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Amazon Prime Gets Gassy With New Docuseries

A new reality docuseries coming to Amazon Prime is either a gas or it stinks.

These are just two of the tantalizing opportunities for clever wordplay created by this new series titled “Young Farts Trailer Parts,” premiering Friday.

The two young farts of the show are the brothers Glowatsky -- Jagger and Dawson -- proprietors of a Canadian RV-parts store called Young Farts RV Parts. 

That’s them in the photo above proudly posing with their Young Farts signage.

No explanation can be found in the “Young Farts Trailer Parts” publicity material for why these two fun-loving bros decided to label themselves young farts when they named their business Young Farts RV Parts (“RV” has been changed to “Trailer” for the title of the show).

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One of them, Jagger, is 25 years-old and brother Dawson is 22. That’s pretty young. But young farts? I don’t get it.

No preview screeners of “Young Farts Trailer Parts” were available in advance of the show’s premiere. So, determining whether it is malodorous or fragrant will not be possible here.

Where the term “young farts” is concerned, the TV Blog cannot get a handle on its meaning.

I’ve heard the phrase “old farts,” referring to older men who are cranky, curmudgeonly, and/or stubbornly set in their ways. But I have never heard of “young farts.”

Perhaps the brothers went in search of a word that rhymed with “parts” when they were crafting the name of their store. Apparently, the only one they liked was “farts.”

I happen to possess a rhyming dictionary, which I hadn’t opened in about 30 years until Thursday when I went in search of rhymes for “parts” other than “farts.”

In the book, I discovered that words rhyming with “parts” that might have worked in this business’s name are not exactly plentiful. The word “farts” was not listed there.

Obviously, the boys’ choice of the term “young farts” for their store was cheeky. Perhaps they get a lot of mileage out of it from customers who find it amusing.

The store is located in a town called Vegreville, Alberta -- estimated population: 6,000 -- where entertainment options may be few.

The fact is, many people find farts amusing. Otherwise, there would be no fart birthday cards. 

These have been around for years and Amazon has dozens of them. Just search “fart birthday cards,” as I did yesterday.

One of them is one of those cards that plays music when you open it. This one played “Happy Birthday” using fart sounds. 

I am proud to say that I have never bought or received a fart greeting card of any kind. What would I say if someone sent me one? Thank you?

Customers or prospective customers of Young Farts RV Parts who are turned off by the store’s name may have little choice in the matter if they need RV parts. 

Young Farts RV Parts might be the only retailer of its kind for hundreds of miles. And this reality series is the only TV show I can remember with “fart” in its title.

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