Produced locally at CKY-TV in Winnipeg (the Entertainment Capital of Southern Manitoba) everyone was paid scale, which would probably be a few dollars an hour more than flogging fries at Mickey Dee's. Now, why would ANYONE produce such fodder? Local and *cheap* Canadian content.
I saw this gem (ahem) on a local Public Access channel, and it was about as exciting as watching the local kid's show from Oklahoma (if I remember right) where a talking chicken would ride around on a model train introducing cartoons...
Well, I think the chicken talked that is...