Butch Patterson: Private Dick

You'll hate it or love it. Entirely self effacing main character with no scruples beyond getting drunk and getting laid. Lawrence's dialogue is brilliantly obscene and the main focus of a show with the most threadbare of plots. Whenever you start to empathize with Butchy, Lawrence takes it away by plumbing even greater depths of debasement and depravity. The other characters are cartoonish except perhaps Blanche, but the show works. Don't expect great season enders, as the entire series is a merely vehicle for Lawrence's brilliant humour. Show ran for three seasons with at least a dozen episodes each. Pretty good for Canadian fare, you'll walk away or laugh and pour yourself a drink.

I remember this show fondly from the Comedy Network. It was a parody of those old detective movies where the gruff private eye would get hired by a sexy young woman to look into a crime and basically come to her rescue. Some funny stuff and the actor was good.

This show was a lot of fun I thought Butch Patterson was very funny and deserved more seasons.

Butch Patterson: Private Dick was not funny at all. I would say it is easily one of my least funny shows that ever aired on The Comedy Network, which is saying a lot when you realize that's the network that aired Gutterball Alley, Kevin Spencer, Comedy at Club 54 and reruns of Air Farce (the only thing worse and less funny than Air Farce is old reruns of Air Farce).

The main character (obviously Butch Patterson) wasn't funny and he wasn't a very good actor. The jokes were all very juvenile and you could see them coming from a mile away. The worst part of the show was the cheap, amateur production values.... I know that Canadian shows all have that same problem because of funding but it just looked bad. It all could have been forgiven if the show was funny but it just wasn't at all.

This show wasn't very funny. I see what they were trying to do but they didn't pull it off very well. It was still better than most of the other shows you would see on the comedy network but that doesn't make it good. I think the show deserves a better rating than the 2.0 out of 10.0 it has on IMDb right now but it still should only be about a 4.0, which is I think generous. The show was put together well and looked professional but the characters were the kind of same stock characters for film noire parodies that you have seen before and seen done better. The show didn't really make me laugh much but I appreciate what they tried to do and at least they were doing interesting stories. The people who did this are the same people who did Kevin Spencer which I think was a pretty good show.