Powerful New York mob boss Jimmy Falcone enters the Witness Protection Program and brings his family — wife Cookie, daughters Theresa and Gina, son Anthony, and Uncle Cheech — along for the adventure of a lifetime. Far from New York’s busy streets, the Falcone family arrives in the peaceful town of Oakville, where the pace is far slower and Jimmy doesn’t always get his way.

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In the season finale of Fugget About It, our resident Italians deliver… More than just pizza. With another quirky opening, the soon to be “McDougals” are held up in an army base, until their impending relocation. When Jimmy realizes he left behind a nest egg, he recruits Uncle Cheech to help him break out of the camp, to a tune reminiscent of the 1963 World War 2 classic The Great Escape, to retrieve his cache.

The opening sequence flashes by within thirty seconds, but there are plenty of pop culture references to spare, including tearing down a One Million Years B.C.poster, featuring Raquel Welch, channeling novelist Stephen King’s The Shawshank Redemption.

Fast forward to Vagina, I mean Regina, Saskatchewan, present day; Uncle Cheech takes Petey fishing and gets pulled over by a First Nations police officer. After a few wisecracks, the inept uncle lands himself in jail, mainly for hurting the officer’s feelings – a Canadian no-no. Jimmy then receives a collect call from his mafioso family member, asking his brother not to accept the charges, to bail him out of jail and to record Star Trek III, while he’s on the inside.

Meanwhile, when a Field Girl (a faux incarnation of the Girl Guides of Canada) and her mother, Annabelle Westminster, come calling at the McDougals’, Cookie becomes entertained with the idea of putting Gina in the organization, only to outsell her newfound nemesis and her daughter. And after going door-to-door, convincing residents her daughter is sick, abused or handicap, the duo makes a killing…. Seriously, this housewife needs a hobby. She eventually resorts to using the remainder of her offspring to sell cookies; Petey, using his insightful knowledge of the history of cookies to bore potential buyers, and Theresa, using her body (as usual) to make a sale.

Elsewhere, when Jimmy comes to bail out Cheech, RCMP Special Agent Strait McCool persuades the duo to attend a Cultural Sensitivity Seminar, in order for Uncle Cheech to atone for his social misconduct. While Jimmy and Cheech visit the First Nations people, it’s a rocky road, until they decide upon a common ground to relate to. And that common ground is guns. After a hilarious montage of shooting moose point blank with pistols, sticking a beaver in a knife fight, choking a wolf with piano wire and outrageously car bombing other feral animals, the McDougal boys become honorary members, and get their own tribal names – Hunts with Handgun and Shit for Brains – the latter is same nickname Cheech’s father gave him

But when the government threatens Jimmy’s newfound friends’ land, he offers advice that the aboriginals take. They kidnap the Premier of Saskatchewan, Mickey O’Shea, and it all leads up to an exciting cliffhanger – will the first nations people bargain for their land? And will Cookie outsell her new adversary? Tune in next season for the epic conclusion.

Actually, you’re not left hanging. It’s not much of a “who shot J.R. Ewing ending”, OR “who shot Mr. Burns”, for all you animationaholics. It actually ties up into a harmonious conclusion of the cast congregating in a pub, drinking and sharing a sing-a-long, where they all (thematically) find common ground, including the First Nations and the Premier, the KKK and the blacks, cats and dogs and apples and oranges (literally). Lacking the Christmas ham, the dénouement brings everybody together and cleverly winds up the end of the series – for now. So fans can enjoy reruns of this groundbreaking Canadian series for the next 9 months or newcomers can tune in for the first time. Either way, there was a second season already in agreement last summer, before the inaugural episode, so until then, don’t fugget about it.

Score

8/10

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