Chilly Beach
| Chilly Beach | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Animation Comedy |
| Created by | Daniel Hawes Doug Sinclair |
| Starring | Steve Ashton Todd Peterson Robert Smith Samantha Espie Mary Lawliss Emily Tait Damon D'Oliveira Jacqueline Pillon |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 65 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Daniel Hawes Catherine Tait Liliana Vogt |
| Production company | March Entertainment |
| Original release | |
| Network | CBC |
| Release | September 3, 2003[1] – 2006 |
Chilly Beach is a Canadian animated series and sitcom, which aired on CBC from 2003 to 2006. 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.[2]
The show began in 2000 as an animated
Cinéfest
in September 2005, and as released to DVD on February 4, 2008. A second film, Chilly Beach: The Canadian President was also produced.
Guest stars on the show 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 U.S. on the streaming video website Hulu.[4]
Characters
Main characters
- Dale MacDonald (voiced by Steve Ashton) is a stupid and fat stereotypical .
- Frank Shackleford (voiced by Todd Peterson) is a beer store manager and Dale's best friend. Also a modest scientific genius; he once created a portal to another galaxy. He holds a PhD in physics, but chooses to run a beer store because "physicists don't get two-fours on weekends".
- Jacques LaRock (voiced by Robert Smith) is an unhygienic (yet somewhat incompetent) greasy spoon owner and former hockey player from Quebec who serves a poutine made from a recipe passed down from his mother.
- April June (voiced by Samantha Espie) is a waitress and ferocious animal rights activist. Dale is constantly trying to get her to date him, but she resolutely remains uninterested.
- Angus MacAuger is an eccentric and hermetic Scottish trapper
- Katherine Hilderbrand (voiced by Mary Lawliss) is the disgruntled (and highly patriotic) Assistant Deputy American Ambassador to Canada
- Abby Hilderbrand (voiced by Emily Tait) is Katherine's inquisitive and intelligent daughter. She is an aspiring anthropologist constantly trying to understand Canadian culture.
- Constable Al (voiced by Indo-Canadian mountie, the only form of law enforcement in Chilly Beach usually found riding his police horse.
- Michel Mabuis (voiced by Jacqueline Pillon) is the nephew of Jacques LaRock, a friend of Abby who enjoys figure skating, a fact he has to hide from his hockey-obsessed uncle who considers figure skating weak.
- Polar Bear a large animal who frequently eats citizens of Chilly Beach, somehow has with a pleasant British accent, and lives with a taciturn penguin
- The characters Abby and Michel were deemed unpopular after season one, and largely disappeared from the show in subsequent seasons.
Minor characters
- Antoine DelVecchio (voiced by Joe Flaherty) is Chilly Beach's corrupt and incompetent Member of Parliament.
- Lucretia Marinara (voiced by Andrea Martin) is the local butcher and girlfriend of Jacques LaRock.
- Panic Man is a completely unnamed character who shows up regularly only to panic at whatever is happening and run off.
- The President (voiced by William Shatner) is an unnamed President of the United States. At one point he tells the President of Generistan to call him "Henry".
- Dave Macdonald is Dale's perfect and well-loved older brother who appears in only one episode. He is the total opposite of Dale. He came to Chilly Beach hoping Dale would give him a kidney in order to live. However is turns out their blood types are incompatible, so one of them was actually adopted. He got his new kidney thanks to Frank, who was tied up and gagged by Dale. Apparently, he's from Saskatoon.
Setting
Chilly Beach is a small town located on a large
. However where it is has been kept vague as it has been mentioned that they live in a province and in season 1, episode 15 are not actually a part of Canada.Merchandise
- Chilly Beach DVD Season 1
- Chilly Beach The World Is Hot Enough DVD
- Chilly Beach Shirts
References
- ^ Great White North Park Globe and Mail
- ISBN 9781476672939.
- ^ Dillon, Mark (May 29, 2000). "Chilly Beach faces off on the Net". Playback. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
- ^ "Press release: Chilly Beach on Hulu – CARTOON NORTH".
External links
- Chilly Beach at IMDb
