Corner Gas – The Complete Series Box Set

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Love Corner Gas!! It’s great having the whole series in one convenient boxed set! A few issues with the audio but not enough to hamper enjoyment of this delightfully funny series (make sure you adjust the audio because it will default to surround-sound). You can watch it with anyone present (kids, In-laws, etc) and not have to worry about strong language or anything racy like most other comedies. Highly recommend!- LooLoo

i’m from Utah, so when it comes to Canadian comedy (meaning comedy as it pertains to what it’s like to be Canadian), my frame of reference pretty much consists of Bob & Doug McKenzie. (not that STRANGE BREW isn’t still funny.) or it did until a couple of springs ago, when i discovered that at that time, WGN was airing a sitcom from from the Great White North called CORNER GAS a couple of midnights a week. i figured that since i was already a fan of a few “Britcoms,” what did i have to lose?
CORNER GAS is the brainchild of a stand-up comedian named Brent Butt. (with a name like that, what else was he gonna be? a brain surgeon?) legend has it that one day Butt found himself pondering what his life might’ve been if he’d never gone on the road. the next thing he knew, he found himself creating, then playing, the proprietor of the sole gas station in the rural Saskatchewan provence of Dog River, which is located (literally, not figuratively) in the middle of nowhere.
Dog River is easiest to describe as Mayberry filtered through The Twilight Zone. (or is that just me and my American’s-eye-view?) it’s a fairly typical small town, but events and obsessions can get bizarre. let the competition worry about pregnancies, bankruptcies, the “big” questions. this is a series where plots hang on weightier issues like whether the police can get free coffee, one woman’s determination to write her name in the fresh cement, and the quest to erect a tourist attraction: The World’s Biggest Hoe.
joining Butt in his carbon-copy of his hometown are a delightfully quirky cast. a snarky Corner Gas employee who divides her time pretty much evenly between being facetious and qualifying for Mensa. a “new” girl in town (she inherited the cafe from her aunt) who’s so busy worrying about not fitting in that she completely forgets not to fit in. a police force consisting of a dedicated, studious rookie, and a flighty, often childlike senior officer. a village idiot who makes The Three Stooges look like rocket scientists. (on one memorable occasion, he replies to every statement, including the inquiry as to whether he really understands the joke, with “that’s what she said.”) and then there’s Butt’s parents: a father who sets a new standard for the crotchety old fart stereotype, and the most loving, devoted wife ever to come within repeated hairsbreadths of ripping her husband to shreds.
is CORNER GAS the greatest sitcom Canada has ever produced? i’m tempted to say so, but i’m not sure i’m qualified to make that call. it’s the ONLY Canadian television series i’ve ever heard of, so i can’t attest to just how stiff it’s competition might’ve been. (indeed, i can’t even testify, in a court of law, that there WAS competition.) so it would be roughly analagous to describing Satan as the greatest Prince Of Darkness of all time.
aw, heck with it. i hereby go On The Record as saying that CORNER GAS is the greatest Canadian sitcom of all time. (it is, after all, the greatest one i personally have ever seen.)

-jude pepper

Love love LOVE Corner Gas. So fun to watch and my entire family can enjoy it.The characters are crazy but enjoyable, and the plots are hilarious. A Canadian friend of mine, who also enjoys the show, has filled me in on some of the jokes that would be less-obvious to us Americans, like the “smells like burn toast” line and the following line that “he must be about to have a seizure” (based on a Canadian public service commercial); or the Canadian Fitness episode (she showed me a YouTube video of the real PSA and the episode became that much funnier). This boxed set is perfect. I don’t recall if there are bonus features, but there are tons of episodes.

I had been keeping an eye on this boxed set, as the price kept fluctuating ridiculously, and when it went back down I snatched it up. Glad I got it! Apparently you can find the episodes on YouTube now, but I love having them and being able to just pop in a disc and binge-watch.

-Scott J.

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Brent Butt, Gabrielle Miller, Fred Ewanuick, Eric Peterson, Janet Wright
Producers: Brent Butt, David Storey, Virginia Thompson
Format: Box set, Color, NTSC, DVD
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Number of discs: 17
Studio: Video Service Corp
Run Time: 2563 minutes
ASIN: B004U33NHA