Australian Reacts To I Am Canadian Commercials 

what you missed, is not that a Canadian will eventually get mad, but the pulling the jacket over the head is a hockey fight reference

By the way, the feet of the lunar lander were made in Québec so the first part to touch the surface was Canadian🇨🇦

I really am shocked that the "I am Canadian - Rant", with "Joe" wasn't covered. As a Canadian, I can tell you that it is the best.

For our Aussie friends, a beaver is a platypus that knows how to skate.

hello from Canada, watching these commercials is such a blast from the past and make me even prouder to be Canadian

As a 50-yr old Canadian this was a trip down memory lane. I remember all of these now that I see them. They were always on HNIC.

The one with the jacket being pulled over his head is a copy of a move that hockey players make when fighting with other players.

In 1983 while bicycling down the west coast of Canada and the US , I was at a biker-hiker campsite in southern Oregon near the California border. One of the girls I met said she had a cousin in Canada and asked if I knew her. Being cute I asked what her cousins name was and yes, I actually did know her and we had gone to high school together. Sometimes Canada is not that big.

Always happens when traveling. I was walking around the Coliseum in Rome. An Italian noticed the Canadian flag on my backpack. He stopped me to talk and wanted to know if I knew his cousin Giuseppe in Ottawa. When I said 'no', he spent the next 30 minutes telling me all about Giuseppe in Ottawa. He thought that Giuseppe needed a Canadian wife and he thought I'd do just fine. LOL!

I live in Alberta Canada. I was driving to town. Some guy, dressed in a big foot costume, was riding a ride on lawn mower mowing his lawn ... yeah.

The #1 hands down best I Am Canadian commercial is called ‘The Rant’

I've used that one a lot, or OH ya, he moved to New York with Dean from New Zealand... the first time I was in California,5:30 in the AM, just got off the freeway and hit the beach to grab a couple of hours of sleep., I had parked my bike and just kicked back leaning against my duffel and sleeping bag, relaxing, enjoying the cool ocean breeze, and this absolutely gorgeous babe was walking her dog down the sand. She waved and asked me what I was doing so early in the morning and I said I just got into town. She asked where I'd come from and I said I'd just rode down from Canada...she asked me what state that was in...then when I said no, darlin' that's the country up north of the US she asked me why I was on a motor cycle and I said I rode one all the time. She the looked at me like I was crazy and said ,OH no, you can't fool me, Canadians have to have snwomobiles and dog sleds 'cause it's snowy and icy up there. I then explained to her that NO, it wasn't all snow and ice, and that where I was from on Vancouver Island was just as nice as living in Northern Cali, and sometimes Nor Cal got more snow in the winter than we did. She kind of took it all in, and then she saw the Canadian flag on my duffel bag and smiled,asked me if I had any weed...I said no (at the time I wasn't even smoking, because I wasn't sure about drug testing at the border, you know, dumb shit .) and asked her why...she said she saw the "POT leaf" on my bag and I near pissed myself laughing, she asked me why and I said that what she saw wasn't a pot leaf, it was a maple leaf, the official sign of Canada...she just looked at me like I was weird and said "bye" and walked off down the beach with her ugly little dog and her sweet sexy ass. That was my introduction to Americans who didn't know crap about Canada.

I remember most of these commericials. My absolute favorite is the one with the beaver. Gets me every time

As a Canadian I get all the references despite only watching the occasional Olympic hockey game. The first video is in a shop that sells souvenirs. The object is a type of bobblehead in the form of a moose, an animal associated with Canadian wilderness. The one at 4:31 where the Canadian pulls the jacket over the other guy's head is a popular move when fighting occurs in hockey. At 8:40 it IS a ball. Do you think we can skate outside the whole year? The majority of Canadians live near the US border. Winters in southern Ontario are shorter and warmer. All across Canada people play road or ball hockey all year, especially kids. If your driveway is big enough, you can play there. In primary school, playing floor hockey was a favourite gym or PE activity for everyone. There are balls specific for each type of activity. Even ice hockey has a variety of puck types, including softer foam rubber ones. 9:33 the recycling he's referring to is the deposit you get back when you take your empties back to the place that accepts them. In Ontario, you'd take beer cans and bottles as well as certain other other alcohol bottles back to The Beer Store, run by the province. Sometimes bottle drives are held by charities who are willing to take donated empties. This recycling has existed way before municipal household recycling. 12:22 - you need to look at hockey history to understand it.

They missed my favorite Molson commercial, "What, nobody shaves during the playoffs" The ball against the garage door is a summer road hockey, pucks don't slide on concrete.

As a Canadian, I like to say that Canadians are nice and polite until we're not. That's when you should run lol.

Canadian kids play a lot of street hockey growing up. In every neighbourhood, there's usually one or two kids who have a store bought street hockey goal (cheap aluminum tubing and netting that probably weighs about 10 lbs total). A stretch of road, ideally without parked cars, is our "ice", the sidewalks serve as the boards and the preferably two, but one will do, goals are set up, and off we go running up and down the street. Depending on the street you're playing on, the shouts of "CAR!" may be pretty frequent. We then stop playing as the nets are dragged to the side to allow the car's passage and then quickly dragged back.(As an aside, my gang had THE perfect venue. A stretch of road connecting two streets, that only had the sides of 4 houses, 2x2, "facing" that street, so no parked cars and hardly any traffic.) When I started playing, almost 60 years ago, a tennis ball served as our puck, but towards the end of my street hockey career(early 70's) , someone came up with that semi-hard, kind of dead, bounce-wise, international orange "official" street hockey ball that was in your video. Man, that thing hurt when it hit you, especially as it stiffened up in sub-40° degree temps. Around the same time, someone came up with a way to salvage all those broken hockey sticks. We'd cut of the broken or delaminating blades and replace them with a plastic blade that had a rectangular socket to accommodate the remainder of the stick. The plastic blade could be heated to form as extreme (and illegal) a curve as you desired, lol. By the way, that hockey tape being used to "stop" a leak in the commercial, is amusing, because the tape is adhesive backed woven cloth and fairly permeable to water.

As you know, Canada actually has warm summers, so that means no ice. We play road hockey in the summer and so we use a ball instead of a puck.

Man, I miss these commercials. They were great.

@10:40, please note the black hockey tape on the blade of the stick. The tape (also jokingly referred to as being able to fix anything, including plumbing) is thin and flexible and has an amount of grip to it that helps the player to control the puck during play. It is removed and replaced fairly frequently to allow for maximum puck control/grip. That's brand new tape on the extremely curved blade, which is why he can pick up/control the beer bottle. Molson sponsors all the Hockey Night in Canada tv broadcasts of hockey games and the style of commercials became so iconic and associated with game broadcasts that viewers recognized them immediately, without having to show the product until the end slogan.

One of the strongest aspects of our Canadian culture is our pride that we are absolutely NOT Americans haha

Yes, the commercials poked fun at our stereotypes. For the most part, we laugh at the stereotypes That's what made the commercials so funny

I've actually been asked, "Do you know Glen from Winnipeg?" My reply is, "Yeah it was tragic what happened to Glen. He didn't build his igloo strong enough and the polar bears got in and killed him." With a friendly chuckle afterwards, most people figure out that I'm joking...

The recycling reference is in regards to the beer bottles, we pay a bottle deposit at the store, and we take the empties back to the store or some kind of depot, and we get 10cents back per empty bottle or can. It's how many kids "allowances" are paid out.

I love the hockey fight with guy in the office the Canadian guy pulls his jacket up over his head like in a hockey fight 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

You mentioned Rick Mercer's Talking to Americans! MAD RESPECT!!!! You understand our plight. lol

"Oh yeah, Office Glenn, he died." And the pulling the jacket over the head one was out at the same time - hockey fight style! I'm not a real beer fan, but damn our beer commercials are awesome.

oh man, i miss these commercials! The sense of humour was great!!

Most Canadians traveling in the US have had an "Oh, do you know Glenn?" moment.

My favourite This Hour Has 22 Minutes segment is when Rick Mercer is in the States asking people to sign a petition to stop putting Canadian Seniors on the Ice Flows to drift out to sea after they reach a certain age.

1) the segment with the Canadian pulling the guys suit jacket over his head is a move in a hockey fight. Doing that is known as "jerseying" someone. You pull the back of the hockey jersey over your opponents head and start throwing upper cuts with one hand while holding them bent over with the other hand. 2) the J stroke is a term for a canoeing stroke. The person in the rear of the canoe is the one steering and that person does either a J stroke or a C stoke to direct the forward movement. 3) Pucks are flat, round discs which slide well on ice but not so much on pavement. Balls are substituted for street hockey in the summer time. Enjoyed this like always.

most of these ads were aired on TV during a NHL hockey games, lots of hockey references. pulling up the shirt from the back up over the head is a typical move in a hockey fight, hockey puck on the moon, put hockey tape on the face shield LOL. the beaver is Canada's nation animal emblem, mainly because of the history of the European fur trade hundreds of years ago.... Hudson's bay company...Olympic year

There are two varieties of hockey tape. 1. Stick tape: A strong cloth like adhesive fabric used to fortify the blade of your hockey stick. It is like a stronger, inflexible version of surgical tape. (Shown in commercial). 2. Sock tape: A clear, stretchy, adhesive plastic used to fasten your hockey socks to your shin pads by wrapping them around your legs.

The suit coat over the head is in reference to a hockey move. In a fight, you pull the other guy's jersey over his head. That way he can't move his arms and can't see. Then you punch him in the face. The black marks on the garage door (or shed) are from a puck. You put a piece of plywood on the driveway and shoot the puck off the plywood. Canadian beavers look cute and cuddley but they will turn on you in a second and you don't know why.

On the garage door, I'm in Calgary where decades ago, our NHL team the Flames had a great defenseman named Al McInnes. He was an offensive defenseman ie he scored a lot of goals. He was born in the Maritimes and learned to shoot well by shooting pucks at his home's garage door.

That shiny thing on the left next to the moose is a fancy little maple syrup container that's sold to tourists that you'd keep on your shelf after you're done with the syrup. Supposed to look like a snowy cabin (sugar shack?)

I didn't see anyone below mention the Molson's ad with "I Would Walk 500 miles!" The ending gets me EVERY time. Forever glad, I AM CANADIAN!!!

The blades on hockey sticks are all curved to a certain degree. You can shop around for the right curve you would like depending on your style of play and your intentions. Before composite hockey sticks, the old wood sticks with the wood/graphite blades could be curved to your liking if you heated them up, usually with a blow torch.

Street hockey (shinny) is played at all seasons. Pucks are only used in winter. Balls are used in spring, summer, and fall. My favourite was the one about the guy in Toronto who died. Yes, that has happened more than once. I had a friend who visited way down south, I think it was Memphis TN, where he was asked if he knew someone in Toronto (the friend lived in Calgary AB, (a 33 hour drive without stops and even longer if you don't go through North Dakota, Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and the upper peninsula of Michigan). He also said that person was dead. It was much easier than explaining it all.

The orange balls are a hard form of plastic that don't bounce and behave a lot like a hockey puck, and you use them for the sport of ball hockey, which you play in summer wearing sneakers. Even in Canada the ice melts sometimes.

I’ve bought those big kegs for bbq’s with several friends. They’re cheaper than individual bottles and a fun bubba to play with. Just have to very careful when you open the spout! 🇨🇦

When these ads were made, my roommate at the time worked at the ad agency, and I visited his office. The inspiration room for Molson, looked like somebodies basement so they would hang out in there and come up with these concepts.

5:47 Regarding running water... I live in Norway. Lets just say that if you insulate your pipes and make sure that there's always movement of the water in the pipes it'll take a long time before it'll freeze through and be blocked entirely.

love how the Canadian is very quiet with the insults then pulls the Jacket over his head and starts the beating...lol. That is a Hockey fight move.

You only use a puck in ice hockey when playing on the road, parking lot or driveway we use a ball. One because a puck wouldn't move well on rough surfaces like the road two pucks are to hard and can do a lot of damage if they hit a house, car, person.

During a hockey fight a common tactic is to pull your opponents jersey over his head so you can beat on him without resistance. In case you were wondering why the Canadian guy pulled the other guy's blazer up. LOL!

did you see the one about chasing beaver? I was worth a chuckle or two.

I always loved the "I am Canadian" commercials. In the 80's, there was a rise in Canadian patriotism. These commercials played into that sentiment. They were so popular, that a Quebec parody comedy skit was created. If I remember correctly, it was called, "I am not Canadian"

As Red Green said all problems can be solved with duct tape, we say duct tape can be improved by becoming hockey tape.

This compilation is missing the sequel to office-setting one where the Canadian and the American are at a bar (suit-jacket still over his head) and the Canadian said "No hard feelings, eh?" and the American good "Heh heh. you said eh." It's also missing two of the most iconic ones. The Joe from Canada rant and the "I Am Canadian" song.

Molson Canadian is made with American Corn with a little barley added afterwards (which isn't actually beer as its supposed to be fermented barely not corn) and owned by Coors which is an American Company.

The beer is called Canadian so you are reminded everytime in the commercial at the end

7:26 Hockey tape is a tape made specifically for hockey. More precisely, hockey sticks to give players more grip to hold on to and more grip on the head to control the puck. It's very resistant and water proof.

that Orange ball is just as hard as a Hockey puck, if not harder, lol.

Hockey tape improves the contact between the blade and the puck. The taped surface of the blade makes it easier to control the puck and accurately shoot a pass across the expanse of the rink to a speeding teammate.

Molson Canadian beer commercials were the best. Remember in the 1980's we had a beer strike, so while on strike our beer was replaced with Foster's beer which I understand is Australian. Never seen Foster's again after the beer strike was over.

The hockey tape is a versatile weapon in any handymans repertoire. I have personally used it to fix my car. There are two types of hockey tape. 1. Fabric like stick tape and 2. Plasticy pad tape for securing your shin pads to your legs.

Hockey tape is tape made especially for hockey sticks & other sports equipment - even comes in a variety of colours.

Hockey tape is like a tough duct tape, but with a high traction grippy surface. It's meant to be applied to the hockey stick to improve traction and grip, but it's toughness makes it useful elsewhere.

8:48 Hockey is a winter sport. During summer, it gets too hot to have snow, let alone ice outside and most interior ice rinq close for the season or melt their ice to host events like concerts and fares. So we play hockey in the streets or in our own driveways using either tennis balls or these hard orange balls that every quincaries and sport shops sold during summer.

Thanks OJB Reacts for showing these I AM Canadian beer 🍺 commercials that I haven't seen in years. These funny Canadian I AM Canadian beer commercials sold a lot of beer 🍺 especially during the Summer months when Canadians would go to their cottages. With a couple of 2-4 that's a case of beers with 24 beers in it if you didn't know that OJB? Cheers mate 🍺🍻

Molson have done such a great job with their ads that they have become almost as Iconic to Canadians as the Beer itself.

The basketball on the garage door is a reference to the fact that we invented basketball.

You missed my favourite the "I Am Canadian" rant. Which I believe was there mist iconic. Also I can't find it anymore but "A dog named Crazy" was super funny. Cheers 🍻

They filmed the Bubba of beer commercial at my friend's fraternity in Toronto over a 10 hour period while he was studying for exams. He would get angry if you started to sing the song.

hockey tape is tape you put on the blade of the stick to keep the puck from sliding around on your stick. It works for a lot of other stuff too tho mostly because it's always close by

Few notes: These commercials were initially much more patriotic before they got a bit more farcical :) - The Canadian pulling the American's (Canadian Actor...) shirt over his head is a hockey fight move...pull jersey over head (jerseying) then pummel your opponent mercilessly :) The only thing more spread than ice hockey is street hockey...ie the orange ball :) Also Canada's 3rd largest city rarely snows...a week or two is a bad winter. West coast is completely different than east or central. With regards to the advertising nothing is lost as the beer is called "Canadian" so anything Canadian related creates a mnemonic association...'Canadian beer engineering see :)

Pulling his jacket over his head is pure hockey fight. 4:28 It's like pulling the other guy's sweater up so he can't fight.

I was watching and thinking not all Canadians have hockey sticks and pucks, but then realized oh right, I have autographed game used sticks hanging on the wall and game used pucks in protective cases 😂

As a Canuck, I feel shame. I have never seen the 3rd commercial, which was totally hilarious. Nobody can mock us as well as we do(South Park gets a pass bc they did it so well I was convinced at least one of them was Canadian)

Hockey tape is a (cotton?) fabric tape with a LOT of adhesive on it. It is very strong and somewhat flexible.

The pulling a jacket over the head is called jerseying in hockey. Happens when players fight. Hockey tape, surprise is used in Hockey. You tape sticks for... reasons. I won't say them because I might get something wrong and someone else will chime in. :) For the soap that smells like soap... there have been a few "eras" of commercials... I suspect that commercial was the same time as "Irish Spring" soap ads. I swear there are more of these... but I cannot recall one that isn't in that. (Except the original, a guy giving an "I am Canadian" speech.)

Hockey tape is very similar to electrical tape...and not gonna lie...I've used it on my washer hoses downstairs..lmao

The Molson beer commercials were trying to stay within the strict advertising guideline for alcoholic beverages, did fantastic job, everyone remembered the product, whereas a lot of classic commercials people don’t remember the product advertised

In that first commercial the 'Shiny' item beside the 'Nodding Moose' was a metal container of 'Log Cabin Maple Syrup'. P.S. the ball is used in off season for road hockey..."Car".

About the "vicious attack beaver" ad, we also have the Canadian Goose. This bugger is also known as (with good reason) a "Cobra Chicken". They're beautiful whilst flying and paddling in the lake, but if you try to go after one of them, you'll regret it.

These commercials always make me laugh whenever I've seen them

In the first one, "shiny thing" beside the moose bobblehead is a souvenir can of maple syrup called log cabin maple syrup, the can is painted to resemble a log cabin.

I'm sure you've had this mentioned.... Hockey tape.... it is a special sticky cloth tape, with one side cloth and the other side sticky rubber, used to add resistance on the stick blade and to create a grip on the butt end of the stick. The cloth aspect makes it less slippery one the one side than gaffer/duct tape. Hockey ball----hardly ever found now, but I had one... hard orange rubber ball which had same weight as a puck, but designed to not bounce much, but most importantly, didn't hurt or damage like a puck Stick curving---improved corralling of pucks, thereby increasing release of a wrist shot, but completely illegal by NHL rules these days (due to stick curvature limitations, punishable via penalties during the game) J-stroke - canoeing-- if paddling one one side, you need to counter-effect moving in the opposite direction, so after pulling a stroke, you then pull back in the exact opposite direction for a small amount, hence 'J' Spill-proof lid------horrible invention----no different than a kid's sippy cup

To clarify some of your question. Pulling the suit over his head is depicting a hockey fight. We just call it Hockey. Not ice hockey. The little orange ball on the garage door is a ball hockey ball. Recycling is big up here and we have a bottle deposit on cans, bottles, milk and juice containers which we get back when we take empty bottles back to the bottle depot. Bottle drives are one of the biggest fundraisers for sports team youth groups etc. the kids go door to door and people give them thier bottles, which the group gets cash for operating. Hockey tape is what is used on the blades of hockey sticks it reduces the puck slipping off your stick. Everyone of those clips is a molson Canadian beer commercial

The hockey one with no context until the end I believe was played during the Olympics so it made a bit more sense up here at the time, and kind of suggested if your not drinking Molson Canadian your not Canadian even more than it usually would have

Well the suit over the head thing was what you do with an opponent's hockey jersey and the two guys are the linesmen trying to break it up.

There is more then just the traditional Ice Hockey puck, there is also Street Hockey, Roller Hockey and Field Hockey which those three use balls but also sometimes have slightly different rules and hockey sticks. There is also Wheelchair Hockey and Sledge Hockey for those with movement disabilities. And I guess technically you could consider Lacrosse and its variants as a style of Hockey though with different rules, Lacrosse is our national Summer Sport but it gets overshadowed by the Winter Sport of Hockey.

hockey tape is fabric grip tape, closer to surgical tape than electrical or duct tape

The Canada Space Arm was developed in Toronto (CFB Downsview), at DCIEM (Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine). Ottawa is the capital of Canada.

If you like the I am Canadian commercials, you should look up the Kokanee Sasquatch commercials 😂😂

The fight scene is the way hockey player fight on the ice. Hockey tape is hockey tape, made to tape the blade of your stick.

Thanks for the videos brings back the good times. Hockey tape is like a very thin sticky piece of cotton. 👍

A curved stick adds speed to a wrist shot. As the puck slides from the heel to the end it acts kinda like a slingshot

10:37 By the way, if you look on the blade, you will see the "hockey tape" you were wondering about. It's used to improve grip on the puck. It's ranks up with duct tape in terms of a wonder repair product to Canadians.

At this moment in my part of Canada it's -38 degrees c. It's safe to say that there are a few places without running water....mostly at the homes of recently arrived Americans.

The ball is for road hockey. (summer) Or floor hockey. Ball hockey is very challenging for we goalies. As a ball, it curves, drops, rises. Very good dry land training for ice hockey.

The reference to "what happens on the ice stays in the ice" refers to a fight or confrontation by opposing players in a hockey game. They respect each other as players and leave the grievances behind and don't bring them outside the rink. Rugby players down under would be the same, right mate?

The suit jacket is a tip to "sweatering "a guy in a hockey fight

It is called ball hockey. We play ball hockey in the summers, ball hockey indoors to keep in shape for ice hockey😂😂😂

first time viewer ...not sure what i laughed harder at the commercials or at your lack of canada's culture and yes I AM CANADIAN and proud of it

That second one, I wonder if that happens to Aussies in the USA? 'Oh, you're from Australia? You must know Paul Hogan!' LOL!

In Canada in Hockey you don't go for the puck you just knock the guy with the puck out hit him hard enough then let the guy behind you to grab it.

Hockey tape is used for taping a hockey stick, hockey tape = tape that is used for the purposes of playing hockey, a j- stroke is how you paddle a canoe

They could get away with it back then because 1) the world wasn't full of feels, 2) Molson was actually a Canadian company