Word around Tillcrest is that “big changes” are coming, and Gary is convinced that means layoffs. Worried about his chances, Gary decides to step it up at work – even if it means making April look bad. Pramesh does the books for a reluctant Rani, and Bill attempts to cope with an unforeseen coaster shortage.

The matter of who owes whom is hotly contested as Gary finds himself in debt to April after she helps him with a tax emergency. Desperate to clear the slate, Gary offers to help April move, with disastrous results for April’s property – and for Gary’s escape from servitude. Meanwhile, Pramesh is less than thrilled to find out he’s been appointed Employee of the Month at the business he co-owns, and Bill finds himself yearning for lost youth when a typo in the local paper sends him into mid-life crisis mode.

From Brad Oswald of the Winnipeg Free Press:

• Sweet sitcom sweeps laughs under the rug
  “Clearly, the new CBC sitcom Men With Brooms aspires to be a sort of Cheers set at a curling club. Sadly, it could more fairly be described as Little Rink on the Prairie.” Read more.

From Patrick White of the Globe and Mail:

• Men With Brooms, and the irony of a hot Winnipeg summer
  “Cheers was set in a bar, but it wasn’t about drinking,” said executive producer Paul Mather, overlooking the set from a perch in the rink’s bar. “This is set in a curling rink, but it’s about much more than curling.” Read more.

From Scott Stinson of the National Post:

• No need to hurry hard on TV
  “M en with Brooms, the 2002 Paul Gross film about a small-town curling legend who returns home and ends up taking a shot at (relative) glory, made less than $5-million at the box office.” Read more.