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Shoresy is a Canadian Sitcom written by and starring Jared Keeso. A spinoff of Keeso's Letterkenny, Shoresy centers on Breakout Character Shoresy, an obnoxious, foul mouthed hockey player, after his transfer to Sudbury in Season 10. The first season focuses on the Sudbury Bulldogs, a struggling triple-A hockey team that has not won a single game for the entire season, and Shoresy's efforts to keep it from folding. Unlike its predecessor's more slice-of-life style of storytelling, Shoresy has a clear narrative arc that influences the entire season.

The series premiered on May 13, 2022 on Crave, and made available to stream on Hulu on May 27. Season 2 premiered on September 29, 2023, and was made available to stream on October 27. Season 3 aired on May 24, 2024, and was made available to stream on June 21. Season 4 aired on January 24, 2025, and was made available to stream on February 21. Season 5 aired in December 2025 and ended in January 2026, and has been renewed for a sixth season.

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• The Ace:
  • Sault Ste. Marie's team the Cyclones is the top team in the NOSHO and have been winning the tournament for years. They outplay the Bulldogs so well Shoresy can't even get mad at his team as the Cyclones are just that good. The only way they get to score is by playing violently and having the Jims scoring since the Cyclones aren't gonna risk injuries if they can avoid it, and even then it's not enough to close the gap.
  • Season 3 has Sudbury host the Senior Hockey National Championship so they get to face the best and toughest senior teams from around the country. One team is composed primarily of rodeo cowboys and another of Atlantic fishermen.
  • In season 5, Shoresy puts together a new team consisting of the best of the NOSHO and some others (including teams they faced in the Senior Hockey National Championship) to face the European All-Stars, who have defeated every team they've faced in North America.
• Added Alliterative Appeal:
  • After the Sudbury Bulldogs get sponsored by the Sudbury Blueberry Festival, they become the "Sudbury Blueberry Bulldogs". The citizens of Sudbury find the alliterative name change degrading, and are sure to let the team know — as does Shoresy himself. It's a treat to watch Shoresy get a taste of his own medicine from high school hockey players Cory and Liam while he's trapped by his reffing job.
    Shoresy: May as well be called the fucking Sudbury Banana Boat Bulldogs. Fucking Sudbury Nectarine Neapolitan Mastiffs.
  • In season 4, this extends to the booster club, the Blueberry Buddies, as does the associated mockery.
    Liam: Shoresy, think you'll ever find work as fulfilling as being a Starfruit Friend?
• Always Someone Better: As a kid, Shoresy and his brother Morris would compete in all kinds of sports, and Morris won 99.9% of the time.
• And Then What?: In season 3, Shoresy has to seriously contemplate what kind of life he can make for himself if he stops being a hockey player, because he's become so injured that he may have to retire. He reveals that he's never actually thought about it before, because it is his life. It hasn't got much better for him in season 4, where his career as a presenter at BroDude doesn't last long because he just doesn't care about it like he cares about hockey.
• Arch-Enemy:
  • The Sudbury Bulldogs and the Soo Hunt, for the sole reason that Americans and Canadians utterly hate both losing and losing to each other.
  • Season 5 has Teppo Maki, the coach of the European All-Stars, who spends most of his time on screen making very insulting and rude comments about how inferior American teams are, how the North American style of hockey is dying and deserves to die out, and how superior his team and their style is. The North Stars prepare for their match just by watching clips of Maki insulting North American hockey.
• Armor-Piercing Question: Nat has quite the one for Shoresy in "SOO Hunt" after Shoresy tries to sweet talk her into letting him play after his particularly harsh concussion. Tellingly, Shoresy has no comeback.
  Nat: Has it ever occurred to you that I care more about YOU than winning?
  • In the final of Season 3, Laura asks Shoresy 'Think you'll be happy without hockey?' Shoresy just sits there silently, even when she repeats the question.
• Ascended Extra: JJ Frankie JJ from seasons 8 and 10 of Letterkenny returns as a main character. Hitch is Teddy, one of the Newfoundland players who appeared in season 8.
• As Himself: Main cast member Jonathan Diaby plays a fictionalized version of himself; in real life he retired from hockey for his rap career, whereas in this version he laces up again for the Bulldogs. Hockey commentator Jay Onrait appears in Season One. Special mention goes to Frankie's legacy of betrayed girlfriends, most of whom are real Quebeçois celebrities: Laurence Leboeuf (actress), Lysandre Nadeau (model/actress), Canadian singers Rêve and Marie-Mai, and model Marjorie St-Onge.
• Atrocious Alias: Shoresy is dismayed when thanks to a new team sponsor, the Bulldogs get renamed to the Blueberry Bulldogs. Various other characters mock them with some alliterative combination of "the [fruit] [dog breed]s".
  • In season 4, the Bulldogs are asked to mentor some young hockey players who are about to join major teams. The sponsors get in on it and they're promptly dubbed the 'Blueberry Buddies'. Everyone hates it, and Shoresy's baffled that they couldn't even put 'Bulldogs' in there somewhere.
• Big Eater: Shoresy makes a ton of comments about JJ Frankie JJ being one, and his myriad ex-girlfriends back it up in season two. Shoresy himself was one as a kid.
• Bilingual Dialogue:
  • Dolo will nearly always only speak in Quebecois but understands English just fine; JJ Frankie JJ and Laurence Leboeuf alternate between the two, though it's clear that JJ's grasp of English is much weaker than Laurence's. Shoresy doesn't ever speak Quebecois, but it's clear that he can understand it just fine, as he often responds to JJ and Dolo in English without missing a beat.
  • On "Questionable Call," Anik Archambault also throws in Quebecois phrases into her mostly-English dialogue.
  • On the talk show concerning JJ Frankie JJ and his treatment of the women he's dated, all three of his ex-girlfriends (Lysandre Nadeau, Catherine St-Laurent, and Rêve) switch from Quebecois to English toward the end of the program. Rêve suggests this due to the fact that JJ lives in Ontario now, and the women he dates there will need to understand what they're saying.
• Bittersweet Ending:
  • Season 1 ends with the Bulldogs losing the final match of the season, but the team has re-earned the respect and adulation of the community and found the motivation and drive to win the championship in the playoffs.
  • Season 3 has one too: The Bulldogs won the championship, but Shoresy had to retire, and while he's been offered multiple new jobs that involve hockey, he's made it clear that all he wants is to play the game, so no matter what he picks, he might be good at it, but he won't be as happy as he was as a player.
  • Season 5 has another one: the North Stars lose to the European All-Stars, but they accept the loss with grace, preferring to lose honourably than win dishonourably (as the All-Stars only won by diving). In the process, they defended their home and style of hockey, gave the All-Stars their toughest match to date, and proved to everyone watching that the North American style of hockey is not dead.
• Blatant Lies: Nat tries to claim to the NOSHO league commissioners that the Bulldogs did not start the brawl with the North Bay team because it started when only a single Bulldog player was present on the ice. The commissioners ask her who the Bulldog player was and Nat doesn't answer, because she knows that doing so would destroy the argument. The commissioners know quite well that Shoresy is more than capable of single-handedly starting a brawl against a whole opposing team, but decide to officially accept the lie since they want to see if the Bulldogs can beat the Sault Ste. Marie team.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: JJ Frankie JJ's ex-girlfriends Catherine St-Laurent (blonde), Lysandre Nadeau (brunette), and Rêve (redhead) when they appear on a talk show.
• Book Dumb:
  • Shoresy's foster brother Morris had a reputation for being dumb, at least until his foster sister Carrie came along. Carrie herself says that Morris isn't stupid, he just needed a tutor. Morris then follows by saying that what comes after one thousand is two thousands instead of one thousand and one.
  • Shoresy himself. He's not stupid, but he obviously put all his efforts into studying hockey rather than books.
• Brick Joke: Mid-way through the first season, the team's sponsor donates a bunch of gym equipment for the hockey team, including some exercise bikes that Shoresy says no one would ever use. Come the final episode, the veterans are riding the bikes and actually like using them.
• Butt-Monkey: Sanguinet, Michaels, and Jay Onrait (in the season 1 opener).
• Call-Back: Being a spinoff, Shoresy has a few references to its parent show.
  • JJ Frankie JJ, the Quebecois hockey player Shoresy hospitalized, returns as a new member of the Sudbury Bulldogs, complete with clips of the assault from Letterkenny.
  • Shoresy's relationship with Riley and Jonesy's mothers is mentioned.
  • In season two, Laura mentions that part of why she keeps turning down Shoresy is that she knows how much hockey players gossip. In the last episode, Shoresy tells Goody and Dolo that he turned down a woman he spent a year trying to get with, but he pretends (badly) that it wasn't Laura.
  • Season 5 has a lot of call backs to prior seasons, including a lot of returning characters from earlier seasons and references to previous episodes.
• Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough: Sanguinet and Shoresy, once the former grows into his role as coach. Shoresy provides blunt, in your face criticisms and demands a lot out of the team, while Sanguinet provides positive reinforcement and keeps Shoresy from going too far. It works to great effect.
• Catchphrase:
  • Shoresy asks a question, and when the other person starts to answer it, interrupts them with "Huh?" He also starts his sentences with "Yeah, so", responds to annoying or exasperating situations with "Holy...", and phrases a lot of statements to his teammates as variants of "Let's get some [X] in here, boys. Let's get some [X]". He also often responds to 'Fuck you, Shoresy' with 'FOR WHAT?'
  • “So dumb.”
  • Goody describes nearly everything as 'unbelievable' or 'unreal'. He responds to nearly everything else with "settle down."
  • Ted responds to being called anything other than his name with "Been called worse, b'ys!"
  • The catchphrase of Episode 1 was "just got pumped 5-goose for the 20th loss of the campaign."
  • Dolo calls his friends, and Shoresy in particular, 'handsome man'. He also has 'What it do, what it does'.
• Character Development:
  • The Bulldogs get one over the course of the first season, going from not really caring about the game to hating to lose as much as Shoresy does.
  • Shoresy himself developed significantly from his old self on Letterkenny, having become less rude and antagonistic and more mature and reasonable.
  • Morris becomes a lot more serious and less playful as the Bulldogs' assistant coach.
• Chekhov's Gunman: In episode 2 of season 5, Nat has a one-night stand with a random guy called Shawn. In episode 6, Shawn turns out to be the new police sergeant in Sudbury, which is really helpful as everyone on both teams has been arrested for fighting.
• Cluster F-Bomb: Like with Letterkenny, it's rare for the show to pass not even ten seconds without a form of "Fuck" thrown into the dialogue.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: A Running Gag with Shoresy as he pantses a customer at a restaurant, Michaels, and Fish before a game without breaking stride.
• Crowd Chant: Shoresy's family has one for the foster kids. Shoresy's is "Waffle!", Morris' is 'Big Mo! Big Mo!' and Carrie's is 'Care Bear countdown, 4-3-2-1!' (Free's isn't shown.)
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Two in the first season. The Sault St. Marie Cyclones send their call-ups against the Bulldogs in the second-to-last game of the season, a fact which Shoresy and Sanguinet use to rile up the team. The Bulldogs absolutely flatten them. But this leaves the Cyclones' best players fresh for the second game, where they return the favour.
• Darker and Edgier: To an extent. The humour is on the same level as its parent show, more or less, but it's more violent, and while most of said violence is Played for Laughs, there's a surprising amount that isn't. Not just that, but Shoresy is made to be more than just a catchphrase and swear word dispenser than in his parent show, and this leads to some unexpectedly dark places with his character.
• Dented Iron: It's a major plot point in season 3: the Bulldogs' key players got injured between the seasons, and since most of them have been playing for a long time, the injuries have piled up and are seriously impeding their ability to play. It's bad enough in Shoresy's case that he has to start seriously thinking about retiring, and he's forced to retire after a concussion.
• Department of Child Disservices: The social worker who brought Papa Shore's foster kids to the farm talked about them in ways that a case worker really shouldn't; Carrie, who became a social worker herself, refuses to believe that a social worker would talk about the kids they're trying to help like that, but Papa Shore confirms that yes, he actually did.
• Did You Just Have Sex?: Everyone comments on Nat getting laid in season 2.
• Discriminate and Switch: At the Shore family reunion, Free gives an angry speech about how she's noticed people talking negatively about her and Carrie's relationship after they announced their engagement. At first it seems like the family might be homophobic or against interracial relationships... but it's actually because Free and Carrie are foster sisters. (Their dad tells them that he has no problem with them marrying, but they do have to be prepared to get thoroughly mocked for it.)
  Shoresy: Get a room, you fuckin' sister-wife!
• Dogged Nice Guy: Shoresy is in love with Laura Mohr and spends several seasons trying to win her over. Laura doesn't dislike him, but doesn't believe that he's genuine about wanting an actual relationship with her, and it takes a lot of time for Shoresy to convince her.
• Downer Beginning:
  • Season 3 starts with one: the Bulldogs lost the playoffs to the Soo Hunt, half the team sustained serious injuries that require time to heal, and the National Senior Championship is in a week. Not only is the team not in any condition to play, but because they lost the playoffs, they have the embarrassing status of being the team that's only in the championship because they're the hosts.
  • Episode 2 of season 5 starts with the NOSHO league folding (the Bulldogs and the Soo Hunt survived, but Timmins ran out of players, North Bay ran out of ice and Sault St Marie ran out of money) and the Bulldogs having to vacate the arena because they have nobody to play.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Shoresy becomes one in season two, feeling that while his teammates are doing much better than when they started, they've become lazy and complacent and aren't achieving everything that he knows they can. It gets to the point that he threatens to cut Fish from the team if he doesn't start scoring goals again.
• Dumb Muscle: The Freezer twins are so stupid they forget which one of them is which; unfortunately for everyone outside their team, they really excel at hurting other players.
• Eating the Eye Candy: Brady Schnurr, a manly, age-appropriate American hockey player, announces that he's fixed the faulty showerheads in the visitors' locker rooms while still respecting the agency of the female team managers to have gotten it done themselves. Nat gawks at him in silence, utterly smitten.
• End of an Era:
  • Season 3 ends with Shoresy retiring from playing professional hockey.
  • Throughout the series, multiple characters note that there's been a serious attempt to ban hitting and fighting, with the North American style of hockey dying out as a result and being replaced by the European style, which focuses on speed and finesse and doesn't include fighting.
• Epic Fail: After the Jims rat out Dolo, Hitch and Goody to their girlfriends, they're told to try to fix things by telling the girlfriends that they lied. Not only do the girlfriends not believe that it was a lie, two of the Jims wind up having sex with the girlfriends, while the third forms a genuine emotional connection.
• Everyone Has Standards: In episode 2, Shoresy is appalled that his teammates haven't called their parents to let them know they arrived safely. He is so upset that he calls his own dad to tell him about it.
• Family Theme Naming: Sisters Miigwan and Ziigwan, known as Miig and Ziig.
• Foul Mouthed Parrot: Shoresy's Alexandrine parakeet, Big Sexy, who says nothing but 'Tit fucker!'
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • The Sault Ste. Marie team is greatly respected in the league for being the best team with some extremely talented players. However, everyone in the league is also extremely fed up with them being champions so many years in a row and wishes for them to be taken down a peg.
  • Michaels starts off as this, but turns it around by the end of the season and earns the respect of the team.
• Gag Haircut: Shoresy, Hitch, Michaels and Goody spend season 3 with a rather conspicuous patch of hair missing. It's revealed that they had Dolo shave it after they were all on drugs and overheating, and they decided that they wouldn't be allowed to fix it until they won the tournament.
• Good Parents: Shoresy's foster-father is a kind, respectful father to all his children, who all clearly love him very much.
• Happily Adopted: Shoresy grew up in a foster home with three other children, and absolutely adores his foster family (he even took their last name), revealing a goofy, good natured side around them that he never shows in front of anyone else.
• The Hedonist: Delaney of the Soo Hunt really loves lap dances and cocaine. This is useful as a weak point when the Bulldogs are playing against the Hunt, but very unhelpful when they team up with him and they need him to focus.
• Hidden Depths:
  • Michaels turns out to be really good at trivia.
  • Hitch is knowledgeable and passionate about music, particularly — but not limited to — classic rock.
• Hoist by Their Own Petard:
  • In "Hockey Brings People Together", the Cyclones don't even bother sending their main team to fight the Bulldogs, just their backup players. Sanguinet takes this opportunity to get the Bulldogs fired up by telling them that the Cyclones don't even respect them enough to fight them themselves, which works, and the Bulldogs win.
  • This leads to the Surprisingly Realistic Outcome below as the Bulldogs annihilating a Sault team of call-ups leads directly to the Sault bringing their best players to bear in the final game, defeating the Bulldogs 5-2.
  • Frankie being a serial cheater comes back to bite him hard when three of his ex-girlfriends publicly call him out on TV in season two, making it nearly impossible for him to focus on the game.
  • Played for laughs in season one: after Shoresy gets Nat to promote Sanguinet to coach, he tries to tell Sanguinet to shut the fuck up, and Sanguinet tells him that he can't tell his coach to shut the fuck up.
• Honor Before Reason: "We lose, we fold". Averted in the season 1 finale since the Bulldogs have become a strong team and attracted a large fan following. It would be really stupid to fold such a team just because they lost a single game against the best team in the league.
• Hopeless Suitor: Michaels wants to get back with his ex, Mercedes, even when she screws every guy around and makes it clear that she isn't interested in him and would much prefer Sanguinet.
• Hotter and Sexier: In contrast to Letterkenny, Shoresy doesn't have any sex scenes or nude scenes, but it has a lot of attractive characters appearing nearly nude, a lot of strip club scenes, and a lot of scenes where characters are about to have sex or have just had sex.
• Humble Pie: In a total reversal of his usual Sore Loser tendencies, Shoresy quietly accepts all of the taunting after the team name changes to the Blueberry Bulldogs. He is notably silent in a montage of Cory and Liam relentlessly chirping him about it as he's reffing their high school game. Why? Because he agrees it's humiliating and hates it more than they do.
  Liam: It's so fucking embarrassing, Shoresy!
  Shoresy: I know. Why do you think I'm eating it?
  • He has a similar reaction after predicting the team calendar will come back to bite the Bulldogs in the ass, and it does, in fact come back to bite them in the ass.
• Hypocrite: Zig-zagged in season two: after spending most of the season telling the other players that they're having so much sex that their performance in hockey games is suffering, Shoresy turns down Laura Mohr because as the captain, he feels that he can't ask his players to do something that he wouldn't do himself. That sentiment lasts about one day.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming:
  • Shoresy frequently talks over Sanguinet and insults him, but after seeing a guy at the club harass him, Shoresy follows the guy into the bathroom and slams his head into the wall until he passes out.
  • Shoresy makes cracks about Frankie being fat all the time, but when a North Bay player makes a joke about Frankie's weight in season two, Shoresy is pissed.
• Hypocritical Humor:
  • Carrie and Free argue that it's fine for them to get married because they're not related and were only foster sisters for a year and a half; Shoresy points out that the argument is just a tad undermined by the fact that they both call their foster father 'Dad'.
  • Shoresy says Ziig's voice drives him crazy because it's so annoying.
  • In season 4 the guys girlfriends are pissed off about them "cheating" on them despite the fact that they insist they're not their girlfriends and are also sleeping around on the guys.
• I Banged Your Mom: As in Letterkenny, this is still Shoresy's weapon of choice when he needs to insult someone. Given that we now know he does actually like older women, some of these comments might not be all talk.
• If It's You, It's Okay: Ziig prefers women, but enjoys speculating about Dolo and how big his dick must be.
  • When "Gorgeous Gord" of the visiting Prince Edward Island team takes an interest in Ziig, she spurns him at first but eventually meets up with him after a game. Season 5 confirms that they've hooked up after that, both in person and online.
• Insistent Terminology:
  • Shoresy is adamant that the key to winning isn't loving to win, it's hating to lose.
  • Whenever the topic of Reilly and Jonesy's moms comes up: "They aren't my friends and their moms were wheeling me."
  • Whenever a person refers to the BroDude content as "TV", someone else is quick to clarify "It's a web show".
• Jerkass Has a Point: When the NOSHO officials reprimand Nat, Miig, Ziig and Shoresy for the Norsemen fight, they point out that even if nobody got seriously hurt, there was a lot of blood on the ice, which does tend to freak out audience members (especially kids) and turn off the sponsors.
• Kangaroo Court: Subverted. The Jims are subjected to a locker room trial that everyone refers to as the "Kangaroo Court" but it is actually extremely fair. The prosecutors have to clearly state their case and the Jims are represented by Shoresy who is an expert on these types of proceedings. Michaels is a fair judge and has a lot of sympathy for the Jims. The Jims lose their case but accept the verdict as fair and agree to make restitution. Everyone returns to being friends.
• Kavorka Man: JJ Frankie JJ is burly, bald, and not traditionally handsome, but he's dated and broken the hearts of many famous actresses and fashion models.
• The Last DJ: In "The Man Advantage", the NOSHO officials and Nat note that there's been a concerted effort to make hockey less violent and more focused on speed and finesse. The NOSHO is one of, if not the only league where the players still focus on beating the shit out of each other instead of on technical skill.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: After several seasons filled with Fanservice involving the Bulldogs cavorting with young, beautiful and fashionable women, the main cast starts commenting on how the small, Northern Ontario town of Sudbury has an incredibly large population of "tens."
• Likes Older Women: There's a reason why Shoresy is always banging everyone's mom.
• Loophole Abuse: It's well known that the Bulldogs will fold if they lose a match. However, not playing a match is not the same as losing it, so getting a match cancelled allows the team to stay together.
• Love Triangle: Sanguinet and Miig are attracted to each other (and wind up dating), but Mercedes is attracted to Sanguinet (who is also attracted to her, but is more interested in Miig) and isn't someone who takes no or polite brush-offs for an answer, even saying that he can bring Miig along. Meanwhile, Michaels wants to get back with Mercedes despite her near-total lack of interest in him. In season 5, Miig starts dating Michaels after breaking up with Sanguinet, much to Mercedes' ire.
• The Mafia: Michaels' ex, Mercedes, and her brothers Angelo and Luca run the local branch in Sudbury.
• The Man Behind the Man: Brought up in "Know Your Role"; Sanguinet, who's now the coach despite having never coached before, asks for Shoresy's help for the first game. Shoresy accepts on the condition that it's just for the first game, but some of their teammates who don't know about the condition interpret Shoresy's help as meaning that Sanguinet is the coach in name only and Shoresy's the real coach. Several of them complain to Nat about it, and one quits.
• Manly Tears: Shoresy is completely unapologetic about his tendency to cry at various different moments. This includes, but is certainly not limited to, the playing of the Canadian national anthem before each game–with one notable exception.^note The kid on the recorder, who the Soo Hunt hire specifically to mess with Shoresy. When he expresses a reluctance to cry, it's for situational reasons (for example, wanting to have finished crying before Nat arrives), not because he feels any shame for crying.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: There are eight Apeldoorn sons who all play hockey.
• May–December Romance: In season two, Ted starts a relationship with Pam, who is clearly much younger than him. (There is a twenty year age gap between their actors, and it shows.)
• Meaningful Echo: At one point in season two, Michaels (and Carrie, later on) says that "success doesn't mean anything if you don't have anything to share it with". This clearly strikes a chord with Shoresy, enough that he seriously tries to win Laura Mohr over. When Carrie says it, it's enough to make Shoresy accept Laura's offer of sex, which he'd previously turned down.
• Meaningful Name: Laura Mohr, the main love interest, is almost always referred to by her full name. "Laura Mohr" is phonetically very similar to "leur amour", French for "their love".
• Mood Whiplash: "Brooks Barrelmen" goes from the hilarity of showing what happened at the Bulldogs' party, to grim as the Freezer twins keep hurting people and Shoresy and Sanguinet keep fighting, to incredibly dark when Shoresy gets taken out and has to admit that he can't play.
• Mr. Fanservice: In the tradition of his parent show, Shoresy himself gets a good deal of generous shirtlessness, and to a lesser extent, so do his teammates.
• Ms. Fanservice:
  • Nat (who, indeed, is very attractive and thin) wears tight clothing in most every scene. But she turns it up to eleven for the Season 1 meeting with the NOSHO commissioners with a leather miniskirt.
  • The crowd shots at the Coulson show that Sudbury really does have a "disproportionately high ratio of [female] talent."
• Nice Guy: The Charlottetown Reds are a whole team of nice guys.
• Nice to the Waiter: Shoresy is adamant that part of building a winning culture in a team is that everyone on the team needs to know the names of the people who work behind the scenes and interact with them beyond the job. Episode 3 of season 5 has him introducing the NOSHO All-Stars to the people who work at the Sudbury rink, and in episode 2, he knows and chats with the behind the scenes workers at BroDude.
• Noodle Incident: Season 5 repeatedly mentions a church hockey league in Sudbury who were so violent they got banned from their rink, but there's no other details.
• Odd Name Out: The Policetti siblings, who one can assume are Italian or Italian-Canadian from the name, are Angelo, Luca (both common Italian male names) and Mercedes (a Spanish female name).
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: In "The Man Advantage", Mercedes and her brother tell Sanguinet and Michaels that in return for the favour they did for the team in season 1, they want the team and especially Frankie to appear at the Coulson for the upcoming gay night, and the team don't get a say in it. When Mercedes repeats this to Shoresy and Shoresy tells them that Frankie's been very depressed and is refusing to leave his room, Mercedes makes it clear that either Frankie attends or Shoresy and the team are getting badly hurt.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Between seasons 2 and 3, the Bulldogs had a party where things got so crazy that everyone who was there or heard about it agrees that they shouldn't get that drunk again.
• One-Steve Limit:
  • Played with. There are three players named Jim, and all three insist on being called Jim, even with Shoresy lampshading how confusing that would get. In the end it is subverted since the three Jims always act in unison and the entire trio is always addressed together as "Jim, Jim and Jim".
  • Subverted with the Soo Hunt's Will Belson, Ben Welson, Wayne Bilson and Bill Wilson. They are technically distinct names, but can be a nightmare for an announcer to call out during play when they start passing the puck to each other. The first time Remy Nadeau tries to call out their play, he ends up misnaming one of them as Benson.
• OOC Is Serious Business:
  • When Michaels apologises for letting the Sault score on him, Shoresy doesn't berate him or tell him to shut up, but instead compliments Michaels' goaltending. He's realised how much the Sault team outclasses the Bulldogs, and that they can't win.
  • Played for laughs once when Ziig manages to say something about Shoresy without insulting him, which has Nat and Miig commenting that she must be sick.
• Overly Long Name: Dutch last names are so long they barely fit on their own sweaters.
• The Peter Principle: Michaels is a lousy coach who gets no respect from his players and is fired in the first episode. When he is rehired as a player, he quickly proves that he is an excellent hockey player and quickly gains the respect of his teammates. Likewise, Sanguinet starts off as a mediocre player on a mediocre team but does significantly better as the coach.
• Pet the Dog:
  • In "Good and Weird", Shoresy is all for going to the Weird Sudbury prospect party until he finds out that Michaels has been blackballed because Mercedes doesn't want him there. Shoresy promptly drops out of the party and goes to hang out with Michaels instead.
  • One of the Lakers is in love with a stunning older girl who everyone agrees is way out of his league. While Shoresy and the others do give him some crap for it, Shoresy tells him that he can win her over, and the Bulldogs rally around to help him.
• Phrase Catcher:
  • Shoresy's taunts and comments often prompt a "Fuck you, Shoresy!" from others.
  • When Shoresy draws a "Fuck you, Shoresy!" for something other than a taunt, he often responds with a bewildered, "Fer what?"
  • "Shut the fuck up, Sanguinet!" almost every time Sanguinet opens his mouth. Later, when Michaels joins the team, it becomes "Shut the fuck up, Michaels!"
  • Whenever anyone mentions Michaels' ex, someone else will say that her brothers are really fucking weird.
  • Whenever the Sault Ste. Marie Cyclones are mentioned, someone will say that they're 'so fucking good.'
  • Whenever Nat talks about the benefits a successful Bulldogs team would have for the Sudbury community, Miig sums it up with "Sports keeps kids off the streets," and Ziig follows with "Drugs kill dreams."
• Pokémon Speak: "Rémy Nadeau!"
• Political Overcorrectness: In 'Blueberry Buddies', the Bulldogs learn that the Lakers are not allowed to be fully undressed in the dressing room so nobody gets uncomfortable. Shoresy is utterly baffled at the idea that they're not allowed to be undressed in the dressing room, and appalled at the implications that has for their hygiene (since they can't shower if they can't get undressed).
• Poor Communication Kills: When Nat sends Shoresy to recruit some tough Natives to play for the Bulldogs, she tells him that they're 'in jail'. He takes this to mean that they're currently incarcerated; what she meant was that they work in a prison. This leads to an argument where she calls him racist and he vainly tries to point out that her phrasing was terrible.
• Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: "Let's give 'em the fuckin' lumber, boys."
• Punny Name: The Jims' trivia team is called 'Iroquiz', which they rename to 'Algonquiz' after getting a new member. Their opponents rename themselves from 'Baroque Obama' to 'Tropic of Answer'.
• Put on a Bus: Season 4 takes place in the off-season; as such, most of the Bulldogs have gone home for the summer, leaving the ones who live (or crash) in Sudbury: Shoresy, Michaels, the Jims, Goody, Hitch and Dolo.
• The Quest: In Season 4, the Bulldogs have their hearts set on going to Weird Sudbury, an invite-only party where you have to know someone on the inside to get an invite. The contact ends up being Mercedes.
• Rank Up:
  • In the first episode, Sanguinet is promoted to coach.
  • Shoresy is made the team captain for the final game of season 1. (Cue Manly Tears.)
  • Fish is a young second-string player who throughout the season starts getting praise for his dedication and teamwork. For the final game he is promoted to the main squad as a replacement for the missing JJ.
• Really Gets Around:
  • Michaels' ex, Mercedes.
  • This is a plot point in season 2: After winning the season and getting jacked, the Bulldogs aren't reaching their potential because most of them are having so much sex that they're losing focus.
  • It becomes a plot point again in season 4, when Nat becomes concerned that the Bulldogs are slacking off because it's the off-season, and are spending all their time partying, drinking and sleeping around.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ziig's Red Oni to her sister Miig's Blue Oni. While both can be snarky, Ziig tends to be far more aggressive while other characters note that Miig is a Nice Girl.
• Relationship Upgrade:
  • Miig and Sanguinet start dating between seasons 1 and 2.
  • Shoresy finally wins over Laura Mohr at the end of season 2.
• Rewatch Bonus: In season two, a bunch of Frankie's ex-girlfriends go on TV to publicly shame him for cheating on them, but the host mentions that Laurence Leboeuf declined to appear. At first one might think that Laurence wasn't available for this season, but then she appears later on in the season having got back with Frankie, and then it becomes apparent that Laurence simply didn't want to shame him.
• Rousing Speech: Shoresy turns out to be really good at them, which is part of why so many people think he should coach.
• Running Gag:
  • Shoresy angrily asking his teammates for dip (packed tobacco). For the last game, Fish has brought not one, but three tins of dip in case Shoresy asks.
  • Hitch asking for a "martoonie" (martini) at every venue, even a panini shop.
  • Everyone mocking the Sudbury Blueberry Bulldogs with their own Atrocious Alias.
  • Shoresy asking if any of the veterans have called their parents to say they’ve arrived. They never have.
  • Whenever Hitch is introduced to someone, Shoresy says that if you say his name real fast, it sounds like 'ten inch cock'.
  • Whenever the Jims are called on to say something, the first two Jims always give short, one or two word responses, and the third will say something more in depth.
  • Whenever someone mentions getting tough Natives for the team, Miig or Ziig will say that "tough Natives" is redundant. Sanguinet also says it once, when the players are in the car and Shoresy is on the phone with Nat about the tough Natives.
  • Whenever someone else compliments a woman's appearance, Shoresy will add the caveat, "Bit young, though."
  • In season two, whenever Miig or Sanguinet reference their (sickeningly cute) relationship, Shoresy (and Ziig, once) will sarcastically giggle.
  • "Senior whaleshit hockey."
  • Shoresy to Fish: "If I didn't see you on a date with [name of attractive Sudbury girl here] at [specific Sudbury locale], I'd think you were the ugliest guy here, but... you got her, so you musn't be."
  • Shoresy's chirps at Cory and Liam when he refs for the high school team involve either him having sex with their mothers or a reference to teen acne (which neither Cory nor Liam seems to seriously suffer from).
  • In Season 4, the Bulldogs keep celebrating at various landmarks in Sudbury.
  • Nat can't remember the phrase 'helicoptering their dicks' correctly, and Dolo has trouble pronouncing the word "helicopter".
  • In Season 5, people mock Shoresy for his powder-blue coach tracksuit, which he insists is a different shade of blue.
• Series Continuity Error:
  • In Letterkenny, Shoresy had longish black hair; in Shoresy, he has short red-brown hair.
  • In Letterkenny, Frankie was fairly adept at speaking English; in Shoresy, he clearly can't understand or speak it well.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Sanguinet, after he became the coach.
  Miig: Yo, Sanguinet in that suit, what is up?
  Ziig: *repulsed look* You, apparently.
• Sickening Sweethearts: In season 2, Miig and Sanguinet become this trope, with Shoresy lampshading it by giggling sarcastically whenever they do anything cutesy.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Shoresy and Michaels. Shoresy has no respect for Michaels whatsoever (though that does change in the second half of the season) and Michaels loathes Shoresy for the disrespect and all the stuff with his ex. (Even if Sanguinet was the one who actually got the squeezer.)
• Soundtrack Dissonance:
  • "With A Girl Like You" by the Troggs plays in the intro of "The Man Advantage" as Shoresy grabs McPherson, a Norsemen player whose nose he broke, drags him across the ice, leaving a trail of blood, and throws him into the Bulldogs' bench so the rest of the team can beat him up.
  • Also occurs when "Born to Be Alive" by Patrick Hernandez plays during the warm-up brawl that opens S 1 E 4 after Shoresy baits North Bay into the Bulldogs' tunnel upon realizing the Bulldogs can't beat North Bay without the sluts.
• Spanner in the Works: JJ gets caught cheating on his girlfriend and flees back to Quebec to patch things up, leaving the team without their leading scorer and points leader during the hardest game of the season.
• Strange Minds Think A Like: It is almost a running gag that conversations will repeat itself by different people, usually because the same sentiment is shared or to show a character espoused the other person's view. For example Fish saying he hates losing or the difference between a warm-up fight and a game fight.
• Stress Vomit: Shoresy is shown doing this in the season 1 finale when he realizes the team is going to lose.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • By the final game of the season, the Bulldogs have grown into a very strong team. However, the Sault Ste. Marie team are an extremely good team whose top players sat out the previous game and are well rested. The Bulldogs are given no openings and are outplayed in the first two periods. They manage to come back in the third period but it is not enough to close the large lead the opposition had.
  • Nat, Miig and Ziig are initially pissed that the people Shoresy recruits don't actually play hockey anymore, but he points out that anyone already signed to a team is not gonna leave that team, uproot themselves and go join a team on a 20 game losing streak in a small backwater league.
  • When season 3 opens, the team has just played a long season and a brutal playoffs. They are exhausted and their injuries are catching up to them, especially for the older players like Shoresy and his pals. Some of them have trouble walking and it's pointed out that they really need at least 4-6 weeks to recover.
  • In "SOO Hunt", Shoresy practically begs Nat to let him play after his second concussion. She tells him that it doesn't matter whether he's up to playing or not, she'll get publicly crucified if she lets a guy who's as injured as Shoresy play.
  • A team of senior players who've been playing for a long time are going to have racked up a lot of injuries, and they can't heal as quickly as they might expect. By the end of season 3 Shoresy's injuries and age have caught up to him. His last concussion was really bad and he realizes that he has to really watch how much strain he is putting on his body. However, that means that he can no longer play the type of all-out hockey that made him an asset to the team. If he keeps playing professional hockey, he will either be crippled or become The Load. He plays one final game and then quits.
  • Shoresy spends all of season 4 trying to find something to do now that his hockey career is over but vehemently rejects coaching. The problem is he's so damn good at it, turning out to be an even better coach than he ever was a hockey player. In the end, he gives in and becomes the Bulldogs' coach.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Shoresy and Ziig can't be near each other without throwing insults and barbs around.
• Tempting Fate: Shoresy warns McPherson, a Norse Bay player, that if he pulls the dirty trick he used to score against the Bulldogs again, it'll end badly for him. McPherson doesn't listen, which leads to the incident mentioned under Soundtrack Dissonance above.
• Those Two Guys:
  • Miig and Ziig, Nat's assistants.
  • Rémy Nadeau and Benoit "Benny" Brodeur.
  • Cory and Liam, two high school hockey players at the school that Shoresy works at.
• Time Skip: There's one of somewhere between several months and a year between the first two seasons.
• Token Good Teammate: Schnurr is the one member of the Soo Hunt who isn't a giant dick.
• Tough Love: After getting frustrated with Fish's lack of goals recently, Shoresy and Sanguinet warn him that if he doesn't score in their next game, he's off the team. They're both absolutely elated when he does, and it's clear that they were confident he could do it (they even call him a 'scorer'), but Fish and everyone else express the opinion that they went too far.
• Trademark Favorite Food:
  • Asian food, for Shoresy.
  • Goody loves chicken. Goody really loves chicken.
  • The Bulldogs develop a ritual where they eat ice cream "sticks" (cones) after each game.
• Twofer Token Minority: Ziig is First Nations and queer.
• Vitriolic Best Buds:
  • The only kind of buds that Shoresy has. He'll shit talk you all day long, but he'll also slam a guy's head into a bathroom wall for you.
    Shoresy: You're my teammate. You're my brother. I'd go to the wall for you. Would you go to the wall for me?
    Sanguinet: I'll go to the wall.
    Shoresy: Then you're allowed to call me a fucking useless cunt on your way there.
  • The NOSHO league commissioners spend the first half of their scene insulting Nat and Ziig, but they're still friends even after that, and Nat and Ziig don't seem offended by the comments.
  • Shoresy and Free throw a lot of insults at each other, but a scene in season two shows that all the Shore siblings really love each other.
• Wham Line:
  • "We're not beating the Sault tonight."
  • Then later:
  Shoresy: It's too fucking late!
  Sanguinet: For this game. We'll get 'em in the playoffs.
  • Shoresy, after his second concussion: "I can't go".
  • At the very end of Season 3: THIS IS THE END OF SHORESY... PART 1
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Fish, Sanguinet and Frankie were written off the show as their actors' contracts were not renewed after season 3; season 4 had the three of them as part of the Bulldogs who went home for the off-season, but Sanguinet was written off with one line in season 5 and Fish and Frankie weren't mentioned.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Season 4 gives us a mutual exchange of these between the Jims and the other players. The Jims are really upset that their teammates abandoned them for some pretty women when the group was supposed to go boating together. The Jims retaliated by "tattling" to their teammate's girlfriends about the guys cheating on them. In order to make peace, a locker room trial is conducted so both sides can air their grievances and it can be determined who is more in violation of the Bro Code.
• What You Are in the Dark: In season 4, Laura tells Shoresy to seriously think about whether he wants to be with her, because someone else might come along. A few episodes later, Shoresy is offered casual sex from Jill, an attractive older woman, that nobody else would know about. He turns her down. At the start of season 5, she makes the offer again and he turns her down again; several episodes later, she makes a blatant pass at Shoresy and Laura, and he says no on the grounds that it would mean sleeping with someone who isn't Laura.
• Workaholic: Nat spends a lot of season 4 trying to get the Bulldogs to take hockey seriously and stop partying and celebrating, even though it's the off-season and nobody's playing. Miig and Ziig eventually get her to relax a little.