In this episode, the gang reviews the season finale of Season 1, ‘A Fuss in the Back Bush’. They discuss everything from the comedic moments, the climactic fight, and the cliffhanger ending. Special segments include a breakdown of Tanis’ verbal attack on Stuart, Squirrelly Dan’s hilarious outburst, and even a cameo by the infamous Ginger and Boots. Join Allan, Tanya, and Victor as they delve deep into what makes this episode deserving of a ‘fresh’ rating from all the panelists.
Episode Limerick
The Skids buy Native cigarettes,
Then resell them despite Native threats,
Forcing the Hicks into cahoots,
With the Ginger & Boots,
To repay Tanis the Skids’ debts.
Chapters
- 00:00:00 – Introduction
- 00:01:19 – How Was Your Week?
- 00:05:59 – Twitter Roll Call
- 00:08:49 – Don’t Bore Us, Get To The Chorus! (Episode Recap)
- 00:44:55 – First Impressions
- 00:47:20 – Episode Ratings
- 00:50:05 – Episode Rankings
- 00:52:40 – Listener Comments
- 00:54:22 – Final Comments
- 01:00:24 – Outro
Final Rating
Tanya: Fresh
Victor: Fresh
Mat: Fresh
Al: Fresh
Dean: Fresh
Scientific Twitter Poll
Fresh: 100%
Clearance: N/A
Compost: N/A
Featured Music
- Send Dem by Serial Killaz (Spotify)
- Party People by DJ Donna Summer (Spotify)
- Passing the Word by Nü Sensae
- Tonite by B-Lines
- Walk Around The Park by Indian Wars
- Tender People by Japanther (Spotify)
- Such Language by DJ Donna Summer(Spotify)
Links:
Clip: [00:00:00] Back coyotes come right up the back porch. You have the likes your dogs and heat, you know, those fucking yellow eyed bastards go right through the screen door if they’re horny.
Allan: It’s Thursday, Thursday, Thursday. And that means we’re once again, hanging out the produce stand, a podcast paying tribute to the great Canadian show letter Kenny.
Now I know what you’re thinking. There are many other podcasts about letter Kenny out there, but this one is the only one that’ll end in a cliffhanger. I am Al your host and joining me in the room as always is a lovely Tanya and online we have, uh, the invincible victor, but no squirrely Matt this week.
You know, uh, uh, Matt should have picked last week to, to be absent since last week was also the, the episode that didn’t have squirrely Dan, like, you know, to. To kind of mirror the episode, we’re, we’re having an episode without squirrelly Matt. He’s feeling under the weather today. [00:01:00] And, uh, so he apologized profusely, but he did send me his notes.
Uh, and, but he’s left me, um, uh, uh, under man, like he’s, he’s left me outnumbered with a Victor and Tanya here today.
Tanya: I don’t know. We’ll
Allan: see if, uh, we’ll see if I have any support in this episode. Um, so let’s start off, uh, Victor, how was, uh, how was your week?
Victor: Well, um, my week was all right. Uh, we have an extra long, long weekend starting tomorrow.
Um, so, so that’s good. And you know, usually my week updates or my weekly updates are quite boring. I don’t usually share anything exciting. So I, so I thought I’d switch it up this week and just play you a tune. Cause I keep teasing it and then it never happens. And I finally have a guitar here with me. So I’ll just play you something.
Allan: Sitting there with your guitar in your lap.
Victor: Yeah, yeah. Now, would you like something like, uh, bossa nova or more maybe more funky?
Allan: Whatever you’re feeling right now, go for it.
Victor: All right.[00:02:00]
Clip: Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, Ooh.
Allan: Very nice. Smokin Very nice. There we go. We’re snapping fingers here today. Alright. Good job. Yeah, that sounded, that was very funky. Uh. Alright. Awesome. Uh, Tanya, how was your week?
Tanya: Oh, my, uh, so busy, [00:03:00] busy, busy, busy, busy. I don’t even remember the beginning of it. It was that long ago and we’re only on Thursday.
So yeah, tomorrow’s Friday. Looking forward to that coming up into a long weekend, Labor Day long weekend. So that will, it will be nice.
Allan: Or, or, uh, uh, the kids are ready for school, Victor. Uh,
Victor: they got another week, so they got another week, probably not.
Allan: Natalie, is she starting college this year?
Victor: Uh, it’s her second year of OCAD.
Allan: Oh, that’s right. Uh, and, uh, and, uh, William is, uh, what, what, what grade?
Victor: Grade 12. This is it. Uh, you know, I’m about to round towards home based.
Allan: Very nice. Well, in our household, the girl is starting grade two and the boy is a senior in elementary school. He’s in grade eight. Uh, she starts next week and he starts the following week.
So lots of preparation. I never thought that back to school shopping would include buying masks, but uh, here we are. [00:04:00]
Tanya: Spent over a hundred dollars on those masks. Between the filters and the cloth masks and having enough in order to go the week for both of them and wash and yeah,
Victor: it’s a strange, it’s a, it’s a very strange thing.
I don’t know what the heck is going to happen, uh, what kind of year it’s going to be. So, uh, you know, hope for the best, give as much support as possible and get ready for the world to, uh, you know, uh, throw you curve balls every week.
Allan: Yeah, 2020 isn’t done with us. I
Tanya: was just happy. My most, my, my happy thing this week was finding a pair of shoes for Owen and a size 13 man, uh, for 30.
That was my proud, proud moment. Cause buying two pairs of men’s shoes, one indoor, one outdoor. That was a, that was a proud mom moment for me.
Victor: We, we, we actually had the same problem. We went shopping for William and he’s 12 and a half. And they were sold out everywhere of his size. We couldn’t find his size anywhere.
Now we [00:05:00] are not shopping up in, uh, uh, you know, uh, North Bay or wherever the heck you guys live, but, um, you know, it’s, it’s in the city. I told
Tanya: you we were in the country.
Allan: All right. Uh, to, to, to Victor, anything, uh, north of highway seven is, is country. He said just city snob,
Tanya: city snob,
Allan: but
Victor: you got the shoes.
Tanya: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. The whole idea that, you know, everybody keeps on, you know, For a warning that COVID is going to come back for a second strike. And we’re all going to be back indoors. And I’m thinking, Oh, I’m going to spend like a hundred dollars on a new pair of shoes that he’s going to wear for a month.
And then we’re going to be back home again. So
Victor: yeah, but size 13, he’s not outgrown though. Let’s hope.
Allan: Holy crap. If he, if he, uh, he he’ll get into like Shaquille O’Neal territory. If he, uh, grows those,
Tanya: we’re hoping that’s it. He’s he’s just crashing into everything, everything. He’s just, Oh my goodness.
Allan: All right.
[00:06:00] Let’s, uh, let’s just give a shout out to some new Twitter followers this week. Uh, we have, uh, Moats Motavis, uh, from Ohio. He’s a musician, uh, Victor. So, uh, hopefully he’s listening and he, and he dug, uh, hearing you play guitar. We have, uh, PJ Thorne from parts unknown. And, uh, here’s an interesting one. Uh, we have ACF Zimbabwe.
ACF stands for Action Control La Femme, which is like, uh, it’s a, it’s a fighting hunger organization in Zimbabwe, Africa. So they’re following this, whatever that’s worth.
Tanya: Super cool.
Allan: Yeah. Fighting hunger for nearly 40 years. Well done. Thank you so much for the follow, uh, listening all the way from Zimbabwe.
Uh, and then we have, uh, Joe Pierce listening all the way from St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. Uh, thank you, Joe, for, for following and, and for listening. Uh, congrats on your blues last year. Um, I can’t, uh, because the leaves are out, I’m not even paying attention anymore. Are the blues in still the playoffs this year?
No, no. They’re out. Oh, [00:07:00] did Dallas eliminate them?
Victor: I
Allan: believe it was
Victor: Vancouver.
Allan: Believe it or not. Oh, really? Wow. So, uh, uh, you know, apologies, Joe. Our team was eliminated too. So, uh, we’re we’re on the same. Oh, but and you’re and you’re goalie. I think it’s your goal. Is it Elliot? Is Elliot St. Louis goalie. He’s a local boy from Newmarket here.
So, uh, you know, we, last year I was cheering him on when, when you guys won. So, uh, well done there.
Victor: Yeah. Elliot used to be a St. Louis goalie, but, but, you know,
Allan: Oh, what was it? Was he the goalie last year when they won? No, I,
Victor: no, it was a rookie. Um, uh, Alan, was it Alan? Jake Allen was the backup. Okay.
Clip: throwing out every single name.
Yeah,
Victor: it was, it was Bennington, right? Bennington. He, uh, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. He came out of nowhere and, uh, saved the team. They, St. Louis was an interesting team last year. ’cause I, I think in February there were. Literally the last team in the league.
Allan: I remember
Victor: that. And then they called up this kid that nobody knew who the heck he was.
And he [00:08:00] just, uh, he stole the show and got them into the playoffs and got them to win the Stanley cup. And he had a terrible year this year. So,
Allan: yeah. First cup for the same. It was too. Yeah. I think the, uh, is that the first, uh, expansion franchise and, and, uh, so the longest, uh, expansion franchise not to win a cup.
And so they finally won one.
Victor: I don’t know. Those records, uh, fall by the wayside for me, because all I know is that Toronto hasn’t won since, uh, what, 67.
Allan: Yeah, all those records pale by comparison compared to the Leafs. Exactly. All right. So, oh, and, and like, as I mentioned, uh, Matt’s, uh, not feeling well today.
So he, unfortunately, he’s probably in bed right now, sleeping it off, not to say that he’s got something to sleep off, but anyway, he’s, he’s getting rest. Right, but he sent him, he sent me his notes, so he’ll be here by proxy. Uh, I’m probably going to need a support on this one. So here we go.
Clip: Well, pitter patter, let’s get out of
Allan: last week.
We reviewed season one, episode five rave, and that episode received a clearance rating from all four of us. Although I feel like [00:09:00] Tanya’s and Victor’s clearance was more low clearance, like on, on its way to the compost. So, uh, and Matt and I were a little more, um, you know, Uh, positive on that episode. So, uh, today we’re, we’re, uh, reviewing, um, episode six of season one of fuss in the bush.
Uh, Victor, did you do your homework?
Victor: I did. I, uh, I was a day late as you were a day early. Um, so
Allan: yes, I sent out my reminder a day early because I was hoping that Matt wasn’t going to be rushing to watch it before recording like he did before.
Victor: Yeah. And that totally failed because yesterday I forgot all about it.
Um, and luckily I did remember today. So I did watch those a little more fresh in my head. Um, I don’t know if that’s a meta thing to say, but, um, yeah, I guess I watched it.
Allan: And did, uh, William and Linda watch with you?
Victor: Uh, just a boy.
Allan: Just a boy. All right. So
Victor: Linda was out for a walk, uh, doing something probably more healthier.[00:10:00]
Allan: All right. And, uh, Tanya, um, dare I ask, did you watch, did you do your homework? Yes, I
Tanya: also, uh, you messed me up and I thought that the garbage needed to go out on Wednesday because I thought it was Thursday. And yeah,
Allan: I sent out my reminder way too early. Oh, well, I’m trying to be here. You messed us all up.
I tried to be proactive and this is what I get. Yeah. You missed the net. Alright, so we’re going to start with the cold open. Wayne and Derry are out in Wayne’s backbush hunting coyote because Wayne’s dog is in heat and a pack of coyotes threaten to take care of business. Uh, Derry says he’s got to take a bumper dump before they get started.
Clip: You ever had a bumper dump? It’s not polite to talk about. Though I do got to piss a goddamn dad. When you have a dump, lean up against the back of the bumper of your machine. That’s pretty near like it sounds then. You know, I think I did, but I can’t remember. It’s when you have sex. With a girl. Yeah, with a girl.
Bent over stump of a tree. A friend said he had sex inside [00:11:00] a hallowed out log one time, and I thought, Well, I bet Fred Penner pulled that off one time, too.
Allan: Alright, and there’s a Fred Penner joke, and, uh, just, uh, Just for our American, uh, listeners, I just wanna, The reason that’s funny, uh, Fred Penner is a Canadian children’s music performer.
He had a show on the CBC. Uh, from like 85 to 97, uh, the show was set in the woods and he would like crawl through like a hollowed out log to get to his, uh, little hideaway in the woods to do his show. I
Tanya: do not remember. You don’t remember
Allan: that?
Tanya: No.
Allan: Oh man. Well, you didn’t watch CBC when you were a kid, but yeah, Fred Penner’s place.
Tanya: I don’t recall.
Allan: Victor, were you in the to have to go down the rabbit
Tanya: hole on YouTube later.
Allan: Oh, yeah, you should see some of the videos. It’s, it’s pretty hilarious. Actually. And Fred Penner was recently on the Toronto Mike podcast and still, still going strong, still playing, um, uh, still playing, um, Victor can’t hear the sound bites.[00:12:00]
So, uh, he’s still playing to, to children. Actually, I think our kids are, didn’t, uh, Veronica go see him on a school trip?
Tanya: I believe so. So yeah, I think last
Allan: year she went to go see him play.
Tanya: What song does he sing?
Allan: Um, um, his big hit is, uh, oh crap. What’s. Victor, do you know anything about Fred Penner?
Victor: Okay. Um, I, I just know that we overplayed him in our house, uh, many, many years back, but the cat
Allan: came back.
That’s it. The cat came back. Gosh, it was his big hit. Uh, and, uh, yeah, so, um, Victor missed that first clip because I forgot to share the, my screen and the sound from my screen. So.
Victor: There is a connection because, uh, I did play that, uh, Bog and the Log song nonstop for the kids. Oh, yeah. They loved it. Yeah.
Yeah. Oh, there’s a connection to the episode there.
Allan: Yeah, for sure. So, I was just trying to explain why that was funny to, to American and, and other, and other listeners from other parts. Because they probably didn’t grow up with Fred Penner. He was kind [00:13:00] of the Canadian version of Mr. Rogers, I think. Alright, uh, so then Derry, uh, he’s, he’s standing on a stump.
Kind of looking over the land and he notices, uh, that someone’s growing marijuana on Wayne’s property. And that’s when we learned that Wayne hasn’t smoked the electric lettuce since he was in grade eight. Uh,
Victor: never heard that before.
Allan: That’s a new one. Electric lettuce. You’ve never heard that one? No, never, never.
Oh, I love that one. Uh, so scene one after the music, uh, back in the kitchen, the Hicks survey, the photographic evidence of the grow up on Wayne’s property, uh, dairy as usual is, uh, voraciously eating a yogurt. Uh, I remember I noticed
Tanya: that this time, so
Allan: there you go. And he suggests that they call the cops, but, uh, Katie disagrees.
Clip: Don’t be such a sally. You know how much shit needs doing around here? Well shit needs so much doing, really. The produce stand is a fucking shanty. If we sell this stuff, we can make thousands. I know a guy in the reserve. I don’t know. Why not? It’s cause I’m not Just kidding, we don’t give a fuck. [00:14:00] If the cops come around here, people will talk.
Don’t want people talking.
Allan: Uh, Wayne decides to go with Katie’s plan. So scene two, we have Tanus and the Natives and they’re at the skids hideout making a deal for cigarettes.
Clip: You know the deal, personal use only. I hear about you turning around and selling them, and I will hear about it. We’re gonna have a hell of a problem.
Here’s your smokes, diamond of Dart. Uh,
Allan: cut to the very next scene where the skids are selling the smokes for a buck a dart. So, uh, those doing the math, that’s a, uh, let’s see, dime. That’s a a thousand percent profit on the cigarettes.
Tanya: Excellent margin.
Allan: Yeah. Good margins. Um, , uh, and so one of the kids, and, and they’re selling ’em to kids, like you notice who’s in the lineup.
It’s a bunch of kids. Like, they, they don’t [00:15:00] even look like old enough for, for high school. So one of the kids, uh, gets on the phone and reports the skids to the natives. Scene three, the hicks are on the res. Meeting with Katie’s contact to sell the marijuana. Uh, they make a deal to sell the marijuana to the natives for 5, 000.
The Hicks accept and, uh, Derry notices a picture of Tannis on the wall.
Clip: Who’s this? That’s Tannis, my daughter. Should say strange, I suppose. What’s so strange about her? I’ll tell you. If you find yourselves in her way. You gotta swiftly get out of it
Allan: so it would appear Tice is not someone you wanna mess with.
Uh, incidentally, before we, before we move on, I forgot to mention a note that Matt sent me. He once sold a handful of cigarettes to drunk idiots at a party he threw for $5 a smoke. Holy. Oh my gosh. He took advantage of drunken desperation. This is a judgment free podcast, right?
Tanya: Uh, so is he now a sales guy?
No, he’s [00:16:00] not. It’s
Allan: actually, I can’t say what his role is at our company, but, uh, it’s, it’s not sales.
Tanya: My, my only non proud. Proud moment was, Oh, Jesus,
Allan: the fireworks,
Tanya: the fireworks. We, uh, we were very young and, uh, went camping and I bought, I don’t know, three boxes of fireworks. And there was like a handful of cherry bombs and, and, uh, Oh my goodness.
I think there was that burning schoolhouse or something. And I put a few things together that were just nothing. And I actually shoot a kid away because he didn’t have enough money for, for a little
Allan: kid. So, so we, yeah, we bought one of those multi pack fireworks with all bunch of things, but then they had like the little useless, like cherry bombs.
So Tanya’s idea is that let’s, let’s sell that.
Tanya: I think it was like
Allan: to make some of our money. Dollars.
Tanya: Uh, uh, For one or 5 for two. And the kid wanted [00:17:00] to buy five for two, but only brought me four. So I shoot them off for an extra dollar. She
Allan: said to look at a way to ask mommy for another dollar. Yeah. There was a, that was a, yeah, that’s a tennis moment, right?
Wow. Oh, and
Victor: you said this was last year.
Allan: No, no, no, this is, uh, we were very young pre pre pre marriage, probably early twenties. Yeah, we’re, we’re probably the same age as, as, uh, as the characters on this show back then, uh, uh, camping up, camping up in, uh, Sobel. Um, but yeah,
Tanya: Alan had a look of shock on his face.
Allan: It was at that moment. I knew she was, she, uh, she was the one, um,
Victor: she was just,
Allan: yeah. So, uh, Katie, after they make the deal for this, uh, for the marijuana, Katie gloats about the deal she set up, but Wayne is bothered by the fact that Tannis’s father didn’t stand up to shake his hand on the deal. So I retract my, my, my previous theory that he’s on the spectrum.
I just [00:18:00] think he’s an old man in a 20 year old body. I think that’s all it is. Like the stuff he complains about, I can hear my grandfather saying, saying, you know what I mean? Like What sort of guy doesn’t stand up to shake a man’s hand? Like, it’s just,
Tanya: I think you’re right. I think like the fact that he can sit there in the corner and be oblivious that the conversation has passed and continue on with his one liners.
Yeah.
Allan: Uh, so, uh, Derry’s not paying attention to Wayne’s comment, uh, because he’s, he’s, he’s thinking about tennis. He’s sweet on tennis and Katie demands a thank you from Wayne. So he thanks her. Uh, for being a degen with a drug dealer, uh, and then Katie punches Wayne in the leg and, uh, but he’s not looking like he’s purposely looking away and he warns her now, if you ever hit me and I find out about it as if she hadn’t touched him, there’s a kind of a little cute brother and sister moment there, uh, scene number four at the rink.
The hockey players are being pushed so hard by coach, uh, Victor, I’m sure [00:19:00] you enjoyed this scene. Jonesy’s throwing up in the locker room. Riley notices Schmeltz is acting strange, kind of scratching at his skin.
Clip: Hey Schmeltz, what the fuck’s wrong with you? Nothing, why?
Are you fucked up right now? Me? Yes, you! Are you on meth right now?
This is on Stewart, bro. You got that fucked, buddy. If we don’t fucking do it, no one else is going to. Ryan’s on the wall, bro. Hey, give your balls a tug, you tattletale. Not the right time, Shorty! How did this happen, bro? We don’t know any dusters that do meth, and now the fucking rookie. Well, we do know Stewart and Devin and all the skids, but that’s it, buddy.
You know, I heard the ginger in boots used to do that shit. What? And look where it got them smell.
Allan: So,
Tanya: and then the list [00:20:00] goes on and on and
Allan: on. The hockey players go on to discuss all the other people they know who are on drugs. And they’re realizing the problem is getting out of hand. So they decide they’re going to pay this kid to visit.
That’s a funny scene. And there you go. The, uh, the, the ostrich fuckers are back. So are you happy about that?
Tanya: They’re back. They are back.
Allan: Uh, scene number five, outside the dollar store, the skids are lured behind the building to an awaiting Tannis and friends.
Clip: What is this? This is where I ruin your life.
Hang on. No, no, no, no, no, no. You hang on. Alright? You’s rip me off and I’m fucking pissed. But, we can make this right. As un PC as this market may be, it’s pretty lucrative. So, if you sell the rest of the cigarettes at a buck a dart, We get 90 cents, you get 10. Deal. Deal. No! No deal! I spent all our money at that rave.
You’re going to step on some toes in any business venture, it’s inevitable. [00:21:00] We want to take this meth business to the next level. We cannot part with any more coin!
Allan: So, uh, the skids are ready to take a beating, uh, in order to, you know, to save some money. I was a little surprised with that. I didn’t think
Victor: everyone’s addressing when they’re ready, ready to fight.
Everyone just starts to take their shirts off.
Allan: Well, but then you
Victor: can take a shirt
Allan: off, uh, Stuart and Devin prepare to fight the natives, but they can barely get their shirts off, uh, much to tennis’s amusement. Uh, then she drops the hammer.
Clip: Is that how you think this works? You just take a beating and then we’re square?
A bunch of basics. You’ve been watching the wrong movies, boys.
Pay attention. This isn’t just about us anymore, alright? This is about everyone now. Your friends, your families. Until we get paid, they all suffer. Mmm, that’s [00:22:00] a heck of a name. Is that Danny Boyd or not? Let’s go. Huh? Let the burning of letter penning begin!
Allan: Very ominous. It’s gone all godfather here in Lutter Kenny.
Uh, let’s see. Scene number six. Back at the farm, the Hicks are building a new produce stand. Uh, I guess they’re anticipating the money they’re going to make from the marijuana sale. Katie. Brings the boys some refreshments and Squirrely Dan, uh, pulls his patent. Oh my gosh. Pulls his patent and did what I appreciates about your line and Wayne warns him to go easy.
And that’s when Squirrely Dan lays it all on the line. Your
Clip: sister’s hot, Wayne! There, I said it! I said it! I regret nothing. I regret NOTHING!
Tanya: Well, you have to paint the scene on that one. TO FAT TO RUN!
Allan: He had stepped on his line. TO
Tanya: FAT TO RUN! I didn’t know it was still going. Yeah, you have to paint the scene on that.
There’s [00:23:00] this fat man running, running for it. Thinking Wayne’s going to just pound them
Allan: and Wayne’s just standing there looking bewildered. What the hell is Squirrelly Dan doing? So here’s a note from Matt. Too fat to run. Welcome back, Squirrelly Dan. I cried laughing during this scene as he ran off into the field.
Yes. Uh, funny scene. Welcome back, SwirlyDan. I think even Tanya’s, uh, smiled or at least chuckled a bit when
Tanya: Absolutely. Absolutely. That was a, that was a golden moment there.
Victor: I had to rewind because I couldn’t, I didn’t, couldn’t make it out what he actually said. And then he started running away and I had to rewind it and listen to it again.
Allan: This is just hot. There, I said it. I regret nothing. I love it. I love it. Brilliant. I
Clip: REGRET NOTHING!
Allan: All right. Uh, let’s see, uh,
Victor: they didn’t have to take, uh, more than two takes for that.
Allan: I know. Right. For him, for, uh, Trevor Wilson, uh, next scenes, Joe’s Jonesy and Riley are at the [00:24:00] skids hideout with nylon stocking masks, as if anyone in town wouldn’t know who the fuck they are, uh, with the intention of trashing their math lab.
Uh, but when they get there, the lab’s already been trashed, which kind of disappoints them. So instead. They, they go off looking for the skids to beat them up.
Clip: I wonder who smashed up his place, bro. Fuckin long hair don’t care, bro. We find the skids and we have that fuckin Donnybrook, buddy. Buckets off?
Fuckin rip over there and just conflict. Fight, injure, kill. No, ball up, bang out, buds. Bust on, bust up? Download the scrap app. Hug Nasty. Truck you and Sperky. A little squabble. A little quibble. Smackdown. Sparse fat schism. We are at this level, but we need to get to
Allan: this
Clip: level!
Allan: Oh man, uh, note from Matt, Jonesy and Shorzy, I think he means, uh, Riley are legends, favorite characters.
Jen and I always laugh at their Dr. [00:25:00] Seuss tongue twisting talk. Uh, this episode proves again why it’s actually fun to watch with subtitles on. Uh, did you, go ahead.
Victor: I was going to say, uh, the one line where they say truculence, Bruxy, they’re referring to Brian Burke because that’s what he always likes to say.
Allan: Yeah, I thought you, I thought you’d get a kick out of that. So yeah, a little nice little call to leave fans and from the Brian Burke era, uh, scene number eight, back at the farm, it’s nighttime and Wayne and Katie run out of their house to find the new produce stand. Up in flames, and very, very dramatic scene.
The next day, Wayne and Derry are out surveying what’s left of the burnt produce stand, and Tannis father is there to pick up the marijuana plants. He fills the hicks in on what, um, may have happened.
Clip: Sorry about what happened here. No, about the beef. What beef? Between your meth pals and my daughter. Two things.
One, no one who does meth is a pal of mine, for fuck’s sake. Two, what are you [00:26:00] talking about? She was ripped off on a cigarette transaction by some fellas from Letterkenny. And then, if she’s owed money by someone from your town, she’s gonna make it everyone’s problem. It’s already been a bear of bad news.
Hope this serves as some sort of consolation. Count it if you like. She won’t stop until she gets what’s owed. If Tannis comes back to collect, she won’t be short staffed. Us neither.
Allan: Fuckin skids.
So yeah, um, So they’re anticipating some retribution from Tannis, and so they’re gonna have to get some, uh, reinforcements. Scene number nine. Behind the dollar store, the skids Walk around back and are confronted by the hockey players who are ready to kick their asses for turning Letterkenny into a meth town.
Just as they’re about to have a Donnybrook, they’re interrupted by Tannis and the Natives, and there’s a three way [00:27:00] standoff.
Clip: Power stop, Tannis. We got dibs on the Donnybrook with the skids. What’s a dibs? Dibs is a dibs is a dibs! Hey! Pipe down, shithead. You don’t get it, do you? This is about the money. So, until we get the money, Letterkenny will continue to burn.
Alright? Ona.
Allan: Tennis turns to leave, but standing there is Wayne and the Hicks. How are you now? Good and you?
Clip: Deadly.
Allan: That’s a very, very intense look Wayne gives when he says deadly. Wayne is brought back up along with Derry and Squirrelly Dan. He’s also joined by Joint Boy and two others that finally make tennis stop in her tracks.
Clip: The ginger. And boots. Those two guys fucked an ostrich. Just the ginger fucked an ostrich. [00:28:00] Allegedly. It would take like two people to fuck an ostrich, three even. It was a sick ostrich. Allegedly. You are fucking ruthless bringing a couple of dudes like that here. In his defense, it’s usually not the type of brick I am.
If they fucked an ostrich. What else have they fucked? Just the ginger. Fucked an ostrich, allegedly. I ask again if they fucked an ostrich. What else have they fucked? It’s almost not worth thinking about. So there’s that
Tanya: ostrich. I’m telling you, it gets in your head and you, you, you have to like, you just, you pause and you go now, how would that work?
It’s like when you see like a really, really tiny woman with a giant man, and you just kind of
Clip: for a
Tanya: moment, just kind of stop and pause and go now, how would that work? Uh, it, the, the ostrich thing just kind of gets in your head and, and, and messes with it.
Allan: Victor has his ostrich background on him. , so, so Tanya, we finally meet [00:29:00] ginger and boots.
Tanya: Well, did we, , did we though? Because like really though they’re standing behind people, we can’t really get a good look at their face. And even in the additional seeds following after that. Yeah,
Allan: let’s not get to, we don’t
Tanya: really. See, or hear, or, or there was, but
Allan: they play an important role in what happens next.
They’re a
Tanya: flash.
Allan: Squirrelly Dan is so funny in this episode, like in this scene, especially too. I feel like the last like five episodes of this season have led up to the
Tanya: word. Allegedly like three times. How is that like a, no, that is not a. squirrelly. What else does he say? That’s the only thing he says in the whole, that whole clip.
He
Allan: says more, he says more in the, in the, in the next clip. Uh, what did you think when you saw, when you finally saw red and boots, uh, Victor?
Victor: No, I, I, I wasn’t as, uh, disappointed as I, I, I finally, you know, you get to put a face to, uh, to a name. So that’s good. Um, it was [00:30:00] interesting cause they, it’s like they had a magnetic field around them that nobody actually, and rather than attract, they were repelling anything that came near them.
Allan: So it
Victor: was a
Allan: pretty, pretty
Victor: smart move by a special superpower. Yeah.
Allan: It was pretty smart move by Wayne to, to get them to come and help them. Uh, for sure. He was, I love how Do you
Victor: think, do you think Wayne knew that that’s their superpower or that they were tough?
Allan: I think, uh, either way, he, he, they needed some backup because of the, the natives were going to be a, a, a, you know, a tough group to handle.
And, uh, but I, I think it didn’t hurt that. Yeah, that none of them No one wants
Tanya: to touch them. Yeah, exactly.
Allan: That was brilliant. Yeah, it was. Tannis lets Wayne say his piece.
Clip: You just got ripped off. It’s too bad that happened. And? And it’s none of my business, till it was my business. Now, we could beat the fuck out of ya’s right here, and mark my words, one day, we’ll get ya.
But that doesn’t solve our problem here. Dary? [00:31:00] Your name’s
Dary? Darryl, just something my friends call me sometimes. We gotta put the damage you’re doing around Letterkenny to bed. That’s 5k. What are yous owed? More than
Allan: that? WHAT THE
Clip: FUCK IS THAT?! See? He says more. We’re gonna call it 5k. Is that what we’re gonna do? We are. You’re gonna take it and leave Letterkenny.
And if you come back for so much as to pump your gas, when he gives a warning, you don’t repeat it. We’ll get you. Deal. Beats fighting an ostrich fucker.
Allan: So squirrelly Dan’s little like blow up there is the funniest thing. What the heck does
Tanya: he even say?
Allan: I don’t know what he says, but it’s just funny how he reacts.
Just, just so.
Victor: He just flies off the handle. Yeah, he just like, it’s, it’s a
Allan: side of him. We never, we’ve never seen before. Just like, he’s like so high strung. Um, yeah. [00:32:00] And, uh, yeah. Beats, uh, fighting, fighting, uh, nostril truckers. So. Uh, yeah, it was a, it was the right thing to do to bring red and boots to the fight.
Uh, so let’s see here. Tannis goes to walk away after making the deal, but not before turning back to the skids for one final demoralizing word.
Clip: I gotta know. This has got to sting a little bit, right? I mean, you’re short, you’re ugly, you’re incompetent, you’re fucking Baroque. You’re a fucking addict. You’re hopeless.
Yeah. I mean you are such a tragedy that even all these people here who hate you will bail you out just so they can, what’s the word, erase you. My cousin was born with fetal alcohol syndrome and he works at a fucking bank. What’s your fucking excuse? Hey! I’m not talking to you. Look at you. You got bloodshot eyes, runny nose, fucking greasy hair, scabs [00:33:00] everywhere.
What is that? What’s that right there? You see that? Is that cum? Dried cum on your fucking zipper? I’m so sorry. Oh, you are pointless. I bet the second you popped out your mom wish she had a sewn up snapper. Probably would have been better if you grew to this sickly size inside her womb and killed the both of you before you fucking rolled out and started fucking up.
Bitch. Ugh, what? I’ll tell you what’s got to sting a little bit.
Well fucking get after it then!
Allan: Katie kicks Tannis in the box and incites the mob to fight. A little note here from Matt. How uncomfortable was Tannis attack on Stuart? Just brutal. But love the way the, the town loyalty that followed. So yeah, that was a brutal, brutal scene. Um, I had to, I had to clip the whole thing because there’s no way to describe just how brutal [00:34:00] that was.
Tanya: Yeah, she, she really, yeah, that was,
Allan: it was like, I like the way, I mean, I don’t know, did you feel sorry for Stuart? Like, I did.
Tanya: Yeah, he, she, but at the same time, I was like one of those again, moments where you hope that he was listening and doing Took it to
Allan: the heart to
Tanya: heart to to propel himself into bettering himself once more.
Allan: Well, I mean, at the beginning, you know, even Jonesy and Riley are kind of agreeing with her and cheering her on. But then it just takes a turn to the point where even Wayne is like, Tana, stop. Like, yeah, you’re taking it too far. What do you think, Victor?
Victor: Yeah, you know, same thing, right? I mean, this is the same guy that two episodes ago, uh, you know, was kind of staging himself to be the villain and, and, and doing quite, quite well at it and, and turning everybody into an addict.
Uh, and now he was really taken [00:35:00] down and, and yeah, you can’t help, but feel sorry for him just because it’s so. Brutal what she’s saying. And yeah, Jonesy, uh, yeah, he definitely, uh, toned it down and then eventually just it all turned, uh, and then they all turned on her. So, um, and, and you know, they did a really great job between that very uncomfortable scene and The melee that followed, it was obviously the most comical part of the episode, because
Allan: well, I don’t know, I think, I think actually the, the, the, the scenes with, uh, with between the 10 tennis and, and Wayne were the most comical leading up to that.
Uh, but yeah, the fight was pretty comical.
Victor: The fight was, yeah, I mean, I mean, yeah, we, you know, we can kind of pull hairs on, you know, what’s funnier, but. Uh, the, the fight scene, the choreography, all the little things that happened, all the golden nuggets that followed. So I wrote down
Allan: all hell breaks loose and at first it’s not apparent who’s fighting who, uh, but there’s a hilarious scene where one of the skids ends [00:36:00] up between red and boots and looks terrified to be there.
Victor: That was brilliant. Oh man, I nearly fell off my chair when that happened. Yeah.
Allan: But then it becomes apparent that it’s a letter Kenny versus the natives. Joint boy lights a joint between throwing punches. Three skids team up on one native, which seems about even the hockey players are even fighting the natives.
Although no one comes close to red and boots. They’re kind of just standing there. They look like they’re disappointed. No one’s like coming up to them to fight.
Tanya: They look like they were like the, the, like the, the security watching the fight, but not actually stepping in.
Allan: So, and then during the male melee, um, melee, melee, whatever the fight during the fight, uh, you see the money falling to the ground.
Uh, Wayne, uh, picks it up and then picks tennis up, gives her the money and escort escorts her away. So even, even though they, they ended up fighting, he’s still giving her the money because he knows. Fight or not, the [00:37:00] only thing that’s going to stop her from, uh, you know, her wrath on letter Kenny is to give her the money.
Tanya: Yeah, but is she going to leave it at that? She just got kicked in the box.
Allan: Well, but
Victor: she got kicked in the box, but he picked up the money and gave it to her. And so I think that kind of evens it out because they could have just taken it back.
Allan: Yeah, yeah. So I think, yeah, so Wayne thinks that it’s about the money and tennis says as much right at the beginning of the whole confrontation, she says, it’s about the money.
It’s you, you can take a beating right now, but we’re still going to come back for the money. So, so, uh, yeah. Uh, how
Tanya: was it that it was going to be more than 5k?
Allan: Yeah, I don’t know that that math didn’t add up. know how many cigarettes they sold. How many
Tanya: cigarettes were in that bag? Yeah, at 10 cents. At a dollar a bag?
I’m like, no, no, no. All right.
Allan: But anyway, so, uh, next scene. Oh, what?
Victor: They, they, they, they must have known when they were selling those cigarettes that they’re going to totally scam them. I mean, that has to have, you know, because who can smoke that [00:38:00] many cigarettes? Yeah, no,
Allan: for sure. I think it was probably a way of tennis to enlist.
The skids to work for the natives, right? Because then in the end the deal she makes for them is you get to keep 10 cents. We’ll keep 90 cents Well, that’s what they paid for the cigarettes to begin with was 10 cents a piece. So yeah, um, yeah So next scene at modine’s the hicks the hockey players and the skids, uh minus boots and red by the way Uh are all sitting I thought
Tanya: they were there.
Allan: No, they weren’t there Uh, not that I saw it. No, they weren’t there unless they were in the back or whatever, but not at the table. Sitting at the same table, battered, bruised and bloody, and bonding over the fight.
Clip: Well, who the funk had fucked? Fuck, huh? Mm hmm. I was a top tier sucker, Riley. You too, Jonesy.
Thanks, boys. I’d sucker you guys in your sleep. Still, makes my top three suckers, boys. An A1 box shot, you fucking barbarian. Never claimed to be a lady. Heh. Did you stop and smoke a [00:39:00] joint for a bit and then jump right back in there? Back to the gods, fellas.
Allan: Gail brings them a bottle of Gussan brew on the house to share, and the group celebrates a triumphant moment passing the bottle around, but then the hockey players refuse to pass the bottle to the skids.
So, uh, Katie takes it, takes a shot, and then passes it to Stuart and Devin. Uh, Stuart looks around timidly before taking a shot, but no one objects. So, I think at that moment, he kind of felt, uh, you know, part of the group.
Tanya: So, go backwards, though, because Wayne said he wanted nothing to do, and they were not friends of his, and now they’re sharing a drink.
Allan: Well, they just, because they just fought together. That changes everything.
Victor: None of this was planned, right? I mean, this was just.
Allan: But it’s interesting. So I think back to that scene where, where they’re, uh, uh, uh, out in front of the, uh, burnt down produce stand. And, uh, so, I mean, there’s probably no answer to this because only the writer would know.
But when, [00:40:00] uh, when, when, when Wayne and Derry learned from Tannis’s father that this was all over, like a dispute between the skids and, Um, and the natives, do you think when, when, uh, Wayne smashes that board and he says fucking skids and he walks away, do you think at that point there, he already knew he, what he had to do was give the money to, to the natives?
I think so. You think so?
Tanya: Probably. Or was he just pissed at
Allan: the skids at that point? And, you know, like, it’s, it’s an interesting, like, it doesn’t mean anything either way, but it’s interesting to think that maybe at that point he already knew I just got five grand from, from this guy. Um, I’m gonna have to, you gotta fork it over.
I’m gonna have to fork it over just to save the skids. Oh. And to save letter. Kenny. Not, he’s not doing it for them. He’s doing it for the town.
Tanya: No, I think he, I, I don’t think he would’ve came to that conclusion already. He just learned about why, what the reason was. I think it was just that he was pissed and smacked the board.
That
Victor: there’s a, there’s a [00:41:00] separation between the money and like, so, so he’s getting the money to save letter. Kenny. Mm-Hmm. . He is fighting. To because of the, because they were insulting Stewart, right? I think that that’s, um, that that’s the separation there, right? The money and the fight are two separate separate things.
Allan: Yeah.
Victor: So I think that’s why he picked up the money and gave it anyway afterwards.
Allan: Yeah. Yeah. So I think there’s a, it shows another part of his character. Like, like Matt would say, he’s, he’s the protector and even people he doesn’t necessarily like, but because they’re from letter Kenny and they grew up together, he’s going to defend them against outsiders.
Tanya: Absolutely. Yeah.
Allan: Yep.
Tanya: He’s a stand up man, that one.
Allan: That’s right. And so after this whole celebration, Wayne has the last word.
Clip: You know, I gotta say, I’m looking forward to a little bit of peace and quiet around here. Here it is. There ain’t no reason to get excited, am I right? Yeah. Yeah.
Allan: That’s a nice little call back to episode one.
Uh, that was called ain’t no reason to [00:42:00] get excited. Uh, but then just as a Wayne finishes saying that, uh, Tyson played by Jay Burton walks into Modine’s.
Clip: All right. Who the fuck is the toughest guy in here?
Allan: All heads turn to Wayne, who stands up and says, that’d be me. So the music starts up again and Wayne walks out behind Modine’s, turns around and gets knocked out by one punch.
Fade to black for whole credits. And that’s how the, uh, the, uh, season finale ends. Is this a
Tanya: new character we’re going to learn about?
Allan: Uh, yeah. Uh, I think it’s safe to say that we do, we do see more of, uh, uh, what did I call him? What’s his name? Jake? You
Victor: called him I think you called him Tyson.
Allan: Yeah, his name’s Tyson.
Victor: And, uh, and then I wondered how you knew his name aside from just skipping ahead.
Allan: No, uh, yeah, so I knew his name because I looked it up on, on the, uh, uh, Letterkenny wiki. Um, but also he does, he comes back. It it’s, it’s hilarious. Cause wait, [00:43:00] wait till you see when he comes back anyway. But, um, so at the end of this episode, somebody actually manages to knock Wayne out and that that’s your cliffhanger.
Uh, and then there’s just the post credit scene. I’m wondering, Victor, did you watch it?
Victor: The version I was watching did not have a post credit scene, so I kind of felt that probably there was, but I missed out on it.
Allan: I feel like after this season, there’s no more post credit scenes. I think the post credit scenes were just for a season one thing.
I could be wrong. I know that at some point along the way, they stopped doing them, and I feel like season one was kind of it. Uh, but so there was a post credit scene, uh, in this one and it’s just Devin and Stewart and they’re hanging out and Devin’s for some reason reciting lines of Shakespeare and Stewart’s getting annoyed with the dialogue, you know, like, why is this person saying it this?
Why aren’t they saying it this way? Why don’t they say what they mean? Blah, blah, blah. And Devin’s just like, uh, you know, just reciting the lines and saying, well, it’s [00:44:00] because it’s poetic and it’s whatever he’s, he’s defending it. And then in the end, Stewart compliments Devin on his acting. Yeah. Uh, and Devin asked for a hug and Stuart turns him down and that’s how the scene ends.
They were
Tanya: so that, that like epic teenager, there was like a post or something or a pole that was burnt by the looks of it that was standing up in the corner and they poke at it and it moves and then they run like they did something wrong or something. It was, it was quite comical.
Allan: Yeah, it’s, it’s funny.
But yeah, I feel like because it was centered around the skids, Victor would have hated it.
Victor: Um, not necessarily, I mean, I didn’t really hate anything too much about the skit this episode, so, um,
Allan: wow, we’re, we’re, we’re maybe we’re, maybe Victor’s melting,
Tanya: we’re being worn down.
Allan: Yeah, we really are. Oh, come on, come on guys.
All right. So let’s, let’s, uh, Let’s talk. Okay. Final kind of, um, uh, impressions of the, of this [00:45:00] episode, uh, no, no ratings or anything yet. Just, just kind of give me your, your overall impression. Uh, go ahead, Tanya. Why don’t you start
Tanya: overall impression? Um, it was, it was, it was okay. Okay. I’m going to say maybe good, maybe,
Allan: maybe good.
All right. Uh, Anything in particular, like,
Tanya: no, it was just, again, the character building and had some, some good funny moments there. It had, uh, it had some, it had a good balance between comedy and, um, um, an actual storyline to it, which, which, yeah, I appreciate, I appreciate
Allan: all right, Victor. What did you think?
Victor: I thought it was the most complete episode of the season. Um, it was, it was watchable from the very beginning to the end. Uh, at no point was I questioning, uh, life choices in terms of kind of getting into this show. Um, I, I, I kind of felt, I felt [00:46:00] engaged in the episode all the way from beginning to end. Um, and, and I think that’s a good thing.
Allan: Okay. Well, I mean, uh, I agree with. Both of you. I agree more with Victor. I think I thought this was a great episode. Well, I mean, it was, it had, like you said, it had everything. It had the, the, the comedic moments, like really funny moments. It had some really dramatic moments. I thought, like, where some state, there were some stakes.
Some high stakes there, which, which, uh, I think kind of made the funny moments, like it amplified those moments even more, uh, it had a, it basically had every main character in it, except for Pastor Glenn, interestingly.
Tanya: That’s okay. That’s okay. Yeah,
Allan: yeah. By all means,
Tanya: we don’t.
Allan: And, and, and McMurray, but I, I wouldn’t call McMurray a main character yet, but yeah, I guess of the, the main groups.
You had, you had the, the Hicks and the skids and the hockey players represented. And, uh, uh, I, I loved it. Like I thought, you know, it showed how, how the small [00:47:00] town bands together, even, even when they don’t maybe get along individually or internally, uh, when faced with an external threat, they’re there, they get together and they, they take care of business.
So that was pretty good. Um, Let’s see, uh, and, uh, the only note I have here from, uh, Matt is overall epic episode. So let’s start with ratings. We’ll go with, uh, Tanya first. Uh, would you give this a fresh clearance or compost?
Tanya: Sorry, long pause. Um, fresh clearance. It’s, it’s really, it’s really up there. It is. Wow.
Allan: Okay,
Tanya: see if there was like a level between,
Allan: can I, can I remind you, you gave fart book a fresh, just, just, just, you know, I’m not trying to convince you either way, but, uh, so that’s your, that’s your bar right now.
Tanya: I, again, I’m being worn down now.
I feel like, I [00:48:00] feel like I’m understanding it a bit more and I’m, and I’m getting it a little bit and I’m laughing a little bit more this one. There wasn’t anything that, that really upset me. Um, I, I, it did. I like the storyline. Okay. I’m going to, I’m going to go for it. I’m going to give it a fresh.
Allan: Wow.
Matt’s not even here to witness this. Hold on. Hold on though. Uh, Victor, that was, that was
Victor: a little bit like going to the dentist and having your teeth pulled out.
Tanya: Didn’t you like the suspense? That was suspenseful.
Allan: She’s trying to build suspense. Victor, what, what’s your rating? Fresh, clearance, or compost?
Victor: Well, I won’t keep you on the edge of your seat like Tanya, that was, uh, easy, hard, fresh.
Allan: Really? Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That’s awesome. An easy, hard, fresh. So crisp. It’s crisp. It’s like, uh. It’s
Clip: crisp.
Allan: Yeah. It’s all, there’s still some green on it still. Like it’s not, it’s like, like, I don’t know how much you love green peppers.
Victor: Don’t, don’t even have to check the [00:49:00] expiry date on that sucker.
Allan: That’s great. Um,
Clip: Yeah. Yeah.
Allan: I won’t keep you in suspense of Matt’s rating. He said fresh rating with, with, with an exclamation mark. Uh, so he absolutely gave it a fresh and guess what? And dammit, he warned me. I needed a sound effect for this.
Um, and I don’t have one. Um, but yes, of course it’s a fresh, like, this is a great episode. It has everything. It has drama. It has like, it has, it has stakes. It has.
Tanya: It, it, it does funny. It covers it all.
Allan: It’s got heart. It really has heart and, and, uh, and it’s squirrelly Dan. I mean, squirrelly Dan is in. So right away that should give like a plus one.
Just
Tanya: him running in the field and just trying to, trying his best to stand up to Wayne. There you go.
Victor: Awesome. I, I, I think when you get four fresh, uh, uh, ratings, you, what I think that equals a harvest,
Allan: a harvest. Well, here we go. We’ll just [00:50:00] use this for now. Wondrous. Wondrous. That’s what it gets a wondrous.
Uh, all right. So let’s get to our, um, top five rate ratings and Tanya. So, so far you have at number one, fart book, uh, number two, super soft birthday. Number three, ain’t no reason to get excited. Number four, rave and number five, wingman Wayne. I, I feel like, uh, at least one of these is going to get knocked off today.
Where would you put a fuss in the back?
Tanya: Uh, I’ll see. Fart book was, it feels like it was so long ago and I don’t really remember it as well as now this episode, I’m going to say this one,
Allan: this one’s number one.
Tanya: Yeah. It will go to the top and then everything else will fall under that.
Allan: Wow. That’s awesome.
Okay. Victor, uh, where would you rate? Oh, let me, let me give you your ratings out. So at number one, you have fart book, number two, super soft. Birthday. Number three, ain’t no reason to get excited. Number four, rave and number five, [00:51:00] wingman Wayne. Where would you rate a fuss in the backbush?
Victor: Yeah. So this is really great because we finally get to knock wingman off the, off the list and we never have to talk about it again.
So, um, so that’s great. So we’ll put this one at the very top, just like Tanya and it’s going to push everything down by one.
Allan: Wow. Wow.
Victor: And get that wing at least it’s got wings and it can fly. So, um, uh, it’s not going to fall to its death.
Allan: All right. And before I give my rating, I’m going to let, just let you all know that Matt moves this one to number one, also on his list easily.
So that knocks fart book off of his list. Finally, I think he’ll be very happy to, to, to learn about that. So three number ones. Um, let’s see my list. Super soft birthday. Ain’t no reason to get excited. Rave wing man, Wayne and fart book. I mean, I’m happy to see fart book go. Uh, yeah, it’s gotta be, I guess it’s number one.
It’s gotta be number one because it’s, it’s the most like, like Victor, you [00:52:00] said it is the most complete episode. It’s got everything in it. Um, so far that makes this show really good. So, uh, yes, number one for me as well. So, uh, four straight, you
Tanya: really need to get a sound bite for that then. I know we just all like, wow, that was.
I know four for four. Is there like a Harvest Moon song? You
Allan: know, how about something like this? This is, um, this is a letter Kenny, right? So maybe this would be it.
Clip: They give your balls a tug. You Ted fucker. I mean,
Allan: it’s very apropos for this show.
Clip: Oh, brilliant. Let’s
Allan: see. So, uh, great. Let’s just go to some lesser comments from, uh,
Tanya: no, you need to play the other one.
Allan: Number three. Number
Tanya: three. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, all four of us. Jinx,
Allan: you owe me a Coke. Jinx, you owe me a Coke.
Tanya: All four of us.
Allan: Yes, yes, we all. That’s right, yeah, because we all said number one at the same time.
You’re right. That was a good idea. There you go. [00:53:00] Um, I’m just going to move over to listener comments for a second. Uh, we have a few from Twitter. Our buddy Jason Cutler. Uh, he says that this podcast is sticky. I give it the big eyes. So I think that’s, that’s a good thing. Thank you, Jason, for, for continuing to listen.
Um, uh,
Tanya: sticky. It’s like saying the word moist. It’s just a little sticky and moist.
Victor: Appropriate for letter Kenny.
Allan: Yes, absolutely. Appropriate for letter Kenny. Uh, this one here in response to Matt’s, uh, in depth, uh, possum research from last week. Yeah. My Doberman and bloodhound made one pass out one, one as in possum, I guess, pass out in our yard just by barking at it.
We thought it was dead. So we carried it off to the woods when we went, uh, When we went back to it, I guess the next day, the sucker was gone. So that was from Sherryann Grace, just, uh, uh, sharing a possum story of her own. Thank you, Sherryann for listening. [00:54:00] And then, uh, Joshua Burley from, uh, Pennsylvania said, enjoy the show.
So far makes me want to do homework. Now to Joshua, by all means, follow along with us and Hey, maybe one day we’ll have you on to as, as a, as a guest panelist. If, uh, if you want to talk about, you know, let us know what your favorite episode is and we’ll have you on. Um, so yeah, uh, I mean, final thoughts on, on, on the season finale or yeah, the season finale for season one, uh, Tanya, uh, have we changed your mind?
I know you, you joke that we’re wearing you down. But is it that we’re wearing you down? Are you just understanding it more? Like you’re understanding the appeal of the show more.
Tanya: I’m understanding it. Yeah. Okay. I’m understanding it a little bit more. You’re, you are wearing me down every day. You come out with another, uh, Leonard Kenny reference.
Um, making coffee, you will say something or the kids, you will turn and look at me and say something. Um,
Allan: what was it today? I’m at this level and I gotta be at this [00:55:00] level.
Tanya: You even said something cause Veronica, our daughter was, uh, running around without a shirt on and, and.
Allan: Veronica put some clothes on and in the back of my head, I could hear Katie saying not my forte and it just shattered me like I don’t want, I don’t want to think of my six year old daughter in that way.
Tanya: Oh dear. Yes, it’s, it’s becoming life altering at this point. And, uh, yeah, again, you’re wearing me down. So, no, but I do find myself, uh, and all joking aside, um, looking forward to the homework. Okay.
Allan: Ooh, all right, getting there. That’s progress in there. Victor, final thoughts.
Victor: Yeah, I think, um, you know, I’m actually looking forward to season two just because, um, how well it ended and it actually ended on a pretty good cliffhanger.
So you kind of want to find out what happened. I’m hoping it’s one of those things where they answer that, that they continue with that as opposed to pretend that never happened. So we’ll see. Um, but yeah. Uh, you [00:56:00] know, looking forward to the next season. I’m glad, you know, it’s only six episodes so far.
Right. So, uh, when you consider that the sample size is so small, it’s, it’s, it’s kind of easy to be more forgiving. And when I kind of eliminate the worst episode, um, I think that it’s a pretty good show and, uh, yeah, just looking, looking forward to see what happens next.
Allan: So let’s talk about that cliffhanger for a second, because.
To me, the weakest part of this episode is the cliffhanger. I found it, I felt it was kind of lazy because it was like this great story that they told and in the end, I mean, they could have just ended it. No, no, no, no. Well, let me finish. So they could have just ended it at them around the table taking shots and Stewart, you know, feeling part of the group.
But it’s like, Oh shit, it’s the season finale. We have to end on the cliffhanger. What are we going to do? Oh, somebody has got to come in and knock Wayne out. Like I felt like it was kind of like tacked on at the end. And, and you know what I mean? Like, I don’t know,
Tanya: but that’s how they started this whole thing.
[00:57:00] The first, the first episode was who is Wayne going to start fighting again?
Clip: Who’s he going to
Tanya: fight and knocking a person for the first time. in a while. And, and, and I don’t know, it’s just fitting that he went looking for fights. And, uh, here’s the fight that came look for him and ended up knocking him on his ass.
Victor: I thought it was totally, totally appropriate. It, it, it did the full circle. Um, and it didn’t, it didn’t make it about the cliffhangers. So I kind of, I appreciated that or I appreciate that about it because, uh, you know, it didn’t linger. That’s where I liked about it, you know, it, the episode was good. It was complete.
And if, had they ended it without a cliffhanger, then I would have had questions. I would have thought, is there even a need for a season two? It’s kind of, you know, they kind of wrapped it up. Uh, let’s try something. Let’s [00:58:00] go to another small town. Sure. But
Allan: I mean, I feel like the cliffhanger could have maybe been more involved with the actual story that was happening then it, I, it, I’m, I’m, it’s funny right now because, uh, what’s happening right now is I’m criticizing the show and the two of you are defending it.
Oh,
Tanya: my.
Allan: Right. But,
Tanya: um, I’d be opening up another beer at by now.
Victor: I, I don’t know, Al, because I think typically when you look at shows, right, you, you, you want to start each season with a whole new set of storylines and had they drawn out anything that happened in this episode into the cliffhanger, then you don’t all of a sudden put a, um, uh, you don’t close it.
And I think that this was a way to do it.
Allan: Well, I mean, I’ll admit it’s a small point. And again, like the whole, I love the episode. I mean, it’s my number one so far, whatever. It’s just. To me, like, I felt like it was just tacked on at the end. Like there was this like triumphant moment. Everyone’s having a great time.
And then [00:59:00] suddenly somebody, Oh, what are we going to do for a cliffhanger? Oh, let’s have somebody walk into the bar, challenge Wayne to a fight. And
Tanya: they closed it the way they opened it. They, they, they, it was just, what was it when they were at the table? And, and he, I can’t recall now what, uh, his words were exactly, but again, he was
Allan: looking forward to some peace and quiet.
Tanya: It called back to the first episode. Oh yeah. It’s a callback.
Victor: Isn’t
Allan: it?
Victor: It’s called back. It’s a love letter, whatever you want to call it. It made sense. And, uh, um, it worked.
Allan: Did you hear that Matt? I got Victor and Tanya to defend the show.
Awesome. All right. So, uh, next week, uh, we’re not gonna do a recap of the first episode next week. And, but what we’re, we’re going to do is we’re actually going to have, um, a guest. On next week, uh, we’re going to have Dean Giles from the, uh, how are you now podcast? That’s the, uh, letter Kenny podcast out in Seattle.
We’re going to have him on next week and we’re going to have like just a [01:00:00] nice little chat with him, interview him, find out what turned him onto the show and get it like a, an American’s perspective on, on, uh, on what we’ve seen so far next week. And then we’ll, we’ll continue with the recaps, uh, uh, the, the following week.
Does that sound all right?
Tanya: Sounds good.
Allan: Awesome. So, uh, Looking forward to having Dean Giles on next week. Uh, yeah. So, uh, for this, uh, to play us out here, I’m going to play one of the tracks from this, um, episode called send them by the serial killers.
All right. And that’s all we have for this episode. Next week, we won’t have a recap. Instead. We’ll be joined by Dean Giles of the how are you now podcast. They claim to be the toughest podcast in letter Kenny. Well, we’ll see about that. Please rate us on iTunes. If you like the show, follow us on Twitter at produce stand pod.
Uh, we also invite you to visit our website, the produce on produce, stand pod. com, uh, for episode recaps and a list of our [01:01:00] favorite episodes. Thanks for joining us. Uh, now we’re going to, Oh, I didn’t even write something for this part. What are we going to do now? Are we not
Tanya: watching an episode next week?
We’re not,
Allan: we’re, we’re, we’re just going to visit with, with, uh, our buddy Dean from the other podcast. Thanks. No
Tanya: homework. No, I just said I was looking forward to homework.
Victor: Listen, listen to one or two episodes of the other podcast. Yeah.
Allan: Yeah. Listen to a few episodes of that. Oh, the other thing is there’s this great, uh, W five, uh, clip on, on YouTube on letter.
Kenny. Uh, it’s, it’s worth the watch. Maybe we can discuss it next episode. So I’ll send you guys a link for that. Uh, W five is a Canadian, uh, news, uh, magazine show, and they do like a whole 20 minutes on, on letter. Kenny, what makes it great. And on, uh, they, they focus on Jared. Yeah. His, his, uh, upbringing. But is it
Victor: going to have, is it going to have spoilers?
Tanya: Is it going to? Yeah,
Allan: no, no, I watched it. It doesn’t, it doesn’t spoil too much of what’s coming up. So I think it’d be fine, but it talks about Jared and it talks about tear, uh, Jacob tyranny, [01:02:00] his co writer. Um, it’s, it’s, it’s really good. So I’ll send you guys a link and then we can maybe talk about that in the next episode.
Sound good. Okay. Okay. All right. From all of us at the produce stand, have a good night.
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