Occasionally I remember how Nickelodeon’s association with green slime comes from when they were young and needed to fill airtime cheap so they constantly ran Alanis Morissette’s CanCon youth sketch show
when a film or tv show takes place somewhere where you have been, it is your sacred duty as viewer to say “i’ve been there” every time you recognize a place
When a film or TV show claims to take place somewhere but you been there and it is your sacred duty as a view to say “no the hell that is not there.”
when a film or TV show claims to take place somewhere, but it’s actually not there, but you’ve been there, and it’s your sacred duty as viewer to tell everyone how the “german government building” is, in fact, a dead mall in Cleveland
I can tell you’ve never lived with Vancouverites
Alberta, Portland, Oregon. Not Alberta, Canada. In retrospect, far more logical. I am humbled.
Oh, I’d have been aware of more Canadian TV shows if I’d lived in that Alberta
im vaguely aware of second city television but only because of don caballero
Just like I only really knew You Can’t Do That On Television because it was a cheap time-filler when Nickelodeon started, Kids in the Hall and SCTV were that for Comedy Central
letterkenny isn't funny and is annoying. Watch The Red Green Show instead and the made for TV movie, Duct Tape Forever. Further I'm surprised you haven't heard of famous in the 90s, Canadian, Red Green Show.
>famous
>Canadian
one time I was eating a lox bagel at the airport terminal and a guy near me started freaking out and yelling into the phone that “this kid is eating FISH on a BAGEL can you BELIEVE IT?!” sir this is the traditional way to eat a bagel in America; get with the program
More proof that america is an elaborate hoax
#i. actually do not believe you
wait which part? that bagels with lox is traditional (it’s Yiddish) or that some Americans have never heard of it and think it’s a really bizarre new way to eat a bagel?
I’m canadian, and bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese are a CLASSIC!! i’ve never been to a bagel shop or brunch place that didn’t serve this delicious meal.
Yeah, like NYC, Montreal was a significant gateway to the continent, drew a founding Jewish immigrant population around merchant shipping, and went on to develop a strong Jewish food tradition - the Montreal bagel is a distinct thing, and Montreal steak seasoning comes from deli pickling spices.
Every so often I remember that Clerks is set in a world where angels and demons are real and Alanis Morissette is God
it was the ‘80s, at some point Rush had the option to graduate from “let the new kid producer go wild with the Video Toaster to “a tasteful video of your not-remotely-young-anymore band playing the song on a soundstage”
and they were like BOTH
Just remembered this terrible show and was like “what the hell?”
Eek! The Cat (retitled Eek! Stravaganza in 1994) is an American-Canadian animated seriesCanCon! That explains something.
Eek’s selfless nature usually gets him caught up in painful situations such as getting caught in mail and baggage sorters (both of which appear designed to intentionally damage their contents) and screaming “Oh Gosh It Hurts!” while the show’s guitar riff theme played.
Mom - The apparently single mother of the family that owns Eek!. Voiced by Elinor Donahue. Does a lot of house cleaning and is a student of foreign languages, especially “Spangalese”.
Annabelle – A female cat and Eek’s girlfriend who acts like a Southern belle. She is also extremely fat, although Eek! does not seem aware of this (he responds, genuinely surprised, “Really?” whenever someone comments on Annabelle’s weight)
what the hell?
Timmy – Elmo’s brother. He constantly needs money for various absurd medical ailments which Elmo tries to raise with Eek!’s help. These usually consist of very dangerous stunts that only harm Eek! when he gets involved.
Mittens appears to have been based on Dennis Hopper’s unnamed photojournalist character from Apocalypse Now,what the HELL?
The segment chronicled the misadventures of a trio of dinosaur mercenaries released from incarceration and charged with the task of eliminating two primitive human beings.WHAT the HELL
Twelve DVD volumes have been released by Jetix in Eastern Europe under the title “Kocour Raplík”,[16] another Jetix DVD for Russian markets under the title “Кот Ик”,[17] and four Hungarian Jetix DVDs under the title “Nyekk a Macska”.y'know, sure.
this show was like the rind of whatever they squeezed Rocko’s Modern Life out of.
me: you know what we should do? also me: what? me: go up to Vancouver, find a recording studio and some session musicians, and record some CanCon novelty songs also me: what?
Whoever told me “the new Carly Rae Jepsen album is a lot better than you’d expect”, you were correct.
Whoever told me “the new Carly Rae Jepsen album is actually really good”, you were incorrect.
Like the first few songs sound like they could be on Top 40, yet were better than anything I remember when I was listening to Top 40 last week.
The album starts out banging as fuck. Run Away With Me is a great song. It doesn’t blaze any trails, but the footsteps in follows in are like, Annie, Tegan and Sara, CHVRCHES and happycore vocal anthems, a touch of that laser-wireframe Trapper Keeper ‘80s neo-neon-noir shit we’re about lately, all of which are EXTREMELY my jam.
The next two are solid - the title track puts some bouncy ‘90s anime BGM instrumentation over what are by all rights (and are delivered as) Jackson 5 lyrics, I Really Like You is simple as hell and fun as hell, with some instrumentation from back when they discovered synthesizers and polyrhythm at the same time and went wild.
But from there, eh, it gets grim and tryhard real quick, and the things it’s imitating start to get even more painfully obvious. Boy Problems is a Victorious Breakup Song (like WANEGBT) done as ersatz Lucky-era Daft Punk but the lyrics are way too on the nose, the one good memorable line is awkwardly deployed.
Sonically, Your Type rips CHVRCHES waaaaaay too hard and too directly, and lyrically it’s clear someone sat down to write A Friendzone Song in exactly the same sense you’d sit down to write A Book Report About The Giver
The rest of the album… there are some good bits, but half of them I’m like “man I wish this bit was in a better song” and the other half I’m like “man I remember when this bit was in a better song”.
The one thing I’ll say, compared to the other big ‘80s-throwback pop album of the year, Taylor Swift’s 1989, it draws on the dancier, more disco-influenced, diva-y and tbh gayer stuff of the period, and there’s a few tracks on here that are disposable trash as is but would make great fodder for club dance remixes.
Whoever told me “the new Carly Rae Jepsen album is a lot better than you’d expect”, you were correct.
Whoever told me “the new Carly Rae Jepsen album is actually really good”, you were incorrect.
