We discovered a little known show called Rent-a-Goalie on showcase last year. It's on Friday and Sundays nights 9:30pm. We're invariably back home with kids in bed by then.
It's a half our comedy show about "Cake" who rents out goalies for games. He runs this out of his coffee shop. There is a real-world rent-a-goalie, rentagoalie.com.
One of my favourite episodes was the season ending cliff hanger. The Toronto Maple Leafs are in the Stanley cup finals - against Vancouver of course - and the Leafs goalie came in for his ritual game-day coffee. Quite an honour. He is known for being very bizarre and has a fixation with his hand and making sure no one touches it. One of his buddies ends up touching "the hand" when there's a short power outage and Cake takes the blame. The goalie freaks out including laying on the ice and screaming about the hand during the final game. Cake is villified by the entire town. Darryl Sittler calls Cake an idiot and can't forgive him for his idiocy. Vancouver even sends an honorary Vancouver "Cake" jersey to him. And then the cliff-hanger closes out as love interests, firebombed coffee shops, and Cake's desparate attempts to escape all collide in a tense and riveting dramatic ending.
Ok, maybe the last bit is a bit over the top but it's darn funny stuff. I like it way better than the overhyped Corner Gas.
