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Here are the Canadian Connections for some other entertaining shows:
Quickly Move To: Frasier, 3rd Rock, Pinky and the Brain, Fawlty Towers, King of the Hill, Monty Python's Flying Circus

Frasier

A Midwinter Night's Dream (Episode 17)

Description: Niles and Daphne get stuck in Maris' mansion on a stormy night.

Connection: When Niles stays over at Frasier's apartement Frasier offers him a Canadian Goose Downed Pillow to sleep on.

Travels with Martin (Episode 21)

Description: Frasier, Martin, Niles, Daphne, and Eddie take a trip across America in a Winnebago.

Connection: While stopping to have their photo taken beside a grizzly bear, Daphne is informed they took a little side trip into Canada. Unfortunately Daphne has no green card and was not supposed to leave USA. So, they try to smuggle her past the Canadian border. The Canadian border guard becomes suspicious when Frasier and Niles act very guilty and Daphne seems only able to say "Sure" in American. Martin saves the day by explaining to the guard that they forgot to get Eddie a rabies tag upon entering Canada. The guard forgives them and the gang escapes from Canada.

3rd Rock3rd Rock From The Sun

Description: Dick becomes friends with a new eccentric teacher at the school, played by John Cleese (Can anyone help me with the name of the teacher?), who seems to be better at everything that Dick does. The teacher turns out to be a fellow alien planning to blow up the world.

Connection: When Dick realizes that John Cleese's character is an alien he prepares to reveal that he is an alien as well. But before he gets the chance, the new teacher says that he has decided not to blow up the world because of Dick's fine example of a human being. Afterwards, the new teacher asks Dick what he was going to reveal. Struggling for a response, Dick blurts out that he is a Canadian. Cleese's character responds, "I'm so sorry."

Pinky and the Brain Take Over Canada

Brain's Second Birthday

Take-Over-The-World Plan: In order to celebrate Brain's birthday, Pinky invites all the world leaders to attend the party and hand over their respective countries.

Connection: Upon reading the invintation Brian Mulroney responds, "No, eh?" Upon learning that President Clinton is attending all the world leaders decide to follow along. During the party the leaders discuss the game, "Pin the maple leaf on Brian Mulroney." When Pinky asks for the leaders' countries Mulroney responds, "A country is kind of an important thing eh?"

A Pinky and the Brain Christmas

Take-Over-The-World Plan: Brain plans to use Santa's workshop to mass-produce and distribute a hypnotizing doll to every family in the world.

Connection: After the elves discover that Pinky and the Brain aren't real elves, Brain explains that they are merely Canadian elves, just trying to fit in.

Brain of the Future

Take-Over-The-World Plan: Using a time machine, Brain plans to travel to 2 billion AD to retrieve a world-domination kit to be used in the present.

Connection: Before reaching the correct time period they take a quick stop thousands of years in the future in Canada. There they pass by a simple moose. Upon seeing their time travel machine whiz by, the moose reveals its true human identity. He alerts his commander that they've seen an American nuclear missile. The Canadian king orders an all out nuclear attack on the US. President Clinton, yes he's still around, retaliates, and the world is basically destroyed by nuclear bombs.

Fawlty TowersFawlty Towers

Connection: In the episode entitled, The Germans, Basil Fawlty attempts to put up a Canadian moose head in the hotel lobby. Unfortunately, the head's antlers won't stand up straight and the head itself eventually falls on Basil Fawlty. Also in this episode, Basil Fawlty talks with the Major about a former employee who moved to Canada.

Canadian References from Visitors:
(These are references which people have sent me. I don't actually watch these shows, so I can't confirm their authenticity)
King of the Hill:
In the episode where Hank gets to meet Willie Nelson, and it had the following two Canadianisms:
(1) When Hank talks about his son having no goals, he says, "It's important for a boy to have goals, like that fella, you know, the one who ran across Canada without any legs."
(2) When he meets Willie Nelson on the golf course, he says "I went to every Farm Aid. Well, almost every one -- I never did care much for Bryan Adams."
- Mitchell from Yahoo! Canada
Monty Python:
Episode 1
  • Titled "Wither Canada?"
    • Episode 6
  • The boss tells reg to escape to Canada
    • Episode 7
  • The accountant has a cutback on surplus expenditure of 12 million Canadian dollars
    • Episode 9
  • The barber/lumberjack dreams of "leaping from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia"
  • The choir is made up of Mounties
    • Episode 22
  • The plastic surgeon has a D. Litt. from Ottawa, and another one from all other places in Canada except Medicine Hat
    • Episode 24
  • Mr. Roy Bent bicycled across the Atlantic to Nova Scotia
    • Episode 36
  • The Tutor Job Agency mentions the Cabots' expansion in Canada
    • Episode 37
  • At the Ideal Loon Exhibition, a pantomime goose on a horse represents the Royal Canadian Mounted Geese
    • Episode 38
  • The forestry reporter, in between fighting with the Sir Walter Scott reporter, mentions Canadian forests
    • Episode 44
  • Mrs. Entrail's daughter married a Canadian dentist and they live in Alberta
  • Teddy Salad breeds rabbits in the Yukon
  • The lumberjack went to a ballet in Montreal
  • A lot of scenes take place in the Yukon
    • - Adam

    Do you know of any other Canadian references from some other shows? Did I miss something from the shows I've mentioned? Do you have some good sounds or pictures of these Canadian Connections? Don't hesitate to send them in and I will happily add them. E-mail me at jarjoli.abode@sympatico.ca

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