Jackass is my thing!
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— Oscar Leroy, "Block Party". |
Jackass! is Oscar's favorite thing to call everyone. He said it 91 times during the series. This page details what episodes the word was said in, how many times and by who. When Brent tried to get Oscar to stop saying "jackass", it resulted in an explosion of its use, the most in any episode. ("The J-Word") All Main Characters have said the word except for Hank and Davis. Brent said it 13 times, Wanda 6 times and Emma, Karen, Lacey once each. Others who said it (once each) are Paul, a delivery guy ("Spin Cycle") and Corky Dillems. Episodes in which the word wasn't said do not appear in the list below. It was first said in the Season 1 episode "Tax Man". |
Appearances
"Tax Man" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar's first use of the J-word is when he tells Emma that "some jackass" from Canada Customs and Revenue called. |
"All My Ex's Live in Toronto" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
After Brent asks Oscar how his doctor appointment went, Oscar says he's fine and calls Brent a jackass. Davis had to take Oscar to the doctor in handcuffs. |
"Cousin Carl" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar calls Brent a jackass for talking to Helen Jensen instead of pumping his gas. |
"Cell Phone" | |||
Featuring: Oscar and Paul
Oscar says it three times. First, to Paul for getting rid of the shuffleboard table (Paul calls him a jackass back). Second, he decries a gambling addiction hotline as being staffed by jackasses and lastly, he calls the man on the hotline a jackass. |
"Comedy Night" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar says it to Brent after he starts to repeat a story Oscar heard while watching TV with Brent. |
"Face Off" | |||
Featuring: Brent
Brent chastises his hockey team, the Riverdogs, for allowing Rocket Ronnie to always score, making goalie Brent look like a jackass. |
"I Love Lacey" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar calls Hank a jackass for complaining when they stop at the house of Oscar's friend, Russell, while on their way to the Grey Cup game. |
"Smell of Freedom" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar calls Brent a jackass after he reveals to Wes that his father died in the Korean War. The town conspired to tell Wes that his father ran off with the circus. |
"Whataphobia" | |||
Featuring: Oscar and Emma
Oscar calls Stan, owner of the local mini-putt, a jackass for not believing he broke the course record. Oscar's banned from the mini-putt (which Stan let him play for free). Later, Emma punches Stan and refers to him as a jackass. |
"Lost and Found" | |||
Featuring: Brent
After Oscar shows Brent and Wanda a pair of pants that he found by the road side, Wanda teases Brent that he's becoming more like Oscar every day. Going along with the kidding, Brent calls her a jackass. |
"Poor Brent" | |||
Featuring: Oscar and Brent
After Davis and Hank set up a curse jar at Corner Gas, both Oscar and later, Brent ask whose jackass idea it was. |
"An American in Saskatchewan" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
After Wes gets an ATM for the Liquor store, he asks Oscar if he knows what it is. Oscar says he does and calls Wes a jackass. |
"Slow Pitch" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar calls Brent a jackass when he tries to distract Wes at a softball game by claiming there's a bear behind Wes. |
"Harvest Dance" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Acting for years that they like Emma's jelly salad, Oscar calls Brent a jackass when Lacey tells Emma the truth. |
"Dress for Success" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar says it three times. Twice to Hank when losing to him while playing an imaginary investment game and once to Mertyl Runciman on the phone, though he thinks he's swearing at Hank. |
"Dog River Vice" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
After Oscar speaks some Ukrainian which Brent thinks it Hawaiian, Oscar calls him a jackass. |
"Will and Brent" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
While dreaming about himself 22 years in the future, Brent is greeted by Oscar who calls him a jackass and says he's him in 23 years. |
"The Littlest Yarbo" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
After Oscar is caught by a dog at the Corner Gas pumps trying to leave without paying, he calls Brent a jackass for not calling the crime a "gas and dash." |
"Safety First" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar says it two times to Davis. Once when telling him to follow his lead while climbing up a ladder onto the Leroy's roof and after Davis kicks the ladder off the roof, stranding them, as payback for the times Oscar knocked the ladder over. |
"Ruby Newsday" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Having become a paperboy, Oscar gives a paper to a man who protests he doesn't subscribe to it and calls him a jackass. |
"Merry Gasmas" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
At the Leroy's, Hank comes by to pick up a tree Oscar is throwing out and trying to take their good tree, Oscar calls him a jackass. |
"Friend of a Friend" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
At the Ruby Cafe, after Connie complains to Davis that Oscar is harassing her, Davis doesn't know who Connie is referring to. Oscar tells Davis Connie's talking about him and calls Davis a jackass. |
"Block Party" | |||
Featuring: Oscar and Wanda
Oscar says it three times and Wanda once. Oscar calls Karen and Davis jackasses after he couldn't find them earlier to file a complaint. When Brent spoils Oscar being quiet, Wanda and Oscar call him a jackass and then Oscar tells Wanda that the word is his thing to say. |
"Physical Credit" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
After Davis can only jump three feet during the Canadian Fitness Award test, Oscar calls him a jackass. |
"Hair Comes the Judge" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
At Corner Gas looking for the latest hot rod magazine, Oscar calls Brent a jackass when he gets the month wrong. |
"Demolition" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
While trying to tear down a barn by pulling the support beam down with a rope attached to a truck, Oscar gets the truck stuck in the mud, calls Brent and Hank jackasses and tells them to push the truck out. |
"Jail House" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
After Wanda destroys the Leroy's bathroom, Brent finds them using the ones in Corner Gas. Oscar greets him with "what's up, jackass?" |
"I, Witness" | |||
Featuring: Oscar, Wanda and Karen
Oscar says it twice while Wanda and Karen say it once each. At Corner Gas, he calls Brent, Karen and Wanda jackasses when Wanda proposes a math quiz. Wanda protests being a jackass while Karen thinks she is one for participating. Later, Oscar calls Hank a jackass for doing his rodeo clown routine. |
"One Piano, Four Hands" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar says it twice, once to Brent when telling him his air pump is broken and once to Hank when complaining that he's filling his tires with air too slowly. |
"Kid Stuff" | |||
Featuring: Oscar and Cookie Man
Oscar says it four times. Three times to and about a man who he's trying to sell cookies to (who says it back to him) and once to Davis for ordering peaches and cottage cheese at the Ruby Cafe. |
"Mother's Day" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar says it two times to Hank. Once by the Corner Gas pumps when telling Hank he's not coming for Mother's Day dinner and when he places Hank in front of the garden at the Leroy's to make it look to Emma as if Hank worked on it. |
"Census Sensibility" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar tells Emma that Fitzy's a jackass for firing him from being a census worker. Oscar then imagines Fitzy being attacked by a bear. |
"The Good Old Table Hockey Game" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar calls Davis a jackass for asking how the telecast of the table hockey game came to be in black and white. |
"Potato Bowl" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar says it four times, all to or about the Harvesters after they kick Oscar out of their club. |
"Happy Campers" | |||
Featuring: Oscar and Brent
While driving in Brent's car, Oscar tells Davis they're not going camping and calls him a jackass. Davis is confused so Brent explains the situation and reminds Davis that Oscar called him a jackass. |
"Gopher It" | |||
Featuring: Oscar and Lacey
In Hank's dream, Oscar calls Brent a jackass when made the new manager of the Pump N' Go. As Lacey says her goodbyes, she calls Oscar a jackass. |
"Cable Excess" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
As Oscar makes his pitch for a local access TV show, he calls the producer a jackass. |
"Spin Cycle" | |||
Featuring: Oscar and Delivery Guy
Oscar says it twice, both while receiving calls on the phone he stole from Corner Gas. One of the callers, a delivery man, calls Brent a jackass, thinking it was him on the phone. |
"Classical Gas" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
While setting up a camera to take a family photo with Jonathan, Oscar tells Brent he knows what he's doing and calls him a jackass. |
"Game, Set and Mouse" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar says it twice, once to Hank for questioning that he saw a mouse in Corner Gas and once to Davis after he takes Oscar's mouse traps. |
"Knit Wit of the Month" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar says it twice, once to Davis for not being able to find Oscar's column in the Howler and once unknowingly about himself, when referring to the person Emma is talking about in her stories. |
"Top Gum" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar calls Hank a jackass when he tries to chew on a rubber ball, having mistaken it for a gumball. |
"The J-Word" | |||
Featuring: Oscar and Brent
Oscar and Brent each say it ten times. This episode has the highest jackass count by far as Brent tries to get Oscar to stop saying jackass by calling him "hammerhead." |
"Coming Distractions" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar says it twice. After Fitzy nearly hits Oscar with his car, Oscar calls him a jackass. When Brent glibly says Oscar's sidewalk is going to be rectangular, he calls him a jackass. |
"The Accidental Cleanist" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar calls Brent a jackass before showing him the bench he's donated to the town as his legacy. |
"Bend It Like Brent" | |||
Featuring: Wanda and Oscar
Wanda says it four times on video and Oscar once while watching an old college tape of Wanda doing an impression of Oscar. |
"Self-Serving" | |||
Featuring: Oscar and Brent
Oscar says it twice to Brent about the self-service at Corner Gas while Brent says it once, wondering why Oscar called him a jackass. |
"Good Tubbin'" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar says it twice to Brent. Once when Brent plays dumb that his parents have a hot tub and again when Brent asks Oscar if Hank is staying at the Leroy's. |
"American Resolution" | |||
Featuring: Oscar and Emma
Oscar says it three times, once to a Customs official whose name is Bill Jackaus and twice to Brent for tricking him to appear to be more Canadian. Emma tells Oscar to stop saying jackass which Brent advises changing to "jack-bum." |
"Reader Pride" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
While watching the Riders on TV at the Hotel bar, Oscar calls Brent a jackass for suggesting he has dementia. Oscar insists that Joe Dementia played baseball. |
"Rock Stars" | |||
Featuring: Oscar and Corky Dillems
Oscar says it four times while arguing with Corky Dillems' son. Later, Corky threatens Oscar for calling his family "a whole bunch of jackasses." |
"TV Free Dog River" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
At the Town Hall, Oscar calls Hank a jackass for agreeing with Emma's proposal to enter into a contest with Wullerton to not watch TV for a week. |
"Happy Career Day to You" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar calls Brent and Hank jackasses as they're looking for the missing 30 year old Dingle Puff at Corner Gas. |
"You've Been Great, Goodnight" | |||
Featuring: Oscar
Oscar says it once while reading the Howler. Oscar said it 91 times during the series. |
Trivia
- The last episode of the series indicated Oscar went on to say "jackass" 1,275 more times. ("You've Been Great, Goodnight")
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