I agree with this. I think the fairest thing to say is that Letterkenny is way more esoteric. I personally loved it, but it has its weak moments/elements (I never took to the skids characters). It's not for everyone.
Shoresy is for hockey fans, speaks to the best things about hockey culture, does a pretty perfect job of immediately setting its own tone, with its own charms and rhythms and is endlessly quotable.
It's absolutely still a Keeso show with a lot of the same signature oddball humor, but if you love hockey, chances are you'll love this show. Each episode is about 20 minutes, and you'll either get it immediately after one or two installments or it's not for you.
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For the avatars, it's easy to reject a theme on spec, but some of the ones mentioned here have potential if we actually dig in.
- So the "bring out your dead!" idea is solid. The dude with the cart saying bring out your dead or whatever the quote is, then we toss guys in the cart... Rejected PLD, Abandoned Strome, Journeyman Chychrun, McMichael the Bust, Protas the Slow, Wilson the Goon, LT the Backup. Then you either do a resurrection type thing like someone suggested -- one's a terminator, one's a zombie, one's a phoenix, etc. -- or maybe like a Voltron thing where these guys were lesser on their own but together are an unstoppable force...
- Or maybe a WALL-E thing, where he putters around picking up everyone's trash, shovels it into his tummy, and pops out a kickass hockey team. That opening sequence of the movie is crazy long with clips of him finding trash he likes, might not be too hard to carve out a few...
- The Island of Misfit Toys thing... A few cliparts of broken toys labelled as castoff/undeveloped/misunderstood Caps players, then put 'em all in the frame, zoom out to satellite view of an island marked Misfit Toys, then erase that title and splash a Caps logo on it followed by quick clips of those Caps kicking ass...
Anyway, let's maybe drill down to some actual ideas cuz they land better than themes in the abstract.