For the last seven years, Jared Keeso and Jacob Tierney’s deeply vulgar, highly literate Canadian sitcom Letterkenny has been one of the hardest laughs—and the hardest sells—on TV. A love letter to rural Canada that is also, often, a love letter to all the ways its residents can just be the goddamned worst, Letterkenny’s appeal has always been tricky to put into words—ironic, given how fleet with language most of its various hicks, skids, and hockey players so frequently are, rattling off rapid-fire puns, innuendoes, and densely layered callbacks at roughly a mile a minute.
And now, it’s all coming to a close, as Hulu—which runs the show in the U.S.— announced this afternoon that its upcoming 12th season, set to air in a single big dollop of content on December 26, will be the series’ last. No more Puppers; no more Modean’s; no more tales of Boots, the Ginger, and The Ostrich: Wayne, Katy, Dary, and Squirrely Dan will all be departing the scene after this final run, ending the show’s endless conversations about the asinine minutiae of human existence, and also the fairly frequent slow-motion beatdowns it often trafficked in. How’re ya now? Pretty sad, honestly.
News of both the 12th season premiere date, and its finality, arrives just as the second season of Letterkenny’s hockey-focused spin-off series Shoresy (which also stars Keeso, as a foul-mouthed hockey player originally introduced as a joke character in the mothership series) arrived Stateside, having landed on Hulu all at once, after airing in Canada over the last month. That show, at least, will be moving forward after a very funny second run of episodes, having already picked up a third season renewal notice back in October.
Stream Letterkenny now on Hulu.