History YMMV / RoyalCanadianAirFarce

** Is Sheila Copps' (comedically exaggerated) tendency to yell all the time an {{Acceptable Political Target|s}}? Or sexist, as none of the other impersonations (male or female) did the same thing? Mind you, the real Copps had no problem with how she was portrayed, doing the same thing in her guest appearance, and Canadian politicians aren't generally known for being loud or straightforward, so the real Copps was bound to stand out regardless. Additionally, once John Baird entered the federal political scene, the show was more than happy to lampoon him for the same thing as they did Copps.

** While CausticCritic Gilbert Smythe Bite-Me was originally intended as the over-the-top butt of the joke (based on a RealLife critic whose reviews were so harsh and to-the-point that the troupe deemed them ripe for comedy), does that framing hold up throughout all his sketches, or does he become more of a one-man AuthorTract as time (and popular culture) goes on, with the writers raving against increasingly easier targets? (This unsurprisingly coincides with later seasons and the WereStillRelevantDammit slant their writing would also take.)

** [[https://youtu.be/MvNW3PtG8dY A Season 7 sketch]] about Canada’s Navy trying to keep out migrant ships has the captain ask his subordinate [[TakeThat “Isn’t it bad enough we let]] Creator/GoldieHawn live here in the summer?” In a funny twist, Hawn and Creator/KurtRussell would later move to Vancouver and live there much more of the time in hopes of helping son Creator/WyattRussell’s hockey career.

** While CausticCritic Gilbert Smythe Bite-Me was originally intended as the over-the-top butt of the joke (based on a RealLife critic whose reviews were so harsh and to-the-point that the troupe deemed them ripe for comedy), does that framing hold up throughout all his sketches, or does he become more of a one-man AuthorTract as time (and popular culture) goes on, with the writers raving against increasingly easier targets. (This unsurprisingly coincides with later seasons and the WereStillRelevantDammit slant their writing would also take.)

** While CausticCritic Gilbert Smythe Bite-Me was originally intended as the over-the-top butt of the joke (based on a RealLife critic whose reviews were so harsh and to-the-point that the troupe deemed them ripe for comedy), does that framing hold up throughout all his sketches, or does he become more of an AuthorAvatar as time (and popular culture) goes on, with the writers raving against increasingly-easier targets. (This unsurprisingly coincides with later seasons and the WereStillRelevantDammit slant their writing would also take.)

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is Sheila Copps' (comedically exaggerated) tendency to yell all the time an {{Acceptable Political Target|s}}? Or sexist, as none of the other impersonations (male or female) did the same thing? Mind you, the real Copps had no problem with how she was portrayed, doing the same thing in her guest appearance, and Canadian politicians aren't generally known for being loud or straightforward, so the real Copps was bound to stand out regardless. Additionally, once John Baird entered the federal political scene, the show was more than happy to lampoon him for the same thing as they did Copps.

* HarsherInHindsight: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ve8UIx3BE A Season 7 sketch]] had Jean Chrétien meeting with Pierre Elliot Trudeau and claiming he thought Trudeau had passed away, before singing a grammatical error-laden rendition of HappyBirthdayToYou, ending with the line "Hopes you makes it to 81!". The RealLife Trudeau would be dead less than a year after the sketch aired, not making it to age 81.

** The end of Season 3’s [[https://youtu.be/emrrjDD4gLM “Martha Stewart Nightly News”]] has the announcer say the following show is ''[[Series/TheXFiles “The Martha Stewart X-Files”]]'', implying she is so popular that she also has her own version of a pre-existing series. This would pretty much become [[{{Defictionalization}} Defictionalized]] with ''[[Series/TheApprentice The Apprentice: Martha Stewart]]'' in 2005.

** The end of Season 3’s [[https://youtu.be/emrrjDD4gLM “Martha Stewart Nightly News”]] has the announcer say the following show is “The Martha Stewart X-Files”, implying she is so popular that she also has her own version of a pre-existing series. This would pretty much become [[{{Defictionalization}} Defictionalized]] with ''[[Series/TheApprentice The Apprentice: Martha Stewart]]'' in 2005.

** Like most comedic characters with a similar premise, Big Bobby Clobber’s RunningGag of his short-term memory loss isn’t nearly as funny now in the age of greater awareness of CTE and other head injury effects in sports, especially in hockey, where the NHL has historically been reluctant ''at best'' to acknowledge said injuries in its players.

** Like most comedic characters with a similar premise, Big Bobby Clobber’s RunningGag of his short-term memory loss isn’t nearly as funny now in the age of greater awareness of CTE and other head injury effects in sports, especially regarding hockey, where the NHL has been historically reluctant ‘’at best’’ to acknowledge said injuries in its players.