Underplayed Gems

Chilly Beach (2003)

Chilly Beach poster
Genre
animated sitcom
Country
Canada
Length
3 seasons, 65 episodes
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

The show is an adult animated sitcom about a fictional Canadian town called Chilly Beach. It makes fun of common stereotypes about Canadians and their everyday activities.

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What happens

Chilly Beach is a Canadian adult animated sitcom that aired on CBC from 2003 to 2008. The series is a comedic depiction of life in the fictional Canadian town of Chilly Beach, described by the producers as "a bunch of Canadians doing the stuff that Canadians do, like playing hockey, drinking beer, and being eaten by polar bears." Chilly Beach plays on nearly every conceivable stereotype that people have about Canadians in a satirical manner. 65 episodes were produced over three seasons. The first iterations of the concept began in 1998 as a cartoon demonstration for Daniel Hawe's firm Infopreneur. The show launched in 2000 as an animated Flash site on the Web with short episodes made available for free on its website. It was later developed into a CBC TV series which first aired in 2003. An early version of the Chilly Beach feature film, The World Is Hot Enough, made its theatrical debut at Cinéfest in September 2005, and was released to DVD on February 4, 2008. A second film, Chilly Beach: The Canadian President was also produced. Guest stars in the series have included William Shatner, Joe Flaherty, Leslie Nielsen, Elvis Stojko, Lawrence Gowan, and David Suzuki. The show was produced in Sudbury, Ontario by March Entertainment. In 2011, the series launched in the United States on the streaming video website Hulu; the series had also been available on iTunes. A tie-in browser game was also produced called Beach Hunt. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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