Trivia / Corner Gas

• Actor Allusion:
  • When not in uniform, Davis often wears a hat or shirt branded with the logo of the Saskatchewan Prairie Fire, a defunct rugby team from Regina; his actor Lorne Cardinal is a former rugby player (though he played for the Edmonton-based Strathcona Druids).
  • In the opening scene of the season five premiere, during a discussion of old Canadian TV shows, Oscar blurts out “Street Legal sucked!”. His actor, Eric Peterson, played one of the lead characters on Street Legal.
  • In "Grad '68", Julie Stewart appears as a paint store employee who dismissively says "Cold case? Who cares?" Julie Stewart starred in Cold Squad, a Police Procedural about cold cases.
• Adored by the Network: To this day, the show airs daily on several Canadian channels, with mini-marathons being fairly common. This even extends to the animated series, which had several marathons on The Comedy Network and is the show they marathon on Canada Day.
• Awesome, Dear Boy: Eric Peterson took the role because he wanted to be part of a sitcom in Saskatchewan.
• Blooper: The show’s visual effects team sometimes forgets or doesn’t bother to blur out or change the town name “ROULEAU” on the water tower when it’s in the backgrounds of shots. (Though to be fair, it’s hard to tell unless you’re focusing on it).
• The Cast Showoff: Fred Ewanuick, Brent Butt and Nancy Robertson did their own singing, guitar and bass, respectively, in "Rock On!".
• The Character Died with Him: Mike O'Brien passed away from cancer in 2015, so the 8th episode of the animated series had the characters mourning Wes' death.
• The Danza:
  • Brent Butt plays Brent Leroy; Leroy is both Brent Butt’s real middle name and the name of a town in Saskatchewan, in keeping with the show’s Location Theme Naming.
  • Lacey's cook Josh is played by Josh Strait.
  • A reverse example is Phil Kinistino, who runs the bar from the third season onward; he was played by Erroll Kinistino. Interestingly enough, this character replaced Paul Kinistino (Phil's brother), who was played by Mark Dieter.
  • Lance Storm shows up in Season 3 of the Animated Series as Lance Fury.
• Marathon Running: The Comedy Network likes to air a marathon of the entire series at or around New Years. Or at least they did before they picked up The Big Bang Theory became yet another adoring network.
• The Other Darrin:
  • After Janet Wright passed away in 2016, the role of Emma was recast with Corrine Koslo for Corner Gas Animated. Janet's husband Bruce assured the creators that she would have wanted Emma's character to live on after her and personally suggested Corrine, a good friend of Janet's, for the role.
  • Won Hu, the owner of the Foo Mart, is played by Russell Yuen in Corner Gas: The Movie and voiced by Vincent Tong in Corner Gas Animated.
  • Fitzy's grandma Helen was played by Jean Freeman in the live-action show and the movie, and was voiced by Kathleen Barr in the animated series.
  • Phil Kinistino, the bar owner, was played by Erroll Kinistino in the original series and the movie but was replaced by Kevin Loring for the animated series.
• Playing Against Type: Oscar's actor, Eric Peterson, was better known for a couple of legal dramas in Canada (Street Legal and This is Wonderland) prior to this.
• Romance on the Set: Brent Butt and Nancy Robertson married in late 2005, during the airing of the third season. The two would later co-star in the series Hiccups.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Lacey was originally supposed to have moved to Dog River to start The Ruby, not to take it over after her aunt died. In this scenario, Lacey would have come up with the name to invoke the idea of a “jewel of the prairie” instead of naming it after her Aunt Ruby.
  • In Brent Butt’s original concept for the show, Emma had died sometime before the first episode, and Brent and Oscar’s frequent arguments would have been because of the loss of her as a mediating influence. Eventually it was decided that Oscar could just be naturally argumentative and that including Emma as a character would present more comedic and storytelling opportunities.
  • Wanda was originally written as being a fair bit older than Brent instead of roughly the same age as him. None of the actresses they originally auditioned were up to snuff, so they decided to bring in Nancy Robertson, a known quantity in the Vancouver comedy scene at the time who was only in her early thirties. She not only nailed the role but also ended up marrying series creator and star Brent Butt.
  • Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell was supposed to guest star after winning a bet with Regina's mayor, but it never ended up happening.

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