Before I start I'm not trying to be inflammatory or anything like that lol, you can like what you want of course and if you're a fan of the show then that's awesome, I'm just curious about something

I'm from Eastern Canada, around 3 hours away from where Kevin Spencer is set (the location is never explicitly named, but with context clues it's very easy to tell that it's around the Ottawa region, right next to the Québec border). The show is really funny to me because a lot of the humour is based on what I was taught in school, the accents correspond to what people around me sound like (really surprising because I've never heard an accurate french-canadian accent in a TV show made by anglophones before Kevin Spencer). Basically the show is extremely relevant to my personal experience and I see a lot of my life reflected in the humour
But every Kevin Spencer fan I've seen online is nowhere near the Ottawa-Gatineau region, hell most of them aren't near Canada. Places like Australia, Latin America, select American states that I wouldn't exactly label as close to the Canadian border. Which means that most fans of the show lack context for at least half the humour. Again, I'm not trying to be a dick LOL it is a funny show but having watched it, it seems so profoundly region-locked that I struggle to see how someone who isn't canadian at all wouldn't get annoyed at watching entire episodes with political and cultural references that don't exist where they live
So anyway, if you're a KS fan that isn't from Canada, I'm genuinely curious to hear your thoughts/what you understood from episodes like Mont Surreal and Working The Rigs (as I'm sure the Québec séparatiste movement/René Lévesque and the ice desert that is Canada's northern territories, ESPECIALLY Nunavut are not topics taught in foreign schools) and other short gags like Charlie Plunt's accent/expressions (small side tangeant, but I do believe that the writers intended his name to be a joke, as "Plunt" is not a last name in Québec (where he is from) but "Plante", pronounced virtually the same way, is an insanely popular last name) and Percy's stack of Canadian Hardware money (which is a parody on Canadian Tire money, UNFORTUNATELY discontinued in 2020 although I'm sure I still have a few bills of it around somewhere).
PS. In the defense of non-Canadian Kevin Spencer fans, I also didn't know Bruno Gerussi before watching the show, although it appears that The Beachcombers is exclusively remembered by people over the age of 40 and seems more popular in Western Canada. The show had already been over for a decade when Kevin Spencer had its Gerussi arc so it was an outdated reference before it even hit the air
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Buttmuncher
I like KS alot excluding the fact im a yumeshipper bc i do actually understand certain things and events as my family originally immigrated from norway to Canada and then the US, in general i just really enjoy trashly television/cartoons especially raunchy and insensitive humor
I love that alot of the show portrays itself in a less forced comedic background like how southpark or rick&morty does as if they NEED to be funny while kevin spencer is just naturally comedic (intentional or not)
Alot of the jokes at least in my opinion are super easy to catch in on even if ur not 'in the know' because their always or at aleast usually portrayed with some form of context clue
Interesting to know! Norway is a beautiful country, I recently came back from a student exchange in Sweden where I was able to visit Songnefjorden so that was nice. Yeah, I presume a lot of the jokes can be understood in some way without Canadian schooling since, at the same time, it's not terribly high brow humour hahaha. I was moreso curious about what people thought of the specifically canadian jokes in the show, if they thought anything about it at all
Where did your family go in Canada and the US, if you don't mind sharing? I personally live in Quebec now (pretty obvious from how I formatted my post lol) but I also used to live in Alberta, and I've visited almost every province (but none of the territories)
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