Season 4 ofShoresytakes place during the summer in Sudbury, Ontario, and for much of the summer, the Bulldogs who remained in Sudbury work towards gaining entry into the secretive party known only as Weird Sudbury. With no hockey to play, the Bulldogs spent much of season 4partying across Sudbury with the NOSHO Cupand finding various forms of trouble, all while Nat, Miig, and Ziig work to preserve the team’s reputation. Shoresy himself exerts more energy pursuing Laura Mohr, but he is just as involved in the various celebrations.
While the Bulldogs are content to get drunk with the cup and celebrate their national title at well-known real-world locations across Sudbury, the crown jewel of their partying is the mysterious event, Weird Sudbury. It’s presented as “good and weird”, strange in the various costumes and psychedelic aesthetic of the party, but good in the common goal of its participants: to party hard and potentially hook up. Given how manyreal-life hockey playersand real Sudbury locations are inShoresy, it’s fair to wonder if the mythical party also exists in real life.
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Weird Sudbury Is Not A Real Event (As Far As Anyone Knows)
It’s Based On Real Parties That Occur In Bigger Cities
Given that bothLetterkennyandShoresywere/are shot in the real Sudbury, it’s entirely possible that there is something resembling Weird Sudbury that happens in the Northern Ontario city that Jared Keeso knows of. If that was the case, it wouldn’t be something that’s openly spoken about, as that would defeat the purpose of the invitation-only party. With that said, there is no evidence that an event called Weird Sudbury, loaded with provocative costumes, masks, and sexual energy, actually takes place in Sudbury. However, the general concept definitely takes place elsewhere.
Chase Coughlan, who portrays the Laker player Mason mentored by the Bulldogs, is a forward on the actual Sudbury Wolves. Xavier Roy, who plays Carter, is also a real Sudbury native.
Colloquially known as “Eyes Wide Shutparties” in North America (named for the scene in Stanley Kubrick’sEyes Wide Shutin which the main character attends an erotic costume party), these secretive gatherings are held in cities all over the world. As in the movie, the mask-and-costume parties' purpose is for the guests to explore the liberation of acting in complete anonymity, and push beyond the typically-enforced taboos of society. As a result, there is typically a sexual undertone, as there is in Weird Sudbury, and they are invitation-only to reserve the concept for those who will follow the rules.
Why The Bulldogs Want To Get Into Weird Sudbury So Badly
It Would Be The Ultimate Experience For The Promiscuous Hockey Players
The four former pro hockey players that Shoresy recruited to the Bulldogs in season 1, Dolo, Goody, Hitch, and JJ Frankie JJ, have habitually made their own sexual pursuits their top priority. WhileJJ Frankie JJ was one of the missing charactersin season 4, his history of infidelity is well-established by the time season 4 arrives. The hockey players' affinity for the “impossible amount of good-looking girls in Sudbury” has never been more evident than in season 4, in which the three remaining Bulldogs slept with their Blueberry Buddies' moms.
The Bulldogs skip the real event to hang out with their Blueberry Buddies in a heartwarming twist, so theShoresyaudience never gets a chance to see full-blown Weird Sudbury.
Weird Sudbury is the ultimate experience for the Bulldogs, who have exhausted virtually all other methods of partying in Sudbury. While the prospect of partying in a secretive new venue is attractive enough, what pushes Weird Sudbury over the edge is the fact that it’s almost certain to end with the Bulldogs hooking up. After getting a taste of the real thing at the Prospects Party, the Bulldogs skip the real event to hang out with their Blueberry Buddies in a heartwarming twist, so theShoresyaudience never gets a chance to see full-blown Weird Sudbury.
