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onship plots from Corner Gas: The Movie.
“This way, most of us are trapped in
our mid-to-late 30s, and they can animate
us that way for years,” Ewanuick said.
Corner Gas was known for its cutaway
fantasy sequences, but the series was limited

by time, budget, safety restrictions, and reality.

The new series’ animated format has allowed
Butt and his team to create lots of fantasy
sequences, flashbacks, and physical comedy
gags, which would have been impossible to
film in the live-action series. For example,
the first episode of Corner Gas Animated
features Oscar telling Brent that if Corner
Gas ran out of fuel it would turn the town
into a post-apocalyptic nightmare. The show
then cuts to Oscar’s vision of the future.
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“We auditioned a few people, one of them
being Corinne, and she nailed it. | could really
see what Bruce was saying when he said she had
a similar timbre to Janet’s voice. She knew Janet
so well that she kind of understands Janet’s
rhythm and brings that to the table,” Butt said.

“Nobody will ever be Janet, but
Corinne does an amazing job of bringing
that essence of Emma,” Ewanuick said.

When the cast recorded their voices for

With
Animated «
Butt and the writing staff have the

to take Corner Gas to new frontiers.

“It’s a mix of people who wrote on
the original series and some new writers.
| always like when | get into a room with
other writers and sit down and kick