![]() Letterkenny began as a Twitter account (Opens in a new tab), then a web series called Letterkenny Problems, created by Jared Keeso, who based both on his own hometown of Listowel. If anyone within earshot begins a sentence with "To be fair", my brain simply cannot help but repeat it in three-part harmony with heightened, plummy vowels. When our dog is being extra needy or zooming around the living room, my partner tells him "Might wanna take about 20 percent off there, bud." When it's time to get on with a task or a story, one of us will declare "Pitter patter" (short for "Pitter patter, let's get at 'er"). The combination of specificity, savagery, convoluted insults that verge on Shakespearean, and idiosyncratic small-town syntax makes Letterkenny the kind of show that seeps into your personal vocabulary (Opens in a new tab) almost immediately. "What's up with your fucken body hair, big shoots? You look like a 12-year-old Dutch girl," deadpans Wayne, rural Ontario vowels around crisp consonants. They whip off their shirts, and Wayne and Daryl, almost literally without batting an eyelid, proceed to verbally demolish them both with military precision. Two hockey players roll up, and for petty, small-town tribal reasons, are spoiling for a fight. ![]() These are their problems." - we meet farmers Wayne and Daryl, manning their roadside produce stand. After a brief title card introducing this small Canadian town - "Letterkenny consists of hicks, skids, hockey players and Christians. ![]() You'll know in the first three minutes of Letterkenny's first episode whether this show is for you.
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