Hanrow fo the Tundra

As many of you know, I'm a University of Waterloo Co-op student; which means that I get shipped off to exotic places, like Ottawa, for four months at a time. Recently, I was thinking about these experiences, when I decided that there was an opportunity for CBC to pick up a new show about the Co-op experience. It could be called:

HANROW OF THE TUNDRA

The show would be about a poor Chinese kid (named Hanrow) being sent by his masters (The University of Waterloo Co-op Department) to do their bidding in a far away city, in the far North, of much snow and no heat, known as Ottawa. (Evil music comes forth.)

A typical adventure would have Hanrow waking up ten minutes before his bus is due by, brushing his teeth, changing, wolfing down a breakfeast of two slices of toast, and sprint for his bus. Hanrow would then get weird looks because he has "University of Waterloo" stitched to his knapsack, while everybody else on the bus is a teenager with an attitude, or a parent wishing the teens didn't have an attitude. Then there would be the exciting, hair-raising bus-chase scene, where Hanrow races to catch his transfer, so that he might be able to get to work, to face the horrible, mean, security officer, to convince him to open the gate so he can go to work. More details in next week's episode.

There would be other episodes about the times when Hanrow sets fire to his supper, Hanrow has to convince the overweight dog to get up off his legs, Hanrow getting lost in his own neighborhood at 1am in the morning, and when Hanrow woke up to find snow had piled up above his bedroom window, thus turning his room pitch black at 10am in the morning.

In this age of reduced TV budgets, I think there is a definite market for shows like Hanrow of the Tundra, don't you think?

Yeah. Me neither.