I discovered, a few months ago, a TV show called Corner Gas on Chicago's independent WGN TV network. It's been around for quite a few years, but only recently came to the attention of the reality-TV-addicted American viewer (in late 2007). I remember seeing the commercials before I bothered to tune in and thinking, man, why would anyone watch a TV show about a gas station? I did eventually watch an episode, due to a complete lack of anything else worth watching on my 397 channels, and was immediately hooked.

The writing is reminiscent of Seinfeld in its glory days - without involving New York or any other metropolitan area (double bonus points for that). This is truly a show about nothing, but it's far more funny than anything else on TV. I have, since seeing that first episode, set my DVR to record every episode that plays on WGN. And I've watched them all. Even the episodes that I had just seen the week before (I don't know which, if any, of the episodes I've seen might be from the current season). And even when I know what's coming, I laugh at the jokes and the true-to-life clueless characters.



The dryness of the comedy almost seems a little Python-flavoured. If you get WGN or CTV (a Canadian channel) and like a good comedy, you really should check this show out.

I haven't seen it either might have to check it out

I, too, might have to take this one for a spin. Sounds good.

I just saw this episode yesterday.

A zombie movie parody.

I love this show.

We saw that one last night too. My son and I are hooked on this show! We laugh so hard each time we watch it. Thanks for turning us on to this show. They have seasons 1 through 4 on dvd. I might just have to look into getting that.

I've been thinking the same thing. Even my wife has mentioned getting the DVDs.

My wife isn't big on buying DVDs. And at about $120 for the 4 set, she might not be excited about it. She would say that I just need to record them. However, I still might have to think about getting them.

My son heard today they are stopping after season 6.

Yeah, it actually says something about that on the Corner Gas web site.

So sad. I love this show.

Yeah, we love it too. My son and I watch it almost every night. I hate to hear that but you knew it would happen eventually. did you ever get the DVD set?

I'm a bargain hunter and I haven't found a deal yet.
I'm sure I'll end up getting it eventually.



I still haven't watched all of the Flight of the Conchords DVDs I bought months ago. I've only seen the first two episodes, so I'm not really in a big hurry to add to my DVD collection.

I would like to get the dvd set. However, I figure we will have seen most of the episodes by the time we get them.