Lame, eh? Canada-themed episode of The Simpsons all crude clichés GlobeArts
is a tired old comedy, but on the evidence of Sunday’s episode it’s worse than you thought. If you haven’t seen it for years, know that it’s a creaky, wheezing vehicle, sputtering along. You look on it and pity its occupants.What happens is that Homer realizes he’s accumulated enough points for a free stay at a “Second-Best Western” hotel. He takes the family to Niagara Falls, N.Y.
Crawling out, she says, “Where am I? Am I in heaven?” A Mountie on a horse informs her, “Even better, you’re in Canada.” Next, Lisa is in hospital to recover from her rough crossing from the United States. Her family panics but somebody coos, “You’re in Canada now, where health care is free.” After ranting about the awfulness of the United States, Lisa is designated an asylum-seeker. Then comes a hockey joke. Lisa’s told she’s to be assigned her own hockey team.
Ensconced in “Alanis Morissette Elementary School,” Lisa instantly has a Canadian accent, which involves saying ”aboot” and “eh” a lot. She wants to talk to the Prime Minister and is told she can talk to him on Skype any time. She does just that.Thus the much-hyped appearance of Justin Trudeau unfolds for about a minute. Trudeau tells Lisa he’s not bothered by being called “weak” by certain persons in the United States. To illustrate, he does a hand plank on his desk.
The hopeless attempts at cleverness continue. “I’m sure you treat all peoples equally,” says Lisa, speaking, it seems, to a group of Canadian kids holding curling brooms. “Except the Québécois,” one replies. “And the Newfies. Stupid Newfies.”There is context to this crude caricature. Some years go, the late Sam Simon, a co-creator of the show, went to Newfoundland and Labrador and offered sealers money to give up the practice and disown the seal hunt.
A parade of U.S. icons appear to illuminate how great the United States actually is, compared to the backwater that is the Canada where Lisa has been stuck. “I wanna go home,“ Lisa wails. And who could possibly have seen that coming? A figure meant to represent writer Judy Blume tells Lisa, “Felling awkwardness about your country is normal.” Marge and Lisa’s tricky journey home over a frozen river is best left unmentioned. It’s that pointlessly unfunny.
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