Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati

June 8, 2004 on 11:54 pm | In Television |

redgreenCatching up on some of my favorite TV shows for the week (via TiVo)…on right now is The Red Green Show. It appears to actually be a Canadian sit-com, but I’m watching it via PBS (since we bought the TiVo, PBS has become a major source of quality TV…Frontier House, Pioneer House, Colonial House, documentaries, etc.)

I don’t know if you have ever watched this show, but it is one of the funniest things I have ever seen (if I could only watch two shows they would be The Red Green Show and Good Eats (cooking show on Food Network).

In The Red Green Show, the main character (Red) is handyman extraordinaire and a master duct tape artisan (duct tape being “the handyman’s secret weapon”). Every episode includes some absolutely ludicrous invention he came up with…tonight it was mounting a boat trailer under your car so you can adjust the wheel base (reduce turning radius vs. better highway ride (longer wheel base)).

If you are a patent attorney, you know the personality type…you see him as a new client about once a month. ;)
Check here to see if your local PBS carries it. Watch it once…trust me.

Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati — “When all else fails, play dead.”

Image via the www.redgreen.com website.

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4 Comments

  1. “…if I could only watch two shows they would be The Red Green Show and Good Eats…”

    A person after my own heart!

    Comment by Steve Gigl — June 9, 2004 #

  2. Thanks. I’ve been wondering what “moritati” meant. (I’d assumed it was along the lines of “kill it”, but I’ve never studied Latin.)

    I’ll let you keep the cooking show. My second would have to be “Last of the Summer Wine”. (BBC; also on PBS.) Unfortunately, we’ve just seen the episodes of Compo’s demise in our behind-the-times market, so I’m curious where the series will go now…

    Comment by Dennis — September 13, 2004 #

  3. Moritati is more passive, it has to do with the word mortus, or dead, (2nd declension masc, i think) we have mortus in a lot of words though, like mortuary or postmortem (literally “after-death”) but I dont know how they got PLAY dead from it. the tati may have to do with it but im no good at latin.

    Comment by yo amam — January 12, 2007 #

  4. A few (4-5?) or more, years back the Red Green Show was so popular on the American Public Braodcasting System that a fundraising blitz raised more money for KSPS in Spokane Washington than All other such events of the type that year!

    Many famous regular guest stars: Graheme Grene Gordon Pinsent Wayne Robson… wre a treasue of comedy for their regular appearances. Patrick McKenna (Harold) was the first ever and only actor to win two Emmies (Gemini’s) for Best in Comedy and Best in Drama as Horold Green and as Marty in the series Traders in the same year. Some Remarkable talent! And Rick Green from The Frantics and History Bites as Bill is a unique Canadian Jewel!
    A rare treat for those looking for new and innovative humour anywhere any time. But best Prize belongs to Steve Smith as Red himself. Not to mention Buster Hatfield, Old Man Peteson and the rest…

    Comment by John Branscombe — May 13, 2007 #

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