Review: Crash Canyon ‘Trash Canyon’

Spoilers Below

In tonight’s episode, aptly titled “Trash Canyon”, the community becomes increasingly fed-up with garbage that is constantly tossed into the canyon, such as a Jennifer Aniston filmography, amongst other trash.

And when Hiko becomes tangled and trapped in a pullout bed at the dumpsite and is saved by Colton Steel, the only person who recognizes his Japanese heritage (everybody else thinks he’s Korean, Chinese or any other Asian descent).

When mayor Sarah Forbes calls a meeting to do something about the trash pile-up, so nobody else suffers the same fate as the “Indonesian” man, the canyon pulls together to clean up the mess.

That is until the ventriloquist barkeep Nalappat’s new promotion, buy one get one free sways the cleanup crew into his establishment, although Norm disagrees that getting drunk is “funner” than cleaning up trash. During Nalappat’s standup routine, Uncle Vernon’s heckling develops a positive reaction from the crowd, urging him to take the stage.

Like every other episode, Vern, and his verbal diarrhea is the highlight of the week. But Vernon’s stage presence is no different from his daily routine, as he ridicules everybody on his downtime as well.

When Vern upsets everybody and they all go home, refusing to come outside, which in turn doesn’t allow them help clean the canyon, Roxy and Vernon decide to throw a roast, where everybody can get their revenge by insulting the roastee.

All hope is restored.

The optimistic Norm uses his ingenuity to dispose of the garbage, but like all his other inventions, something always goes wrong, from a backfiring incinerator to an ill-fated compactor, and short-distant, trash launching canon, nothing seems to work out.

Vernon becomes upset when his standup career ends, so he builds a “murder machine” from parts of Norm’s failed inventions, to do himself in. When practicing on his mannequin girlfriend, he realizes the machine obliterates the garbage and creates an ash fall throughout the canyon. Like snow, the canyon comes together to build ash men and throw ash balls, complete with a heart-warming, feel-good, Hallmark channel speech you normally find in Christmas movies.

Some of this episode’s attacks on pop culture hit close to home, which always works out for the Canadian crowd. For example, Sarah Forbes comparing “losing to garbage” to something only the Toronto Maple Leafs do.

But some American viewers (and apparently, this show is a hit on MTV Asia), may be scratching their heads, wondering, “Who the hell is Rita MacNeil?”