My thinking is that they probably animated the scene with a script that originally had her say 'cookies' or something, and decided later on to change the line 'to reference something more Canadian'
In Australia we've learned never to call anyone with an American accent American. If you say Canadian, Americans will laugh, but if you say American, Canadians get Angry
I've always thought about the differences between the canadian accent and the american accent as being similar to that of the new zealand accent and the australian accent; americans and canadians can easily distinguish between eachother's accents, and vice versa, whereas outsiders can barely tell the difference
@@gu4650 spot on. I can hear it within 2 sentences. But I can't tell a kiwi from an aussie to save my life. The same happens between the Boston and New York accent for Americans. They can hear the difference but everyone else thinks they sound the same. Mix either of them up and they get mad.
@@Ruthless_Regg I think Boston & NY accents are pretty distinct to me. On the other hand, I've never seen anyone get genuinely offended in the US for mixing up an accent. It's more of a playful ribbing back & forth if anything. Though I've definitely seen a Canadian get mad when someone thought they were from Minnesota lol
@@corey2232 are you from the North East? Lol on the west coast we think they sound the same. Minnesota and Canada's accent are very close same with Wisconsin. 😂😂😂
When my brother and his wife travel to Europe people assume they are Russian. I’ve been mistaken for South African while in Ireland. We are all American born.
So true though. I’m from Texas and we see Cali license plates here every now and then and don’t think anything of it. But we visited California once and rented a car which just so happened to have Texas plates. We were harassed and honked at and cut off and flipped off by other California drivers. Really friendly place I don’t see why everyone is leaving there in droves lmao 🤣
@@tannerbroyles Hope you don't take it too personally, that's just your average California driver. It's not a true California road trip if you aren't flipped off and tailgated.
@@tannerbroyles I frankly don't believe you. Sure, maybe you were flipped off and honked at, but not for the plate. I've been to Cali with a southern license plate, not Texas but close enough, and never experienced anything remotely like that.
I almost married a Canadian woman from Ontario. Her family was as sanctimonious and nitpicky as these people. They actually tried to brag about their cigarettes one time and none of us smoked.
I did marry a Canadian woman, and I love her family to death but oh my god are they obnoxious about how amazing everything Canadian is, and how much everyone loves Canada lol
King of the hill is honestly one of the best animated series ever made. Instead of cartoon violence or gross out humor it's just clear cut slice of life and cultural identifies. A show the represent common ways of everyday life is always a good time in my mind. Shame there isn't more shows like that out there.
From what I understand, Bob's Burgers is the closest thing to King of the Hill that we have today. I've struggled to get into Bob's Burgers though even that I love King of the Hill. The closest reason I have to explain this is because I like the art style of King of the Hill whereas I kind of hate the art style of Bob's Burgers.
We can only hope as he gets older he develops a taste of coffee. kidding of course. But I hated coffee when I was younger, but learned to appreciate the taste when I got older.
@@MountainJoie Wiki says Cajun-French which would include creole, but would also include other niche dialects. Since Creole is the most popular we can assume he does.
Wait… really? I’m an American soldier and I worked with some Canadian soldiers in Lithuania and Latvia last year. They were awesome. We made a bunch of jokes about each others stereotypes and had a blast. I hope Canada doesn’t keep underfunding it’s military cause out of all the nato forces I’ve worked with Canadians have been the coolest (pun intended) sorry about what trump said about you guys, just ignore him he says stupid stuff all the time and most Americans don’t agree with him 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦
I think the joke the show was going for with Boomhauer speaking French is that his English, his native language, is almost unrecognizable, but his French, which he just learned, is very fluent.
"Your money has a girl on it!" that made me laugh. As an American, I've never heard that. I know that my family would be kind and hospitable to anyone from anywhere until they gave us reason not to be.
I once heard a young American university student in Canada comment that the money was color coded for those that couldn't read. I am American and go to Canada all of the time, but I've never paid attention to the color of the money.
The French Canadian neighbour has a very strong English accent when she speaks French. So clearly she was played by an anglophone acting a stereotypical french accent when speaking English.
@@Tony32 Trilled r used to be the norm in French, and in the case of French Canada it still was until quite recently. It started its decline in the 50s it seems (though in the east it was earlier), but I've heard it from younger people as well
@@timothybarrett7626 Do you know the actual name of Mexico is: The United States of Mexico? They use a Federal system like US. They have a Congress with 2 houses. Lower house and upper house. The Senate is the upper house. The Deputy is the lower house. Each State have a Governor and also each State have a State Deputy Assembly. Also each State have Municipal Divisions with a Council and a Mayor. So yeah... there you go... They copycat the US system... why? I don’t know, maybe because they are a COUNTRY with a Mexican National Guard, Army and Navy called MARINA just like US... Now that is corrupt and inefficient, well that is another thing... Coz after Spaniards went to war with France, all Spanish colonies were practically abandoned... So they had to make a Nation on their own... But see at least they tried... Just read a bit bro... 😉👍
Makes sense really. Umm, uhh, dang ole - those are all filler words for when you are speaking faster than you're thinking. Kinda like a stutter. Since he's putting all his thought into his speech he doesn't need the filler words
@@dixonhill1108 As I understand it. 90 per cent of Canadians live within 100 miles or km of the USA. Which is correct eh? Dave Thomas did more to stereotype Canadians than Americans ever did. The one from Canada, not the one who started Windys (sic) fast food.
I’ve lived in Canada all my life and you’re the first Canadian I’ve heard pronounce, “about” the stereotypical Canadian way, I’ve never heard a Canadian say “aluminium”, nor have I ever seen it written that way.
At the end of the episode where the french Canadian girl says "that's it that's all" blew me away. I am from Quebec and it is actually extremely common to hear older francophone people use that phrase, spoken in English. Crazy that they knew about that one super niche idiosyncrasy.
"That's it, that's all" is tip of the iceberg. Francophones use A LOT of expressions spoken in English: "end of story", "Anyway", "bullshit"(often pronounced as boulechite), "sky is the limit", "so far so good"... you name it (which is another one).
@@DuMail82 Never EVER heard a Quebecker say ''comme ci comme ça". They should really stop teaching you this in school. Bien en bien, never heard that either.
That's was the best part I love about this show, you can see the character progression throughout the seasons and it was very well done. Kahn and Hank may not have the kind of friendship Hank has with Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer, but went it comes to outsider conflict that comes to them or the neighborhood, they at least support each other.
@@alexross1816 It has a lot to do with outsiders acting as if all Americans are just stereotypical, ignorant white people when in reality it's a massively diverse group of cultures & races from all backgrounds that immigrated & helped build the country. Insulting it is almost like insulting their work & ignoring their history. I just know my uncle (from India) gets super annoyed when he sees some non-American generalizing the people pretending as though they're a bunch of self-centered, war-mongering, gun-wielding, evangelical, privileged white people. He's American too, so ignoring that bothers him. Hell, I get annoyed too reading certain comments. I usually just gloss over them, but you can tell a lot of people who try & put down the country don't really know much about it themselves.
I'm 45, lived in ontario my whole life. Never heard anyone use the word chesterfield in my life! And there are a lot of French canadians in ontario. You may not realize because they are bilingual and speak English just as fluently as you do.
I stopped in Hawkesbury, ON and to my surprise, few people spoke English in the shops. Given that it's on the border to Québec it makes sense, but I didn't expect an Ontarian town of this size to be almost entirely Francophone. Really opened my eyes that the linguistic borders aren't correctly represented by the provinces
Kahn is a very good example of "He's a jerk, but he's our jerk." What's interesting is that he fits that description better than pretty much every other character we were probably *supposed* to feel that way. (Cotton, Strickland, etc)
Hell, even I can relate to someone from North Dakota more than the whiny, snivelling Liberals choking our Province. Lol! I enjoyed my time there. Luckily, the riding I live in has been Conservatively led for over 2 decades despite only being 20 minutes drive from Ottawa though so that’s a bit of a blessing. Lol
Hi JJ, as a South African who has just moved to Canada I find your videos to be a treasure trove of insight into the nuance of the Canadian culture. Thanks and keep ‘em coming!
@@dixonhill1108 What claims? What premises? When does J.J. say anything that you talk about here? He literally doesn’t make any claims about immigration whatsoever.
True, Canadians are proud that they are not American. But they do everything Americans do. Based on family in Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary. BTW, how is that COVID doing aunty?
Yeah they are just like liberals here in the US. Always asking for free shit, high taxes to pay for shitty healthcare, and fingerwagging at people that don't agree with them.
@@shawnanderson6313 They're very similar and they have a very similar way of life. It's even something JJ pointed out in other videos before! They're almost the same hahah
I can't speak for the French but Hank's neighbors are Laotian and in fact, all the "Laotian" spoken in the series is actually random _Thai_ syllables arbitrarily mashed up into gibberish that sounds close enough to words. Also I recently got a bag of mini Coffee Crisp from Amazon, being American and curious, and the bag was empty by day's end. Love coffee, love chocolate, love a good crisp wafer. Stuff got inhaled. It's like a superior and mocha-flavored Kit-Kat bar.
I notice that Anglophone Canadian attitudes toward the United States for cultural matters, are, for the most part, characterized by the "narcissism of small differences".
@@HamishDuh2nd all replaceable actors, how is culture conveyed by 4 people? And do you really think that these mildly entertaining things are vital to the American people
@@HamishDuh2nd lmao. Helped "make the culture"--so somehow 4 actors were there settling the west, fighting for freedom, welcoming the people of the world. Do you really think actors are what American culture is or is that just because you've only interacted with the US through media
My favorite Hank moment, as far as his idiosyncrasies, was when he said "The guy asked me if I wanted honey mustard and I almost took a swing at him". I don't know why I laughed so hard at that. Maybe because it's something so innocent, but it's also quintessential Hank Hill.
@@skylerlilacsky6545 I’m not sure that there is a rational explanation. It might be that Hank feels that strongly about honey mustard, or he misunderstands and thinks it’s some obscene reference. It’s just funny because it’s such an overreaction, like if somebody said “Frank said he likes the Big Bang Theory more than How I Met Your Mother, so of course I had to run him over with my car.”
Bobby: what if they want their steak well done Hank: we ask them politely, yet firmly to leave. Probably my favorite idiosyncrasies Hank has, because I have the exact same mindset.
Canada refines a lot of aluminum in Quebec. It comes from Guyana and shipped through Trinidad and Tobago. I'm from Trinidad and I grew up seeing the storage facilities and learning about them.
@@Rman775 it's not just cheap electricity, it's relatively clean electricity. Canda makes Aluminum with much less carbon output per unit of Aluminim than anywhere else. This is largely because the refinement is powered by hydropower rather than coal or natural gas.
I love how the "aluminium" joke flew right over his head. It wasn't about Canada being a country with a lot of metal mining, it was about the fact that Americans pronounce and spell it "aluminum"
Unfortunately most the jokes fly over this guy's head. King of the hills lesson isn't don't be different.. it's about showing the contrast of cultural clashes and it is actually a very nuanced show. It was interesting to see this guy take everything the way he did though.
As a Canadian who lives in the USA I can heartily agree with your insights. I usually use the analogy that Canada is the USAs little brother living under its shadow. constantly trying to prove themselves, to show they're different but all the while the big brother doesn't really care or notice and will just give a friendly pat on the head.
I like this analogy quite a bit. I think, like an older sibling, Americans can be a little unbearable as a rule, in the same way that humans in general can be a little unbearable... But, ultimately, also like an older sibling, I think Americans like Canadians very much. And otherwise they don't pay much attention lol
@@monkeymaster8342 I don't know what you expected! USA shares a border with Canada and Mexico, and you yourself are a Canadian who has crossed the border. I'm sure you can see the irony.
@@monkeymaster8342 I remember there being a fair amount of “italians” (like not necessarily directly but background wise) where I used to live in Ontario (in general around the Toronto area)
As a French-American who moved to Canada, I think this episode of King of the Hill does a very good job of showing a reality of how some Canadians can be and their superiority complex. Don't get me wrong, I love Canada and I just applied for citizenship but I do wish Canadians had a better attitude towards the US. In university, I'd get annoyed with people in school who would say things that are completely wrong about the US's politics, culture, history, etc. I don't have a problem with criticizing the US and its problems I just wish that Canadians could stay focused on their criticism. I'll be the first person to say what is wrong with the US but it's just as ignorant as when Americans assume things about Canada that aren't true. All in all, I love our North American culture and wish that both sides got to know the other side more accurately. I did a whole paper in grad school about continentalism and how this could benefit both Canada and the US. If the general population were to understand each other better it would be something ideal that people might be able to support.
As an Indian-American (as in Asian Indian not native indian), it's pretty annoying when some of my folks won't listen to me when I disagree with them about America. Like, you wanna know who's more knowledgeable about America? It's the American! America is a shit show but, it's a shit show with great people and culture and if you're gonna criticize it then you better know what you're talking about. We really need more unity kindness between the western allies otherwise, we're going to cripple each other with division.
@@dixonhill1108 In reference to which part of my comment? I didn't really make much claims about America aside from that our national politics is a shit show.
@@dixonhill1108 Well yeah. I'm not saying that Americans will know the entirety of America but if it was a Californian, Floridian, or Texan (all wildly different states) vs a German or South African then, the American will know more about the US than their foreign counterparts.
in regards to the Canadian navy, I don't think they ever sat down and were like "hey we don't need the navy anymore" but somewhere along the way they stopped making repairs and keeping ships maintained and running. Which allowed the Canadian navy to fall into a state where its no longer operational without the help of foreign militaries. Started in the 60s I believe when they decided to scrap their aircraft carrier.
My Seabee 50ton mobile crain crew (in the 90's at USN IMF in Pearl Harbor) use to help out the Canadians when they came into port. Off the books cuz they were broke and had no money. They had beer machines though 😁 and would toss beer over the rail to the pier for thank you✌️
I am from cape may NJ. Every summer we were inundated with French Canadians for summer jobs. We all stereotyped them as rude and snobby. Wasn't until I moved to Maine at the new Brunswick border that I began to hear the polite stereotype.
Someone acknowledging the insecurities of their own country is extremely refreshing... But Canadians aren't the only ones that have that attitude towards the US, as you can tell by comments in many videos, people of former European colonial powers try to assert their superiority in some way over the US all the time. It's weird, but you see it any time a video discusses an issue in a non-US country. Example, the video could be called "Belgium's Dark History!" and half the comments will be "BUT THE UNITED STATES DID BLAH BLAH BLAH!" I can't help but just roll my eyes & think "ok...but the topic wasn't about that."
It reminds me of the whole, " I hate you" "I don't think about you at all." meme. But I suspect that a lot of that stuff is bots. You can usually tell by clicking on the avatar and going to their, "about." If it's obviously a bot I flag it.
This. So much this. I recently watched a clip from a reality show of an English woman having a discussion with a few others about whether Essex was a county or a continent. Somehow many of the comments were about America or Americans. There is a sizable number of people in the first world (and especially Europeans) who are absolutely obsessed with the US, driven insane by envy.
This is actually a very thoughtful reaction video... most reaction videos are just like, "watch me giggle and add useless commentary so I can leverage off of the original content." Impressed with this one.
I know right!!! That was always my favorite thing about it. Someone said it in a really hilarious but accurate way, which is that its an american slice of life anime. It really does get this aesthetic of a suburb in texas absolutely perfect. Thats why i like it more than like beavis and butthead, because it is immersive and honestly to me has a relaxing aesthetic to a degree, and one of my ex’s lived in texas, so this really reminds me of his home town and is nostalgic for that reason. All the details are there and it is just wacky enough to ride the line perfectly between parody and reality
Mike Judge is criminally underrated. Both KotH and Daria are absolutely hilarious and Office Space is a fantastic cult classic. His comedy is so smart and layered. Genius.
There are definitely a lot of inaccuracies in the portrayal of Canadians, but I like the overall concept behind the episode. Having family on both sides of the border, I've grown to appreciate the similarities between Canada and the USA (which are far more numerous than most people realize). In truth, the cultures are more intertwined than one would imagine, especially along the border from coast to coast.
@@Robbie_Rocket that's because 4 hours after Japan attacked pearl harbor they invaded Hong Kong which was British at the time and Canadian soldiers were stationed there over the next few weeks they were either captured as POWs or killed
Corner Gas season 2 episode 12, "An American in Saskatchewan" does the Canadian/American interaction subversion from the other side. Might be an interesting contrast.
@Jackerson Roze he was very polite. He was also very informed about Canada and Hank's attempts to poke fun at his ignorance would comically backfire and make Hank embarrass himself.
I laughed so hard at Hank's "why? " to the prime minister question. This is a thing with every other country. What's are leaders name, capital or where are we on a map?!
@@machinist7230 Ya but the funny thing is ask most Americans who the leaders are of China and Russia and you will get a blank puzzled look. Education with regard to the world is never a bad thing. I thought saying Chrétien would have been funnier both put him in his place and not make yourself look like an arrogant dick. Look what American exceptionalism has gotten them over the last 20 years a bad reputation and Canada trying to figure out how to get them to pay for a wall.
I think you really hit the nail on the head when you brought up the arbitrary nature of the Canada-US border. It's not defined by geography or anything like that but instead was just crudely carved up for political reasons. There's even segments of Canada/US that aren't connected by roads because of this haphazard division. It's really reminiscent of the borders of African countries.
@@dixonhill1108 The entirety of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and much of Quebec are south of the St. Lawrence. As for the Great Lakes, I'm not convinced they're much of a natural border. For example, not much separates Michigan from Ontario and it shows in how similar the two regions are culturally (I'm from Ontario and I've visited Michigan on occasion).
@@jamesmccabe3041 much New Brunswick is separated from the US by St. John and St. Croix Rivers. While much of Quebec is separated from the US by the northernmost part of the Appalachian Mountains. Plus the concept of Natural Borders has only an indirect relationship to culture, it being an idea to conquer land until you gain an easily defensible border.
If there was absolutely a need to have 2 countries in N. America, a east-west division would have been more natural with a border along the Mississippi and the western tip of the Great Lakes.
I live right across Lake Erie from Canada, and my life was saved by a Canadian soldier, so I have mad love for Canadians and a world of respect for their service members.
Khan's "I fought bullets in the killing fields for two extra years instead of going to Canada" is the ABSOLUTE BEST! Of all the characters, I wish Khan was my neighbour...Yeah, I'm Canadian'ish.
As an immigrant, I can confirm this! My family was stuck in the Middle East and we migrated (quite extensively and painfully) to Europe, waited an extra 3 years in order to come to the US instead of going to Australia or Canada 😂 but to be fair 90% of our family (both sides of family) were in the US.
@@manda8512 If I'm reading your comment right...that's not exactly the same thing. As humorous as it was delivered, Khan's statement was that he would continue to risk death in Cambodia because he saw no point in leaving a communist controlled country only to embrace one that was ruled by socialism (soft communism). Your family, while safely sitting in Europe, chose to migration shop for the best possible outcome, rather than take refuge in the first safe country that they came to. Khan's choice was admirable because it was based on self sacrifice, your families less so.
@@1966johnnywayne I’m from Iraq. My dad was drafted to the first Gulf War but we waited/saved money for another 3 years in order to go to Europe and wait for America instead of applying to Canada/Australia from Iraq. There was always a sense of looming doom and fear because Saddam just loved wars and we were worried another might start soon and that my dad would get drafted again. I also have family still in the Middle East who stayed in war torn countries waiting for America instead of moving to safe European countries, Canada or Australia. My story isn’t 100% Kahn’s, I was just adding my similar experience. Also, being an illegal immigrant in Europe does mean that you get deported if you’re found out so it wasn’t that risk free.
@@manda8512 Granted...It wasn't clear in your original comment that your three years waiting was in fact in "hostile territory", apologies. Having been born and raised in Canada, I envy your outcome, but clearly not the path that forced you to it. I hope that you do everything within your ability to resist those that would change your adopted home, without America we will all suffer.
the Zamboni Was actually invented in California and still headquartered there. But they are made in Canada in Brantford, Ontario. The Olympia Ice Resurface Machine is the Canadian owned competition and is out of Elmira, Ontario
As a French Canadian, I can tell you a few things about Suzette : - Suzette is not even a common name in Quebec. It’s a classic « french from France » name. - Suzette has a French parisian accent, not a Quebec accent. - The spitting she did was not Québécois. So that’s my take on it :) Edit : Wow, didn’t see the replies. Her accent is maybe not Parisian, but certainely sounds more like stereotypical Metropolitan French accent. Also, I said Suzette is not a common name here, I didn’t say it doesn’t happen. Also, when I said spitting is not Quebecois, what I mean is it’s not in our culture. We don’t express ourselves like that. I just don’t know how to explain it. As for the guys pissing on the side of the road, I have never seen that but hey, there are idiots everywhere on this planet.
I wonder if they either didn't know any better, or were trying to smear the culture (alluding to them living in some sort of "France simulator or acting French")? If it were South Park or Family Guy... the disrespectful option would be my guess, but King of the Hill had never seemed "mean spirited", to me.
yeah in her second scene she starts using particularly french-canadian broken english, but it also just sounded kinda cajun. I'm far from fluent but I can tell the difference between a french accent and a quebecois accent.. Of course to be fair, it's not as if a parisian french person can't live in canada.
When I was a cab driver in Sacramento, California, we had a contract with United Airlines taking people to a connecting flights in San Francisco, when the UA flight to from Sacramento to San Francisco was cancelled. As you approach the exit for the San Francisco Airport, there was a sign that said "Flights to Canada, Use Domestic Terminal." Someone had spray painted the on the wall next to the sign, "proof that Canada is not a real country."
@@algrundau9441 ontop of that. That’s fake. I promise you I’ve never seen a single American “travel” with a maple leaf jersey in my life. It’s another lie you tell yourselves to make you feel morally superior. “We’ll all of those Americans wear our jerseys” I’m sure more American jerseys are sold there than Canadian jerseys here. Relax little man.
Re: Coffee Crisp, I briefly knew an animator of the show, and he said that he had some freedom in deciding the details while animating Fox shows. My guess is that the author knew what Coffee Crisp was, but the animator did not. So I'm guessing that the ball was dropped by the animator there.
I find it interesting when you said Canadians are always comparing Canada and America and how Canadians are always trying to take the moral high ground. Honestly, in the US, Americans overall don't really think about or compare themselves with Canadians, hardly ever! Any differences are rarely if ever, discussed in general conversation. Its just not something that is on our minds. Also, Americans never say anything derogatory about Canada or Canadians. Most Americans assume that Canadians are very much like Americans in many ways, just colder.
Les canadiens anglais on vraiment aucunes cultures, leurs cultures est une copie bon marché de la culture américaine 😅 En passant, tu as oublié d'écrire "eh!" à la fin de toutes tes phrases 🤣
Americans never insult Canadians. We typically don’t talk about others in an unkind way. Canadians constantly say derogatory things about Americans. Then in the same breath, they talk about how polite and nice they are compared to Americans. Makes no sense.
3:58 Bill's reaction is 100% accurate for us Texans, but mostly when another thousand Californians are moving in to your town/city driving up housing cost.
Dont worry bro ... with all the anti voter , anti choice , pro vigilante , anti-vaccine , pro Ted Cruzisms in Texas - those Californian transplant problem will surely dry up soon . Good luck with that whole "Self Alamo-ing"
@@awesomebeast7509 The problem with your theory is that Californians love "healthy and robust econonic growth" ... and "not dying" from Covid 19 , back alley abortions , "stand your ground" types , and tornadoes. We also love our voting rights . We good .
@@cali4niasf "self Alamo-ing" what are you even attempting to say, because whatever it is it makes no sense. Unless of course it's just "Look at me I'm a retard." Then you would be correct.
Wow. You are probably the most well reasonable thought out person ive met in so long. Its so refreshing to see someone so even handed. Cant have enough words for that. You got a new fan!
I'm two years late to this comment, but yeah, he's not even being pretentious, scandalous, or condescending about it like so many other dumb, dime a dozen UA-camrs here. Bravo.
When I was in the Navy, we were once in the same port as a Canadian navy ship. One of the Canadians asked "Why to Americans think we're all French." In movies French speaking Canadians do seem to be heavily over represented.
French people are in France. Canadians are French speaking and English speaking. Most speak both languages with zero accent and have names that wouldn't match with their heritage. For example I've seen people mock French speaking Canadians to people who have English sounding names with no accent only for them to find out they come from the French speaking parts of Canada. Also, the west was originally settled by the eastern French speaking Canadians which then saw the English/Scots/etc come in afterwards. Language doesn't determine our ethnic origin or heritage.
@@RemiCouture Something the French Canadians and the French of France have in common is the compulsion to interrupt others while they are still speaking. That kind of makes your "French people are in France" thing fizzle out. The rest sounded high and mighty and I am not bothering with it.
JJ Is probably the most truthful youtuber that makes videos about Canada coming from a Canadian viewpoint, thanks! Coming from an American who has lived in Canada for 11 years.
He presents Canada to the world as an anglophone who completely disregards the existence of people living in the east, especially in Quebec., When he says something is not true about Canada, he's wrong. because if you were to come to Quebec and its surrounding provinces, it applies. He's incredibly misleading and you should not take his word as serious as he lacks in knowledge and tends to create his own ideal world of what he wants Canada to be in his mind, however we couldn't be further from it. And considering where the majority of the countries population is, and considering where the country was founded, and where it get any of it's national identities ALL COME FROM QUEBEC. The only thing that Canadians talk about that's supposedly distinct to Canada that's actually nowhere to be found in Quebec (excluding being sold at the Starbucks in Montreal), are Nainamo bars... Ive only seen that at startbucks and this one time at a maxi grocery store. Thats it. but EVERYTHING ELSE comes from Quebec. And here in Quebec, we give our height in cm (body measurements in foots is rare), and weight in kg (some people do pounds, but kilograms is much more commonly used)
I think Paul Barbado said it best. “Americans are like teenage boys, they’re opinionated, energetic and confident. Where as Canadians are like teenage girls, they’ll be polite to your face but talk crap behind your back.”
Next time those pesky and persistent Canucks try that, you have to get mean, you just come back with "Us Americans have something you Canadiens will never have, a real summer." If that doesn't work, then you have to play rough and hit them with a dirty low blow, ask them if they think a Canadian team will win the Stanley Cup in this century. That will send them back north to their Timmy's, Canadian Tire and poutine like all get out for sure, eh.
JJ there are lot of UA-cam channels that I get addicted to for a few days and then never watch any of their videos afterwards but you are the only channel I have watched consistently for 3 years now and almost watch every one of your videos within a day of them coming out thanks for being such an interesting you tuber
Thank you!wanted to make this comment but couldn't remember how to spell McCulloch. I always thought they were most rennoun for all of their products being junk!
A friend and member of my gaming group who is from the Yukon always makes fun of the rest of us by yelling "CANADIAN STANDOFF" whenever we're like "sorry, go ahead. No you go ahead" on voice chat, which is hilarious to him because the rest of us are in the US
European perspective: I've been to Toronto for three months. Nearly every single person under 40 I met was an ass. But in a very peculiar, Torontonian way. The closest thing to compare it to in Europe is teenagers. Rude and emotional with a lot of unearned confidence. Even service personell. It's not "upfront" rude like Germans who are blunt about what they think. It's an uncooperative kind of rude.
Generalization but, going to school in Toronto while living outside the city, I found ‘native Torontonians’ to be nice enough on the surface but carrying an air of aloofness about them that became apparent with anything more than the most transient of interactions. So yeah, Toronto is very different, don’t let that form your opinion on the rest of us 😄
It's like everybody knows in the province of Quebec that Quebec city is Snoby Or people in Paris are dogs, compared to the rest of France Except for the odd exception I'm sure
This reminds me of the episode of Corner Gas where one of the characters tries to trip up an American passing through by asking him a lot of trivia questions about how the Canadian government works, only for it to become apparent that the American actually knows a lot "more" about Canada than the Canadian does
Yes, I too also enjoy jokes that are based on a simple flip of stereotype. That is so funny. Ha ha. No, but seriously. That kind of stuff is funny once or twice, but gets old fast.
“That’s it that’s all” is the most French Canadian thing I ever heard in my life. Heard québécois in Ottawa say it so often to their English employees.
The drink: Those brands are so iconic that we usually call them "Crown Gingers." They are pretty good, and the bag that Crown Royale comes in is pretty snazzy. Thank goodness he didn't offer him a caesar (it has clam juice). That would have been "asked politely but firmly to leave" territory.
Interesting fact about King of the Hill and Canada; there is a French dub of show made for Europe where, to explain why everyone is speaking French in a non-french setting, the script is changed to suggest that Arlen is in Quebec and the Hill's are French Canadian.
This explains so much. Met these Canadian boomers in an Irish hostel and they kept dissing Americans, and saying how we never leave our country. They’re three times my age, of course they’ve traveled more.
Only 35% of Americans have passports vs over 60% for Canadians... I would say that comment was accurate. Per capita Americans travel a lot less than other countries.
@@grimjow669 Because it broadens your horizons, it opens your mind and makes you smarter, and more worldy... Mark Twain said it best, when he wrote “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness”. Why wouldn’t you want to travel? How do you know you’re in the place to be if you haven’t tried anything else.
@@Ira1now123 Too bad man... you’re missing a big beautiful world out here! It has been proven that travel broaden your mind and does make you a smarter human being. But, to each there own...
After the War of 1812, General Adamson Tannehill, friend of the then deceased George Washington, was approached by General Smyth who was organizing an invasion into Canada. Adamson Tannehill essentially told General Smyth, that if General Smyth could gather enough forces, then he, Adamson Tannehill, would support his invasion into Canada. Long story short, General Smyth was unable to organize enough men.
19:35 - Yep, checked, no Aluminum mining *at all* happens in Canada; it *does* however, have a lot of aluminum refineries or smelter operations. So Canada does have its own Aluminum industry it seems based around importing bauxite ore or aluminum metal to be further processed.
Great video! Two things I noticed- having grown up in Ontario, the only context in which I ever heard the term "chesterfield" used was by my Nova Scotian grandparents. Also I DID get the "CFL is a better game than NFL and here's why" spiel from my dad on multiple occasions, which was boring to no end since I don't care about either. (He was from a CFL team town tho)
from the states, here is why CFL is great: premise: playing football game on speakers thru house is very relaxing, even tho i otherwise don't care about football here on youtube, there's a million CFL games from past several years. quality of play is decent enough. ratio of tv commercials vs playtime is actually humane. thus, when i want to sack out on couch some afternoon, "hmmm, edmonton vs hamilton from 2006? good enough!" so i click play, put it on the surround speakers, and close my eyes on the.... chesterfield for a couple hours
I respect the CFL, but i don't watch it often, It's annoying that J.J who obviously doesn't understand sports points to a 3rd quarter rather than a 3rd down lol. He's just confusing people who don't understand Gridiron.
As a kid my family and I sometimes used the word "chesterfield", but I think we only used it for a specific piece of furniture my grandma had, not all sofas.
@@TheRootedWord “usually” “typically”. Those words are specifically there to signify that the rule isn’t always consistent, such as Macy (which isn’t even Gaelic, it’s French). From my understanding, Mc/Mac usually means “Son of”; an example being McCullough, son of Cú Uladh/Hound of Ulster. Also, an “American translation” isn’t needed for the word surname. A large majority of Americans know that surname means last name.
@@mr.midnight23 No, we don't. Many Americans abroad have to deal with it in official capacities and are famous for not knowing exactly which name it refers to. The foreign officials are often commenting on it. It is a petty thing to argue, though, don't you think? You have one experience and I have another on this. And so what? Here's an interesting entry on the naming: Mac, Scottish and Irish Gaelic surname prefix meaning “son.” It is equivalent to the Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman Fitz and the Welsh Ap (formerly Map). Just as the latter has become initial P, as in the modern names Price or Pritchard, Mac has in some names become initial C and even K-e.g., Cody, Costigan, Keegan. Similarly, Dermot O’Tierney was simply Dermot the grandson of a man called Tierney (Ua, later shortened to O, means grandson or, more loosely, descendant). --Britannica As for not reading what was written, you did not see that I was merely agreeing that the rule was insufficient and pointing out one way how. You took it to be that I hadn't read that the rule was given with limitations implied. Might want to more carefully read next time and not presume.
@@TheRootedWord Yes, but you brought up a name irrelevant to the topic at hand, Macy. Macy is French, therefore it doesn’t apply to Gaelic name customs. OP was correct, and you’re rhetorical question was quite ignorant. Also, maybe I’m just expecting to much of Americans, but mostly everyone around me knows what a surname is.
With coffee crisp, I’m guessing that the script writers knew what it was, but illustrators had no idea. But even then, this was 2009, and they could have googled it before illustrating.
King of the Hill animators: know what coffee crisp is but animate it incorrectly JJ: knows what "downs" in football are but cuts to the part of the scoreboard indicating it's the 3rd quarter not 3rd down
10:59 The commitment needed to leave the camera running (or more so to pretend you did if that's the case) while you actually go and buy an item you're talking about is more than the show put into representing certain things lmao
Nowadays, most of us Zoomers barely recognize the distinction. Our cultures, being shaped largely by the internet have sort of melded them together. Learning that one of your favorite creators or internet friends is Canadian is like learning they're from another state.
@@Sinstat Yea okay that's pretty reasonable. But I also wonder how different they were in the first place (if they ever were). Though I don't know that I'm confident saying internet culture altogether is just American culture.
JJ made a video about it actually :) ua-cam.com/video/5wKWbbMoLqg/v-deo.html in summary, Canada spent too much time under British colonial rule to establish itself, so to catch up adopted the closest neighbors culture
@@KevinwithanI if it didn’t spend much time under British rule they would’ve unified with the US. This isn’t bizarre since this is what the US always wanted. I think there was an attempt once but the brits strong armed So either way, Canada would’ve and is America. I wish Canada can unify with USA not necessarily as one country with one law but as an alliance that is seen as one superpower in the macro of things
It's interesting that people consider King of the Hill to be a more conservative show, because I always considered it to be almost entirely ironic, and poking fun at Texas and the conservative values and attitude. Very much like The Colbert Report.
Its definitely meant to ride the line where it is very ironic and comedic while playing the conservative part so well that you're questioning its position.
There's a good degree of accuracy in how KotH shows conservative values. Aside from the fact the show makes jokes about it sometimes, there's very little to directly say is ironic
This is hilarious to me. An American, but from Michigan so stuck in the middle. (maple syrup, good beer and loyal to American products) so much like Canada 🇨🇦 😄 Known many Canadians I've met in both Canada and in the U.S..
18:45 the funny thing is that she says c'est ça c'est tout, that's it that's all. Except in Quebec, we actually DO say dats it dats all. Probably more often than people say it in English actually.
@@seigeengine just means ''that's all'' but with more of a sense of finality. kind of like saying ''that's all folks'' or like ''enough said'' that kind of thing.
Anyone else watching JJ for the reason of learning advanced English?? I am, to be very honest. But as I am slowly becoming more comfortable of understanding his advanced English, I start to appreciate the content itself, thank you JJ :)
@@JJMcCullough Honestly there’s different definitions. Some people say it’s highly book-accurate grammar (usually native speakers), some say it’s being indistinguishable from a native speaker (those who prefer certain accents usually). I like the definition as “understanding and producing highly specialized language”, where intermediate would be fully understanding and producing generalized/common language
I've always found Canadians to be intolerably rude- although, I've avoided contact with them for over ten years now. Every interaction I've had with a Canadian involve praising themselves by spitting on the US. I had assumed there would be some kinship between us because of the USA vs Canada / AUS vs NZ thing, but no... No, they seemed more Australian than Kiwi in the way they have a intense hatred of their neighbors, while their neighbors assume a sibling-like rivalry.
Ouch, that honestly sucks has a Canadian myself, I know some people who are like that, and some of us aren't like that, not all Canadians are the same, or people in general which others tend to forget
And it really depends on where you go and where the person is from, most of us have the same mentality as you lot. A sort of big and little brother scenario
"It doesn't matter if they are from Canada, Laois, or God forbid, California" XD kills me every time. Am from Texas. There are people here who are very much like Hank Hill and they are treasures. XD this show always cracks me up. Love your take on it.
Coffee Crisp is the candy bar that every other country abandoned. It was one of the many flavors of Rowntree's Wafer Crisp. The chocolate version later became the Kit Kat.
Went to Canada year before covid for a guys trip. We were in the French part and it was a surprise to me how many people didn't speak English at all. We would go into Tim Hortons for breakfast and they would have to get like the one person in the back to translate for us Americans lol. We made sure to have a translator app and knew some phrases though. It was beautiful there. Also, damn I wish I could just run to the store and get coffee crisp :/ they were so good lol
Animator 1: Hey, let's put this candy bar in our cartoon!
Animator 2: Okay, should we look up what it looks like before drawing it?
Animator 1: No.
I kind of want cookie shaped coffee crisp now though 😂
@@kaitlint3987 Home made coffee crisp! As Bill might say "it could happen!"
This sounds like a very American thing to do
I actually didn't even realize coffee crisp was a canadian candy...I see it all the time here in Buffalo
My thinking is that they probably animated the scene with a script that originally had her say 'cookies' or something, and decided later on to change the line 'to reference something more Canadian'
In Australia we've learned never to call anyone with an American accent American. If you say Canadian, Americans will laugh, but if you say American, Canadians get Angry
I've always thought about the differences between the canadian accent and the american accent as being similar to that of the new zealand accent and the australian accent; americans and canadians can easily distinguish between eachother's accents, and vice versa, whereas outsiders can barely tell the difference
@@gu4650 spot on. I can hear it within 2 sentences. But I can't tell a kiwi from an aussie to save my life.
The same happens between the Boston and New York accent for Americans. They can hear the difference but everyone else thinks they sound the same. Mix either of them up and they get mad.
@@Ruthless_Regg I think Boston & NY accents are pretty distinct to me. On the other hand, I've never seen anyone get genuinely offended in the US for mixing up an accent. It's more of a playful ribbing back & forth if anything.
Though I've definitely seen a Canadian get mad when someone thought they were from Minnesota lol
@@corey2232 are you from the North East? Lol on the west coast we think they sound the same. Minnesota and Canada's accent are very close same with Wisconsin. 😂😂😂
When my brother and his wife travel to Europe people assume they are Russian. I’ve been mistaken for South African while in Ireland. We are all American born.
"It doesn't matter if they're from Canada, Laos, or god forbid, California..."
One of the best lines in the series
chef's kiss (i've been using this turn of phrase a lot lately)
So true though. I’m from Texas and we see Cali license plates here every now and then and don’t think anything of it. But we visited California once and rented a car which just so happened to have Texas plates. We were harassed and honked at and cut off and flipped off by other California drivers. Really friendly place I don’t see why everyone is leaving there in droves lmao 🤣
Yep lol i died at the "God forbid, California" 🤣
@@tannerbroyles Hope you don't take it too personally, that's just your average California driver. It's not a true California road trip if you aren't flipped off and tailgated.
@@tannerbroyles I frankly don't believe you. Sure, maybe you were flipped off and honked at, but not for the plate. I've been to Cali with a southern license plate, not Texas but close enough, and never experienced anything remotely like that.
The Canadian dad in this episode embodies the quote “confidence is quiet, insecurity is loud”
That's a good one
I almost married a Canadian woman from Ontario. Her family was as sanctimonious and nitpicky as these people. They actually tried to brag about their cigarettes one time and none of us smoked.
😂
It's an Ontario thing. Go to British Columbia. Folk there are more on the level.
I did marry a Canadian woman, and I love her family to death but oh my god are they obnoxious about how amazing everything Canadian is, and how much everyone loves Canada lol
@@BMC_self-inventor go to manitoba. winnipeggers are hella laid back
@@Dreadlock1227Canadians are like that. It's annoying haha
King of the hill is honestly one of the best animated series ever made. Instead of cartoon violence or gross out humor it's just clear cut slice of life and cultural identifies. A show the represent common ways of everyday life is always a good time in my mind. Shame there isn't more shows like that out there.
From what I understand, Bob's Burgers is the closest thing to King of the Hill that we have today. I've struggled to get into Bob's Burgers though even that I love King of the Hill. The closest reason I have to explain this is because I like the art style of King of the Hill whereas I kind of hate the art style of Bob's Burgers.
King of the Hill is an animated series that tries to be realistic; is a tragicomedy.
@@paullangland6877 bob’s burger is way too weird sometimes
Yeah. It's a slice of life show in the purest form
@@paullangland6877 i honestly would say Netflix's F is for Family is the only shower modern wise that touches on the same dry style.
JJ went to the corner store for our education! I feel so loved.
I spent nearly three dollars on this video. Actually closer to six because I downloaded that 30 Rock episode from UA-cam and it cost $1.99.
We can only hope as he gets older he develops a taste of coffee. kidding of course. But I hated coffee when I was younger, but learned to appreciate the taste when I got older.
What’s more..he tasted coffee for us!
Remember, he said that he is not into coffee, but nonetheless, he did it for us!
@@JJMcCullough 3 + 2 = 6?
9:14 Boomhauer speaking French: "Dang ol' bon jour, man."
Such a way with words
Bill speaks french
@@sorblife2308 i thought he speaks creole?
@@MountainJoie Wiki says Cajun-French which would include creole, but would also include other niche dialects. Since Creole is the most popular we can assume he does.
As a Canadian in the Navy, they haven’t officially said they’re dismantling the Navy but they basically are. I can confirm this.
Wait… really? I’m an American soldier and I worked with some Canadian soldiers in Lithuania and Latvia last year. They were awesome. We made a bunch of jokes about each others stereotypes and had a blast. I hope Canada doesn’t keep underfunding it’s military cause out of all the nato forces I’ve worked with Canadians have been the coolest (pun intended) sorry about what trump said about you guys, just ignore him he says stupid stuff all the time and most Americans don’t agree with him 🇺🇸❤️🇨🇦
"Tell me who our prime minister is!"
"Why?"
That just slayed me.
As a guy who lived in Texas, that is a very accurate response to that question
Canada's prime minster is Justin Trudeau why would a United States American need to tell them that? We sometimes know don't they?
@@mazimadu Texan would more likely know who presidente de Mexico is.
Why?
@@mazimadu what does Texas have to do with Canada????????
I think the joke the show was going for with Boomhauer speaking French is that his English, his native language, is almost unrecognizable, but his French, which he just learned, is very fluent.
Boomhauer is probably creole or cajun, and would speak a version of french. Which is why his english is so impossible to understand
@@hollyfraser3926 guillaume de la dautrive is Louisiana-french, I wonder why he didn't slip some in.
@@hollyfraser3926 If I remember correctly it was Bill who's family was Cajun.
@@hollyfraser3926 Just btw he can not be Creole bc Creole people are mixed race. Probably Cajun
@@hollyfraser3926 nope that's bill
“...God forbid California” 🤣
😆😆😆😆
Indeed
I read that as it happened
2021 California is worse.
I busted out laughing, I will take a polygraph to prove it.
"Your money has a girl on it!" that made me laugh. As an American, I've never heard that. I know that my family would be kind and hospitable to anyone from anywhere until they gave us reason not to be.
Gals Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea appear some American money also.
Harriet Tubman scheduled to be on the 20, just as queen elizabeth is on the 20 CAD
I once heard a young American university student in Canada comment that the money was color coded for those that couldn't read. I am American and go to Canada all of the time, but I've never paid attention to the color of the money.
@@Twin540iI've been hearing this for a decade it's not happening
The French Canadian neighbour has a very strong English accent when she speaks French. So clearly she was played by an anglophone acting a stereotypical french accent when speaking English.
@@HamishDuh2nd I think she meant the french Canadian 'neighbour' had a stereotypical english accent, which I agree with.
@@josephdavidlandau Antoine is a male first name, so you should have said 'he' not 'she'.
@@remi.j3422 I made a typo, he probably did one too haha
When she said "next door" she trilled the "r" as if she was Spanish or something lol
That sound doesn't exist in French.
@@Tony32 Trilled r used to be the norm in French, and in the case of French Canada it still was until quite recently. It started its decline in the 50s it seems (though in the east it was earlier), but I've heard it from younger people as well
I am Canadian and honestly this is the first guy I have ever heard say "aboot".I guess it is no longer a myth!
Me too. There's no way he actually says it like that. He must be putting it on.
Eastern Canadian thing. I only know a few people who say it like that.
Oh man that's driving me crazy!
He does fucking not, you guys just have too much earwax up your ears. Just because he doesn't stretch the a sound out.
@@islandcave8738 i clean my ears daily.
JJ: North America was split in half into two countries.
Mexico:
decir que hermano?
Mexico is more like a big settlement than a country
Yeah a big settlement of more than a 100 million people 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♀️
@@drwinnerw people dont make a country without a organized system of government
@@timothybarrett7626
Do you know the actual name of Mexico is:
The United States of Mexico?
They use a Federal system like US.
They have a Congress with 2 houses. Lower house and upper house.
The Senate is the upper house.
The Deputy is the lower house.
Each State have a Governor and also each State have a State Deputy Assembly.
Also each State have Municipal Divisions with a Council and a Mayor.
So yeah... there you go...
They copycat the US system...
why? I don’t know, maybe because they are a COUNTRY with a Mexican National Guard, Army and Navy called MARINA just like US...
Now that is corrupt and inefficient, well that is another thing...
Coz after Spaniards went to war with France, all Spanish colonies were practically abandoned...
So they had to make a Nation on their own...
But see at least they tried...
Just read a bit bro...
😉👍
@@drwinnerw ok so ita a boot leg USA run by the cartel your point?
16:03 Was surprised you didn't catch it. But the Zamboni was also not invented in Canada. It was made invented by an Italian American.
Neither the Zamboni, zipper or penicillin are Canadian inventions. The zipper is an American invention, penicillin was a Scottish discovery.
And the Zamboni? 4:19
I had a laugh that he knew penicillin was from Scotland, but the Zamboni and zippers being from the US went right over his head.
I've always heard that the zipper was invented by a swede.
It was invented in Paramount, California of all places.
You missed the joke that Boomhauer doesn't talk like Boomhauer when he speaks French.
Makes sense really. Umm, uhh, dang ole - those are all filler words for when you are speaking faster than you're thinking. Kinda like a stutter. Since he's putting all his thought into his speech he doesn't need the filler words
Oui?
@@JOBdOutHe's also putting all of those thoughts between those Canadian French thighs
As someone who has never met a real Canadian, everything I knew about them was defined by American media and redefined by JJ.
Nick Danger purdy? Who pronounced it that way? The Bible Belt? Lmao
I like how you worded it ‘real Canadians’ lol
@@dixonhill1108 As I understand it. 90 per cent of Canadians live within 100 miles or km of the USA. Which is correct eh?
Dave Thomas did more to stereotype Canadians than Americans ever did. The one from Canada, not the one who started Windys (sic) fast food.
@@dixonhill1108 Aren't most facts meaningless!
Where in the States do you live? It seems strange that you've never ever met a Canadian. Unless you have, but we're unaware that they were.
As a Vermonter, we are taught that Canada makes more maple syrup, but Vermont makes BETTER maple syrup.
There Are Only 2 Genders And Men ♂️ Cant Get Pregnant 🤰 LOL 😂🤣
@@cadejust6777 huh?
@@nabilalanbarHe probably thought he was being edgy and "owning the libs."
@@cadejust6777literally what😹
@@jimeatscorn6628
I Was Stating A Fact.
I’m an American, and I just remembered that I once had a coffee Crisp given to me by my friend from Canada.
I didn't know you didn't have them,I keep forgetting which bars we share or look different because of licensing agreements
.......
Hahaha, I love that memory vividly came back to u
@@virginia3937 I’m a Canadian and I’ve seen Almond Joy in stores
@@virginia3937 Just south of Ottawa, I see them at convenience stores all the times
"Or God forbid California" 😂 thats how texas feels about us
As a native Californian, I agree. No one likes us lol 😂
Not just Texas
Look up a map about what state every state hates the most we hate you guys about the same amount as Oklahoma
@@anthonylopez1126 i forgot Oklahoma existed
@@jonathanprime1507 and that’s why we hate them there basically just a mini Texas that shouldn’t exist
“Canadian football only has 3 downs”
*zooms in on the symbol for the 3rd quarter*
Lmao
I noticed that too. It was 1&10.
The Canadian version of football has 4 quarters each half is split up but we have three down before we loose possession of the ball
@@algrundau9441 And our endzone is too
😆😆
I’ve lived in Canada all my life and you’re the first Canadian I’ve heard pronounce, “about” the stereotypical Canadian way, I’ve never heard a Canadian say “aluminium”, nor have I ever seen it written that way.
He is playing a 'stereotype'. Like an actor on TV.
I was thinking about how he's going that extra mile to get the "about" out there like that. Buddy sounds like a South Park character
I think about is a west coast thing.
Must be a BC thing
@@JafferManiar No, that's just how he talks. It's normal for people to pronounce -ou like that
At the end of the episode where the french Canadian girl says "that's it that's all" blew me away. I am from Quebec and it is actually extremely common to hear older francophone people use that phrase, spoken in English. Crazy that they knew about that one super niche idiosyncrasy.
"That's it, that's all" is tip of the iceberg. Francophones use A LOT of expressions spoken in English: "end of story", "Anyway", "bullshit"(often pronounced as boulechite), "sky is the limit", "so far so good"... you name it (which is another one).
Except the French parts were horribly butchered...
@@DuMail82 gotta love Acadie!
ever heard: ''Don't know, pas savoir'' ? Used in the part of Qc I live in.
@@DuMail82 Never EVER heard a Quebecker say ''comme ci comme ça". They should really stop teaching you this in school. Bien en bien, never heard that either.
I like how in this episode Kahn becomes an insider where as normally he is the outsider
That's was the best part I love about this show, you can see the character progression throughout the seasons and it was very well done. Kahn and Hank may not have the kind of friendship Hank has with Dale, Bill, and Boomhauer, but went it comes to outsider conflict that comes to them or the neighborhood, they at least support each other.
@@alexross1816 It has a lot to do with outsiders acting as if all Americans are just stereotypical, ignorant white people when in reality it's a massively diverse group of cultures & races from all backgrounds that immigrated & helped build the country.
Insulting it is almost like insulting their work & ignoring their history. I just know my uncle (from India) gets super annoyed when he sees some non-American generalizing the people pretending as though they're a bunch of self-centered, war-mongering, gun-wielding, evangelical, privileged white people. He's American too, so ignoring that bothers him.
Hell, I get annoyed too reading certain comments. I usually just gloss over them, but you can tell a lot of people who try & put down the country don't really know much about it themselves.
@@IntrovertedOreo friendly rivalries used to be normal for our culture
I'm 45, lived in ontario my whole life. Never heard anyone use the word chesterfield in my life! And there are a lot of French canadians in ontario. You may not realize because they are bilingual and speak English just as fluently as you do.
I'm 33 and lived here my entire life too. I've heard it a few times growing up. I say couch though.
My last name is French Canadian, everyone thinks I'm from Canada. Not even close, I was born in Russia. It's my adopted last name.
mainly in Eastern and Northern Ont, you wont find many Francophones in Guelph
I stopped in Hawkesbury, ON and to my surprise, few people spoke English in the shops. Given that it's on the border to Québec it makes sense, but I didn't expect an Ontarian town of this size to be almost entirely Francophone. Really opened my eyes that the linguistic borders aren't correctly represented by the provinces
its a pretty dated term, my Grandparents call it a chesterfield, but my parents dont
Damn hank even got khan his own frosted personalized mug.
Kahn is a very good example of "He's a jerk, but he's our jerk." What's interesting is that he fits that description better than pretty much every other character we were probably *supposed* to feel that way. (Cotton, Strickland, etc)
As someone from southern manitoba I definitely can relate to someone from North Dakota more than someone from Toronto
Yooo I’m from North Dakota
Hell, even I can relate to someone from North Dakota more than the whiny, snivelling Liberals choking our Province. Lol! I enjoyed my time there. Luckily, the riding I live in has been Conservatively led for over 2 decades despite only being 20 minutes drive from Ottawa though so that’s a bit of a blessing. Lol
Minnesota accents sound pretty close to some Manitobans I know.
I understand. Lived on Sage Crescent as a kid.
to be fair, no-one can relate to anyone from Toronto
Hi JJ, as a South African who has just moved to Canada I find your videos to be a treasure trove of insight into the nuance of the Canadian culture. Thanks and keep ‘em coming!
You forgot to tell J.J that South Africa 🇿🇦 is the biggest Aluminum producer in Africa.
@@langelihlemakhoba9917 oh please, this neither the time, or the place to arrogantly display your nationalism like this
@@dixonhill1108 Who are you talking to
@@dixonhill1108 What claims? What premises? When does J.J. say anything that you talk about here? He literally doesn’t make any claims about immigration whatsoever.
@Ocean Blue Move to British Columbia if you dislike the cold!
When I think about Canadian patriotism, it's more like pride in who they're not rather than who they are.
I disagree entirely... but to each their own opinion.
True, Canadians are proud that they are not American. But they do everything Americans do. Based on family in Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary. BTW, how is that COVID doing aunty?
@@shawnanderson6313 I dunno, my family and I are all vaccinated.
Yeah they are just like liberals here in the US. Always asking for free shit, high taxes to pay for shitty healthcare, and fingerwagging at people that don't agree with them.
@@shawnanderson6313 They're very similar and they have a very similar way of life. It's even something JJ pointed out in other videos before! They're almost the same hahah
I can't speak for the French but Hank's neighbors are Laotian and in fact, all the "Laotian" spoken in the series is actually random _Thai_ syllables arbitrarily mashed up into gibberish that sounds close enough to words. Also I recently got a bag of mini Coffee Crisp from Amazon, being American and curious, and the bag was empty by day's end. Love coffee, love chocolate, love a good crisp wafer. Stuff got inhaled. It's like a superior and mocha-flavored Kit-Kat bar.
makes sense, kahn is voiced by cotton hill 🤣
I notice that Anglophone Canadian attitudes toward the United States for cultural matters, are, for the most part, characterized by the "narcissism of small differences".
Canada eats up American culture they love it especially the new generations lmao USA rules
@Neil Peters Is that the new "do you know who the prime minister is?"
@@HamishDuh2nd all replaceable actors, how is culture conveyed by 4 people? And do you really think that these mildly entertaining things are vital to the American people
@@HamishDuh2nd lmao. Helped "make the culture"--so somehow 4 actors were there settling the west, fighting for freedom, welcoming the people of the world.
Do you really think actors are what American culture is or is that just because you've only interacted with the US through media
@@HamishDuh2nd lmao day of the rake when
My favorite Hank moment, as far as his idiosyncrasies, was when he said "The guy asked me if I wanted honey mustard and I almost took a swing at him".
I don't know why I laughed so hard at that. Maybe because it's something so innocent, but it's also quintessential Hank Hill.
as someone who loves honey mustard. "im going to jail tonight"
That's hilarious.
.....i don't get it. Someone help 😅
@@skylerlilacsky6545 I’m not sure that there is a rational explanation. It might be that Hank feels that strongly about honey mustard, or he misunderstands and thinks it’s some obscene reference. It’s just funny because it’s such an overreaction, like if somebody said “Frank said he likes the Big Bang Theory more than How I Met Your Mother, so of course I had to run him over with my car.”
Bobby: what if they want their steak well done
Hank: we ask them politely, yet firmly to leave.
Probably my favorite idiosyncrasies Hank has, because I have the exact same mindset.
Canada refines a lot of aluminum in Quebec. It comes from Guyana and shipped through Trinidad and Tobago. I'm from Trinidad and I grew up seeing the storage facilities and learning about them.
Very good observation but I must say that what comes from Guyana isn't aluminum but bauxite which is the primary component used to make aluminum.
I think the very cheap electricity is why it's made in Quebec
@@Rman775 that is true. It is bauxite. I just kept it simple for UA-cam comments.
alcan
@@Rman775 it's not just cheap electricity, it's relatively clean electricity. Canda makes Aluminum with much less carbon output per unit of Aluminim than anywhere else. This is largely because the refinement is powered by hydropower rather than coal or natural gas.
I love how the "aluminium" joke flew right over his head. It wasn't about Canada being a country with a lot of metal mining, it was about the fact that Americans pronounce and spell it "aluminum"
Unfortunately most the jokes fly over this guy's head. King of the hills lesson isn't don't be different.. it's about showing the contrast of cultural clashes and it is actually a very nuanced show. It was interesting to see this guy take everything the way he did though.
The joke is Al isn't mined, it's called bauxite
I'm a Canadian ive never called it "Aluminium" only brits and aussies call it that... The roll i have in my kitchen right now is Aluminum
@@Eldritch-1 I think it varies by region. I have some friends that do and some that don't.
Aluminum is the original and correct term.
As a Canadian who lives in the USA I can heartily agree with your insights. I usually use the analogy that Canada is the USAs little brother living under its shadow. constantly trying to prove themselves, to show they're different but all the while the big brother doesn't really care or notice and will just give a friendly pat on the head.
I like this analogy quite a bit.
I think, like an older sibling, Americans can be a little unbearable as a rule, in the same way that humans in general can be a little unbearable...
But, ultimately, also like an older sibling, I think Americans like Canadians very much. And otherwise they don't pay much attention lol
As a Canadian living in The U.S. i think there are an absurd amount of mexicans here
@@monkeymaster8342 I don't know what you expected! USA shares a border with Canada and Mexico, and you yourself are a Canadian who has crossed the border. I'm sure you can see the irony.
@@mattie3867 i don't see canadians down here
@@monkeymaster8342 I remember there being a fair amount of “italians” (like not necessarily directly but background wise) where I used to live in Ontario (in general around the Toronto area)
As a French-American who moved to Canada, I think this episode of King of the Hill does a very good job of showing a reality of how some Canadians can be and their superiority complex. Don't get me wrong, I love Canada and I just applied for citizenship but I do wish Canadians had a better attitude towards the US. In university, I'd get annoyed with people in school who would say things that are completely wrong about the US's politics, culture, history, etc. I don't have a problem with criticizing the US and its problems I just wish that Canadians could stay focused on their criticism. I'll be the first person to say what is wrong with the US but it's just as ignorant as when Americans assume things about Canada that aren't true. All in all, I love our North American culture and wish that both sides got to know the other side more accurately. I did a whole paper in grad school about continentalism and how this could benefit both Canada and the US. If the general population were to understand each other better it would be something ideal that people might be able to support.
I’m curious, what do you mean by French-American?
@@Mattattak His parent was probably French. Or he comes from French American towns like in Luisiana or New England.
As an Indian-American (as in Asian Indian not native indian), it's pretty annoying when some of my folks won't listen to me when I disagree with them about America. Like, you wanna know who's more knowledgeable about America? It's the American! America is a shit show but, it's a shit show with great people and culture and if you're gonna criticize it then you better know what you're talking about. We really need more unity kindness between the western allies otherwise, we're going to cripple each other with division.
@@dixonhill1108 In reference to which part of my comment? I didn't really make much claims about America aside from that our national politics is a shit show.
@@dixonhill1108 Well yeah. I'm not saying that Americans will know the entirety of America but if it was a Californian, Floridian, or Texan (all wildly different states) vs a German or South African then, the American will know more about the US than their foreign counterparts.
in regards to the Canadian navy, I don't think they ever sat down and were like "hey we don't need the navy anymore" but somewhere along the way they stopped making repairs and keeping ships maintained and running. Which allowed the Canadian navy to fall into a state where its no longer operational without the help of foreign militaries. Started in the 60s I believe when they decided to scrap their aircraft carrier.
My Seabee 50ton mobile crain crew (in the 90's at USN IMF in Pearl Harbor) use to help out the Canadians when they came into port. Off the books cuz they were broke and had no money. They had beer machines though 😁 and would toss beer over the rail to the pier for thank you✌️
fall into what state?? Ohio??
A state of disrepair
They just had one?
@@chrisserrific the US has half the world's aircraft carriers
I am from cape may NJ. Every summer we were inundated with French Canadians for summer jobs. We all stereotyped them as rude and snobby. Wasn't until I moved to Maine at the new Brunswick border that I began to hear the polite stereotype.
Someone acknowledging the insecurities of their own country is extremely refreshing... But Canadians aren't the only ones that have that attitude towards the US, as you can tell by comments in many videos, people of former European colonial powers try to assert their superiority in some way over the US all the time.
It's weird, but you see it any time a video discusses an issue in a non-US country. Example, the video could be called "Belgium's Dark History!" and half the comments will be "BUT THE UNITED STATES DID BLAH BLAH BLAH!" I can't help but just roll my eyes & think "ok...but the topic wasn't about that."
It reminds me of the whole,
" I hate you"
"I don't think about you at all."
meme.
But I suspect that a lot of that stuff is bots. You can usually tell by clicking on the avatar and going to their, "about." If it's obviously a bot I flag it.
Based and redpilled
This. So much this. I recently watched a clip from a reality show of an English woman having a discussion with a few others about whether Essex was a county or a continent. Somehow many of the comments were about America or Americans. There is a sizable number of people in the first world (and especially Europeans) who are absolutely obsessed with the US, driven insane by envy.
A big chunk of Europe would be speaking German (twice) if it wasn't for Americans so there's that.
@@malibuconv1968 big mistake
This is actually a very thoughtful reaction video... most reaction videos are just like, "watch me giggle and add useless commentary so I can leverage off of the original content." Impressed with this one.
Almost no reaction videos are like that anymore
@@beepbeeplettuce5890 Yeah those pretty much died out idk wtf hes talking about
HIGHLY Educated ppl, replying to Timy.
That's the genius of Mike Judge, his whole career is full of him noticing little things in culture and parodying it expertly
I know right!!! That was always my favorite thing about it. Someone said it in a really hilarious but accurate way, which is that its an american slice of life anime. It really does get this aesthetic of a suburb in texas absolutely perfect. Thats why i like it more than like beavis and butthead, because it is immersive and honestly to me has a relaxing aesthetic to a degree, and one of my ex’s lived in texas, so this really reminds me of his home town and is nostalgic for that reason. All the details are there and it is just wacky enough to ride the line perfectly between parody and reality
Mike Judge is criminally underrated. Both KotH and Daria are absolutely hilarious and Office Space is a fantastic cult classic. His comedy is so smart and layered. Genius.
There are definitely a lot of inaccuracies in the portrayal of Canadians, but I like the overall concept behind the episode. Having family on both sides of the border, I've grown to appreciate the similarities between Canada and the USA (which are far more numerous than most people realize).
In truth, the cultures are more intertwined than one would imagine, especially along the border from coast to coast.
Fun fact: During the Gulf War, Canada had to get spare parts for its Navy vessels from the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.
Fun Fact:
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Canada declared war on Japan before the US did.
@@Robbie_Rocket that's because 4 hours after Japan attacked pearl harbor they invaded Hong Kong which was British at the time and Canadian soldiers were stationed there over the next few weeks they were either captured as POWs or killed
Fun fact: Canada provides free medical care to all citizens. Here in the US we're a cancer diagnosis away from losing our homes and savings.
@@dianneys4887 Free doesn't mean "good"...Canadians with SERIOUS problems, and $$, often come to the US for major procedures.
@Winston Universal care is only good for minor things; no so much for big things....
Corner Gas season 2 episode 12, "An American in Saskatchewan" does the Canadian/American interaction subversion from the other side. Might be an interesting contrast.
I just watched this episode out of curiosity. I feel so bad for that poor cheese-head. He didn't deserve to get stuck in Dog Lake for that long. haha
@@bighugejake Dog River.
Good point! I hope JJ react to Cornet Gas at some point. Such a genuinely great show.
@Jackerson Roze he was very polite. He was also very informed about Canada and Hank's attempts to poke fun at his ignorance would comically backfire and make Hank embarrass himself.
The secret to any trip to Saskatchewan is go fishing and screw the passed out guy's girl or boy (wink JJ)
I laughed so hard at Hank's "why? " to the prime minister question. This is a thing with every other country. What's are leaders name, capital or where are we on a map?!
There's the US, China and Russia. Then there's everybody else 🤣👍🌎
@@machinist7230 Ya but the funny thing is ask most Americans who the leaders are of China and Russia and you will get a blank puzzled look. Education with regard to the world is never a bad thing. I thought saying Chrétien would have been funnier both put him in his place and not make yourself look like an arrogant dick. Look what American exceptionalism has gotten them over the last 20 years a bad reputation and Canada trying to figure out how to get them to pay for a wall.
@@thegammingdinosaur189 pretty sure all americans know who putin is lol
@@thegammingdinosaur189 Many probably don't know the name of China's leader but anyone who doesn't know who Putin is has been living under a rock.
We don't have to know other world leaders. But other countries know who our president is especially when it was Trump.
That Prime Minister line combined with Hanks face absolutely had me dying.
I think you really hit the nail on the head when you brought up the arbitrary nature of the Canada-US border. It's not defined by geography or anything like that but instead was just crudely carved up for political reasons. There's even segments of Canada/US that aren't connected by roads because of this haphazard division. It's really reminiscent of the borders of African countries.
@@dixonhill1108 What do you mean?
@@dixonhill1108 The entirety of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and much of Quebec are south of the St. Lawrence. As for the Great Lakes, I'm not convinced they're much of a natural border. For example, not much separates Michigan from Ontario and it shows in how similar the two regions are culturally (I'm from Ontario and I've visited Michigan on occasion).
@@jamesmccabe3041 much New Brunswick is separated from the US by St. John and St. Croix Rivers. While much of Quebec is separated from the US by the northernmost part of the Appalachian Mountains. Plus the concept of Natural Borders has only an indirect relationship to culture, it being an idea to conquer land until you gain an easily defensible border.
If there was absolutely a need to have 2 countries in N. America, a east-west division would have been more natural with a border along the Mississippi and the western tip of the Great Lakes.
@@lajya01 There are at least 23 countries in North America.
I live right across Lake Erie from Canada, and my life was saved by a Canadian soldier, so I have mad love for Canadians and a world of respect for their service members.
Awww thats so sweet - I'm glad you're still alive!
What happened, that he saved you ?
@@bigpun7916 Not a story for here.
Canadian service members are awesome. Been side by side with the US in all the great wars
That is wonderful, I am so glad that you are ok.
Khan's "I fought bullets in the killing fields for two extra years instead of going to Canada" is the ABSOLUTE BEST!
Of all the characters, I wish Khan was my neighbour...Yeah, I'm Canadian'ish.
that is pretty priceless, probably pretty accurate.
As an immigrant, I can confirm this! My family was stuck in the Middle East and we migrated (quite extensively and painfully) to Europe, waited an extra 3 years in order to come to the US instead of going to Australia or Canada 😂 but to be fair 90% of our family (both sides of family) were in the US.
@@manda8512 If I'm reading your comment right...that's not exactly the same thing. As humorous as it was delivered, Khan's statement was that he would continue to risk death in Cambodia because he saw no point in leaving a communist controlled country only to embrace one that was ruled by socialism (soft communism). Your family, while safely sitting in Europe, chose to migration shop for the best possible outcome, rather than take refuge in the first safe country that they came to. Khan's choice was admirable because it was based on self sacrifice, your families less so.
@@1966johnnywayne I’m from Iraq. My dad was drafted to the first Gulf War but we waited/saved money for another 3 years in order to go to Europe and wait for America instead of applying to Canada/Australia from Iraq. There was always a sense of looming doom and fear because Saddam just loved wars and we were worried another might start soon and that my dad would get drafted again. I also have family still in the Middle East who stayed in war torn countries waiting for America instead of moving to safe European countries, Canada or Australia. My story isn’t 100% Kahn’s, I was just adding my similar experience. Also, being an illegal immigrant in Europe does mean that you get deported if you’re found out so it wasn’t that risk free.
@@manda8512 Granted...It wasn't clear in your original comment that your three years waiting was in fact in "hostile territory", apologies. Having been born and raised in Canada, I envy your outcome, but clearly not the path that forced you to it. I hope that you do everything within your ability to resist those that would change your adopted home, without America we will all suffer.
the Zamboni Was actually invented in California and still headquartered there. But they are made in Canada in Brantford, Ontario.
The Olympia Ice Resurface Machine is the Canadian owned competition and is out of Elmira, Ontario
JJ woke up today and said: "I am going to disrespect Coffee Crisp."
Such a waste...they’re delicious! 😂
I feel attacked! Coffee Crisp is such a great chocolate bar
J.J.: Can you not see that I am disrespectful to Coffee Crisp?
Also: How do you like your coffee?
As a French Canadian, I can tell you a few things about Suzette :
- Suzette is not even a common name in Quebec. It’s a classic « french from France » name.
- Suzette has a French parisian accent, not a Quebec accent.
- The spitting she did was not Québécois.
So that’s my take on it :)
Edit : Wow, didn’t see the replies.
Her accent is maybe not Parisian, but certainely sounds more like stereotypical Metropolitan French accent. Also, I said Suzette is not a common name here, I didn’t say it doesn’t happen.
Also, when I said spitting is not Quebecois, what I mean is it’s not in our culture. We don’t express ourselves like that. I just don’t know how to explain it.
As for the guys pissing on the side of the road, I have never seen that but hey, there are idiots everywhere on this planet.
so the show took "french canadian" a bit too literally?
I can confirm, as a fellow french Canadien
I wonder if they either didn't know any better, or were trying to smear the culture (alluding to them living in some sort of "France simulator or acting French")?
If it were South Park or Family Guy... the disrespectful option would be my guess, but King of the Hill had never seemed "mean spirited", to me.
yeah in her second scene she starts using particularly french-canadian broken english, but it also just sounded kinda cajun. I'm far from fluent but I can tell the difference between a french accent and a quebecois accent..
Of course to be fair, it's not as if a parisian french person can't live in canada.
as a french speaker, i think it was interesting how she rolled her r's in the way that would do in spanish. she didn't have that "gutteral" french r.
When I was a cab driver in Sacramento, California, we had a contract with United Airlines taking people to a connecting flights in San Francisco, when the UA flight to from Sacramento to San Francisco was cancelled. As you approach the exit for the San Francisco Airport, there was a sign that said "Flights to Canada, Use Domestic Terminal." Someone had spray painted the on the wall next to the sign, "proof that Canada is not a real country."
haaaaaaa!
@@algrundau9441 it’s so sad that a maple leaf is the only thing you have to represent yourself. I’m sure there are other things in Canada you can use
@@algrundau9441 ontop of that. That’s fake. I promise you I’ve never seen a single American “travel” with a maple leaf jersey in my life. It’s another lie you tell yourselves to make you feel morally superior. “We’ll all of those Americans wear our jerseys” I’m sure more American jerseys are sold there than Canadian jerseys here. Relax little man.
@@algrundau9441 “so many of you” in reality is basically nobody.
@@algrundau9441 maple doesn’t only grow is Canada btw
Re: Coffee Crisp, I briefly knew an animator of the show, and he said that he had some freedom in deciding the details while animating Fox shows. My guess is that the author knew what Coffee Crisp was, but the animator did not.
So I'm guessing that the ball was dropped by the animator there.
I love how the light changes as the time passes by while JJ buys snacks.
and then throws it out.
I find it interesting when you said Canadians are always comparing Canada and America and how Canadians are always trying to take the moral high ground. Honestly, in the US, Americans overall don't really think about or compare themselves with Canadians, hardly ever! Any differences are rarely if ever, discussed in general conversation. Its just not something that is on our minds. Also, Americans never say anything derogatory about Canada or Canadians. Most Americans assume that Canadians are very much like Americans in many ways, just colder.
Les canadiens anglais on vraiment aucunes cultures, leurs cultures est une copie bon marché de la culture américaine 😅
En passant, tu as oublié d'écrire "eh!" à la fin de toutes tes phrases 🤣
Canada sucks
@@nicolasg.514
The irony...
The actual native french call Quebecois "Pig French"
@@InvadeNormandy
Aucunement 🤷♂️
Americans never insult Canadians. We typically don’t talk about others in an unkind way. Canadians constantly say derogatory things about Americans. Then in the same breath, they talk about how polite and nice they are compared to Americans. Makes no sense.
3:58 Bill's reaction is 100% accurate for us Texans, but mostly when another thousand Californians are moving in to your town/city driving up housing cost.
We drove up our own housing costs and now were coming after Texas, Nevada, and Arizona.
Dont worry bro ... with all the anti voter , anti choice , pro vigilante , anti-vaccine , pro Ted Cruzisms in Texas - those Californian transplant problem will surely dry up soon . Good luck with that whole "Self Alamo-ing"
@@awesomebeast7509 The problem with your theory is that Californians love "healthy and robust econonic growth" ... and "not dying" from Covid 19 , back alley abortions , "stand your ground" types , and tornadoes. We also love our voting rights . We good .
@@cali4niasf "self Alamo-ing" what are you even attempting to say, because whatever it is it makes no sense. Unless of course it's just "Look at me I'm a retard." Then you would be correct.
@@fire_fux I was also curious what he meant by that
Wow. You are probably the most well reasonable thought out person ive met in so long. Its so refreshing to see someone so even handed. Cant have enough words for that. You got a new fan!
I'm two years late to this comment, but yeah, he's not even being pretentious, scandalous, or condescending about it like so many other dumb, dime a dozen UA-camrs here. Bravo.
When I was in the Navy, we were once in the same port as a Canadian navy ship. One of the Canadians asked "Why to Americans think we're all French." In movies French speaking Canadians do seem to be heavily over represented.
French people are in France. Canadians are French speaking and English speaking. Most speak both languages with zero accent and have names that wouldn't match with their heritage. For example I've seen people mock French speaking Canadians to people who have English sounding names with no accent only for them to find out they come from the French speaking parts of Canada. Also, the west was originally settled by the eastern French speaking Canadians which then saw the English/Scots/etc come in afterwards. Language doesn't determine our ethnic origin or heritage.
It because we sympathize with separatists
Over represented in movies? That's nuthin. You should see the civil service.
@@RemiCouture Something the French Canadians and the French of France have in common is the compulsion to interrupt others while they are still speaking. That kind of makes your "French people are in France" thing fizzle out. The rest sounded high and mighty and I am not bothering with it.
well I mean, it's also a very common language in Canada. It's not drastically over represented. A lot of canadians speak french
JJ Is probably the most truthful youtuber that makes videos about Canada coming from a Canadian viewpoint, thanks! Coming from an American who has lived in Canada for 11 years.
He presents Canada to the world as an anglophone who completely disregards the existence of people living in the east, especially in Quebec., When he says something is not true about Canada, he's wrong. because if you were to come to Quebec and its surrounding provinces, it applies. He's incredibly misleading and you should not take his word as serious as he lacks in knowledge and tends to create his own ideal world of what he wants Canada to be in his mind, however we couldn't be further from it. And considering where the majority of the countries population is, and considering where the country was founded, and where it get any of it's national identities ALL COME FROM QUEBEC. The only thing that Canadians talk about that's supposedly distinct to Canada that's actually nowhere to be found in Quebec (excluding being sold at the Starbucks in Montreal), are Nainamo bars... Ive only seen that at startbucks and this one time at a maxi grocery store. Thats it. but EVERYTHING ELSE comes from Quebec. And here in Quebec, we give our height in cm (body measurements in foots is rare), and weight in kg (some people do pounds, but kilograms is much more commonly used)
@@KAVELism Dear me.... somebody's touchy today. Can we send you some bum ointment there, mon cherie?
@@KAVELism Cope.
@@HamishDuh2nd Canada eats up American culture they love it especially the new generations for example Hip Hop rap and the list goes on lmao 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Now you've done it, you went and triggered the quebecois
Many of the Canadian snowbirds I've met seem to employ a uniquely Canadian version of passive aggressive behavior.
When the money runs out so does the hospitality.
Snowbirds will always be salty! lol
I think Paul Barbado said it best. “Americans are like teenage boys, they’re opinionated, energetic and confident. Where as Canadians are like teenage girls, they’ll be polite to your face but talk crap behind your back.”
Next time those pesky and persistent Canucks try that, you have to get mean, you just come back with "Us Americans have something you Canadiens will never have, a real summer." If that doesn't work, then you have to play rough and hit them with a dirty low blow, ask them if they think a Canadian team will win the Stanley Cup in this century. That will send them back north to their Timmy's, Canadian Tire and poutine like all get out for sure, eh.
I remember this episode being spot on. Living in a border state and a few years in Canada, this felt like the most accurate media depiction.
JJ there are lot of UA-cam channels that I get addicted to for a few days and then never watch any of their videos afterwards but you are the only channel I have watched consistently for 3 years now and almost watch every one of your videos within a day of them coming out thanks for being such an interesting you tuber
Thank YOU for being such a loyal viewer!
The McCullum mowers tee shirt is a reference to a Canadian company "McCulloch that made small engines and was most rennound for their chainsaws.
Thank you!wanted to make this comment but couldn't remember how to spell McCulloch. I always thought they were most rennoun for all of their products being junk!
I loved that episode. Mike Judge zoomed right in on a way we Canucks can be both polite and rude. It was a refreshing take.
A friend and member of my gaming group who is from the Yukon always makes fun of the rest of us by yelling "CANADIAN STANDOFF" whenever we're like "sorry, go ahead. No you go ahead" on voice chat, which is hilarious to him because the rest of us are in the US
European perspective: I've been to Toronto for three months. Nearly every single person under 40 I met was an ass. But in a very peculiar, Torontonian way.
The closest thing to compare it to in Europe is teenagers. Rude and emotional with a lot of unearned confidence. Even service personell.
It's not "upfront" rude like Germans who are blunt about what they think.
It's an uncooperative kind of rude.
If you paid this rent you’d be salty too
Yes. Canadians are the exact opposite as they portray themselves . Also very dishonest
Toronto is very different from the rest of Canada
Generalization but, going to school in Toronto while living outside the city, I found ‘native Torontonians’ to be nice enough on the surface but carrying an air of aloofness about them that became apparent with anything more than the most transient of interactions. So yeah, Toronto is very different, don’t let that form your opinion on the rest of us 😄
It's like everybody knows in the province of Quebec that Quebec city is Snoby
Or people in Paris are dogs, compared to the rest of France
Except for the odd exception I'm sure
This reminds me of the episode of Corner Gas where one of the characters tries to trip up an American passing through by asking him a lot of trivia questions about how the Canadian government works, only for it to become apparent that the American actually knows a lot "more" about Canada than the Canadian does
I would love to see that.
Yes, I too also enjoy jokes that are based on a simple flip of stereotype. That is so funny. Ha ha.
No, but seriously. That kind of stuff is funny once or twice, but gets old fast.
“That’s it that’s all” is the most French Canadian thing I ever heard in my life. Heard québécois in Ottawa say it so often to their English employees.
Damn really, my relatively hick Albertan family also commonly says that phrase when describing something shitty and wanting to move on from it.
I actually havent heard that phrase since like 2005, that was a very popular phrasing in the 90's
The drink: Those brands are so iconic that we usually call them "Crown Gingers."
They are pretty good, and the bag that Crown Royale comes in is pretty snazzy.
Thank goodness he didn't offer him a caesar (it has clam juice).
That would have been "asked politely but firmly to leave" territory.
Interesting fact about King of the Hill and Canada; there is a French dub of show made for Europe where, to explain why everyone is speaking French in a non-french setting, the script is changed to suggest that Arlen is in Quebec and the Hill's are French Canadian.
This explains so much. Met these Canadian boomers in an Irish hostel and they kept dissing Americans, and saying how we never leave our country. They’re three times my age, of course they’ve traveled more.
Only 35% of Americans have passports vs over 60% for Canadians... I would say that comment was accurate. Per capita Americans travel a lot less than other countries.
@@davidcaskie6680 Why travel when your in the place to be??
@@grimjow669 Because it broadens your horizons, it opens your mind and makes you smarter, and more worldy... Mark Twain said it best, when he wrote “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness”. Why wouldn’t you want to travel? How do you know you’re in the place to be if you haven’t tried anything else.
💥 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥
@@Ira1now123 Too bad man... you’re missing a big beautiful world out here! It has been proven that travel broaden your mind and does make you a smarter human being. But, to each there own...
If there is a single french Canadian person in Guelph that wasn't a university student I would be surprised
After the War of 1812, General Adamson Tannehill, friend of the then deceased George Washington, was approached by General Smyth who was organizing an invasion into Canada. Adamson Tannehill essentially told General Smyth, that if General Smyth could gather enough forces, then he, Adamson Tannehill, would support his invasion into Canada. Long story short, General Smyth was unable to organize enough men.
What I love is how Hank references the infamous "sohry" but at the beginning, Gord uses a 'saahry' that puts Boston to shame.
19:35 - Yep, checked, no Aluminum mining *at all* happens in Canada; it *does* however, have a lot of aluminum refineries or smelter operations. So Canada does have its own Aluminum industry it seems based around importing bauxite ore or aluminum metal to be further processed.
Cheap hydroelectric power allows refining to be cheap but we only have like 3% of the worldwide production.
@@MmeHyraelle 3% of any of the world's is still impressive, don't you think?
Perhaps they really just wanted to show off the fact that Canadians (as do most English speakers) say aluminium, rather than aluminum.
Canadian owned companies do mine in any country corrupt enough to let them.
My hole family worked for ALCAN. So yes big Industry. Huge. No mining but lots of bauxite pollution
those other youtuber cameos are so great, please keep them up! Until now I can recognize all of them (this episode had whatifalthist)
Great video! Two things I noticed- having grown up in Ontario, the only context in which I ever heard the term "chesterfield" used was by my Nova Scotian grandparents. Also I DID get the "CFL is a better game than NFL and here's why" spiel from my dad on multiple occasions, which was boring to no end since I don't care about either. (He was from a CFL team town tho)
from the states, here is why CFL is great:
premise: playing football game on speakers thru house is very relaxing, even tho i otherwise don't care about football
here on youtube, there's a million CFL games from past several years. quality of play is decent enough. ratio of tv commercials vs playtime is actually humane. thus, when i want to sack out on couch some afternoon, "hmmm, edmonton vs hamilton from 2006? good enough!"
so i click play, put it on the surround speakers, and close my eyes on the.... chesterfield for a couple hours
I respect the CFL, but i don't watch it often, It's annoying that J.J who obviously doesn't understand sports points to a 3rd quarter rather than a 3rd down lol. He's just confusing people who don't understand Gridiron.
@@kylem1112 lol yeah I chuckled at the 3rd quarter clip. Oh JJ 😂
As a kid my family and I sometimes used the word "chesterfield", but I think we only used it for a specific piece of furniture my grandma had, not all sofas.
French-Canadian: "Here, we speak French."
Frenchman: "No, you do not."
I’m really enjoying this series of “reacting” videos! Keep it up
Oh hey saw
He should do one once a month
🙋🏼♂️
When a surname has "Mc" it usually signifies Irish decent. "Mac" typically scottish
So "Macy" is a Scottish surname (American translation: last name)? It is a rhetorical question to point out the insufficiency of your rule.
@@TheRootedWord I didn't claim that all scottish/irish surnames contain Mc or Mac. Its also not "my" rule... what exactly is the insufficiency ?
@@TheRootedWord “usually” “typically”. Those words are specifically there to signify that the rule isn’t always consistent, such as Macy (which isn’t even Gaelic, it’s French). From my understanding, Mc/Mac usually means “Son of”; an example being McCullough, son of Cú Uladh/Hound of Ulster.
Also, an “American translation” isn’t needed for the word surname. A large majority of Americans know that surname means last name.
@@mr.midnight23 No, we don't. Many Americans abroad have to deal with it in official capacities and are famous for not knowing exactly which name it refers to. The foreign officials are often commenting on it. It is a petty thing to argue, though, don't you think? You have one experience and I have another on this. And so what?
Here's an interesting entry on the naming:
Mac, Scottish and Irish Gaelic surname prefix meaning “son.” It is equivalent to the Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman Fitz and the Welsh Ap (formerly Map). Just as the latter has become initial P, as in the modern names Price or Pritchard, Mac has in some names become initial C and even K-e.g., Cody, Costigan, Keegan.
Similarly, Dermot O’Tierney was simply Dermot the grandson of a man called Tierney (Ua, later shortened to O, means grandson or, more loosely, descendant).
--Britannica
As for not reading what was written, you did not see that I was merely agreeing that the rule was insufficient and pointing out one way how. You took it to be that I hadn't read that the rule was given with limitations implied. Might want to more carefully read next time and not presume.
@@TheRootedWord Yes, but you brought up a name irrelevant to the topic at hand, Macy. Macy is French, therefore it doesn’t apply to Gaelic name customs. OP was correct, and you’re rhetorical question was quite ignorant.
Also, maybe I’m just expecting to much of Americans, but mostly everyone around me knows what a surname is.
the dedication this man puts literally walking to a corner store and showing us the candy bar in question
When JJ threw away the coffee crisp a piece of me died
Okay, but what about that gunshot to the head?
Did that start a war?
@@MirzaAhmed89 Pretty sure the whole shot in the head thing started a war.
I never even had any coffee crisp in my life. Yet a piece of me died too.
With coffee crisp, I’m guessing that the script writers knew what it was, but illustrators had no idea. But even then, this was 2009, and they could have googled it before illustrating.
Do homemade coffee crisp look any different from the mass produced product? Did they think "eeeh i bet you could make this into a cookie shape"
I’m half-convinced they were just trolling us Canucks. Then again, maybe they were confusing it with Nanaimo bars. Damn those are good.
@@shrimpyalfredo3933 coffee crisps are a branded product, they aren't a home made thing,
@@juliang64 so is rice krispies, but people still make em
King of the Hill animators: know what coffee crisp is but animate it incorrectly
JJ: knows what "downs" in football are but cuts to the part of the scoreboard indicating it's the 3rd quarter not 3rd down
10:59 The commitment needed to leave the camera running (or more so to pretend you did if that's the case) while you actually go and buy an item you're talking about is more than the show put into representing certain things lmao
“Canadians football only has 3 downs” *shows the quarter and the clock instead of the downs
Not a football guy. It isn't the same.
Isn’t like the field like ten meters longer and has the field goals in the middle of goal line?
@@exiledhobbit1441 longer, more pre snap motion, larger neutral zone at scrimmage
Nowadays, most of us Zoomers barely recognize the distinction. Our cultures, being shaped largely by the internet have sort of melded them together. Learning that one of your favorite creators or internet friends is Canadian is like learning they're from another state.
They haven’t “melded” together. American culture is largely adopted by Canadians. Ontop of the internet already being an American thing
@@Sinstat Yea okay that's pretty reasonable. But I also wonder how different they were in the first place (if they ever were).
Though I don't know that I'm confident saying internet culture altogether is just American culture.
JJ made a video about it actually :) ua-cam.com/video/5wKWbbMoLqg/v-deo.html in summary, Canada spent too much time under British colonial rule to establish itself, so to catch up adopted the closest neighbors culture
Drake made being Canadian cool
@@KevinwithanI if it didn’t spend much time under British rule they would’ve unified with the US.
This isn’t bizarre since this is what the US always wanted.
I think there was an attempt once but the brits strong armed
So either way, Canada would’ve and is America.
I wish Canada can unify with USA not necessarily as one country with one law but as an alliance that is seen as one superpower in the macro of things
It's interesting that people consider King of the Hill to be a more conservative show, because I always considered it to be almost entirely ironic, and poking fun at Texas and the conservative values and attitude. Very much like The Colbert Report.
Today's left considers anything to the right of Karl Marx to be conservative, or more often, National Socialist.
Its definitely meant to ride the line where it is very ironic and comedic while playing the conservative part so well that you're questioning its position.
It's more traditionally conservative instead of the populist conservative movement we have now
There's a good degree of accuracy in how KotH shows conservative values.
Aside from the fact the show makes jokes about it sometimes, there's very little to directly say is ironic
@@theplaybunnyarcade3375 In other words, it's a stealth parody.
This is hilarious to me. An American, but from Michigan so stuck in the middle. (maple syrup, good beer and loyal to American products) so much like Canada 🇨🇦 😄
Known many Canadians I've met in both Canada and in the U.S..
UPer or Troll?
18:45 the funny thing is that she says c'est ça c'est tout, that's it that's all. Except in Quebec, we actually DO say dats it dats all. Probably more often than people say it in English actually.
Ontarian here. I'm pretty sure I have never said that. It certainly doesn't read as a common thing humans say.
@@seigeengine that's it that's all? I mean... I don't know what to say aside from it's a thing in English, where do you think the French get it from?
@@jhonjacson798 I have no idea? Why would you say "that's it that's all"?
What is that even meant to convey?
@@seigeengine just means ''that's all'' but with more of a sense of finality. kind of like saying ''that's all folks'' or like ''enough said'' that kind of thing.
I’m American, I say “c’est tout” regularly. But not “c’est ça c’est tout” in any language.
As a Brit, this is interesting because most of these jokes would have gone over my head otherwise. Amazing video!!
Anyone else watching JJ for the reason of learning advanced English?? I am, to be very honest. But as I am slowly becoming more comfortable of understanding his advanced English, I start to appreciate the content itself, thank you JJ :)
What is advanced English?
@@JJMcCullough to me is different synonyms of commonly used words, difficult sentence structures, cultural related names or words, also pronunciation.
@@JJMcCullough When you learn English and are beyond "intermediate" level.
Michel Garcia is he saying something backhanded here?!
@@JJMcCullough Honestly there’s different definitions. Some people say it’s highly book-accurate grammar (usually native speakers), some say it’s being indistinguishable from a native speaker (those who prefer certain accents usually).
I like the definition as “understanding and producing highly specialized language”, where intermediate would be fully understanding and producing generalized/common language
I've always found Canadians to be intolerably rude- although, I've avoided contact with them for over ten years now. Every interaction I've had with a Canadian involve praising themselves by spitting on the US.
I had assumed there would be some kinship between us because of the USA vs Canada / AUS vs NZ thing, but no... No, they seemed more Australian than Kiwi in the way they have a intense hatred of their neighbors, while their neighbors assume a sibling-like rivalry.
Ouch, that honestly sucks has a Canadian myself, I know some people who are like that, and some of us aren't like that, not all Canadians are the same, or people in general which others tend to forget
And it really depends on where you go and where the person is from, most of us have the same mentality as you lot. A sort of big and little brother scenario
That's so weird. I'm Canadian and while there are certainly rude people, most people I've met are fine.
Australia hates New Zealand?
These reactions videos you’ve been making are pretty funny and informative. That giggle after Hank said “Why?” is the content I signed up for!
"It doesn't matter if they are from Canada, Laois, or God forbid, California" XD kills me every time. Am from Texas. There are people here who are very much like Hank Hill and they are treasures. XD this show always cracks me up. Love your take on it.
@Got any I.D. ? GOD bless Texas!! Lots of people are moving to Texas from my state also! its like the Promised Land!
@@inconnu4961 but still vote the same
@@spartanxdarth201 sadly
Coffee Crisp is the candy bar that every other country abandoned. It was one of the many flavors of Rowntree's Wafer Crisp. The chocolate version later became the Kit Kat.
Went to Canada year before covid for a guys trip. We were in the French part and it was a surprise to me how many people didn't speak English at all. We would go into Tim Hortons for breakfast and they would have to get like the one person in the back to translate for us Americans lol. We made sure to have a translator app and knew some phrases though. It was beautiful there. Also, damn I wish I could just run to the store and get coffee crisp :/ they were so good lol