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OVERALL IMPRESSIONS: A much more balanced episode than the season opener, and a much better one at that. All of the plots work well � a local DJ making fun of Brent on the radio, the Ruby offering delivery and the DRPD �working to rule� (doing the absolute minimum in the job description and nothing else). This was actually the first episode I got to see of the fourth season.
MEMORABLE MOMENT: The opening scene, which is the beginning of a great example of �what goes around comes around.�
MEMORABLE LINE: �My life (as) a TV show - who�s gonna watch that?� by Brent. The entire concept of Corner Gas is what Brent Butt�s life would have been like had he stayed in Saskatchewan instead of getting into show business.
KUDOS TO GABRIELLE: She does a fantastic job of making her otherwise likeable character come across as a massive nuisance in Emma�s kitchen, and of being completely oblivious to why people are so into The Ruby�s delivery service. It�s hard to imagine Lacey as being that annoying, but Gabrielle makes it work very well here and keeps Lacey as likeable as always - much like she did with the dumbass jokes she was telling in the second-season episode Hurry Hard.
FUNNIEST LINE IN THIS EPISODE: Wanda�s �If only there was some way to solve this debate. If only - if only we had some kind of box that could pull radio signals from the air.� I had to pause the show to get all the laughter out after this one. This is the sort of line you�d expect to go to Brent Butt, but Nancy Robertson got it and hit it out of the park.
FUNNIEST SCENES IN THIS EPISODE:
1.) Brent�s joking around with the customer at the gas station in the opening scene.
2.) Davis �fighting� the mayor for more money.
3.) The phone conversation between Emma and Lacey when Emma asks for delivery of some soup.
4.) Lacey considering the idea of Hank watching over The Ruby while Lacey makes a delivery, as opposed to what would happen if he made the delivery himself.
5.) Brent�s reference to �Cats in the Cradle� to Oscar.
6.) When after a reference to �really cool cameos,� six-time Olympic winner Cindy Klassen appears - only to be completely blown off by Brent.
7.) When Brent asks Hank what it�s like to be a laughingstock.
8.) When Wanda asks �Can�t a girl concur with a hypothesis around here?�
9.) When Davis tells Lacey of Oscar�s accusation, and Lacey nonchalantly confesses.
10.) When Davis has to leave The Ruby to go to his office and call for delivery.
11.) The radio advertisement for The Ruby.
12.) Brent�s phone call to his mother.
NOTES:
1.) Cindy Klassen is a speedskater who is Canada�s most decorated Olympian of all time and the first Canadian to win five medals in one Olympic Games. With the latter achievement, she tied Eric Heiden�s 1980 record for most medals won at one Olympics by a speedskater. She won a bronze medal in Salt Lake City (2002) in the 3000 meter event, and the hardware she racked up in Turin in 2006 includes a gold (in the 1500 meter event), two silvers (team pursuit and 1000 meter) and two bronzes (5000 meter and 3000 meter). She also won the gold in the 2003 World Allround Championship, a silver in the 2005 event and won it again in 2006. In 2005 and 2006, she won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award (Canadian female athlete of the year) and in 2006 she won the Lou Marsh Trophy as Canadian Athlete of the Year (either sex). The list of athletes who have won the Lou Marsh award includes people who are household names in both Canada and the United States, such as Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr, Guy Lafleur, Maurice Richard, Bobby Clarke and Steve Nash. When Hank was talking about a �really cool cameo,� he wasn�t kidding.
2.) There is actually a CJKL-FM (101.5 FM, adult contemporary and specialty country formats) in Kirkland Lake, Ontario. The �Jackal� reference, however, may be to real-life Regina rock station The Wolf (104.9). The station is famous in Saskatchewan for its �Big Breakfast Show,� hosted by Chris White and Michael Ball (popularly known as �Chris and Ballsy�).