Red Green's 'A Duct-Taped Marriage' puts the motorcycle on trial

The Possum Lodge Short has viewers swapping wedding vows, Mensa jokes and a serious case for the contraption's fuel economy.

Channel: RedGreenTV Story of October 9, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 81,114 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (6,048).

A Duct-Taped Marriage | The Red Green Show

Eleven hours after it went up, "A Duct-Taped Marriage | The Red Green Show" had passed 54,000 views. That is about what last weekend's Possum Lodge Word Game clip, "A Dangerous Game," has gathered in five days. A Short on this channel usually finishes its whole first day near 6,000.

The premise is short enough to fit on a roll of tape: Uncle Red knows marriage, the description says, and duct tape helps. It points viewers to "Spouse Control" for more of the same wisdom, and the tags give away the other half of the joke, a motorcycle. In the comments, the bike becomes the real subject. One viewer argues it is the reason she started dating you and the first thing she wants gone after the wedding. A woman answers that she had a motorcycle, and a WaveRunner, before she ever married. Someone remembers a groom who promised in his vows to ask his wife before buying another big Harley.

The most practical comment takes Red's handiwork seriously: done right, it says, the thing would fix a rider's visibility problem and might even save fuel. Close behind it is a viewer asking how this man is not in Mensa, and another who leads the room in the Man's Prayer, the oath that closed every Possum Lodge meeting.

Steve Smith's flannel-shirted handyman ran for 15 seasons on Canadian television, from 1991 to 2006, and the official channel has spent October cutting that long run into small pieces, alongside a free Red Green TV app it introduced on the first of the month. The comments here came in about twice as fast as on a usual first day for its Shorts, and the likes about four times as fast. Meanwhile "Peak Laziness," the seatbelt hammock clip we reported on here, has kept climbing toward half a million.

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The numbers

A Short that would normally have a quiet first day ran far ahead of it within hours, on a channel already having a busy October.

the video's first day

usual first day here

6,048

this video

81,114

subscribers

523,000

▲ 3,000 in the last 7 days

total views

209,922,764

views per day

320,637

typical day: 131,381

the video

views

54,077

likes

2,610

comments

35

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Animated

551,000

The Chi

547,000

RedGreenTV

523,000

Law & Order

522,000

Turner Classic Movies

486,000

ABC Australia

472,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.