Post by The Mad Plumber on Aug 22, 2009 0:33:09 GMT -5
I want to open this thread to talk about this particular show and get other users' thoughts on it.
I'm not really quite sure how I discovered this program. Obviously, being a Canadian program, I would have initially seen it on CBC. Today, I believe PBS still shows reruns of the program. Both my dad and I took a liking to the program. However, I need to question its appeal.
For some reason, Red Green reminds me of Blue Collar TV. For those of you who haven't seen Blue Collar TV, just think of Mad TV except being even more unfunny. I guess it reminds me of Blue Collar TV because I guess the show resonates with conservative folks. However, I think a big difference, aside from Red Green having humor and Blue Collar being devoid of it, is that there's no underlying political objective or tone as there is with Blue Collar and its associated comedians. From what I'm told of Canadians, even Conservatives are somewhere to the left of American Conservatism and that politics are nowhere near as vitriolic as they are here in the States.
Red Green is a skit show with a finite number of regular characters. Each episode has a "what's happening today at the Possum Lodge" set of segments, but rather it's the various skits that are the highlight of the show. I find it curious that the skits are done in such a way that they are very independent of the rest of the episode, which would easily allow them to be edited into other episodes. I'm forced to wonder if they did in fact do this occasionally.
My favorite sketches were "Handyman's Corner" and "Red's Advice / Pulling For You" (I don't know what the real name of the sketch is). In "Handyman's Corner", Red Green would present a minor problem that he encounters in life. However, instead of grin and bearing it, he goes through a labor-intensive process of mutilating abandoned vehicles to sometimes amazingly solve his dilemma creatively. One of my favorites was when he turned a car into a personal gym; he poured transmission fluid over the brake pads, reasoning that when you want to put on the brakes, you would really need to press them hard with both feet. "Red's Advice" allowed the main character to relate analogies about the problems of growing older. I liked how he related the act of attempting to make a freeway exit far too late than you should have with the act of attempting to relive your youth.
When I see the show on PBS, I have to say that it's really very rare that I see a good episode. Comedy gold was really a rarity with this staff, but I still found the show to be pleasant and enjoyable even if they couldn't hit a bullseye.
I'm not really quite sure how I discovered this program. Obviously, being a Canadian program, I would have initially seen it on CBC. Today, I believe PBS still shows reruns of the program. Both my dad and I took a liking to the program. However, I need to question its appeal.
For some reason, Red Green reminds me of Blue Collar TV. For those of you who haven't seen Blue Collar TV, just think of Mad TV except being even more unfunny. I guess it reminds me of Blue Collar TV because I guess the show resonates with conservative folks. However, I think a big difference, aside from Red Green having humor and Blue Collar being devoid of it, is that there's no underlying political objective or tone as there is with Blue Collar and its associated comedians. From what I'm told of Canadians, even Conservatives are somewhere to the left of American Conservatism and that politics are nowhere near as vitriolic as they are here in the States.
Red Green is a skit show with a finite number of regular characters. Each episode has a "what's happening today at the Possum Lodge" set of segments, but rather it's the various skits that are the highlight of the show. I find it curious that the skits are done in such a way that they are very independent of the rest of the episode, which would easily allow them to be edited into other episodes. I'm forced to wonder if they did in fact do this occasionally.
My favorite sketches were "Handyman's Corner" and "Red's Advice / Pulling For You" (I don't know what the real name of the sketch is). In "Handyman's Corner", Red Green would present a minor problem that he encounters in life. However, instead of grin and bearing it, he goes through a labor-intensive process of mutilating abandoned vehicles to sometimes amazingly solve his dilemma creatively. One of my favorites was when he turned a car into a personal gym; he poured transmission fluid over the brake pads, reasoning that when you want to put on the brakes, you would really need to press them hard with both feet. "Red's Advice" allowed the main character to relate analogies about the problems of growing older. I liked how he related the act of attempting to make a freeway exit far too late than you should have with the act of attempting to relive your youth.
When I see the show on PBS, I have to say that it's really very rare that I see a good episode. Comedy gold was really a rarity with this staff, but I still found the show to be pleasant and enjoyable even if they couldn't hit a bullseye.