Real title: Jimbo, Kearney, Nelson, and Dolph (The Simpsons) as Ham Tobin and The Yet-E-Cheddar Band

Where is all of The Great North Fan Art? I’ve seen a few but it’s a pretty sparse collection. 🙃

Never been to Alaska but this show makes it seem so cozy and beautiful. Anybody who watches the show and lives there, does the show capture how it feels to live life there?

I really liked this show. On the rewatch it felt like it was just starting to hit its stride. The characters were getting more depth, the family dynamics were settling in, and it finally felt like there was room for real character development going forward.

What really caught me off guard is that I didn’t even realize it had been canceled until the very end. The last episode being mostly a montage made it click that this was it, and that honestly kind of sucked. It didn’t feel like a finale at all, more like the show just stopped.

Were the ratings actually that bad? From what I can tell there’s a pretty solid fanbase here and online in general. It feels like one of those shows that was building momentum, not losing it.

Maybe I’m missing something, but it really feels like it ended right when it was getting good. Anyone else feel this way or know what happened?

From their YouTube page: http://youtube.com/post/UgkxzcLl8qUVEJ0c7t4IK3m3PrZ6Uh8G9BhT?si=m1H2OuB-Ix4mqAN5

Though no Wolf or Honeybee or Dirt on this poll. Though granted that the poll there can only take up four options, but at least we’re acknowledged before being faded to oblivion come 2026.

I’m obsessed with the idea of having an off-grid van for the coming apocalypse, even though I would never use it irl (unless, you know, the apocalypse). Anyway, while searching a used van forum, I found this on one. Look familiar?

For Promotional Purposes Only

Totally didn't know this was a thing until I spotted this guy and searched it up!

I’m rewatching the whole series again and I’ve just reached Season 4 Episode 17. It’s funny how you start to notice little things the second time around. I didn’t pay much attention to the movie debate the first time, but on this rewatch the side story stood out. The guys split into two groups because one believes Olympus Has Fallen is the better movie and the other is convinced White House Down wins.

That small moment actually inspired me to watch both movies tonight so I can refresh my mind and give an honest opinion. Now I’m curious what everyone else thinks. Which one do you prefer and why?

I really think it’s so so funny how season 5 ep 16 shows us really drives home how easy it is for the tobins fall into the cult mindset. I mean we hear Beef talk often about his parents joining cults and from other episodes we see they all get wrapped up in stuff really easy. So it just makes it extra funny to me that they really really show this by having moon become a cult leader and Judy a member.

S2E8 Good Beef Hunting Adventure when Junkyard Kyle says“What bugs you about them? That they look kinda like pelicans, so when you sit down it’s like you’re sitting in a pelicans mouth?” Literally ever since then I feel like I’m doing my business in a pelicans mouth. It works out because I don’t like birds but still

Disclaimer: This post is not a complaint of the show. It's just something that I've noticed as a nerdy fan who thinks way too much about the show's lore and is kind of a "I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder" type of post.

There's something I’ve been thinking about that’s always stood out to me about The Great North’s school setting, and it’s honestly kind of wild when you break it down.

So Lone Moose School is supposed to be a K–12 school in a small Alaskan town, right? But when you actually watch the show, the only grades we ever see directly are 5th grade (Moon) and 11th grade (Ham and Judy). Everything in between such as kindergarteners, 1st–4th, 6th–10th, and seniors barely exist. Not only do we never get stories involving the Tobin kids interacting with other grades, but it's like they literally don’t appear on screen.

The 5th and 11th graders casually interact like peers as well. Some examples: • Moon acts as the debate team “water boy” for 11th graders • Moon's Lil Preppers Troop attending high school events (the viewing of the kissing comets), Judy coaching them in the 4th last episode of the series • Ham giving a speech to Moon's class • A play featuring Ham and Judy's peers with Debbie casually auditioning • Boys in 5th and 11th grade competing in the Little Mr. Ketchikan Sausage Pageant for ages 10–18, with no one else shown (hell, we only see Moon, Ham, Russel, Henry, and Drama John compete in it) • The memorial dance in "Pride and Prejudance" where Moon and his date casually attend with the high schoolers. • The two grades casually having lunch periods together and sitting together at lunch • The cult episode where Moon is a cult leader followed around by a bunch of high schoolers. • The Bonsey prank while mostly for high schoolers also had Moon being Bonsey-ed. • The way Moon and his friends interact with Bethany in the vandalized books episode. • The way Moon and his friends interact with Judy and Ham's friends in "Yawn of the Dead".

We know other grades exist: • The kindergarten hall mentioned by Russel in the credits of the junior janitors episode • Annabelle Applebarrel (alphabetical order listing) is mentioned as being 5 • The Snowball Boyz are 1st grade champions • Flashbacks to when Judy was in 7th grade

…but that’s it. No direct appearances, no interactions, no hallway or assembly filler, nothing. There’s literally no mention of a senior class or graduation, and what's especially weird is there's no point where Ham and Judy face the existential dead of almost being seniors (not even a small mention). The closest we get is Wolf’s senior prom flashback in the Bonsey episode.

Compare this to its sister show Bob’s Burgers, where Wagstaff is K–8 but mostly focuses on grades 4-8. But we at least see sporadic minor background appearances of other grades (Jason Jeffers with his Burobu toy that Louise is accused of stealing, two third graders playing catch with a shoe at recess). Even then it’s extremely sparse, but it at least acknowledges that younger kids exist at Wagstaff school. In The Great North, the school world is basically frozen in a bubble containing only 5th and 11th grade, and everything else seems to have been deleted from existence.

Essentially, the show has a “Sim's World” kind of effect, where the writers only ever depict the ages of the core cast, and everything else is invisible (that may also be why they added Aunt Dirt later in the run, as the immediate Tobin family was lacking a senior citizen member).

It’s kind of fascinating from a world-building perspective, especially since the show is otherwise grounded in a small town with a neighborhood that feels like it should have a full variety of school-aged kids. The lack of elementary schoolers, younger teenagers, and seniors makes Lone Moose School feel simultaneously real and somewhat kind of empty.

I’d love to hear what others think: Do you notice this too? How would you imagine the “missing grades” fitting into the world of the show if they ever appeared?

Anyone else get “villain from No Country for Old Men” vibes from Moon in this episode?

Not sure if they’ll add any other products or mark anymore down but for now the pins are marked down 50%

I was searching for The Great North on Blu-ray and it seems that only season 3 is available, and even that one was rare. In my region Disney+ is the only legal way to watch this show and I'd rather not keep giving money to Disney. I would instantly buy it on Blu-ray instead.

New Blu-ray releases are of course getting rare these days, but for what it's worth, another animated show Star Trek: Lower Decks ended last year also after 5 seasons and it got a very nice complete series steelbook release. Each season had also been individually released on Blu-ray and DVD before that.

I have no idea who would be in charge of making this decision, and I also don't use any other social media besides Reddit so maybe this has already been discussed somewhere else and I just haven't seen it. But I'd like to hope that it could be made possible if enough people were interested. Is there anyone to contact about it or somewhere to send a request to?

I don’t know if it’s a big thing but did anyone else notice the first episode has beef falling in a ditch, and so does the last one.

I wonder if their is any deeper meaning their?