Scoob
10.18.17 | RIP
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Spec
10.18.17 | So sudden too. RIP. |
kris.
10.18.17 | RIP. :(
he seemed like a really sweet guy out of character, too
gonna binge the show here in a few days |
Orb
10.18.17 | "Shit moths Randy. They started as shit larvae and then they grew into shitarpillars" |
Spec
10.18.17 | Binge watch TPB while I jam The Tragically Hip. |
BigHans
10.18.17 | RIP so har |
Snake.
10.18.17 | RIP |
Scoob
10.18.17 | A pandemic of shittapillars. I tried to end the shittapillars life cycle
But I failed
Shit moths. Every fucking one of them |
Indomitable
10.18.17 | go ahead julain, ask me if i care |
Spec
10.18.17 | Look I’m mowing the air rand!! |
Scoob
10.18.17 | Do you care Jim? |
Scoob
10.18.17 | As you all know.... I was fired.. as Supervale of the sunnyparks park.
It's not true!! I quit! |
StarlessCore
10.18.17 | saddddddd |
Sunnyvale
10.19.17 | Great choice of a profile picture. RIP
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artiswar
10.19.17 | Didn't have the opportunity to have a drinky-poo in honour of John but I'm making up for it tonight. Getting drunk as fuck boys. Pouring one out for the man, the legend, one of the greats. |
Hawks
10.19.17 | God dammit man still so upset about this. Honestly can't even pinpoint my favorite Lahey moment because there's so many. |
Sunnyvale
10.19.17 | My favorite is when he drives by, drunk, slowly while Bubbles is on live TV and starts throwing "piss jugs" everywhere. |
ZippaThaRippa
10.19.17 | I am the liquor |
Scoob
10.19.17 | PROPANE PROPANEEERE |
artiswar
10.19.17 | Well it's only been a day Hawks.
I know he lived to a ripe old age but honestly I'm having similar feelings as to when George Carlin died. I really love those first 7 seasons but haven't re-watched them in years... now I probably can't ever or I'll just ugly snot cry. |
Orb
10.19.17 | Have you ever seen Gordon Downie and John Dunsworth in the same place? |
Scoob
10.19.17 | Art watch them it helps. You'll see his legacy |
artiswar
10.19.17 | I've watched them all many times just not in several years. |
Rigma
10.19.17 | it wasn't me julian, it was the liquor |
Scoob
10.19.17 | Listen.. can I wear your cowboy boots bud |
Scoob
10.19.17 | "This here's a 100 month old bourgon..by Bim Jean" |
Rigma
10.19.17 | after you have one little sippypoo, you gotta have two sippypoos |
insomniac15
10.19.17 | this really sucks... RIP |
Scoob
10.19.17 | This has been affecting me as if I knew him |
Nomos
11.03.17 | It makes me happy that before he died, TPB was able to blow-up and get big outside of our country. Those first...well...just about all of the seasons before it went on Netflix? Especially the first 4-5? That was Nova Scotia's pride. It was ours. You'd see these guys around Halifax casually all the time. Mike Smith ran a bar. My dad played street hockey with them. My mom's friend has Mike Clattenburg's old camera. My aunt has the gumball machine that was leant to the show to smash for an episode. There were no shows to play or tours, because these guys were, and are, just average Nova Scotians.
And as it went, viewership waned, but it was as funny as always. It took some late-night American cable to pick it up and spread the joy...then Netflix...and now they're huge again. God bless them. They've earned it. And the best part is that they never compromised the vision of specifically-Nova Scotian trailer-trash. I'll watch the new seasons, in HD, with a bigger budget, and they're still refusing to pander. Having lived there during it's glory days, I can tell you that TPB really does communicate quintessential Canadian -- and Nova Scotian -- culture perfectly. The accents, the brands, the music, the references....it really takes me back to living there. I need to start watching again. KOD? That is a real place. King of Donair. Pizza corner, downtown Halifax. The other location where Randy hooked, too. And Brothers' pepperoni! Where he got locked in the freezer. Best pepperoni on the east coast. The first movie had them robbing the Bayers' Lake Cineplex. I knew and recognized all these filming locations.
I haven't been caught up in several years. Dunsworth's death is tragic, but it was really wonderful to see the support from all over the planet pour out. He had more fans than I think he knew. If anyone out there is a huge fan of the show, please, visit Nova Scotia. We never had a ton of tourism. But it's an absolutely picturesque place in the summer. Natural beauty everywhere you look. The culture, the food, it's just cozy as fuck and such an interesting place to explore. Think you still might be able to see where they filmed the first few seasons in Dartmouth (real park at first, then modular sets nearby after. Woodbine?). |
Nomos
11.03.17 | Sorry, this just made me really nostalgic. Put yourself in my shoes: the best years of your childhood were spent in a province that's *almost* an island, with a culture that's 100% different than the rest of your country. And they shoot a TV show there that perfectly portrays that time & place. And my dad grew up not far at all from where they filmed, dirt poor. Poverty. The way Ricky and Julien behave, the way they live, the ways they make money, the simple things that pacify them, the hash, the liquor, the petty crimes, that was my dad's life. He loved that show.
Canadian TV fucking sucks. We have shitty government-subsidized TV. It's just...not good. But then there's TPB. And when it should be on it's way out...something happens. And it blows up, and 15 years later, it's more popular than it's ever been, and you can finally talk about it with people who *don't* live down the block. Picking up some rum tonight to get hammered and binge some episodes. RIP. |
Scoob
11.03.17 | Thank you for the great post, I agree wholeheartedly |
