We missed the set up part of every one of those clips. Rick can be a charmer and he took advantage of those people. And yet we wonder why they think we're backerds, All those people told two friends and those friends told two friends and now look at us. We're just like them, without the shiny hair.
9 years later, and the answers today would have been worse. I remember a 22 Minutes segment Rick did on the Seniors on Ice Flows - much longer. Hilarious.
"Did you hear the Prime Minister, Tim Horton, just got a double double?" HAHAHAH!! And Jean "Chretong" LMFAO These "Talking to Americans" segments never get old! Rick is brilliant! :D
@@jameswalker4225 Underrated comment right here! LOL. I didn't realize until just a couple of years ago that she was his daughter. I should've put it together sooner lol.
This is America, to be honest. My parents lived there when I was about 10 years old, and, I kid you not, the teachers were writing "a lot" as one word. I begged and cried to come back. The teachers were horrid to me because they kept trying to force me to pledge allegiance to a flag that was not mine. I was also in a grade 5 class in Canada, and they placed me in a grade 7 class in the USA. The horror!
My Grade 6 teacher must have had a bad experience in the US then, because I specifically remember her drilling into all of our heads that it's "a lot," NOT "alot."
I am sure there are many funny Americans. What i was impressed with was during 911 when Gander and many other Eastern provinces took in so many Americans, the Americans and other nationalities were so thankful we never heard anything negative about the passengers.
Lucien Bouchard was a minister in Brian Mulroney's cabinet. The series was brilliant, and no doubt edited to pick out those overconfident Americans who couldn't say "I don't know" ! My favourite was when Rick got individuals on a university campus to sign a petition asking the Canadian government to stop putting their senior citizens out on ice flows.
Rick Mercer unquestionably has a gift for finding the stupidest people within a 100 metre radius of where he his standing. That' a real gift! Go Rick!!!!
Has not smartened Canadians up more. I find so many Canadians are fed so much more lies on the internet it is actually dumbing many down. So many take what they see on line as the gospel truth.
Hey Rick! You would have a lot of material to do one of these now (especially in Texas and some of the southern USA). Like we need any more reasons to laugh at the USA in 2020
He could get a lot of ideas and amo to laugh at in Canada as well. Our politicians are a joke and give comedians so much to joke about if they weren't afraid of being sued with all the wokeness. Our education system in Canada, especially Ontario has gone down hill and Rick could trick a lot of Canadians about Canada and the USA. Wish he would come out of retirement or find someone equally as funny.
@PatchesRips well, since the chain-smoking stuttering second-stringer owned you Canadians body & soul, (in his mind) you were his to throw away to keep his chair…
The guy is asking them questions that they just think are real questions. That professor probably doesn't go around saying that the Canadians perform Saskatchewan seal hunts but if someone says they are he'll say that that is bad. Same with that politician, he doesn't know what the other guy's talking about. He probably thinks the "national igloo" is some sort of tourist attraction he's never heard of. Seriously they're manipulating these people to make Americans look bad. and I'm a Canadian.
@@admiralgaius9796 the there is the another big problem of americans. They apparently are unwilling to say "i don't know what or where are you talking about".
@Travis Hammons Lol ok chief! And you know this how? I had to take world history in high school, as for the education requirements in my state. Other states also have similar requirements as well. I love history, I think how society came to be is fascinating. Lol, your argument is based on assumptions, prejudice, and gross generalization.
Jeez, Rick, give these poor Americans a break.😂 This was one of my favorite parts of "This Hour Has 22 Minutes"! That's one of the the perks of living in Detroit, gateway to Canada! CBC !
Most Americans know as much about Canada as straight men know about applying make up. Its sad because the US is only interested in what goes on within its own borders. By the way I'm American and I love visiting Canada several times a year so I certainly don't mean any offense to Canadians when I say that.
And I don't mean to offend by this, but from vacation experience, you are definitely right. Up here we get a ton of access to US news and information but that isn't the case for Americans.
2:45 '' Jean Crouton ? "" ....no. i only eat them, with French Onion soups.....or in roasted red-pepper soups....thank-you America, for being ' stoopid ''
actually the people who invented light-bulb was Canadian the phone was Canadian tv camera Canadian. however the people who invented them immigrated to the U.S. because during this time the U.S. was a much better country to live in with much more opportunity.
I saw this is English class and I cried I laughed so hard. This is a bit biased as they are pressured to not get things wrong xD But it makes good comedy.
Wow, that was scary.... but oh so realistic.....I've been enduring the "American Culture" (I can't believe I spontaneously employed an oxymoron!) for almost 30 years now, and I hope I can reintegrate some real part of this globe some day soon! Disneyland isn't all it's dressed up to be, really....
When I was a kid I'd occasionally watch shows like Jerry Springer and think it had to be scripted because there's no way a country could have enough idiots to fill a stage and an audience with new faces every week. I was wrong!
Average in-hospital treatment costs are nearly twice as much in the U.S. ($20,673 U.S. vs. $10,373) There are 9.9 qualified nurses per 1000 population in Canada as compared to 7.9 nurses per 1000 population in US (so you get a highly personalized care!) Overall satisfaction with the surgical experience is similar in both countries (85.3% U.S. and 83.5% Canada) The number of acute care hospital beds in Canada is 3.0 per 1000 population as compared to 2.8 in US
I'll tell the 12 million unemployed Americans and the estimated economic growth rate of about 1.4 percent so far in 2013 is well below last year’s levels of 2.8 percent, even as automatic cuts in federal spending and higher taxes continue to bite.
I'm more interested in income compared to cost of living and I'd rather live longer (Canada's 9 for life expectancy and the U.S. is 51st). BTW, how many times was the U.S. ranked #1 according to the U.N. Human Development index and did the U.S. ever get it nine years in a row?
I dont know what does it have to do with health care quality, in health care quality US is on the top. This is why everyone across the world's picks US.
US healthcare innovations are tricle down -- the rich get them first, exclusively; when something new comes along, they get that, passing the previous down a level. With MRIs the latest Big Thing., CT scans are cleaer & more easily obtained, & standard XRays are practically free!
Canada has lower mortality rates for patients 65 and older three years after both low-mortality (18.52% U.S. vs. 15.31% Canada) and moderate-mortality (19.19% U.S. vs. 16.63% Canada) procedures Survival rate for four disease condition is higher in Canada than in America: o Colorectal cancer: 113 Canada vs. 108 U.S. o Childhood leukemia: 118 vs.110 o Kidney transplants 113 vs. 100 o Liver transplants 123 vs. 102
Oh, I see, it doesn't matter how the average person has, it doesn't matter that the general population doesn't benefit from their country's GDP, all that matters is the total amount of money in the country, I got it.
Canadians have lower rates of in-hospital mortality (1.4% Canada vs. 2.2% U.S.) Administrative costs consume more of the total cost of treatment in the U.S. (38.2% of total costs in the U.S. vs. 31.7% in Canada) In-hospital cost of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) in the U.S. is 82.5 % higher in the U.S. than in Canada The mortality rate for end-stage renal disease is 47% higher in the U.S. than in Canada. Adjusted monthly costs of treatment are $503 higher in the U.S.
The 80% of it is where our abundant natural resources are and the low population density is part of why historically Canada has ranked higher than the U.S. by the U.N. Human Development Index as a desirable place to live.
This is why US has lower tax and expense. This is major reason whh Canadians travel to US to buy clothes, food and everything else. Canada has never given any opportunity.
Although the average Canadian probably knows more about USA than the average American knows about Canada , I bet that if you started interviewing Canadians about the USA that it wouldn't take you that long to generate enough material to create a video similar to this one .
This is funny, but as an American with a taste for parody and satire-and who has been to all 10 provinces-I have to say I’ve played this same kind of trick on lots and lots of Canadians. Bottom line: most people (Probably 95%) aren’t actually good listeners-nor are they very good at processing information even if they are actually “hearing” what is being said to them. These examples do not-by any means-reflect a trait that is unique to Americans. It’s actually universal.
You're right, Canada may be seen as quiet, but that doesn't mean its forgotten. It's seen as a friendly and peaceful as opposed to loud and obnoxious that gets in the way of everyone else . I've seen that anime Hetalia before, and I assure you, it's not accurate. For something that depicted the US independence war from Britain as a separation between Father and son (I kid you not, it was an emotional scene of the anime), I think I would rather take my chances with the history books.
As an American I'm highly offended at the accurate portrayal of our general ignorance of anything outside of the US. Keep up the good work.
You kind of are...
The real star is Rick Mercer. The looks on his face are priceless. He is a comedy genius. 😄
We missed the set up part of every one of those clips. Rick can be a charmer and he took advantage of those people. And yet we wonder why they think we're backerds, All those people told two friends and those friends told two friends and now look at us. We're just like them, without the shiny hair.
9 years later, and the answers today would have been worse. I remember a 22 Minutes segment Rick did on the Seniors on Ice Flows - much longer. Hilarious.
This episode aired on T.V well over 20 years ago, but this youtube video was uploaded 12 years ago.
So many nice Americans. On behalf of Canada, thank you!
On behalf of Canada, sorry. I don't know for what, I'm just Mike from Cannmore.
From 2021 that Mike Huckabee moment aged like fine wine, 20 years later and this was still amazing
As a Canuck, Mike Huckabee is one of my favourites.
"Did you hear the Prime Minister, Tim Horton, just got a double double?" HAHAHAH!!
And Jean "Chretong" LMFAO
These "Talking to Americans" segments never get old!
Rick is brilliant! :D
Watched these segments 20 years ago. This never gets old! Neither does Rick Mercer.
I don't get the Chretong... could you please explain it?
@@Snoop_Dugg Jean Chretien was one of Canada's Prime Ministers. Rick Mercer made up "Chretong" and used it to see if anyone would correct him lol.
prime minister tim horton just got double double.lollll
congrats to mr horton for getting his double double.lmfao
+afridi10 got his coffee lol
Dd anyone else try to figure out what sexual combo this meant?
@@NatandGeorge Don't you know what a double double is!? 😂 It's a coffee with 2 creams and 2 sugars
@@ITS_MK65 if they don't know, they're not a Canadian.
How did Rick ever keep such a straight face?
That Newfie toughness.
That Mike Huckabee part cracks me up every time.
How did they get Hunkachunka burningpoop to appear in this? He got 5 dozen timbits and a job for Sarah behind a counter?
@@jameswalker4225 Underrated comment right here! LOL. I didn't realize until just a couple of years ago that she was his daughter. I should've put it together sooner lol.
Damn it, Rick! I damn near peed myself laughing 😂 🤣
I just love these old videos. He needs to do some new ones!
Rick Mercer is a comedy genius. So funny.
American exceptionalism at its finest.
as an american living in canada "where is this igloo?!"
😂😂😂
This is America, to be honest. My parents lived there when I was about 10 years old, and, I kid you not, the teachers were writing "a lot" as one word. I begged and cried to come back. The teachers were horrid to me because they kept trying to force me to pledge allegiance to a flag that was not mine. I was also in a grade 5 class in Canada, and they placed me in a grade 7 class in the USA. The horror!
My Grade 6 teacher must have had a bad experience in the US then, because I specifically remember her drilling into all of our heads that it's "a lot," NOT "alot."
This is actually ridiculous 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂. I know so much about America, I go there literally 5 times a year or more.
As an American always horrified how ignorant some can be… love Canadian humo(u)r!
I am sure there are many funny Americans. What i was impressed with was during 911 when Gander and many other Eastern provinces took in so many Americans, the Americans and other nationalities were so thankful we never heard anything negative about the passengers.
Prime Minister Horton!!! I love it!!
LMFAOOO. I can't stop laughing...Or crying. orz
Lucien Bouchard was a minister in Brian Mulroney's cabinet. The series was brilliant, and no doubt edited to pick out those overconfident Americans who couldn't say "I don't know" !
My favourite was when Rick got individuals on a university campus to sign a petition asking the Canadian government to stop putting their senior citizens out on ice flows.
But that is my retirement plan.
Love it.
Missed you.
I'm hooked
As a naturalized American citizen (1977) I am in shock ! The education (higher halls of learning)is going great 🤪🤪🤪
It really was not worth the patents bribing people to get into those colleges and universities. So funny.
How can you study political economy and think Tim Horton is the Prime Minister of Canada 😂
Ah man, I am cracking up. Sadly I talked to America's that really did not have a clue of outside the fence. 😂😊
Rick Mercer unquestionably has a gift for finding the stupidest people within a 100 metre radius of where he his standing. That' a real gift! Go Rick!!!!
As a Canadian after watching this, all I can say is Okay-what-the-f*ck.
I miss you Rick.
No one in Canada says ABOOT!!!
except cape bretaners
We sure do, when we are talking about a boot...
Given that this took place in 1999/2000 I’d like to think with having 20 years of internet that we would know just a bit more
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Has not smartened Canadians up more. I find so many Canadians are fed so much more lies on the internet it is actually dumbing many down. So many take what they see on line as the gospel truth.
I doubt it
The internet made everyone dumber.
Do you really think Americans google looking for info on Canada?😂
I miss these clips so much! Please don't tear down the Peter's Manbridge. Lololol
Hey Rick! You would have a lot of material to do one of these now (especially in Texas and some of the southern USA). Like we need any more reasons to laugh at the USA in 2020
Even more so in 2022!
Pardon the pun, but how provincial of you.
@@brent4723 It took you 2 years to reply so I may be provincial, but you are behind the times!
He could get a lot of ideas and amo to laugh at in Canada as well. Our politicians are a joke and give comedians so much to joke about if they weren't afraid of being sued with all the wokeness. Our education system in Canada, especially Ontario has gone down hill and Rick could trick a lot of Canadians about Canada and the USA. Wish he would come out of retirement or find someone equally as funny.
To be fair, if we brits lived as close to the US as you Canadians, we would take the piss in a far more cruel way.
Hahahahahaha y'all are brutal comparetively
Isn’t it about time for you odd-toothed twats to get ready for your jug-eared “prince” to sack his mom and take over?
@Kevin Goetzand in Camilla at that. She might have been ok in the 60’s, but not now in hers….
@PatchesRips well, since the chain-smoking stuttering second-stringer owned you Canadians body & soul, (in his mind) you were his to throw away to keep his chair…
really cant believe that harvard and other US prestigious university students have such a bad knowledge about canada :/
We Canadians can. It's appalling AND funny
The guy is asking them questions that they just think are real questions. That professor probably doesn't go around saying that the Canadians perform Saskatchewan seal hunts but if someone says they are he'll say that that is bad. Same with that politician, he doesn't know what the other guy's talking about. He probably thinks the "national igloo" is some sort of tourist attraction he's never heard of. Seriously they're manipulating these people to make Americans look bad. and I'm a Canadian.
@@admiralgaius9796 the there is the another big problem of americans. They apparently are unwilling to say "i don't know what or where are you talking about".
Education does not show if a person is intelligent, but shows that the person can repeat what's told to be repeated.
@Travis Hammons Lol ok chief! And you know this how? I had to take world history in high school, as for the education requirements in my state. Other states also have similar requirements as well. I love history, I think how society came to be is fascinating. Lol, your argument is based on assumptions, prejudice, and gross generalization.
For ten years I drove tourists where they wanted to go in my area. Sad to say that this video is so much more true than most people realize.
I really like prime minister Tim Horton. To bad he wants us to drink such horrible coffee!
No Folgers’ is horrible coffee, Tim’s is far superior…
@@tnt8092they're both bad
Love this!
Cretons is a crumbled meat sandwich spread from Quebec (tasty!)
That guy in the video was governor Mike Hukabee from Arkansas He ran for president in 2008
Jeez, Rick, give these poor Americans a break.😂 This was one of my favorite parts of "This Hour Has 22 Minutes"! That's one of the the perks of living in Detroit, gateway to Canada! CBC !
this made my day
-Medical tourism occurs in roughly fifty countries, not just the U.S.
-prescription drugs and medicines are far less expensive in Canada
0:18 Innovation No.1 Yeaaaaaaaah
Most Americans know as much about Canada as straight men know about applying make up. Its sad because the US is only interested in what goes on within its own borders. By the way I'm American and I love visiting Canada several times a year so I certainly don't mean any offense to Canadians when I say that.
And I don't mean to offend by this, but from vacation experience, you are definitely right. Up here we get a ton of access to US news and information but that isn't the case for Americans.
Still Hilarious after all this time...
I can't think straight after watching this video
3:33 lol i can remember when we built a road that one time.
is this real? seriously c mon pm Horton double double omfg
Those people are not dumb, they just don't give a shit! Lol
Not dumb? Like acknowledging that were going from a 20 hour clock to 24?
ahhhh. They just love Canada! LOL
Who's here for the crow
i miss this show...and THE CHAMP.....
It's so funny that they really believe him😂😂😂👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🏅🥇
Wilford Brumley taught at Harvard?
This was a precursor to Jay Leno's 'Jaywalking' .
With the same results.
This is what religion/spirituality causes
I weep for my fellow citizens.
This is a funny video & i'm from Canada :D
Two fascinating facts.
2:45 '' Jean Crouton ? "" ....no. i only eat them, with French Onion soups.....or in roasted red-pepper soups....thank-you America, for being ' stoopid ''
I miss this guy
If I were Canada I would relocate. Very sad, but very telling. The war of independence didn't do the Americans any favours if this is the result.
What seals in Saskatchewan? LOL
then you get the joke. . .
the chunnel to china
Thanks letting us know what's going to happen.
actually the people who invented light-bulb was Canadian the phone was Canadian tv camera Canadian. however the people who invented them immigrated to the U.S. because during this time the U.S. was a much better country to live in with much more opportunity.
That people in the US referred to it as "Canada? They should bring that over to America" should tell you everything about their education.
I saw this is English class and I cried I laughed so hard. This is a bit biased as they are pressured to not get things wrong xD But it makes good comedy.
Daily newspapers!!! Tim Hortons double double!!!! BRILLIANT!!! Tim Hortons should give you some free coffee for the plug!!!
will Humble and Fred be back on 1010
I miss them
Jean Crouton 😂
Come on, seriously, wtf? The americans ain't that ignorant...tho, the Harvard professor has no excuses
People don't realize that he was pulling the Canadians leg(s)...
Wow, that was scary.... but oh so realistic.....I've been enduring the "American Culture" (I can't believe I spontaneously employed an oxymoron!) for almost 30 years now, and I hope I can reintegrate some real part of this globe some day soon! Disneyland isn't all it's dressed up to be, really....
go ahead and tell me about canadian culture
When I was a kid I'd occasionally watch shows like Jerry Springer and think it had to be scripted because there's no way a country could have enough idiots to fill a stage and an audience with new faces every week. I was wrong!
From what source is this? Post it.
This is very funny
Average in-hospital treatment costs are nearly twice as much in the U.S. ($20,673 U.S. vs. $10,373)
There are 9.9 qualified nurses per 1000 population in Canada as compared to 7.9 nurses per 1000 population in US (so you get a highly personalized care!)
Overall satisfaction with the surgical experience is similar in both countries (85.3% U.S. and 83.5% Canada)
The number of acute care hospital beds in Canada is 3.0 per 1000 population as compared to 2.8 in US
Danny Williams? He's only one person and needed a twelve-week recuperation period beginning in February 2010. Maybe he likes the Florida weather more.
3:43 what’s her @?
I'll tell the 12 million unemployed Americans and the estimated economic growth rate of about 1.4 percent so far in 2013 is well below last year’s levels of 2.8 percent, even as automatic cuts in federal spending and higher taxes continue to bite.
I'm more interested in income compared to cost of living and I'd rather live longer (Canada's 9 for life expectancy and the U.S. is 51st). BTW, how many times was the U.S. ranked #1 according to the U.N. Human Development index and did the U.S. ever get it nine years in a row?
I’m sure you paid these people.
Me too!
I dont know what does it have to do with health care quality, in health care quality US is on the top. This is why everyone across the world's picks US.
US healthcare innovations are tricle down -- the rich get them first, exclusively; when something new comes along, they get that, passing the previous down a level. With MRIs the latest Big Thing., CT scans are cleaer & more easily obtained, & standard XRays are practically free!
Americans actually believe that Canada is covered with ice and snow. They are 50% right
Canada has lower mortality rates for patients 65 and older three years after both low-mortality (18.52% U.S. vs. 15.31% Canada) and moderate-mortality (19.19% U.S. vs. 16.63% Canada) procedures
Survival rate for four disease condition is higher in Canada than in America:
o Colorectal cancer: 113 Canada vs. 108 U.S.
o Childhood leukemia: 118 vs.110
o Kidney transplants 113 vs. 100
o Liver transplants 123 vs. 102
The United Nations, Search Trends, basic knowledge, Immigration numbers, and polls.
How about showing some of the people who read this petition and laugh? I would, wouldn't you?
OMG This is so sad on so many levels!
Oh, I see, it doesn't matter how the average person has, it doesn't matter that the general population doesn't benefit from their country's GDP, all that matters is the total amount of money in the country, I got it.
Canadians have lower rates of in-hospital mortality (1.4% Canada vs. 2.2% U.S.)
Administrative costs consume more of the total cost of treatment in the U.S. (38.2% of total costs in the U.S. vs. 31.7% in Canada)
In-hospital cost of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) in the U.S. is 82.5 % higher in the U.S. than in Canada
The mortality rate for end-stage renal disease is 47% higher in the U.S. than in Canada. Adjusted monthly costs of treatment are $503 higher in the U.S.
The 80% of it is where our abundant natural resources are and the low population density is part of why historically Canada has ranked higher than the U.S. by the U.N. Human Development Index as a desirable place to live.
This is why US has lower tax and expense. This is major reason whh Canadians travel to US to buy clothes, food and everything else. Canada has never given any opportunity.
Canada should get a national igloo .
Although the average Canadian probably knows more about USA than the average American knows about Canada , I bet that if you started interviewing Canadians about the USA that it wouldn't take you that long to generate enough material to create a video similar to this one .
Walter Chavez The average Canadian probably knows more about America than the average American does too.
Might be 4 years late, but we know WAY more about the states now, on top of what we already know bout em.
but instead of throwing away ten for every one to get 5 clips, you'd maybe do 100:1 to get 5 bonehead clips.
congratulations on getting fm radio. I be like REALLY NIGGA.
when America plays the fool
I'm so sorry. During the presidential debates less than a year ago Americans were so pleased about the economy, my bad.
we have national igloos?
first paragraph: I can live with that.
second paragraph: There's a reason the entire international community was almost entirely against it.
This is funny, but as an American with a taste for parody and satire-and who has been to all 10 provinces-I have to say I’ve played this same kind of trick on lots and lots of Canadians.
Bottom line: most people (Probably 95%) aren’t actually good listeners-nor are they very good at processing information even if they are actually “hearing” what is being said to them.
These examples do not-by any means-reflect a trait that is unique to Americans. It’s actually universal.
I cant see any Canadian being this stupid or ignorant, well not yet that is.
You're right, Canada may be seen as quiet, but that doesn't mean its forgotten. It's seen as a friendly and peaceful as opposed to loud and obnoxious that gets in the way of everyone else . I've seen that anime Hetalia before, and I assure you, it's not accurate. For something that depicted the US independence war from Britain as a separation between Father and son (I kid you not, it was an emotional scene of the anime), I think I would rather take my chances with the history books.
in the US, you can learn 1+1= Potato.