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** The movie takes place in Toronto, Ontario,[[note]]Toronto's the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest-populated city in Canada[[/note]] and is directed by a Canadian who grew up there so naturally it is filled to the brim with Canadian references. To start, there are plenty of shots of the CN Tower and 4*Town[[note]]the film's fictional all-Canadian boyband[[/note]] is scheduled to perform at the [=SkyDome=][[note]]today known as the Rogers Centre[[/note]]. A Daisy Mart convenience store is a recurring location. Toronto Transit Commission streetcars are seen frequently as are Canadian mailboxes and Ontario license plates. There is mention of hosers, Celine Dion, loonies, [[UsefulNotes/CanadianProvincesAndTerritories 3 provinces]][[note]]namely Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan; the three prairie provinces[[/note]] and "[[UsefulNotes/CanadianEducationSystem grade 8]]"[[note]]as opposed to 8th grade[[/note]]. Miriam wears a plaid flannel shirt. Mei wears a maple-leaf shirt to bed, wears a toque with a maple-leaf design to school, has a Canadian flag pin button on her bag and has a Canadian flag sticker on her flute case. Ming sets a box of Tim Horton's donut holes on the table for breakfast; they also turn up at a party. Other foods like poutine, bagged milk, ketchup chips, and [[UsefulNotes/MapleSyrup maple syrup]] also show up. Mei's school (named after [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPrimeMinisters Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson]]) features Canadian flags flying at its entrance, a classroom with a large Canadian flag on the wall, a music classroom with the first 4 bars of the national anthem on the wall, a French classroom, a geography classroom with a miniature Canadian flag flying at its entrance, a beaver as its mascot and an announcement board stating that it's Canadian Indigenous People's History Month. Period accurate Canadian money[[note]]though with different designs on the coins[[/note]] is seen. Background characters are seen wearing clothing with maple leaves, Canadian flags, the phrase "[[UsefulNotes/CanadianAccentInfluences oot & aboot]]", or referencing loons or the province of UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}}. Ming has a moose bobblehead on the dashboard of her car (which has a maple leaf as its front logo). Sports teams referenced include the [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Toronto Blue Jays]][[note]]a blue jay appears outside the [=SkyDome=][[/note]], the [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Toronto Raptors]][[note]]Tyler wears a jersey matching the number and colour scheme of Vince Carter[[/note]] and the [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague Toronto Maple Leafs]][[note]]a stuffed bear of Carlton, the Toronto Maple Leaf's mascot, appears[[/note]]. A FictionalCounterpart version of the ''Creator/MuchMusic'' logo appears. Phone numbers are seen that use [[UsefulNotes/NorthAmericanNumberingPlan the "416" area code]]. A billboard ad for Air Canada is seen. Even the 3 opening trash receptacles, ring-and-post bike stands and automated parking meters are accurate to Toronto. Finally, there's one person who actually say "Eh?" in the movie, the guy at the [=SkyDome=] ticket booth.[[note]]"Eh?" is actually pretty uncommon in urban Toronto, being more of a suburban/rural exclamation.[[/note]]

* Lampshaded in ''WebOriginal/YouCouldMakeALife'' when Dan thinks to himself that [[DeadpanSnarker Marc]] is proof alone that the "polite Canadian" stereotype is bullshit as his Swedish friend Larsson is far politer than him.

* The Canadian rock band Music/TheTragicallyHip, with their notable hits, such as "Little Bones", "Wheat Kings", "Queen of the Furrows", "Bobcaygeon" (actually named that because it was the only town they could think of to rhyme with "constellation"), "Courage (For Hugh [=MacLennan=])", and "Three Pistols" (which starts with the line "Tom Thomson came paddlin' past").

* The Series/MythBusters have done a few myths that involve Canada somehow (Exploding Hair Cream and at least two border-crossing myths); the jokes and stereotypes tend to fall into this trope.

** In addition to the "Great White North", any parody of Canada mocks the preconceived notions of the country held by... well, just about everyone else. One specific episode had the SCTV channel picking up a signal from Canada to play on their channel due to a strike at the station building. These programs include fake commercials for the Canadian Broadcasting Channel, their take on the "Hinterland Who's Who" (little vignettes during commercial breaks, mainly during children's programming, about wildlife), and a parody of the seminal Canadian classic, "Goin' Down the Road" (featuring appropriate speech patterns, woodchucks and Music/StompinTomConnors). What's it all aboot?

** The movie takes place in Toronto, Ontario,[[note]]Toronto's the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest-populated city in Canada[[/note]] and is directed by a Canadian who grew up there so naturally it is filled to the brim with Canadian references. To start, there are plenty of shots of the CN Tower and 4*Town[[note]]the film's fictional all-Canadian boyband[[/note]] is scheduled to perform at the [=SkyDome=][[note]]today known as the Rogers Centre[[/note]]. A Daisy Mart convenience store is a recurring location. Toronto Transit Commission streetcars are seen frequently as are Canadian mailboxes and Ontario license plates. There is mention of hosers, Celine Dion, loonies, [[UsefulNotes/CanadianProvincesAndTerritories 3 provinces]][[note]]namely Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan; the three prairie provinces[[/note]] and "[[UsefulNotes/CanadianEducationSystem grade 8]]"[[note]]as opposed to 8th grade[[/note]]. Miriam wears a plaid flannel shirt. Mei wears a maple-leaf shirt to bed, wears a toque with a maple-leaf design to school, has a Canadian flag pin button on her bag and has a Canadian flag sticker on her flute case. Ming sets a box of Tim Horton's donut holes on the table for breakfast; they also turn up at a party. Other foods like poutine, bagged milk, ketchup chips, and [[UsefulNotes/MapleSyrup maple syrup]] also show up. Mei's school (named after [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPrimeMinisters Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson]]) features Canadian flags flying at its entrance, a classroom with a large Canadian flag on the wall, a music classroom with the first 4 bars of the national anthem on the wall, a French classroom, a geography classroom with a miniature Canadian flag flying at its entrance, a beaver as its mascot and an announcement board stating that it's Canadian Indigenous People's History Month. Period accurate Canadian money[[note]]though with different designs on the coins[[/note]] is seen. Background characters are seen wearing clothing with maple leaves, Canadian flags, the phrase "[[UsefulNotes/CanadianAccentInfluences oot & aboot]]", or referencing loons or the province of UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}}. Ming has a moose bobblehead on the dashboard of her car (which has a maple leaf as its front logo). Sports teams referenced include the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Toronto Blue Jays]][[note]]a blue jay appears outside the [=SkyDome=][[/note]], the [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Toronto Raptors]][[note]]Tyler wears a jersey matching the number and colour scheme of Vince Carter[[/note]] and the [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague Toronto Maple Leafs]][[note]]a stuffed bear of Carlton, the Toronto Maple Leaf's mascot, appears[[/note]]. A FictionalCounterpart version of the ''Creator/MuchMusic'' logo appears. Phone numbers are seen that use [[UsefulNotes/NorthAmericanNumberingPlan the "416" area code]]. A billboard ad for Air Canada is seen. Even the 3 opening trash receptacles, ring-and-post bike stands and automated parking meters are accurate to Toronto. Finally, there's one person who actually say "Eh?" in the movie, the guy at the [=SkyDome=] ticket booth.[[note]]"Eh?" is actually pretty uncommon in urban Toronto, being more of a suburban/rural exclamation.[[/note]]

* A recurring sketch on ''Series/KrollShow'' was "Wheels, Ontario", a ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' parody that practically beat you over the head with its Canadian-ness.

* ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' did a self-parody of this when Creator/KevinSmith guest-starred, making a movie titled ''Jay and Silent Bob Do Canada, Eh''. (Smith is a fan of predecessor ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh''.)

* ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' has Bear Hugger, shown above. He's a woodsman from Salmon Arm, British Columbia, who drinks maple syrup, chops down trees, plays hockey, and hugs bears. When not being trained by one. He talks like a stereotypical Canadian in the Wii game, often saying "eh" and calling Little Mac a hoser. [[SelfDeprecation Incidentally, that installment was developed by Canadian developer Next Level Games]], and both the developer and the character are from Salmon Arm.

** The movie takes place in Toronto, Ontario,[[note]]Toronto's the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest-populated city in Canada[[/note]] and is directed by a Canadian who grew up there so naturally it is filled to the brim with Canadian references. To start, there are plenty of shots of the CN Tower and 4*Town[[note]]the film's fictional all-Canadian boyband[[/note]] is scheduled to perform at the [=SkyDome=][[note]]today known as the Rogers Centre[[/note]]. A Daisy Mart convenience store is a recurring location. Toronto Transit Commission streetcars are seen frequently as are Canadian mailboxes and Ontario license plates. There is mention of hosers, Celine Dion, loonies, [[UsefulNotes/CanadianProvincesAndTerritories 3 provinces]][[note]]namely Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan; the three prairie provinces[[/note]] and "[[UsefulNotes/CanadianEducationSystem grade 8]]"[[note]]as opposed to 8th grade[[/note]]. Miriam wears a plaid flannel shirt. Mei wears a maple-leaf shirt to bed, wears a toque with a maple-leaf design to school, has a Canadian flag pin button on her bag and has a Canadian flag sticker on her flute case. Ming sets a box of Tim Horton's donut holes on the table for breakfast; they also turn up at a party. Other foods like poutine, bagged milk, ketchup chips, and [[UsefulNotes/MapleSyrup maple syrup]] also show up. Mei's school (named after [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPrimeMinisters Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson]]) features Canadian flags flying at its entrance, a classroom with a large Canadian flag on the wall, a music classroom with the first 4 bars of the national anthem on the wall, a French classroom, a geography classroom with a miniature Canadian flag flying at its entrance, a beaver as its mascot and an announcement board stating that it's Canadian Indigenous People's History Month. Period accurate Canadian money[[note]]though with different designs on the coins[[/note]] is seen. Background characters are seen wearing clothing with maple leaves, Canadian flags, the phrase "[[UsefulNotes/CanadianAccentInfluences oot & aboot]]", or referencing loons or the province of UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}}. Ming has a moose bobblehead on the dashboard of her car (which has a maple leaf as its front logo). Sports teams referenced include the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Toronto Blue Jays]][[note]]a blue jay appears outside the [=SkyDome=][[/note]], the [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Toronto Raptors]][[note]]Tyler wears a jersey matching the number and colour scheme of Vince Carter[[/note]] and the [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague Toronto Maple Leafs]][[note]]a stuffed bear of Carlton, the Toronto Maple Leaf's mascot, appears[[/note]]. A FictionalCounterpart version of the ''Creator/MuchMusic'' logo appears. Phone numbers are seen that use [[UsefulNotes/NorthAmericanNumberingPlan the "416" area code]]. A billboard ad for Air Canada is seen. Even the 3 opening trash receptacles and automated parking meters are accurate to Toronto. Finally, there's one person who actually say "Eh?" in the movie, the guy at the [=SkyDome=] ticket booth.[[note]]"Eh?" is actually pretty uncommon in urban Toronto, being more of a suburban/rural exclamation.[[/note]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JacobTwoTwo'' (the Canadian animated series) probably qualify as a [[WidgetSeries Weird Canadian Thing]]. It's got everything: a specific setting (Montreal), hockey obsession, overstuffed jackets, a token Quebecois, and homework assignments on Canadian explorers (in which Jacob is assisted by the ghost of a bumbling French-Canadian trapper). In fact, other small instances of Canada, Eh? are common on shows made by Creator/{{Nelvana}}. The show was adapted from a series of kids' books by Mordecai Richler, a Jewish Montrealer who famously resented this particular brand of Canadian-ness.

* The Canadian-produced series ''WesternAnimation/YvonOfTheYukon'' flaunts its [[WidgetSeries Weird Canadian Thing]]-ness, with the show being set in Upyermukluk, a backwater QuirkyTown in the middle of the Canadian Arctic where there's snow all year-round and the average temperature is usually around "freeze-your-butt-off".

Canada has a great capacity to laugh at ourselves and not take ourselves too seriously. In fact, we have the largest international comedy festival in the world and its associated [[LongRunner long-running]] CandidCameraPrank show, ''Series/JustForLaughsGags'', is internationally syndicated in over 150 countries.

Canada has a great capacity to laugh at ourselves and not take ourselves too seriously. In fact, we have the largest international comedy festival in the world and its associated LongRunning CandidCameraPrank show, ''Series/JustForLaughsGags'', is internationally syndicated in over 150 countries.

* '''UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}}''', full of artsy, ill-tempered, [[FrenchJerk stuck up francophones]] who believe English is tongue of the devil (unless you're in Montreal) and hate the people in the other parts of North America and the people in France (due to their language differences, no less). Abandoned by France in favor of the Caribbean, but who wouldn't, ''[[ForeignCussWord ostie de tabarnac]]''? Typically hated by northern New Englanders, who see them as more pretentious and annoying than "Mass-holes" or "Yorkers". Montrealers love fancy, French haute cuisine, fashion, and nightlife, including dance clubs and strip clubs.

* The ''Film/GingerSnaps'' films are all set in Canada, but while in the first two films the country was incidental to other facets of the setting (StepfordSuburbia in the first film, a rehab clinic in [[Film/GingerSnaps2Unleashed the second]]), the prequel ''Film/GingerSnapsBackTheBeginning'' is explicitly rooted in Canada's era of westward exploration, taking place at a 19th century fur trading outpost in the desolate wilderness with little resemblance to America's contemporary [[TheWildWest Wild West]].

* When Creator/MichaelJFox joined the Screen Actors Guild, the name "Michael Fox" was already taken. He considered using his real middle initial, "A" (for "Andrew"), but he wanted to avoid headlines like "Michael 'Eh?' Fox" or [[UnwantedHarem "Michael, A Fox!"]], so he went with a "J" instead, in homage to actor Michael J. Pollard. In the 1985 "making of" special about ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', when he was asked where he would time-travel, Michael initially says the Old West ([[HilariousInHindsight which would happen]] in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII''), before choosing 19th century Canada and becoming a Mountie.

* Torontonian metal band Music/{{Annihilator}} once wrote a song about how awesome Kraft Dinner is (with the T removed to avoid copyright issues). [[FaceOfTheBand Jeff Waters]] was only able to pay for the band's rehearsal space by living off the stuff.

** The movie takes place in Toronto, Ontario,[[note]]Toronto's the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest-populated city in Canada[[/note]] and is directed by a Canadian who grew up there so naturally it is filled to the brim with Canadian references. To start, there are plenty of shots of the CN Tower and 4*Town[[note]]the film's fictional all-Canadian boyband[[/note]] is scheduled to perform at the [=SkyDome=][[note]]today known as the Rogers Centre[[/note]]. A Daisy Mart convenience store is a recurring location. Toronto Transit Commission streetcars are seen frequently as are Canadian mailboxes and Ontario license plates. There is mention of hosers, Celine Dion, loonies, [[UsefulNotes/CanadianProvincesAndTerritories 3 provinces]][[note]]namely Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan; the three prairie provinces[[/note]] and "[[UsefulNotes/CanadianEducationSystem grade 8]]"[[note]]as opposed to 8th grade[[/note]]. Miriam wears a plaid flannel shirt. Mei wears a maple-leaf shirt to bed, wears a toque with a maple-leaf design to school, has a Canadian flag pin button on her bag and has a Canadian flag sticker on her flute case. Ming sets a box of Tim Horton's donut holes on the table for breakfast; they also turn up at a party. Other foods like poutine, bagged milk, ketchup chips, and [[UsefulNotes/MapleSyrup maple syrup]] also show up. Mei's school (named after [[UsefulNotes/CanadianPrimeMinisters Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson]]) features Canadian flags flying at its entrance, a classroom with a large Canadian flag on the wall, a music classroom with the first 4 bars of the national anthem on the wall, a French classroom, a beaver as its mascot and an announcement board stating that it's Canadian Indigenous People's History Month. Period accurate Canadian money[[note]]though with different designs on the coins[[/note]] is seen. Background characters are seen wearing clothing with maple leaves, Canadian flags, the phrase "[[UsefulNotes/CanadianAccentInfluences oot & aboot]]", or referencing loons or the province of UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}}. Ming has a moose bobblehead. Sports teams referenced include the [[UsefulNotes/MLBTeams Toronto Blue Jays]][[note]]a blue jay appears outside the [=SkyDome=][[/note]], the [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Toronto Raptors]][[note]]Tyler wears a jersey matching the number and colour scheme of Vince Carter[[/note]] and the [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague Toronto Maple Leafs]][[note]]a stuffed bear of Carlton, the Toronto Maple Leaf's mascot, appears[[/note]]. A FictionalCounterpart version of the ''Creator/MuchMusic'' logo appears. Phone numbers are seen that use [[UsefulNotes/NorthAmericanNumberingPlan the "416" area code]]. A billboard ad for Air Canada is seen. Even the 3 opening trash receptacles and automated parking meters are accurate to Toronto. Finally, there's one person who actually say "Eh?" in the movie, the guy at the [=SkyDome=] ticket booth.[[note]]"Eh?" is actually pretty uncommon in urban Toronto, being more of a suburban/rural exclamation.[[/note]]

** The movie takes place in Toronto, Ontario,[[note]]Toronto's the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest-populated city in Canada[[/note]] and is directed by a Canadian who grew up there so naturally it is filled to the brim with Canadian references. To start, there are plenty of shots of the CN Tower and 4*Town[[note]]the film's fictional all-Canadian boyband[[/note]] is scheduled to perform at the [=SkyDome=][[note]]today known as the Rogers Centre[[/note]]. A Daisy Mart convenience store is a recurring location. Toronto Transit Commission streetcars are seen frequently as are Canadian mailboxes and Ontario license plates. There is mention of hosers, Celine Dion, loonies, 3 provinces[[note]]namely Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan; the three prairie provinces[[/note]] and "grade 8"[[note]]as opposed to 8th grade[[/note]]. Mei wears a maple-leaf shirt to bed, wears a toque with a maple-leaf design to school, has a Canadian flag pin button on her bag and has a Canadian flag sticker on her flute case. Ming sets a box of Tim Horton's donut holes on the table for breakfast; they also turn up at a party. Other foods like poutine, bagged milk, ketchup chips, and maple syrup also show up. Mei's school (named after Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson) features Canadian flags flying at its entrance, a classroom with a large Canadian flag on the wall, a music classroom with the first 4 bars of the national anthem on the wall, a French classroom, a beaver as its mascot and an announcement board stating that it's Canadian Indigenous People's History Month. Period accurate Canadian money[[note]]though with different designs on the coins[[/note]] is seen. Background characters are seen wearing clothing with maple leaves, Canadian flags, the phrase "oot & aboot", or referencing loons or the province of UsefulNotes/{{Quebec}}. Ming has a moose bobblehead. Sports teams referenced include the Toronto Blue Jays[[note]]a blue jay appears outside the [=SkyDome=][[/note]], the Toronto Raptors[[note]]Tyler wears a jersey matching the number and colour scheme of Vince Carter[[/note]] and the Toronto Maple Leafs[[note]]a stuffed bear of Carlton, the Toronto Maple Leaf's mascot, appears[[/note]]. A FictionalCounterpart version of the ''Creator/MuchMusic'' logo appears. Phone numbers are seen that use the "416" area code. A billboard ad for Air Canada is seen. Even the 3 opening trash receptacles and automated parking meters are accurate to Toronto. Finally, there's one person who actually say "Eh?" in the movie, the guy at the [=SkyDome=] ticket booth.[[note]]"Eh?" is actually pretty uncommon in urban Toronto, being more of a suburban/rural exclamation.[[/note]]
** The spinoff manga ''4*Town 4*Real'' reveals all five members of 4*Town hail from Canadian cities across the country: Robaire and Aaron T. are from Toronto, Ontario; Jesse is from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island; Tae Young is from Calgary, Alberta; and Aaron Z. is from Vancouver, British Columbia. Thus, all the major provincial regions of Canada are represented: Central (Ontario), Atlantic (PEI), the Prairies (Alberta), and the [[UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest West Coast]] (BC).

* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGillmanTeenageKraken'' has the Gillmans, a family of krakens who claim to be from Canada as cover for their obviously non-human appearances. To this end, Ruby has a Canadian flag pin button on her bag and says "eh" when she mentions being Canadian.