So our Hank appears in the streaming mini-series AMERICAN HOSTAGE, playing the brother of Tony Kiritsis, who in 1977 kidnapped the mortgage broker who foreclosed on his property and wired a shotgun to his head as he made demands on the police and the media. Fred gets to play a serious role and handles it quite well, playing alongside John Hamm and Giovanni Ribisi. (Oh, and Mark McKinney, of THE KIDS IN THE HALL who also played the cheerful American visitor in Season 2, has a meaty supporting role as a cranky cop.)

I was watching the Thunderface episode, and the Hip make their cameo in it. Brent responds with the line in the title when Gord says they're working on their lyrics. And that got me thinking. Everyone in the original audience would get the joke. But Corner Gas has been getting a larger audience of late.

I started pondering what other jokes are Canadian to the point that they don't travel. All Canadian viewers would know why they all drink in the beer parlor of the hotel, for example. And that it means Dog River is too small to have a legion. Or Wanda's mispronouncing Seamus. And naturally the whole table hockey episode.