History Series / CornerGas

* ItsAlwaysSpring: The show is eternally spring or summer, despite being filmed on site. Of course, winters are quite brutal in Saskatchewan, and the creator/writer/star Brent Butt has expressed his lack of interest in filming in winter (aside from the Christmas episode).

* CaffeineBulletTime: In "Buzz Driver", Wanda drinks several cans of an energy drink called Haywire and becomes extremely hyper, to the point where she can't sit still or stop talking. Brent and Emma try to take advantage of this by asking her to do various chores at the gas station and the Leroy home. This doesn't work particularly well because the Haywire has seriously affected her concentration, so she just bounces from one task to another without completing anything. Then she crashes and becomes too lethargic to keep her eyes open, let alone help with chores.

* MoneySong: "Capital Cash" by Fast Exit[[labelnote:*]]Brent Butt's high school band according to Wiki/TheOtherWiki[[/labelnote]], with a dash of RockstarSong and even some DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Brent has had two. In one episode it was his cousin Carl. In another it was a teenage boy. Both times Brent managed to get some sort of victory in the end. Carl went on an angry rant in front of everyone and exposed himself for the {{Jerkass}} that [[CassandraTruth Brent was always saying he was]]. The teenager spent an episode being superior to Brent in every way (a better guitar player, a nicer car, a girlfriend), until Brent finds out that the kid doesn't know how to tune a guitar manually, something Brent finds very easy. He messes up the tuning on the kid's guitar even further and walks away laughing.

** "You know how I feel about CFL jokes."

* InsultComic: Hank at comedy night. Lacy gives him a list of insults to use on hecklers, but he uses them instead of an actual act. The crowd calls him "Mean Hank" and demands he come back after another comedian bombs.

** When Lacey wins a charity auction to have Hank has her Handyman for a Day. She only wanted him to hang pictures, but he notices the tiles in her bathtub need to be grouted, so he destroys the wall. Then he ends up breaking the fridge while getting himself a snack and has to fix that too. Not to mention that he'll only work for about 20 minutes a day before leaving (see ExactWords below). Eventually Lacey gets fed up and fixes everything herself. [[spoiler:Except she didn't reconnect the pipes in the bathroom, so Hank destroys the wall again and says he won't be able to hang up the pictures because it's going to take him the rest of her handyman time to fix her mistake.]]

** A drug one when half of the cafe letters fall down:
--->'''Hank:''' Hey, where's your F 'n' E?

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Dog River would most likely have an RCMP detatchment instead of its own department.

** Hank will ''not'' tolerate [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball CFL]] jokes.

--->'''Lacey:''' I'm not sure.\\
--->'''Emma:''' Not sure? Do I look ''stupid'' to you?!

'''Lacey:''' I'm not sure.\\
'''Emma:''' Not sure? Do I look ''stupid'' to you?!

** Brent pranks Oscar by writing names like [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Marge Simpson]] and [[LiveActionTV/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Jean-Luc Picard]] on the whiteboard of people who have tried to pass bad checks at the gas station.
-->'''Brent:''' He's still trying to track down [[LiveActionTV/HappyDays Arthur Fonzarelli]].

* KavorkaMan: Brent, even though he doesn't have any sex throughout the entire run of the show (that we know of). Why not? All of the women except Lacey think he's way out of their league. Lacey reasons that because the rest of the men in Dog River are so repulsive Brent in comparison seems much more attractive than he actually is, but the other women don't believe her. Pushed UpToEleven when Brent trades his usual blue work shirt for a black one, his attitude immediately gaining a flair of danger and mystery.

* NeverMessWithGranny: Emma can toss a cinder block one-handed from the curb in front of the house near a skunk poking around in her garden behind the house. Davis has compared her to [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk the Hulk]] on one occasion, and Wanda once described her as having arms like Creator/LouFerrigno (who, funny enough, is well known for ''playing'' the Hulk [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977 on TV]]).

* RantInducingSlight: In "Tree's A Crowd", Emma and Oscar's single friend Peggy keeps flirting with Oscar in a very obvious manner, and when Emma brings this up, Oscar denies that it's happening. Emma manages to keep her anger about this in check. Then she sees that Oscar has put the spoons away wrong and starts yelling at him to, "STOP MOVING SPOONS!" Oscar is insightful enough to realize that something other than spoons is bugging her, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint but he just asks, "Is this about the salad forks?"]]

In December 2016, [[http://www.thecomedynetwork.ca/blogs/2016/12/animated-corner-gas an animated series was revealed]], which began broadcasting on Creator/TheComedyNetwork in April 2018. Most of the original cast and crew have returned, with the exception of Janet Wright (Emma), who passed away in 2016. In the US, all seasons of the original, the movie, and ''Animated'' can be streamed for free on IMDB TV.

** Karen sends Davis to sensitivity training because he was making DumbBlonde jokes with Oscar in front of her. He comes back as a living example of PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad (example: When Karen orders black coffee, Davis tells her "it's African-American!"), so she teams up with Oscar to get him back to normal.

* {{Mondegreen}}: Brent repeatedly mishears the name of Marvin Drey, '''a''' taxman, as "muffin tray".

* YouMakeMeSic: Another frequent attribute of the ''Howler''; take for instance the headline "HANK IS PHYCIC".
-->'''Wanda:''' "Phycic"? Honestly, how much does a spellcheck program cost? What's the story say?\\
'''Brent:''' I don't know, I haven't finished reading it yet. I started to read it but then it was "contunied on page 30".

* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Oscar Leroy is stubborn, inconsiderate, prone to demanding the RCMP detachment arrest whoever annoys him, and browbeats every public official with, "My taxes pay your salary!" Of course, in his point-of-view jackasses don't deserve respect. One of his {{Catch Phrase}}s is "I'm a senior!" At one point Brent points out that, since he's 63 years old, he isn't ''technically'' a senior yet[[note]]65 is the magic number in Canada, though the current government is lobbying to have it raised to 67[[/note]], but Oscar completely ignores this.

--->'''Emma:''' Listen, I moved up dinner tonight. Can you come at 5:00?
--->'''Brent:''' I work till five.
--->'''Emma:''' Oh, I didn't take into account the rush hour traffic, see you at 5:01.

* SenseFreak: In a rare human example, Davis is revealed in one episode to have lost his sense of smell as a child. He gets it back during the episode and goes a little nuts with it. It becomes FridgeBrilliance when you notice in other episodes Davis is ''never'' the first to notice a truly awful smell, but rather always seems to add reactively "Yeah that does smell bad"... basically, he's covering up his missing sense! Which doesn't really make sense, since he had told everybody about it already, including Brent, who just wasn't paying attention (in fact his plot in the episode involved him learning to pay attention to other people when they talk).

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY:
** Marvin Drey thinks it is. He keeps pronouncing "Leroy" as "[=LeRoy=]", even after Brent corrects him.
** Wanda and Davis team up for a trivia contest, and Wanda suggests their team name be the first part of each of their names, resulting in "Wanda". As people cheer her on, Davis protests "it's Wan-Day!"

* {{Sexophone}}: Each time Hank's [[ItMakesSenseInContext fish talk]] starts to affect Karen.

'''Karen:''' The C.T.C.A.Y.D.T.L.I.D.R.[[note]]"kit-kay-dit-tiddler"[[/note]] for short.
'''Lacey:''' That's short?
'''Emma:''' Don't make fun of our acronyms.
'''Davis:''' We thought you'd be a good person to meet the doctor and to show off the town.
'''Karen:''' Not just the town, the Greater Regional...
'''Davis:''' Yeah, the G.R.R.A.Z.

* SomeGuysStoreOfRandomObjectsAndUnrelatedServices: The liquor/insurance store, though such places actually [[TruthInTelevision exist]]. In fact, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments they got the idea from the town that they filmed the show in!]]

-->'''Lacey:''' Last item on the agenda, an open discussion on ... the weather and crops? Nice try. Uh-uh. Meeting adjourned.

** Davis is the only nonwhite regular; befitting the show's setting in rural Saskatchewan, he is Aboriginal (Cree, to be specific, [[RealitySubtext much like]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorne_Cardinal the actor who plays him]]). However, this is treated as wholly incidental to his character, and he acts no more or less quirky than anyone else in Dog River. The first season finale (the Grey Cup episode) is pretty much the only time in the entire series his ethnicity is acknowledged.

* AbsenteeActor: Subverted. All of the actors listed in the opening titles appear in every episode.

* NotSoDifferent: In "Knit Wit Of The Month", Emma complains to Hank that Oscar always "yaps on and on" while she's knitting. Then it turns out that the other knitting club members dislike Emma because ''she'' always yaps on and on about Oscar while ''they're'' knitting.