dog, but you don't hear me complaining about it." Wanda says, "You were just complaining about it two minutes ago!" Brent replies, "Yeah, but Hank didn't hear that." | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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All Just a Dream: The last episode of the fourth season, "Gopher It", is actually just a really long Imagine Spot after Hank is told to think about his idea. | |
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Quirky Town | |
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Quirky Town: Dog River to a tee. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Wanda and Oscar mostly, although pretty much everyone's been one for an episode or so. Also Lacey's college friend Connie, who is unbelievably rude to everyone when Lacey isn't around, mostly by assuming they're homeless. | |
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Not a Morning Person | |
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When Brent, Oscar and Davis go on a camping trip, Davis enjoys hearing birds sing in the morning, but Oscar stumbles out of his tent and snaps, "Stupid birds woke me up!" | |
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Two Words: I Can't Count | |
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Two Words: I Can't Count: Hank thinks "boycott" is two words. | |
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Constantly Curious | |
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Constantly Curious: This exchange from "World's Biggest Thing": | |
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Naïve Newcomer | |
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Naïve Newcomer: Lacey. She's the new girl in town when the series starts, and is totally unprepared for the oddities and eccentricities of Dog River and its inhabitants, often totally confused and exasperated by their behavior and customs. She gets used to it though, and eventually she fits right in. | |
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Flash Forward | |
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Flash Forward: One episode has Wanda being very awkward around a guy she likes. She finally manages to get his phone number but loses it by the end of the episode. The last scene takes place two years later, where we see that Wanda has been dialing random phone numbers the entire time. She finally gets the right one, only to find out that he moved on with his life and is now married with kids. One episode ends with what appears to be an elderly Brent sitting alone on a bench. A group of kids come up and ask him to tell them the story of what just happened in the episode. Brent looks at them and says "That was weeks ago, kid. Can't you see I got a costume party to go to?", at which point Hank walks by dressed as a vampire. | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything | |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Karen and Davis rarely do police work unless either Oscar or the Mayor tell them to, and they're usually reluctant to. In one episode, Karen ends up getting a week off from work. When she goes back, they both immediately take a nap in the police cruiser. | |
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Purity Personified | |
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Purity Personified: The movie finally lets us see Wullerton, and everyone there is basically a saint. Most likely the reason people from Dog River hate them so much is because they are so friendly and selfless that it manages to be extremely creepy. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick: | |
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Hiccup Hijinks | |
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Hiccup Hijinks: In the opening scene of "Rock On!", Brent complains that he's had an Ear Worm all day. Lacey says she knows something good for that and gives him a hard punch on the arm. Brent asks how that's supposed to help and Lacey says, "Oh, no. No, wait. That's a cure for the hiccups. Sorry." A few moments later, Hank starts laughing and then hiccups. Brent says he knows a cure for hiccups. He raises his fist and Hank backs away, then the opening credits start. | |
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Bad "Bad Acting" | |
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Bad "Bad Acting": When Oscar is trying to "act more Canadian" in order to avoid getting deported. | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness | |
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Wanda is prone to this. She reinforces it when Lacey calls attention to it: See also her chant when she goes on strike in "Get the F Off My Lawn": When resolving a dispute between Hank and Lacey over Hank not staining The Ruby's deck: | |
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Suddenly Speaking | |
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Suddenly Speaking: Lacey's employee Josh gets his first lines in the show when he declares his intent to quit working at the Ruby and become a llama farmer (he's back by the end of the episode). Immediately lampshaded by Brent. | |
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Magnum Opus | |
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In universe, Lacey's Magnum Opus was the Ruby Club. It was so good that it was all that anybody ever ordered, to the point that Lacey had them taken off the menu just so that she could actually make something else for a change. | |
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The Alleged Car | |
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The Alleged Car: Hank's truck. | |
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Incredibly Lame Fun | |
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Incredibly Lame Fun: Many of Hank's leisure activities fall into this category; for example, seeing how long he can spin a coin on the table and repeatedly driving over the cable of a traffic counter because he likes the beeping noise it makes. When Brent puts up a security decal that shows people's heights, Hank hangs around the gas station all morning, calling out the customers' heights as they enter or leave; he claims it's relaxing. According to "I Love Lacey," Davis doesn't like to fly, but for some reason he finds it really fun to collect frequent flyer points on his credit card. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Lampshaded. Brent berates Wanda and Hank for trying to advertise during their arguments. He then goes back to restocking the shelf, which is filled with nothing but Cheez Whiz. For a somewhat straighter example, a small rack of Energizer batteries can be seen behind the counter in many shots, which was only exemplified by the presence of stuffed Energizer Bunny dolls on the counter itself during the earliest episodes. Other products, both Canadian and otherwise, can also be seen in various shots as background props. | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: After Mark Dieter left the show after season 3, his character Paul, the bar owner, was replaced by his brother Phil. | |
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Verbal Backspace | |
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Verbal Backspace: From "Slow Pitch": | |
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Never Win the Lottery | |
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Never Win the Lottery: A variant where Hank actually wins, but only $480. Of course, since Hank is perpetually unemployed and broke, to him that's like winning the million-dollar jackpot, so he makes an ass out of himself anyway. | |
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Sarcastic Clapping | |
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Sarcastic Clapping: Wanda and Davis both take piano lessons from Emma, though Davis is much better at it. After Davis played a song in The Ruby, everybody applauded, except for a jealous Wanda. Davis, being Davis, misses the point entirely: | |
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Break-In Threat | |
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Break-In Threat: Played for Laughs in "Shirt Disturber". Davis is trying to sell alarm systems, so he breaks into Oscar and Emma's bedroom one morning with coffee. ("This could have been a burglar bringing you coffee!") They buy an alarm system just to make him leave them alone. | |
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Insult Backfire: When Lacey uses the term "scantily clad", Wanda insults her by asking "What are you, 70?". Later, Fitzy's Grandma says "scantily clad", and Lacey tries to use the same insult on her, which she takes as a compliment since she's actually 74 years old. After Davis jokes about the proposed "World's Biggest Hoe" statue ("You might as well say we have the World's Biggest Prostitute!"), Fitzy's Grandma slaps him and says, "Why do you youngsters always have to have such filthy mouths!?" Davis has been feeling sensitive about his age lately, so he's rather flattered to be referred to as a youngster. In "Telescope Trouble", Davis orders Brent to get the gas station door fixed because it's a safety issue. Brent says, "Oh, here we go. Big Daddy Government making it hard on the little guy." Instead of getting offended, Davis acts like the phrase is a cool nickname. "I like that. I'm Big Daddy Government." Marvin Drey finds being called "the tax man" dehumanizing and offensive. He asks Brent how he would like it if people called him "the gas man", to which Brent responds that he'd love it, and that he already had it picked to be his stage name if he ever decided to become a pro wrestler. When Hank is practicing insults to use on hecklers, he says "nice shirt" to Davis, but comes off as sounding sincere. | |
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Terrible Interviewees Montage | |
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Terrible Interviewees Montage: Thunder Face's auditions for drummer subverts this, as not all of them are terrible—one is actually really good—it's just that none of them are drummers, because Hank forgot to include that part in the audition announcement | |
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Opinion Myopia | |
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Opinion Myopia:invoked Oscar, when he sees a ketchup bottle labelled "catsup". | |
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Entertainment Above Their Age | |
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Entertainment Above Their Age: Subverted in "Oh, Baby". Brent tries and fails to scare Wanda's bratty son Tanner by pretending to be Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger, causing Brent to realize that a six-year-old probably hasn't seen many slasher flicks. Played straight when a later scene establishes that Tanner is familiar with the Austin Powers movies, because Brent has to explain the difference between Mike Myers and Michael Myers. In "Trees a Crowd", Brent and Hank take back their old tree house from some rude preteens. Hank is later seen reading an issue of The Walking Dead that the kids left behind. | |
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Intimate Marks | |
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Intimate Marks: Wanda tells Brent that she's thinking about getting a tattoo. Brent asks where she's going to put it and Wanda says, "It's going somewhere on a private area of my person, so that you, and everybody else, will never see it. Until the company Christmas party." In the same episode, we find out that Oscar has a tattoo. He refuses to provide any details about it except to say that when he's on all fours, he can make it dance. | |
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Dark Secret | |
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When Lacey tries to discover the origin of the Dog River town name, she finds clues disappearing and witnesses being manipulated at every turn, Emma always a few steps ahead of her, until she discovers the Dark Secret: Lacey's own great-great-uncle had been drowning dogs in the river, and somehow the name stuck. | |
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Series Fauxnale | |
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Series Fauxnale: The fourth season finale "Gopher It"; promos for the episode heavily implied that it would be the series finale, with both Corner Gas and The Ruby being sold off and Lacey leaving town to the mournful tune of "Bad Timing" by Blue Rodeo. It turned out almost the entire thing happened in Hank's imagination and the show would return for a fifth and sixth season. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Characters spitting at the mention of a rival town (see Small Town Rivalry below). Brent criticizing Wanda's work ethic and half-heartedly threatening to fire her. Various characters calling the police for ridiculously trivial reasons. One guy calls because his neighbour's grass clippings keep blowing into his yard, Myrtle calls because her TV isn't working, Lacey calls because she needs help moving her dresser, and so on. The mention and discussion of Sasquatch seems to come up often, even getting its own episode focus in the animated version. | |
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Don't Explain the Joke | |
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In "Friend Of A Friend," Wanda refuses to give Oscar a discount on milk at Corner Gas and he threatens to leave and buy milk at the co-op instead. Wanda replies, "You were barred from the co-op two years ago, so unless you have a bucket and a stool, you're paying for the milk. (beat) Oh, you'd also need a cow." There's no mention of what exactly Oscar did to get barred from the co-op. | |
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Injury Bookend | |
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Injury Bookend: Played With. Local cop Davis had no sense of smell because he got hit in the back of the head with a ball when he was young. When he falls off a ladder and hits the back of his head, he regains his sense of smell, but soon finds it overwhelming and wants to go back to lacking it. Oscar asks him how he lost it, then tells him, "Okay, then what you need to do is get hit in the head with a ball again." Davis lampshades the absurdity of this with, "I don't think that will work. This isn't Gilligan's Island". Oscar tries to hit Davis with a ball anyway, but ends up accidentally hitting Brent instead, causing him to lose his hearing in one ear. | |
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I Call It "Vera" | |
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I Call It "Vera": Davis calls his billy club "Billy". Karen ends up calling hers "Jennifer"... because Davis said she should name it. | |
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Not Even Bothering with an Excuse | |
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Not Even Bothering with an Excuse: When asked to help out at a senior's home, Emma and Karen weasel for a few seconds, then grudgingly accept. Oscar just gives a flat, "No." Then he turns to the other two: "See how easy it is?" | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: Fitzy's act in the talent show is making balloon animals, meaning he blows up a round balloon and draws the animal's face on it with a marker. On his 20th birthday, Brent bought a bottle of 20-year-old scotch with the intention of keeping it for 20 years and then drinking the now 40-year-old scotch on his 40th birthday. When his 40th birthday comes, he is upset to learn that Emma found the scotch only a few years after he bought it and threw it out because "it was over 20 years old". | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
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Department of Redundancy Department: In "Outside Joke", Brent is excited about the gas station's new windshield washer fluid because, "It's red! The old stuff was blue! We used to sell blue, now we're selling red!" The "Pyro and the Idiot" scene where Emma says, "Oh, Idiot. You're such an idiot." In "Full Load", when Lacey pretends she's going to throw out an entire tray of chili dogs in order to trick Brent into eating them, she claims she "accidentally made them, by accident". In "Seeing Things", Emma calls Hank a "weaselly little weasel" and a "weaselling little weasel face" in the space of just a few seconds. | |
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Will They or Won't They? | |
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Will They or Won't They?: Brent/Lacey. In a manner typical of small towns, the other characters all pick up on it and are placing bets by season two. They become a couple after the series finale and by the time of The Movie they have been together for two years. No one in the town noticed. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Later, Brent notices a poster of Guff Brooking and points it out, chuckling. | |
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Pretentious Pronunciation | |
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Pretentious Pronunciation: Marvin Drey keeps pronouncing "Leroy" as "LeRoy", even after Brent corrects him. | |
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Perpetual Poverty | |
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Perpetual Poverty: Hank is nearly always unemployed and broke, but he has no problem buying things like restaurant food, beer, comic books, and other non-essentials. He frequently borrows money (usually from Brent) without paying it back and runs up bills (like his tab at the Ruby) when he has no intention of paying them. | |
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