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Originally Posted by Acajack
The reason being that Trailer Park Boys doesn't pretend to be anything other than a show about a trailer park in Nova Scotia, Canada. If the same crew had done the same show but set it in Paducah, Kentucky, then it would be a different story. (As they did with Wayne's World and My Big Fat Greek Wedding.)
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Most Canadians on SSP seem not to believe me and I am not sure how you'd quantify this but this is one of the big differences I notice between Vancouver, Halifax, and some other places around Canada (mostly it comes down to east of Ottawa vs. west of Ottawa).
It really is noticeable how much regional flavour you get in the culture that's consumed in Atlantic Canada. People in NS love NS stuff and they also love stuff from the rest of the region including Newfoundland. Trailer Park Boys is one example of this. Amongst my FB friends the death of Jim Dunsworth (Lahey) was making the rounds in a way similar to the way the Gord Downie is nationally. I can rattle off the names of a whole bunch of "Atlantic" celebrities that people barely know in the rest of Canada. The old 22 Minutes crowd was part of this even though they are mostly from Newfoundland and many have moved on now. I am thinking of examples like Rick Mercer and Mary Walsh.
It gets to a very cheesy point with things like the life-size Theodore Tugboat.
It is the same with food and music.
Vancouver is not really like this at all, even though there's more production here of TV shows and movies and this city has more people than all of Atlantic Canada. Quebec on the other hand is much larger and has an even more developed regional cultural/entertainment industry, and people there consume less from other parts of North America.
I will leave it up to readers to decide where other cities starting with letters like T and C fit in!
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