“Letterkenny” Season 9 Cold Open – A Hulu Original [VIDEO]

Of course, it’s a cold open, it’s friggin Canada. “Cold Open” is a show biz term that refers to a show coming on and going right to the action without credits and fanfares. You can watch the new season of #Letterkenny on December 26 if you want to.

The show Letterkenny gets its name from Letterkenny, Ontario, Canada; an unincorporated community in the township of Brudenell, Lyndoch, and Raglan.

Letterkenny is a Canadian television sitcom created by Jared Keeso, developed and written primarily by Keeso and Jacob Tierney, directed by Tierney, and starring Keeso alongside Nathan Dales, Michelle Mylett, and K. Trevor Wilson. The series began as a YouTube web series titled Letterkenny Problems, and it was commissioned as a television series by Crave in March 2015. It debuted in February 2016, and later also aired on The Comedy Network. The show follows the residents of Letterkenny, a small rural community in Ontario loosely based on Keeso’s hometown of Listowel, Ontario.

At the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017, the series won the award for Best Comedy Series.

Most episodes open with the text: “There are 5000 people in Letterkenny. These are their problems.” The series focuses on siblings Wayne and Katy, who run a small farm and produce stand with help from Wayne’s friends Daryl and Squirrely Dan. It also focuses on ice hockey players Reilly and Jonesy, two best friends who are involved in an on-and-off polyamorous relationship with Katy.

Episodes deal with small-town life amongst different types of people: the farmers (the “hicks”), the out-of-towners who make up the local ice hockey team, the town’s closeted minister, the drug addicts (the “skids”), members of the nearby First Nation reserve (the “natives”), the local Mennonites and Québécois. Plots often revolve around Wayne defending his reputation as “the toughest guy in Letterkenny”, the exploits of the town’s hockey team who rarely win, Wayne’s attempts to break up Katy’s relationships with various men he dislikes, the skids’ schemes to rip off the residents of both Letterkenny and the natives, and Wayne’s dating life after dumping his high school sweetheart who cheated on him. In an effort to subvert the usual trope of small-town residents having lower intelligence levels, one of the show’s running jokes is that almost every character possesses the ability to think quickly and come up with a near-constant barrage of wordplay and puns, as well as have sophisticated views on worldly topics.

It’s a truly unique show that I think you should take a look at, you’ll either love it or hate it.f