Mr. D Season 2 Episode 3 World Religions preview CBC seems to be looking for "Mr. D" to be the replacement to Monday
night's popular "Little Mosque on the Prairie" which is ending in 2012.
By the looks of it, they have a keeper. Gerry Dee plays Mr. Duncan, a
substitute Phys. Ed. teacher starting his full time career as a Social
Studies teacher. His lack of historical knowledge is hilarious. He says
he will teach his kids such Canadian history as learning who the other
three Dionne Quintuplets are, besides Marcel and Celine and promises to
teach them all about the Underground "Subway System". When a parent
asks him to name the first man on the moon, Mr. D says, "Louie
Armstrong" but then quickly corrects himself with "Lance Armstrong".
Joining Gerry Dee in the cast is stand up star Bette MacDonald as the
school secretary, reality youth sensation Jonathan Torrens as the
principal, and the great Booth Savage as the school Sports head. The
sit com should appeal to not only teachers but parents and anyone who
was ever a student, in Canada or, really, anywhere.
I thought the pilot episode was great! It's finally nice to see CBC getting a bit out of their comfort zone for once. Let's be honest, most of the comedy/sitcom programming on CBC is a snooze, and Gerry D is complete reverse polarization from it's regular scheduling.
The character "Mr.D" is a bit unrealistic, and too be honest probably would be fired shortly after starting his teaching career; but this is T.V REMEMBER!!!!...this IS NOT a REAL public educator. So all the people that have been saying he is "rude", or "mean",or a bad representation of Canada, can go back to their boring regular scheduled programming and leave this one for the half of Canada.
I think the demographic that CBC is trying to relate to is probably 16-35, and if you do not fall in this category, than you more than likely will not going to appreciate the comedy of which Mr.D's awkward teaching style cannot go unnoticed.
I think if you are looking for something new on Monday's, and you enjoy shows like Community, The Office, etc... than this show is at LEAST worth a watch, because after all, we have to stand up and keep original programming, or else CBC (Canada's boringist Channel) will once again fall back to it's old ways and start producing more television sitcoms that nobody in the demographic of which I mentioned above will ever, never watch. Can I get an amen?
I thought the pilot episode was great! It's finally nice to see CBC getting a bit out of their comfort zone for once. Let's be honest, most of the comedy/sitcom programming on CBC is a snooze, and Gerry D is complete reverse polarization from it's regular scheduling.
The character "Mr.D" is a bit unrealistic, and too be honest probably would be fired shortly after starting his teaching career; but this is T.V REMEMBER!!!!...this IS NOT a REAL public educator. So all the people that have been saying he is "rude", or "mean",or a bad representation of Canada, can go back to their boring regular scheduled programming and leave this one for the half of Canada.
I think the demographic that CBC is trying to relate to is probably 16-35, and if you do not fall in this category, than you more than likely will not going to appreciate the comedy of which Mr.D's awkward teaching style cannot go unnoticed.
I think if you are looking for something new on Monday's, and you enjoy shows like Community, The Office, etc... than this show is at LEAST worth a watch, because after all, we have to stand up and keep original programming, or else CBC (Canada's boringist Channel) will once again fall back to it's old ways and start producing more television sitcoms that nobody in the demographic of which I mentioned above will ever, never watch. Can I get an amen?
