reasons to love "everwood"

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  1. created in canada/many canadian actors
  2. filmed in (salt lake city and ogden) utah
  3. kathy bates guest directs
  4. characters have names like "ephram" and "bright"
  5. uses music by the doves, elliot smith and ryan adams
  6. references "willy wonka and the chocolate factory" and "spongebob squarepants"
  7. realistic dialogue (sons call their fathers "dicks," doctors threaten people with colonoscopies and teachers tell kids to eat paint...)
  8. humorous dialogue ("well i guess it fell out" "what?" "that stick up his ass...")
  9. addresses issues like loss, religion, and hermaphroditism
  10. disses russell crowe