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Johnny’s Pizza on the set of Shitt’s Creek

June 24, 2016   ·   0 Comments

By Michelle Janzen

 

This past week, the CBC comedy series Shitt’s Creek was filming in Hockley Valley just outside of Orangeville and Sam and Claudia, owners of Johnny’s Pizza, who are superfans of the show, went to the tapings to see if they could meet the actors and actress from their favourite show.

If you haven’t seen the show, it is well worth the watch.

Married Johnny and Moira Rose are nouveau riche, their wealth largely from Johnny’s video store empire, the second largest in North America. With that wealth, Moira was able to put her life as a daytime soap opera actress behind her.

As they have always led a garish life of excessive wealth, their now-adult offspring, David and Alexis, have been spoiled, not knowing anything but having whatever they wanted handed to them on a silver platter their entire lives, and not having had to work a day in their lives.

Their collective lives change when out of circumstance they end up broke except for the one asset Johnny bought for David years earlier as a joke: a small backwater town called Schitt’s Creek. The Roses are forced to move there, initially living in the Schitt’s Creek Motel.

The town’s founding family, the Schitt’s, still largely control the town in their seemingly unsophisticated ways. The Roses do whatever they can to find a way back to their previous life, but in the meantime have to try to eke out a life in their new home, which is totally outside their sensibilities.

Hilarity ensues when the hoity-toity family comes face-to-face with nature, and, of course, the locals.

Eugene Levy (Johnny Rose) is acting with his real life son and daughter. Eugene acts as the father to Dan Levy, who plays his son, David and Annie Murphy who plays his daughter. Sarah Levy plays a waitress at the town diner named Twyla.

Catherine O’Hara plays Moira Rose, his wife and we can’t forget Chris Elliot and Jennifer Robertson, the Town’s Mayor Roland Schitt and his wife Jocelyn.

The motel that the Rose family lives in is located 308399 Hockley Rd, Orangeville, whereas Bob’s garage, the tropical diner and the Schitt’s Creek general store are located in Goodwood. All the can be found at the same intersection.

During the filming, Sam and Claudia were able to not only meet, but also deliver their delicious pizza to the cast and crew.

“The first time we went, we were allowed to watch the filming from a distance then one of the crew members came over and offered to let us sit closer to the set,” said Claudia.

Adds Sam: “Claudia and I are huge fans of Schitt’s Creek. I went to the same high school as John Candy who was very close to Eugene Levy. When I met Eugene and Dan Levy last week they were exactly as I had expected: classy and funny. We can’t say enough about the cast. So friendly and funny.

“When I met Annie Murphy, I quoted a funny line from the first episode where she’s having a fight with her brother, played by Dan Levy, but we both embellished it and laughed.  I brought pizzas to the ‘motel’ by surprise last week and they enjoyed them so much that they chose Johnny’s Pizza to supply pizza and wings for crew and cast.

“[It was] truly an honour to write ‘Eugene’ on the pizza box and to hear him later say that the pizza was great. I thank again my father, Johnny, and my mother, Lina, for all their hard work in making great pizza in Shelburne!”

The upcoming season of Schitt’s Creek will be seen on CBC.

 

         

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