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Tired of the Canada Jokes!!!

posted 9 years ago by alexatahiraj
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For years American television has been taking pot shots at us Canadians. I am so tired of this...and wonder why television shows feel they need to portray themselves better than Canadians. I will typically stop watching any show that does this. However, I really love this show and will hate not watching it anymore.

Yes I know some of you, will think it is stupid and that we shouldn't be so sensitive. But it has been going on for sooooooooooo many years and it just isn't funny anymore. Are writers so hard up for a laugh that they think slipping in a dumb Canadian joke will make the show better?

I haven't decided if I will boycott this show. But I probably will because I feel even if I am the only one, that I will take a stand for Canadians not to be the butt of American jokes.

However, I have decided anytime an American television show does their dumb Canadian Jokes I am coming to their show and have my say in the forum.

[–] ChickNLittle 9 years ago

Right on. Take a stand, Sis. You're like the Canadian version of Ghandi. 

[–] Bobby Briggs Briganza 9 years ago

By the same token, whenever I watch a show and hear the people all saying “oat” and “aboat” and “aagayn” I turn it off.

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[–] alexatahiraj 9 years ago

Not really the same token. The shows are being ignorant about us and think they are so clever by making these immature jokes.

You turn it off because we happen to speak British English and not American English. Do you also stop talking to someone if you find they are Canadian?

What is really funny though is the west coast talks very differently than the east coast in the USA. Guess what is also funny Canadians also talk differently on the east coast compared to the west coast.

[–] AngryStarlessRedneck 9 years ago

What is really funny though is the west coast talks very differently than the east coast in the USA.

Yes, and fun is often made of Jersey, Brooklyn, and Bronx accents. Of course, the South is always fair game.

Frank Zappa's "Valley Girl" is a great poke at the West Coast. Did you see Fargo?

Jeez, everybody's made fun of.

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[–] hide86 9 years ago

Did you see Fargo?

[–] nadaht 9 years ago

So Minnesotians for real sounds like us Swedes do when we speak English? Well, those who doesn't work on losing the accent. Kinda make sense since lots of Swedes ended up in Minnesota when they emigrated from Sweden. But you knew that already.

[–] crysjumar 8 years ago

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[–] crysjumar 8 years ago

lol-Sorry to tell you, that's how we sound. Some worse than others, esp further north. I didn't see it as "making fun of". A lot of the actors/extras were from here and used their (exaggerated somewhat) accent. You cant deny it, I hear it every.single.day.
(I'm in Minneapolis btw but from ND orig.)
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[–] Sober-Friend 9 years ago

Then don't watch. Nobody cares

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[–] huggie-1 9 years ago

You mean they don't speak like that? I have a friend in Nova Scotia and she always says "aboat"

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[–] DiggJigg 9 years ago

Well maybe Nova Scotia, News Brunswick and PEI... but no one cares about those provinces.

The only provinces that really matter are Ontario, British Columbia, Quebec and to a lesser extent Alberta and Saskatchewan. No one cares about Manitoba.

[–] kiki1104 9 years ago

Try living in Florida....

[–] TorontoBlueJay 9 years ago

with all the French Canadians in their speedos?

[–] angloo 8 years ago

Not "French Canadians". Kaybekwah. Very different animal. The Tea Partiers or the rednecks of our country. Just as obnoxious and embarrassing but far less deadly.
People forget Canada is an apartheid country.

[–] kds-lcos 9 years ago

Try living in Florida....

I did ...what's your point?

[–] crysjumar 9 years ago

May I send you a DVD copy of "Canadian Bacon"? lol

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[–] Twelve_Parallax_Seconds 9 years ago

It's because all americans are fat and stupid. They also have small penises. Their inferiority complex creates the need to compensate in many ways. Big guns, big cars, big everything. And they also need to bully other countries to feel better about themselves.

[–] BlueeRain 9 years ago

It's because all americans are fat and stupid. They also have small penises. Their inferiority complex creates the need to compensate in many ways. Big guns, big cars, big everything. And they also need to bully other countries to feel better about themselves.

Yeah OK. Sure. That is why America is the most diverse nation. Clearly we don't hate anyone. All are welcome. You sound very mature by the way.

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[–] vinsane 9 years ago

It may come as a great shock to you that a great many of the barbs at Canada and Canadians that pop up on American sitcoms are courtesy of CANADIAN writers on the staff. You see, not all denizens of Canada are so thin skinned they can't indulge in a bit of self-deprecation. Witness the over-the-top Hoser-ification that was the Vancouver Olympics Closing Ceremony - complete with giant beavers and every possible stereotype about the country.

I don't know which particular line may have offended you on this show, but it shouldn't matter. You see, the real joke is that it's typically meant as a kind of backwards compliment. Picking on what is meant to be a target that nobody will actually think is genuinely despised. Of course some folks on either side of the border will take everything that's said at face value. Most likely jokes are meant in the spirit of that "Canada episode" of The Simpsons (Why would anybody leave America to visit America Junior? - Homer Simpson) which was no doubt heavily influenced by Canadian staff writers of the day.

Many years ago Michael J Fox's character once told some bar girl he was trying to pick up that he was an Air Force pilot deploying the next day to invade "..uhhh Canada" or some such nonsense. It was either as Alex Keaton or on Spin City - I can't be certain. The joke was that the airhead girl actually believed him. If they'd used any of a hundred other countries, it might have been a more credible lie and the overall gag wouldn't work.

The bottom line is that poking a bit of harmless fun at Canadians is very much a CANADIAN pastime among several creative types and among a good portion of the general population as well. At least it used to be. Also, there is the timeless idea that those who dish it out should expect to get back some of the same once in a while.

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[–] intrepidami 9 years ago

I've traveled all over the world. Never have I seen people more comfortable in publically bashing Americans than in Canada.

We were in Toronto, having a small conversation with a tram operator about where to go, when a little angry sawed off French Canadian suddenly interrupted and said...

Why can not the Americans adopt the Metric System like the rest of the world?

I countered, he didn't have to worry, all our massive armaments were metric.

The tram full of people all burst out laughing. He scurried off the tram, and people started apologizing for the rudeness of their countryman.

I can honestly say, I've never seen somebody just force their way in on two people talking like that before,unless they were socially retarded, except multiple times in Canada.

A french Antique dealer didn't want to sell me something when she figured out I was American at the check out. She was sweet and friendly up to that point.

These experience were back in the mid 90's. If you took those encounters out, 99.99% of the people we encountered were warm and friendly. But trust me, I remember the French a-holes the most!!! And it was always followed by other people apologizing "for their countryman" Do they teach that phrase in the Schools? "I must apologize for my countryman"

Now granted there are a lot of American jerks running abroad. But the miserable French Canadians are in their own league.

[–] IsoldeJaneHolland 9 years ago

Thank you, intrepidy, I didn't know any of that! It must be the old Anglo-French schism : our social-cultural conditioning is just too different. If I won a trip to Paris, I'd take it, but otherwise I wouldn't make a special effort. (What a brat! lol) I can just see the superior smirks as I decline to eat escargot.

Ironically, my all-time fave film performance was by French-Canadian actress Genvieve Bujold.

[–] Fully_Loaded 9 years ago

I am Canadian and my daughter has lived in the US for about 5 years and much to my horror she says we do have funny accents

[–] kristen1165 9 years ago

They're not "funny"...they're just accents like any other accent. As an American, the pronunciation of words with "ou" is the only thing I notice in most Canadians. I'm sure some people have thicker accents than others as with anywhere else though.

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[–] koko-10 9 years ago

You forgot to say "eh?"

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[–] AngryStarlessRedneck 9 years ago

But that's what's so funny about the accent. There are only a couple of sounds that are different, yet they're so decidedly different.

I was talking to a guy for 15 minutes one night, and then he uttered a big OOT! It startled me, and I thought maybe he'd had a stroke . I recovered and proclaimed, " My God, you're Canadian." We both cracked up, and through the rest of our conversation he stuck in "oot and aboot" as many times a he could. If he'd avoided those words, I would have simply thought he was from Seattle. He did have a slight lisp, but I think something else caused that. Funny guy. Most Canadians I've met have been good-humoured. Apparently, that's not always the case.

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[–] Skvoznyak 9 years ago

I've spent more than enough time in Canada to see that Canada takes potshots frequent at America and Americans, too. Some of your standup comedians display only slightly less hatred towards Americans than al Qaeda does. But I've never known an American who takes it seriously, and in fact most of us think it's funny - especially when Rick Mercer asked Al Gore what Gore thought of Toronto, the "capital" of Canada, and Gore fell for it.

So in response to your "Yes I know some of you, will think it is stupid and that we shouldn't be so sensitive," yes, I think it is stupid and that you shouldn't be so sensitive. If it helps you sleep at night, though, keep whining. The fact that these jokes wind you up so much (especially given how many of them are written by Canadians) just makes them that much more funny.