If Rick came out of retirement he would have so much political satire with Doug Ford, Trudeau and many other provincial leaders. He would have had the world laughing when Trump was still in Office.
A friend of ours was telling us about the time when she and her husband travelled to the southern states because of his job. They were sitting in a restaurant and told their American dinner companions that they had arrived by dog sled. This was in the summer. When they told them that the Americans got up and went to the window to look at the dogs and the sled in the parking lot. True story--not joking!
😂…that must have been hilarious. I’m from Saskatchewan and moved to Toronto for a few years after high school in the 1990’s. And one day an somewhat annoying coworker asked me about living in Saskatchewan. So I told her the differences between Ontario and Saskatchewan were amazing and shocking to me. Because in Saskatchewan the winters are 8 months long and so cold that we have to live in igloos like the Inuit, and have no paved roads or electricity. But after seeing real houses and buildings I hoped some day Saskatchewan would too. I didn’t think she believed me and forgot about it. Then about a month later she came into work in huff 😤 telling me she watched a show about Saskatchewan and it showed we did have City’s, houses, roads and electricity!! 😂 *If a Canadian could believe that, I can only imagine what some Americans might believe about Canada.
As a Saskatchewan native, there are so few people that can pronounce the name of the province...the best way I was told to explain the way its said is "pretend you're a bit drunk when you mash all of the letters together". The concept of how far apart things are is way off too. Yeah, I'll go to the next town...45 minutes later & there's still no McDonalds!
In high school in Edmonton we had a band trip down to Montana. We did a bit of shopping and we were able to convince a store owner that the snow and ice ends at the American border.
And next year between July 16th and July 24th, when the ground isn't frozen, we're going to build 6 more miles of paved road and we might put in a sidewalk. The government has been promising a fire hydrant for years, but don't hold your breath.
This was done sometime between 1993 and 2003 while Chretien was PM. Sadly, since then, climate change has impacted our National igloo significantly. It is less than half its original size. Do you think we could get Huckabee to head a fundraiser for Canadian igloo preservation? (edit: we could forward the money to the current refugee crisis or other actual causes)
Just wait till you learn tête de merde means shit head in French. Man walked up, got your people to call themselves shitheads and strolled away. The ultimate Canadian troll.
OMG I'm turning 75 years old, where do I board the ice floes! Will l have company? LOL This whole video is a a hilarious send up of how little Americans really know about Canada! Peace and Love from Canada
And helps understand how football budgets have shaped high school educations? But ya know, a lot of politicians think being related to descendents of the Mayflower is good.
I had to come back and re-watch this because of Rick's memoirs. Funny then, funny now. If Rick still did his show, he would be having a field day with Ford and Kenney!
This is the most brilliant creation of Rick and all those who went in on the idea, and financed by the CBC. I have laughed until crying at the plethora of the responses to what we all as Canadians know is obviously nincompoopish, yet from the street, to the universities, to the leaders...it took a grade school boy next to his mother, who had no clue, to say "Hang on a second, Canada has provinces," Thank you for keeping that one in at after Prime Minister Guy Lafleur, with respect to the Woooly Elephant being endangered by urban sprawl in Newfoundland...LOL
“Hey wait a minute, Canada has province” and not states; calling the 2 months of darkness AKA the 5th the ”Montreal Canadian” and needing US tug boat assistance in the potentially bipolar ice caps lines were my fave!
I have to say, I really liked how everyone from Miami was so friendly, even if they didn't know anything. Like "oh, you're landlocked? just park your ships in our harbor, it's all good." "oh you're all developmentally delayed? You can find the bright side in anything, there's always something to celebrate." Very wholesome. And in that bit about Hull, so many were just like "Oh well if it offends someone (even if it's someone I've never heard of or will ever see), I won't say it again."
So sad for Canada that we don't have access to the ocean for our navy. Thank you so much to the US for allowing Canada to use US ports for our ships. WOW! Do Americans have access to atlases ..google maps???
As an American, i can confirm this is what we are taught in schools, that Europe is a country, canada is south of us, and that the Milky Way galaxy is actually the entire universe
I think you're lying or misremembering about Europe and Canada. As for the Milky Way, until the early 1920s, most astronomers thought that it contained all the stars in the Universe. But, nobody will believe that you went to school in the early 1920's.
@@deanronson6331 ok again like I said before, r/woosh. In America they don't really teach much about the outside world, only snippets of it in American history, now they do if you take an ancient history class, but not much.
Was mentioned in the car so searched it when I got home. Thanks so much for this. I'm friggin crying laughing. Still funny as hell all these years later.
The Canadian province is functionally identical to the US state. It's really stupid to assume that an american doesn't know that canada uses the term province just because this reporter used the word state. The bits are really just clever tricks of language and editing to make the person they're interviewing look stupid. It's a really lame formula for man on the street comedy and easy for someone without a 2 digit IQ to see how Rick is tricking these people - it's really easy to manipulate and intimidate people into saying stupid shit when you present yourself as an authority and lie to them. Connor O'Malley does this man on the street stuff a lot better in his satirical Truth Hunters show.
He was going to just have a show talking to the Americans start date somewhere around the end of Sept. 2001, but then the twin towers were hit 2 week prior, and it seemed very out of character, mean spirited, so it was pulled....Thank Goodness!
Yes, it's sad to say that they are a lot of idiots walking around in the world today!! But this would NOT be as funny if they left the clips of us smarter people in the video. That boy was smarter than his mom or grandma. LOL
@@jenelaina5665 I'm across the bridge from you. One summer day in August, when I was a kid, these 2 Americans were walking down our main street (just coming out of the tunnel) and they had skis and gear asking everyone, "where is the snow??" LOL
It’s cause they are so oblivious and believe anything they are told….at the Ft. Myers airport this past May…I arrived with my service dog. A woman commented to me..”Oh I didn’t know Canada even had an Army 😳. Bit my tongue so hard it bled…. Col. EJ. Fontaine 18 yes service. Injured in Afghanistan.🇨🇦
Lord, I can't believe that these people are this dunce! Talk about knowing zilch. Even Harvard students!! And these people will eventually run your government! Rick , you are a national treasure. Boy, do I miss you on TV and your comments. This is hilarious!
On the one hand, I don't know if any of this was staged or the Americans being interviewed were just going along for the laughs, but on the other hand, I'm from America, and these are definitely my people.
It’s Alaska Cruise Ship Season in Vancouver, and I’m trying to explain to my American neighbours about the things the Americans say when they stop in Vancouver. Most are flabbergasted we don’t have 2’ of snow on the ground….😅 No actual joke. Allllll the time. Cruise ship days! Lol Sending him this video lol
I had some friends back in the 80’s that moved to the US for a couple years in high school. They all said that school was so easy and they were so behind. In grade 9 they were doing math work we did in Canada back in grade 6
That was then. Ontario has aloud our education to flounder. They stopped cursive writing, taught spelling and grammar through osmosis and stopped teaching multiplications. They stopped teaching interest rates, budgeting, baking, canning, sewing, true canadian history, canadian geography or all our provinces and territories as well as political leaders. We need an educational overhaul in Canada and stop letting the school boards and teachers decide what should be taught.
Anytime I meet or deal with a chest pounding American telling me how great their education system is, (living in a tourist area and working in education it happens more than you'd expect), I've told them they have to look up this special and then enjoy the embarrassment.
America salutes Mulroney's brown nose! I'm dying laughing that these people didn't know Brian Mulroney was their Prime Minister during the Reagan and Bush 1 years.
We sure do have a lot more stupid sheeple in America than I thought!!! Now that one little boy shows that there is some hope for our future. But then again this would NOT be as funny if they left us smarter people in the video. I think is was Jay Leno or someone like that, use to do the same thing by asking people simple questions and they just had no clue. This was hilarious!!
I grew up in Saskatchewan. I remember my father and I were visiting Idaho a decade ago travelling through the United States on a family camping trip, and we had to stop for gas. While paying for gas, my father got talking with the store owner, who asked us where we were from. When we said Saskatchewan, he goes "Oh, near that big ski hill."
In Québec, we're so proud of our french heritage that we've put a bunch of Eiffel towers all over the province. But due to trademark issues, we had to call them ''Pylones''
I get that as a citizen of country A, you might not know much about country C. Having an opinion on a bunch of topics you have no idea about is hilarious to witness
Most people have a general idea about the country's neighbouring them and could answer questions. Americans, atleast a good portion of them, have a 3rd world awareness of anything beyond their border. That is to say, nothing really exists beyond their border, so their knowledge is comparatively pretty bad.
Rick is a talented guy. His subject matter, meh. How hard is it to make a Canadian laugh when Americans are the butt of a joke? Dude was preaching to the choir.
