Okay, Lydy, I started watching Letterkenny

[dreamshark]

I watched the first half of the first episode, then turned on closed captions and watched it again. Then I went online and found an alphabetical glossary of Canadian slang, which I studied intently. Today I watched the 2nd episode and liked it better now that I had some idea what they were saying. Do people really talk like that in rural Canada? I had no idea. 

I didn't immediately go crazy for it like you did, but I can see how it could grow on me. 

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[lydy]

I didn't go immediately crazy for it. It took about 5 episodes. But I was, well, entranced is not quite the right word. Fascinated, in the way one is with a car wreck, maybe. As the episodes went along, and I got to know these people better, I fell solidly in love, but the only thing that really caught me was the cleverness of their crude humor. I have often seen crude humor, and very much like clever humor, but the two are very rarely married. Also, the poetics of it caught me. The call-and-response.

"Put on some clothes, would you?"
"That's not my forte."
"Unfortunate."

Of, "That's what I appreciates about you, Katie." "Oh, that's what you appreciate?"

These interactions show up again and again, and create a weird poetic structure which I have never seen in television. If I read poetry, I might have seen more of this, and possibly have been less entranced.