Chilly Beach (2003–2006) User Reviews

A pretty good show, especially if you're Canadian

[drawah64 · 7/10 · 12 June 2007]

I'm not going to summarize the show, cause it's easy to find a good summary online. I think it's a pretty good show. I haven't watched it in a while, but I do have the Season 1 DVD and I watched it when new episodes would air on CBC.

The show's not always hilarious, and it sometimes feels amateurish, as some of the jokes are kind of repetitive or predictable, but most of the time it's really enjoyable. My favourite character is probably Dale, but I like most of them. I'm interested in seeing the movie, and I can't wait until it finally gets aired, released on DVD, etc. Apparently it's tied up in ownership issues or something?

Great Show , Kind of like South Park

[futuramafan1 · 6/10 · 25 February 2008]

This show is like a version of "South Park" but it doesn't have all that cursing and other stuff like that. This show has the same humor from any other show like "The Simpsons" & "Family Guy". This show has to be one of the best animated cartoon shows in Canadian history. You can watch this show on CBC on the weekend. The characters in this show are just plain funny in every way. I strongley recommend you to watch this TV Show.

10/10 -- Watch this show when you can ( it might take a long time for you to enjoy. You will laugh like you will during any other Comedy Animated series on the TV right now. CBC's best original.

An enjoyable Canadian cartoon for kids and adults

[broadfoot · 11 October 2003]

Chilly Beach has the look of a Canadian South Park, without all the gross-out humour. It's enjoyable fun for kids and adults, but really small children may not get the plot. It deals with two buddies, Frank and Dale, who live on the Canadian island of Chilly Beach. Their friends include an Indo-Canadian police constable (who manages a convincing Indian accent without being offensive), a little girl who bears a striking resemblance to Velma from Scooby Doo and a polar bear who lives on the island and spends all his time trying to eat them! It's a worthy animated entry along with The Raccoons (one of my fave cartoons in the 1980s). With all the crappy American and Japanese cartoons we get nowadays, Chilly Beach is a breath of fresh air. Rating: ***

Terrible

[coles_notes · 2/10 · 7 June 2022]

A CBC cartoon series created by Doug Sinclair and Daniel Hawes, the series is often compared to South Park as a bit of a "tame" Canadian clone that follows the lives of residents of the so named Chilly Beach, a far northern Canadian town on top of an iceberg, where every stereotype imaginable is turned up to 11. Each episode starts with a "this content may be offensive" message (and some of it surely is), but generally there isn't swearing throughout the show and most plots are generally pretty straightforward and are rarely lewd. That said, the show seems to think that by making fun of Canadian stereotypes it gets a free pass to make fun of any other cultures stereotypes, which most of us know today that doesn't really fly, causing many of the side characters and plot lines to truly be offensive. Multiple side characters only "personality" is that they speak in a funny accent and only eat whatever dish is considered the stereotype for the nation they're from. It's just lazy offensiveness really, I'm not sure what they were thinking. Originally started as an online flash animated based show, it was picked up by CBC for 3 seasons; its quality (both in animation and content) never really seeming to improve. There series has some notable celebrity guests as voice actors (Leslie Nielsen and William Shatner come mind) but I only watched the entire first season (and I can't even believe I did that), and then found some later episodes online. Ultimately I wasn't interested, this is one that can likely be forgotten, it was very bad. You won't find it anywhere on Gem, and the cbc.ca/chillybeach url it mentions at the end of each episode now leads to a forbidden error, so seems like someone agrees.

Oh, Canada!

[Media_guru · 8/10 · 30 September 2006]

If this show were a person, it would be madly in love with the CBC if it were a person. They would hold hands and skip through flowery meadows as cheesy music plays. What I mean by this is Chilly Beach has CBC written all over it.

It follows the lives of two Canadian friends. Dale and Frank these guys seem to be rather good pals considering their respective favorite hockey teams seem to be knock offs of the Ottawa Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs (Real life adversaries) This is true unless they're discussing hockey, of course. This is one branch of the stereotype of Canadians on which this is entirely based. Luckily, Canadians have the ability to laugh at themselves so this show flies. Fans of other CBC hits such as Air Farce and This hour has 22 minutes will find delight in story lines such as a trip to the beer store and the daily temperature "highs" that are still in the blue. With all the flag waving on part of the Americans lately, Chilly Beach is refreshing dip in a nearly frozen pond.

Inferior, lame Canadian attempt to emulate South Park

[shodan1234 · 3 May 2004]

I'm surprised there hasn't been a lawsuit filed against this series for copyright infringement. Then again, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone probably wouldn't even bother themselves with this pathetic knockoff...which sadly enough, also happens to be Canadian.

While the animation for Chilly Beach isn't bad, you'd think that the creators of this series could have attempted to make something fresh and original, instead of a toned-down copy of a successful American show. I know someone mentioned that this series is not as rude or vulgar...but isn't that the reason why most people enjoy South Park to begin with?

Do yourself a favor, and skip this "South Park-Lite", and go for the real thing.

About why an episode or two is a bit funny

[zachmosley · 18 December 2017]

I think one of the episodes are a bit funny. I'm sorry if this show got cancelled in 2008.