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)

Comments

[mrissa]

INTERESTING WOW

[lydy]

I know. You just assume crude humor will include that. There's gendered insults and slightly sexist and racist insults, like "bitch" "sally" and so forth. Also a number of Canadian insults I can't parse. And some hockey slang that sounds obscene. And now that I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure about racist. Maybe only casually sexist. Also weirdly gay-positive. In a very crude sort of way.

[mrissa]

Can you tell me about the obscene-sounding hockey slang? I mean, I'm going to investigate myself, but I might not notice it, because it will probably feel fairly natural to me.

[lydy]

Alas, no. When the two hockey dudes get going about the things they do and don't like about praccy (which from context clearly means practice) I cannot understand anything except I can usually distinguish which words are nouns versus verbs versus modifiers. Grammar is so helpful. I do have a long-standing algorithm derived from listening to pop music that anything someone says I don't understand is probably about sex.

[mrissa]

Well, if I remember I will come back with explanations.

"The crease" is not actually default-obscene, it's the bit right in front of the goal, just off the top of my head. The "this is probably about sex" algorithm is generally right on but can lead one astray.

"Five hole" is between the legs. Not default-obscene! It's talking about shooting the puck into the net between the goalie's legs! (The other spaces for scoring around the goalie's body are also numbered.) But...it does go there.

[dreamshark]

OMG, these people are CANADIAN?? I just assumed it was set in either West Virginia or east Texas.