Talk:The Red Green Show

message: Simpsons is the longest running sitcom in the USA. The UK's 'last of the summer wine' has been running since 1973.
:Simpsons is a cartoon, not a sitcom. There is no "situation" in a cartoon, as animation has never been constrained by any of the bounds of reality. The characters never even age.. I mean come on here, Homer should be retiring by now, and Bart should be helping his high school chemistry teacher Break Bad, or something like that. Zaphraud (talk) 21:20, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Longest running

message: Supposedly the 15th season is going to be the final season of The Red Green Show. Perhaps this could be added to the article somehow? Torin Darkflight 06:59, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
: Done.  --  user:zanimum
I took out the reference to March 17th.. according to cbc.ca (as well as the guide on my TV) the episode Rain Man is on then, and according to the ep guide on the offical Red Green site it is ep #297, with the last episode being 300. Priester 05:52, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Final Season

message: Since the character descriptions "come from the Red Green DVDs", they are clearly in copyright violation.  Has permission been granted to put them here?  If not, they need to go. Rhindle The Red 13:19, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Character descriptions

message: This is slightly off-topic, but I have been giving some thought to starting up a new wiki site for The Red Green Show, similar in scope to the Runner Wiki.  I'm curious to know if such a project would be welcomed and could be linked from Wikipedia.  I'm not suggesting that this wiki would/should become a source for Wikipedia or what not, but it may very well help the quality of this article since there's a whole body of information about the show that fans would find interesting, but is not suitable for WP.  Opinions? — KieferSkunk (talk) — 23:18, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red Green Wiki 

message: Keeping in mind that Wikipedia is not a forum, there is one point that I could see being legitimately debatable: Is Harold Green a nerd or a geek?  It makes a difference as to his description in this article.
My two cents: According to one of the DVD sets, Harold is a nerd.  From practical experience, the term "nerd" seems to apply more to Harold than "Geek" does.  In popular culture, "Geek" generally denotes a higher level of social acceptance, where the person is heavily involved with some pop-culture or technical pastime (like Star Trek), but is otherwise a relatively normal person.  Whereas "Nerd" denotes someone who is exceptionally smart and has no social graces whatsoever, and is thus usually outcast by society at large.  Harold spends the vast majority of his time in the series trying to become accepted by the Possum Lodge members, and this is a central plot point for the movie Duct Tape Forever.  It isn't until the very end of the series that Harold achieves acceptance in the Lodge (and also at the end of the movie, but the show's producer has suggested the movie isn't canon to the series), and more generally in the seasons after Harold returns to the Lodge as the P.R. Manager.
I think that calling him a nerd is more in line with the show's apparent intention - geeks aren't usually portrayed with overbites and thick glasses, for one.
Other thoughts? — KieferSkunk (talk) — 21:47, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems like an accurate portrayal of how the words were used through the 1980s and early 1990s, perhaps, but starting with the dotcom boom the definition of nerd apparently changed significantly in the popular culture (go figure.) to include one who is capable of vast success in a technical field, even to the point of achieving social acceptance (!), where "geek" has definitely not made that jump (think "geek squad")Zaphraud (talk) 21:25, 2 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harold: Geek or Nerd? 

message: Recently reverted an edit that added Buzz Sherwood to the list of secondary characters.  We had a big discussion about this a while back when this article contained extensive lists of all the characters (including main, secondary and minor characters, and even the unseen characters like Bernice Green and Moose Thompson).  The minor characters were split out into their own article, and later the article was deleted per AfD due to a lack of notability.
There's no hard and fast definition for a minor character vs. a secondary, but a good rule of thumb for the Red Green Show seems to be that if the character has participated in main plot segments (like Ed Frid has at times), he's a secondary.  The biggest exception to this is probably Bill Smith, who is almost exclusively in the Adventures with Bill segments, but since he's been a regular of the show throughout its span, he counts as well.  Buzz is kind of on the borderline, but IMO he remains a minor character since he only appeared in a limited number of seasons and was (to my knowledge) never featured in a main plot segment - just in side segments.  (Earlier in the show's history, these got mixed a little more since some side segments dealt with the main plot as well.)
I realize this opens up questions about Hap Shaughnessy as well, so if we want to debate who's secondary vs. who's minor, let's do that here. :)
:Actually, now that I look at it again, this is really a much fuzzier line than I thought.  And now the question becomes, should we have a secondary characters section at all?  If we decide that that section should go, I'd move Bill Smith into the main characters section since he's so integral to the show, and just take everyone else out of the existing section.  Otherwise, I fear we're going to end up with way too many characters listed there. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 00:33, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm discussing this on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television, and the suggestion there is to move all of the characters to their own Characters on The Red Green Show article, with citations on the main characters from web sources and/or DVD extras.  I went ahead and re-added Buzz Sherwood for the time being, in preparation to do a character split. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 20:36, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wherever it is, Buzz Sherwood really should be mentioned; he was in too many episodes to be omitted.jaknouse (talk) 02:12, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Secondary vs. Minor Characters 

message: I've proposed that we merge Red Green (character) into this article, since the majority of the information in the character article is trivia (most of which is non-notable, and the remainder of which is already spoken for here), and the rest of the info is also repeated in this article (such as the history of the character, show details, etc.).  Also, I'm working on a more general "Characters of" article that should contain all the relevant in-universe information about the show's characters.  There isn't enough info that meets WP:N, WP:V and WP:FICT to warrant a separate, standalone article on Red Green the character.
I'm starting this discussion on 9/30/08.  If in 5 days there is no significant response to this discussion, I will perform the merge as non-controversial. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 06:01, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No response.  I'm going to perform the merge now. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 00:49, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge discussion: Red Green (character) 

message: Even though he was replaced in the later seasons, we should include the original animal control officer in the list of secondary characters.  Mr. C.C. (talk) 19:10, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  The description for Ed Frid simply says that he was the animal expert, but not noting that he was the second one.jaknouse (talk) 02:10, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Original Animal Control Officer 

message: There have been characters mentioned by name like Moose, Old Man Sedgewick, Red Green's wife, and Dalton Humprhey's wife.  Should there be a section for characters mentioned by name?  Mr. C.C. (talk) 19:16, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Characters Mentioned By Name 

message: "The Red Green Show ... aired on various channels ... from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006 on CBC, making it the longest running live-action scripted comedy in the world. "  What defines the difference between The Red Green Show and shows like Saturday Night Live or SCTV Network that would make this claim valid ?  D. J. Cartwright (talk) 08:30, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, excuse me; SCTVN did not run that long. D. J. Cartwright (talk) 08:32, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It had a plot and regular characters. SNL and SCTV were collections of skits. It was more of a series, while the latter two are more like variety hours. vıdıoman 01:29, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The Red Green Show can't be the longest running live-action scripted comedy in the world, as the Belgian sitcom F.C. De Kampioenen has been running since 1990 and will stop in 2011, making it 21 years old and The Red Green Show 15. So, that line's not true and should be removed the article. Whizzo (talk) 21:25, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest running live-action comedy 

message: It says somewhere in the article that Steve Smith says he won't ever reprise his character, or at least that he has no intention to but he did a show a couple of days ago in Derry NH as Red Green and it is in fact part of the "Red Green's Wit and Wisdom Tour 2010" so should someone put that into the article? and here's a link http://www.nhptv.org/redgreen/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.218.20.132 (talk) 09:36, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and rewrote that portion to reflect Smith's comment after the show ended, and the change in events afterward. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 18:24, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Steve Smith...still playing Red Green

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: There were at least two Red Green books written by Steve Smith. You could also join the Possum Lodge by mail. ( Members received a certificate and plastic lodge member  card. ).
75.104.174.220 (talk) 17:19, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional Content 

message: This article's content is getting way too detailed for a Wikipedia article.  There's a lot of extraneous trivia, including the semi-exhaustive list of secondary characters and their bios, that would be more appropriate for a content-specific wiki (like, say, The Red Green Wiki).  We should trim this down to meet Wikipedia standards. — KieferSkunk (talk) — 17:59, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content getting out of hand 

message: half blind vegetarian hunter, 1st seasons 66.118.76.195 (talk) 14:09, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  reggie