Red Green STILL on the air?

**auld argonian** · 2nd May 10, 05:08 PM

Okay...maybe this isn't real directly a "kilt" thing but I will submit that many forum members have watched the show AND they DO wear an awful lot of PLAID SHIRTS on the show....

I was flipping the channels last night and was amazed that yet another of our local PBS stations has picked up The Red Green Show and they are new episodes! Holy schnikes...not that I'm complaining because it's STILL FUNNY...but I just can't believe that they're still at it after all these years.

http://www.redgreen.com/

It must just be a Canadian thing...

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**KiltedKnome** · 2nd May 10, 05:55 PM

I love Red Green. Sometimes when I am travelling, it is the only "good" thing on TV, and guaranteed to give me a good chuckle!

**DryFly** · 2nd May 10, 07:19 PM

".................she should at least find ya' handy!"

**ohiopiper** · 2nd May 10, 08:10 PM

Many years ago I sent a check to PBS in support of The Red Green Show. They sent me back a small embroidered Possum Lodge patch and a small roll of duct tape!

Great humor. And I'm not even Canadian.

**auld argonian** · 2nd May 10, 08:32 PM

I don't think that you have to be Canadian to get the humor.

I first saw the show years ago on a trip to Montreal when both of my kids were...well...kids...they're basically all growed up now. My wife wasn't with us while we watched the show but when she returned from her business engagement we were all, "...you won't believe the cool show that we saw on TV...why don't they run this show back in America? It is so funny."

Thanks to PBS (because no USA TV network in its right mind would ever run anything like The Red Green Show...they're too busy coming up with stuff like America's Funniest Home Videos) we finally got to see Red Green.

The real life joke for me is that the during exterior shots of RG you always hear a chain saw running somewhere in the background; I live in the frickin' CITY and whenever I go out in my back yard I always hear some loony with a chain saw going at it....life imitates art!

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**O'Callaghan** · 2nd May 10, 09:02 PM

It's back on here in Maryland.

Has anyone ever seen a kilt on Red Green?

**ccga3359** · 2nd May 10, 10:29 PM

Sorry AA it went of the air in 2006 after 15 seasons. DVDs are availiable.

**Lallans** · 3rd May 10, 06:57 AM

Red was a plaid guy but not a kilt guy. But they did try make the show as appealing as possible to Americans- for instance in naming the Possum Lodge. There are no possums in Canada, or weren't when the show started. (Apparently they are becoming an invasive species here, and this is taken as yet another sign of the warming apocalypse.) I look forward to some easily caught meals....

Anyway, the humour was rural, not specifically Canadian. Besides the always-present chainsaw sound, witness the lodge's continually smoking woodstove. The show was largely supported by college students, most of whom probably never saw a woodstove anywhere else.

**xena** · 3rd May 10, 07:58 AM

Yeah, I've heard that RG has a huge following in the States. One of the actors (the guy who plays Harold) once quipped that the further south you get, the more seriously the show is taken. Apparently, in Alabama it's considered a documentary.

Badum-tsch!

Don't flame me! It's just a joke! And not even my joke, at that!

**auld argonian** · 3rd May 10, 08:45 AM

One of the cooler things involving "Harold" (Patrick McKenna) is his appearance as a character on Stargate:

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Jay_Felger

...nice to see him playing another role and (if I remember those episodes correctly) being a bit of a sci-fi hero as opposed to his backwoods nerd personna.

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