Please Like My Thing: Letterkenny

[siegeofangels]

"Letterkenny - Cold Open" (Watch on YouTube)

You may have seen this floating around; it's the opening of the first episode. They're always titled "Cold Open" on Youtube and I love them for that; they just dump you into the scene and let you figure out what's going on yourself.

A beautiful show made of rural Canada is going on, that's what. It's fighting and drinking and smoking like you can't do on US TV; it's hicks and skids and hockey players.

I grew up in sorta-rural Michigan and this show gets me nostalgic, I feel like I went to high school with all of these people.

The humor tends toward wordplay and dick jokes and the kind of "drag out the joke reaaaaaaaaaal long" like sometimes they do on Brooklyn 99. It's just . . . it's silly, it's small-town, it's super Canadian. Please like it.

Things I like:

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- Stewart, who is criminally underappreciated and. Like. Imagine if you combined the Way brothers in their greasy basement-dwelling phase, but less successful and more meth.

- Reilly and Jonesy and how stupidorable they are and how they're both dating Katy

"Letterkenny | Valentine's Day" (Watch on YouTube)

- Squirrely Dan, and his progressive outlook on things

"Letterkenny Season 2 - Squirrely Dan's Relationship" (Watch on YouTube)

- the Canadian music they use for the soundtrack (we got the Canadian alt-rock radio station growing up, ahhhh the nostalgia); the first episode of Letterkenny features a song by The Pack A.D. and I immediately bought the album, please stay tuned for a future Please Like My Thing about this band

"The Pack a.d. - Cobra Matte" (Watch on YouTube)

The first two (6-episode) seasons are streaming on Hulu, and there are a lot of scenes and short pieces on youtube.

The fic fandom is super-small (89 works on AO3 right now), but there are some nice gems in the "rural dude figures out how to be gay" vein. Also I wrote sex pollen and it's the 8th highest kudos'd work, THAT IS HOW SMALL THE FANDOM IS.

Please like my thing! If you already like my thing please tell me so I have someone to yell about it with!

Comments

[siegeofangels]

I believe it started as sketches on Youtube, and then they made a show out of it. So some of the Youtube stuff isn't repeated on the show, like a lot of the "There are 5000 people in Letterkenny. These are their problems" videos that are just rapid-fire statements are not part of the show. The show does have a narrative but a lot of the show is "let's go off on this tangent that is funny."

The short-haired farm boy is Wayne, and he is played by the creator of the show, and I love the all of the movement choices he makes.

I hope it is on Netflix eventually! I have no idea how it works with Canadian shows. It took years for Hulu to pick it up and we still just have two seasons.

[snickfic]

Well, Strange Empire did show up on Netflix eventually, so maybe there's hope? TBD! And yeah, Wayne is just a statue, and his accent is so aggressively Canadian. It's GREAT.