50 Fun Facts About Letterkenny

Who created Letterkenny and stars as Wayne?

Keeso also writes the show with director Jacob Tierney. Before Letterkenny he won a Canadian Screen Award as Ben Chartier in the police drama 19-2.

How many people are said to live in Letterkenny in the text that opens most episodes?

The full line is 'There are 5000 people in Letterkenny. These are their problems,' a carry-over from the show's YouTube origins.

Which Canadian streaming service commissioned Letterkenny as its first original series?

It premiered on February 7, 2016, and Crave said it was the biggest debut on the platform since launch, with nearly a third of subscribers watching within weeks.

The show grew out of a 2013 YouTube web series with what name?

The 2013 shorts were mostly Keeso and Nathan Dales trading one-liners while standing in various places, a format that resurfaced as the cold opens of some episodes.

In which Ontario city is Letterkenny filmed?

The nickel-mining city also stands in for itself in the hockey spin-off, whose team is the Sudbury Bulldogs.

The fictional town of Letterkenny is based on which real Ontario town, the creator's hometown?

Listowel is itself named after a town in Ireland. There is a real Letterkenny in Ontario, but the show is not based on it.

The show's town takes its name from a place in which country?

The residents are mostly descendants of Irish immigrants who fled to Canada during the Great Famine, which is why St. Patrick's Day gets its own special episode.

Wayne and Katy make their living running what?

Wayne's friends Daryl and Squirrelly Dan help out, mostly by sitting on the tailgate. The produce stand is where many cold opens take place.

What is Wayne's relationship to Katy?

Katy dates the Jocks Reilly and Jonesy at the same time in early seasons, to Wayne's disgust.

Early plots often revolved around Wayne defending which title?

He also spends the first season getting back into dating after dumping a high school sweetheart who cheated on him.

What are the town's drug-addicted residents, led by Stewart, called?

Their schemes to rip everyone off for drug money drove many early storylines. Tyler Johnston plays Stewart.

How does each episode of Letterkenny begin?

Characters speak straight to camera in the cold open, then the documentary conceit is dropped and they rarely address the camera again for the rest of the episode.

Which U.S. streaming service took exclusive American rights to Letterkenny in 2019?

The first two seasons arrived on Hulu in July 2018, and the service took exclusive U.S. rights in May 2019.

On what date was the twelfth and final season of Letterkenny released?

Releasing on holidays was a habit: season three came out on Canada Day and there were St. Patrick's Day, Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's specials.

Which Letterkenny character was voiced by the creator but never shown, since he also played Wayne?

He was one of the show's most popular characters in merchandising, which Bell Media cited when it built a spin-off around him.

In the hockey spin-off series, which struggling Senior AAA team does the title character join?

The team has lost twenty straight and sits last in the four-team NOSHO when he bets general manager Nat that they will never lose again.

How many straight games have the Bulldogs lost when the hockey spin-off begins?

The team is facing being shut down entirely. The rebuilt roster runs on the philosophy that it is not enough to love to win, you have to hate to lose.

Which actress plays Nat, the owner and general manager of the Bulldogs?

Sullivan plays sports journalist Laura Mohr, while Lamora and Rose play sisters Ziigwan and Miigwan, the assistant general managers.

What was Littlekenny, released in 2019?

The six-episode origin story followed the Letterkenny Problems format more closely than the main show did.

Letterkenny won Best Comedy Series in 2017 at which ceremony?

Keeso was also nominated for Best Performance in a Comedy that year, and in 2018 he and Tierney won for Best Writing in a Comedy Series.

Which actor plays Wayne's laconic best friend Daryl?

Dales was in the original YouTube shorts with Keeso and earned a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2017.

Who plays Katy?

Mylett, from Ladysmith, British Columbia, played Katy for the show's entire 2016 to 2023 run.

Which stand-up comedian plays Squirrelly Dan?

Wilson grew up in Toronto and had a career in stand-up before debuting as Dan in 2016.

Which of these actors plays the hockey Jock Reilly?

Playfair had already acted alongside Andrew Herr, who plays his best friend Jonesy, in the 2013 film Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story.

Andrew Herr, who plays Jonesy, credits which part of his own background with shaping the character?

Herr said he knew hockey players growing up who were much like the character he ended up playing.

Which cast member plays the Skid leader Stewart?

Johnston is also known as Danny Lubbe in the sitcom Less Than Kind. Evan Stern plays Stewart's sidekick Roald.

In which year did Kaniehtiio Horn (Tanis) win Canada's Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy award?

Horn is a two-time Canadian Screen Award winner for the role and is also known as Deer Lady in Reservation Dogs.

Which playwright and actress plays Gail, the bar owner?

Codrington's play Cast Iron was a Governor General's Award nominee in 2006, and Up the Garden Path won the Carol Bolt Award in 2016.

Dan Petronijevic (McMurray) earlier worked with the show's creator on which police drama?

Petronijevic has also appeared in the American Pie films and in Cardinal. Keeso won a Canadian Screen Award for playing Ben Chartier in 19-2.

Which Wynonna Earp star plays Mrs. McMurray?

Scrofano's other credits include Rebecca in Being Erica and October in the mockumentary Pure Pwnage.

Besides directing and co-writing the show, Jacob Tierney appears on screen as which character?

Glen is the town's obviously closeted Christian minister. Tierney later created the sports romance series Heated Rivalry.

Which actress plays Rosie, Wayne's love interest?

Backo went on to star as Emma in Apple TV+'s The Changeling and appeared in the film I Want You Back.

Which Alias Grace star joined the cast in season three as Gae?

Gadon played Grace Marks in the CBC miniseries adapted from Margaret Atwood's novel the same year she joined Letterkenny.

Which actress plays Bonnie McMurray, who joined the main cast in season nine?

Bonnie's name is greeted with a chorus every time she appears, one of the show's longest-running gags.

Before Letterkenny, the show's creator played which real hockey commentator in two CBC television movies?

Keep Your Head Up, Kid (2010) and The Wrath of Grapes (2012) won him Leo and Gemini awards. He also played junior hockey alongside future NHL star Jeff Carter.

The show's creator played junior hockey with which future two-time Stanley Cup champion?

Both suited up for the Strathroy Rockets of the GOHL. Keeso also played for the Listowel Cyclones in his hometown.

The show's creator starred in a 2014 Heritage Minute about which team, the first Canadian Olympic hockey champions?

The Falcons were Icelandic-Canadian players who served in the First World War before winning gold at Antwerp in 1920.

How many cities did the Letterkenny Live! tour visit when it launched in February 2018?

The tour was announced alongside a 40-episode production commitment and a merchandise deal after the October 2017 Halloween special.

What was the title of the 2017 St. Patrick's Day special?

Season three followed on Canada Day that year, and a Halloween episode arrived in October.

For the final season, New Metric Media struck an international streaming deal with which platform?

New Metric first re-acquired the distribution rights to its catalog from WildBrain, and Crave signed on for at least 49 more episodes of the hockey spin-off.

Which Globe and Mail critic compared Letterkenny's 'salty Canadian vernacular' to Trailer Park Boys?

Doyle called it 'refreshing and intoxicating,' while Rolling Stone's Alan Sepinwall called it 'marvelously goofy.'

Producers credit the show's well-rounded First Nations characters to what practice?

Kaniehtiio Horn, who is Mohawk from Kahnawake, has said Tanis was built collaboratively with the writers.

When did the hockey spin-off starring the show's creator premiere on Crave?

Production began in Sudbury in November 2021, and the show reached Hulu two weeks after its Canadian premiere.

The town's residents in Letterkenny are mostly descended from immigrants fleeing which event?

The fictional Ontario town takes its name from Letterkenny in Ireland.

Letterkenny's third season was released on which national holiday in 2017?

It landed on July 1, 2017, a few months after the St. Patrick's Day special.

How many episodes long was Littlekenny, the animated origin-story spin-off?

It premiered on June 28, 2019 and followed the short Letterkenny Problems format more than the main show.

In which tenth-season Letterkenny episode does Tanis reveal she got Shoresy a Sudbury Bulldogs job?

The scene set up the Shoresy spin-off series that premiered on Crave in May 2022.

In Shoresy, the Bulldogs play in a four-team senior league known by which acronym?

It stands for the Northern Ontario Senior Hockey Organization, in which the Bulldogs are dead last when the show begins.

Which Letterkenny cast member served as a producer on Shoresy to keep its Indigenous characters realistic?

Horn plays Tanis on Letterkenny.

Before acting, Letterkenny's creator spent years working in what kind of family business?

Keeso and Sons Sawmill Company was founded in 1872 and destroyed by fire in September 2018.