The Sweater
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- An animated version of a short story by Roch Carrier, who narrates this tale based on his boyhood experiences in rural Quebec. Imagine a young boy's chagrin when his only Montreal Canadiens hockey sweater wears out and 'Mr. Eaton' sends him a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater by mistake!
For ages 5 - 8
Directed by Sheldon Cohen - 1980 | 10 min
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For anyone watching who's not from Canada, this is not just a cute animated short...this is a commentary on Canada itself!
Back in the day of Maurice Richard, the NHL was ruled and founded by british aristocrats. The Stanley Cup itself is named after a British lord and governor general (representative of the Queen of England in Canada) so when you are a poor, rural french canadian, those are the people you want sent to the guillotine like the cousins did across the pond.
In 1955, Richard, the french canadian underdog himself, was suspended by The Man himself, Clarence Campbell and the ensuing riot is seen as one of the events that triggered Quebec's Quiet Revolution.
Haha froggies
@@thehistoadian haha têtes carrés
@@thehistoadianeveryone riots over hockey in Canada
I think the layers of meaning are lost to most people when the Curate says, "You do not lay down the law here just because you have a blue sweater!"😉
"You are exagerating the influence of hockey in our national identity"
-No canadian ever.
Mr Eaton should have known better then to send a Francophone a Toronto Maple leafs sweater, it was probably a sick joke.
Actually Mr. Eaton's policy was "Goods Satisfactory or Money Refunded." It must have been a mistake by the company, or something. Either way, Mr. Eaton would have most certainly refunded the money, or could have agreed to an even exchange.
@@HarbingerOfBattleMany Francophone doesn’t understand english while using catalog.
Dat Mr Eaton, stupid english guy, he fuck up the order! LOL!!!
I’m born and raised in Toronto. I absolutely love this story because it fully encapsulates the MTL/TOR hockey rivalry - and, generally, any hockey rivalry. This story is as important to the country as the Canadian Constitution.
Well said. It's a story nearly as old as Canada itself.
Perfectly encapsulates how the Canadians are a revered franchise and the Leafs are a damn shithole.
Its a story immigrants do not share.
MTL/TOR as important as the Canadian Constitution itself? Eastern Canada is an oppression that has run it's course. WEXIT. You won't even notice our departure. Adios!
It's funny how much I adore this short despite, well, not being Canadian, but I have a very specific nostalgia connected to "The Sweater". When I was young, my neighbors used to have screenings on their little patio of great old movies with an old-school projector and reels that they got from a local library. The Sweater was one that they showed every time, without fail. We all knew the story by heart. We quoted it as it played, and hummed the tunes. Those movie nights were some of my best memories, so it stands to reason that I'd still be thinking of The Sweater after all these years.
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing that story :)
Great share thanks
That was a beautifully expressed memory; I loved it. Thank you for sharing it with us. -- Brian
Even as a Leafs fan, I never understood why Roch's mother, a Quebecois woman, couldn't understand and empathize with his revulsion at having to wear a Toronto sweater
Love your icon of Scott! He's not your friend, guy!
8:54 is what you are all looking for
THANKYOU
Why have you willingly decided to come to the original if you're skipping the whole thing jumping to the part you've already seen
@@inqurity Funni
@@inqurity the novelty
@@inqurity context
This is a timeless classic
I was not thinking that this short clip came from an animation that takes place in Québec, i'm proud to live in Québec.
go to the church and ask god to forgive u
I love it more everytime I watch it.
Other than the memes, that kid is right about not wanting a Leafs sweater. Who would want a sweater of a team that does so much choking and has a drought so long that it arguably makes them the most pathetic, sad, sorry excuse for a team and arrogant fanbase in all of sports? I know cause I am Leafs fan. Wearing the team outside the city brings about scorn and laughter.
I didn’t expect to see you here.
Hey I know you!
Wait till you see Canucks fans, the copium is extreme
Sport team's are just sport's, what TRULY matter's is loving Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior ^^
@@randomstudios8836 I’m also a Urinatingtree enjoyer.
So the mom tells the son “it doesn't matter what you wear on your back”, but insists that her family all wear the latest styles, as to not let people think they are poor. 😂
The sweater probably still looked good, it was just the wrong team.
1946 was a different time than any in history. The reasons for actions of people would likely be different than any other time as well. Thanks for your comment and giving me something I haven’t thought much on before.
We lived in three places:
The Church
The School
And the Skating Rink, but our real lives were on the skating rink. An actual quote on our five dollar bill.
I like how there isn't even a moral to the story, a kid is just forced to wear a sweater and gets hated for it.
The moral of the story is canadian self hatred
The moral of the story is the Mapel Leaves suck
I remember reading this book when I was a kid and when the boy got the Toronto Maple Leafs jersey I cringed. I'm from Edmonton, Alberta so this is kind of like me wearing a Flames jersey instead of a Oilers jersey.
I mean the Laffs are the most pathetic team in all of sports so yeah can’t blame you.
I read the book in kindergarten but I never cared about sports my entire life so I didn’t care
oh fuck yeah a fellow edmonton resi! and you honestly got the feeling down
From Calgary here, we can put aside our differences to cringe at that
Im American would kill myself if I had to wear a red Sox’s jersey or worse a Patriots T shirt.
Roch Carrier's mom: If you wear that old sweater, people are going to think we're poor!
Also Roch Carrier's Mom: It's not what you put on your back that matters, it's what you put inside your head.
..Gotta feel sorry for that guy o_o;
"People are gonna think you're poor" - Every French-Canadian mom ever
Makes sense actually. You can wear the wrong thing, as long as that thing looks good to French-Canadians.
Nobody's gonna comment on how wearing the wrong team's sweater is not a justification to be treated the way he was? He was pushed to the sidelines for a perceived preference.
Kinda messed up when you think about it. Literal bullying of a child.
Nah man wearing the wrong team's sweater fr be like a Canadian christian sin yo
If you wore the wrong sweater in Canada it is Hearesy
What a classical! And for all of the Habs fans rubbing into the leafs you shouldn’t bother. All the Leaf fans I knew growing up loved this cartoon and laughed along me and other Hab fans. It’s really well done, and certainly Toronto fans appreciate how important The Rocket was to Quebec. Fun story.
Every Canadian hates someone that likes a different team then them. For example I like The Blackhawks (because it's my dad's favorite) and my friend likes Vegas and we fight all the time and like to tease each other.
This is so charming and is absolutely how a young boy of that tender age would feel. I'm actually glad it just ends with no resolution. The hope is all ends well. Just another life lesson for a young boy.
A lot of people watched this short as children and got bogged down in the semantics of it. It's not about bullying. It's an allegory for Anglo-Canada vs Frank-Canada. The "specifics" as they happened IRL are almost certainly hyper-exaggerated for the purpose of the story. Don't take it at face value.
Could you explain
@@asackboyplush6508 French-speaking Canadians vs. English-speaking Canadians.
Wait, we were supposed to learn a lesson from this? I thought the lesson was "life is unfair, and you're not wrong for feeling unfairly about it." and my favourite part and what felt like vindication for my childhood was when he prayed for God to send him moths to eat his sweater. Finally, adults showing us a story about a kid treated unfairly by adults, and the kid is just an ordinary kid without much freedom and not much to do about the situation, but he uses his chance to pray for something to undo his place in life.
The poster is correct, with one caveat: As a youngster in Toronto in the late 60s and early 70s (yes, I even remember the last time the Leafs won Lord Stanley's Cup), Maurice "Rocket" Richard, though already retired, was still a revered and beloved player, even in Toronto. In the Anglo-Franco divide of those times, hockey was our common ground and agreed-upon battleground. And one never disrespects a great general, even when he wars for the enemy. As a proud Torontonian of those times, I would still have worn a No. 9 hockey sweater with honour and no shame.
@@andrewcharles459 Not a Leafs fan, but my fave Leafs to watch were Tiger, Lanny, Borje, Darryl Sittler, Wendel, Ricky Vaive, Mirko Frycer, Davey Keon, and the Chief, George Armstrong.
Good luck getting the theme sound out of your head after this. I've been singing it for the last 7 years.
Just to screw with you, look up the Log Drivers Waltz. Then see how long till you get that out of your head!
My fave old-time Hab was Dickie Moore. When I was a kid in the 1970s I admired Kenny Dryden, Bob Gainey and Larry Robinson.
Later on it was Le Petit Viking, Mats Naslund, and Rick Green.
American film critic/journalist & former Entertainment Tonight film correspondent Leonard Maltin once wrote in one of his "Classic Movie Guide" books that "The Sweater" is perhaps the best short film ever made. (animation or live action) I agree 100% !!!!!!!
nothing beats pigeon impossible. how dare you say those things, you should go to that church yourself and pray to god to forgive you for your sins of saying that this is better than pigeon impossible
The Sweater: tells the author's childhood story about being discriminated against because he wore the jersey of their hated anglophone rivals during a time period when tensions between English and French-speaking Canadians were at a boiling point -- even when it came to playing the country's most beloved sport, thereby demonstrating just how deep the hatred between the two groups went.
The internet: "Goh tu thuh chirch and ass Godd tu fuh-GEEV yu!"
Let the children on the internet have their fun. They'll be grown up soon enough.
“Go to that church and ask God to fug you.”
Seems the hatred comes from only one side...
You know it's Canada when instead of using a mail order sheet, you just politely write the CEO and he handles it for you.
@André Lussier ... that's only a backlash reaction to Quebec language laws discriminating against the use of English in Quebec.
I decided to base my Christmas card this year after this classic. I must've re-watched it at least a couple dozen times and freeze-framed the living hell out of it while trying to imitate the art style; it gave me a whole new appreciation for the work of the animators.
Its a classic Canadian story book.
This is a masterpiece! Even as an English speaking Quebecer , I lived it, just as it is presented here. Getting to meet the Great "Rocket Richard" himself is one of my most cherished memories.
I was a child of 8 when I first saw this on a PBS station in Minnesota. I understood the young boy's disappointment of getting the wrong sweater, although I loved figure skating and followed the MN North Stars. Now 50 years later it was good to find this on YT.
Still love hockey, follow the MN Wild, but haven't skated in years. It is good to know that getting the right sweater is important. Tres Bon. - Annie
This story would be akin to you getting a Blackhawks jersey instead! Lol 😂
I am now a very amused Australian for having seen this work of art, created by our Canadian brothers.
The animation style is so rich ❤
I remember reading the book version of this, "The Hockey Sweater", several times as a kid. It was in the library at my school, and I lost track of the number of times I checked it out. I'm surprised I didn't get my own copy. While I never was a Canadiens fan, I always found this story fascinating. That's likely I kept reading it again and again.
It certainly is written for different levels of comprehension of the Quebec situation.
Go to 4:59, pause the video, and use the period and comma keys to go frame by frame. That dog is terrifying!
5:00
Bro that dog is creepy af.
oh god
Nightmare fuel
Something keeps making me come back to this film, I don't know what.
I’m not even Canadian but this video is my favorite film I’ve watched like 6 times.
Same
I do not know much french, But I'm of heavy French Canadian ancestry. I really love this story.
I have absolutely no Quebecois in me at all but being 100% Canadian I love it too!
A great story, evoking nostalgia and the terrible injustices of childhood. Nicely done.
That's like a New York Yankees fan getting a Boston Red Sox jersey.
Or vice versa. Or a Brooklyn Dodger fan in the 1940s getting New York Yankee gear.
+lawman592 Good point.
+Dachshund Actually, this is much more intense. Not only is there a language division, there is a religious division too, and also the Quebecois were not fond of being drafted to fight during WWII, when Ontario and much of the rest of English Canada willingly volunteered.
+ip ma - That's true. Sports team rivalries in the US are usually based on geography with an occasional component of historical bad blood (e.g., Yankees-Red Sox and the so-called "Curse of the Bambino").
Are you American?
8:54 the reason why you're here
UTree sent me here.
Lmao same
@@bubbabear244 who?
@@Ashley19927urinatingtree he made some video of that 8:53
They used to play this every morning before the start of ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) summer camp. This brings back nostalgic feelings and memories every time I watch it. Anyone else have the same experience?
Love this still till this day ❤
They were trolling hardcore even back in the 40's.
The most Canadian of stories. Brilliant.
It must be 30 years ago I first saw this. It will always be one of my favorite things.
Moral of the story: The book's cover matters more than the content.
My tradition every time I get a new sweater (Jersey) I come here and watch this! Just ordered the Dahlin goathead!
I'm proud of being a fan of the Canadiens. This little short is very charming and cute, and as far as hockey and as a result, Canadian culture is concerned, it's quite cute to see the fires of rivalry back in 1946 I think is when Roch said it took place. The rivalry between the Habs and the Leafs goes way back. I'm just glad I'm rooting for the right team (firewall up)
One of the reasons why I had three jobs at 15 years old was to have money to avoid finding this cartoon way too damn relatable.
"A good boy never looses his temper!"
[Proceeds to loose his temper]
this would make an incredible Boards of Canada music video
Holy shit you’re so right
This is one of the must watch of Canadian films. Its such a classic!
Every play off season this video grows in power
In the way early days of cable T.V. this was a staple
'filler' - my brother Marty loved it. RIP Bro.
Last time I saw this it was on a wood grained floor model television. Now it’s on a 6” handheld screen that is 1 cm thickish. Kinda surreal when you think about it.
Growing up in a US town with an "Original 6" hockey team, I get this. My dad would have loved it.
This a classic Canadian story
A Classic NFB fi and teaches some life's lessons besides! One of my favourite NFB films!
His mom ordered a Canadiens jersey and they sent him an ugly rag. True story.
My dad is from North Bay and his mother was ethnically French Canadian, but she was brought up by English relatives after her mother died in childbirth. I never met her dad, my great-grandfather, who died the month after I was born. He was a bilingual French Canadian carpenter on both sides of the Ottawa valley. Whenever I think of him, I hear the wonderful voice of Roch Carrier. Merci beaucoup, monsieur.
I'm a Blackhawks fan, but I also respect and lover the Maple Leafs and Canadiens equally. GO HAWKS, GO LEAFS, and GO CANADIENS!!!
Alex Benson it's go habs go
My friend Matt HATES the Toronto maple leafs
are you insane? you cant cheer for both ,you just cant.. you're going to tear a hole in the space/time continuum and you will destroy the universe.
skywalker01974 my Dad roots for both.
I've been a Ranger fan since the 70's, but I always had a deep reverence for LaHabitants. Hated Toronto in those days, cause they were so horrible...but, in the ensuing years, I've developed a respect for the Leafs, as well...and the Hawks, too, Lol. Used to have a Stephane Richer poster on my wall, as well as a Denis Savard one, too....when Guy Lafleur came to the Rangers I think I went through puberty all over again, Lol...
I'm 3 generations -older- younger then this kid and I'd still tell my mother to go pound sand if she ever tried to buy me a Maple Leafs jersey. It's Canucks #1 Habs #2. Anything else = noes. You have to be a Canadian not living in Toronto to understand.
There's no way you're older than this kid
This might be a dumb question but who are the Habs?
@@cherrycolareal Montreal Canadiens. Leafs are better but always disappoint in playoffs
@@nooneplayz Okay, thanks for informing
You’re three generations older then a kid born in 1936? And your mother is still alive?
Well, time to draw an immaculate representation of sportsman
Everyone else, well they can look like crayon drawings of a Morel Orel character
Wonderful story spoken in a child's voice. It would have been tough to wear a sweater of "the other team" no matter where you lived. I know because I chose to support Montreal when everyone else cheered for Toronto. It made me tougher.
And just think that Carrier was forced to wear the Maple Leaf sweater all because his mother didn’t want to upset the guy who ran the catalog in fear that he was a fan of them.
I first saw this at the Cineplex Eaton Centre in Toronto. The cartoon started after the kaleidoscope display ended. If you are just old enough to remember what a kaleidoscope was, you'll agree that watching a movie in those days was special. That is, it was an event. You were sometimes helped to your seat by an usher with a flashlight. The popcorn somehow tasted better than popcorn anywhere else. There was a heavy velvet curtain in front of the screen that parted just before the main feature began.
I really like the way this is drawn and animated. Really childlike and carefree
Classic story. My dad read to me as kid all the time. The french version Le Chandail de Hockey
This is honestly so adorable! It really brings the book to life. Viva The Rocket!
If this was made today, the boy would've got a Boston Bruins jersey and he would be dead by the time he comes in to the rink
ROFL truth.
I remember reading this book. A Canadian hockey claßic. Will buy this book for my grand children.
Why do you use the German S
@@EliStettner it is a claßic
@@EliStettner clashicßßßßßßßßßß
@@tlpa классиксссссс
If you don't understand the social commentary of this video then you must not be Canadian.
sweiland75 I’m Canadian and I think the little French fuck is an ungrateful fuck
@@PHATB0Y20 Imagine being forced to wear something you never wanted to wear out in public and get humiliated for it. I wouldn't feel very grateful to begin with.
Vod Kinockers how is he ungrateful he’s a fan of the Montreal Canadians not of the Toronto maple leafs so why would he want to wear it that’s like telling me to wear a hawks jersey or a rangers I wouldn’t do it
This is actually beautiful
Stand: [MAURICE RICHARD] Stand Master: [ROCK CARRIER]
theprimerib of all places, this would be last place I would expect a jojos reference
8:54 the meme
C'est une belle histoire sur le Québec rural. La famille de ma mère a des racines au Québec et ce film est un merveilleux rappel de cette culture.
I watched the French version of this in grade 3. Fun fact: this story was on the back of the old $5 bill.
Such wonderful memories wash over me seeing this again. You didn't have a proper Canadian childhood if you've never read the book or watch this at school.
8:54 is a masterpiece
9:08 what almost every single LEAFS fan wishes every spring when they lose in the first round
lol xD
I’ve wished it ever since the David Ayres game. Fuck this franchise, the most pathetic team in the big 4 leagues.
What do you call 32 millionaires watching the NHL playoffs? The Toronto Maple Leafs😅😅😅😅
Lol. 33 counting Ballard watching from his box in hell.
Wow... you could get a sweater for $3 in the 1940's? Man, inflation is evil. :[
"and send me the change if there is any"
Awesome story. So well done. The video and the story. All of it. So nice to see this. Thank you
My friend and I have this routine we do at parties about, like, a pyrotechnics-heavy sequel where the kid (now grown up and played by Vin Diesel) goes to Toronto to unleash a plague of moths on the Leafs. Of course we tell it all in a Quebecois accent and the tagline is "This summer, REVENGE combs its 'air like Maurice Richard!"
It's so stupid. :)
I remember watching this in like grade 1. Good memories
I have to watch this because I have a test on moday about it!
Same
me too lol
Anglais intensif ?
I watched this when I was in grade 2!!!!!!
So did I!
+Zachary Benjamin Hey! i did to!
same
I like how the only moral of the story is "fuck the maple leafs"
This is cool animation.
I love this so much.
Boy: I can't wear that!!!!Mother: Why the sweater is a perfect fit!!Boy: Maurice Richard would never wear it!!!!Mother: Your not Maurice Richard!!!!!
I loved it when Maman told the boy it's what's in your head and not on your back that counts or words to that effect. The present Premier of Quebec and Steven Harper should listen to Roch Carrier's Maman.
7:50 Xxnoobkiller2213 has Joined the Game
I probably shouldn't be surprised, but this is the most Canadian looking thing imaginable.
I’m so used to him saying Fug that forgive sounds unnatural
Same.
I saw this in the late 70's at the St. Louis Art Museum. They did a series of presentations of Canadian animation over several months. This and the Logdriver's Waltz were my lasting favorites. My best friend who shared the series with me (as neither her boyfriend, nor my girlfriend "got it") still wonder at the fact that Canada has the NFB. What a gift to Canada and the world.
8:05
i want this to be a meme (yes, with the 'come')
he actually went to the church lol
even as a toronto lifetime resident, I don't blame that kid!
Me too! As a Leafs, I don't blame that kid too, but I don't like that version of the Toronto Maple Leafs logo because it doesn't look like a Leaf at all.
We rock The Sweater, we rock it proud.
Rock like Carrier, we rock it loud
Throw on that C-H go, and let The Whole World know.
If we wanna show the world what greatness is
André D Red and blue and white sweater, the C-H it is.
8:54 Beautiful
Thanks for uploading
I remember way back when I still lived in the US. I did a french project in high school about this story... Ah memories
Does not get any better than this
This seems like something right out of my childhood, but I found it through internet memes
Same.
It's weird for me because it IS part of my childhood. We were shown this in school when we were really young, and we made an inside joke of the whole "ask gahhd to fuhgeev yu" thing like ten years ago. Seeing it actually become an internet meme is beyond surreal.
Timeless!!!!!
Beautiful story