Gerry Dee: The Substitute (TV Movie 2014) Poster

(2014 TV Movie)

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Gerry Dee Sucks
cindyapples31 March 2015
This special was painfully awful. I'm not sure if it was just online (where I saw it on the CBC website) or if it was actually aired on TV, but I think it was so bad they actually just put it up on their website.

In this special which is one hour long but seems like it is five hours long while you're watching it, Gerry Dee (who plays the teacher Mr. D in that show also on CBC) plays a substitute teacher in a hidden camera show. His makeup/fake hair are so comically bad that there is no way anyone actually believes he is a real person but he goes through the motions.

He picks a fake Eastern European name like Mr. Cherchechkov or something and uses a really awful accent and for a full hour does such unfunny things as have his students help him fill out his betting slip ("Detroit or Boston?") and give him dating advice. None of this show ever even approaches what could be described by any sane person as "comedy".

Not sure what else to say other than that CBC needs to fire everyone involved in this show and in general fire everyone in charge of green lighting all of their comedy shows for the last decade or more. Add to their list of failures this TV pilot or special which is such an unbelievably unfunny train wreck you would have to watch it to believe it.
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1/10
Utterly Incomprehensible
tpelletier21 January 2018
Warning: Spoilers
This show isn't just bad, every single thing about it is bad. It is as if every decision they had to make about the show they made a mistake, so what they ended up with is just one big mess of a show that's so awful it's funny but so awful beyond that that's it's not even funny any more.

The costume is stupid and unnecessary because this guy isn't famous or anything, so why does he need a disguise? Let alone that stupid fake accent, was that supposed to be funny?

Most hidden camera shows do short things for a reason and this one is a FULL HOUR LONG and gets boring right around the 15 second mark. Once the guy starts talking in the fake accent, that's pretty much the only joke in the whole show.

There are parts where you can see where the cameras are hidden and we are supposed to believe the kids didn't know they were there?

In the final scene where he reveals he is actually a "famous actor" and pulls off the silly wig and stops using the fake accent either nobody is surprised because they did know all along it was fake, or just nobody cares, or maybe both.

None of the jokes they try work. Pretty sad when you can spend all day with kids, not fool them and not get them to go along with anything funny. How is asking different kids what basketball teams to bet on funny? They're just picking random cities and we never find out who wins anyway so who cares?

The joke they build up for like 50 minutes of him telling his ugly girlfriend on the phone to get out of his house because it's over, where she shows up at school and is actually good looking, is very predictable and not funny anyway.

He doesn't once do anything funny in the entire show and doesn't get the kids to do anything funny either. Why did they make this last a whole hour? It wouldn't be a funny half hour or 15 minute show either but if there is nothing funny or entertaining at least have it be over faster.

I can't believe this was put on television. It would actually be funny if they made it this bad on purpose and it was actually like a double agent style hidden camera show where the real joke is that the hidden camera show is a disaster, but that's not what this is, it is actually supposed to be a real hidden camera show. These people obviously just had no idea what they were doing.

Pitiful television.
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1/10
A Turd
vucurovicja24 May 2018
This TV special was a turd. It is as if they just started taping a show with no plan at all and just put it on TV live or something. I don't have one positive thing to add to this review.
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1/10
Whaaaaaat?
proughley12 May 2018
This show is such a mess I couldn't even start to describe what's wrong with it. The short answer is, EVERYTHING is wrong with it. Badly faked scenes, an unlikable and unfunny star, stupid wardrobe, a complete lack of direction, writing so bad it literally defies logic, terrible editing, enough entertaining clips to fill maybe 2-3 minutes stretched into a full hour long show... what on earth were these people thinking when they made this, and why on earth would they actually put it on air? Do they lose all their tax money they got to produce it if they don't broadcast it? Honest question because there's no way people actually would want this on their resume or out there in public if they want to work again. This show is a complete pile of steaming dog's breakfast.
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Awful
RoboGarrett1 June 2020
This was truly awful. I don't have anything to say other than that. The other reviews here are a million times more funny than this show was.
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