You Mean Topographically?

My wife laughed herself silly when she first saw this.  Truth be told, so did I.

Garth

That`s the most famous line?

And here I always thought it was Peter Mansbridge saying:

"Hi, I`m one of the elite minds at the CBC and we`re about to tell you what Canadians think."

"Crack hoe!"  ;-)

My favorite was the surveilence bush.

Being well south of your border, I've never heard of this show. It looks good. Is there anywhere on-line to view old episodes?

For you folks south of the 49th - Corner Gas can be rented from the ITunes TV store

Wow, the last episode of Corner Gas. I'm LOVING having no cable TV, oh yes I am! Cutting that cord is one of the best things I ever did for myself.

I cannot wait for the last episode. Too bad it had to end but at least it hasn't jumped the shark yet!

You can buy DVD's of past seasons on Amazon.

MikeM

I live in wisconsin and use to watch it on WGN out of Chicago. Most cable and sat. TV carry it.

My computer said that the video is no longer available.

Last show? I didn't see the first one, or the ones in between.

I saw a Corner Gas spoof at an Edmonton dinner theatre a few weeks ago. Good show.

What I like about the Corner Gas is that it's not 'painfully Canadian' like the swill served up courtesy of Muthu-corpse we've had to endure for decades.

Growing up in rural Alberta in the mid 60's to early 70's, all we had was CBC. It sucked back then too. That forced my siblings and I to spend the majority of our free time outdoors. The real painful thought is to think of the kids that stayed indoors to actually watch this crap. I guess these were the kids that went on to become part of trade unions, the public service and NDP and Liberal parties!

But I digress.....Lacey is HOT!

This is show we're going to miss ... there has been lots of episodes where I was on the floor laughing ... the writing was way better than anything else on TV that calls itself a comedy these days.

I agree Sheila. It has been one of my favourites for a while. The show scratches the absurd,but they pull it off,time and time again.The writing reminds me of conversations with my family ,maybe on easter,after the kids are asleep and we have already solved the dilemna of who is going to make the last beer run.

Thing is, a pump hand wouldn't use a phrase like "you mean, topographically?". I rarely hear "intellectuals" even use such a concise word.

It's pretty sad that the CBC can burn through about $1 billion a year of out tax dollars and get away with producing junk as they pat themselves on the back and give themselves Bonuses .
Yet, a private Network like CTV creates a hit on a shoestring budget and gets cameos from several noted canadians that want to get on the show and not forced to as some CBC Shows expect from others on the Public trough.
The show had layers of jokes that were subtle based on Brents facial expresion or body language,this technique was what made the early B&W TV comedy shows so funny appealing.
Some Comedy shows are predictible for the jokes and they use excessive dialogue to set it up as if most viewers are complete idiots that need pictures to understand things as Al Gore has to do for his Global Warming hoax .

I have most of the DVD's and still laugh at them as I pick up more subtle inferences, it reminds me of "Barney Miller" which had several topics running along each other and then in the final few minutes they tie into each other to conclude the loose ends for how things turned out.
WKRP was another example of visual comedy and multiple stories running at once that conclude with one heck of a laugh .
Some of the funniest stuff I have seen in TV and movies had no dialogue at all, I figured out the joke myself and sometimes I'm the only one in the Theatre that laughs.

Bye bye CG

mo at April 13, 2009 9:34 PM

That's "MUVVA CORP" to you.

Tranio: I just checked Amazon.com and they're all there.
I assume Amazon.ca would have them as well.

Wow the last episode! I'm so thrilled! I realize that I didn't watch the first or for that matter any episode in between the first and the last, but wow, not to watch the last episode! I feel so unchanged!

This TV Show was enough to encourage me to play tourist and visit Saskatchewan 4-years ago. SK is amazing! Some of the landscape is amazingly scenic. I highly recommend the North Saskatchewan River Valley from North Battleford to Saskatoon and Highway 1 from Swift Current to Medicine Hat.

Ever turn one mirror to reflect into another mirror? I saw that same effect on the flat lands between Regina and Saskatoon with a power line. Amazing. I've also been awed by the man-made mountains of pink-purple rock (Potash) and dust between Saskatoon and Dafoe along the Yellowhead.

Dafoe SK, just outside of Kandahar SK, is an unlikely place to be a major cross-roads of the world, but judging by the number of tractor-trailers in the yard of a ma and pa truck stop, I'd say it has the makings of an international destination.

130 episodes a year. sometimes even CTVtass has a bomb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Tracy

Never watched Corner Gas myself, but I understand it's quite popular. Nice to see a privately made, popular and successful Canadian T.V. series. Corner Gas joins an elite club.

Last week Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall appeared in a very short cameo when he pulled up to the gas pumps to get for a fill....
This was a letter to the editor in the Leader Post. So, union leaders have no sense of humour whatsoever???

http://tinyurl.com/cehxqx

Wall's performance wasn't a gas
The Leader-Post - April 11, 2009

For those who are Corner Gas fans, the show that aired on April 6 took the audience in an unusual direction. The characters performed as always, showing their various quirks and idiosyncrasies along with the usual wit and sarcasm through the eyes of Brent Butt, a comic genius. This episode included a different spin using double entendres as part of the humour. The humour was all premised upon our prairie winds and the loss of the letters "F" and "E" from the Ruby C A F E in Dog River.

The program also made a political statement when Wanda's character decided to stage a wildcat strike at the Corner Gas filling station. Although her character's use of scripted union chants was quite amusing, more significant was the appearance of Premier Brad Wall. It's not unusual for the show to incorporate guest appearances by prominent individuals playing themselves.

Rather than do the right thing by supporting the picketer, the premier decided to cross the picket line and fuel his vehicle. He could have easily respected the picket line and gone to the next town, Woolerton (spit) to fuel up.

So, was the guest appearance a subtle message to organized labour in Saskatchewan from Premier Wall? Absolutely, and we have continued to see other messages from his government through a litany of anti-union legislation it has passed since taking power.

Maybe it's time for the Saskatchewan Party government to follow the lead of Corner Gas and call this its final season.

Marvin Meickel
Regina
Meickel is treasurer of the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour.

Any show that has an anti union message is AOK by me!

Having watched the penultimate Canadian television show, RED GREEN, I just could never bring myself to watch Corner Gas. I guess it is like watching the NHL vs watching junior peewee.

anon,

You are completely unchanged. No one expected anything else from you... Just let those of us who enjoy(ed) the show share some memories. That isn't too much to ask is it?

BTW - did it ever bother anyone else that it was ALWAYS summer in Dog River?

MikeM -- Google video or youtube dude all of them are there I think.

Also the ctv website.

I'm a little disappointed they went for sweet instead of roaringly funny, but I understand their motives, both personal and professional for it. And I'm glad I recorded the farewell special and watched it after the finale because of the spoilers they showed in it!

And here I thought the most famous Canadian line in all of entertainment was: "He shoots, he SCORES"!

anon

You jackass!

OMMAG at 11:33 PM BTW - did it ever bother anyone else that it was ALWAYS summer in Dog River?

That one bothered me as well, until I realized due to AGW, maybe the climate in Saskatchewan warmed so much they didn't get winter anymore! ; )
I wish they had filmed a few episodes set in the winter, as that would have opened up a whole new line of "How cold was it?" possibilities in the script.

I noticed while watching eTalk after the show that Brent did hint there could be a Corner Gas movie in the works...the TV show was based on a movie script in the first place.

Lacy may be hot but Officer Pelly could arrest me anyday! :-))

Bravia: I agree. I think Lacey's okay, but I've taken to calling Officer Pelly "Karen the hot cop". :)

Back when I was a TV critic, I didn't go out of my way to praise CTV, but their backing of Butt and Corner Gas still stands in bold relief next to the prairie sitcom their colleagues at the Public broadcaster came up with: Little Mosque. Of course, our tax money went into both productions, but the private broadcaster made the one that actually had to be funny, whereas the CBC were under no such obligation, obviously.

rick mcginnis - great comment

I love the understated nature of Corner Gas. Haven't watched LMonP, but I expect it would be a bit too earnest for me, and not funny.

Rick McGinnis! I love him! He reads this blog! Very cool.

The "g" isn't capitalized. Still with the love.

Frik! Can con is lame!...even the humor is beer-stoned dumb...adorable rural-rustic mascots comically frolicking about as metrosexual writers in GTA think they should and putting urban-centric cultural memes in their mouths...how frikkin' lame is that?...sooner it tanks the better...not as if I watch Can Con cable sludge any way.

Oh, it's capitalized - McG. I've been reading Kate's blog for years now, and thanks for the kind words, Mamba - they're much appreciated these days.

Capital. Gotcha. Love always. And I'm afraid I do picture you as William Powell.

Watching so called CTVTass,CBCPravda "humour" is like watching...welll...paint dry??? Anybody who thinks Brit humour is bad,has definitely not watched Canuck "humour".
Good riddance too bad garbage.

"anon

You jackass!

Posted by: A storm is coming "

What brilliant comentary! Six seasons, average number of episodes, guesstimate twenty, equals one hundred and twenty hours of wasted time, or if the show is of the half hour variety sixty hours of wasted time, and I'm a jackass? HA!HA!HA! Did your mother have any children that weren't born brain damaged? How does the saying go? Ah yes! "Television breeds mediocrity and submission." Oh BTW did you think up that handle "a storm is coming" all by your onlys' or did a peckerhead like you rip it off? Don't answer that let me guess!

anon at 4:08 PM
As it appears you never watched an episode of Corner Gas the inside joke posted by A storm is coming would have been missed by you. "Jackass" was a stock phrase of one of the main characters in the series.

i don't watch it every week but at christmas my kids or wife get me the dvd of the previous season and i watch them all and have a good chuckle. it can be a little too clever for some.

Most famous line in Canadian TV history... yeah I gotta go with iggy2shoes there, "he shoots he scores" is definitely #1 (particularly if followed by "Henderson has scored for Canada"). After that, in no particular order:
"Good day, I'm Bob McKenzie and this is my brother Doug... howsitgoin eh?"
"Look up, waaaaay up, and I'll call Rusty"
"... Cuz if the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy"
"I'm a Chicken Lady"

ugh... I watched way too much TV as a kid.

How did they get Gary Burgoff's son to act in Corner gas?

WKRP: I always liked the one where...

When Venus learns that he's going to be interviewed by a militant black magazine, he adopts a new wardrobe and manner in order to seem more in touch with black culture.

Meanwhile, Herb is uncharacteristically in a nice suit, and the visiting black DJ points out that most of the guys back at his station dress like "that guy" (referring to Herb).