DVD Quote of the Day: Corner Gas

I friggin love this show. Corner Gas: Season 3 came out on DVD this Tuesday and I picked it up, but haven't had time to watch it. I plan on doing that this weekend. Great ensemble cast with Brent Butt (gas station owner, Brent Leroy), Gabrielle Miller (big city transplant, Lacey Burrows), Nancy Robertson (Brent's smart alecky co-worker, Wanda Dollard), Fred Ewanuick (Brent's loafing friend, Hank Yarbo), Eric Peterson (Brent's over-reacting father, Oscar Leroy), Janet Wright (Brent's all powerful matriarch, Emma Leroy), Lorne Cardinal (bumbling police officer Davis Quinton), and Tara Spencer-Nairn (Davis' more adept partner Karen Pelly). A lot of people compare this to Seinfeld and there are some similarities, but it's a show all its own. Saskatchewan plays a major character, as well. I sent Season 2 on DVD to my sister in Rhode Island for Christmas last year. She loves it, but I'm not sure if her hubby thinks it is as funny because he hasn't seen it. Seeing things like, the house on main street that's a liquor store/insurance broker (this house is in every small town in Saskatchewan), and the cars parked on an angle on main street with the doors unlocked and the windows wide open, these are distinctly "small town prairies". We're awfully proud of this show here. The kids and I actually went out to Rouleau, where the exteriors are shot, and visited the Cop Shop which is actually an ice cream/souvenir shop. I was pretty disappointed when the owner and resident Corner Gas expert informed me that there was no "World's Biggest Hoe", it was put in digitally on the computer. I was hoping it was something props built and was somewhere out there so I could get a picture.


This show takes place in fictional Dog River, Saskatchewan. Brent owns and runs the town gas station (40 klicks from nowhere). His co-worker Wanda is very educated, obviously too smart to just be a cashier at the gas station and full of sarcasm. Lacey moved out from Toronto when her Aunt Ruby died and left her the town cafe. She's sweet and well-meaning and as much as she tries to fit in, she just can't help inadvertently alienating and offending everyone. If this was the prairies Seinfeld, Hank would be Kramer. He doesn't seem to have a job and is always wandering around town getting into everybody's business. Oscar and Emma together are hilarious. Davis and Karen are the two police officers in Dog River with very little to do, afterall, how much crime happens in Dog River? The other characters in town are as quirky as the main characters. Since I am not familiar with Season 3, I'm quoting from season 2, the episode where Brent, Wanda and Hank bring back their band from the 80's. Brent is playing a tune for Lacey on an air guitar that their band played before......

Brent: What does this sound like to you?
Lacey: A weasel caught in a fan belt?
Brent: A weasel in a fan belt sounds completely different.
Lacey: A gopher caught in a chainsaw?

More ramblings to come....