YMMV / Letterkenny

• Awesome Music: The soundtrack is chock-full of awesome songs, most of which are Canadian and picked by Jared Keeso himself.
  • Special mention goes to Peaches' 'Fuck The Pain Away' being played over Dax and Ron's first dance and the hicks, Bonnie and Tanis beating the hell out of some cidiots.
  • "Oxygen (Gemini Remix)" by Hadouken being used over the ending of the Season 8 premiere gave the song a Colbert Bump... and it's not hard to see why.
  • "Plugged In" by Brendan Canning used over the final scene of Season 11 is a very haunting, melancholy and beautiful tune.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Roald becoming possessed in the Halloween special. It has never come up again.
• Broken Base:
  • Season 4 is either the best since Season 1, or the worst season yet, depending on who you ask. The people who love it seem to find the decrease in gross-out gags, the more straightforward gags and more character-based plots to be a real improvement (especially Tanis getting some real character growth) as well as a love for episodes 2 and 3 in particular, often holding them in extremely high regard. The "hate it side" finds it bland and lethargic, mailed in even, finds the "Degens" subplot to be rather intrusive and the inclusion of more charcters to be too much, and seem to think the addition of the gay gym guys (basically gay expies for the hockey players) to be lazy and rehashed. With regards to the last entry, however, many feel they were vindicated with particularly strong character development in seasons 5 and 6.
  • The entire Crack an Ag storyline in Season 7. Either it's a great new idea and a way of introducing more new things for the boys to do, or it's stale and gets old really fast- not helped by the fact that lots of the season hinges on it.
  • While Season 8 is proving to be one of the best received among the fanbase, a number of fans are split on Shoresy's being Put on a Bus in episode 2. While what caused it (his No-Holds-Barred Beatdown' of one of the opposing team's players) is definitely brutal, fans either think it was a great Beware The Goofy Ones moment to show that he can be a real threat, others felt the genuine character development was blown on forcing out a cheap win from the Irish, as the boys score more goals when he's in the box. It doesn't help that this is the last we see of him for the rest of the season.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The Paul Bernardo/Karla Homolka jokes in "The Three Wise Men".
  • Boots and the Ginger fucking an ostrich? Horrifying. Boots and the Ginger fucking a dead ostrich, ALLEGEDLY? Hilarious!
• Designated Hero: The fights in Letterkenny are usually presented as being more or less fair- equal numbers on both sides, people don't bring weapons, everyone's a willing participant, and usually there's no hard feelings afterwards. But when the Hicks, Bonnie and Tanis fight the cidiots in 'We Don't Fight At Weddings', it's very explicitly not a fair fight- Bonnie and Katy lure the cidiots into a hotel room and Tanis blocks the door, whereupon everyone beats the crap out of them. That's not a fair fight, that's more like assault.
  • Wayne's first confrontation with Mick. Barely a moment after Mick bumped into Rosie, Wayne slammed him up against the wall demanding an apology, only cooling off after Rosie and Daryl told him to, and then went right back inside to attack him once Rosie had left the bar. Yes, Mick turns out to be an absolute degen, but Wayne didn't know that at the time.
• Designated Villain:
  • When Tanis and her boys confront the Skids in 'The Battle For Bonnie McMurray', they're treated as the villains despite the fact that the Skids have been committing acts of vandalism all over town and letting the Natives be blamed for it. Tanis and the other Natives have every right to be upset, since they had absolutely nothing to do with it.
  • In "Letterkenny Spelling Bee", Stewart is treated as despicable for having the temerity to have previously won the spelling bee fair and square, breaking Katy's streak in the process.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Katy. Can't imagine why.
  • Squirrely Dan, always affable, except when he gets adorably enraged.
  • Lovable Sex Maniac Gail has a lot of fans.
  • For someone who will always be The Faceless, Shoresy is almost universally beloved by the fanbase.
  • Roald, out of all the skids, has the most dedicated fanbase.
  • Can I just say "Bonnie McMurray!"
  • Gae, the sassy, confident, and sexy skid who combines the best aspects of Stewart and Katy.
• Epileptic Trees: There's an uncommon but not unheard of theory that Gae is a hallucination or split personality of Stewart's.
• Fountain of Memes: Countless Catch Phrases have come from this show, for Canadians and international fans alike. It'd be quite a task indeed to list them all.
• Friendly Fandoms: With Schitt's Creek, ESPECIALLY among Canadians. Both being extremely clever and well written Canadian sitcoms with a wide foreign appeal. The former especially; while shows like This Hour Has 22 Minutes and The Rick Mercer Report are beloved Canadian namesakes, they're only well known in Canada, and shows like Schitt's and Letterkenny have become as big in America as regular American namestays like Full House. The LGBT Fanbase, as mentioned below, certainly helps.
• Funny Moments: Pretty much any time the Letterkenny heroes start a round of puns, tricky wordplay, and Double Entendres.
  • Wayne and company assisting a local Mennonite family searching for their wayward daughters... whose last name just happens to be Dyck.
  Wayne: Katy! Seen a Dyck or two?
  Katy (walking in on the conversation): That's a loaded question, big brother!
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Though understandably extremely popular in Canada, the show has a MASSIVE cult following in the US (similar to another Canadian sitcom, Corner Gas). Unfortunately, there being no legal distributor (until Hulu gained the rights) there has led to its fandom running almost entirely on Keep Circulating the Tapes.
• Growing the Beard: It's interesting to watch the show getting more politically progressive as it goes on (such as the lessened gay jokes and the characterization of its Indigenous cast), which intrigued a lot of skeptics and made fans become bigger fans. Altogether, the show really starts hitting its stride in seasons 2 & 3.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: After the arrest of kickboxer (among other things...) Andrew Tate in relation to his online criticism of Greta Thunberg led to memes about her KOing him, Wayne might count himself lucky that nothing bad happened to him after criticizing her climate activism in Season 9.
• Ho Yay: There's so much between Reilly and Jonesy that the show just plays right into it.
  Shoresy: Will you two just man up and make out? I started an office pool for it, and the day I picked is tomorrow. Get tuggin', titfucker.
  • Shoresy himself borders on this with the other two, and alludes to it in one of his chirps.
    Shoresy: Fuck you Reilly, I took your mom the next weekend - me and the blue knight showed her a real swordfight!
  • Reilly and Jonesy's Ho Yay is lampshaded HARD in the 2018 Christmas special "The Three Wise Men". Wayne gets them a collage of all their "precious moments" together. They initially are taken aback by how gay his is... then seem to embrace it a little too much, clearly making Wayne a little uncomfortable.
• I Am Not Spock: Kamilla Kowal has noted several times on her social media that her name is not Bonnie McMurray, as that is what the comments are invariably full of.
• LGBT Fanbase: The show's completely normal depictions of gay and bi characters co-existing with straight characters, the presence of the extremely handsome Jared Keeso, the Mr. Fanservice gay gym guys, Roald himself, Katy and Tanis becoming gay icons, Lovable Sex Maniac Gail, Jonesey and Reilly's Ho Yay, and even polyamorous relationships, have ensured there are just as many queer fans of this show as that of Schitt's Creek. It helps that co creator Jacob Tierney is openly queer.
• Memetic Mutation: Being the aforementioned Fountain of Memes, of course:
  • "You were ____________ the other dayyyyyyyy..."
  • "Get this guy a fuckin' Puppers."
  • "To be fairrrrrrr..."
  • "Allegedlys."
  • "Ain't no reason to get excited."
  • "Pitter-patter (let's get at 'er)."
  • "Must be fuckin' nice."
  • "Wish you weren't so fuckin' awkward, bud."
  • "There's such a thing as too much horn talk, and a fella oughta be fuckin' aware of it."
  • "Just kidding, I don't give a fuck."
  • "I could watch kids fall off bikes all day. I don't give a shit about your kids."
  • "You got a problem with Canada gooses, you got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate!"
  • "That's what I appreciates about you's."
  • "FUCKIN' EMBARRASSING!"
  • "Ohhhh, Bonnie McMurray!"
  • "STRRRRT!"
  • "Wondrous."
  • "I hate the world. I hate my parents. I hate myself!"
  • "Give your balls a tug, titfucker!"
  • "FUCK YOU, SHORESY!"
  • "McMurray's a piece of shit."
  • "You's guys wanna talk about cunt?"
  • "Gimme that _______ nut!"
  • "FIVE. POINT. ONE. FIVE. INCHES!"
  • "Sometimes there's shit on the outside'a the torlet."
• Moral Event Horizon: Devon crossed it pretty early on when he intentionally sabotaged Stewart's ambitions to make sure he stayed a drug pushing crackhead.
• Nightmare Fuel: The ending of "Snooters", holy crap. The Degens take Daryl, who recently fell in with them, out to a field to show them a game they play, where they send someone running across the field as a Degen shoots at them with a scoped rifle, with actual live rounds. The poor victim is absolutely terrified and has a look of panic on his face. All the other Degens are enjoying what they've seen... except Daryl, who has a legitimately horrified look on his face. The song over the scene, "Febersvan" by GAUPA, doesn't help matters one bit and helps the scene feel like something out of a horror movie. Daryl has an appropriately Screw This, I'm Outta Here reaction... only for the Degens to convince him to stay in a sense that feels creepily like a cult indoctrination.
• One-Scene Wonder: Several:
  • Alexander, the local drunk who later gets put to work by Gail as a janitor at MoD3an's, whose encounter with Wayne and McMurray in "Yard Sale Saturday" and explanation of the deplorable state of the "torlet" and "uriniss" is considered to be one of the greatest Cold Opens in series history.
  • Tommy and Teddy, the Newfoundland hockey players who relentlessly chirp the Irish (now playing for the Native team) in "Miss Fire" and baffle them with their thick Newfie dialect and accents (which, as many commenters pointed out, are among the few Newfie dialects that a work has gotten completely right, aside from the frequent half-joking nitpicks about the dialogue being too slow). It likely helps that James Daly (the actor who portrays Ron) is himself from Newfoundland, so there's some inspiration and expertise to draw from on set.
• Seasonal Rot:
  • Season 7 seems to be getting this treatment, with fans not being impressed that the Skids' personalities were reverted back to their Season 1 types, heavy reliance on call-backs to early seasons, rather scatterbrained nature (for instance, the idea to reunite the Letterkenny Irish doesn't happen until the back half of the season, and all the new ideas the season attempts sacrifices some of the traditional gags- namely, Wayne's "You were ________ the other daaaaayyyy..." that opened every episode occurs only once in the season), and people feeling that Crack an Ag got old fast, with a lot of the season relying on it. The season's cliffhanger ending didn't really make things better either. Likewise, Season 4, for reasons stated in Broken Base.
  • A lot of fans think this about season 9, with one of the major reasons being the lack of an overarching plot over the episodes. Other common accusations include the characters becoming Flanderized, constant references to jokes from past seasons instead of making new jokes, an over reliance on wordplay scenes, characters like Glen, Shoresy, the McMurrays and Tanis getting only one appearance at the most, and all the different factions getting along being boring and leaving the show without any real antagonist or complication. In particular, 'NDN NRG' got criticised for feeling as though the writers shoehorned far too many plots into one episode without giving them all enough time to develop.
• Signature Scene: The cold open in the very first episode, with Wayne and Daryl just verbally cutting Reilly & Jonesy to bits. That scene set the bar pretty high for the rest of the show.
  • On a more general note, the Hicks sitting around the produce stand engaging in Seinfeldian Conversation while the camera slowly glides back and forth could be considered a recurring Signature Scene.
  • For the hockey players, Shoresy chirping Jonesy and Reilly in the showers while doing handstand pushups butt-ass naked.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Stewart and Gae having to break up in season 6. Everything's just started going right for him- he got sober, moved in with a woman he loves and who loves him, and then they have to break up...
  • The ending of "Degens" (Season 11 finale) may as well be the live-action equivalent of "You're Getting Old" or "Rick Potion No. 9". The boys' No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on the Degens finally appears to have been the wrong decision to make to them, and the final shot of the episode is them sitting in front of their produce trailer, in the dark, in complete silence, with a Thousand-Yard Stare on their face. Brendan Canning's "Plugged In", which plays over the scene, greatly contributes to this.
  • In "Live at Modean's", it's clear that Katy's roasting of Daryl went a little too far. In the Dance Party Ending that follows, as everyone else dances, he sits at a table with a clearly hurt facial expression.
  • The end of "Over and Out", the series finale. It starts with a shot of the Ag Hall from outside, showing everyone partying together, and then flicks between various locations in Letterkenny: the barn, the house, the produce stand, MoDean's, the hockey rink, the basement... but nobody's there. And then it fades out to two words: "For Gus".
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Daryl in "In It To Win It". He suddenly decides that he wants to get back with Anik, ignores his friends telling him that it's a terrible idea, goes to Quebec and then proceeds to act like a stalker. He repeatedly asks to talk to Anik alone, ignores Jean-Guy telling him to just leave Anik alone because she's happy, and is fully prepared to fight the Hiques even though there's literally nothing even resembling a good reason for him to think that it's a good idea. In any other show, it would look like the intro to a murder.

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