Picture Perfect

Season 3, Episode 9, Aired

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Brent feels that he's behind the times with his old-fashioned camera, so he goes digital to be in the now. Unfortunately, being in the now requires an instruction booklet, which Brent neglects to read. Paul adds a trivia game to the bar, creating some unlikely teams, and bringing out the competitive spirit in quite a few Dog River denizens. Oscar takes a disliking to his neighbour's lawn ornaments, particularly the gnomes, which bear a striking resemblance to a certain crotchety Dog Riverite.moreless
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  • Trivia, cameras, and gnomes -- this episode has it all.

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    By Glornt, Jan 22, 2011
    It's very hard to pick a single Corner Gas episode as my favorite -- usually, it's whatever episode I saw last -- but this one has to be right up there in terms of the number of times it makes me laugh out loud even after repeated viewings.

    The camera adventures are funny, and the trivia stuff and prepping Davis for his trip to Vegas are pretty good, too, but for me the highlight of the episode is the gnome subplot, made even better by the music snippets played for the gnome closeups. Eric Peterson as always does a great job as "Flesh Oscar", but Gnome Oscar (did he really make that sandwich?) and "Perfect Emma" steal the show. And with all the funny lines here, one that particularly stands out is Oscar's introduction of "Perfect Emma" -- the way Emma says, "Oh, we won't be keeping that" is pure gold.moreless

  • Gnome-body knows, the trouble I've seen.

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    By Im2Crazy4U, Nov 21, 2005
    Gnome-body knows the trouble I've seen. Gnome-body knows my sorrow.

    Lame joke, but I could not resist. This whole episode, while overall funny, was best with the Gnomes. Oscar and Emma's wacko neighbour is likes lawn ornaments. However, Oscar thinks they're very odd indeed. He ends up waging war against the neighbour without Emma's help, that is until Emma gets pissed off at the neighbour too.

    Of course, there was the standard Gnome joke: "Hey Oscar, he looks just like you", which is partly true. They end up stealing a second Gnome that looks a lot like Emma, which freaks her out. And this is just the fill-in story line. The third batter as it were.

    The primary story is about Brent acting like his dad. He has an old camera (knock off of a Polaroid from the 70's/80's) that he refuses to let go of. That is until it is pointed out that that is something Oscar would do. Wham, bam, digital camera ma'am.

    The joke continues with Brent being the only person that cannot use a point and click digital camera. Eventually he gives up and goes back to old faithful. In the meantime we got some funny candid-ish shots of Brent being suprized that the camera works.

    The secondary story is that Paul put a trivia game (like NTN) in the bar. Hank convinces Lacey to join as a team so that they can win a free T-Shirt. They are team "HaLa" until Hank realizes that Lacey doesn't actually know much. So they they become "WaHaLa" (Wanda-Hank-Lacey) until they revert back to HaLa since Wanda takes too long telling stories to answer the questions.

    Wanda then creates the WanDa team with Davis, who doesn't like the team name for obvious reasons. He ends up getting all the answers, but the crowd chants "Wanda" since it appears as if she did it all. This was actually the funniest story of the night. The episode should have been called "Trivia Wanda" or something other than "Picture Perfect".

    Overall, one of the better episodes of the season. Still no where near the funny of the Tax Man or World's Biggest Thing episodes.moreless
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    • Oscar: Someone has to keep an eye on that fruitcake next door! Emma: Why don't you go undercover and pretend to rake the leaves? Oscar: Good idea! Emma: And while you're pretending to rake the leaves, why don't you rake the leaves?

    • Brent (holding camera): That guy out there made fun of my camera. Wanda: So you stole his carburetor? Brent: This is my camera. Wanda: Oh, of course it is, and she's a beauty!

    • Brent: Boy, my camera sure took an emotional beating today. Poor thing. Everybody's teasing it because it's not digital. Emma: You figure they're teasing the camera, not you? Brent: Tease me, tease my camera... we're a team.

    • Hank: You don't have to miss out; we could be a team. Lacey: No. Hank: Yeah, sure... It's a natural. With your knowledge of city stuff and my knowledge of not-city stuff, we know all stuff! Lacey: 'We know all stuff.' Wow, that does sound impressive, but I'm just not really drawn to an afternoon of drinking beer and staring at a TV.

    • Hank: Hey, Wanda's here. We should get her on our team, she knows everything. Lacey: Nobody knows everything. Brent: So what exactly is a mega-pixel? Wanda: It determines the resolution of the image. Karen: Wanda, what are the house odds in roulette? Wanda: Straight-up pays out 35 to 1, but house odds increase with double zero bets. Hank: What's the capital of Canada? Wanda: Ask a nine-year old!

    • Brent: Should you and Davis both be in here at the same time? Is that the best way to keep the mean streets safe? Karen: It's Dog River. What are the odds of a crime going down? Brent: Yeah, I guess you're right. Karen: No, seriously, what are the odds? I'll give you eight to one.

    • Oscar: Don't call it "Gnome Oscar." Emma: We have to avoid confusion. I will call you "Flesh Oscar."

    • Oscar: Why can't we have normal neighbours? Emma: Because you always frighten them away.

    • Brent: Well, I'm not getting a new camera just for the sake of getting a new camera. This thing works fine... nothing wrong with it. Oscar: Damn right. Glad to hear you talking some sense for once. Brent: Wow, I must be way off base on this.

    • Lacey: Hala? Our team name is Hala? Hank: 'H-A' from Hank, and 'L-A' from Lacey. It's pretty clever, huh? Lacey: I think 'Laha' would sound better. Hank: No, too many Hs.

    • Emma: You stole a gnome? I was just kidding when I said 'do something stupid.' Oscar: I didn't steal it, I borrowed it. Neighbours borrow stuff from neighbours all the time... I was just being neighbourly. (neighbour knocks on door) Oscar: Pretend we're not home.

    • (Oscar walks out, carrying a gnome) Brent: Where'd you get the gnome? Emma: Which one?

    • Hank: I see you're back to the Crap-Master. Brent: Snap-Master. It's got a nice picture-taking feature I enjoy.

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    • (looking at Brent's ancient camera) Yellow Car Driver: Do they even make film for that thing? Brent: No, a little bird carves the picture with its beak. Brent, in jokingly saying that a bird carves the picture, is alluding to The Flintstones, a 1960s cartoon set in prehistoric times. The appliances on the show were all animal-driven, including the cameras that had little birds inside that carved the pictures with their beaks.

    • Lacey: The original title of this Beatles song was "Scrambled Eggs." Hank: Satisfaction. Lacey: That's not even... Lacey was probably going to say that (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction was a hit song for the Rolling Stones, not the Beatles. The Rolling Stones were often considered to be a more rebellious, wild alternative to the Beatles. Wanda, instead of answering the question, begins telling a long story about the song, without ever naming it, and Team Wahala doesn't answer the question. The song in question is Yesterday.

    • Oscar: We're in this together! Emma: Whatever you say, Sundance. Emma calls Oscar "Sundance" in reference to the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, where the two main characters were thieves.

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