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January 9, 2007

Mosque Acres

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.


Posted by Kate at January 9, 2007 10:30 PM
Comments

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.

Posted by: Dagny Taggart at January 9, 2007 11:00 PM

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.

Posted by: mary T. at January 9, 2007 11:04 PM

Insert they've got a " bomb on their hands " joke here ________ .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at January 9, 2007 11:05 PM

Bill pretty much summed it up.

Posted by: Kate at January 9, 2007 11:18 PM

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.

Posted by: mary T. at January 9, 2007 11:18 PM

No Kate, Zsa Zsa Gabor will guest star in a burka.

Should be funny when the neighbours turn out to be 'unclean' pig farmers.

Posted by: Hans Rupprecht at January 9, 2007 11:19 PM

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."
*

Posted by: neo at January 9, 2007 11:35 PM

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.

Posted by: Clinton at January 9, 2007 11:36 PM

Khan moves to the CBCpravda enemy camp


http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/01/09/khan-report.html

Posted by: cal2 at January 9, 2007 11:37 PM

I thought the show was basically stupid. There was little real comedy although I admit the Iman does show some promise.

Posted by: gerry at January 9, 2007 11:52 PM

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

Posted by: Gord Tulk at January 9, 2007 11:55 PM

...CBC huh? Is that show still on?

Posted by: tomax7 at January 9, 2007 11:59 PM

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?

Posted by: Caveat at January 10, 2007 12:05 AM

Guess I will never be able to give an opinion as I refuse to watch CBC except for Hockey Games

Posted by: Freddie at January 10, 2007 12:08 AM

Gawd, that was embarrassingly lame.

Posted by: Bernie at January 10, 2007 12:13 AM

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.

Posted by: Profane Saint at January 10, 2007 12:40 AM

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!

Posted by: Sammy at January 10, 2007 12:50 AM

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.

Posted by: mary T. at January 10, 2007 12:59 AM

A sure fire hit! McClelland LOVED it..do we need any other seal of approval?

Posted by: Sammy at January 10, 2007 1:00 AM

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.

Posted by: foobert at January 10, 2007 1:20 AM

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.

Posted by: Jerry Springer Jr. at January 10, 2007 1:47 AM

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.

Posted by: ken melrose at January 10, 2007 1:51 AM

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.

Posted by: Jema54 at January 10, 2007 1:53 AM

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.

Posted by: Sean2 at January 10, 2007 1:56 AM

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?

Posted by: Fiumara at January 10, 2007 3:47 AM

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.

Posted by: Canadian Infidel at January 10, 2007 3:48 AM

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'.

Posted by: Nemo2 at January 10, 2007 3:52 AM

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!

Posted by: JJM at January 10, 2007 5:22 AM

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.

Posted by: loki at January 10, 2007 5:41 AM

I thought we didn't watch CBC around here?

Posted by: Confused at January 10, 2007 5:57 AM

Little Bomb on the Prairie?

Posted by: Eskimo at January 10, 2007 6:42 AM

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

Posted by: alex at January 10, 2007 6:42 AM

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.

Posted by: Me at January 10, 2007 6:45 AM

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

Posted by: bob at January 10, 2007 6:53 AM

Alex, don't forget "All in the Fatwa".

Posted by: shaken at January 10, 2007 7:02 AM

Very good Alex.

Posted by: Terry Gain at January 10, 2007 7:15 AM

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!

Posted by: lookout at January 10, 2007 7:25 AM

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.

Posted by: Stephen at January 10, 2007 7:27 AM

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.

Posted by: SidSagSask at January 10, 2007 7:33 AM

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.

Posted by: agitfact at January 10, 2007 7:36 AM

This is the CBC. Ratings don't matter. The shows will air if they've been filmed

Posted by: alex at January 10, 2007 7:42 AM

alex, that's funny. Perhaps you could assist Nawaz with writing the script for the next episode.

Posted by: JM at January 10, 2007 7:46 AM

LMOTP , state sponsored terrorism re-defined .

Posted by: Bill. D. Cat at January 10, 2007 7:55 AM

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.

Posted by: Mohamed at January 10, 2007 8:17 AM

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."

Posted by: Mississauga Matt at January 10, 2007 8:33 AM

CBC ??

Sounds familiar, remind me, what's a CBC ??

Posted by: Fred at January 10, 2007 8:34 AM

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.

Posted by: "Biff" at January 10, 2007 8:48 AM

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.

Posted by: "Biff" at January 10, 2007 8:49 AM

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.

Posted by: Profane Saint at January 10, 2007 8:49 AM

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

Posted by: Charles at January 10, 2007 8:57 AM

'Had the pleasure of company last night, people we see once a year on their migratory trip south, so no LMOTP. 'Shed a perfunctory tear and promptly forgot what I was missing.

Talking about prophetic voices, I knew it wouldn't be funny! I knew it would be preachy, and I also knew, being a CBC sitcom (hey, isn't that an oxymoron?), that it would be stilted and amateurish.

How do you know that CBC itself recognizes that it's got a real clunker on its hands?

* Play trailers every half hour pumping the show;
* get Tom Allen, CBC host of Music and Company, to (astonishingly and embarrassingly) gush over it;
* and have Rick Mercer pimp it (as Canadian Infidel says) just after a PMSH- and CPC-bashing show with high-fives for Dion and the Libs.

Sadly, even if only a handful of people watch it, the CBC, which knows no shame, will continue to air it, all on our dime.

I'm going to have to steel myself to watch LMOTP sometime, just to see what it's up to. I'll have my barf bucket handy.

PS--I hope that Laura Ingall's estate sues the pants off the writers for ripping off her title.

LOL, Mississauga Matt: "I have observed that anything with Sonia Smits in it is crap; maybe they've found a way to be crap without her." Yeah, they've recruited Sheila McCarthy to take Smits' place. Just more mediocrity, what we've come to expect, at the CBC.

Posted by: 'been around the block at January 10, 2007 9:08 AM

Need any more reasons to sell the assets of the Mother Corp. and issue pink slips?

Posted by: Bruce Randall at January 10, 2007 9:10 AM

What about:

"Saddam and Son"

Posted by: John at January 10, 2007 9:30 AM

Ten bucks sez, even with all the contrived controversy, this CBC dog won't pull the numbers to justify its ad spots.

12 people will be watching :)

Posted by: WL Mackenzie Redux at January 10, 2007 9:40 AM

I didn't watch, so comment is not appropriate.
The Bill O'Reilly Factor at Fox channel is on at the same time.
I will perhaps sacrifice a half hour next time out of curiosity so I can make my judgment.

Posted by: Joe Molnar at January 10, 2007 9:51 AM

Out of curiosity, I watched last night's initial episode. Contrast the "convert" wife character's dress with that of the Toronto convert who made the news with the terrorist arrests last year, who was covered head to foot. I thought the whole show was hokey, the locals portrayed as mostly yokels. I don't think I'll watch it again.

BTW,I live in a rural area of Ottawa and we have twice elected a Canadian of Lebanese origin as our councilor (Eli El-Chantiry, a great guy). So much for rurals being redneck ignoramuses.

The Sheila McCarthy/Sonia Smits comment ties in nicely with the ACTRA strike. The same 10 recycled actors over and over again in every CBC production. I had to laugh at Eric Peterson's performance at the press conference - I thought Oscar was a fictional character. Jacka**!!

Posted by: skeptical at January 10, 2007 9:51 AM

Popped in to check out "Mosque". First thing I noticed was the cross lying on its side on the stage where the imam was speaking. And the "white" female convert praying.

Changed the channel soon after that.

Posted by: Soccermom at January 10, 2007 9:56 AM

btw they are having quite a colder winter in Iran this year.....apparently Allah is stopping Global Warming there.

Time to convert I guess...but there is no going back right? Hmm better save the cobversion for the moment I or my family is threatened with death so I can avoid execution.

Sure glad the the Jehovah's Witnesses that come to my door dont work this way.

Posted by: Stephen at January 10, 2007 9:56 AM

True enough, but the sad part is with the tax dollars flowing in the ad money has never seemed to factor in to the crap spewed out by CBC.

There is a common group of commercials that would run on CBC even if the only thing they put up on the screen was the old black and white test pattern from 1965.Which by the way might be an improvement to the current lineup.

Posted by: ud513 at January 10, 2007 9:58 AM

Sorry, been around the block: titles aren't subject to copyright.

Posted by: Kathy Shaidle at January 10, 2007 10:01 AM

In addition to the Sonia Smits rule of thumb, basically anything filmed in Toronto with Canadian actors is crap. The Vancouver stuff is slightly better. The acting is always overacted and something to do with the lighting. Toronto TV crap has a feel to it.

CBC will keep it on for two seasons, to enlighten us. I saw some CBC exec spouting how it wasn't about ratings but about the buzz. A TV exec. Sigh.

Alex had some laugh out loud stuff there. Stepehn, the bit about getting the Jewish writing staff is almost too true to be funny.

Just 5 minutes was all it took. Be prepared for the barrage of news on high ratings. Then next week there will be nothing on the vacuum of ratings. Drive by viewers.

By the way, there is some good stuf on Canadian TV. Corner Gas is a prime example. We make sure to watch it every week. Good is good. No need for the can-con crap.
enough

Posted by: enough at January 10, 2007 10:05 AM

I like that it will bash right wing red necks! Finally!

Posted by: john at January 10, 2007 10:08 AM

Skeptical: "I thought Oscar was a fictional character. Jacka**!!"

That was my exact reaction LOL

btw, Did anyone else think the minister on LMOTP looked a lot like Paul Martin?

Posted by: Caveat at January 10, 2007 10:10 AM

John Doyle, g&m, is bashing cdn viewers re comments on ACTRA strike. There are 21000 union members on strike. Mosque writer is taking questions today in g&m. Mine wont be answered-when do you plan to show a suicide bomber, beheading, or the sentencing of a girl to hang for killing a rapist. Joe W has a column in the Sun praising this show. Apparently muslims like it, so that will be the audience, and revenue source. Maybe they can be convinced islam is a religion of peace. I suggest all posters send a question to this woman, flood them with anti questions and maybe she will get the message, Christains are offended. If viewers in TO think this show is reality, it shows how ignorant they are of western canada. Typical TO cbc crap.

Posted by: mary T. at January 10, 2007 10:22 AM


Ya I need the CBC to tell me "I'm racist and muslims are not".
Again!

I did catch a CNN interview were Carlos Roga (sp) looked visbly pissed off while he was being interviewed to sell this bomb.

Meat The Press
Holmes On Mudhuts
Flip This Cave
Over-Hallal-in
Pimp My Camel

Posted by: richfisher at January 10, 2007 10:26 AM

Little Kitman on the Prairie.

Plot:

Portray genital mutilating, suicide bombing, racist, bigoted, pedophile, supremacist, misogynist, head removing, limb chopping, medieval, fascist, haters as urbane, professional, comedic, tolerant Canadians.

And portray local white westerners as troglodytes.

"A multiculti, pluralistic, Liberal smash hit. Two-nubs-where-my-thumbs-used-to-be-up"

- Dion and Layton

Posted by: irwin daisy at January 10, 2007 10:33 AM

(Mercer says) Rona Ambrose is bad but John Baird is worse

Considering what they have in common you'd think Mercer would go easier on him...

Posted by: Dudley Morris at January 10, 2007 10:38 AM

For the couple of people who are sorry they missed the premiere last night,CBC is re-running the show tonight.

How about Burka's Law.

Disgusting drivel.

Posted by: Reginacon at January 10, 2007 10:49 AM

Discovery Channel's Daily Panic
The Herstory (is only worth one half) History Channel
Muslim Impossible
Judge Adullah
What Knot to Wear (in your hijab)
Trading Insults
Taqiya Roadshow
Kithman Confidential
Debby Travis' Necklift (off)
Divorce, Divorce, Divorce Court

Posted by: b_C at January 10, 2007 10:57 AM

Reginacon: Are you serious? LMOTP is being re-run tonight? If the CBC is re-running it, 'must be to up the ratings. They'll conflate them and say what a hit the show is with viewers. If that's the case, I probably shouldn't watch it this week.

Kathy Shaidle; Thanks/no thanks for the info! Too bad.

Stephen: About the need for Jewish writers, I hope that any Jewish writer approached to improve the LMOTP laughometre refuses outright. 'Problem is, most Jewish television writers aren't observant Jews and probably buy into the multiculti CBC stuff.

Posted by: 'been around the block at January 10, 2007 11:04 AM

Canada: A People's Hysteria
CSIED: Bagdad (improvised .....)
10 Years Invisible
The Allah DeGenerates Show
Fiends
Jihad for Laughs
Corner Gas Attack

Posted by: b_C at January 10, 2007 11:15 AM

I didn't watch it. I won't ever watch it. Most CBC is drivel, CBC sit-coms are worse than drivel, this one is apparently also cultural marxist multi-culti propoganda, and there is nothing comedic about Islam and its colonization of our cities.

End of story.

Posted by: felis corpulentis at January 10, 2007 11:20 AM


Where is/are the actual site(s)used for Mercy?

What airport(s) did they use?

I agree with 99% of you that the show sucked, but I am still interested to know where it is being filmed.

Posted by: SidSagSask at January 10, 2007 11:26 AM

Alex - good stuff.

I checked it out for a few minutes (2 of which were commercials) and got steamed... our tax dollars are paying for this crap?

Posted by: Cheri at January 10, 2007 11:54 AM

They'll also rename some existing shows.

City Infidel Whores (Sex & the City)
Suburban Infidel Whores (Desperate Housewives)
Infidel Whores Talking (The View)
Black Infidel Whore (Oprah)

Posted by: tom at January 10, 2007 11:56 AM

SidSagSask

The first three episodes apparently were shot in Regina,although the only thing I recognized was the Novia Cafe,sort of a historic landmark.

After that they move to Toronto to shoot more episodes and give us their enlightened prairie view from there.

BATB

Yes,some local radio guys were discussing the show this a.m. and said it is being re-run tonight.

They thought the show had "potential"but I can't say as I agree.

It's just tinny CBC garbage.

Posted by: Reginacon at January 10, 2007 12:01 PM

The Young and Headless
Mad About Jew
My Three Sunnis

Posted by: moe at January 10, 2007 12:11 PM

The Pakistanis are threatening to begin to take seriously the practice of throwing acid on women.

http://www.app.com.pk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1774&Itemid=2

Don't those zany Muslims just slay you?

Posted by: Brian S at January 10, 2007 12:22 PM

My Favourite Martyr.
Headless in Seattle.
The Monkeys. And Pigs.

Posted by: irwin daisy at January 10, 2007 12:29 PM

Come on poster, get your questions in to the G&M. Still none have come in by 10.31 am Alberta time. At least none that can be posted.

Posted by: mary T. at January 10, 2007 12:31 PM

Reginacon

Thanks for the tune up.

Posted by: SidSagSask at January 10, 2007 12:36 PM

"Welcome Back Kafir"

sorry, had to.

Posted by: shaken at January 10, 2007 12:39 PM

Those of you who donate to food hampers, soup kitchens etc. make sure you include pork products. I read there is a campaign in Europe to ban these items as Muslims and Jews don't eat them. Coming soon, Pork free restaurants.

Posted by: mary T. at January 10, 2007 12:41 PM

Being the HGTV/TLC fan that I am:

Bombing Extreme Makeover
Extreme Makeover - Cave Edition
While You Were Jihading
Trading Caves
Little Jihadis, Big Bomb


Posted by: Soccermom at January 10, 2007 12:46 PM

* "While You Were Out Jihading"

Posted by: Soccermom at January 10, 2007 12:50 PM

Funny,there has been no post-premiere hype on cbc that I caught today..I'm sure if the feedback re show had been positive,all would be orgasmic!I for one can't wait for the cbc to create an all-muslim all the time spin-off channel..maybe some porn thrown in for good measure?cbc seems to have an affinity for trash that they call "documentaries"

Posted by: Sammy at January 10, 2007 12:53 PM

I thought the line, “Hey, you don’t get to decide which country we deport you to”, was kind of funny.

But eventually this program could be exported to New Zealand or South Africa or Romania etc. and this will lead to confusion if they’ve been dosed with other Canadian TV shows.

Where’s the Indian? Where’s Joe Two Rivers, Pete Gawa, Jesse Jim? All small towns in Canada have one lonely Indian to stoically pass on wisdom or more recently Sergeant Davis Quinton, who can be as zany as any of the white folk in Dog River.

Posted by: Cal at January 10, 2007 1:37 PM

I hear that Mercer will be renaming his own weekily TV show to LMOTP sometimes soon. His show will soon become the "Little Man on the Pulpit" show.

aka, the Lieberal anti-American pulpit show.

Posted by: Joe Canuck at January 10, 2007 2:22 PM

one for the young at heart: - Sheik Yur Djibouti

Posted by: Joe Canuck at January 10, 2007 2:38 PM

Death It Up
One Hundred Hunt-Them-Down-and-Kill-Them Street
The Burn A Mack Show
Barbeque You
The Galloping Gore Eh
The Nation(of Islam)al
Mohammad Night Football
Antique Roadside IED
Giligans Islam
The Trouble with Tracers
Quirks and Korans
Question (and Torture) Period
Baa Baa Lovesheep

Posted by: richfisher at January 10, 2007 3:04 PM

Diff'rent Swordstrokes

Who's The Mullah?

Kaffir As Folk

Night Beat

Win, Lose Or Die

The Prophet Is Right

Khalid's Angels

Wheel Of Fatwah

Akhmed Of Green Caves

The Road To A Fatwah

Murder, She Wrought

The Kaffirsons

Abdullah Bomber's Place

Mr. Blowup

Friendly Jihadist

Unhappy Days

Hangin' With Mr. Hussein

Full Hut

Family Spatters

In The Blast Of The Night

Columboom

Matlop

Sharia Law And Disorder

The Kooks Of Hebron

Trailer Park Bombers

Posted by: The Canadian Sentinel at January 10, 2007 3:32 PM

Regardless of any audience numbers, the show will go on.

You're Canadian, you're on, quality and content optional.

Taxpayers are stuck paying for this, and all the other unmarketable drivel. Strange, though, I don't recall ever being asked if I wanted to fund the great Canadian demand for second rate productions.

Really I'm just posting to thank everyone for the wonderful parodies of this politically correct apparatchik effort. LOL.

Cheers!

Posted by: k. smart at January 10, 2007 3:40 PM

The Nature Of Explosive Things With "David" Zarqawi

Posted by: The Canadian Sentinel at January 10, 2007 3:41 PM

Finally, some questions for the author, and not all of them are supportive of the show. To read them you have to click on NOW, not the comments. Author says the characters will develop in future episodes. One questioner compares it to Beachcombers, and says he hopes to watch it for years. Bet those questions are coming from phoney liberals, aka jasons petition. Some have pretty muslim sounding names. Guess what, the talk show host will develop a thing for the matriach of the family.

Posted by: mary T. at January 10, 2007 3:42 PM

The Ummah Limits

inspired after reading...
http://qa.sunnipath.com/issue_view.asp?HD=1&ID=2534&CATE=124&redirect=yes

"As for today, only Islam is valid or acceptable now that Allah has sent it to all men"

Yes, people, there certainly is great hope that Islam will embrace tolerance of secularism and other religions. There's even handy websites you can go pose questions about who is kafir and who isn't.

Little Mosque on the Internet...

Posted by: shaken at January 10, 2007 3:44 PM

Fat Albert and the Ghazi Kids
Married, With Three Extra Wives
Mahdi Python's Flying Scimitars
The Hatred of Things
Man Alive (But We'll Fix That)
Gray's Anatomy All Over The Place

still nothing to equal "Welcome Back Khadr", "Trailer Park Bombers" or "Kaffir as Folk" though.

Posted by: Jim Whyte at January 10, 2007 4:00 PM

Suhana just announced 2 million viewed LMOTP and it is getting international acclaim.

Posted by: mary T. at January 10, 2007 4:03 PM

All right, all right, no sense fighting the trend:

"Little Sleeper Cell in Mississauga"

Posted by: felis corpulentis at January 10, 2007 4:21 PM

Sarika just reports LMOP is at #3 in standings!

Posted by: Sammy at January 10, 2007 4:26 PM

Watch for the guest appearance of Farah Fatwah Majors in next weeks episode of LMOTP.

Its a laugh a minute when Farah,playing the role of a adulterous Iranian woman escapes to Saskatchewan to.... ready now... get stoned at the local country music festival.

Cheech and Chong co-star as her husband and lover.

Sponsered by Clairol.

Musical guest appearance by The Grateful Dead.

Posted by: ud513 at January 10, 2007 4:30 PM

And now,on cbc,Sarika,and panel slagging Christians,upcoming documentary on later about SCARY Jesus Camp,brainwashing etc.Muslim good/Christians bad stuff.Documentary is according to Sarika"disturbing",throws in the Bush bash,poor kids being used for political activism etc.GOD SAVE US from the cbc.and the feminazi's doing doc.
Update:this won't be on cbc..only people in Toronto get to see it at some theatre...the rest of the rural unwashed just wouldn't get it I guess

Posted by: Sammy at January 10, 2007 4:37 PM

>The Nature Of Explosive Things With "David" Zarqawi

Love it!

Posted by: itlog95 at January 10, 2007 4:49 PM

Remakes of the Classics?

There Something About Mahdi
The Kalashnikovs of Karbala
From Here to 72 Virgins
Schindler's Pissed
Citizen Plame
CasaBlamBlamBlamca
Gone - Poof - with the Wind
It WAS a Wonderful Life
Bridge on the River Whine
Some Like it Haram
All About Wudu
One Flew Over the Caliph's Sniper Nest
Mr. Hudna Goes to Washington
The Tribal Elder - Parts I to IV
To Kill a Moonbat
High Nonanism
Wadiside Story
Jews
M*U*S*H
The Silence of the 'sLamists
Nutroot
Shame
City Lights (3 hours a day)
****s with Goats
The Wudu Bunch
Modern Times (circa 571)
The Turd Man
A Place in the Sunni Triangle
(Beat 'em to a) Pulp (is not) Fiction
Guess Who's Bombing at Dinner
My Fried Lady
Fereydoon Hump
Bin-Hurt
Withering Fire-fights


Posted by: b_C at January 10, 2007 4:55 PM

The show had some "heh" moments but nothing funny. The only thing that caught my attention was how gorgeous the daughter was... my wife and I both said wow.

This is written very CBC-ish: Take a region of the country, and give it a Toronto-centric view. Pretend to poke fun at Toronto, but totally miss what the people in the region actually think about.

Like others have said, Corner Gas works because they brought a few familiar faces (Oscar and Emma) and paired them with talented relative newcomers, and have it written by a very funny comedian who really knows his surroundings.

Had LMOTP focussed on what the writer REALLY knew, ie, probably being one or two of the only muslim families in the area, she would have been better off. Instead, we get treated to this ridiculous scene that the local bigoted townfolk can't handle the thought of a mosque in their area.

Sigh. Why I expected more, I don't know.

Posted by: Yukon Gold at January 10, 2007 5:00 PM

Come on , all this hype , and not one damned U-ULATION ! Throw us a freakin' bone already .

Posted by: Bill D. Cat at January 10, 2007 5:12 PM

OK, so 2.1 million viewers makes it the no. 3 show, in Canada I presume.

Big deal.

Q: How do they actually know how many watched the show? Do they take a small sample and extrapolate it?

More people tuned in than would normally (probably 1 million more) after all the faux buzz they created with incessant ads.

One remark in the show I found funny(paraphrased):

Daughter to Imam: "You're supposed to bring us into the modern day. Or at least the 11th century."

Posted by: Caveat at January 10, 2007 5:32 PM

How many homes in canada have a tv. If the average set on this show had 2-3 viewers, that is less than a million sets on for this insult to Christians and western canadians. I am surprised that of the 57 comments now posted in the g&m, not all of them were complimentary. Wonder how many they got that they did not post. Many more than 57 I suspect. One commentator asked why they didn't end the show with a plea not to execute Nazan, to show they really do care.

Posted by: mary T. at January 10, 2007 5:52 PM

I wouldn't worry too much about the high ratings for the first show. There was lots of hype and then you have the curiousity factor.

Don't forget that the first woman to anchor the news (CBS) had great ratings for the first month, after tons of hype, and now she is mired in last place.

Posted by: Toontown Kid at January 10, 2007 6:24 PM

Hookah Night in Canada

:)

Posted by: Joe Canuck at January 10, 2007 6:26 PM

As long as this show remains on the air there is always a chance that the Religion of the Perpetually Outraged will somehow be offended and begin issuing fatwa's calling for CBC heads to roll.

Now that would make for some good TV.

Posted by: Brian S at January 10, 2007 6:32 PM

And who could forget the "Sunni & Cher Show"

Posted by: bobzorunkle at January 10, 2007 6:46 PM

Can someone please explain what the "CBC" is. I have cable television and have never heard of this organization. Is it some public affairs station like a community channel or CPAC?

Posted by: ltr at January 10, 2007 6:59 PM

And that old favourite:

I Dream of Jihad.

Posted by: irwin daisy at January 10, 2007 7:20 PM

Joe, is Hooka Night gonna have Caliph’s Corner ?

Posted by: Bernie at January 10, 2007 8:29 PM
"Midnight in Mosque-Jaw"
Posted by: Skip at January 10, 2007 11:13 PM

Bernie, but of course. They will discuss the nights' best executions.


;)

Posted by: Joe Canuck at January 11, 2007 3:24 AM
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