History Film / CanadianBacon

* CanadaEh: Every stereotype under the sun, including them being too nice and dumb.
* CatchPhrase: When the President demands that Canada give up: "Surrender pronto, or we'll level Toronto...!"

* SuperweaponSurprise: An accidental example. Hacker sells his "Hellstorm" computer system (which can control the entirety of the United States' nuclear arsenal) to Canada as "[[BlatantLies weather equipment]]" and later uses it to hack said nuclear arsenal as a FalseFlasOperation, and the President and the rest of his {{Warhawk}} staff is horrified at the discovery that Canada is about to start World War Three and blow ''them'' to kingdom come.

Gus: Canadians are always thinking up a lot of ways to ruin our lives. The metric system, for the love of God! Celsius! Neil Young!

* DoWrongRight: [[Creator/DanAykroyd Canadian cop]] pulls the main characters—who are driving a van covered with anti-Canadian slogans—over, then criticizes them for not writing them in both English and French. The anti-Canadian slogans are even translated with grammar and spelling mistakes.

* DrivenToSuicide: General Panzer in the WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue shot himself when he realized ''Series/HogansHeroes'' was entirely fictional.

* InvisiblePresident: Ultimately averted, but Canadian Prime Minister Clark MacDonald is only ever present in phone conversations with the president, save for one shot of his face at the end.

** The MPs rightly arrest Smiley for murdering Hacker, but ignore him when he says he has the codes to prevent a nuclear holocaust.

A 1995 geopolitical comedy film shot in 1993, written and directed by Creator/MichaelMoore, starring Creator/JohnCandy, Rhea Perlman, and Creator/AlanAlda.

In the wake of the [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp unexpected end of the]] UsefulNotes/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.

** For all the crimes Boomer and his friends commit once they cross into Canada, the only karma that they face is having to pay a small fine for not having the graffiti on their ('''stolen''') police truck in French and English. Granted, the President had sent the Omega Force to capture Boomer and friends, but since they never caught up with them, the point still stands

* StupidEvil: R.J. 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.

* WhyWeAreBummedCommunismFell: Without the Russians to blame everything on, the president's approval ratings are in the toilet. To rectify this (and return profitability to Hacker's weapons company) they plan to start a new one.

* 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. [[spoiler:Subverted as not only does Khabral survive to the end of the film, according to the '''WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue''' he moves on to becoming a NHL star for the Toronto Maple Leafs and wins the Hart Memorial Trophy (League MVP) three years in a row!]]

* 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. Even when they catch someone breaking the law, their law enforcement officers only ever get kind of stern at worst. The ''only'' time they [[BerserkButton get angry]] is when one of the characters remarks that [[SeriousBusiness their beer sucks]].

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: The president faces this constantly. Being an idiot doesn't helps him.

-->"The Canadians. They walk among us. Creator/WilliamShatner. Creator/MichaelJFox. Creator/MontyHall. Creator/MikeMyers. Creator/AlexTrebek.[[lanelnote: List of Canadians:]]:Creator/PeterJennings, Creator/MorleySafer, Creator/LeslieNielsen, Creator/RaymondBurr, Creator/LouisBMayer, Creator/IvanReitman, Creator/TommyChong, Creator/LorneGreene, Creator/JohnKennethGalbriath, Creator/RickJames, Creator/LeonardCohen, Creator/MaryPickford, Creator/RichLittle, Creator/PaulAnka, Music/JoniMitchell, Creator/RickMoranis, Creator/KDLang, Creator/JackWerner[[/labelnote]] All of them Canadians. All of them here."

** Most notably Niagara Falls (NY) is depicted as having just recently fallen on hard times after the closure of a defense plant. However Niagara Falls, like many industrial cities of the Great Lakes region had been in decline for decades as industries and manufacturing methods had become obsolete. Likewise there were no major defense plants in Niagara Falls or really in the Great Lakes region as a whole. Post WWII most modern weapons were being manufactured in the west and/or sun belt.

* InvadedStatesOfAmerica: Played for laughs. The AttackOfThePoliticalAd campaign meant to ignite the PatrioticFervor necessary for the American people to allow a full-on war with Canada implies that ''every single'' Canadian that has ever come to America, from the most famous of actors to the most harmless of bystanders, is secretly some kind of infiltrator.

The film is notable as John Candy's last starring role and Michael Moore's only non-documentary feature. Plus [[HilariousInHindsight a magnificent throwaway line]], especially considering the director, about the absurdity of a situation as comparable to [[WarOnTerror declaring war on terrorism.]] Which they wanted to do to increase the approval rating of the president. In 1995!

* AuthorAppeal: Michael Moore is the grandson of Canadians, 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.

** A lesser example with the third guy, who liquidated a smaller company, then merged it with his conglomerate. He gets hit with a shock stick and the guard obviously hates him the most.
** But the woman who commits the worst crime in Canada gets a free mental health examination. What's with that?

* NeatFreak: In Canada, [[spoiler: littering]] is punishable by a $1-million (Canadian) fine.[[note]]In-universe, according to a gag about the [[TruthInTelevision then–weak Canadian dollar]], that could have been paid for by US$10,000—the aforementioned Canadian policeman charges the American guys $1000 Canadian, "or, if you prefer, $10 American." Boomer takes the latter option.[[/note]]

** "Turn ''on'' our children."