Happy Thanksgiving (to the Canadian posters here)!

[Anthonynotes]

Canada celebrates Turkey Day in early October, in this case, today. Hence, the greetings.

-B.

[Danielle]

Happy Thanksgiving! (I'm not Canadian, but it's a better holiday than Columbus Day)

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

As Columbus himself said on H!, "all my holiday is ever good for is the half-off men's underwear sale."

Happy Turkey Day, Canada-we here in the U.S.A. have to wait another month until the smorgasboard! I'm jealous...and hungry...

[Anthonynotes]

Originally posted by BourgeoisBuffoon
As Columbus himself said on H!, "all my holiday is ever good for is the half-off men's underwear sale."

Happy Turkey Day, Canada-we here in the U.S.A. have to wait another month until the smorgasboard! I'm jealous...and hungry...

ANd have our version of said holiday overshadowed by Christmas hoopla overkill, to boot (starting, well, right now I guess---the store I work at has had Christmas stuff for sale since early September....).

-B.

[don Jaime]

Huh? Canada? Whazzat?

Happy T-Day!

[James Harvey]

Thanx, everyone! And damn..what a great thanksgiving it was...

[Nftnat]

Yes, by all means. There's so much for Canadians for which to be thankful, too. Canadian television, for example. Check previous debates between Brainatra & Psycho Fox to find out about what I'm talking. Happy Thanksgiving, eh?

[Anthonynotes]

Originally posted by Nftnat
Yes, by all means. There's so much for Canadians for which to be thankful, too. Canadian television, for example. Check previous debates between Brainatra & Psycho Fox to find out about what I'm talking. Happy Thanksgiving, eh?

No debate from me----said country gave us Michael J. Fox, John Candy and "SCTV".... could you imagine what the WB/Kids' WB would be like if the SCTV network's head, Guy Caballero, were running it? :-)

Other stuff Canada's given us entertainment-wise:
Um....uh.... Nelvana's based up there, isn't it?

Various TV shows filmed on location there, along with movies; the new "Smallville" show's filmed in a small British Columbia town.

Back in the 60's/70's, the most popular radio station in the Detroit area was CKLW, located in Windsor Ontario. Apparently its pioneering of modern top 40 radio techniques and its powerhouse signal (and it being back in the days when one listened to AM for music) also aided its popularity in Detroit and across vast parts of the upper midwest...apparently the general death of AM radio (in favor of FM) and Canadian broadcast rules initiated in the 70's requiring certain levels of Canadian content to be carried by Canadian radio/TV stations helped kill it (today it's talk radio, like every other AM station these days). Was the subject of an NPR profile on "All Things Considered" once.

Mentioned John Candy, Michael J. Fox, and "SCTV" already....um...Jim Carrey as well.

One of my favorite comics is "For Better or For Worse", the strip about the foibles of the Patterson family (and where the characters age in real time to boot). Liked the recent story with the overbearing mother of Michael's wife....

And from what I've heard, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) coverage of the Olympics is apparently top-notch, and putting NBC's "coverage" to shame (and getting large numbers of American viewers living near the border tuning into the CBC over NBC---hence the reference I made to this in the fanfic story "Warner Academy 2")...

All in all, it's no wonder why Canada is valued for its many entertainment features---radio, movies, and television, it truly is a cherished treasure. (Cue cheesy background music rendition of "O Canada", like in one of those old classroom movies) Yes, Canada....our friend in entertainment! (Music ends)

:-)

-B.

[Nftnat]

There certainly is much entertainment that hails from Canada. In addition to the tv shows already mentioned, when CBN / the Family Channel made tv shows or distributed them as their own, like as not they'd come from Canada. The Campbells (a Canadian family in the early 1800's), Rin Tin Tin K-9 Cop, Bordertown (based on Coutts, Alberta / Sweetgrass, Montana, I think), The Black Stallion (starring Mickey Rooney, don't ask), all from Canada. Other people from Canada include my favorite game show host Alex Trebek, anyone's favorite game show host(?) (that was a question) Monty Hall, newscaster Peter Jennings, & legendary actor Lorne Greene, who during WWII was Canada's counterpart to America's "Voice of Doom", H.V. Kaltenborn. From the Canadian Football League came such as Warren Moon & Doug Flutie. It was also a good place for such as former Razorback Wayne Harris (Thumper to Lance Alworth's Bambi @ UA). And then there's wrestling. Yes, I said wrestling. I know I'm the fan amongst us, but I must give credit where credit is due. Calgary, Alberta Canada, home of the Stampede (rodeo), the Stampeders (football team), the Stampeders (pop act --- Sweet City Woman, 1972?), & the Stampede wrestling organization of the legendary Hart family. And that's not counting the contributions from Toronto & Montreal. Yes, claims Canada makes to contributions to American culture will go unchallenged here. Btw did you notice that the Pattersons of For Better Or For Worse & our own Psycho Fox are from the same hometown?

[DR. BELCH]

Canada has also given us Pamela Anderson, Alanis Morissette, great literary magazines like The Antigonish Review, Tickled by Thunder, The Malahat Review, and Challenging Destiny...and the great one himself, Mr. Wayne Gretsky! Okay, so he's not an actress, or a singer, or a magazine...but he's great!
Now if only those Canuck postal rates weren't so bloody high....
Incidentally, is turkey eaten at a Canadian Thanksgiving, or is it a more native dish like Canadian goose?

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by Brainatra
Other stuff Canada's given us entertainment-wise:
Um....uh.... Nelvana's based up there, isn't it?

Yup so is Mainframe and most animated commercials are done up here like the Life Savers ones and the Coca Cola ones with the polar bears and the one where the sun is drinking a bottle of Coca Cola all those were made by ad giant Topix that is based in Toronto. Computer animation was born in Canada. In 1974 the first 2D computer animated short was completed in Montreal by NFB. Before Pixar became famous Canadain companies pioneered the 3D industry.

Back in the 60's/70's, the most popular radio station in the Detroit area was CKLW, located in Windsor Ontario. Apparently its pioneering of modern top 40 radio techniques and its powerhouse signal (and it being back in the days when one listened to AM for music) also aided its popularity in Detroit and across vast parts of the upper midwest...

Actually CKLW just copied what CHUM did in Toronto

And from what I've heard, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) coverage of the Olympics is apparently top-notch, and putting NBC's "coverage" to shame (and getting large numbers of American viewers living near the border tuning into the CBC over NBC---hence the reference I made to this in the fanfic story "Warner Academy 2")...

Yhea CBC has been covering sports for a long time.

All in all, it's no wonder why Canada is valued for its many entertainment features---radio, movies, and television, it truly is a cherished treasure. (Cue cheesy background music rendition of "O Canada", like in one of those old classroom movies) Yes, Canada....our friend in entertainment! (Music ends)

True

[Anthonynotes]

>>Yup so is Mainframe and most animated commercials are done up here like the Life Savers ones and the Coca Cola ones with the polar bears and the one where the sun is drinking a bottle of Coca Cola all those were made by ad giant Topix that is based in Toronto. Computer animation was born in Canada. In 1974 the first 2D computer animated short was completed in Montreal by NFB. Before Pixar became famous Canadain companies pioneered the 3D industry.
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>>> Actually CKLW just copied what CHUM did in Toronto
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From what I gathered from the NPR report, CKLW's main advantage was that its signal stretched into a significant portion of the U.S. (Windsor, Ontario being located further south than Toronto helping, I'm sure, plus depending on how many watts of power it had I suppose) and it also supposedly played a lot of Motown---Motown being located in the sixties in Detroit (it moved to L.A. in the early 70's)...

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Yhea CBC has been covering sports for a long time.
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Well, it's the way it covered the Olympics that made it more appealing than NBC's coverage, at least for viewers living in upper NY state/Detroit/other towns near the Canadian border....see: all those Usenet comments in '96 and '00 going ga-ga over CBC coverage (and, ahem, comments about NBC's coverage that seem on par with comments on this forum about today's KWB programming :-)

Re: Other Canadian entertainment Belch mentioned: Forgot about Gretzsky and Morissette---and as long as she's mentioned, there's also "You Can't Do That On Television" (which I think was made in Canada)...

-B.

[James Harvey]

We also gave ya the lead charatcer of undeclared, Jim Carrey, underGRADS, The Ripping Friends (more on that later), and probably alot of other things, too. They've all been basically listed above by my fellow Canuck compatriots. We also print the vast majority of your comic books, magazines, and VHD/DVD cases. That's all mostly done in Quebec. Anyways, onto Ripping Friends. Creator John K. said that Teletoon is in the motions to approve a 2nd season even if the show isn't picked up again by Fox Kids. John K. is currently setting up a Canadian Spumco company in order to keep Ripping Friends in production.

I'm almost 100% sure that Ripping Friends won't make it to season 2 on Fox Kids, and I'm glad to see that John K. is taking advantage of the animaiton community up here in Canada (where animaiton is actually seen as an artofrm, not a marketing gimmick).

Oh, and I think we're responsible for William Shatner also. (Sorry about that)

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by Dick Grayson
Anyways, onto Ripping Friends. Creator John K. said that Teletoon is in the motions to approve a 2nd season even if the show isn't picked up again by Fox Kids. John K. is currently setting up a Canadian Spumco company in order to keep Ripping Friends in production.

I'm almost 100% sure that Ripping Friends won't make it to season 2 on Fox Kids, and I'm glad to see that John K. is taking advantage of the animaiton community up here in Canada (where animaiton is actually seen as an artofrm, not a marketing gimmick).

Figures you do know that John K was born in Ottawa and flunked art school in Toronto.

[James Harvey]

John K.'s a canuck? Man - that is cool! I'm glad we'll be getting more Ripping Friends! It's a great show!

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by Dick Grayson
John K.'s a canuck? Man - that is cool! I'm glad we'll be getting more Ripping Friends! It's a great show!

Well he lives in the states but yhea he was born here.

[Sharklady]

And here's a couple more Canadian entertainers:

Actress Yvonne De Carlo, who played Lily in 'The Munsters.'

Backwoods funnyman Red Green- star of 'The Red Green Show', which I consider the funniest series on PBS (okay, so there's not a lot of competition for that title...)

[happyheathen]

54/40 or fight!

just kidding....

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by Sharklady
And here's a couple more Canadian entertainers:
Backwoods funnyman Red Green- star of 'The Red Green Show', which I consider the funniest series on PBS (okay, so there's not a lot of competition for that title...)

That is not his real name you know. Anyway it all started when him and his wife had a variety comedy show on CTV (Red Green became CBC property later) way back and he did a skit on it poking fun at fishing shows and everyone loved it. Well the Red Green character devloped from there.

[Sharklady]

> (Red Green) is not his real name you know. <

I know. But I couldn't refer to the guy by his real name, because A) nobody would know who I was talking about, and B) I'm not sure myself what it is.