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21 W ednesday , Septem ber 29, 2010 O A KVILLE BEA V ER w w w .o akvillebeaver .co m TEEN EXHIBIT: Gairloch Gardens hosted the Smells Like Teen Spirit exhibit for Doors Open last weekend. It saw a collaboration of the Oakville Galleries Youth Council members bring togeth- er things from their own rooms and put them into an art context to symbolize a typical teenagers bedroom. Clockwise from top left, Chanelle Straughan signs her name to a mirror wall; Spencer Osborne, 16, plays guitar; exchange students Clementine Bourrel from Bordeaux, France and Sofia Vidal from Madrid, Spain take in the exhibit; Kaitlyn Hsu, 13, arranges her old dance costumes; and, Ashton Overton, 15, and Jessica Karkour, 16 show off their new opera glasses. PHOTOS BY NIKKI WESLEY / OAKVILLE BEAVER An Open Door because its writing formula gets a response from both children and adult audiences. I remember Gary and I were sitting in a cof- fee shop in Oakville and thinking about the rules for the series, McKenzie said. One of the rules we set at the start was not to talk down to kids, and to write the kind of show that we personally found funny. We had both loved Monty Python as kids, even though we didn't understand every- thing in it, and we wanted to do something like that. So, as writers, we weren't trying to make some hypothetical kid laugh, we were trying to make each other laugh. McKenzies other nomination, however was a total surprise, he said, because it was written with friend Rick Green several years ago. It wasn't shown on TV until fairly recently, so it qualifies for this year's Geminis, he said. The show looks at various underhanded ways people have used to become rich. To get an award nomination just means your peers in the industry are recognizing it as excel- lent. Of course kids dont care if it gets a Gemini or if its nominated for a Gemini, they just care if its funny, he said. Pearson also throws Oakville references into the show. He said theres an Oakville High, a Mayor Burton and Lakeshore Road. Thats So Weird! season two was filmed in Halifax this summer in front of a live audience. Season one was filmed in Toronto. The 25th annual Gemini Awards will take place in Toronto on Nov. 13. Kids just want a good laugh Continued from page 20