Editing Corner Gas (section)

==Production==
===Concept===
The series was created by Canadian comedian [[Brent Butt]], who imagined what his life might be like had he remained in a small [[Saskatchewan]] town rather than pursuing stand-up comedy. He originally developed the storyline for [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] and [[The Comedy Network]].<ref name="CTV Globemedia" />

''Corner Gas'' references many tropes about [[Canadian identity]], often ironically.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Attallah |first=Paul |date=March 30, 2009 |title=Reading Television |journal=Canadian Journal of Communication |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=163–170 |doi=10.22230/cjc.2009v34n1a1941 |doi-access=free}}</ref> The show focuses on the lifestyle of small-town folk; though set in a small town in Saskatchewan, its stories are not chiefly about Saskatchewan or Canada, but rather the day-to-day interactions of the residents of Dog River.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Yanko |first=Dave |title=Funny Guy |url=http://www.virtualsk.com/current_issue/funny.html |access-date=September 29, 2008 |publisher=Virtual Saskatchewan}}</ref>

===Executive producers, directors, and co-producers===
''Corner Gas'' was produced by CTV and Prairie Pants Productions.<ref name="CTV Globemedia" /> Prairie Pants Productions is a company assembled by Brent Butt,  Virginia Thompson and 335 Productions.<ref>{{Cite news |last=[[CBC News]] |date=April 10, 2008 |title=''Corner Gas'' to end in 2009 |publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/corner-gas-to-end-in-spring-2009-1.709631?ref=rss |access-date=September 29, 2008}}</ref> 335 Productions is a partnership between Brent Butt and David Storey. (The name of the production company is derived from the fact that [[Tisdale, Saskatchewan]], Butt's hometown, lies at the junction of [[Saskatchewan Highway 3|Saskatchewan Highways 3]] and [[Saskatchewan Highway 35|35]].) At The Comedy Network, Michelle Daly is Director of Content and Ed Robinson is the President and General Manager. At CTV Inc., [[Susanne Boyce]] is President, Creative, Content and Channels and again Ed Robinson is Executive Vice-president, Programming.<ref name="CTV Globemedia" /> Brent Butt was a driving force as creator, writer, showrunner, executive producer, actor and, occasionally, director of the show.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brent Butt as Brent Leroy |url=http://www.cornergas.com/whoswho |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914032620/http://www.cornergas.com/whoswho/ |archive-date=September 14, 2008 |access-date=September 29, 2008 |website=Corner Gas Online |publisher=Pants Online Inc.}}</ref> Paul Mather, Mark Farrell, Brent Butt, Andrew Carr, Kevin White, Robert Sheridan, [[Norm Hiscock]], Dylan "Worts" Wertz and Gary Pearson all contributed to writing the series. David Storey, Mark Farrell, Robert de Lint, Jeff Beesley and Brent Butt provided direction in the program.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003–2005 |title=About the TV Show Canada's Most Watched TV Series is ''Corner Gas''. |url=http://www.cornergas.com/whoswho/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914032620/http://www.cornergas.com/whoswho/ |archive-date=September 14, 2008 |access-date=September 29, 2008 |website=Corner Gas Online |publisher=Pants Online Inc.}}</ref>

''Corner Gas'' was promoted by CTV as the network's "first original narrative comedy series."<ref>{{Cite press release |title=What A Gas!! |date=January 26, 2004 |publisher=CTV Inc. |url=http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/show/CTVShows/20040123/CornerGas-insider-20040126 |access-date=December 21, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071025040106/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/show/CTVShows/20040123/CornerGas-insider-20040126 |archive-date=October 25, 2007}}</ref> While it is not, in fact, the first Canadian-produced sitcom ever aired on CTV, having been preceded by ''[[The Trouble with Tracy]]'', ''[[George (1972 TV series)|George]]'', ''[[Snow Job (TV series)|Snow Job]]'', ''[[Excuse My French (1974 TV series)|Excuse My French]]'', and ''[[Check It Out! (Canadian TV series)|Check It Out!]]'', it is the first CTV sitcom in which the network itself has held a primary production role, rather than acting solely as a holder of broadcast rights, and the first to postdate the network's late-1990s corporate restructuring from a cooperative of its affiliated stations into a conventional corporation. ''Corner Gas'' can also be verifiably called the most successful of these shows.

===Filming locations===
''Corner Gas'' was filmed entirely in Saskatchewan. The interior shots (Ruby Café interior, Police Department, Oscar and Emma's house, etc.) were filmed at [[Canada Saskatchewan Production Studios]] in [[Regina, Saskatchewan|Regina]]. All the outdoor scenes and all scenes that take place in the gas station were filmed on location in [[Rouleau, Saskatchewan|Rouleau]], a small town on [[Saskatchewan Highway 39|Highway 39]] between [[Moose Jaw]] and [[Weyburn]]. The [[grain elevator]] was repainted to read "Dog River" instead of "Rouleau"; however, the water tower still reads "Rouleau"{{spaced ndash}}with post production effects used to repaint it to read "Dog River" in the first-season episode "Grad 68". Regina is known as "the city" in ''Corner Gas''.<ref name="escape/">{{Cite web |title=Corner Gas Escape: Rural Escapes |url=http://ruralescapes.com/default.aspx?page=3 |access-date=September 29, 2008 |website=Tourism Regina |publisher=I Love Regina, City of Regina}}{{Dead link|date=August 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

On 28{{spaces}}September 2014, the building that was used as the FOO[D] MAR[KE]T, the local grocery store, was destroyed in a fire.<ref name="Corner Gas Building Gutted in Massive Blaze">{{Cite news |title=Corner Gas Building Gutted in Massive Blaze |url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/corner-gas-building-gutted-in-massive-blaze-1.2029679}}</ref>

On 4{{spaces}}November 2016, the set that was used for both Corner Gas and the Ruby was demolished due to the foundations sinking.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bulldozers level Saskatchewan’s iconic gas station |url=https://www.producer.com/farmliving/bulldozers-level-saskatchewans-iconic-gas-station/ |publisher=The Western Producer |access-date=11 March 2025}}</ref> The structures, erected in 2003 as set pieces, were originally built on boggy land and were not initially built to last very long. In the intervening years, they had become a tourist attraction.<ref name="Iconic Corner Gas set in Rouleau, Sask., demolished">{{Cite news |title=Iconic Corner Gas set in Rouleau, Sask., demolished |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/corner-gas-set-dismantled-1.3836899}}</ref>

In summer 2021, the police station building collapsed, and the debris was removed. On 5{{spaces}}November 2021, the grain elevator burned to the ground.<ref name="Grain">{{Cite news |title=Fire destroys iconic grain elevator from TV show Corner Gas |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/corner-gas-grain-elevator-fire-1.6238606 |first=Theresa |last=Kliem |website=[[CBC News]] |date=November 5, 2021 |access-date=September 16, 2024}}</ref>

===Episode format===
Each episode of ''Corner Gas'' is written following a specific formula: two or three (almost always three, once four) storylines are presented in each show. The main storyline usually opens and closes the episode and is most of the time driven by a single character. The secondary plots are sometimes slightly intertwined with the other stories.

===Opening sequence===
The ''Corner Gas'' opening sequence follows a [[cold open]]. The opening [[theme music]], "Not a Lot Goin' On", was written by [[Craig Northey]] of the rock band [[Odds (band)|Odds]] and [[Jesse Valenzuela]] of the rock band [[Gin Blossoms]], while the closing theme, "My Happy Place" was written by Northey and performed by Odds.<ref>[https://www.straight.com/blogra/802186/one-craig-northey-song-wasnt-enough-corner-gass-brent-butt "One Craig Northey song wasn't enough for Corner Gas's Brent Butt"]. ''[[The Georgia Straight]]'', January 7, 2015.</ref>