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Life goes on at Possum Lodge, even with the absence of Red’s beloved if goofy nephew, Harold (Patrick McKenna), a longtime fixture on
The Red Green Show. Harold does make an appearance in the Christmas episode of the
The Red Green Show: 2000 Season, trading barely-camouflaged insults with his uncle Red (Steve Smith), whose handyman section of the holiday program ingeniously (if nauseatingly) demonstrates how to cook an entire turkey dinner under the hood of one’s car while driving. Red’s questionable resourcefulness rears itself again and again throughout the season, including such memorable events as turning a hot water heater, skis and a lot of duct tape into a snowmobile; repurposing a lot of plastic bottles, palettes and an old, revolving door into a riverboat; and converting old playground equipment into a log splitter. Red’s excitable Possum Lodge mates Dalton (Bob Bainborough), who looks like some Dickensian character of genteel poverty, and the weird Mike (Wayne Robson) get deeply involved in an ugly sausage-making competition, discuss the pros and cons of time travel (Red’s choice would be to go back in time and prevent the conversation), and look forward to taking Toronto’s garbage off that city’s hands. (They’re sure they can find a lot of stuff in Toronto’s trash worth keeping.)
The usual Red Green Show rituals are intact: the weekly word game that contestants never intentionally win; Red’s advice to middle-age guys about relationships, keeping junk, and the differences between men and women when it comes to shopping. There are also time-saving tips (how to use the wagging tail of a hungry dog to wash a car, for instance), and much else. Season highlights include Red’s effort to catch a lunar eclipse with Mike and Dalton, visits with the half-mad Ranger Gord (Peter Keleghan), and adventures with the mostly-deaf explosives expert, Edgar K. B. Montrose (Graham Greene). The season culminates in the hair-raising episode "No Duct Tape," which is about the panic that sets in when the lodge runs out of the ubiquitous stuff. --Tom Keogh
Product Description
Collector’s Edition 19 classic episodes from the PBS hit comedy
Wit and wisdom of Possum Lodge
One of Red’s many mottoes is "spare the duct tape, spoil the job." So when the lodge actually runs out of duct tape in one of these episodes, chaos ensues. In the complete 10th season of the public television hit’s 15-year run, Winston searches for a wife, Dalton tries not to cross his wife, and Red does what he does best -- turn junk into wild inventions that defy common sense. He also plays host to a foster child, 500 visiting Americans, meddlesome network executives, and Dalton’s emu ranch.
Join Red and all the guys at Possum Lodge for a year’s worth of doing what men do when women aren’t around -- and some things that are even worse. "Rustic and rusty, north of the border deadpan zaniness" -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
EXTRA JUNK: Character bios and production notes written by series creator Steve Smith.
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