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Re: Corner Gas episode called 'Block Party' - AFOLs involved?
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lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto
Date: 
Tue, 12 Dec 2006 03:22:01 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Calum Tsang wrote:
In lugnet.mediawatch, Allan Bedford wrote:
I hope everyone caught tonight's episode of Corner Gas called 'Block Party'.

I only started watching Corner Gas recently--though through the magic of the
PVR and Comedy Network and CTV rerunning it like four times a week, I've seen
about half the episodes by now.

I caught this episode last night...

When Hank showed Brent the 'almost' completed version of his model I really
began to wonder if any adult fans had helped prepare for the show.  It was a

I wonder about that too.  I was ready to call it just some smart set
decorators/production designers when Hank spells out the number of bricks as
four thousand, five hundred and fifty eight pieces: 4558.   That's a very
unusual coincidence that they picked the set number of the Metroliner as the
number of bricks.

Actually, from what I've learned since... it turns out it was a smart bunch of
props people.  :)  Here's an entry I posted to my blog about the AFOLs that were
*almost* involved in the show:

http://www.apotome.com/wordpress/index.php?p=121

And another entry that sheds some light on the company that did the animation:

http://www.apotome.com/wordpress/index.php?p=120

No matter who was involved I thought it was a very tasteful and respectful bit
of fun that was had with our favorite building toy.  :)

AB



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(...) Sigh. That would have been a fun project. I've been asked to do some strange TV related projects, but I've always found from a scoping standpoint, entertainment people (eg, production managers, PA's etc) have a really poor understanding of how (...) (18 years ago, 12-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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  Re: Corner Gas episode called 'Block Party' - AFOLs involved?
 
(...) I only started watching Corner Gas recently--though through the magic of the PVR and Comedy Network and CTV rerunning it like four times a week, I've seen about half the episodes by now. I caught this episode last night... (...) I wonder about (...) (18 years ago, 11-Dec-06, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)

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