Want to know what really gets on my nerves? If you are still reading, I’m going to assume yes and I will tell you: I really, really get in a tizzy when people say “Canadian television is so lame”.
WHAT? LAME? How can you say that a nation who has produced Rocket Robin Hood and The Littlest Hobo creates lame programming? And I am saying this in all seriousness.
I grew up in the days of bunny ears on the back of telly. It was the late seventies and a rough technological existence, one I have not forced my daughter to endure. But I never felt deprived because Canadian television treated me well. As a child, I had the Hilarious House of Frightenstein, The Kids of Degrassi Street, The Edison Twins, You Can’t Do That on Television, Swiss Family Robinson, endless mini-episodes of Hinterland Who’s Who, Bumper Stumpers, and of course, my favourite game show: Definition. Definition ruled, and if Jim Perry had ever told me I won a years supply of Campbell’s soup, I would still be talking about it. Now that I've said the word Definition, I have the Dream Warriors stuck in my head because they eulogized that theme song perfectly in “My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style”? You're welcome for the placement of that catchy ditty in your head.
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