This special was painfully awful. I'm not sure if it was just online (where I saw it on the CBC website) or if it was actually aired on TV, but I think it was so bad they actually just put it up on their website.
In this special which is one hour long but seems like it is five hours long while you're watching it, Gerry Dee (who plays the teacher Mr. D in that show also on CBC) plays a substitute teacher in a hidden camera show. His makeup/fake hair are so comically bad that there is no way anyone actually believes he is a real person but he goes through the motions.
He picks a fake Eastern European name like Mr. Cherchechkov or something and uses a really awful accent and for a full hour does such unfunny things as have his students help him fill out his betting slip ("Detroit or Boston?") and give him dating advice. None of this show ever even approaches what could be described by any sane person as "comedy".
Not sure what else to say other than that CBC needs to fire everyone involved in this show and in general fire everyone in charge of green lighting all of their comedy shows for the last decade or more. Add to their list of failures this TV pilot or special which is such an unbelievably unfunny train wreck you would have to watch it to believe it.
In this special which is one hour long but seems like it is five hours long while you're watching it, Gerry Dee (who plays the teacher Mr. D in that show also on CBC) plays a substitute teacher in a hidden camera show. His makeup/fake hair are so comically bad that there is no way anyone actually believes he is a real person but he goes through the motions.
He picks a fake Eastern European name like Mr. Cherchechkov or something and uses a really awful accent and for a full hour does such unfunny things as have his students help him fill out his betting slip ("Detroit or Boston?") and give him dating advice. None of this show ever even approaches what could be described by any sane person as "comedy".
Not sure what else to say other than that CBC needs to fire everyone involved in this show and in general fire everyone in charge of green lighting all of their comedy shows for the last decade or more. Add to their list of failures this TV pilot or special which is such an unbelievably unfunny train wreck you would have to watch it to believe it.