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.
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
>The Nature Of Explosive Things With “David” Zarqawi
Love it!
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
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.
Come on , all this hype , and not one damned U-ULATION ! Throw us a freakin’ bone already .
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.”
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.
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.
Hookah Night in Canada
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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.
And who could forget the “Sunni & Cher Show”
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?
And that old favourite:
I Dream of Jihad.
Joe, is Hooka Night gonna have Caliph’s Corner ?
Bernie, but of course. They will discuss the nights’ best executions.
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