With a 15 year run and being the first Series brought on Mir you'd think it would a be more well known among Americans (I can't speak for it's popularity or ubiquitous in Canadian society).
I have been watching it on PBS for many years now and find it hillarious, though I do see how it could be unenjoyable to others.
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Oh this show became pretty well known, all right :)
It came here to Houston in 1994. I remember people at this place I worked at were talking about it, it was great, as we all discovered it at the same time. Red Green (Steve Smith actually) himself did a lot of pledge drives live and it wasn't long before it went to stations all over the country; I think literally Arkansas was the only state that didn't have it (a friend of mine lived in Jonesboro at the time and he said they only had one station there, no PBS. They showed where all these states were that were showing the pledge drive and many cities hit whatever the pledge amount was for the night, they kept on having the possum squeal go off whenever a city hit the amount :) ).
So yeah, it's done decently over the years.
I loved watching it on PBS. My family wouldn't watch it.
shareI remember seeing glimpses of it late at night on my local PBS station for years but didn't think much of it because I assumed nothing worth watching would be on PBS. It wasn't until the series was almost over that I started watching it and got caught up on the whole thing. This show and Duct Tape Forever should at least be shown on RFDTV, that other Rural network, CMT, and/or Hallmark.
Seems like there's a disconnect of wholly original Canadian shows being on American networks. Corner Gas was briefly syndicated on WGN. I have never seen Trailer Parks Boys aired in U.S. except when the three main characters appear on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Four movies thus far and I have never even seen them on premium cable movies channels like HBO or Showtime.
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Trailer Park Boys aired on Comedy Central for a while, about ten years ago.
The Red Green Show didn't get to Kansas City PBS until 1999 or 2000, I think, but I was fortunate enough to have a grandfather in Dallas (one of the first PBS stations to carry the show) who recorded every episode for me and shipped the tapes up to me.
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If it was on CC I missed it and it must've been heavily censored except maybe if it was aired late at night. Bad enough when they air and censor Archer.
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I loved the hell out of this show! One of the better Canadian sitcoms I've seen, and one of the funniest ones,too. I caught it on PBS (in the Detroit metro area) late one weekend around 1998 or '99 or so, and then found out that it was being shown on CBC Channel 9 Windsor 5 days a week bwt noon and one, so naturally I binged on it and even taped some episodes every chance I got. Just about the whole cast cracked me up---out of all the crazy people on the show (which was pretty much everyone except Red Green and Harold,lol) the good-looking Ranger Gord definitely stood out as the most truly out there/insane----all those years spent alone out in the forest obviously got to him and drove him nuts,lol.
Interestingly enough, I read somewhere around the time that the show had,surprisingly,actually gained a lot of female viewers along the way (for a show with virtually no female cast members) so they had to temper some of their remarks about women on the show. Liked the silent black and white parts of the show, where Red and this white-haired dude guy (the show's co-creator/producer, Rick Greene) would try to fix something, and just screw up things up even more in the process. I haven't seen it in years----I did catch some part of the DUCT TAPE FOREVER film years ago though. I would say it was more like a cult show, since it was never what you call a mainstream show---too weird and off-the-wall to be one, but that's what made it unique and fun as hell to watch in the first place.
Also, it took a while to hit many of the big cities PBS. It did really well in rural / more country areas, but I lived outside of Chicago and the main Chicago PBS did not carry - but many other ones in Illinois did.
Seattle, Washington: it was a hit along with the rest of the state, because it was so close to Canada as well and a lot of woodsy areas that can relate to the show!
Larger Midwestern cities had it, but I don't think New York, Philadelphia or Miami did… did they?
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PBS in Des Moines and Dallas got it very early.
A shame that the IMDb message boards are closing; else we might have been able to discuss it further.
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