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Recap / Letterkenny S 01 E 01 Aint No Reason To Get Excited

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"A couple of hockey players came up the produce stand the other daaaaaay…"

We start at Wayne and Katy's farm, where Wayne and Daryl are sitting at the produce stand. Hockey players Reilly and Jonesy drive up, along with Katy, Wayne's sister, who is their girlfriend. Katy heads inside, greeting Wayne and telling Daryl to go home, and Reilly and Jonesy take the opportunity to chirp at Wayne. They make fun of him for his recent heartbreak- his girlfriend of five years, Angie, cheated on him and left him for the guy she cheated on him with. Wayne loves fighting and is good at it, but Angie convinced him to give up fighting, which means he can't do what he'd like to do, which is beat up the guy she cheated on him with. Wayne calls their bluff re: fighting, and he and Daryl proceed to mock Reilly and Jonesy until they're left flustered and demanding a fight. Before any punches can be thrown, Katy emerges from the house and yells at her boyfriends to leave, which they do. Wayne comments that farming's a hard life, but it beats fighting dudes with treasure trails, and we cut to the credits.

The next morning, Daryl has joined Katy and Wayne, which Katy is annoyed at. He asks if Wayne has talked to Angie, which is a no, despite it being a month since the breakup. Daryl says that while Angie did Wayne a lot of good, along the way, he got soft- he's not even fighting anymore. Daryl and Katy agree that Wayne needs to get laid, though Daryl thinks he should get laid with a Christian girl- he's been going to a Christian youth group every Sunday, and wants Wayne to join him, while Katy thinks he should just join Tinder.

Reilly and Jonesy show up to mock Wayne again, and then we cut back to the produce stand, where Wayne, Katy and Daryl have been joined by the fourth member of their group, 'Squirrelly' Dan. After some discussion and a story, they decide to go get drunk. Cut to the one bar in Letterkenny, MoDean's Roadhouse, which is owned and run by Gail, a friend of the Hicks. However, Angie works at MoDean's, so Wayne is a little wary of being there. The Hicks drink for a while and Wayne heads off to the bathroom, where he runs into Alexander, an annoying drunk, and fellow farmer McMurray, a sort-of-friend of the Hicks who annoys Wayne by insisting on telling him about Angie's new boyfriend.

Back at the bar, Daryl invites Wayne to the youth group, but Wayne declines. After some discussion about the youth group and the girl Daryl's been seeing, Margaret, Gail aggressively hits on Wayne, who takes the youth group instead. One scene of some goth guys dancing near the church later, we cut to inside the church, where a band called the Salty Treats are setting up. Wayne is not amused so far, and is less amused when Margaret turns up, as she is very religious and, after Daryl mentions that Wayne's been on Tinder, weirdly obsessed with Grindr, which she claims Tinder spawned from. The church's pastor, Glen, comes on stage and, after discussing his girlfriend, introduces the Salty Treats. Much to Daryl's displeasure, Wayne is not enjoying the youth group, and finally heads outside to have a smoke.

Outside, Wayne's looking up Grindr when he's accosted by the goth guys who were dancing earlier: the Skids, the local drug dealers and petty delinquents, who consist of Devon, Roald, Connor, Darien and their leader, Stewart. Stewart grabs Wayne's phone off him and asks why he's on Grindr; in return, Wayne asks why the Skids are out of their mom's basement, whereupon Stewart and Devon, who are clearly high as kites, ramble about how they've been singing karaoke and playing classic video games for 48 hours, and Wayne is not impressed. Stewart and the Skids make a ton of jokes about how Wayne is apparently gay now, to the chagrin of Roald, who is gay. After being reassured that they support him, Roald manages to join in with the jokes. Wayne demands and gets his phone back, and heads back inside, where Glen is playing his didgeridoo.

Looking around, Wayne realises that all the guys in the audience are on Grindr, and when Daryl tells him to lighten up or he'll miss out on the girls, Wayne asks if he means the 12 year olds or 13 year olds. Margaret tells them that the group's over and suggests that they go out for milkshakes; instead, they head back to MoDean's. Unfortunately, Katy and Dan are gone, and the Skids, Reilly and Jonesy are there instead. The Skids and hockey players insult each other, but decide to join forces to mock Wayne, who they hate more than each other; after Angie's new boyfriend comes in, Wayne goes outside for another smoke.

Outside, Wayne's smoking and Katy drives up. She says that Wayne must have been having a fun night, brings up various times in the past when someone wronged him and he got revenge, and says that she- and a lot of other people- miss that Wayne. Wayne, however, thinks it's for the better. Alexander staggers outside and and begins taking a leak into a pile of trash bags; a short while later, Angie's new boyfriend comes outside, sees Alexander, starts recording him taking a leak and then kicks him into the trash bags and laughs at him. Wayne is furious and confronts him, and in response, Angie's new boyfriend trash-talks him, bringing up Angie and how he stole Wayne's girl. He then brings up Katy, and that's what does it- Wayne beats the crap out of him.

Daryl, Reilly, Jonesy and the Skids all come outside, see what happened and stop dead. Wayne pretends to lunge at them and everyone except Daryl flinches. Wayne snaps "Welcome to fuckin' Letterkenny" and leaves, followed by Katy and Daryl. The next day, Reilly and Jonesy drop Katy home and are very polite to Wayne, who just smiles.

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