History Main / MooseAndMapleSyrup

** The houseguests of course find the stereotypes hilarious and even join in themselves - Season 2 featured a Canadian flag that they all signed. Surprisingly, you don't hear a lot of "Eh?"s, although season 2 definitely features a lot of people with thicker UsefulNotes/CanadianAccents than the first season, which featured mostly people from Ontario. (Notable for Kyle, Jon, and Sabrina, whose East-Canadian and Francophone accents are ''definitely'' pronounced. Jon and Allison even got so drunk they [[TheUnintelligible spoke Newfie to each other]]) Many of the Canadian viewers even get a chuckle, especially in the second season where the first words heard on the live feeds were "Where's the Maple Syrup?"

* All of the members of WebVideo/TwoBestFriendsPlay [[note]]namely the entire "Best Friends Zaibatsu" of Matt, Pat, Woolie, and Liam[[/note]] are Canadians living in Montreal. This has been known to surprise fans due to Matt, one of the heads of TBFP, loved shouting "AMERICA!" as one of his catchphrases for a long time [[note]]videos where they play games on UsefulNotes/Xbox360 even show his GamerTag is "Amer1canMatt" or some variation of said name based on if he's changed it[[/note]]. Matt explained this in an interview by stating that one of his parents actually is from the United States and because of this classmates used to tease him growing up by calling him "an American," and that he always had a love for certain aspects of American culture and superheroes like ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. It's worth noting that that both Matt and Pat have stated that they don't particularly care for Quebec (granted they may have been referring to the city and not the province, which they live in, but it wasn't entirely clear). Pat and Liam have been known to sometimes play this trope straight by [[VerbalTic saying "eh?" at the end of a decent amount of their sentences]].

* ''ComicBook/NelvanaOfTheNorthernLights'' is a defender of the Canadian north from Canada's golden age of comics. Many classic images or tropes that can identify a work as "Canadian" come from this era, such as a nearly constantly winter setting or characters based around the Northern Lights.
* One issue of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'' depicts Canada as a snowy, conifer-filled mountainous wasteland, where the locals all watch ice hockey and wear plaid jackets, while foreigners are made to work in the maple syrup mines in exchange for socialized healthcare, watched over by brutally efficient Mounties. Principal Skinner gets sent there by one of Bart's pranks, and eventually escapes by throwing a beaver into a Mountie's face.

* The Yukon Ho storyline from ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' has Calvin seceding from his family to go live as a mountain man in northern Canada. He doesn't get very far, obviously, as he seems to assume that walking from his [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield unspecified hometown]] (generally assumed to be Chagrin Falls, Ohio) to the Yukon will only take an afternoon, but he says that once he gets there he'll be able to hunt walruses.
* In a story line in ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'', Charlie Brown runs away, but Sally finds him camping out on his pitcher's mound. When she asks him why he didn't go someplace farther from home, such as Canada, he tells her he was afraid of getting hit by a hockey puck.
* A lengthy storyline in ''ComicStrip/MarkTrail'' was set in Canada and featured a Mountie named Sergeant [=McQueen=] who not only wore his red serge tunic at all times, but was clearly shown to have ''another'' red serge tunic hanging on his door, presumably in case the first one was damaged.

* Brent from ''LetsPlay/PartyCrashers'' lives in The Great White North. While he doesn't embody any Canadian stereotypes, fellow collaborator Nick has made a RunningGag of calling every [[SlippySlideyIceWorld snow-themed level and area]] Brent's hometown and referring to any snowman he sees as one of Brent's family members.

* ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}}'' 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''.)

* ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'' has Canada being [[https://satwcomic.com/bear-whisperer polite while saying "eh"]] and [[http://satwcomic.com/matter-of-perspective America's hat.]] He's so apologetic that he'll say [[https://satwcomic.com/mindfulness sorry to a door]] he accidentally bumps into. It's actually a case of TruthInTelevision!

* WebVideo/JonTron brings this up in his reviews of the ''Series/{{Goosebumps}}'' and ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' TV shows, which were both made in Canada.

*** The Turning Red helper storyline, during the Aristocats Event, mentions Edmonton, Alberta.

In American media, UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} is [[CourteousCanadian a sweet, quirky]] and [[QuirkyNeighborCountry slightly backwards version of America]]. It's as if you took everyone from [[MinnesotaNice Minnesota]], gave them an obsession with [[CanadianEqualsHockeyFan hockey]][[note]]Anyone who thinks this should be clarified to UsefulNotes/IceHockey will be stiffly beaten by the RCMP, with a hockey stick.[[/note]] (OK, it's practically an unofficial religion), and made that an entire country. Everybody's white (except the First Nations), and if someone's last name isn't French, then they have a Scottish[[note]]or otherwise English/Welsh[[/note]] name.[[note]]And sometimes both, It's not rare to find 'Pierre [=MacDonald=]' or 'Iain Beaurepaire' in Canada. [[/note]]

Eeeeeh, Canadians eat nothing but Kraft Dinner (which is Canadian for "macaroni and cheese"), Tim Hortons coffee, doughnuts, poutine[[note]]French fries with cheese curds, and enough gravy to partially melt the cheese[[/note]], and Canadian... er... peameal bacon ("Canadian bacon" is actually completely different from peameal and you cannot actually get it in Canada). Anglophone Canadians all speak with a stereotyped [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Canadian_English West/Central Canadian English]] accent, putting "eh" [[VerbalTic at the end of questions or affirmations]][[note]]although [[UsefulNotes/NewZealand New Zealanders]] [[https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/113796639/why-do-new-zealanders-say-eh-so-much say "eh" more often than even the most stereotypical Canadian]], but again, not many people outside both New Zealand and the LandDownUnder know this[[/note]], and prominently raising the "ou" in aboot every word containing it. Also, as per the page image, Canadians are famed for shamelessly holding their maple syrup jugs on the ''non-handle side''.

[[SincerityMode However]], Canada is more socially advanced than the United States. Homosexuality has been accepted in Canada for longer than in the United States, LGBT rights are more comprehensive and are applicable nationwide[[note]]so any attempt to CureYourGays is illegal here[[/note]], Canada has free universal health care [[note]]except when it comes to pharmacare (although Canada is known for having genericized prescription drugs in large quantities) and dental care[[/note]], cannabis is fully legal nationwide[[note]]so feel free to FourTwentyBlazeIt here[[/note]], multiculturalism is made law, public transit does not have as much negative stigma, gun control is stricter[[note]]so not EveryoneIsArmed here[[/note]] and MoralGuardians have very little influence in Canadian popular media[[note]]though video game ratings from the UsefulNotes/EntertainmentSoftwareRatingBoard are legally binding in some Canadian provinces, such as Manitoba and Ontario, unlike in the United States[[/note]].

* Brent/King of Skill from ''LetsPlay/PartyCrashers'' comes from Canada. While he doesn't embody any Canadian stereotypes, fellow collaborator Nick has made a RunningGag of calling every [[SlippySlideyIceWorld snow-themed level and area]] Brent's hometown and referring to any snowman he sees as one of Brent's family members. This has also led to a few jokes about him having to dig through snow to touch grass.

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 [[LongRunners long-running]] CandidCameraPrank show, ''Series/JustForLaughsGags'', is internationally syndicated in over 150 countries.

Oh, but remember: No matter how polite and well-mannered Canada, Eh seems to be, there are always some exceptions. To say nothing of [[FoulWaterfowl Canada geese]] which look majestic but are basically just [[FoulWaterfowl flying pooping miniature velociraptors]]. Be afraid.

* Two members of the original Music/BlueOysterCult, the Boucher brothers, are from so far upstate New York as to be from Quebec. This may well explain frequent references to timber wolves, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and other ''Canada, Eh?'' archetypes in early BOC albums.

Canada basically consists of six distinct parts:

* '''UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}''': basically UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} but cleaner—or as Creator/PeterUstinov put it, "UsefulNotes/{{New York|City}} run by the Swiss." Serves as Canada's own BigApplesauce in domestic productions and [[CaliforniaDoubling as a cheap stand-in for the original in American ones]]. Not actually the national capital, despite the fact many foreigners think it is. It's actually the provincial[[note]]"provinces" are Canada's version of states, ya hoser[[/note]] capital of Ontario. The CN Tower is its emblem. Toronto had a crack-smoking mayor named Rob Ford. [[UsefulNotes/TorontoSubway Toronto even has its own subway system]] with [[SinisterSubway an abandoned station]] used primarily for film shoots.
* '''UsefulNotes/TheOtherRainforest''': filled with {{Mountain M|an}}en, including {{Mighty Lumberjack}}s and {{Hunter Trapper}}s. Also expect to see treacherous {{Indian Maiden}}s (who are often {{Nubile Savage}}s), moose, and beavers. Everyone here wears flannel and furs and is named Pierre. If an urban environment shows up here, it's UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}}, but you'll never see it, because it [[CaliforniaDoubling never plays itself]].
* '''The prairie''', which has wheat. Lots of wheat. Barns in flat fields of wheat. Grain elevators in fields of wheat. Also some trees and lakes, and quirky small towns where you can stop for gas, beer, and maybe a curling rink. And then more wheat.
* '''The Atlantic region''': basically [[HollywoodNewEngland Maine]] but even colder. Full of lobsters, Scottish people, and fishermen clad in yellow raincoats with funny accents falling somewhere between Irish, Scottish, and {{Pirate}}.
* '''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 [[UsefulNotes/{{Massachusetts}} "Mass-holes"]] or [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity "Yorkers"]]. Montrealers love fancy, French haute cuisine, fashion, and nightlife, including dance clubs and strip clubs.
* '''[[EskimoLand The Arctic]]''', full of igloos, playful polar bears, and parka-wearing Inuit riding around on dog sleds, quite possibly [[PolarBearsAndPenguins penguins]] and maybe even [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti yetis]], and of course cute little baby seals... at least until the polar bears and people find them.

Keep in mind that portrayals of Canada have no West Coast (besides ALL of British Columbia) and no mild winters (except for UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}}). The warm weather stops right about at the border (unless it presents a passport).

For more [[ArtisticLicenseGeography simple-minded]] types, Canada consists of two parts:
* '''Toronto''': Icy hellhole. Full of maple syrup, French people, moose, beavers, Mounties (who are [[Series/DueSouth Paul Gross]] clones) and people who say "eh."
* '''Not Toronto''': Icier hellhole. More syrup, French people, moose, beavers, Mounties (again, clones) and people who say "eh." And frequently called [[InherentlyFunnyWords Medicine Hat, Moose Jaw, Flin Flon]], Dildo, Swastika, Asbestos, and so on.

* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', Canada looks exactly like America except for a different haircut (his hair is somewhat longer, and his haircurl is longer with a curl near the end -- kind of like the one the Italy brothers have), is ''extremely'' quiet, [[VerbalTic says "Maple"]] and/or "Maple Hockey" when surprised, is constantly mistaken for his brother, America, and no one really remembers him. He is usually invisible to other nations, who sometimes think the "other presence" in the room is a ghost. And then the last part is reversed, when he's the host of Manga/{{Hetaween 2011}}. And he even gets people to tell him how good his work is. [[NeverLiveItDown The fandom conveniently forgets it.]]

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* One of [[Advertising/ShawDeliveryBots Shaw Communications']] radio commercials feature the delivery bots talking about how polite Canadians are, ending with them thanking the listener for listening to their commercial.
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* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', Canada looks exactly like America except for a different haircut (his hair is somewhat longer, and his haircurl is longer with a curl near the end -- kind of like the one the Italy brothers have), is ''extremely'' quiet, [[VerbalTic says "Maple"]] and/or "Maple Hockey" when surprised, is constantly mistaken for his brother, America, and no one really remembers him. He is usually invisible to other nations, who sometimes think the "other presence" in the room is a ghost. And then the last part is reversed, when he's the host of Manga/{{Hetaween 2011}}. And he even gets people to tell him how good his work is.
* The Canadian Gundam from ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' is a giant wood cutter, as is its pilot. All we get to see of the actual country is a forest where... there is wood cut.

* Maya Walker from ''Anime/PuraOrePrideOfOrange'' is a Canadian. Given that this is an ice hockey anime, she is predictably [[TheAce an absolute beast]] that single-handedly drags her team into a position where they can play the heroes for the right to promote to All-Japan Championship A.

* Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' was about Canada's superteam, written & drawn by Canadian Creator/JohnByrne (born in the UK, but raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada - where Wolverine is supposedly from). The team pulls from classic Canadian imagery and tropes including a Bigfoot-like creature, two characters whose powers resemble the Northern Lights, and overall a mix of English, French, Native, and immigrant members. Only one character (Puck) had the "eh" verbal tic, and it specifically '''didn't''' appear in his thought balloons.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** One issue of ''ComicBook/XMenFirstClass'' shows Wolverine to be [[CanadianEqualsHockeyFan a dedicated hockey fan]] because "it's [his] moral right as a Canadian."
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]] [[https://imgur.com/gallery/LZV5V is from Canada]] but doesn't talk about it that much, though he did tell [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spider-Man]] that he was such an expert figure-skater because figure-skating is every Canadian's superpower.

* ''ComicBook/WeStandOnGuard'' is set in a future Canada that's been invaded by the United States. American patrol robots issue directives in both official languages, and many iconic bits of Canadiana - Creator/{{CBC}}, Tim Hortons, Parliament - are shown or referenced to anchor the setting. The usual Canadian stereotypes are, for the most part, avoided, though CanadianEqualsHockeyFan is invoked in the first issue.

* UsefulNotes/HongKong comic ''ComicStrip/TheWorldOfLilyWong'' featured a StoryArc where Lily's no-good brother Rudy and his mates were thinking of holding up a store and wanted to get guns without paying a fee to the local Triads. The obvious answer? Ask an American! Rudy approaches his gwailo ("Ghost Man", aka Caucasian) brother-in-law, Stuart.
-->'''Rudy:''' Hey, gwailo, can I borrow your gun?\\
'''Stuart:''' What makes you think I have a gun?\\
'''Rudy:''' Aw, c'mon, all Americans have guns!\\
'''Stuart:''' Well I don't.\\
''(Rudy returns disappointedly to his friends.)''\\
'''Rudy:''' Bad news, lads. I think this one must be Canadian.

* The Company™ (and yes, they've [[TradeSnark even trademarked the name "The Company"]]) featured in ''Fanfic/EventHorizonStormOfMagic'' is a rare example of an evil Canadian mega-corporation.

* Matthew in ''Fanfic/PartRightHalfWrongAThirdCrazy'' ''defines'' this trope. Even more than his canon counterpart. Which is impressive, because his canon counterpart ''is'' [[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers Canada]].

* According to [[FanFic/DantesNightAtFreddys Dante's Night at Freddy's 2: Animatronic Boogaloo]], [[spoiler:The Marionette]] is Canadian. This is treated as absurdly as it sounds.
* In ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'', Maxwell's crusader army includes 509 holy hosers from Canada's Salvation Army.
* ''Fanfic/TwelveRedLines'' has Jones, a Canadian SelfInsert who joins the [[Manga/OnePiece Straw Hat Pirates]]. In addition, since Oda gave Chopper's real-world nationality as Canadian, the writer has expanded the culture of Drum Kingdom in a [[CanadianEqualsHockeyFan rather familiar direction.]]
* The Your Lie in April alternate story fic, ''Fanfic/HisLieInApril'' sees a new character named Seiya Miyazono (uncle of Kaori) who lives and works in Canada, and he instills a love of the Canadian Football League's Saskatchewan Roughriders in her in the story.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'', Lewis claims to be from Canada but given that he says this while engaged in StereoFibbing it's probably a lie. Also, according to the movie, by 2037, Canada will be [[ExpandedStatesOfAmerica annexed by the US]] and renamed North Montana.

* ''Film/CanadianBacon'': The bulk of the film is contrasting a satirical take on America with a satirical take on Canada. While America is full of easily manipulated, hair-triggered oafs, Canada is uniformly clean, friendly and childishly innocent.
-->'''Gus:''' Canadians are always thinking up a lot of ways to ruin our lives. The metric system, for the love of God! Celsius! Music/NeilYoung!

* Inverted in ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'': in an AlternateHistory where the Confederates won the American Civil War, many of the writers, artists, and musicians we consider a part of American culture end up emigrating to Canada to avoid Confederate morality laws... making Canada the more sophisticated, economically sound, and culturally relevant country of the two, and the CSA the backwards country.
* ''Film/DefCon4'' takes a distinctly Canadian approach to the post-apocalyptic film genre, with the astronauts landing, considerably off course, on a beach in what was once the province of Nova Scotia.

* ''Film/{{Ghostkeeper}}'': Although the setting is not named directly, there's a distinctly Canadian feel to the whole thing, and it's pretty clear that the story takes place somewhere in the province of Alberta.

* The majority of ''Film/TheGreyFox'' takes place in the town (now city) of Kamloops in British Columbia or the vicinity thereof. References are also made to the cities of Montreal and Winnipeg, and the North-West Mounted Police, the predecessor to the modern-day Royal Canadian Mounted Police, appear in the film's climax.

* Downplayed in ''Film/PacificRim''. The prequel comics revealed that the first Jaeger-prototype was Brawler Yukon, and the very first {{Kaiju}} kill by a Jaeger took place in Vancouver. One of the Mark 3 Jaegers was built in Canada, and appropriately piloted by a pair of Inuit cousins.

* ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', with American audiences in mind, lampshades this trope in the intro, saying that the story takes place "In the faraway land of Toronto, Canada". There are plenty of jokes thrown in for Canadians, too, though, like the scene of Scott fighting Lucas at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Loma Casa Loma]], where a Hollywood movie is being filmed. At one point, Scott gets thrown through a backdrop of the New York skyline, tearing a hole over the Empire State Building. Through the hole, the CN Tower can be clearly seen.
* ''Film/StrangeBrew'', the movie that cemented stereotype Canada for most people.

* Creator/KevinSmith's "True North" trilogy (''Film/{{Tusk|2014}}'', ''Film/YogaHosers'' and the as-of-yet-unreleased ''Moose Film/{{Jaws}}''), which is set in Canada and relies almost entirely on cartoonishly exaggerated stereotypes.
* ''Film/TheWholeNineYards'' almost averts this, taking place in Montreal because it was filmed there, but generally lacking in Canadian stereotypes except for Bruce Willis's rant about how Canadians put mayonnaise on hamburgers.

** Two months before the release of ''Film/XMenApocalypse'', the official ''Library and Archives Canada'' Facebook page uploaded [[https://www.facebook.com/LibraryArchives/photos/a.448149705231367.104813.383985531647785/1048195265226805/?type=3&theater declassified documents]] on James "Logan" Howlett (a.k.a. Wolverine).

* [[https://www.zazzle.com/canada_americas_hat_t_shirt-235187033158702570 Canada: America's Hat]] eh? Also, a [[http://www.zazzle.ca/canadas_underwear_tee_shirt-235062036848578942 possible response]].

* An old joke is that Canada was originally spelled Cnd. However, Sir John A. [=MacDonald=] had an American secretary when Cnd first became a country. He asked her to write up the documents on the new country, and she asked him how it was spelled. The Prime Minister replied "C, eh. N, eh. D, eh."

* OlderThanRadio: In ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'', Verne feels the need, for some reason, to remind the readers about twice a page that Ned Land is from Canada. Whether the author considers this a bad thing is debatable. (Ned is certainly not very smart compared to the other two protagonists, but on the other hand, he ''is'' the only one who realizes that Nemo is the despot he is and that they should put more focus on escaping than studying the vessel that they are, in all but name, prisoners of.)

* Creator/JohnLeCarre's ''Film/TheConstantGardener'' has a segment set in Regina, Saskatchewan, which describes the shacks of the Ukrainians and Lithuanians huddled in the shadow of the houses of the wealthy Anglos, which, if you've ever been to Saskatchewan, is hilarious.
* ''The Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad'' is set in Edmonton, and is notable for having a cast made up largely of black people. Then again, the author is a black Canadian who lives in Edmonton.

* A dark, noir version of Edmonton, Alberta appears in ''Literature/FallFromGrace'', which, if you've ever been to Edmonton, is both hilarious and very reasonable.

* Most books by Creator/GordonKorman are either set in Canada or include at least one Canadian character, as Korman was raised in Ontario. In the Dive trilogy, it's somewhat of a [[RunningGag running joke]]:
-->'''Kaz:''' I'm Canadian.

* ''Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries'':
** ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': The [[ImAHumanitarian Laistrygonian giants]] live in Canada. They even have bizarre names like [[AerithAndBob "Marrow Sucker", "Skull Eater" and "Joe Bob"]].
** ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'': Frank Zhang is the first known Canadian-born Demigod, and is from North Vancouver. The questers visit his house in his debut novel, ''The Son of Neptune'', and the Canadian-American border is a plot point for the climax.
** It is later revealed in ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'' that Kayla Knowles, the daughter of Apollo and an AscendedExtra, is also Canadian, though her origins are barely elaborated beyond her mortal father being a notable archery coach.
* Played with in ''Literature/{{Pharmakembru}}''. Although the story is set in Canada, it's specifically taking place in Saint John, New Brunswick, and focuses on the flavor of the Maritime Region over the whole country.
* After the airliner hijacking at the beginning of Creator/TomClancy's ''Literature/RainbowSix'' is foiled by John Clark and his son-in-law, the plane touches down in Gander, Newfoundland, and the protagonists are met on the tarmac by a "Royal Canadian Air Force" officer. Canada's air forces have not been referred to by the RCAF moniker since 1968. Interestingly enough, in RealLife, AIRCOM had been [[ContinuityNod renamed back]] to the Royal Canadian Air Force in 2011, so ''Literature/RainbowSix'' could possibly be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in this by being in an AlternateUniverse, having done this 14 years ahead of our time.

* Nadia, From the ''Series/BitchinKitchen'' DOES finish most of her sentences with "eh", though it's more of an Italian thing than Canadian.
* The eponymous ''Series/{{Bones}}'' once insulted a man so hard his arm stopped working. He was Canadian and the entire episode he appeared in was filled with the Canadians-are-polite stereotype. When told he should get angry and yell at Bones, he said:
-->'''Canuck:''' I couldn't possibly, I'm...\\
'''Sweets:''' Afraid?\\
'''Canuck:''' ''Canadian''.
* ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': It is a RunningGag that the NYPD detectives, their sergeant and captain snark at Canada or Canadians, emphasizing how nice and safe or boring and useless Canada is compared to Brooklyn. Sometimes Canada just plain sucks.

** "Full Boyle": According to detective Charles Boyle, the victim from Canada is a super nice guy.
--->'''Jake:''' How'd the interview with the victim go?\\
'''Charles:''' It went okay. The guy was from Canada, said it was probably his fault for getting robbed and apologized for wasting my time.\\
'''Jake:''' ''[chuckles]'' Oh, Canada. Truly Odie to America's Garfield.\\
'''Charles:''' Mm-hmm.

* Subverted in an episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'', where the [=UnSub=] turns out to be a Canadian who is abducting homeless Americans from just south of the border, then transporting them into Canada to kill them. As the FBI has no jurisdiction in Canada the BAU need to coordinate with the Mounties, who are dressed and equipped identically to them, just with "RCMP" on their windbreakers and bulletproof vests. Further bucking the stereotypes, the leader of the Mounties is Black.

* ''Series/Mo2022'': Mo's brother-in-law Bob is Canadian and is an affable guy, even when Mo's sister is distant. When Mo's nephew Osama has an off day at a baseball game, Mo blames his Canadian genetics. And when Bob tells Mo off for going on the field, Bob apologizes immediately and Mo proudly notes that Bob actually showed some strength.
* Two words: Lumberjack Song. Though, seeing as it was from ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' the stereotyping was there for irony, and was also greatly subverted by the whole transvestitism thing.

* ''Series/FullFrontalWithSamanthaBee'': During a segment on the upcoming Canadian 2018 general election, Sam and Alana politely ask other Canadians to vote, exclaiming that making demands will piss Canadians off. So, they politely ask Canadians to vote, then switch to a thick Canadian accent and threaten to unleash the hockey goon in Alana. Sam pleads with Alana to “hold yourself off eh!”

* In ''Series/{{JAG}}'', Clayton Webb getting assigned to a station in Canada was considered punishment for leaking classified information, and Harm expresses sympathy that he was getting assigned there, despite Canada's status as a first world country that's culturally a fair bit like the US, speaks the same language, and is a short flight from his home in the DC area.
* ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}'''s emcee, Creator/AlexTrebek, was born in Ontario. He sometimes exaggerates his Canadianisms for a laugh.
* ''Series/KimsConvenience'' proudly shows Toronto as a backdrop, but goes out of its way to defy every Canadian stereotype. For one thing every episode through the first two seasons has taken place during hot summer weather. The show emphasizes that Canada is a very multicultural place, and the Toronto is a very cosmopolitan city. Finally you don’t hear any ridiculous Canadian accents or constant talk about hockey and fishing.
* A recurring sketch on ''Series/KrollShow'' was "Wheels, Ontario", a ''Series/{{Degrassi|TheNextGeneration}}'' parody that practically beat you over the head with its Canadian-ness.
* ''Series/{{Letterkenny}}'' is about a pair of hicks from a small town in Ontario, who play up their accents as much as they can and drop "eh?" after every other sentence.
-->'''Daryl:''' You have a dad, but half your friends have a "dee-ad" for some reason.\\
''[cuts to Wayne]''\\
'''Wayne:''' Dee-ad! Hey dee-ad!
* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'', Ethan claims to be from Canada when talking to Hurley, to which Hurley replies "Cool, I love Canada! They've got great... Uhh..." Cue Ethan's good-hearted laugh. Of course, [[spoiler:he was actually born on the island and was lying]]. Everything involving Canada was synonymous with lying, [[spoiler:except in Nathan's case, but that was to fool the audience into thinking he was lying]].
* One ''Series/MadamSecretary'' episode has Secretary of State Elizabeth [=McCord=] get into a very polite standoff with her Canadian counterpart over an environmental report on an oil pipeline, which she resolves by threatening to revoke the visas of every Canadian in the NHL. [[spoiler:The Canadians later let Liz use their embassy in Washington as a TruceZone so she can meet privately with the Iranian foreign minister and salvage the nuclear program talks.]]

* ''Series/MythBusters'' has 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.

* On ''Series/NewsRadio'' Dave's office mates are shocked and horrified to learn that Dave was actually born there (though raised in Wisconsin). He mentions a childhood fear that his family would be mistaken for spies. ''Canadian'' spies.
-->'''Jimmy:''' You poor misguided Canadian bastard.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' was primarily filmed in British Columbia, so of course when they had a storyline in Canada, they visited B.C. And they weren't above a few pokes at Canada.

* Creator/{{CBC}}'s long running, now finished sketch comedy series, ''Radio/RoyalCanadianAirFarce'', poked fun at bunches of these.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': A sketch from early 2011 depicts "Celebrity Scoop", a fictional Canadian entertainment news show based in Winnipeg. The hosts are so nice that they miss the entire point of this kind of show.
-->'''Edna Ledouf:''' First up in the gossip world, Celebrity Scoop has received some red-hot photos of Ryan Philippe and Amanda Seyfried canoodling.\\
'''Thomas:''' Yeah, yeah, that's right, you know. But we're not gonna show 'em, you know, 'cause that's private.
* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': While it's subtle, Canadian viewers can spot numerous Canadian references woven into the dialogue and in Season 4 show creator Creator/DanLevy confirmed that the town's never stated location is somewhere in Canada. Cities like Winnipeg and Montreal are mentioned. Stevie has a Sarah Mclaughlin poster in her apartment and David once went as Alanis Morisette for Halloween. Roland wears a Commonwealth-style mayoral collar when he's being roasted and at the premiere of ''The Crows Have Eyes 3''. The railroad crossing downtown uses a Canadian-style crossbuck sign. A police officer wears a Canadian-style uniform. Moira once partied with The Rolling Stones and Maggie Trudeau. Jocelyn makes Nanaimo bars. Most importantly, however, the tiny town has a curling rink.

* ''Franchise/StargateVerse'':
** In ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', Rodney [=McKay=] is a brilliant Canadian scientist, arguably the smartest person on the show. While many Canadians will use "zee" instead of "zed" while mostly around Americans, [=McKay=] ''always'' uses "zed". This leads the Zero Point Module to be called "Zed-Pee-Em" -- even, on occasion, by American characters. During an episode where the team has to travel to Canada to track someone down, [=McKay=] states that CSIS ("see-sis") is assisting in the search, much to John Sheppard's amusement.

** ''Series/StargateSG1'': After SG-1 rescues a little girl named Cassandra from the devastation of her home planet and bring her to Earth, they remind her that the Stargate is secret and she was born in Toronto. She then explains her fascination with swings by saying "We never had anything that that... in Toronto."

-->'''Doc:''' I hate to stereotype, but those were the nicest zombies I ever met.
* Averted by Creator/{{Citytv}} and Creator/MuchMusic back in the 80s and 90s -- their original programming rarely conformed to any Canadian stereotypes, which also allowed for easy international distribution. (However, [=MuchMusic=] USA, which later split off to become Fuse, had difficulties in obtaining carriage on cable providers, partially because of it being from Canada.)

* As does the Canadian group Music/TheArrogantWorms. ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flz30UpNB_M 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlQeW2HN0U0&feature=related 2]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vxDDcTc64c 3]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDs5oTZhncM&feature=related 4]])

* The semi-satirical, mostly serious folk/rock band of the '90s called Music/MoxyFruvous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MeQK7JtLpU notably averted the "stereotypes"]], despite singing about Canada in a great deal of their songs. It didn't stop them from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-00zjEq9PNs taking a dig at both Spain and Canada on of their most famous songs]].

* So is Music/StompinTomConnors, who wrote a song about every city he visited during his career. Some of these include "Sudbury Saturday Night" and "Tillsonburg," and he wrote about Canadian subjects such as potatoes from Prince Edward Island (including a ShoutOut to the Ontario Provincial Police) and hockey.
* "Take Off" by Bob & Doug [=McKenzie=] (like, those hosers from ''Series/{{SCTV}}'''s "Great White North", eh?) with guest vocals from Geddy Lee of Rush. Ten bucks is ten bucks, eh?

* Music/FiveIronFrenzy's "Oh, Canada" mentions lumberjacks, mounties, [[MisplacedWildlife yaks]], lemmings, venison slurpees, milk in bags, and Creator/WilliamShatner. They say 'eh' instead of 'what' or 'duh' that's the mighty power of Canada.

* Darkthrone, with their stirring anthem [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnLxun1gdz8 Canadian Metal]]. This song caused some controversy among Canadian metalheads when it was first released, as for some it is hard to tell if it was meant as mockery or a genuine tribute. In interviews from around the same time they clarified that yes, they actually really like a lot of Canadian metal bands, and the lyrics are taken from song titles of classic Canadian metal bands.

* Classified's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fF62J3vxPdQ ''Oh, Canada'']] has been declared as the Canadian hip hop National Anthem.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWQf13B8epw Canadian, Please]] by Gunnarolla, extolling the many virtues of Canadian citizenship.

* Still in Kelowna, we have one dubstep artist called Music/{{Excision|Musician}}, who makes disemboweling brostep with drops influenced by brutal death metal [[note]][[Music/{{Cryptopsy}} ...And Canadians are masters at it, eh?]][[/note]] and {{harsh noise}}. [[note]][[Music/VenetianSnares Canadians are not too far behind even in this department, eh?]][[/note]] So much for hailing from a quaint little lakeside village, eh?
* The Cat Empire, an Australian jazz-funk act, describe visiting Montreal on a tour in "So Long". They describe it as a "super town".
* Almost everything Stan Rogers ever did. Particular mention goes to "Barrett's Privateers" and "Northwest Passage".

* Music/JoniMitchell, like Music/CelineDion [[note]]but possibly better[[/note]], is practically a national icon. She avoids being a professional Canadian, but just now and again her nationality receives a nod.
-->''I wish I had a River, I could skate away on... (The River)\\
On the back of a cartoon coaster,\\
In the blue TV screen light,\\
I drew a map of Canada...\\
Oh Canada! (A Case of You)''

* Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, yet another Canadian group, presents a mock-jingoistic version of this trope in its "War of 1812".
-->''They ran so fast, they forgot to take their culture,\\
Back to America, and Gulf and Texaco''

* On the ''Nobody's Listening'' Podcast, there are frequent jokes about the Canadian host, Trevor.

* Oddly enough, ProfessionalWrestling completely averts this trope (well, ''almost'' completely; after all, the Wrestling/{{WW|E}}F did have [[Wrestling/JacquesRougeau The Mountie]], a {{heel}} in full dress uniform for a while. Ironically, they weren't allowed to use him in Canada at all), even though they embrace every single other stereotypical ethnic trope out there. This may be because half the wrestlers in North America (at least the well-known ones) are from either Canada or Texas. In fact, professional wrestling may be the only form of popular fictional entertainment where Canadians can be portrayed as jerks or outright evil, such as the Garvins in [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]][=/=]Wrestling/{{A|mericanWrestlingAssociation}}WA.
* Canadians tend to have their own stereotype within ProfessionalWrestling involving superior in-ring skill and charisma ranging between "average" and "a wet slab of concrete." This is likely due to the fact that most notable Canadian wrestlers came from the infamous [[TrainingFromHell Hart family Dungeon]] whose graduates tended to fall into this stereotype. Notable exceptions include Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}}, who are from Ontario, and Chris Jericho, who did train with the Harts but is simply a straight-up subversion. In his autobiography, Chris Jericho mentions during his run as a heel in Wrestling/{{WCW}}, he'd play up his Canadian-ness heavily, including putting strong emphasis on certain words to sound more Canadian, such as the "ain" part of "again".
* One of the best places to find quirky, backwards, overly nice Canadians in pro wrestling ironically is in Canada itself, specifically Quebec. This doesn't stop them from being heels though, [[AffablyEvil quite the opposite actually]], especially not in Northern Championship Wrestling(nCw) and International Wrestling Syndicate.
* While Wrestling/ChrisBenoit, in the latter period of his career while he usually {{face}}, was often described (truthfully) as "residing in Atlanta, Georgia", shows in Canada always reverted to describing him as being from Canada. Benoit himself tried to hide his Canadian accent on the mic (usually straining to say "uh-BOUT" rather than "uh-boat").
* Happened with Wrestling/ChrisJericho too. He was born in New York (his father Ted Irvine played for the NY Rangers), raised in Manitoba, and then moved to Orlando. He was billed from "Manhasset, New York" during the [=Y2J=] era, wasn't billed at all during the first few years of his return as the "Saviour of WWE", and then was billed from "Winnipeg, Manitoba" since 2010.
* Wrestling/RingOfHonor:
** Steve Corino is an aversion of the usual pro wrestling type, being sufficiently charismatic and also of the wider media type, being an unapologetic money grubbing CardCarryingVillain. His little sister was much the same, only less about money and more about hedonism, but became nicer when ROH began showcases for her [[Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} own company.]]
** It also had a straight (as in the general sense) example in graduate Grizzly Redwood, a lumberjack from Yukon they unleashed on Chasyn Rance at ''Driven 2008''.
** [[Wrestling/KevinOwens Kevin Steen]] is the jerkass from Quebec, although he initially loved ROH, believing it to be his sanctuary from Wrestling/{{CZW}}. It wasn't until he was sent back out by [[Wrestling/SamiZayn El Generico]] and barred from reentry by Wrestling/JimCornette that he began to hate the world in general...also, he's cut entire promos in Quebecois.
** Wrestling/KyleOReilly, meanwhile, is the standard pro wrestling version, at times approaching parody, being a hotheaded mixed martial arts studying grappler who often comes off as nonsensical and rambling when trying to cut an intimidating promo(though he ''will'' break your arm if he gets you down on the mat).
* Wrestling/SinnBodhi is originally from Orangeville, Ontario, but he averts this due to presenting himself as a circus freak from [[PartsUnknown "Wizard Beach, Las Vegas"]].

* Subverted by the ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'' 4th edition supplement ''Champions of the North'', which for all that it did bring up the various clichés also invested a fair bit of page count into describing the actual real life Canada of its time and a surprisingly accurate and informative historical overview (in addition to the usual writeups of local superheroes, -villains, and scenario ideas, of course).
* Pallidum Games is based in the state of Michigan and thus close to Canada. As such, their games like ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' display a better grasp of Canada than most American [=RPGs=]. For instance, the writers are aware of Canadian politics at least in the broad strokes such the basic Rifts world description has the Free States of Quebec and the major BigGood city of Lazlo is a rebuilt UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}. That does not include the dedicated supplement book focusing that game world's version of Canada.

* Gleefully played with in the Vancouver 2010 Olympics Closing Ceremony. Canadians apologizing excessively, giant bobblehead mounties, ice dancing hockey players, guys in canoes and girls dressed as sexy maple leaf kites, giant floating moose and beavers, and so on. Even the organizer threw in a gratuitous "Now you know us, eh?" for the crowd. The whole thing could be summed up as an exercise in squeezing as many Canadian stereotypes as possible into 15 minutes of show. Note that UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} is the least "Canadian" part of the country.
* At the 2019 Autumn Classic International, Canadian figure skater Keegan Messing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feMgjVbH8C0 held up the Japanese flag]] for Yuzuru Hanyu so the latter can face it while the Japanese anthem was playing, according to Japanese flag etiquette. It's one of the greatest signs of respect that a competitor has displayed towards another in sports history, and many have praised Messing for his incredible sportsmanship and for providing one of the best examples of Canadian politeness.
* With the exception of the NFL (given they have [[UsefulNotes/CanadianFootball their own gridiron]]), Canada is present in the other three American major leagues. Thus, there can be a passive-aggressive stance with both athletes ([[http://spectorshockey.net/the-real-reason-nhl-players-avoid-canadian-teams/ no-move clauses]], refusing to play for the Canadian team that drafted them, [[https://www.thestar.com/sports/basketball/raptors/2010/11/12/feschuk_another_bogus_bosh_beef_about_canada_bad_cable.html complaints about differences]]) and fans (best example being the Boston Bruins-Montreal Canadiens rivalry). Much, in the stereotypical polite Canadian way, can be seen in [[http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2016/may/09/dwyane-wade-canada-national-anthem-nba this comedic article]], which uses as a starting point Dwyane Wade not interrupting his practice while the stadium played "O Canada".

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FacesMusicParty'' episode "Mega Party", Face transforms into a moose and puts on a stereotypical Canadian accent while doing so.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In the episode "Test of Time", [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Billy]], [[HeroicComedicSociopath Mandy]], and [[BlackAndNerdy Irwin]] are studying book reports. Mandy had ''Drums of the American Revolution'', Irwin had ''The Canadian Revolution'', and Billy had ''A Not-So-Brief History of Time''. While Billy was goofing off and not studying at all, Irwin called him on the phone 3 times. The first time, Billy was eating pie and Irwin was dressed as a mountie. The second time, Billy was watching a monster truck show and Irwin was dressed as a lumberjack. The third time, Billy was taking a bath, and Irwin, oddly enough, instead of wearing an outfit stereotyping Canadian culture, wore a Little Bo Peep outfit.

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'': The episode "Johnny Gets Mooned" features two Canadian astronauts that end almost every sentence with "Eh?".

** The episode "Sidetracked", where Perry teams up with a Canadian agent on a train running along the Canada-US border, is full of Canadian references, including bathroom stall signs depicting people in hockey attire and the train running through a mountain range in an area east of Saskatchewan (which doesn't reflect real life).

** In "Midnight Rx" Homer and Grampa go to Canada to smuggle prescription pills due to rising health costs putting an end to company drug plans. A Canadian veteran gives Grampa a health card, and Grampa gives the veteran a DVD player in appreciation. The veteran looks at it puzzled, wondering where you pour the syrup. During their second trip alongside Flanders and Apu, they're caught by border guards, after which they meet with a police official who's accompanied by a French translator [[TrollingTranslator that he trolls]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Canada is the home of JustForFun/TerranceAndPhilip, which were originally intended as a parody of ''South Park'' itself: a crudely drawn and animated show about farts. However, later episodes turned Terrance and Phillip into real people and made all Canadians look and act like them: they are all crudely drawn, move their mouths by "flapping" the tops of their heads, speak in a rapid-paced and stylized accent, address each other as "buddy" or "guy," and fart a lot. More traditional Canadian stereotypes, such as moose, Mounties, maple syrup and Kraft Dinner are also commonly addressed.

In American media, UsefulNotes/{{Canada}} is [[QuirkyNeighbourCountry a sweet, quirky and slightly backwards version of America]]. It's as if you took everyone from [[MinnesotaNice Minnesota]], gave them an obsession with [[CanadianEqualsHockeyFan hockey]][[note]]Anyone who thinks this should be clarified to UsefulNotes/IceHockey will be stiffly beaten by the RCMP, with a hockey stick.[[/note]] (OK, it's practically an unofficial religion), and made that an entire country. Everybody's white (except the First Nations), and if someone's last name isn't French, then they have a Scottish[[note]]or otherwise English/Welsh[[/note]] name.[[note]]And sometimes both, It's not rare to find 'Pierre [=MacDonald=]' or 'Iain Beaurepaire' in Canada. [[/note]]

Keep in mind that Canada, Eh? has no West Coast (besides ALL of British Columbia) and no mild winters (except for UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}}). The warm weather stops right about at the border (unless it presents a passport).

Also see CanadaDoesNotExist, and MinnesotaNice for the American equivalent. And CrassCanuck for the uncouth Canadian.

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* Ever heard an angry Franco-Canadian [[ForeignCussWord swearing in French?]] Even if the words themselves are beyond your grasp, the emotion and passion in their delivery will make it impossible to miss their intent. To expand, general swearing in English basically has "fuck", "shit", and a few variations of "damn" which express generic anger. Canadian French has pretty much ''the entire Church vocabulary'' bastardized to sound ''terrifying''. "Fuck" is actually a fairly mild word in comparison -- francophone children who use it are rarely corrected by their parents (as a point of comparison, one of the mildest québécois "sacre" [[note]]swear word[[/note]] there is, "crisse", actually means "Christ". Don't ask what the English equivalents of the stronger ones would be unless you don't mind a deluge of blasphemies).
** Note that this is also a completely different system of swearing to that from France, which generally sounds ''mildly comical'' to Franco-Canadian ears. The difference between the two is demonstrated by [[https://i.redd.it/2ouu1ibti2421.jpg this picture.]] [[note]]The birds are commenting on how cold it is.[[/note]]
*** And vice versa, as a matter of fact. The French just don't take religion seriously enough to cuss by it anymore. There, "Mon Dieu" is what old ladies say, and Quebecois cuss words sound like a church inventory. The Canadian comedian Creator/FrancoisPerusse made a song listing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjtQQAaDCyo French]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D92YAIL-BRw Quebecois]] cuss words (titled "Speak Lovingly").
** The Quebec Catholic Church has once put out a slightly tongue-in-cheek billboard campaign where they would print out the various sacres in giant letters and provide the technical religious definition below. It is probably fair to say that no other organization on Earth can plaster the downtown core with every profanity in the book without being fined.
** In fact, Québécois swear so loud and so often that Spanish-speaking Floridians (lots of them go down there every winter) have taken to nicknaming them "los tabarnacos", after a particularly strong Quebec cuss word.
** Some Québécois also enjoy playing a prank on foreigners -- or even oblivious Canadians. Tell them a French phrase, have them say it to a nearby adult, then watch the show.
** For a full list, check [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]]'s [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_French_profanity page]].
* 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/BackToTheFuture1'', 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.
* In a complete and utter inversion of Canadian politeness, Quebec and Ontario played host to one of the most sadistic cults ever documented, the Ant Hill Kids, led by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roch_Thériault Roch Thériault]]. Though it had a far smaller body count than the likes of The Peoples Temple, the sadistic torture each member routinely endured at the hands of Thériault was exceptional.
* In an interesting [[SubvertedTrope subversion]], [[UsefulNotes/NewZealand New Zealanders]] [[https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/113796639/why-do-new-zealanders-say-eh-so-much say "eh" more often than even the most stereotypical Canadian]], but again, not many people outside New Zealand and the LandDownUnder know this.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnpVH7kIb_8 My name is Joe, and I! AM! CANADIAN!]] Text for that commercial, and for its follow-up, can be found [[http://www.craigmarlatt.com/canada/symbols_facts&lists/i_am_canadian.html here]]. [[http://youtu.be/AOnQROgk1IM Thoroughly parodied here]] by great Canadian Creator/WilliamShatner.
* Midas.ca did a commercial featuring a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsxV49pmnL8 Canadian car chase]].

* Kate from ''[[Manga/{{Sketchbook}} Sketchbook ~full color'S~]]'' comes from Canada (and for some reason writes "Canada" in kanji). She subverts AnimeAccentAbsence by having a very noticeable accent.
* In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', Canada looks exactly like America except for a different haircut (his hair is somewhat longer, and his haircurl is longer with a curl near the end -- kind of like the one the Italy brothers have), is ''extremely'' quiet, [[VerbalTic says "Maple"]] and/or "Maple Hockey" when surprised, is constantly mistaken for his brother, America, and no one really remembers him. He is usually invisible to other nations, who sometimes think the "other presence" in the room is a ghost. And then the last part is reversed, when he's the host of Manga/{{Hetaween 2011}}. And he even gets people to tell him how good his work is. [[NeverLiveItDown The fandom conveniently forgets it.]]
* The Canadian Gundam from ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' is a giant wood cutter, as is its pilot. All we get to see of the actual country is a forest where... there is wood cut.
* In an episode of ''Anime/WandabaStyle'', the girls traveled back in time and saw Susumu's father leave on a spaceship to the moon. With their future knowledge that Susumu's father never made it to the moon, they assume he never returned, and when they go back in the present, [[NoLongerWithUs they offer Susumu their condolences]]. Susumu replies that his father was stuck in space for five years, but is alive and well and living in Canada.

* One case of Team Rocket's [[ATwinkleInTheSky twinkle in the sky]] exits in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' ends with them landing in an indeterminate forest zone, with two onlookers dressed for warmth. The ''dub'' goes the extra mile with their accent.
* ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999'' visits [[FantasyCounterpartCulture a planet]] where everyone is oddly [[MinnesotaNice nice and determined to be helpful]], and surreal, disconcerting, and suspiciously [[Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada NFB-animated-short]]-like things keep happening. Tetsuro becomes increasingly [[WrongGenreSavvy convinced]] that the planet hides a terrible secret beneath its [[CrapsaccharineWorld pleasant exterior]], and seems to be vindicated when his and Maetel's passes are mysteriously lost. When they get returned to them just before the train leaves, he relents and apologizes to everyone for having been so suspicious of their intentions.

* Maya Walker from ''Anime/PuraOrePrideOfOrange'' is a Canadian. Given that this is an ice hockey anime, she is predictably [[TheAce an absolute beast]] that single-handedly drags her team into a position where they can play the heroes for the right to promote to All-Japan Championship A. She's also a lot nicer about the team relying on her to do most of the work than the player she replaced, who left the team because she figured that her teammates didn't really care about improving.

* In the ''ComicBook/XMen'' books, Canada is an outright evil place. They're the ones responsible for inhumane genetic experimentation on minorities like the Weapon X program. They've put mutants in concentration camps and gassed them, including women and children. Basically, Marvel Canada = UsefulNotes/NaziGermany.
** It's an odd fact that if a character in the Marvel Universe (and to a lesser degree, in the DC universe) is a sociopath ([[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]], Wyldechild), a psychopath ([[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Sabretooth]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]]), clinically insane (Aurora, and again Deadpool), gay (Northstar) or an elf (again Northstar), they're from Canada. If they're gay or an elf, they're from Quebec (Northstar and Aurora).
** ''Omega Flight'' seemed to strive to be as ''un-Canadian as possible'' to the point of having ''US Agent'' on the team, and making the current Guardian (as in, the guy with the ''maple leaf'' on his outfit) a former ''US postal worker''. Only two members of the team were actually Canadian.
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]] of the ComicBook/XMen was their first Canadian member, and very proudly so, though he hardly advertises the fact. It's made complex because John Byrne made him Canadian, and Marvel didn't care because at the time, they didn't think he'd be a major character. As his popularity grew, Marvel repeatedly tried to ''retcon'' his history to make him American, with no success. He's now generally recognized as Canadian in the comic.
** A discarded version of the ''ComicBook/WolverineOrigins'' storyline had Wolverine born and spend his early life in the Southern States and move to Canada after the reveal causes tragedy in his family. It was eventually decided that his Canadian origin was at this point too integral to his fan recognition to ignore.
** One issue of ''ComicBook/XMenFirstClass'' plays this straight, showing Wolverine to be [[CanadianEqualsHockeyFan a dedicated hockey fan]] ("It's my moral right as a Canadian!").
** Another issue had him describing to [[Characters/MarvelComicsKittyPryde Kitty Pryde]] an early mission he had with ComicBook/AlphaFlight where he had to rescue the Governor General. His attempts to explain to Kitty who the Governor General is was hilarious.
** Like [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]] [[https://imgur.com/gallery/LZV5V is from Canada]] but doesn't talk about it that much, though he did tell [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spider-Man]] that he was such an expert figure-skater because figure-skating is every Canadian's superpower.
* The ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' series, based in a surreal, video game-like version of Toronto, averts most of these stereotypes (it should be noted the author, Bryan Lee O'Malley, is Canadian himself), except for the occasional "eh." Also, American characters' dialogue will be spelled with words like "flavor", while the Canadian cast says "flavour". [[Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld The film]] plays much more with this trope, see that entry below for more.

* ''[[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League United]]'' featured Miiyahben "Mii" Martin aka Equinox, a Cree Canadian girl from Ontario.
* ''ComicBook/SuperboyAndTheRavers'': D.C. Force is the daughter of a Canadian family of metahumans that have a complex in the Canadian woods. They're all very kind, but prefer to keep away from costumed heroics, and steer towards aid for metahumans whose powers interfere with their medical treatment or require medical treatment, which D.C. rebels against. Her father and uncle pretty much always wear plaid shirts.
* ''ComicBook/YouAreDeadpool:'' While in the 1980s, Deadpool is instantly able to suss out which country is "the most ''evil'' country in the world" as being Canada, his own home country, because they have [[FauxHorrific free healthcare]]. Turns out a bunch of Canadian scientists tried to create a superhero exactly one decade ahead of their time... and succeeded. Deadpool kills the result, despite an appeal to his patriotism.
-->'''Deadpool:''' I'm loyal to nothing... except the dream, eh?
* The graphic novel ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'' is set in Canada (precisely Toronto), with most of the cast being locals.
* ''ComicBook/TexWiller'' is mostly set in Arizona and Texas, but Tex and his pards have occasionally gone to Canada to deal with local criminals that had somehow gotten the attention of the Texas authorities or to help their friends there.
* A three issue storyline in ''ComicBook/InfinityInc'' had the team travel to Calgary, Alberta. (Artist Creator/ToddMcfarlane spent part of his childhood living in Calgary.) In one issue it is mis-identified as Calgary, Ontario.

* Creator/{{Pixar}}'s short, ''WesternAnimation/{{Bao}}'' is set in Toronto and it focuses on a Chinese-Canadian woman.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'': Due to America's horrible political state, many of the characters try to move to Canada:
** In "Return of the King", Martin Luther King Jr. wakes up from a coma and becomes an instant celebrity, until he states his pacifist ways towards 9/11 and Al-Qaeda. He later gets backlash for his statement and moves to Canada.
** "It's A Black President, Huey Freeman": After Barack Obama gets elected becoming the first black president, Huey and Uncle Ruckus attempt to move to Canada.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' pokes fun of Canada, when Hector, who claims to have conquered it, lists that as one of his achievements to a council of other villains. None of them even care.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/FacesMusicParty'' episode "Mega Party", Face [[ItMakesSenseInContext transforms into a moose]] and puts on a stereotypical Canadian accent while doing so.

** [[EvilTeacher Crocker's]] Uncle Albert is from Canada, eh?
** From a comic story in which Timmy wishes for Cosmo and Wanda to conjure up a cousin for him to justify a lie he told:
--->'''Vicky:''' How come I've never met [him] before?\\
'''Timmy:''' Because he lives in, uh, Euro...Litha...Bulga...Slavia.\\
'''Vicky:''' A Canadian, huh?

** Norm the Genie wants to destroy Canada because "they've had it too good for too long". Which is hilarious because Norm the Genie's voice actor, Creator/NormMacDonald, is Canadian.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'':
** In the episode "Test of Time", [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Billy]], [[HeroicComedicSociopath Mandy]], and [[BlackAndNerdy Irwin]] are studying book reports. Mandy had ''Drums of the American Revolution'', Irwin had ''The Canadian Revolution'', and Billy had ''A Not-So-Brief History of Time''. While Billy was goofing off and not studying at all, Irwin called him on the phone 3 times. The first time, Billy was eating pie and Irwin was dressed as a mountie. The second time, Billy was watching a monster truck show and Irwin was dressed as a lumberjack. The third time, Billy was taking a bath, and Irwin, oddly enough, instead of wearing an outfit stereotyping Canadian culture, wore a Little Bo Peep outfit.

** In "The Secret Snake Club", Lake Ontario was the home of the legendary 8 km long snake Shnissugah, who would protect the nerds from bullies by swallowing them whole. [[spoiler:It turns out that Shnissugah isn't as mighty as the Secret Snake Club thought as it is 8 ''cm'' long, and can't eat the cool kids because Shnissugah says they're full of "trans-fatty acids".]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', the "Yukon Yutz" episode.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', a co-production between the United States and Canada, averts this for the most part, with the show itself being set in the States. They got the usual mounties whenever they visit there but otherwise not too many stereotypical tropes. A notable exceptions however would be an early episode named "Johnny Gets Mooned" features two Canadian astronauts that end almost every sentence with "Eh?".

* ''WesternAnimation/LifesAZoo'': Not a stereotype, but Jake being Canadian is the first thing we learn about him. Jake also has a notable accent when he says "about" and "sorry". The French dub translates this by making him speak with a very thick Quebec accent, making him stand out from the other characters that still speak regional variations of French, but they either sound more standardized or like actual foreigners. Given that the show is produced in Canada and that Jake is also depicted as a SmallNameBigEgo {{Jerkass}}, there's definitely also some tongue-in-cheek SelfDeprecation on the production crew's part.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Snails in the duo of unicorns Snips & Snails is a good, slightly more subtle example. He speaks at first with a lightened version of the stereotypical accent, to the point where it's ambiguous whether it's a Northeast American one or Stereotypical Canada, Eh? one. Confirmed finally when he in one scene adds the 'Eh?' to one of his sentences in frustration. (Possibly an inside joke as the show is produced in Vancouver) He's, of course, voiced by "notorious" Canadian voice actor, Richard Ian Cox. Oddly, this is one of his first roles where he plays up the stereotypical accent, which he doesn't actually have.
** Ponyville also has a hockey team (whose jersey colours are, for some reason, patterned after Toronto's team rather than Vancouver's).

** The episode "Sidetracked" (where Perry team-up with a Canadian agent) is full of Canadian references.

** Worth noting is that one magazine article previewing the RCKY episode stated that Canada's greatest natural resource would be revealed, and that "No Canadian authorities will be happy." Turns out Canada's greatest natural resource is...[[spoiler:dirt.]]

** It also helps that some of the episodes are done in Canada by Carbuncle Cartoons, and that Creator/JohnKricfalusi himself is from Canada as well.

** In "Midnight Rx" Homer and Grampa go to Canada to smuggle prescription pills due to rising health costs putting an end to company drug plans. Grampa gives the veteran who hands him a health card a DVD player in appreciation. The veteran looks at it puzzled, wondering where you pour the syrup. During their second trip alongside Flanders and Apu, they're caught by border guards, after which they meet with a police official who's accompanied by a French translator [[TrollingTranslator that he trolls]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** Canada is the home of JustForFun/TerranceAndPhilip, which were originally intended as a parody of ''South Park'' itself: a crudely drawn and animated show about farts. However, later episodes turned Terrance and Phillip into real people and made all Canadians look and act like them: they are all crudely drawn, move their mouths by "flapping" the tops of their heads, speak in a rapid-paced and stylized accent, address each other as "buddy" or "guy," and fart a lot. More traditional Canadian stereotypes, such as moose, Mounties, maple syrup and Kraft Dinner are also commonly addressed.
** Ike being Canadian by birth is a retroactive case, since he has been featured since the beginning of the show (therefore, before even Terrance and Phillip were introduced), but Trey Parker and Matt Stone found the flapping heads' coincidence too noticeable to let it slide, so he was [[Recap/SouthParkS2E4IkesWeeWee retconned into being adopted]].

* ''WebVideo/NotJustBikes'': Makes an amused nod to the stereotype of Canadians being nice when offered drugs while riding a bike over a bridge in Canada.

** It's an odd fact that if a character in the Marvel Universe (and to a lesser degree, in the DC universe) is a sociopath (Wolverine, Wyldechild), a psychopath ([[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Sabretooth]], Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}}), clinically insane (Aurora, and again Deadpool), gay (Northstar) or an elf (again Northstar), they're from Canada. If they're gay or an elf, they're from Quebec (Northstar and Aurora).

** Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} of the X-Men was their first Canadian member, and very proudly so, though he hardly advertises the fact. It's made complex because John Byrne made him Canadian, and Marvel didn't care because at the time, they didn't think he'd be a major character. As his popularity grew, Marvel repeatedly tried to ''retcon'' his history to make him American, with no success. He's now generally recognized as Canadian in the comic.
** A discarded version of the ''Wolverine: Origins'' storyline had Wolverine born and spend his early life in the Southern States and move to Canada after the reveal causes tragedy in his family. It was eventually decided that his Canadian origin was at this point too integral to his fan recognition to ignore.
** One issue of ''X-Men: First Class'' plays this straight, showing Wolverine to be [[CanadianEqualsHockeyFan a dedicated hockey fan]] ("It's my moral right as a Canadian!").
** Another issue had him describing to Kitty an early mission he had with Alpha Flight where he had to rescue the Governor General. His attempts to explain to Kitty who the Governor General is was hilarious.
** Like Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}}, Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}} [[https://imgur.com/gallery/LZV5V is from Canada]] but doesn't talk about it that much, though he did tell [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]] that he was such an expert figure-skater because figure-skating is every Canadian's superpower.

* Series/{{Castle}} wants to travel to Montreal alone to investigate [[spoiler:his recent two-month-long disappearance]]; Beckett insists that it might be too dangerous. Castle (played by Canadian Nathan Fillion) responds with "It's Canada! How dangerous could it be?" to fellow Canadian Stana Katic.

* Creator/KevinSmith's "True North" trilogy (''Film/{{Tusk}}'', ''Film/YogaHosers'' and the as-of-yet-unreleased ''Moose Film/{{Jaws}}''), which is set in Canada and relies almost entirely on cartoonishly exaggerated stereotypes.

* Subverted in an episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'', where the [=UnSub=] turns out to be a Canadian who is abducting homeless Americans from just south of the border, then transporting them into Canada to kill them. As the FBI has no jurisdiction in Canada the BAU need to coordinate with the Mounties, who are dressed and equipped identically to them, just with "RCMP" on their windbreakers. Further bucking the stereotypes, the leader of the Mounties is Black.

* ''Series/{{Mo}}'': Mo's brother-in-law Bob is Canadian and is an affable guy, even when Mo's sister is distant. When Mo's nephew Osama has an off day at a baseball game, Mo blames his Canadian genetics. And when Bob tells Mo off for going on the field, Bob apologizes immediately and Mo proudly notes that Bob actually showed some strength.

* Webcomic/EerieCuties: It's rarely mentioned, but the series is set in Thornhill, Canada. Dio also [[https://pixietrixcomix.com/eerie-cuties/2012-09-17 mentioned]] it, during his double date with Layla and Kade.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/HaileysOnIt'' features a Canadian named Joanne Droid. Joanne wears a sweater, snow boots and winter hat with ear flaps in a California beach town; speaks in a robotic monotone; has awkward, unnatural movements; and has inexplicable SuperStrength. Hailey assumes she's a Chaos Bot in disguise, but she turns out to just be an "eccentric Canadian". In a later episode, it's mentioned that Joanne is back in Canada doing "Canadian things". Cutaway to Joanne punching a hole through a maple tree, drizzling the sap on a stack of pancakes and presenting them to three beavers waving Canadian flags.