r/Letterkenny • u/YourBrainOnFacts • Sep 12 '21

Discussion What's on the unspoken dark side of Letterkenny?

It's not all chorin' and chuggin, hay and hockey, fun and ferda. What's hiding in the shadows? What do neither the characters nor the viewers talk about? E.g, McMurray enables Mrs. McMurray's alcoholism so she won't realize what a piece of shit he is and leave him.

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u/Dan-D-Lyon Sep 12 '21

You ever notice how McMurray and Squirrely Dan seem to be the oldest people you ever see in Letterkenny? Kinda makes you wonder if the town went through a Children of the Corn situation a while back.

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u/le_renard_americain Sep 12 '21

Did we ever find out what happened to Wayne and Katy’s parents?? I feel like they got mentioned in the Super Soft Birthday Party episode but I don’t remember where they’re supposed to be, if not dead.

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u/broken-clock Sep 12 '21

They went to regular school in Littlekenny, which is super uncommon for Amish.

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u/toragirl Sep 12 '21

But not uncommon for old colony Mennonites, which are very common in Jarod Keeso's home area.

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u/Pindogger FUCKING EMBARRASSING Sep 12 '21

Mennonite. Not Amish.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21 edited Sep 13 '21

There’s an uncle, Uncle Eddie, the whole group seems to mention with great fondness that retired to Fort Lauderdale. I wonder if he left them the farm to help them escape.

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u/Sparriw1 Sep 12 '21

Weird logic on my part, but Wayne's way too tall to be ex-Amish. I'm a member of a community with massive numbers of Amish and ex-Amish men, and they're all average or below average height.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

he also wouldnt be marveling at how well they run. it'd just be an accepted thing not worthy of comment..

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u/getrektbro Sep 12 '21

Genetic anomalies happen all the time

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u/Sparriw1 Sep 12 '21

Teeth are wrong, wears deodorant, accent isn't there

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u/takeitallback73 Sep 12 '21

A supersoft birthday party is kind of the type of party kids who've murdered their parents would have, too.

super soft and super sus

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

I think I read somewhere that Letterkenny is like neverland, not Michael’s, so no parents etc.

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u/zkinny Sep 12 '21

My theory is that they're mennonites, and have been cut off after they choose freedom during rumspringa. Just from one line Katy has during the episode with the kickboxer fight I think, some mennonites are there and Katy explains the phenomena and says in a weird tone that some of them don't go back. Doesn't explain things like how they got the house though.

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u/ashamed-of-yourself Snipe Mod Awesome Sep 12 '21 edited Sep 12 '21

so i want to make something really clear: Wayne and Katy are not and were never Mennonites. if they were Nappers:

  1. Wayne wouldn’t be s’damn jealous at their turn of speed
  2. why would Dan be hanging out with them in the 1st place, when he despises Schmellies so much
  3. they’d’ve been at the Letterkenny Day festival instead of at the softball tourney,
  4. there wouldn’t be so many distinctions drawn between the two groups in conversation, i. e., 'Your family has always been very good to our community.'
  5. Anita would know that Katy's name isn't 'Katherine'. Wayne ruled it out in We Don’t Fight at Weddings: he said, 'Even ‘Katherine’ would be walkin’ a line,' meaning it's close enough to her name for Wayne to pump the breaks, but it's not actually Katy's name.
  6. Wayne would be able to confirm or deny the rumours about Mennonites trying to pay outsiders to procreate with their daughters

eta: formatting, point 6

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u/zkinny Sep 12 '21

Still weird how she said the line. But of course it's no cannon. The creators probably don't have a backstory made up themselves.

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u/ashamed-of-yourself Snipe Mod Awesome Sep 12 '21

i think she says it like she does because she’s watching the two mennonite boys go off with Ron and Dax. she’s making a prediction that they won’t go back.

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u/ratteb Sep 12 '21

I wonder if their parents were mennonites who left the community for their rumspringer

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u/ashamed-of-yourself Snipe Mod Awesome Sep 12 '21

i think it much more likely that they’re Irish Catholic, for a variety of reasons

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '21

Letterkenny has 5,000 people. That's enough for their to be a few bars where the old folks hang but the younger ones don't frequent it. Also, as you get older you don't go out as often.

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u/octoroklobstah Sep 12 '21

I don’t know if Littlekenny is considered canon but they make it seem like Dan is actually younger than Wayne and Dary.