History Film / CanadianBacon

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Par for the course with anything by Michael Moore a lot of "facts" and other things implied omit key details.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Khabral is worried this will happen to him. They even mention the trope word for word, and the conversation Khabral, Bud, and Roy Boy have about it includes several notable examples of it.

* MakeTheBearAngryAgain: Attempted at the very beginning of the film, to keep the Military-Industrial Complex reaping in Cold War-level profits. It is unsuccessful.

A 1995 geopolitical comedy film written and directed by Creator/MichaelMoore, starring Creator/JohnCandy, Rhea Perlman, and Creator/AlanAlda.

* WrongGenreSavvy: ''Everyone'' thinks they are on some kind of late Cold War "OccupiersOutOfOurCountry" saga, boosted by InUniverse propaganda (when they accidentally leave Honey behind, they even point out that every other film action hero ever does NoOneLeavesAManBehind). Hacker and Smiley manipulate them all for their own means.

* WrongGenreSavvy: ''Everyone'' thinks they are on some kind of late Cold War "OccupiersOutOfOurCountry" saga, boosted by InUniverse propaganda (when they accidentally leave Honey behind, they even point out that every other film action hero ever does NeverLeaveAManBehind). Hacker and Smiley manipulate them all for their own means.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Smiley is willing to start a cold war, but draws the line at starting a nuclear war.

* WrongGenreSavvy: ''Everyone'' thinks they are on some kind of late Cold War "OccupiersOutOfOurCountry" saga, boosted by InUniverse propaganda. Hacker and Smiley manipulate them all for their own means.

** A mountie engages in PoliceBruality against a corporate raider.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The president faces this constantly.

%%* CanadaEh

%%* {{Eagleland}}: Flavor 2, quite convinced they're Flavor 1.

%%* InvadedStatesOfAmerica: Played for laughs.
%%* MakeTheBearAngryAgain: Unsuccessful.

%%* OurPresidentsAreDifferent

* StupidEvil: R.L. Hacker hacks into America's nuclear launch network and uses it to start a launch sequence for America's nuclear missiles. Blames Canada for doing it, and then offers an anti-hacking countermeasure for an extortionate amount of money. When the President balks, he walks off, knowing full well that calling his bluff will lead to TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and thus render Hacker's fortunes worthless.

%%* WrongGenreSavvy: ''Everyone.'' Except maybe Hacker and Smiley.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The Canadians are consistently depicted as being friendly and good-natured throughout the movie, to the point of being seemingly oblivious to America's hatred of them. The ''only'' time they [[BerserkButton get angry]] is one of the characters remarks that [[SeriousBusiness their beer sucks]].

* AuthorAppeal: Michael Moore loves Canada and is critical of the American military. So you get the entire country of Canada as TheWoobie to America's military-industrial complex bullying, and scenes like an American soldier shooting another because he stubbed his toe and was holding up the mission.

* ExcuseMeComingThrough : Hilariously subverted during a chase scene, when bystanders say "I'm sorry" and "Excuse me" as they're being knocked out of the way.

* Artistic LicenseHistory: Par for the course with anything by Michael Moore a lot of "facts" and other things implied omit key details.

* Artistic License, History: Par for the course with anything by Michael Moore a lot of "facts" and other things implied omit key details.

A 1995 geopolitical comedy film written and directed by Creator/MichaelMoore, starring JohnCandy, Rhea Perlman, and Creator/AlanAlda.

--->'''Roy Boy:''' ChuckNorris never left a man behind!

* CanadaEh

* UsefulNotes/ColdWar: They want to start another.

* [[DefconFive Defcon 4]]: The level taken when ''nuclear missiles are ready to launch''.
* {{Eagleland}}: Flavor 2, quite convinced they're Flavor 1.

* InvadedStatesOfAmerica: Played for laughs.
* MakeTheBearAngryAgain: Unsuccessful.

* OurPresidentsAreDifferent

* [[StrawCharacter Strawman Political]]: Boomer and Honey are stereotypical boorish blue-collar conservatives. General Panzer is a stereotypical right-wing warmonger. The President is a stereotypical spineless liberal weenie.

* WrongGenreSavvy: ''Everyone.'' Except maybe Hacker and Smiley.

Following the huge critical and commercial success of Moore's first movie, ''Roger & Me'', ''Canadian Bacon'' represented something of a SophomoreSlump (getting mostly mixed to negative reviews and [[{{Pun}} fizzled out of theaters]] three weeks after its arrival, during which time it [[BoxOfficeBomb grossed less than $179,000]]), and along with Creator/KevinSmith's ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'' (another big-budget flop made by another member of the "Indie Film Boom" crowd of the late [[TheEighties 1980s]] and early [[TheNineties '90s]]) helped nearly bankrupt Gramercy Pictures (until they quickly got back on their feet with ''Dead Man Walking''). It's become more appreciated with age, though, especially in the 21st century as some of the satire has become a little prophetic-seeming.

* ActorAllusion: When Boomer saves the President from a misfired bazooka, he says that he would have voted for him if his cable repair man wasn't late. A running gag in a previous John Candy film ''Delirious'' was his character running late due to a cable repair man.

* FakeAmerican: [[DontExplainTheJoke Canadian John Candy plays an American sheriff spearheading the latter nation's efforts to invade the former.]]

* TheShelfOfMovieLanguishment: Shot in 1993 and intended to be released by MGM, the film finally opened in 1995 with Gramercy Pictures as distributor (ironically, MGM got the rights back when they acquired the pre-1996 Polygram library).

Following the huge critical and commercial success of Moore's first movie, ''Roger & Me'', ''Canadian Bacon'' represented something of a SophomoreSlump (getting mostly mixed to negative reviews and [[{{Pun}} fizzled out of theaters]] three weeks after its arrival, during which time it [[BoxOfficeBomb grossed less than $179,000]]), and along with Creator/KevinSmith's ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'' (another big-budget flop made by another member of the "Indie Film Boom" crowd of the late [[TheEighties 1980s]] and early [[TheNineties '90s]]) helped nearly bankrupt Gramercy Pictures (until they quickly got back on their feet with ''Dead Man Walking'').

A 1995 geopolitical comedy film written and directed by Creator/MichaelMoore, starring JohnCandy, Rhea Perlman, and Alan Alda.

In the wake of the [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp unexpected end of the]] ColdWar, the sitting President of the United States, a milquetoast bumbler played by Alan Alda, is faced with a shrinking economy and high unemployment at home. Believing, rightly or not, that restarting the Cold War and the associated military-industrial complex at full steam will be just the right kind of economic stimulus, the President's advisors, in cahoots with a shady weapons contractor, try to get the Russians to play ball. When they say no, they decide to invent a fictitious conflict with their neighbor to the north, Canada.

* ColdWar: They want to start another.