I watched another episode of the Red Green Show last night called “Coup De Grass.” The one flaw in watching the episodes are commercials, which were rare when I started making my own YouTube videos years ago. Now they’re about as frequent as they are on TV.
The one good thing about commercials on YouTube is that I can click the “skip ad” button, which interrupts them.
Anyway, “Coup De Grass” was good for several chuckles, but I admit I scratched my head a little over the main sketch comedy skit. It was the what the title of the episode was about, and you might get what the parodic title means here.
The introduction opens with Red Green talking about the grass seed he accidentally spilled on the paint and chemical covered floor of his garage. It was a “horticultural breakthrough” because the grass grew only a couple of inches tall, which he though he could make a fortune on.
The next two segments I overthought and realized only later that the idea involved the mutant grass growing very tall and getting smelly and sticky—like the paint and toxic ooze in the garage it sprang from.
What confused me was that, after planting the grass outside the lodge, Red and the other cast members gradually developed abnormal walking with their feet sticking to the floor at every step. They also started to turn green. It reminded me a little of the Silly Walking episode on Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
Actually, the point of the silly walking is that they got contaminated by the grass, which quickly grew tall, sticky, and smelly.
So, who or what actually delivers the “coup de grass” or killing blow and who or what gets “killed?” I could take a stab at the answer, but that might be a spoiler.
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