Young Drunk Punk
Ian McKay and his best friend Shinky are two young punks searching for their great destinies in the back alleys of Calgary Alberta, circa 1980. Together, these friends will face down cowboys and oilmen, hockey goons and movie snobs, odd-jobbers and hairdressers… and through it all they’ll find a way to grow up without selling out. With the help of Ian’s flawed, but loving family (father Lloyd, mom Helen, and his outrageously outgoing sister Belinda), Ian and Shinky find new opportunities to blow minds every week, exporting their special brand of offbeat revolution for the 80’s – seeking out love and working to change the world, one young drunk punk at a time.
Episodes
Calgary; 1980: Young rebels, Ian and Shinky set out to find a great destiny and a great job, but when that all proves too hard they decide to revolutionize society!
Determined to not end up like his father, Ian takes a construction job with Shinky - but his new boss turns out to be his sister's scary ex-boyfriend.
Ian and Shinky turn an old decrepit van into the coolest party-wagon in town.
Lloyd tries a new hair salon, and winds up enamoured with the service, leading Helen to suspect even worse.
Ian and Shinky find out that The Clash is coming to Calgary - and make it their mission in life to get tickets.
A Calgary Flames hockey player moves to Brae Vista and causes nothing but trouble for Ian, Shinky, and Helen.
After seeing the film Eraserhead, Ian and Shinky decide to make their own movie, using the security cameras at Brae Vista.
Lloyd and Ian find common ground while watching a mildly racy yoga show one morning, until Helen joins the cast of the show, and Belinda discovers feminism!
After a few failed dates with Diane, Ian has only one chance to make things right. Unfortunately it’s on the same day as his grandmother’s funeral.
Determined to cure Ian’s music-snobbery, Shinky put him through a gauntlet of horrible bands.
When Brae Vista gets a Space Invaders game, Ian and Shinky decide to fight back against its mindless conformity with the age-old tool of graffiti.
When Shinky becomes a guitarist in Calgary’s hottest band, Ian sets off to find his own talent as a critic for the local newsletter.
Ian is overjoyed when Diane invites him for a “sleep over.” But the night is put in jeopardy when Ian receives a possible job offer in Vancouver.
