Canadian reacts to Simpsons depiction of Canada
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 19. 03. 2021
- A review of "D'oh Canada," the most recent episode to involve the Simpsons visiting Canada (also known as "the one with Trudeau"). How stereotypical is the portrayal? What did they get right, and what did they get wrong? I tried to explain as many of the references as I could.
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I think the scene where Lisa sees all her American heroes may be a reference to the autobiographical story "On the Rainy River." In the story, the author (a young American man) is drafted into the Vietnam War, and he drives to the Canadian border to cross illegally and escape the draft. But there, he is confronted by many American characters, including Huck Finn and Abraham Lincoln. This changes his mind, and he returns to America to fight in the war.
Amazing!
Interesting!
Spectacular!
Awesome!
Unbelievable!
*Justin Trudeau spider-crawls out the window of the Langevin Block*
JJ: so yeah this is another very accurate depiction
13:04
I wanna get a picture with pm justin Trudeau
"accurate depiction" Trudeau is now spOderman? lmfao
@@HamishDuh2nd Let's be honest he would spider-crawl down the side of Langevin Block to avoid answering questions on darn near anything.
Thank God I'm not the only person who initially thought that!
"Sort of a place where middle class people go to feel like they're eating something fancy" It's Olive Garden. The American equivalent is definitely Olive Garden.
Ahh you beat me to it
Yup
Also Cheddars
Earls is definitely fancier than Olive Garden. Olive garden is very cheap.
Nah fam it's chillies lmao
I'm British but watched a ton of American shows as a kid. Besides the dialects, the thing that stood out the most to me is that they don't wear school uniforms.
Parochial schools have worn uniforms since I was a wee lad in the 70's. some inner city public schools have gone to uniforms, but parents dont like them because its an added cost! & if you grew up going to school where you didnt have to wear them, attending a school with them seems like an imposition!
You and I both. I'm a Kiwi and most of our schools have a very strict uniform policy and the fact that America's didn't was something I envied deeply.
The Newfoundland song that Ralph sings is a song written for the show. The Simpsons actually asked a Newfoundland band called Shanneyganook if they could use their song âThe Islanderâ but Shanneyganook refused after the Simpsons showed them the scene it would be used in. They felt as though Newfoundlanders were portrayed in a negative light so I guess they just didnât want their song tied to something like that
fair enough tbh, good on em. Iâm from Ontario but me personally I think that scene was pretty cruel
@@Walker-vm6bf To who?
â@@siohunndaiWhat, do you treat Newfoundlanders like we treat Ohioans?
@@wta1518 i hate newfoundlanders
@@siohunndai Ah, so they are like Ohioans.
When Justin Trudeau climbed out of the building and J.J said that that was a realistic representation my heart stopped.
That was hilarious timing
I've been to Ottawa before, a truly boring city, but I can say that I for a fact say Justin Trudeau spider crawl out of his office and greet everyone below him.
@@thecaynuck4694 lol
Same đ I thought he was saying that is how Trudeau regularly exits the building
Trudeau: the next spiderman
Fun fact: the man who wrote the song âIslanderâ, a very famous Newfoundland folk song, rejected a $20,000 offer from the Simpsons to use his song in the seal beating/slashing/kicking scene
Pretty honorable.
@@christianpethukov8155 Not sure. What if he wanted US$20,000 and they only offered his C$20,000? Or what if he wanted $40,000? Anyway, like you, I'd like to think that he rejected the money on principle and not because of greed.
$20k in American dollars or Monopoly money?
What a spoilsport
@@JJMcCullough ikr
16:51 The architecture style depicted is the 'Queen Anne' style. Very popular from the 1890s to 1910s in USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
Seattle and San Francisco are probably the best cities in the world to see Queen Anne Architecture though a special mention must go to Victoria BC.
I've been to Victoria and can confirm the architecture was amazing. What a beautiful place.
âItâs actually on the decline because itâs objectively worse than subwayâ
Damn. Thatâs a low bar and they still couldnât make it.
I've seen Americans make fun of Subway a lot. Is it really that bad there?
@@NitroIndigo no haha its just a standard sandwich shop. I think americans just like to make fun out of nitpicks of commercial chains. Personally its funny haha :)
Subway was better before it became an international conglomerate and they went to the CHEAPEST quality ingredients possible but raised prices. Independently owned ones are better though!
@@inconnu4961 Yup It used to be much better pre-2005 there's literally thousands of subways now, and it's not much better than Mcdonald's in terms of quality.
@@melody3629 We have a lot more options when it comes to subs now, Jersey Mikes, Jimmy John's, Firehouse subs, etc.
This guy: "Canadian accents arent that strong."
Also this guy: "Abuuudit"
Hey buddy, dooont be a dick.
Yeah, even as a Canadian I find that jarring
@@agrofindastation its funny tho
@@Prezzen77 good to know its not just me, saying about like that gets you laughed at in Toronto
Born and raised in Canada,
Yeehhh heâs got more of an accent than most people lmao
Can we take a moment to discuss how perfectly his dad answered the stereotype question? If thatâs any indication, it makes a lot of sense why J.J. is so deeply insightful and seemingly unbiased in his communication of opinions/knowledge. So refreshing to see somebody on the internet addressing misinformation without being provocative, defensive, or condescending.
The idea of "Newfie" being a slur is mocked broadly within Newfoundland itself, it's true that some people do feel that way but it's mostly a minority of urban people. My whole family is from rural Newfoundland and the term is used by them all without any thought of malice.
"Most celebrities move out of Canada", reminds me. Never got a chance to thank y'all for Ryan Reynolds. We're taking good care of Vancouver's finest.
They can take Justin Bieber back though
I had no idea we have them to thank for Ryan Reynolds.
@@sethminor8160 lol
Norm Macdonald, Jim Carey in the 90s...I knew a lot more but it's escaping me ATM
âthankâ them?!? thereâs a reason he moved
âSpreading unfair stereotypes about the United States is like the essence of Canadian nationalismâ
I probably enjoyed that quote a little too much, well done
There has never been a more true statement
Why do you have David Lloyd George as your profile pic? R you Welsh?
@@yaseenmashal639 so, hehe, funny story...iamanAmericanwhoenjoysbritishpolitics
@@simonrancourt7834 Quebec is the worst province in Canada
@@DwRockett PM's Question Time can be a BLAST. 8)
I'm currently reading The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, and the idea that it could be adapted into a elementary school play made me burst into tears. The first couple of chapters are literally about a group of boys harassing one of their teachers into paranoid alcoholism.
Iâm a Newfoundlander, I live in Ontario but I still have family in Newfoundland and go there often and I call myself a Newfie all the time! Iâve never once heard fellow Newfies say they were offended by it or think of themselves as a minority in Canada. We take pride in our beautiful province and we live our lives like any other Canadian. Iâm sure many Newfies feel underrepresented in Canadian media and politics but other than that Iâm unaware of any other âsharedâ feelings. Also, yes weâre aware of the stereotypes, but I donât think theyâre much harsher than any other stereotypes for other places lol
Well itâs the position of the newfound government that itâs an offensive slur so clearly someone is bothered by it.
@@JJMcCullough Government. What arenât politicians bothered by?
â@@JJMcCullough Do you have proof of this JJ because you always seem to take a really dismissive and ignorant stance on Newfoundland in all of your videos (let alone never pronouncing the name right). You're sitting there smiling because you yourself think it's funny to mock Newfoundlanders. No one here thinks it's a slur they're just sick of the elitist bs from mainlanders like you calling us stupid just because you can't understand the way we talk. At what point is it discrimination JJ because maybe you're not old enough to remember but I had friends laughed out of job interviews in the 70s and 80s in Ontario just because they were from Newfoundland. People endured it for decades and never said a damn word which is why it's still so openly used today. I don't think you know the first thing about Newfoundland and you've demonstrated that in multiple videos over the years.
@@BarryB.Benson governments donât stand for the masses. They stand for the loudest voice
â@@JJMcCullough Yea I tells mainlanders not to call us that whenever I hear it, it does carry a derogatory connotation still, and even worsened so by this simpsons ep
"J.J. takes down the Simpsons" is my favorite subgenre of J.J. videos
He should really do âMarge in Chainsâ probably the episode that has been used for Simpsonâs predictions.
For some reason my brain saw Simpson and J in the same sentence and thought* OJ Simpson
13:07 "So that's another very accurate depiction."
I straight up thought he was gonna say that Trudeau can plank climb walls Spiderman-style.
Me toooo bro
I mean he can but everyone knows about that so he was talking about the slightly less well known facts.
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I've heard 5 different non-French Canadian accents, & none of them sounds like the accent Hollywood wants you to think they have.
I have to assume Hollywood got the accent by talking to people from a really small town far from any city 100 years ago.
I think the American counterpart to Earls would probably be a place called the Cheesecake Factory
earls is in the us actually
The Cheesecake Factory is still pretty expensive tho
Chilli's
That style of house at 17:08 is called "old victorian" or more accurately "queen anne revival" - it was very common in North America for about half a century
I wrote a comment saying the same thing. Although In the moment I couldn't 100% remember if I was getting the name right. I was pretty sure we called them "Old Victorian" homes or "Queen Anne Revival" like you said. But I'm glad you reassured me I wasn't misremembering lol
They are still all over NZ. We call them villas.
I happen to live in one of those Queen Anne Revival homes. Mine was built in 1895 in North Carolina. "Victorian" architecture is a name given to many different styles of home (Mansard Roof , Italianate, Gothic Revival) that was built in the years Queen Victoria was on the throne, and perhaps an older house built just afterwards, that has the characteristics of a home built during the time of Queen Victoria.
@@ottobaron6392 back when homes and general buildings were built with class and unique character. Imo modern day homes are built like trash. Unless they're multi million dollar homes...which even then can be often quite tacky...so many neighbourhoods today every house looks like the same bloody thing...a plain ugly box. And dont even get me started on how crunched together they are...zero yard space...just terrible. And the whole housing market is insanely overpriced. Okay theres my rant for the day lol.
@@slenderfoxx3797 Which is why I wanted a Victorian, when I moved to this state. I'm not much for contemporary architecture.
The US government basically said to the states, make your drinking age 21 or you get no government money.
No federal highway funding, to be specific. That's about 90% of a LOT of projects.
Another fun fact is that many states actually lowered their drinking age to 18 after the voting age was lowered to 18, only to raise it again only a few decades later.
For decades, the US territory of Guam was the lone hold-out, passing the age 21 legislation only in 2014.
@@JML6988 intersting. I didn't know that. Considering Guam has a large millitary presence, i'm sure the troops appricated being able to have drinks for, you know, having a profession that could potentially risk their lives for their country, it's the least they could do lol.
18 to fight and kill in foreign wars, and 21 to smoke and drink. Until recently it was 18 to smoke.
When I was little growing up in the Detroit suburbs my dad worked in Windsor for about six months. I thought Canada was just another US state at the time and later in my young life much to my amazement I learned that Canada was actually a separate country altogether. At the same time I thought Cincinnati where we drove through to visit my grandparents was a state, too!
Cincinnati here, it basically is a state đ 40% of it is in kentucky, and everything is a local brand. Lots of people donât know weâre in ohio, they couldnât even tell you what part of the country its in đ€·đ»ââïž
There was a fun episode of Being Ian (a Canadian cartoon) that featured the family traveling to California. The mother was very excited to meet the hippies and learn of their healthy diets and Ian the star and future filmmaker, was trying to submit his film to a contest in LA. There were lots of fun Canadian-American misadventures.
My favorite joke about Canadians...
How to empty a swimming pool of all Canadians?
Calmly say, "Everyone out of the pool please ".
As a Canadian who went swimming with my school as a kid I can confirm that this (and a whistle to get our attention) was all that was needed to get us out
as a canadian yes that is true but isnt it like that in each country? like does the life guard have to yell or something? also thats not a joke cause its true lmao. but it also depends on how many people there are in the pool, or who is saying it. for example, if it was not a life guard or employee or owner of the pool, why would i listen to a completely random person when they tell me to get out of a pool? also pools are always loud (of course it depends how many ppl there are) so if the lifeguard said it calmly no one would hear. of course they would need a whistle. but if there are barely any people, they would just calmly say "Everyone out of the pool please ", but still use a whistle to get everyones attention.
The point is not swimming. The stories about your swimming pool experience misses the point. The point of the joke is that Canadians are much more prone to blindly follow and not question authority (government) than your neighbors to the south.
@@edwinholcombe2741 I know, Iâm just saying that itâs totally true but not always to some Canadians
@@albusdumbledore1981 Yes. I totally agree. While it may be said in general it certainly isn't true of all Canadians. From what I'm hearing recently more and more Canadians are beginning to question their government.
I love JJ's impression of his father explaining stereotypes so much.
Wow come on 381 likes and no reply, let's fix that
Me too, and he sounded a lot like my Mom. My Dad was American, born near Detroit & Mom was Canadian, born in Windsor, but lived in Toronto her whole life until she met my Dad. They were married in Toronto, but lived in Michigan for a few years. My Dad had a large family & they lived in small town. There are MANY differences between American culture & Canadians. Soon, my Dad got a great job offer in Calif., so they moved out here & my bother and I were born & raised here in SoCal. We lived in Mich. for 6yrs & spent summers & holidays in Toronto, and I LOVED it there! My daughter was even an au pair for a few years after high school in Toronto, bc we still flew there every summer, even after I married and had kids. My Mom became a US citizen when my brother & I were 5 & 6 bc she said she wanted to be able to vote. I've regretted not becoming a Canadian citizen. It's my birthright & I'm proud of my heritage. My Granddad served in WWI (yes, one) with the Royal Highlanders & was wounded in battle. I have all his medals & his tam (& all the love letters he wrote to my Nana while he was overseas~ they weren't married yet, they married 3 days after he got home!).
@@jennifersignsoflife1375 how wonderful to have all those mementos of your grandfather's life- especially the love letters to your grandmother! That is so special to have in your family and will mean so much when passed on to future generations who didn't have the honor of getting to know him personally. I wish we had something like that of my grandfather's, he was in the navy during WW2.
@@brittanyfaucett745 Thank You! It's getting easier to find records of family members who served in WWI & WWII, and there are MANY groups that you can add your Grandfather's name to, just in case someone finds a photo or an old document that's he's included in. All the official military websites are really simple to use & don't require any proof of ancestry. GOOD LUCK!
Speaking as an American. If a person watches an episode of The Simpsons to figure out how a nation's government regulates healthcare then they deserve whatever outlandish bill they receive off the pure merit of them being stupid.
It would be the equivalent of getting your time travel rules from The back to the Future movies.
For the love of⊠Are you an alien? People don't watch a Simpsons episode _specifically to find out how Canada regulates healthcare._ Rather, they watch the episode, they possibly don't question the statement, and then quite possibly, as so often happens with knowledge, they forget where they heard it, and don't notice they haven't confirmed it because now it just feels like knowledge. This kind of thing happens to everyone without them even noticing.
Also, you must be a pretty cruel person to think someone deserves to have bad things happen to them because they're unintelligent.
It's not just The Simpsons though. This is a very consistent running joke in American media. 30 Rock for example did an almost identical "accidentally in the hospital in Canada and it's free!?" joke in nearly the same set-up. One singular joke about this would not be a big deal but creating an image of Canada that implies people can just walk in sick and be treated for free, when that's not actually true, is dangerous for anyone seeking medical attention and potentially trying to use that opportunity. I do believe that's all JJ was getting at.
Pretty difficult for me to think of an Earls equivalent in the US. Maybe Olive Garden and Red Lobster but theyâve been on decline for some time.
As a kid in Britain, Iâm fairly sure most of my knowledge of Canada came from a show called Due South, about a Mountie that goes to Chicago with his wolf to solve the murder of his father, who often appears to him in dreams to offer advice⊠it was super weird but kinda awesome. Anyway, I was devastated as a child to find out that not all Canadians were Mounties with pet wolvesâŠ
Theyâre not?
They did some of the filming right beside my grandmas house!! Pretty cool
@@ericsilver9401 as a Canadian I have to say that thatâs not true! Once we become 18 we automatically become Mounties.
@@nellyhuaman8903 canadalution
@@dascreeb5205 The canadeañera
"They must have 'Earls' in America"
Olive Garden is the first thing that came to mind honestly.
Same
BJâs
I thought of Olive Garden and something decently higher end is J. Alexander's. IDK which one Earls is more equivalent to.
Yeah that's what I thought of!
Olive garden is too family oriented as compared to Earl's....
It's too bright and the servers don't wear enough black... and they aren't as attractive...
It doesn't quite fit
I found this funny, because right now im watching an episode of shameless (US) and Frank was helping immigrants sneak into canada. And he was telling them all of this stereotypical stuff that obviously wasn't true.
Based on your description of Earls, it kinda sounds like BJâs Steakhouse. I donât know if there are any in Canada, but they are a bit more upscale than many restaurants (and the prices reflect that)
Oh yeah, that joke about Detroit and Windsor is very much a thing. Before the Rona the night time population of Windsor would explode with 19 year olds from the Detroit area looking to tie one on. And the whole bit with "we know" probably would have worked better if the border guards said it because they all knew what we were going there for.
Another amusing note, the local radio stations when advertising Windsor bars and clubs often had to specify "and Canadian money is always accepted at the bar" in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Before 9/11, the border crossing agent going from CAN->USA after midnight was just a thumb out the window pointing north to Detroit.
Its a rite of passage to go to Windsor for your 19th bday! I fondly remember stumbling down Ouellette many a night wondering why pizza places in the states didn't have easy phone numbers like 310-1010.
In Brazil the Universal Health Care System, the SUS, is truly universal. If you are a foreigner in Brazil they will not deny medical attention or charge you anything for it, even if it is a complex surgery. Although it is free for everyone, depending on where you are, hospital can have really heterogeneous quality and long queues
My dad was separated from his Mom at birth and I will never forget the day he finally found her and sat my whole family down to tell us it turned out he was Newfie. A very emotional day for all involved
I'm so sorry for you.
Sorry to ask what is a newfie
Newfie...?
@@echidna210 someone from Newfoundland I assume
@@yens1609 you assume correct
I enjoyed your reactions, you actually had something to say each time and not just âohâ, or âwowâ. Iâd watch more, for sure.
When I was six or seven we went to Canada with my step father to meet his relatives. I remember having a magical time, saw snow for the first time (I'm from coastal California), chased crickets, ate rhubarb pie and saw the northern lights. It's one of very few good memories from my childhood. However, when I came home, I said "bloody" and "eh" ALL the time for months. Even as an adult I pick up on local language quickly, and as a little one, I was like a sponge. My mom was so frustrated trying to get me to stop.
Out of curiosity where were you in Canada? I live in the Maritimes and I don't know anybody that says "bloody", to me that's a solidly UK-only thing lol.
@@jessicastjames6202 Oh dang, I can't remember, I was little, my mom divorced my step dad soon after, so any chance to ask about that side of the family was gone, it wasn't a pretty break up.
â@@nannywhumpers5702 I live in northern Ontario and "bloody" is definitely something I hear (or even say) fairly regularly.. Particularly from older generations..
@@jorgeallan5232 Thank you, that's good to know, gives me a clue.
@@jorgeallan5232 Interesting! I'm from Southern Ontario and have never heard anyone say that, guess it must be strictly a Northern thing.
Growing up I always felt like the difference between Canada and the US is akin to Pepsi vs Coke.
@@healinggrace5117The best is cockta, 100% love my slovene bros
More like the difference between alcoholic and non alcoholic beer
Itâs more like Diet Coke and coke
Same $hit different pile
The prospect of Canada being a different country has always been weird to me. I speak the languages of both Mexico and Canada but only Mexico feels like a different country. Canada just feels like itâs another collection of states, like visiting Idaho and Montana as a Midwesterner.
I'm in Australia in a city that gets very few american tourists. US shows are almost like watching a fantasy show to me, and when I used to hear american accents, it felt almost fake because of it.
I'm American and some of the accents sound fake to me.
Your not the first Australian I've heard say that actually. My friend said he thought The USA was a fictional country used in media kinda like how ACME is a fictional brand.
@@mandalorian_guy just like americans think that Australia and Australians are not real and paid actors...
And yes its a real thing
Why fake? The EPISODES is talking about is about Canada, not the US.
@@deutschelehrer69 -I- -think- -you- -are- -misunderstanding- -what- -at- -this- -point- -is- -mostly- -a- -joke- that's because they aren't real
10:52 You've got to remember, in the Australian episode, the Prime Minister was found floating in an inflatable doughnut on a damn. They found him by walking up a slight incline.
Thank you for using the Blues hoisting our first cup in your picture example of Lord Stanley's Cup
One stereotype depicted in this episode of the Simpsons and that seems to linger is that all Canadian police officers are mounties who wear their traditional scarlet tunics while on duty. Which just is not the case with three Provincial police forces and several hundred municipal, regional and first-nations police forces across Canada.
I've been to Canada dozens of times, and the only place I've seen Mounties wearing their dress uniforms was on TV or in print media. Every Mountie I've seen in person was wearing an everyday police uniform.
@@georgeadams1853 They only wear them for special occasions (parades, ceremonies, etc)
@@HamishDuh2nd Did you mean mountains?
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Whyâd you scroll down here...
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Well, comedy is about stereotypes. And this kind of comedy is making fun of those stereotypes Americans might have. I wonder if anyone younger than Matt Groening gets this one though. There once was a show many years ago on American TV "Sgt Preston of the Yukon". I don't know if I would get this one without that show.
80% is close enough buddy.
As a side note, as a western Canadian, I feel everyone should know that we don't all sound like J.J. In fact, most of us don't.
@JamesMacPherson Yeah, could be? I mean, there are all kinds of regional accents in Canada (Nfld anyone?). I can tell a person is from the maritimes by the way they say "car" or other words like that. Its like a weird mix between "care" and "car".
I have never heard any Canadian talk that way unless you count South Park characters.
In British Columbia we donât really say about like him however some of us do say it but the farther into Canada you go the less people talk like Americans
It all depends where you live eh. I grew up in a very isolated town in Alberta and people definitely say about like he does. And then some. Tons of no shit ehâs, and very slow speech.
When you get to the older generations in NB and PEI, it gets really different. I'd call it "Maritime" English.
I'm in Alberta and one of the nurses at my work told me the story of when she worked in the hospital in Edmonton there was a man driving to Alaska and he required an In and Out catheter the doctor waved his fee and the bill was still $400 for a procedure that takes minutesbut that was years ago.
I remember Newfie jokes. When I moved to the states I'd hear kids tell "dumb blonde jokes" and I was like, "wait a second, that was just a Newfie joke!"
You should hear the Polish jokes! LOL
The âbut surely you treat all peoples equallyâ joke DEFINITELY should have been indigenous folks lol. Big mis
Well it's actually less known how Canadian provinces interact with each other. Any country in the world that has an indigenous people who aren't in control of the government have likely been treated unfairly at one point or another. That wouldn't surprise anyone outside of Canada. This was far more informative, so no, definitely not a miss. Just talking about indigenous peoples rights or treatment for the millionth time is far more clichéd
I think they may have been intentionally going for something more lighthearted than that. Provincial rivalries are a lot more "fun" than the historical treatment of Indigenous Canadians for reasons I won't insult you by listing them as if you don't know already.
@@justsumguy5991 I agree, it is Simpsons after all. To joke about killing kids and mass graves wouldn't go off so well. Lol.
In America that sounds like you are describing Olive Garden
"Has any celebrity ever moved to Canada?" - Brock Lesnar, at one time the biggest star in professional wrestling and MMA concurrently, moved to Saskatchewan. Nothing to do with politics though.
Chalk one (only one) up for Canada
Fun Fact: the WWE started in Canada as âAll Star Wrestling â.
Well, if someone was moving from US to Canada due to politics, not sure Saskatchewan would be the place they'd move to. So that adds up
@@Kolateak_ Hypothetically if an American actually knew anything about Canadian domestic politics they could choose to move to the Prairies because they themselves are conservative.
Do CFL players count as celebrities? đ€
Thanks for the psa about the Canadian healthcare system for foreigners. 30 Rock had an episode where the very American business man and his pregnant wife travel to Canada and she goes into labor early. Ends up at a Canadian hospital and he tries to pay but the hospital administrator declines. He storms out saying he is going to find a Canadian to take his money.
Loved this videob alot and would love to see more like this I usually don't like reaction videos but as a Canadian and how close to home this hits I very much enjoyed it... More please đ
A good rule of thumb for Canadian drinking ages is that it alternates as you go across the country: 19 in BC, 18 in Alberta, 19 in Sask, 18 in Manitoba, 19 in Ontario, 18 in Quebec, and lastly 19 in all of Atlantic Canada.
I find it so weird that a literal legal adult "isn't old enough" to buy alcohol in the 19+ areas.
UK has no drinking age if you don't buy it yourself, 16+ to order in a restaurant with a meal and then obviously 18+ you're an adult and totally unrestricted for everything.
As a German kid I thought the Simpsons took place in a fantasy world. A nuclear power plant engineer, who owns a house and two cars couldn't get a life saving heart surgery?
That is pretty absurd. Even the most ardent left winger has to concede that for the scenario of that episode to make sense, there have to be a few rather extreme leaps of faith made regarding how evil an employer Mr. Burns is, etc.
@@JJMcCullough Yes, it's a comedy show dealing in exaggeration. I'm pretty sure Homer wouldn't have that job in real life.
@@JJMcCullough I thought Homer was a Janitor not an engineer but I have not watched much of The Simpsons.
@@hydrolito The Simpsons does tend to play fast and loose with it's own cannon, but I (who hasn't really watched the Simpsons for about 5 years now) think it is established that he is the Safety Inspector (the fact that a Nuclear Power Plant would only have one is a little absurd in my opinion) . I also believe that it's been established that he has no real formal education (which would dictate his pay grade).
@@chriswitmer9754 I actually think that Homer is a board operator, typically the guy with the most experience and also the highest paid hourly worker at a refinery, chemical, or nuclear plant. They basically run the place while on shift. This is the joke, that a buffoon would have this kind of responsibility. And when I say highest paid, weâre talking $100k a year with overtime. So yeah, Homer wouldnât have this job more than an hour.
As a backpack tourist in France & Switzerland in 1989, I met Canadians whom seemed "Like Trudeau", and prominently displayed Canada swag. It never occurred to me to display my nationality. I probably dressed like a Californian, but habitually wore button up shirts. The Mackenzies were on SNL in the '80s.
I haven't seen a ton of your videos, but I'm really impressed by your ability to talk about something so political without making people feel lesser than.
I know the accent in Bobbyâs World was particularly strong, but as a Southern Ontarian, JJâs accent seemed incredibly strong the first time I saw his videos.
ya for real, Im from Toronto hearing accents is a all day thing but i agree JJ's def has a different accent from you or I
the voice in bobby's world is the strange brew guys
same, i'm from toronto but i genuinely thought he was faking his accent at first lol
Hell, I'm from Nova Scotia and just recently realized how thick my accent is and JJ's accent still seemed strong for a long while ahaha.
Same
As a Canadian kid you would always see American cartoons and other media showing Canada and Canadians as some other place and people. When I was a kid I just assumed I was American. I remember being mind blown when I found out I was actually in Canada đšđŠ
same for me. like two weeks ago i found out that a show called Detentionaire that i really liked, was Canadian, and i had a mild patriotic rewatch lol
Most non-North Americans kind of think Canadians and Americans are pretty much the same. (I've been told many times Canadians hate that.)
Well this type of idiocy and brain washing in our youth explains how we ended up with the Traitor trudeau problem to begin with
Because American culture is so powerful in Canada
You are the gold standard when it comes to insight on Canada, I respect you work and honesty.
I remember watching the Regular show when I was younger and there was one episode on Australia and I thought it was the strangest thing ever and had the same situation where I didnât understand the stereotypes.
Growing up in rural Minnesota in the 80s my parents bought one of those huge satellite dishes that only picked up Canadian television...no American stations. I literally grew up with only the CBC. I would go to school and try to talk to my friends about Danger Bay, the Edison Twins and North of 60 and NO ONE knew what I was talking about...likewise I had no idea about this so called TGIF they were talking about. Its crazy how television forms people because I always get a little misty eyed when I see a Canadian flag. I've never even been to Canada.
Maybe it's about time you take a trip up to Canada
When Estonia used to be part of soviet Union, people from Tallin used to watch Finnish TV cause it was western and free, a lot of them learned Finnish trough it and last time I was in Estonia I found people to speak Finnish with fairly easily. (They tend to be older though cause Estonia has been independent since USSR collapse)
TV can indeed have a big impact on a person.
You should visit Canada as soon as you can definitely if you feel like that.
@@ilarious5729 wow! Thank you so much for sharingâŠitâs fascinating just how much television influences people, especially children and yet so many people donât even think about what they sit down and watch on a daily basis. I have always wanted to visit CanadaâŠafter this pandemic calms down Iâm going to.
@@somethingedgy2185 I agree!
I grew up with CBC radio. It used to be intelligent and where you got real news and educational shows. Now it is so dumbed down to appeal to younger audiences it is not much different than the hard core top 10 stations. So sad.
The house shown is Victorian architecture, in America we see usually this style in a lot homes built after the civil war
Probably because the time between the 60s and 90s is AKA the Victorian era
In their usually in their own little neighborhoods where I am
Yeah I wanna say itâs Queen Anne Revival, but Victorian architecture was a mishmash of a bunch of different styles
Was really surprised he didn't know that, even if you don't know geography that's a pretty well known style of architecture
Yes, definitely Victorian. But there are a few subsets of Victorian architecture. Would this perhaps be Queen Anne?
Sizzler might be a good American parallel to Earls. A decently-priced steakhouse-type restaurant my family would go to every so often to eat nicer food. My grandparents were fond of the salad bar, they'd often take their entrée in a to-go container and pretty much eat just the salad bar offerings, which were more than salad (tacos, fried chicken, ice cream, etc.). However they don't really exist on the east coast anymore.
I've never been to Earls, though, and Wikipedia says it's within a genre of restaurant somewhat unique to Canada.
Beachcombers was a show where the main players were into collecting salvage and stray logs to sell.There was competition and contention between a character named relic and Nick Adonis.There were a lot of cloak n dagger schemes between the two.
I can relate to that children don't understand countries thing. Iâm an American who has cousins from Saudi Arabia, and had no idea until I was older that the hell Saudi Arabia was, I thought it was like different state or something.
*every country is a state*
Tbh as a Cypriot I used to watch cartoons such as Disney Channel sitcoms (I know) when I was young and although Iâm a Cypriot I couldnât really understand that it depicted a different country (the USA), even if they even depicted stereotypes of that country. It also had a lot of minorities which donât really exist here in Cyprus (such as blacks and Indians) and I didnât even realise.
As an American who grew up in Cyprus I think I felt similarly. Except when I would go back to visit relatives and my friends would be earnestly jealous that I was getting to go the land of Disney World and Hannah Montana
@@hudsonharder6951 I know an American who grew up in Cyprus and their friends in the USA were extremely jealous of them going to an island paradise of amazing beaches,so I guess it goes both ways.
Cypriots aren't white either
@@moranii1843 In free Cyprus almost everyone is Greek-Cypriot, which Iâm pretty sure is considered white. I also took a DNA test and I am personally mostly white. Anyway, I never said anything about whiteness in my comment. I said âminoritiesâ from which I meant ethnic minorities, which doesnât mean nonwhite per se.
@@the8thgemmer467 Cyprtipts are much closer to a arab than a typical northwest european American. You yourself would probably be confused for a Mexican in the US
I found it very interesting that at 6:42 you used a shot of wcco news which is the local cbs network in MN. You being Canadian and all I'm wondering if it was random or not.
In the episode of the Simpsonâs where they travel to Upstate New York, I got to see stereotypical views of towns I live near or have family in, and it was quite different from how it actually is. Still pretty funny though
We Americans make fun of New Yorkers too! don't think we've forgotten about you people!
JJ, you are my window on Canadian culture. I would never have gotten half of the jokes without your help. đ
Same here and Iâm Canadian lol
I learned quite a bit myself. Like those restaurant chains. Who knew there were Canadian chains plural and not one of them was Tim Horton.
I am not a native Canadian myself but my native Canadian friends say their is nothing canadian About him and he,s basically american.
@@ryanhuntrajput474 Have you not heard his pronunciation of "about"?
@@emjayay no body enunciates and pronounces "about" like that over here he intentionally exaggerates it for some reason which is oblivious to me.
The house is Queen Anne Victorian. There are a number of "Victorian" style houses, and yes, for some reason it corresponds to Queen Victorias reign, although it primarily an American style having pretty much nothinh to do with the earlier British Queen Anne style . Being popular from 1880 to 1920, it was the last, and most ornate, of the Victorian styles characterized by numerous shingle siding patterns, round corner turrets, wraparound porches, and fine "gingerbread" filligris detail work and carvings.
There are still a number of these houses in Port Huron, Michigan (across the river from Sarnia, Ontario)
In case you guys think the "not available in Texas" thing is just a stereotype, I'm a Texan and my biology teacher apologized for having to teach us about evolution, we only learned it for one day, and there wasn't even any text book entry for it
@@Aardappelpurree wait until you find out about our education budget
In Oregon, the religious are a minority and the teacher STILL apologized about teaching evolution. I don't remember textbooks entries, but we did watch videos.
I grew up with near Seattle (where I still live) and had one Canadian television channel out of Vancouver. The Kids in the Hall was my favorite show.
Fans of J.J McCullough should be called "Friends".
Quakers??
Nice
Absolutely.
NO! don't create a community, they always group up and act like buffoons
It will be called "the Society of Friends."
Cheesecake Factory is definitely the American equivalent of Earls
As someone who works at cheesecake I fully agree
No. Cheesecake Factory is similar to humpties not Earls.
Or Olive Garden
Maybe Red Lobster? Or Puck?
Yes
I super luv your vids , J.J.
8:24 We did have a Swiss Chalet in my hometown of Rochester, NY back in the '80s, I think. It folded by the turn of the millennium though. We also have a bunch of Tim Horton's locations, too.
Wisconsin: maple syrup cheese and beer. Canada: maple syrup cheese and beer. 8yo me: "it's all Wisconsin?â "always has been". The only two things that kept me realizing it was not to Wisconsin was the Niagara falls and the difference in the appearance of money.
As an American, I remember my first awareness of Canada was from tv ads that described where you could order things or enter contests. At the time, I think I divided the world into 4 categories: the lower 48, Hawaii and Alaska, Canada, and everything else that must presumably exist but was never relevant.
When I was a kid I didn't know the difference between minnesota and canada.. Red Green show had me totally confused
I also fondly remember that Bobby's World episode. Best part is how strongly connected Howie Mandel is to Canadian actors, who would appear often.. and of course the joke of that episode is that Bobby picks up on how those two hosers were talking, but at the border crossing, the guards immediately recognize that's _just how those two guys are_ so we learn it's not all Canadians. Kind of a play on Bob and Doug McKenzie (possibly voiced by them? I forget) who were made deliberately stereotypical because the canadian broadcasting people were like 'be more canadian' to canadians.
The simpsons will always be my favorite show! Glad i have found your channel man ive always wanted to visit Canada and you have given me a better understanding of how things work up there lol.
'I moved here from Canada and they think I'm slow, eh?'
A great line from one of the best episodes
17:55 -- I'm surprised JJ doesn't know that the Quebec Nordiques is not some 'dead' hockey team, but rather that it lives on as the Colorado Avalanche. The team relocated and became the Avalanche in 1995.
I mean yeah this is "correct" but I think it's fair to say that they're entirely different now, the same way the atlanta thrashers and the hartford whalers are gone. the people of quebec city don't care about getting the avalanche back as much as they care about getting a new nordiques from anywhere
If its not Canadian, and not French, it's not really the Nordiques! Nice try though!
This is only technically correct much like calling it âdeadâ is technically correct
More reaction videos jj. This was spectacular
Alanis Morisett used to be on âYou Canât Do That on Televisionâ I live in NJ, and I got to see that show on Nickelodeon (itâs a childrenâs cable television network in the statesâŠI donât know if itâs in Canada).
It blows my mind that an uninsured resident of Canada has a cheaper ER visit than my insurance offers me in America.
Because the medical field doesnt need to be insured because 1. Canadians cant sue their medical system and 2. The government underwrites the entire system! In the US it is required to have insurance, your insurance premiums change, usually go up. its a Private system, suing a physician seems to be a frequent practice so there is active competition among medical providers and there are quite a few other reasons that I wont list. But the bottom line is: Canada can afford to cap rates because the government pays everyone's salary that is in the system!
â@inconnu4961 all untrue and you're just an American ass kisser for big pharmacy.
Just noticed this and me too. True for three different states I've lived in if my memory serves.
I think you're wrong about Lisa's asylum claim. If she was a minor who arrived in Canada (especially if she was unconscious and required medical treatment upon arrival) she'd probably be assigned a social worker to act as her guardian in Canada. And that guardian might (if the situation seemed appropriate) initiate a refugee claim for said minor child.
Iâm from south eastern Michigan and I can remember the first time I went to Windsor. I remember feeling disappointed that it was really no different. They had Tim Hortonâs, so do we. They had big casinos, so do we. The accents were near identical. The only difference I can remember from that first trip was seeing Swiss Chalets as opposed to chiliâs/Applebeeâs. Over the years as Iâve gone back, the gift shops and bars had merch that said south Detroit on them (definitely from donât stop believing but still). They really are the nearly same city tbh
21 is such a ridiculously high age limit for drinking alcohol. For you to be a legal adult for 3 years without being able to consume alcohol is not exactly freedom.
A guy I know did a year of his degree in the US (from the UK) and was found to have been drinking and sent to alcoholics anonymous.
17:47 The Quebec Nordiques didn't actually die but the franchise moved to Denver and became the Colorado Avalanche. The avalanche actually wore jerseys with the Nordiques logo some games, but with Avalanche colors.
Damn, $995 for an E.R. Visit? Not only is it cheaper in Canada than here (My last E.R. visit was $1800 even with some of the best health insurance I could get as a postal worker.) but the fact that you know the prices UP FRONT is incredible. We don't know how much it's going to cost until after we leave.
And chances are they billed us for something they didnt even do or for something they didnt use to treat us!
I'm first generation Canadian. My parents are Brits. As a child we watched as much English TV as possible. When I started school I had a British accent and used a lot of English slang. My friends and teachers had a hard time understanding me. I've lost the accent, not the slang. When I start drinking the accent comes out, and quite strong so I've been told.
I find it funny how they portray Windsor as being a perfect little stereotypical Canadian city when in reality its like diet Detroit in a lot of ways. A lot of Americans also live in Windsor since its right on the border and you can see the American influence there. Southern Ontario as it is is the part of Canada that is closest to being like the US and Windsor is the closest city to being like it and no one talks with the stereotypical accent there.
Was born in raised in Windsor than moved to Michigan and everyone there said I had an accent but whenever I go back to Windsor Iâm told by family I have Michigander accent so idk what to believe anymore
Similar to Detroit, as in⊠high crime rates?
Windsor is like slightly cleaner Detroit, or at least thatâs how I remember it in the 1990s.
@@wbcx4491 thereâs a lot more to Detroit than crime rates đ
@@frankiecocca1060 If I had to guess it's probably just your accent shifting a little to in-between the two. Like I'm from a small town in Wisconsin and when I was a telemarketer I called someone in one of the southern states and they told me I sounded Canadian, but when I went to Thunder Bay, Onterio people could tell I was American from my accent. But then again both those people talked the same as I'm used to so I also don't know what to believe. I have been told by co-workers that I have a slightly more northern accent then most people around here so basically IDK.
The legal pot gag is especially dated since pot had just been legalized in Michigan a few months earlier when the episode came out, and Armstrong was shown crossing into Canada from Michigan
It's also just a really boring and predictable joke at this point. Gags about the legality of cannabis have been done to death.
It was legal in my state before it was legal in Canada. *shrugs
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Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell lived in Vancouver for a while, not for political reasons, but because of their son's interest in hockey.
According to the simpsons wiki, the song that Canadian Ralph is singing is off-the-cuff called "Islander Forever", evidently written by Arthur O'Brien of The Navigators. I'm also unfamiliar with the song (or Newfoundlander folk in general) but whether it was written purely for the episode, or just clipped to choose a particular part, as presented it definitely seems to be a slightly comedic, if barely in-on-the-joke take on "The Islander". I also get a sort of Monty Python-esque vibe to the cadence, similar to "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay". Also wasn't one of the old folks that Bobby meets in the short clip actually voiced by Dave Thomas? If there was anyone as 'in on the joke' about Canadian stereotyping, it was good ol' Doug McKenzie, eh?
Lived in Canada all my life and I've never heard anyone with an accent like yours.
old scots say it. Everywhere I ever met one.
Same lol
I've never met a Canadian with this accent either. I'm from Australia. But it seems to be the accent that Americans use to make fun of Canadians. I've never heard it for real though. Haha đ€Ł
Have you heard every single regional accent before.... I doubt it.
@@kazzagreen84 Yeah, when I first saw his videos, I thought, here's a Yank making fun of Canucks by exaggerating their accents.
I was raised in Vancouver and noticed you pronounce "about" closer to "a boot". Why I find this interesting is because my pronunciation of the word is a little more like "abowt" yet we live in a similar geographic.
I like a band called Macc Lads and they often mention chips and gravy in their lyrics. Like poutine without curds.
I immediately thought the reference to Marge and Lisaâs abandonment in the middle of nowhere winter was subtle reference to Canadaâs troubling history of âStarlight Toursâ.
@@matthewlawton9241 There's nothing to be intrigued about, it's just cops arresting Indigenous people for no reason, driving them out out town, and dropping them off in the middle of nowhere in the dead of winter to freeze. Apparently, they've been doing that for decades, but eventually three people died from it. It's Canada's passive, hands-off version of police-brutality, those people were Indigenous George Floyds. đ
As a Canadian, the description of Earls food chain was spot on
applebees or olive garden/red lobster?
@@JAlonge017 I'm not sure there's really a good analogue for Earls in the US. (Canadian here, spent a lot of time in the US.) It's definitely classier than Applebees -- I'd say the Canadian equivalent of that one is probably Kelsey's -- and it doesn't have an overt "theme" like OG or RL does.
But yeah, I'd more-or-less agree with JJ in that it's a bit pricier than your average family restaurant, has a bit nicer interior, the lights are a bit dimmer, the waitstaff is wearing decently nice uniforms. It's the kind of place you'd take your significant other on, say, your 4th anniversary... but not your 1st, or your 10th, or any other big one.
Earls has expanded to the states, gotta say itâs pretty good! Best chain food by far
Maybe like a Cheesecake Factory? Kind of "upscale" in appearance but just burgers and stuff. Servers dress in collared shirts and long aprons, etc...
Yeah Id say its like cactus club... or are they not in 'murica either?
Yes in my state of Texas we have something like earls called cheddars, earls gives me the same feelings about cheddars in some way.
As a Minnesotan, our stereotypes are very similar to Canadian ones. Many people in the US joke that MN is a runaway province of Canada or "basically Canada anyway." There is a lot of overlap in the accent too, though I'm not sure if it's for the same reason. The strong MN accent is basically just what Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish people sound like when they speak English, passed down and slightly evolved. We are the country's hotspot for the vast majority of Nordic Americans (myself included), but I have no idea if Canada had similar immigration patterns or not.
As a PBS nerd, my image of Canada was shaped by the Red Green Show. I would love to see you talk about it as a piece of Canadian media.
I'm a man
But I can change
If I have to
I guess
âIf she canât find ya handsome. She can at least find ya handy.â
My dad was a huge fan of the Red Green Show when my sister & I were growing up. Personally, I never understood it, but the memories of him laughing at the TV until he was red in the face is nice, seeing as he was usually more stoic and reserved back then. đ Heâs mellowed out a lot these days - since having grandkids. lol
Red green show, extremely accurate for rural Canadians lol
@@letsfindoutwhy3233 Exactly! A classic!
Living in Halton (between Toronto and Niagara Falls) this dude is 10X more Canadian sounding than anyone I know
He sounds American to me until he gets to an "about" where he really hits the BOOT part.
Ironically, he sounds like a Canadian character on a Simpsons episode, dialled up to 11.
I agree from the Windsor region and from my perspective he has an accent I've never heard anyone in Ontario with, I do agree the Americans come and get smashed every weekend in Windsor.
@@MrGordozzzz That has not changed, with the exception of Covid-19 locking down the borders.
Yeah, he's kinda Maritimey with an equal mix of BC douchebag. It's weird.