Never friends with benefits and please keep it to the main and recurring characters so you can pick someone like the tax man or a tax man

All seasons of Corner Gas, the original series are on the Roku Channel right now., which is awesome. The Roku box, which connects to a tv, is something life $40. It might be a good Christmas gift, with an ulterior motive of spreading Corner Gas joy, lol.

I was watching this episode tonight, where Brent and Emma see who can withhold from their vice the longest., that being coffee and knitting, respectively. While Brent explains what his moms vice is, the scene cuts away to a lady with a knitting needle through the arm. This brought back an old memory from my childhood.

One morning I was in the shower getting ready for school. I could hear the phone ring and then my mother scream. Being concerned, I jumped out the shower, wrapped myself in a towel and went out to investigate. There in the living room with here leg up on the rocking chair was my mother with a small dot of blood on here shin.

I asked, "What's wrong?"

She replied, "I got up to grab the phone when it rang. I dropped a knitting needle, which caught between the floor and my shin bone. It bent in half and ran up my shin below the skin."

I almost barfed after hearing that description. My mother still has the needle sitting in her bin., I don't know why, but seeing that lady with the needle through here arm shot that memory right back to my mind.

My wife likes the show The Goog Witch. On a couple of episodes Gabrielle Miller is Sams ex-wife.

Some years back, the cast of a long-running popular American television sitcom, which had ended quite a few years earlier, decided to all reunite not merely for a reunion special or movie, but for a brand new season of the show. And it was received very well by the public, with high ratings. However, after the airing of the first few episodes, in a highly controversial reaction by network executives to unpopular comments made by the show’s star, her character was killed and the show became a different show. I write here of the ABC property ROSEANNE. I don’t wish to discuss ROSEANNE, particularly not in a CORNER GAS discussion forum. I only bring up the revival of ROSEANNE because I can’t help but wonder if a similar live-action revival of CORNER GAS would also be well-received and highly rated in Canada. I’m guessing many of you would love, at the least, another live-action CORNER GAS movie. I realize the actors have all aged significantly and that one of the original cast members is deceased. But now that CORNER GAS ANIMATED has wrapped up, what do you think the prognosis is for additional CG productions?

Growing up as a kid, I had always wanted to visit Dog River, just recently I got to live in the prairies and I want to make the trip while I'm still out east.

The problem is, it seems like from what I've heard a lot of stuff is gone.
I already knew about the main set being torn down, and the grain elevator, but other things like the bar being in shambles. Is there much of anything left for me to visit? At the point, is it worth the plane/bus tickets?
If this post gets enough traction, I'll try and keep a running list of what is and isn't there, for future reference of other people.

Thanks :]

What's left
- Dog River Hotel
- The pile-shaped lumber pile
- Very contrived pothole
- The Howler
- Police Station (Unfortunately very run down)
- The Foo Mar T
- Lacey's Plaque?
- Emma and Oscar's House

What's gone
- The Shed (Hank Burned it down)
- Corner Gas & The Ruby (Destroyed)
- Grain elevator (At least we can put up the cell tower)
- Cecil's barn
- The Cow too

I was at home sick with COVID for the week from work in early 2023. I live in the southern part of the state of Louisiana. I’m a hobbyist cartoonist, so I wanted to find a lighthearted, semi-mindless new sitcom to binge on while I drew and inked comic strips. I have the Amazon Prime Video streaming service which includes FreeVee, a service offering access to many classic American television shows. I happened to see a promo link on FreeVee for CORNER GAS. I read the description of the show and thought, “This might be entertainment suitable for drawing to, without the necessity of constantly staring at the screen to follow what’s going on.” I was hoping to find another show along the same lines as ARE YOU BEING SERVED?, an old Brit-com I had discovered on American public television many years earlier. I wanted to find a show in which people speak English but do and say things differently than “where I come from.” CORNER GAS delivered in spades! It was semi-mindless and funny. To my delight, I found that the show’s writing style and direction were very “comic strip-like,” with short, punchy “segments” that effectively mimicked the ending of one comic strip and the starting of another. After watching a few episodes, or more accurately, after listening to a few episodes as I drew, I was hooked!

I have chronic sinus issues, so my sense of smell is really muted most of the time. But yesterday, they just cleared right up for the better part of the day, out of nowhere. I was out and around town running errands, and... the smells, lol. The guy at the crosswalk in front of me had bad BO. The lady on the train next to me had terrible breath. The train station elevator smelled like pee. Being downtown, the air smelled kind of dirty. The lady on the bus bench had perfume that was super strong. I was so, so not used to it, I was like a hyper-smeller!

And I was like, Davis, I feel your pain when you came into the world of the smellers! I almost wished could be a non-smeller again haha.

As an American who became aware of CORNER GAS only recently, I’m somewhat awestruck by the numerous celebrities, including high-ranking Canadian government officials, who make brief appearances in CORNER GAS and CORNER GAS ANIMATED. Just how popular was CG in Canada at the show’s peak? Also, it’s interesting how references are made throughout the original series to wildly popular television shows from the United States - FRIENDS, for instance. Clearly shows from the U.S. are widely known to our neighbors up north. I was never a huge FRIENDS fan even during the peak of the show’s run, but as a youngish American who didn’t watch FRIENDS regularly I still knew the first names of the six main characters. When I contrast the seeming all-permeating awareness in American pop culture of this and other U.S. shows with my utter ignorance of a Canadian show featuring an appearance by at least one Canadian prime minister, I’m left scratching my head in bewilderment.

Amazon is ending Freevee and that the only place I know to watch Corner Gas Animated. Will it be put on a new platform?

I have been staying with my sister and BIL for a week while visiting my mother who just moved to hospice care. I turned Corner Gas on and watched a few episodes. My BIL came home from work and started watching it with me. After I had watched my fill, I told him that he could change the channel if he wished but he watched 4-5 more episodes. Then tonight, after I shuffled off to bed, I heard the music play as he watched more. I think I got him hooked.

For me, no other CG episode comes close in the race for #1. This is saying something, since I love many CG episodes. My favorite is “Comedy Night,” but not so much for the main storyline as for the storyline about the book club. What’s your favorite CG episode?

When Emma said she had the tax files in the cabinet in the garage. Do you think this is where she found the bottle of scotch for Brent's 40th birthday?

Wullerton

I recall that in the 2014 Corner Gas movie Karen is pregnant. I’m guessing Karen is pregnant because the actress who played her happened to be pregnant at the time. Was Karen’s pregnancy ever explained in the context of the movie?

From 'Oh Baby' S01E04

Brent: Lacey Esther Burrows!

Lacey: That's not my middle name.

Brent: Charlene? Gerdie? Sunshine? Fern?

https://www.enprimeur.ca/actorBio/english/20203

Born in Vancouver, B.C. to a family with five siblings, Gabrielle Miller grew up in a "hippie" family, hence her middle name, Sunshine.

Mine has to be from Census sensibility when Fitzy is firing Hank and Oscar. And Hank says he cant do it with out him. And the way Fitzy fires back with “You can’t do it with him!” Is one of my favourite lines from the show animated or movie haha

Overall, I enjoy CORNER GAS ANIMATED. I think I understand why the show was revived, and particularly why the format is 2-D animation rather than live action. (As an aside, if I were a professional actor I would be all over animation voice gigs. Think about it - no makeup, no wardrobe, no lighting, no chance of any on-the-set accidents, and, if it’s “me” they’re animating, no aging!) So many crazy-advanced technologies and gadgetry have become commonplace tools for even people of sub-average cognitive abilities. This unprecedented development presents a wellspring of unlimited comic potential in the tradition of the best writing from live-action CORNER GAS. My only negative criticism is that, probably on purpose in the tradition of other animated sitcoms, the storylines and situations in CORNER GAS ANIMATED are even sillier than those in the original show - too silly for my tastes. The characters’ behavior, particularly that of Davis, is sillier than that of the live action characters. Still, I’d love to keep watching new CORNER GAS ANIMATED material. And I’m an American from the southern part of Louisiana, one of the southern states.

Having grown up in the United States during the second half of the 20th century, I recall that people - mostly men, I guess - would occasionally ask this question regarding the classic American sitcom GILLIGAN’S ISLAND: Ginger or Mary-Ann? Perhaps because the show was so silly people relished inflating the question’s importance, as if it presented a cosmic conundrum like “Which came first - the chicken or the egg?”

And so, gentlemen, I ask you: Karen, Lacey, or Wanda?

POSTSCRIPT: The only reason I didn’t include Emma is that to me, she’s like Mrs. Howell from GILLIGAN’S ISLAND. And no, I don’t mean she’s “old”! I mean she’s married!

I can’t help but wonder if Oscar Leroy’s first name is a tribute to the Sesame Street character. Think about it: Oscar on Sesame Street doesn’t use the “j-word” the way Oscar Leroy does, but both characters have a similar vibe.

Upon reflection, my above speculation is not unlike something Hank might bring up to Brent while hanging out at Corner Gas. That is, if Corner Gas itself wasn’t a television show. But how could Hank speculate about Oscar’s name to Brent without Corner Gas being a television show? My head’s starting to hurt…

Roku channel now has all 6 seasons. Free and on demand. As corner gas should be.

I cannot watch Corner Gas without getting hungry. It has to be some of the most successful product placement ever done.