Reaction To How to be a Canadian
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- Опубликовано: 3 июн 2024
- Reaction To How to be a Canadian
This is my reaction to How to be a Canadian
In this video I react to Canadian comedy with a funny Canadian comedy sketch showing the things you need to do to be a Canadian. This looks at Canadian television, Canadian culture, Canadian food, hockey, poutine and more.
Original Video - • How to be a Canadian
A TV show that takes place in Saskatchewan is called 'Corner Gas'. It is a comedy.
Are you sure it's not a documentary?
Love corner gas
@@GWNorth-db8vn Funny
Corner Gas stinks
The Beachcombers was an iconic Canadian show filmed in a real town on the BC coast. Fun to look back on.
Relic, my man.
Gibsons, about 6Km southwest of Langdale.
First one I thought of.
Unfortunately there are very few episodes on YT and none of the earlier seasons, which were the good ones.
@@Sid-gu5qk CBC is insane not to release that series, or at least rerun it on Gem. Would you believe that nearly 50 years later, I can STILL remember the melody of that song Gordon Pinsent sang when he played the Hexman?
As a 32yr old Canadian, I've always kind of boiled it down to:
No matter where you come from, if you come here and prove you're not a "dick", you're a Canadian
Yeah same if you can get along and respect the country then we cool
No, it’s way more than that. You have to come here and not only integrate, but EMBRACE what it is to be Canadian. Our customs, our culture, our values, and our way of life. We now have millions of people here who have no intention on doing any of that, and it shows. The quality of our lives is getting measurably and immeasurably worse by the day.
@@JesusFriedChrist Right. And those that DON'T do that, I would call "dicks"
Part of this is the quality, other other part is the quantity.
Before all these international student scams, we pretty much got the best of the best, the ones who came here because they wanted to leave their homelands behind and become Canadian. Now, everyone is coming, and that means a whole lot more undesirables: criminals, scammers, bad drivers, rude people etc.
The numbers also play a big part. When you have very low numbers of newcomers, the necessity along with the drive, to become highly integrated, is very strong. That’s a good thing. People feel compelled to integrate, and they literally have to. But with mass immigration creating entire communities of foreigners-like Saddletown in Calgary’s NE quadrant which is probably around 95% Indian, 4.5% African, and 0.5% Canadian, not only is there no pressure to integrate into our culture, because they’re pretty much entirely surrounded by their countrymen, but there’s pretty much no necessity to, apart from learning just enough English to get by for the rare times they have to interact with their host country’s people.
This has been a huge mistake. Millions have to have their papers revoked and be repatriated back to their home country. It’s too much, it’s too bad, and there’s no reason why we, a small country of a global minority of people, have to accept an invasion and colonization of the global majority.
@@JesusFriedChrist : Just had a toke of your shit.
Schitt’s Creek won a lot of awards. It stars Eugene Levy with his real life son and daughter
By far my favorite Canadian show ever!
The Don Cherry/ Ron McLean drinking game 👌 😂
Poppies mean so much but they are sometimes given to surprise you with a poke when you least expect it. Still a great symbol of remembrance and great pride.
That little bit of blood is our TRUE remembrance 😅
A Canadian doctor in WW1 1914 to 1918 wrote "In Flanders field where poppies grow row on row......" That was a grave yard in France I think the doc died there this was before America helped out in 1917
I always buy a Canadian poppy, but get my mum to send one from the UK.They're not plastic and they have a safety pin to attach them.
The Littlest Hobo was one of my childhood favourites.
Hal and Joanne from body break 😂 and then the ‘why buy a mattress anywhere else? DING!’ Bahahaha right on 👍
A few great comedy's from back in the day,
SCTV with many greats Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, John Candy (sadly left us too soon) Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis
Royal Canadian Air Farce
AND... (the BE$T of all) MARTIN SHORT! ... GLAD you forgot Joe Flaherty!
Some funny sketch comedy shows would be Kids In The Hall, Codco, SCTV, Royal Canadian Air Farce, This Hour Has 22 Minutes. A silly feel-good show is The Littlest Hobbo.
In regard to Classic Canadian television, the Royal Canadian Air Farce was a huge hit. I actually thought that the radio show of the same name was even better than the television version, the radio version made you use your imagination more.
The Royal Canadian Air Farce. Best comedy.
The kid with the poutine hit me right in the feels. The gravy should be bubbling when they spoon it out, and they should warn you it's hot when they serve it to you. Otherwise, it's ruined, like every Ontario poutine I've ever had.
Lol so true. I'm in Ontario, I yet to have a great poutine. When we went to Quebec several times, I'm always in awe of how good it is, even the gravy sucks here in Ontario...lol They try, I'll give them that. Haha
Wife gave birth 4 years ago. Covid protocols were really getting going so we got a private room (no one else in our room, but we shared a bathroom with the room next door), she needed an emergency C-Section, and we had a lactation consultant stop in a few times a day for our 4 day stay.
A week or two after leaving the hospital they mailed us a bill...
$25, because we had (knowingly) opted to upgrade to the double breast pump instead of the single while in hospital ❤❤
didnt read, dont care about your story.
@@GBEWgw2 Couldn't help but to comment, though... Very revealing
in 2009 i had my appendix go, after 3 days in hospital they handed me the bill which showed over OHIP being charged over $10k. I owed $10 for a phone call to my parents asking them to bring my cellphone.
My husband had a brain tumour. Catscan, MRI x 2, brain surgery x 2, radiation and chemotherapy for about a month each, in hospital stay for 2 months with OT and PT, as well as support for me and our kids; at home care with a bunch of specialized furniture for him, then almost 5 months of hospice care. I paid for two months of parking ($100 ish) and a ten dollar dispensing fee once, when he was home. This was likely between 500K to 1 million dollars of treatments.
The Forest Rangers, The Littlest Hobo, Mr. Dressup, The Beach Combers, Hockey Night in Canada (on CBC only), Wayne and Shuster Comedy specials, Tommy Hunter Show, Quintin Durgins, MP : these are a few of the shows from Canada in the 60's and 70's.
"Kids In The Hall" is a classic comedy show.
One true Canadian tradition is "Hockey Night in Canada", first broadcast by radio in 1931 and TV 1952. Every Saturday evening just about everyone gathered to listen or watch hockey. Interestingly, the very first TV replay was in HNIC in 1955.
One announcer, Foster Hewitt was the main man. For forty years.
If you want to see a very weird and very adult TV comedy series (yes, it was actually broadcast) is "Kevin Spencer", easily found on RUclips. Be warned, it is VERY adult.
Oh man, it takes a very special person to enjoy Kevin Spencer. Nobody ever seems to remember it
@@gilmour73 Allen the magic goose.
Not sure if there is a golden age for Canadian television. In each generation there is usually one show maybe two that resonate with people. Beachcombers, Anne of Green Gables, King of Kensington, Degrassi ( in all it's forms), Corner Gas, Little Mosque on the prairie, Kim's convenience, Letterkenny, etc, etc....
Agreed 💯
the golden age of Canadian tv was the house hippo commercial anything is lesser than the house hippo
@@eddiethepothos2648 loved the house Hippo
That bloody chest from the poppy pin! 😂👏
Hinterland commercials. The mock one of the spider on drugs is hilarious.
Singing along to the Sleepcountry jingle hits home.
" Why buy a mattress anywhere else?"... BECAUSE YOUR PRICES REALLY SUCK A$$!
House hippos were created to show Canadian children not to believe everything you see on television. It’s my favourite public service piece! We like to laugh at ourselves and our uniquely Canadian stereotypes. Check us out! We curl … Dad was an award winner … we sometimes wear kilts, we always wear our poppies, but only women can put them on and not hemorrhage, and we’re very proud of our Scottish heritage, right down to Robby Burns Day, haggis and all. I despise haggis! 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
Hi!! I'd recommend you watch Schitts Creek, a Canadian tv series, starring Eugene Levy, his son, Dan Levy and Katherine O'Hara!! It is smartly written and is really, really funny!! ❤
Hi Mert Can,
There is another Canadian hero you should cover his name is Sargent Tommy Prince he was with 1st.Can.Para.and later with the Special Service Force.A true Canadian Hero forgotten in his own time ,and passed away alone .We should show him some love.He was of Cree/Inuit background.❤
He was a member of the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry and Tommy was Ojibwe
Absolutely! A true hero!
More than anything, Mert, I love how much you have learnt about us, and how you are now able to laugh with us. I love this channel
Don Cherry was known for his obnoxious jackets. There is a Rick Mercer episode where Don takes him to Fabricland and then his tailor to have jackets made.
The Beachcombers,Wayne and Schuster, The King of Kensington, You can't do that on television, The game Show Definition, Front Page challenge show so much more
Are you 80?
@@mackwiz1 I'm only 60 and I remember all of those.
@@mackwiz1 nope, but I was the human remote for the TV as a kid. so close
@@mackwiz1 I'm older than dirt and twice as Grumpy. cheers !
If you haven't reacted to the band Barenaked Ladies, you need to! They are an iconic band too. Check out "Be my Yoko Ono", "One week" and "If I had a million dollars". Also, Captain Tractor is an epic Canadian band! Watch "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate". It's a hilarious song. Captain Tractor also has a song Called "Up the Hill" That was written about a hill in Calgary Alberta that was hell to get up drunk. lol They are an Alberta band that is hilarious.
The Kids in the Hall is a famous Canadian comedy troupe. They had a tv show in the early-mid 90's, a movie, and a more recent revival kf the show on Amazon. Would recommend it, but it is very random from one skit to the next... very random.
That is why we Canadians love Scotland! Unique culture. Friendly people.
I'm from Nova Scotia Canada which makes me a bluenoser
Corner Gas is a great TV show
so glad they showed the house hippo.
If you want another good comedy show from Canada try Corner Gas.
The four shows that I automatically think of are "The Beachcombers", "Due South" (Canadians acting as Americans, showing American ideas of what Canadians are, with Toronto standing in for Chicago), "The Littlest Hobo" (sort of a Canadian Lassie"), and "The Forest Rangers" (a kids' show that's set in a small fictitious northern town called Indian River).
Indian River Ontario is north east of Peterborough, but the series was shot all over southern and north central ontario the fire tower is just outside of North Bay Ontario
The Golden Age of Canadian TV depends on how old you are. I grew up with their Friendly Giant as a kids TV show which was absolutely fabulous. The Beachcombers was a regular Sunday night television show for many, many years. Hockey Night in Canada was a regular Saturday night feature which is still going on. I am 65 now, and live in a place too remote for television, so I have no idea what is happening these days!
*"🎼Sleep Country Canada🎵...."*
Those were the most normal of Don Cherry's suits
The House Hippo is near found in the 80s. It was reared in the children of the 70s and brought to maturity in 1987. Like cicadas, house hippos have a cycle and will emerge again in 2050.
Golden age is 70-80's
Loved this segment. Very funny. Thanks. 👏👏🇨🇦
We say “sorry” all the time 😊
It might not be up your alley but Kenny vs Spenny was a iconic Canadian TV show. FYI -- Not PG
When I was young, I would sneak downstairs to watch Benny Hill, so the parents wouldn't hear
I loved Owl TV and Street Cents. There was another show called Jonovision, hosted by Jonathan Torrens (who also played that cheesy gangster wannabe in Trailer Park Boys, and played Emma's dad, Shane, in Degrassi Next Generation.)
Another great Canadian comedian and try wordmith and can banter like no tomorrow is Ron James.
The house hippo!! Every 90s kids dream pet. It’s so sad they aren’t real 😢
A show that was popular when I was young was The Littlest Hobo. There were so many Canadian shows that never made it to air in the US, which we are totally ok with. We get flooded with American tv up here, that can be both good and bad LOL
Wayne and Shuster was a classic comedy duo from the 1940’s up until the 80’s. There a more a bunch of their comedy sketches on RUclips.
The Hockey Night in Canada theme song is iconic here, some say our second National Anthem. Check out Neil Peart's (Rush drummer) brilliant update. The drum kit he used is now in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
See: "Drums - Trailer - Neil Peart: Fire on Ice"
Final product: "NHL on TSN - The New 'The Hockey Theme' Intro by Neil Peart (HD)"
Way back, there was a show called Codco, down home comedy at its best. The oddest name for a show ever was Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, I think it beats Drop the Dead Donkey.
Crazy how spot on that video is, no complaints. Also I wish we could decide between metric and imperial.
Pretty accurate lol. (From Toronto) That maple syrup thing got me fired up. 🤣
Neon Rider was a great show...based in BC..
The 90's were the golden age!
The pilot episode of Little Mosque on the Prairie would make for a good reaction. For context, you have to keep in mind it came out only a few years after 9/11 when joking about a Muslim community in Saskatchewan could have been a little touchy.
Actually pretty good encapsulation of Cdn nostalgia.
Really good one is “corner Gas “..
❤
Canadian Heritage Minutes
The video is based on the book of the same title. The book is very funny and worth diving into.
19-2 is a really good cop show, has mcmurray and wayne from letterkenny in it...... dang, intense.
Aways wondered how the English version did, glad it's good as well.
Beaver tails especially chocolate ones!!
If you want some great Canadian comedies, I reccomend The Buzz, The Tom Green Show, and Kenny Vs Spenny. There was an American show that had a running skit about Canada called Wheels Ontario, that was f-ing hilarious. EDIT the US show was called The Kroll Show
"The Littlest Hobo" for a Canadian show.
Check out The Royal Canadian Air Farce that used to air on CBC .
I think the golden years would be for me late 60 and 70s .
You need to watch the movie Canadian bacon starring John Candy if you want to see what it's like to be a Canadian from American point of view from a Canadian actor 😂😂 you won't be disappointed
100% Canadian Content Quiz time for pre-internet types:
Who were the characters in two CBC television series for children and adolescents: 1) "The Friendly Giant" and what was the 'premise' of the show?
2) What was "The Forest Rangers"? Hint: it launched the careers of quite a few Canadian actors & actresses, some of whom became well-known in Canada, and some who made their way to Hollywood. The show had both adolescent and adult actors in various roles, and almost all began their acting careers by appearing in the cast.
Strange Fun Extra Trivia Question: "The Forest Rangers" was HUGELY popular in what European country, going through decades of re-runs up to (and perhaps past) 2012? (50 years after the show was originally produced). I've asked people from that country about it - they freely acknowledge that it was, but can't explain why it was so popular for so long.
Super OGW Musical bonus: What iconic musical theme is mistakenly attributed to the Canadian jazz musician best remembered for "The Swinging Shepherd Blues?" What is that "iconic" theme, frequently referred to for decades as "Canada's other National Anthem"?
Bonus questions for westerners: Where on television would you have found (a) Archie Goldie, a.k.a. "The Stomper" from Carbon, Alberta - and why (or because of who)? Which North American celebrities emerged from the "unusual" family that was behind it? What became of its' two most famous members? (Many, many years later than the original weekly "event.")?
Gold nugget bonus: (b) Who was "Muskeg The Moose" and on what children's TV show was he a regular (daily) character?
You should check out their How to be a Hockey Player video as well.
Personally, nothing will beat The Littlest Hobo for television.
I feel like that show only aired in Ontario, I could be wrong though.
@@jaytee7715 I am in Ontario, so you could be right!
I remember watching a TV show called The Red Fisher Show they would go fishing but Red didn't like eating fish. In a cabin called Scuttlebut Lodge
I think you're talking about The Red Green Show, starring Steve Smith. Mert has already reacted to several episodes ... and laughed his ass off 😂!
Red Fisher was an actual person, often seen at fishing & hunting trade shows. "Red Green" began as a comedy take-off of that and similar programs. I think Steve Smith and his wife dreamed "Red Green" up for their comedy TV show "Smith & Smith," and "Red Green" was so popular that "The Red Green Show" spun off.
My dad was a wilderness guide and bush pilot following WWII, and between 1957-1963 became an outfitter - and (to his surprise) a large wholesale supplier of both industrial and recreational gear for the outdoors. I saw Red Fisher a few times at trade shows, when I was taken along by my dad as a go-fer. Dad's outdoor gear & sporting goods thing grew into a very good business, so he stopped doing guide work altogether. He did miss flying.
The Kids in the Hall were very iconic, check them out. I don't doubt that you will love their sketches.
Don't know if you noticed, but the flag on the wall has a pot leaf instead of a maple leaf and you can also get them in green and white. Pretty cool.
Why haven’t we started using safety pins on poppies? I get poked every November 😂
The Legion throws a pissy fit over "tradition" and "disrespect".
Canada for President were some classics
The ads one his hilarious. Also, I have never once, absolutely not heard anyone ever use the term "garburator" except in these types of Canadian language things.
My parents in Newfoundland had a garburator.
Most people would say that if you want an auttehentic "Cananadian" comedy, I would recommend CORNER GAS
There is a scond part to this one, and also a "How to be an American".
the beach combers,nick adonnis and relic
Nick Adonidas
Relic! Robert Clothier, who played Relic, was well known as a stage actor, performing Shakespeare plays & many others. He turns up in all sorts of tv shows as an incidental character for a moment or two, not looking much like "Relic."
@@flyingbeaver57 Robert Clothier was also an RCAF pilot who flew 2 tours during 1944 with 408 Squadron and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, he then was transferred to the 5th Operational training unit as a pilot instructor and on December 23rd 1944 he was involved in a crash on take off of a Mitchell bomber where he was the only survivor, he sustained a broken back and was paralyzed for 2 years.
North of 60 is a First Nations show
Yup!!! Welcome to Canada eh!
Ugh. I had that same Pathways social studies book. Yeah all of these things are true. I like to send this to a buddy who moved to America every Canada so he doesn’t forget where he came from. I have to go now. I need to find the house hippo.
SCTV. Kids in the Hall. Classic Canadian comedy
I think that Canadian video was made by non Canadians because we don't say a 2-6er, it's a 26er or Canadian bacon, it is called Peameal bacon
You got to watch the movie fubar, it's a mockumentary style comedy that just really encapsulates a certain type of Canadian. But it is a quality movie
Turn up the good, turn down the suck
Was pretty good and accurate
This could be a fact: the first structure all Canadian engineers built was……a snow fort.
A comedy to watch is royal Canadian air farce and the chicken canon !
YES! The Chicken Cannon! Right up there beside the Canada Geese!
Super Dave.
Yes in order to have a good poutine the gravy has to be hot
Watch The littlest hobo and strange brew.....also wrestling used to be huge and we've had a lot of talent from up here. Bret hart, Owen hart, Chris jericho, Chris Benoit, edge and christian, test, Lance storm...even the rock has canadian history from his dad I believe.
The Beachcombers. Due South. The Red Green Show. You already know about Trailer Park Boys and Letterkenny.
There’s many others, im sure they will be in the comments section.
They have one about Vancouver too!
Try watching Corner Gas and This hour has 22 minutes
Mert:
I'd like to draw your attention to a vast sea of Canadian content (much that I was exposed to as a kid in the '70s).
These are the short subject films from the National Film Board (the NFB), 1939-present.
Recently, I've enjoyed the old Canada settings, characters and voices in the film 'Station Master' (1954)...just one of the 13,000 films produced by the NFB (many are on RUclips).
I really enjoyed the station master. Granted, I watch all kinds of old public films and stuff.
Corner Gas
accuate...love these guys. they re from vancouver, they have a mountian biking channel. one of the biggest ones. lmao sleep country...BING. haha the pathways socials book.
100% bang on accurate
They missed one of the slangs for booze and that is "40 pounder" which is a 40 oz bottle of hard liquor. I don't actually remember ever hearing "2-6" for a 26 oz bottle of hard liquor but that might be regional.
Out east its a pint and quart. micky is the tiny mini bottles.
@@gilmour73 I remember get quart bottles of my favourite beer at a select few bars and always loved the micky bottles of boozes. Don't see those so much anymore. Ah, the good times. LOL
Mr Dress up, and the Friendly Giant.
My enraged neighbour recently threatened to write a letter.