These Are Their Problems

[lydy]

Ok, who else has seen "Letterkenny"?  And why, oh why, did you not tell me about it?

I am still in the "Oh, my god, what the fuck has happened to me" stage of the experience.  When they say, "This is for mature audiences only" they are not fucking around, my friends.  Is is easily the crudest, most casually obscene thing I have ever seen, with no graphic sex and very little violence, but oh my god, so crude.  Hysterically, hilariously, intensely crude.

Also, and not joking here, it is extremely poetic.  They use repetition in a way that I have not seen, but I believe some forms of poetry do use repetition in this fashion.  

I am unsure if I like any of these people.  But I am entranced by this show.  It is really, really rare to have something with intensely vibrant verbal pyrotechnics combined with an amazing range of obscenity and vulgarity and profanity.  I mean, they fucking use all the goddamn words.  All the words.  

 This, for example, is a description of a bar fight in alphabetical alliteration.  The guy giving the prompt is Daryl, and the guy describing the fight is Wayne, the toughest guy in Letterkenny.  

Warning, there is Language.

"Letterkenny Season 2 - Cold Open" (Watch on YouTube)

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[lydy]

Update: I do like these people. I like them a lot.

Oh, and there is no sexual violence. I don't think there have been rape jokes, even.

[dreamshark]

Huh. I am still Hulu-ing, so I have of course seen the one ad for this show which appears over and over and over again. It's Wayne intoning over a montage of drunken hillbilly mayhem: "Your gal has a cousin who's fun. And now she's no longer your hon. So you had to drop him. Oh hell did you pop him. Yep, you did what had to be done." I now suspect that the reason they show this particular recitation repetitively is because all the rest of Wayne's performances are too filthy for the "This is Us" fans.

It honestly had not occurred to me to watch this show, which appears to be about as "mature" as Future Man, another show which advertises on Hulu. But I have to admit that Wayne's intense poetic performance amuses me every time, despite all the offensive southern stereotypes exercising themselves in the background. Now I'm curious.