realizing my deep love of The Red Green Show makes me in some sense culturally, perhaps even spiritually, canadian, and looking at myself in the mirror with new eyes as geese honk outside

i'm a boy from indiana and this is very emotional for me
realizing my deep love of The Red Green Show makes me in some sense culturally, perhaps even spiritually, canadian, and looking at myself in the mirror with new eyes as geese honk outside
I grew up with Red Green and it gave me absolutely insane understandings of Duct Tape and Masculinity
Better than most, but due to some stuff with my actual real-life parents I find myself side-eyeing their whole "oh woe is me, I am but a pitiful goofball of a man and all the Power in my marriage belongs to my wife whomst I fear" stuff, which is part of a bigger 90s Goofball Boomer Dad thing (Homer Simpson is in this soup as well)
I do get that I guess. I think it’s a caricature of a mostly functioning relationship. I never missed that he was hamming it up, personally. The power dynamics of modern straight relationships are wack.
they're like the owls from harry potter but instead of inviting you to hogwarts they're inviting you to hogtown
Yeah, Canada kinda culturally colonized a decent chunk of the Midwest with that one lol
when i found out it was canadian i was like "well what does being an american even mean???"
andi once confessed to me that she just assumed growing up that the red green show was set in oklahoma and honestly it made perfect sense
i knew so many of those types of guys!!! it just never occurred to me they'd be in an entirely different country too
Red Green is directly responsible for my owning way more flannel as a kid than anyone sane would have. This became convenient when I fell in with the grunge kids in school, but its true origin was just that I thought his shirts were neat.
same except eventually it just made everyone at college think i was a hipster