I'm Pamela Wallin, the Canadian consul general to New York. Hello? I used to be on television.
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— Pamela Wallin, "Hook, Line and Sinker". |
Corner Gas has featured many celebrity guest stars who aren't professional actors (and some who are). Many of them are native to Saskatchewan. Their first appearance was in the Season 1 episode "Tax Man". |
Appearances
"Tax Man" | |||
Featuring: Dan Matheson
With Davis angry that he has to pay for coffee at the Ruby, Brent dreams what may happen if the situation escalates in an interview with Matheson. |
"Grad '68" | |||
Featuring: Julie Stewart
Trying to solve the mystery of who painted graffiti on the town's water tower, Karen asks forensic advice from a paint store clerk, played by Julie Stewart, whose character Sergeant Ali McCormick solves cold cases on the CTV show Cold Squad. |
"Comedy Night" | |||
Featuring: Colin Mochrie
Brent makes fun of Mochrie making cameo appearances and calls him "Dave" as he walks by in the Ruby Cafe. At the episode's end, Brent discusses the books shown in the episode and Mochrie appears again, encouraging viewers to read. |
"Hook, Line and Sinker" | |||
Featuring: Jake Gold
Brent dreams he's on Canadian Idol where judge Gold says he should be on Broadway. |
"Hook, Line and Sinker" | |||
Featuring: Sass Jordan
Brent dreams he's on Canadian Idol where judge Jordan says the Velvet Fog had better watch his back. |
"Hook, Line and Sinker" | |||
Featuring: Farley Flex
Brent dreams he's on Canadian Idol where judge Flex says Brent is the real deal. |
"Hook, Line and Sinker" | |||
Featuring: Zack Werner
Brent dreams he's on Canadian Idol where judge Werner says he feels blessed to hear Brent sing. |
"Hook, Line and Sinker" | |||
Featuring: Pamela Wallin
Senator Wallin finds Corner Gas deserted and frustrated she can't get service, leaves without paying and steals a candy bar. |
"Face Off" | |||
Featuring: Darren Dutchyshen
Brent dreams that he's interviewed by TSN broadcaster Dutchyshen and told he's been called up to the Vancouver Canucks to be their goalie after leading the Dog River Riverdogs to a tie game. |
"Face Off" | |||
Featuring: Jennifer Hedger
Continuing his dream, Brent has Hedger appear and is pleased until she speaks with Dutchyshen's voice. |
"Wedding Card" | |||
Featuring: Darryl Sittler
Regretting that a fight over a Darryl Sittler rookie card is ruining his friendship with Hank, Brent curses Sittler. Sittler hits his finger with a hammer, comments he's done that for the third time and wonders if he's cursed. |
"Poor Brent" | |||
Featuring: Lloyd Robertson
At Todd's Junk, Brent imagines that his new TV will make it seem he's right in the broadcasts where Robertson critisizes him for crunching chips. Later while watching TV and eating chips, Robertson asks Brent for one. |
"Hurry Hard" | |||
Featuring: Randy Ferbey & David Nedohin
After Brent suggests to Emma and Oscar that Oscar throw third stone and Emma cleans up, he points out it's within the rules and that Ferbey and Nedohin do it. The curling duo confirm they've won three briars with this strategy. |
"Rock On!" | |||
Featuring: The Tragically Hip
Having reformed their high school band "Thunderface", Brent kicks a local "Garage Band" out of his garage where they are practicing. Their leader, (Gord Downie), complains they're working out the lyrics to a song but Brent is unsympathetic. |
"Rock On!" | |||
Featuring: Colin James
Needing a drummer for Thunderface, James auditions and plays an amazing guitar solo but a threatened Brent hurries him out. Later, with no one watching Corner Gas, James gases his van and leaves without paying. |
"Air Show" | |||
Featuring: The Snowbirds
In order to show she likes air shows, Lacey lies to the Snowbirds that a boy in the hospital wants to see them and they promise a fly-by over Dog River. However, no one sees the fly-by except Lacey as everyone's distracted by Hank's corn stand burning down. |
"Dress for Success" | |||
Featuring: Pat Bolland
Pretending to pick stocks as a game to beat Hank, Oscar listens to Bolland report that all the stocks he picked have crashed. Later, Bolland reports that another stock Oscar picked has plummeted due to insider trading. |
"Dog River Vice" | |||
Featuring: Ben Mulroney
After Oscar complains to Emma that Mulroney is a no talent, Ben's seen on TV riding a unicycle and juggling fire. Later, when a man collapses on the sidewalk and a doctor is called for, Mulroney shows up and offers to help. |
"Fun Run" | |||
Featuring: Paul Martin
Brent interrupts Martin while he's delivering a speech to the nation, complains that the prime minister is taking up his only half hour on the air and suggests he email everyone instead. |
"Fun Run" | |||
Featuring: Jann Arden
Lacey tells Wanda she can't run listening to Arden which is interpreted that Arden would complain a lot if she ran with Lacey. Later, Arden runs with Wanda and Karen but after they won't listen to her complain about her tour, Arden runs ahead of them. |
"Picture Perfect" | |||
Featuring: Ralph Goodale
After Lacey tells Hank that the capital of Canada is Ottawa, Hank turns to the customer sitting beside him and asking if he knew Ottawa was the capital, Goodale confirms he knew that. |
"Ruby Newsday" | |||
Featuring: Vicki Gabereau
Imagining he's a famous cartoonist, Brent dreams of being on the Vicki Gabereau Show but Gabereau isn't impressed that being on her show is the best thing he can imagine. |
"Ruby Newsday" | |||
Featuring: Lorne Calvert
After Lacey points out the trivia section in the Ruby's newsletter says that Saskatchewan is bigger than Sweden, Calvert brags about it. He shows that Saskatchewan is a rectangle and later, gets a newspaper thrown at him. |
"Physical Credit" | |||
Featuring: Ken Read
After Oscar tells Davis that the Award of Excellence in the ParticipACTION program was one above gold, he recalls that he harangued Ken Read at the Canadian Olympic Committee to institute a similar award at the Olympics. |
"Hair Comes the Judge" | |||
Featuring: Jake Edwards
Jake plays guitar in front of the Police station as Davis chases after Oscar's car and is told by Karen to stop playing. Later in front of the Ruby, Jake plays again after Wanda lost credibility by admitting she doesn't like pie. Wanda threatens Jake and he leaves. |
"Dog River Dave" | |||
Featuring: Cindy Klassen
Hank says that the fun Chris pokes at Brent is what a TV show starring Brent would be about. Positing it would be a success if he had good cameos, Olympian Klassen appears, but the guys say they're busy. |
"Demolition" | |||
Featuring: Adrienne Clarkson
After Wanda's surprised that Brent offers to help Hank demolish a barn, Brent opines that any true Canadian would want to do so which is confirmed when Clarkson agrees when asked by a stranger. Later, Clarkson is seen hitting a barn with a sledgehammer. |
"Jail House" | |||
Featuring: Mike Holmes
Wanda offers to install a new toilet for Emma and Oscar and says she used to date a handyman, who is Holmes, and lies that she learned a lot from him. Later after botching the job, Wanda has Holmes fix the toilet and Holmes begs Wanda for a date. |
"Blog River" | |||
Featuring: Ivan Facen
After Karen comments that Santa Claus isn't real, Fecan apologizes on behalf of the network and others. Later, when Oscar says the tooth fairy isn't real, Fecan apologizes again and encourages kids to brush their teeth. |
"Gopher It" | |||
Featuring: Seamus O'Regan
In Hank's dream, Seamus and Bev interview Emma, Hank and Wanda about the gopher and prairie dog statutes, which have become national news. Later, Wanda is being interviewed weekly and has a special rapport with Seamus, while Bev is frosty towards her. Wanda eventually replaces Bev on Canada A.M. |
"Gopher It" | |||
Featuring: Beverly Thomson
In Hank's dream, Seamus and Bev interview Emma, Hank and Wanda about the gopher and prairie dog statutes, which have become national news. Later, Wanda is being interviewed weekly and has a special rapport with Seamus, while Bev is frosty towards her. Wanda eventually replaces Bev on Canada A.M. |
"Gopher It" | |||
Featuring: Stephen Harper
In Hank's dream, Wanda recounts that Harper visited Dog River and nearly bungled choosing prairie dogs over gophers in front of the press. |
"Coming Distractions" | |||
Featuring: Duane "Dog" Chapman
At the Ruby Cafe, after Lacey tells Brent he forgot to pay for his lunch, he refutes her claim that he'd be easy to find. He daydreams that he's a fugitive and is arrested by the Chapmans. |
"Coming Distractions" | |||
Featuring: Beth Chapman
At the Ruby Cafe, after Lacey tells Brent he forgot to pay for his lunch, he refutes her claim that he'd be easy to find. He daydreams that he's a fugitive and is arrested by the Chapmans. |
"Bed and Brake Fast" | |||
Featuring: Travis Moen
At the Ruby, Moen has a cup of coffee while reading the Howler with the Stanley Cup. A young boy kicks him in the groin for not letting him sit in the Cup but Moen is wearing protection. Later, Davis, and then Karen and Wanda pull him over for speeding and give him a ticket. |
"Final Countdown" | |||
Featuring: Kiefer Sutherland
Looking to stop Wanda's fireworks, Davis calls Sutherland by mistake at his mother's house. After Davis teases Sutherland for living with his mother, he hangs up. Sutherland then yells at his mother for entering the room without knocking. |
"Meat Wave" | |||
Featuring: David Suzuki
Suzuki agrees with Brent that turning off appliances helps the environment. He then pokes fun at himself by encouraging people to turn off their TVs during celebrity cameos. |
"Reader Pride" | |||
Featuring: Matt Dominguez
Makowsky and Dominguez arrive at the Ruby, but Lacey doesn't know they play for the Riders. They love Brent's costume and Makowsky calls him "Saskaguy." Giving Brent two tickets to the next game, he asks for one more. Indicating there's two people he wants to take, Hank and Lacey look at him expectedly. |
"Reader Pride" | |||
Featuring: Gene Makowsky
Makowsky and Dominguez arrive at the Ruby, but Lacey doesn't know they play for the Riders. They love Brent's costume and Makowsky calls him "Saskaguy." Giving Brent two tickets to the next game, he asks for one more. Indicating there's two people he wants to take, Hank and Lacey look at him expectedly. |
"Cat River Daze" | |||
Featuring: Craig Northey, Odds
At the Ruby, Brent, Davis, Lacey, Hank and Wanda are all Archie characters. "Brentchie" suggests they hire Craig Northey and the Odds. The band plays at a sock-hop but it's all a pain pill induced dream of Brent's. |
"TV Free Dog River" | |||
Featuring: Michael Bublé
With no TV in Dog River for a week, Davis and Karen start a jazz radio show. Bublé calls in and requests one of his songs which to his frustration, Davis won't play because he says Bublé isn't a jazz artist. |
"Get the F Off My Lawn" | |||
Featuring: Brad Wall
With Wanda on strike, Wall tells her to move out of the way of the Corner Gas pumps, so he can get some gas. |
Corner Gas Characters |
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Main Characters |
Lacey Burrows • Wanda Dollard • Brent Leroy • Emma Leroy • Oscar Leroy • Karen Pelly • Davis Quinton • Hank Yarbo |
Recurring Characters |
Kirk Berkley • Brian • Wendy Carlyle • Darren • Toby Dillems • Dwight • Fitzy Fitzgerald • Francine • Frank • Al Goar • Wes Humboldt • Ian • Helen Jensen • Jane • Jenny • Josh the Cook • Paul Kinistino • Phil Kinistino • Phil Mallett • Molly • Alice Owen • Mertyl Runciman • Pete Stevens • Ted • Todd • Wade |
Family |
Ruby Burrows • Tanner Dollard • Carl Vaughn |
Minor Characters |
Bill • Celebrity Stars • Chris • Connie • David and Carol • Corky Dillems • Marvin Drey • Fred • Dr. Christine Garner • Heather • Helen • Joe • Jonathan • Kelly • Kyle • Bob Lang • Marko • Peter Moore • Pam • Peg • Rocket Ronnie • Stephen • Terry • Tiny Joe • Gus Tompkins • Yarbie |