I’ll let others speak to the rest of it, but after watching (Little Mosque On The Prairie) a few minutes (or was it a minute?) it occured to me that the spectrum of “white rural folk” portrayed were vaguely reminiscent of television characters encountered in an earlier life.
Perhaps Arnold Ziffel will make his appearance in a later episode.
PS… Huh. I’m not the only one who noticed.
Update Read the comments for suggestions on other show titles (just a sampling):
Guantanamo Bay Watch
Kneel or No Deal
The Prearranged Newlywed Game
So You Think You Can Dance? Well you can’t you infidel dog. It is Banned!!
The King of Kensington is a Jew, and must be destroyed.
Welcome Back Khadr
Allah My Children
All in the Fatwa
Chico and the Imam
Hudna Night in Canada
Divorce, Divorce, Divorce Court
CSIED: Bagdad (improvised …..)
The Allah DeGenerates Show
Pimp My Camel
The Young and Headless
Mad About Jew
My Three Sunnis
Heh.
Yet another example of how it is perfectly fine to bash shite Christians. It was only on in my house as my husband was killing time while we were waiting for House. Yeesh, once was definitely more than enough for that hackneyed swill.
As stated before, I am watching a CSI marathon, so will miss LMOTP. Question-has the cbc ever produced a sit com or series that was a must watch in both th US and Canada like ROOTS, or RICH MAN POOR MAN. The cbc has a habit of taking off shows that have a loyal following-Tommy Hunter, Don Messer to name at least two. Perhaps we should all make this show a hit so they will take it off the air. Wonder what all the prostitutes think of being better than protestants. Will wait for the comments, bet they will be a hoot.
Insert they’ve got a ” bomb on their hands ” joke here ________ .
Bill pretty much summed it up.
Does the writer know that there was a pet pig on Green Acres. Another reason why women should not be involved in politics or journalism or writing tv series in Canada. She hasn’t learned much about prairie life, and hopefully she will be insulted by residents of Regina, if seen in public.
No Kate, Zsa Zsa Gabor will guest star in a burka.
Should be funny when the neighbours turn out to be ‘unclean’ pig farmers.
Funny… I immediately thought “Hee-Haw”, which can take points off your IQ faster than brake fluid eats paint.
“On the bright side, my pre-adolescent son laughed along with the bumbling, awkward characters as they over-acted every single scene.”
“So I think the CBC may have a hit on their hands here, if they slot it in as after-school filler for the “pre-teen, underarm-farts are hilarious” demographic.”
“And that’s the nicest thing I can say.”
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I thought the Protestant/Prostitute joke was the funniest part of the show. Who knows, maybe it will get better now that everything has been introduced. Right now it feels like “Ellen” after she came out. Too much activism, not enough funny.
Khan moves to the CBCpravda enemy camp
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/01/09/khan-report.html
I thought the show was basically stupid. There was little real comedy although I admit the Iman does show some promise.
Mary T:
Newsroom – the first year’s episodes perhaps?
How about the Red Green Show – granted it’s not CBC
Kids in the Hall
SCTV
…CBC huh? Is that show still on?
Perhaps if I hadn’t seen the jokes ad nauseum in the trailers a couple of them might have been funny.
Overall, yawn. Whatever.
Hammy acting by everyone, the characters are either wooden and bland or aggressively rude. I didn’t hear one witty comment. It was like watching a high school production.
Oh wait, it was CBC.
Bummer there’s an ACTRA strike on, eh?
Guess I will never be able to give an opinion as I refuse to watch CBC except for Hockey Games
Gawd, that was embarrassingly lame.
Ole and Sven jokes are funniest when told by Scandinavians, who enjoy poking fun at themselves. Corner Gas is funny because Brent Butt is from Tisdale and understands small-town Saskatchewan, and enjoys poking fun at his own kind. This new CBC attempt at comedy is not funny because it’s an attempt by big city liberals to smear small town westerners as rednecked Islamophobes (yes I know that despite being a Toronto production the writer and director are Regina residents, but Regina is far from Mercy). Besides, as a previous commenter noted, the whole episode seemed like a high school drama production. I don’t think I’ll bother to watch another episode.
Of course it didn’t help my attitude that I tuned in early and was treated to the last 15 minutes of the Mercer Report, where Rick Mercer managed to make the following points: The Accountability Act is bad; Stephen Harper is bad; The Conservative Party of Canada is bad; Rona Ambrose is bad but John Baird is worse; David Emerson is bad; The USA is the Great Satan.
What a winner!..or was that a “weiner?”I managed to stomach about 3 min.,then got the barf can out! Should have known..it was cbc after all.The ONLY thing worth watching is Hockey Nite in Trawna..go Leafs!
Bit OT here,but do any of you ever listen to cbc radio,and catch the new replacement for M.Findlay?I think her name is Carol Off..I have a suggestion for her that she can “Off” all right!She has to be the worst,most biased ever!Out here in the boonies,radio reception not the best in eve,so am forced on my drive to listen to that mess,or cd’s.I have tried to be open-minded and listen,hoping to learn something,but just can’t stomach her.Can anyone say Sirrius??? Must invest in a sat radio before I drive into a ditch!
Gord-Those may have/are good shows, but I am talking about everyone watching the show, pizza orders down during it, watercooler talk etc. I remember our bowling alley shut down for a couple of hours as no team could get enough spares to fill in, meetings postponed. ROOTS was such a series. Mind you it was only on for a few weeks, but traced a negro family from abduction in Africa (something Jessie and Al never mention when talking slaves, it was african tribes that sold them) thru to the modern day. The only thing I can compare it to is the 1972 Hockey game, and that was only watched in Canada. The cbc’s problem is they try so hard not to be american that all we get is, as someone mentioned, the equivalent of a high school drama, and the school wins every time.
A sure fire hit! McClelland LOVED it..do we need any other seal of approval?
As so well expressed above:
“Gawd, that was embarrassingly lame”.
I watched about half of it and had the same reaction, the acting was really stilted – almost like a high school skit.
Greatest thing that CBC has done since the Plouffe Family.
Hey cut CBC some slack here people.
When they get tired of poking fun at the local redneck mouth breathing white trailer trash they can move on to hot button issues like stoning them cheatin women folk and beheading the local papers cartoonist.
Hell this thing might have more legs than say Gunsmoke or Bonanza.
I find it unlikely to succeed but I don’t find anything funny after Seinfeld.
I’ll give it one watch in a few weeks or months and see what it’s like when it’s mid season. I watched my first Corner Gas last night, yawn.
I watched three or four min of the show. I was reminded of Green Acres too – except Green Acres was funny even if it was not very original. This show has likely been sponsored by CWB big shots to show the people of Canada how pathetically ignorant rural Canadians are – that is why they need to be forced to do as they are told to do by ‘wise’ and greedy Liberano/Dipper types in E. Canada.
I saw some of Mercer too, he was purple and ballistic (has he been taking lessons in losing it from Roy Romanov?) spewing hatred. I hope he plans to apologize – he made the Cramer guy look like a moderate.
I saw the trailers and that alone was enough to convince me it would suck. I’ve never willingly sat through an episode of Corner Gas or Ann of Green Gables either.
I saw the the writer being interviewed on an AMERICAN news program and all she kept saying is how funny the show was. This is a month before it was aired. Every second word was either “laugh” or “funny” or “hillarious” or “funny hit”. That’s when I knew it was a bomb.
After watching the promos I knew it wasn’t funny, I knew it was insulting us and I prayed that the CBC would die.
Did I mention I didn’t see the show so I can’t comment on it?
I watched Mercer and was disappointed in the constant Conservative bashing. It was like the CBC and Rick wanted to get it all out of their system since it was the first show of 2007.
I decided not to watch LMOTP for several reasons. The local newspapaer blurb mentioned that the show wasn’t laugh out loud funny but had many witty moments, which is a kiss of death right there. Second, I’m getting sick of being preached to about Islam being a Religion of Peace, contrary to my own eyes and ears, and didn’t want another half hour lecture from the CBC on the topic.
Rick Mercer pimping the show before it started didn’t help, especially since he was left sorely lacking in the guffaws department. He should have dressed in a Fuzzy Bear outfit during the nod since subtlety wasn’t in the cards for his show tonight.
Lastly, those promos mentioning the show was the talk of CNN, the New York Times and the Canadian media was the final big flashing red light. I didn’t want to be the one additional viewer which would cause the CBC to give this propaganda the reason to order additional episodes.
I watched none of it.
I did, however, inadvertantly catch the ‘Protestant/Prostitute’ clip shown during commercials…..(being too slow to hit the mute button)…..and thought how much more realistic/funnier it would have been if the father had jumped up and slashed his daughter’s throat as an ‘honor killing’.
Gee, I feel so deprived being over here in the UK where, if I’m lucky, I’ll occasionally stumble across a Due South rerun or even the odd “street legal” episode!
I don’t have to hear the Protestant/Prostitute joke to tell ya that it’s the lamest and most timeworn gag in the Mick repertoire; it’s been circulating in my family since well before the Council of Trent.
Ha ha!
Is the CBC still broadcasting? When I lived in Vancouver I was unable to get CBC on my rabbit ears antenna except when I leaned over my balconey with the antenna and I’m told that a grainy image of the CBC appeared on the TV at that point. In Kamloops, there is no CBC now. However, the 2 channels that I do get there come in much more clearly than the TV I used to watch in Vancouver. Hopefully soon the rest of Canada will be able to get the Kamloops CBC experience.
I thought we didn’t watch CBC around here?
Little Bomb on the Prairie?
Wait for these copycat shows;
-Guantanamo Bay Watch
-Everybody Hates Chris-tians
-Show me the Mullah
-Kneel or No Deal
-The Prearranged Newlywed Game
-So You Think You Can Dance? Well you can’t you infidel dog. It is Banned!!
-So you think you can sing? Well you can’t you infidel dog. It is banned!!
-The King of Kensington is a Jew, and must be destroyed.
-The Segregated Family Guy
-Buddy Wassisname and the other Mullahs
-My two BaghDads
-This hour has 22 prayer minutes
-Welcome Back Khadr
Almost forgot;
-The War at Home…We Will Bring to Canada
-Between Iraq and a Hard Place
-Muslim in the Middle
-Allah My Children
Is the CBC trying to suck up to Muslims to buy protection from future terrorist threats and fatwa?
It’s telling that the only religion they have ever shown any respect for is Islam, the most intolerant, unreformed and violent religion in history.
Bob Tarantino:
“Allow me some understatement: if even the folks at eye are remarking negatively on how the white yokels are portrayed, this probably isn’t a show which will count subtlety among its charms.”
bobtarantino.blogs.com/blog/2007/01/since_theres_no.html
Alex, don’t forget “All in the Fatwa”.
Very good Alex.
The writer of this show, which I studiously avoided, is writing her diary in the National Post this week: if her scratchings are anything like the show, it’s devoid of grace, intelligence and even humour. What a stilted, “hey, look at me, aren’t I cute?”, sophomoric parcel of inanities it is.
And yesterday, when I was listening to a radio show on CBC I like, the host did something for the very first time: advertised LMOTP and gushed all over. Disgusting propaganda from someone who should know better.
The sooner the CBC gets its wings seriously clipped, the better. What morons!
Alex, very good
Profane, bang on. Remeber that All in The Family was a look back at downwardly mobile whites threatened by change, not the view of the outside. The jeffersons was the same thing.
Corner Gas works because it is that group making at least as much fun of themselves as the outside. LMOTP will fail unless it works the external jokes into more frequent examinations of “muslim society” using the outside as a protaganist to raise the issues.
If the community is the beseiged “hero” it ceases to be a comedy and becomes a something else, preachy is one of them. Post out Ellen is a good example. Will and Grace was funny because they spent more time poking fun at gay culture and icons.
This show will get more than its fair share of time. Irony will be when they bring in the jewish writing staff to pumch it up and make it funnier.
The show is obviously meant to CBCesquely “teach” us about the ugly, ignorant, anti-metropolitan, mean-spirited, intolerant, backward Judeo-Christian side of the prairies that can best be brought into the 21st century by the infusion of a mosque. How quaint.
After just one episode I was sayin’ to myself, “boy do we have a lot to learn from them”!
I just had a couple of nagging questions. Given that it was not the least bit funny and the viewer base will be about 400 households after the second episode, how long will this public school play for TV stay on the air and how much will it cost the taxpayers?
In order to give it legs, perhaps it will be made part of the elementary school curriculum like the Tommy Douglas dickumentary that they were going to try to force our children to watch.
I didn’t know that Robert McClennand was a prophet until I read these comments: “Every time you watch Little Mosque on the Prairie … a right whinger cries.” Cheers.
This is the CBC. Ratings don’t matter. The shows will air if they’ve been filmed
alex, that’s funny. Perhaps you could assist Nawaz with writing the script for the next episode.
LMOTP , state sponsored terrorism re-defined .
I my self didn’t watch it I don’t really watch much television but when I first heard about this show. I didn’t understand what the point of making a show like this. That is all I can really comment on it.
I really enjoyed that list, Alex. I’d like to add:
Chico and the Imam
Hudna Night in Canada
Everybody Loves Ikram
30 Something (wives, that is)
The Bahrain-y Bunch
Dialing for Donairs
and of course
Loony Tunes.
Didn’t see the show – I was watching the Leaf game, but I did see that “you look like a Protestant” commercial and knew it wouldn’t be something that I’d want to watch.
I have observed that anything with Sonia Smits in it is crap; maybe they’ve found a way to be crap without her.
I’d suggest that the CBC save money by combining all shows where the honkies are stupid and the minorities really aren’t what they appear in real life. My suggested name is “Little Mosque North of 60.”
CBC ??
Sounds familiar, remind me, what’s a CBC ??
We’ll done Alex…
This western Canada culture bashing is typical of the historically challenged CBC. The first mosque in Canada was founded in Alberta, continues to flurish to this day and many of the early members were also members of the Socreds because they supported the person and works of the Baptist protestant Ernest Manning. The CBC should get their head out of their unclean place.
We’ll done Alex…
This western Canada culture bashing is typical of the historically challenged CBC. The first mosque in Canada was founded in Alberta, continues to flurish to this day and many of the early members were also members of the Socreds because they supported the person and works of the Baptist protestant Ernest Manning. The CBC should get their head out of their unclean place.
Further to my previous comment, I wondered why Rick Mercer saw the need to blast the Accountability Act. Then I realized that he’s probably missing the extra income that he used to receive from doing commercials for the Liberal government. And one can only imageine what payments he has received in brown envelopes for his work against the CPC.
My wife and I thought the show portrayed the OPP as a bunch of retards, Torontonians as the most enlightened people in the country, small town people as ignorant morons and the talk show host was painted as a Canadian Rush Limbaugh(as socialists see him). I am guessing 12 episodes before the axe. The Muslems in the show where playing the part of normal everyday Canadians while the Canadians played the fools. It was funny that all the woman are thoroughly liberated and talked back and argued to the men and their husbands and even to the Emam, just like all the Moslem women in real life. hahaha. CBC Canadian Brainwash Company