Corner Gas

It is still better than most, but not as good as Corner Gas should be.





Apparently we are going to be treated another funny episode. It is just too bad that it was not as funny as it could have been. This was a funny episode, just not as funny as Corner Gas was last season.



In this episode we have several stories, as usual. There is the main one about the dog that Hank thinks is the dog that used to play in The Littlest Hobo. For those of you not familiar with that show, a homeless dog (German Shepard) roamed the country (Canada) and helped people along the way.



I recently found out that The Littlest Hobo has first a movie in the 50's, then a series in the 60's and again a series in the 80's. So best case scenario the dog would be 20 years old now (assuming he was born in 1985 when the last episode was aired). Big dogs don't last that long. Of course that is the joke that Hank cannot understand that it cannot be the same dog.



What was funny was that by the end Wanda was starting to believe in the dog herself, despite her attempts. In the end the dog is only used to get rid of the Firefighters. A rather sad ending to the joke. It would have been funnier to have the do leave like the Hobo did (who's name was apparently London) or to have kept the dog for another week where he eventually gets bored and moves on.



Then there was the "Davis-Karen" vs "David-Carol" thing. It wasn't very funny after the first couple of gags. It was funny to see David give Hank mouth-to-mouth as David thought Hank was choking. It was especially funny when Hank comments on David's choice of sandwich.



Overall, it was a passable example of the show, but it left me wanting more and better jokes.