A CBC cartoon series created by Doug Sinclair and Daniel Hawes, the series is often compared to South Park as a bit of a "tame" Canadian clone that follows the lives of residents of the so named Chilly Beach, a far northern Canadian town on top of an iceberg, where every stereotype imaginable is turned up to 11. Each episode starts with a "this content may be offensive" message (and some of it surely is), but generally there isn't swearing throughout the show and most plots are generally pretty straightforward and are rarely lewd. That said, the show seems to think that by making fun of Canadian stereotypes it gets a free pass to make fun of any other cultures stereotypes, which most of us know today that doesn't really fly, causing many of the side characters and plot lines to truly be offensive. Multiple side characters only "personality" is that they speak in a funny accent and only eat whatever dish is considered the stereotype for the nation they're from. It's just lazy offensiveness really, I'm not sure what they were thinking. Originally started as an online flash animated based show, it was picked up by CBC for 3 seasons; its quality (both in animation and content) never really seeming to improve. There series has some notable celebrity guests as voice actors (Leslie Nielsen and William Shatner come mind) but I only watched the entire first season (and I can't even believe I did that), and then found some later episodes online. Ultimately I wasn't interested, this is one that can likely be forgotten, it was very bad. You won't find it anywhere on Gem, and the cbc.ca/chillybeach url it mentions at the end of each episode now leads to a forbidden error, so seems like someone agrees.
Review of Chilly Beach
