Corner Gas

Quick summary: Davis and Oscar get stuck on the roof – often; Wanda takes on too much; and Hank becomes a Libra.



It appears, based on the episode title, that the story about the bike safety was the primary storyline this time. I think they had to pick one of the two "B" stories to make the "A" story so they went with the one with Brent. This was too bad because they did not need to do that.



Story one was about Karen and Brent working on a colouring book to teach kids about bike safety. Karen first wrote the story and drew the pictures, but she felt that Brent could do the pictures better. He agrees to help, but finds the words were sub-par also. Karen forces Wanda to help make the words better. With the words being better, now Brent had to change the pictures. Back and forth it goes until they end up with a story that Emma cannot accept as it is "just plain wrong".



Not really an "A" story.



Next up was the story about Hank. It turns out his birthday makes him a Libra not the Virgo that he thought he has always been. He decides to change his life based on what astrology tells him he should be like. He loses the hat and starts dressing better.



Lacey offers him the busboy job that conveniently became available. Because he wants to do well, he gets Wanda to balance Lacey’s books (financial records). The mayor is impressed and offers to hire Hank to balance the city's book as a provincial audit is forthcoming. Hank agrees, but gets Wanda to do it since he cannot do the job anyways. In the process, he gets re-addicted to pop rocks and pop.



This is where the two stories collide. Wanda gets so busy doing the Opus that is Karen's story and the books for Hank that she inevitably screws it up. She ends up putting safety stuff in the city book and city financial records in the safety book. This was predictable while still being well done.



The filler story was that David agreed to help Oscar redo the roof on his house. When they climb up to the roof, Oscar accidentally knocks the ladder to the ground, on two separate occasions. Davis doesn't like to be stuck on the roof, so Oscar mocks him. To get back at Oscar, Davis pushes the ladder to the ground on purpose to show Oscar what it feels like. Oscar eventually gets the point and they ask for help, but no one will.



Eventually, Emma puts the ladder back up, but they refuse to come down until she apologizes for not helping when they asked. She of course leaves them alone on the roof. Needless to say, they never actually start on the roof because they are too busy being stuck on the roof to get any work done.



Overall, an acceptable episode that had its low points, while still being better than most comedies on TV today with canned laughter.