In olden times you had philanthropists who would find an artist they like and just pay him to fuck around all day. Then the invisible hand of capitalism said he’d handle everything, if the artist would agree to occasionally do something people actually like. Canada avoided this evolution and to this day the government pays artists to do whatever the fuck they want. This strange quirk of our homeland was made painfully clear at the opening for the Olympics where tartan ice skaters danced around slow motion snow boarders as a fat slam poet appeared out of nowhere. This is why TV Carnage had no choice but to be from Canada.
Pics from EIA
To get to the roots of this fuck up, you need to look at our PSAs. Gawker TV has assembled some of the worst ones and the commenters ran with it.
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This is a nation that watches The Biggest Loser, Nancy Grace and America’s Got Talent. Canadian PSA’s are probably just fine for us.
03.05.10 at 10:20 am
omg your government must think you all are retarded. the only PSA that i can remember here are the ‘this is your brain on drugs’ and the nancy reagan anti-drug commercials when i was a kid.
03.05.10 at 10:39 am
That Gawker TV post is brilliant, and the jokes are spot on, but I am sad that Americans can now see directly into my dreams.
03.05.10 at 10:45 am
Wait…other countries don’t have PSAs like this?
I had entirely forgot about the zombie Lou Reed one until I saw it….and now a dream I had recently made sense. Jesus. They’ve permeated our souls.
03.05.10 at 12:28 pm
She spilled my coffee…
03.05.10 at 12:52 pm
i regularly refer to halifax as Hal (Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod) ifax
03.05.10 at 5:25 pm
There must be some kind of “have to have been born here” clause for Canadian music subsidization. I cannot imagine a nation paying just anybody that shows up. My Bloody Valentine tried to immigrate to Holland to cash in on Dutch subsidies, but couldn’t pull it off. Maybe Canada could have helped them?
03.06.10 at 4:31 am
For years, I tried to speak to my age group about these and they never knew.
03.06.10 at 1:34 pm
Re: Pookles
Now you know the inspiration for the post.
03.06.10 at 1:54 pm
Haha – neckbeard was the high point of the opening ceremonies.
03.07.10 at 12:30 pm
I can put my arm back on. But you can’t
So play safe.
03.07.10 at 6:31 pm