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Littlest Hobo, the Beachcombers, and Rocket Robinhood
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Mar 7, 2024 14:20
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Mr Dressup and Fred Penner's Place. I would tell Mr Rogers where he could stick his neighborhood but Mr Dressup wouldn't approve  Also Ernie Coombs and Fred Rogers used to work together and we wouldn't have had Mr Dressup if it wasn't for him convincing Ernie to move to Canada. Anyone know if we can force the church to recognize all three as the saints of Children's Entertainment?
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Mar 7, 2024 14:42
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That was eye opening for me - learning that Mr.Dressup aka Ernie Coombs was born an American later having become a Canadian citizen in the 90s. Pretty good documentary.
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Mar 7, 2024 14:48
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My grandpa's claim to fame working at CBC was moving the owl's eyes in Mr. Dressup.
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Mar 7, 2024 15:25
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Watching the Lexx episode where they go to the super horny planet was a formative moment of my youth.
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Mar 7, 2024 17:28
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That is every episode of Lexx
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Mar 7, 2024 17:32
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infernal machines posted:That is every episode of Lexx
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Mar 7, 2024 17:49
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Lexx is absolutely what you get when you mash german horny fetish sensibilities with atlantic Canadian humour
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Mar 7, 2024 18:12
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I'm a really big fan of Night Hood which was on YTV back in the day, a Canadian/French production. His has a touch of Batman the Animated Series to it on top of its own character. Obviously Reboot, Beasties, and the Racoons, which I loved the outro song for. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=usFFKNRB2z8 Top tier 80s goodness right there. Night Hood intro, might jog some memories: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o7W4QD4ez9I
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Mar 7, 2024 18:46
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Syfe posted:I'm a really big fan of Night Hood which was on YTV back in the day, a Canadian/French production. His has a touch of Batman the Animated Series to it on top of its own character. Does anyone remember Belle & Sebastian from the early 80s? It was on CBC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_and_Sebastian_(Japanese_TV_series)
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Mar 7, 2024 18:57
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I don't remember that, but it does remind me of this, which my folks loved watching with us, I think it was also on CBC? Edit: Nope, TVO apparently. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fables_of_the_Green_Forest
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Mar 7, 2024 19:00
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Syfe posted:I don't remember that, but it does remind me of this, which my folks loved watching with us, I think it was also on CBC?
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Mar 7, 2024 19:03
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Was Rocket Robin Hood Canadian? Ive seen some people bring it up at a con this year and the post was like, "blast from the past!!" Fake Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Robin_Hood - IT WAS
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Mar 7, 2024 19:19
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How many countries can be involved in a show before its no longer "Canadian"? Cybersix had 3. Edit: What the gently caress? I looked up Teletoon to see just how many of its shows were Canadian, and... it's listed as rebranding to Cartoon Network in 2023, using CN's logo, but wasn't Cartoon Network already a US network? What's going on? Wha-  Edit edit: "In 2012, Teletoon launched a Canadian version of Cartoon Network as a sister network under license from Turner Broadcasting. In February 2023, Corus announced that Teletoon would rebrand as Cartoon Network on March 27, 2023, with the previous Cartoon Network channel concurrently relaunching under Cartoon Network's own sister brand Boomerang." So Teletoon got the rights to broadcast Cartoon Network in Canada, waited 9 years, then rebranded Teletoon to Cartoon Network, and Cartoon Network to Boomerang? What the christ? Randalor fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Mar 7, 2024 |
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Mar 7, 2024 19:25
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Aside from everything mentioned so far, Are You Afraid of the Dark was one of my favourite Canadian shows growing up and was genuinely scary This episode in particular really messed with me right at the same time I started taking swimming lessons, though I stuck around long enough to get my Bronze Cross https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q6b7M68tUo Also the interstitial stuff had the guy from Student Bodies, another awesome show with a kickass theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8i3l7Z53Xs
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Mar 7, 2024 19:51
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infernal machines posted:That is every episode of Lexx Clearly my mistake was only watching one episode of Lexx
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Mar 7, 2024 20:00
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Baronjutter posted:Lexx is absolutely what you get when you mash german horny fetish sensibilities with atlantic Canadian humour One of the creators is married to a German so checks out
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Mar 7, 2024 20:01
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Vintersorg posted:Was Rocket Robin Hood Canadian? Ive seen some people bring it up at a con this year and the post was like, "blast from the past!!" Fun fact: all of the camera equipment and drawing tables from the Rocket Robin Hood studio was given to Sheridan College's animation department when they closed. Best use of Canadian content on TV was Global - anyone remember "Night Walk" and "Night Drive"? Basically they videotaped a camera man walking down a street in Toronto at night and then put him in a car (passenger seat I hope) to drive down some Toronto streets. I think they aired this night after night for years as their Canadian content quota. Also it wasn't new footage every week, it was just the same thing, week after week. Why couldn't you spend a little money for performers or artists to create something? As a kid I grew up staying late to watch "The All-Night Show" on channel 47 with Chuck the Security Guard. Then they killed it. Three great things Canada lost: The Avro Jetliner, Nortel, and The All-Night Show. Thanks Diefenbaker!
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Mar 7, 2024 20:03
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ARTPUP posted:Best use of Canadian content on TV was Global - anyone remember "Night Walk" and "Night Drive"? Basically they videotaped a camera man walking down a street in Toronto at night and then put him in a car (passenger seat I hope) to drive down some Toronto streets. I think they aired this night after night for years as their Canadian content quota. Also it wasn't new footage every week, it was just the same thing, week after week. Why couldn't you spend a little money for performers or artists to create something? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zkl2S7kAZM
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Mar 7, 2024 20:15
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MNIMWA posted:This episode in particular really messed with me right at the same time I started taking swimming lessons Yeah I still have a fear of swimming and while it may not have stemmed from this episode, it certainly didn't help seeing it at a very formative time.
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Mar 7, 2024 21:40
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This is ＡＥＳＴＨＥＴＩＣ as gently caress. Amazing.
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Mar 7, 2024 22:10
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I only have a very vague memory of it but Seeing Things was a quite well regarded Canadian show despite the plot of the show being about a reporter who has a side hustle of solving murders in his spare time due to his random visions of the past. Plus check out that theme song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvam_RjbfIY
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Mar 7, 2024 22:30
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Squibbles posted:I only have a very vague memory of it but Seeing Things was a quite well regarded Canadian show despite the plot of the show being about a reporter who has a side hustle of solving murders in his spare time due to his random visions of the past.
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Mar 7, 2024 22:40
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i didnt count lexx or a lot of the animation stuff like code lyoko or infamous fetish bait totally spies because it was all coproduced. forever knight was fun trash. the show itself sucked rear end, but the theme song to video arcade top 10 will play in my head like how when it cuts to homers head theres a cow bouncing up and down turning the phonograph crank when im in meetings or something. i remember as a kid waking up at my dads house early and hed be asleep and had bunny ear tv and id turn it on and lexx would be on for some reason. like early on sunday morning on a channel that you could bunny ear to. it was really mystifying but very formative. theyd also show deep space nine too. maybe that was city tv? i genuinely cant remember or figure out what toronto channel would have been broadcasting those shows OTA like that. anyway you can watch lexx here. im linking it because its out of print and legally cannot be purchased in any market in the world, and being able to see it is a canadian heritage moment https://primewire.mx/tv/watch-lexx-online-37496 i guess maybe if we count being edutained/advertised, the house hippo and dont put it in your mouth and that one where the war amps robot does parkour through hell machinery and then says "i can do it because im a robot be safe dont gently caress around with gears and poo poo" are up there too.
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Mar 7, 2024 23:32
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Lexx was definately on CityTV, which still broadcasts OTA
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Mar 8, 2024 00:43
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Syfe posted:I don't remember that, but it does remind me of this, which my folks loved watching with us, I think it was also on CBC? I was just thinking of posting this (the green forest). Rewatched it again on youtube and the kids started crying in the last episode. I could never figure out why the voice acting was all over the place. In some episodes, Peter rabbit sounds like an upper-class dentist from Peterborough, other times it sounds kike he's voice by Doug and Hoser's cousin. (Probably they recorded 2 seasons worth, but mixed all the episodes). I've been trying for a while to find the soundtrack to that show, without much success...
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Mar 8, 2024 00:45
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Do we still have those laws around children's programming where there's a strict limit on how much advertising is allowed each hour? I think that's why we got stuff like those funky early CGI shorts on YTV when regular programming couldn't fit in neat half-hour blocks without the ads (as if kids are still watching stuff on broadcast TV any more). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhDk9A98vUQ
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Mar 8, 2024 04:43
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Coxswain Balls posted:Do we still have those laws around children's programming where there's a strict limit on how much advertising is allowed each hour? I think that's why we got stuff like those funky early CGI shorts on YTV when regular programming couldn't fit in neat half-hour blocks without the ads (as if kids are still watching stuff on broadcast TV any more). Short Circutz were amazing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM0rVCCEJ04 I was always super pumped when these came on
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Mar 8, 2024 05:52
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Growing up in the states, my biggest interest in Canadian television came from learning that nearly every sci-fi show I watched as a kid was shot in Vancouver/BC. I ended up moving from the US to QC though and had to learn culture all over again. Still have no idea what Passe-Partout is all about
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Mar 8, 2024 06:47
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Syfe posted:I'm a really big fan of Night Hood which was on YTV back in the day, a Canadian/French production. His has a touch of Batman the Animated Series to it on top of its own character. The ad spots for this back when A-Channel still existed are forever burned into my brain. Never watched an episode in my life, but for the longest time I was confusing it with the Bob Morane cartoon from around the same time
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Mar 8, 2024 07:49
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Petanque posted:Growing up in the states, my biggest interest in Canadian television came from learning that nearly every sci-fi show I watched as a kid was shot in Vancouver/BC. If you ever visit Vancouver, be sure to go up the hill to Simon Fraser university. I think it's a law that every sci-fi show shot in Vancouver has to do some shooting there due to the pretty unique brutalist architecture.
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Mar 8, 2024 13:32
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Mr. Apollo posted:I never saw Night Hood but that clip gives off some Lupin III vibes. I was usually watching Batman: The Animated Series in the mid-90s when I was in highschool. It should give Lupin III vibes as it's Lupin II (And my head cannon is Max is Lupin III in his early years) The entire series is up on youtube and it's good Diesel Punk/Art Deco 1930s fun.
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Mar 8, 2024 14:10
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Paper Lion posted:i guess maybe if we count being edutained/advertised, the house hippo and dont put it in your mouth and that one where the war amps robot does parkour through hell machinery and then says "i can do it because im a robot be safe dont gently caress around with gears and poo poo" are up there too. Excuse me, his name is Astar and he is a robot from the Planet Danger. He can put his arm back on, you can't. Maybe he should have considered moving away from a place named Planet Danger.
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Mar 8, 2024 14:46
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Planet Danger looked awesome and fun.
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Mar 8, 2024 14:52
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The concerned children's advertisers stuff still resurfaces in my brain at random. Mainly this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vs4zkcBX-mA And this acne-awareness commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T2olgjnDWY
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Mar 8, 2024 16:39
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oh my god both of those things. I don't even need to click to remember them. MOOOOM AIDEN CUT ME IN HALF AGAIN. and that one guy's T Rex impression. Has anyone mentioned House Hippos yet?
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Mar 8, 2024 16:46
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Baronjutter posted:Lexx is absolutely what you get when you mash german horny fetish sensibilities with atlantic Canadian humour Respect to the weird execs at Salter Street studio and their strict drug regimen
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Mar 8, 2024 17:11
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House hippos and that ontario safety thing where the lady spills boiling water/oil(?) on herself will live on for eternity.
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Mar 8, 2024 18:33
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Fidelitious posted:Excuse me, his name is Astar and he is a robot from the Planet Danger. He can put his arm back on, you can't. Move where? The entire planet is danger. It's even in the name!
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Mar 8, 2024 19:16
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apatheticman posted:House hippos and that ontario safety thing where the lady spills boiling water/oil(?) on herself will live on for eternity. water. she slips on the oil.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:19
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