Life goes on at Possum Lodge, even with the absence of Red’s beloved if goofy nephew, Harold (Patrick McKenna), a longtime fixture onThe Red Green Show. Harold does make an appearance in the Christmas episode of theThe 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 usualRed Green Showrituals 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