This board's sorta like the show
Not a lot going on...
I now have two dead people in my jaw and I think they're trying to get out!
Well....look closer, baby. You're so wrong!
I just posted, didn't I?
Yeah....I think because "Corner Gas" has ended its run, not a lot of people still want to talk about it. They have moved on.
As have I, so to say. I mean, I have all 6 seasons on DVD. However, at any point of the day, one can watch an episode on either Comedy Network, CTV or CTV Two (formerly /A\ Channel).
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Still a lot of activity on the Star Trek boards, and the first of those ended 43 years ago.
But of course, that show is more dear to the hearts of its fans.
I've never heard of a Corner Gas Convention.
I now have two dead people in my jaw and I think they're trying to get out!
Hey, I'd attend that. Maybe I'd even dress up as Hank.
married with a daughter and a dog, but I feel like a single parent of 3 little kids
I'd have to dress up as Brent.
The thing is, who wants to think of it as a show that's "ended"? When I watch, it's going on right now!
I now have two dead people in my jaw and I think they're trying to get out!
Well, my current body shape resembles Brent more, but it could be the inspiration I need to get off my lazy azz and do something.
married with a daughter and a dog, but I feel like a single parent of 3 little kids
Star Trek is a franchise with multiple spin-offs and movies that conquered the international markets
Corner Gas, as enjoyable as it is, is a six season show that unfortunately isn't too well known outside of Canada and the US
even Fraiser, a very successful sitcom that made it big across the pond hasn't got a great deal of activity on the imdb forums
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Yeah....I think because "Corner Gas" has ended its run, not a lot of people still want to talk about it. They have moved on. - Jokers_Wilde
That may be true for Corner Gas, but it is not the case for every show that has ended its run.
For example, the IMDb Gilligan's Island board is active, and that sitcom ended nearly 50 years ago. For the show's devotees, there is an ongoing thread of GI trivia, and popular thread topics, since they appear in one form or another every few days, include variations on "how much stuff did they bring with them for a 'three-hour tour,'" "how many people managed to visit the castaways on an 'uncharted desert isle,'" and the ever-popular "why didn't the men ever hit on Ginger and Mary Ann."
That's for a sitcom. Dramas and even comedy-dramas, because they deal more thoughtfully with topics and characters, will intrigue viewers long after the show has ended. And I'm not saying that Corner Gas isn't thoughtful, because it's obvious that it's been very well thought-out and -executed.
And that may be the problem--it's too "closed," in the sense that it is tightly constructed and neatly ordered. With Gilligan's Island, there are the plot holes, logical lapses, inconsistencies, and so on to provoke discussion. That's not to say that there aren't nagging questions somewhere--how exactly does Hank support himself? does Wanda really make enough as a gas station cashier to afford a house and support her son?--but they are less obvious than if the show had been sloppy or poorly conceived and -executed.
To sum up, sitcoms in general I don't think are going to provoke as much retrospective discussion as comedy-dramas and dramas, and the better a sitcom is, the less there is to talk about.
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