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This is the “sizzle reel” (one of my favorite kind of reels) for a Canadian reality TV show called Lake Shore that is supposed to be Canada’s version of Jersey Shore. SPOILER ALERT: they nailed it.
Yup. There are definitely assholes living in Canada, and you can definitely make those assholes live in a house together and act out in front of a camera crew and look like assholes. Goal: achieved.
“We did it!” — Canada
I just have a quick question: uh, why did you want to do that? I’ll take my answer off the air. (Via WarmingGlow.)
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That’s your boyfriend/girlfriend eh
In Canada, they are called Arse Holes
In Canada, they are called eh holes
Great. A show where people are just constantly being rude and then apologizing to each other (that’s a Canadian stereotype, right?).
Peace out, eh?
What a buncha hoseheads.
I thought one of the local news announcers talking about the show in the video was Ira Glass.
Then I thought Ira Glass was the host of this show.
Then I realized that was stupid and that I’m white (white panther).
“This situation is indescribable. You can’t even describe the Situation that you’re abooot to get into the Situation.”
PS I love all of the Canadians reading this.
We’re doing our best. Usually we can’t understand anything you people say.
My Candiangum self is so full of shame. I’m going to go drink some maple syrup to feel better.
As a slavic/baltic man myself, I wanna say hello to my gun.
Add these hosers to the mix, eh, and we’ll be beating back the beat…
jinx.
“what a bunch of hosers.”
shut up you knob!
I know who will be writing the theme song:
There’s a Canada’s Next Top Model?!?! Does Tyra know?
It was hosted by Iman and I always hoped when watching it the Bowie would randomly be a judge but it didn’t happen in the seasons I watched.
His runway judging days are over:
Season one’s host wasn’t too bad either.
actually it’s Canada’s Project Runway that’s hosted by Iman! (and I would know, cause I also constantly hoped for a Bowie cameo! especially since it was filmed in my home town)
Canada’s Next Top Model on the other hand, though now hosted by Jay Manuel, USED to be hosted by a cylon
Oops! Faulty memory over here.
Ironic that it used to be hosted by a Cylon and is now hosted by a mostly-convincing synthetic human.
Ahhh you must be thinking Project Runway Canada. That show is COMPLETELY different and not similar at all.
Not.
As the disease crept ever northward, the people could only look on in terror. It washed over them, took control of them…they were no longer human. “We brought this on ourselves.” It was their last sentient thought. It was followed quickly by, “I like to PAAAARTY! Can I MOTORBOAT YOU?!?”
Let’s hope they don’t attempt to mountie a comeback.
Vive le mosaic! (Of a-holes!)
There’s also a Canadian Project Runway. With Iman!
I’m excited to see who can make the most exciting combination of poutine and Molson. .
325,329 in only THREE MONTHS? Sounds pretty crazy.
I know, right? Only slightly behind the video of my mini weinerdog chasing a jellybean.
This is clearly just viral marketing for brain aneurysms.
I will have nightmares of this all week:
Hooray for the memory of animated avatar.
Wait! Canada! No need to find a bunch of new assholes! We can just send you all the old ones!
I’m sorry, but what is with this “never a dull moment” stuff? Who would want to be friends with someone who is taking shots at 5:12 AM when you have to get up and go to work in 45 minutes? Sometimes, it’s the dull moments that I enjoy the most.
Brought to you by
Basically me right now.
I predict a sweeping trend of Diet Maple Syrup and Vodka.
I predict the #1 dance hit next summer to be “Save a Horse, Mount a Mountie.”
Rush and The Kids in the Hall are ashamed of this.
Me, I’m just starting to feel like nothing ever changes and the world is repeating and endless cycle of puke. This guy knows what I’m talking about:
In regards to how this show will turn out, I’m pretty pestimistic.
I was hoping someone caught that.
How do I get 8:28 minutes of my life back? Any suggestions?
I will definitely watch this because I get weirdly excited whenever I see places I visit in real life on television.
For example, I saw Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and then FREAKED OUT when I realized that I had been in the same Pizza Pizza the night before. It’s pretty much a disease.
That is weird, though, isn’t it?? I forget what movie I was watching where the characters run into a movie theater — and it was the theater I was watching the movie in. Just super, super weird. The whole universe just kind of blew up and the shockwaves are still being felt.
I share that same excitement! The 6th Harry Potter film opens in MY TRAIN STATION from when I lived in suburban England. I actually knew that was going to happen because I was walking home from the station and got to watch them film it. Nerdy but great!!!
Which Pizza Pizza was that? I’m guessing Bathurst and Bloor.
Yeah, that movie was basically a love note to the Annex.
“Thanks, TV, for teaching everybody in the world how to be loud, dumb, and obnoxious!” – Me.
NO! As someone who can see the Lakeshore from his house I don’t appreciate this. I hope all these people die in a fire. Probably cut me off in traffic and don’t use their turn signals…
I personally can wait for season two where they all go to The Beaches and stalk my whole life (ie: walk very slowly in front of me) on the boardwalk.
No. That was not a typo. I can wait. A very long time. Please don’t let this happen, TV Gods.
I can’t decide if I’m:
a) glad that Canada’s very own TV wasteland is as multicultural as Canada! Or:
b) offended. Just offended.
Wait, no, I figured it out.
“See, by the end of the 90s, racism and bigotry were really struggling. Don’t get me wrong, there was still plenty of it, but I could see the writing on the wall. It would only take a few generations before all of my hard work was largely erased.
“But then it came to me: reality television. See, by presenting viewers with horrible people being horribly hateful to one another for entertainment, racism and homophobia could start to make a comeback. The viewer would get used to it; would start to be ironically bigoted as a joke; then the line would blur and: BLAM. Back to where we were generations ago.
“I thought it was a pretty clever idea.”
–from “Satan: A Memoir”
“We will be following this book’s progress.” – The National Post
A little thick on the xenophobia there. Canada doesn’t have any homegrown assholes?
The Canadian Snooki is only 1.00902 times skankier than her American counterpart. #currencyjokes
I meant less skanky. Exchange rates are confusing!
Thank God the skank exchange rates are on nearly par. Makes holiday shopping way easier!
A Jew, A Lebanese, An Algerian, An Italian, A Turk, A Vietnamese, A Pollack and An Albanian walk into a Canadian bar…
What? That’s it. That was the joke.
token homophobic guy who doth protest too much by constantly expressing how much he loves ladies!
exhibit a:
is that the sign for victory?
http://tinyurl.com/27ko5d6
Sorry, guys.
-John A. Macdonald
Favourite John A. anecdote:
Once, he threw up in the House of Commons (on account of being a complete drunkard) and then said: “I get sick sometimes not because of drink or any other cause, except that I am forced to listen to the ranting of my honorable opponent.”
He apparently tweets now:
http://twitter.com/#!/RTHonJMac
Uh, and are you the one tweeting for him? Because…
http://twitter.com/RTHonJMac/status/2140043971919872
Eerie!
Hahaha, am I tweeting for him? Boy, that’s rich, Blergh! Whatever gave you that idea? Hahaha, am I tweeting as John A. Macdonald? Heck no! What a crazy scenario that would be!
No, sir. Not me.
Except maybe it is kind of me.
Wowowow, you’re awesome!
#nerdswholovecanadianhistorygum
It should also be noted that Lakeshore Boulevard has been a hotbed of terrible for a while now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPeHk4WMWpY
Really, what’s more Canadian than shoddily re-appropriating the worst American TV has to offer into something nobody asked for?
http://realitytvmagazine.sheknows.com/blog/images/2008/12/canadian-idol.bmp
But you guys also have Kids in the Hall and Kate Beaton and “Intelligence” (which was kind of like
The Wire: Canada, y/n?) and those are GREAT THINGS!
As Pierre Trudeau once said “Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, every know and then it shits bad TV all over your CanCon regulations.”
Or something like that.
Whatever, if he were still alive, Trudeau would be all over Canada’s Dancing with the Stars:
Essentially, you guys make the crap. We just shovel it.
But we love you anyway!
#apologizingisverycanadiangum
AHHH. As a Canadian, she is literally MY own personal national nightmare.
Isn’t it also stereotypically Canadian to have an inferiority complex about your neighbor to the immediate south?
This is like watching that really great show “Intelligence” where all the gangsters had super-prominent “aboot”-Canadian accents. At first, it’s impossible to take them seriously–it might as well be Crocodile Dundee doing “Underbelly.” Then as you get used to it, you can actually listen to what they’re saying without giggling, and it actually makes sense.
Of course with these jerks it’s preferable to understand as little as possible.
Hey! Being an asshole is not just for North-Americans anymore. We had our own Jersey Shore here in Holland:
Whoops.
“Get me eight dumbasses in their twenties and videotape them doing moronic shit! People are goona love it!” – TV execs worldwide, apparently
Ireland has one, too.
It’s quite literally called Drunk Irish Abroad.
I’m actually just waiting for the spinoff, “Drunk Irish Broad”.
Bluestockings where in Ireland are you from?
Oh, I’m Irish-Canadian, born and raised in the Toronto area. Most of my family still lives in Dublin though, specifically Crumlin. You?
Haha I totally went to school with the #1 Wop.
Also, this is why I never go near Richmond St.
Richmond Street is a sad, sad place.
Richmond and Victoria is nice. Duggan’s Brewery.
It’s not even a TV show -I can’t find any mention anywhere on teh interwebs that this has been picked up for broadcast. THANK GOD.
“It is to be endured rather than enjoyed”–90% of the Canadian population, probably
All joking aside, this is not what most Torontonians are like, guys.
Please, please believe me.
It’s what the rest of Canada thinks Torontonians are like though.
I had NO intention of watching this to completion, and then I watched it to total completion.
I want Rob Ford to be on this show to make it classier.
Toronto monsters back me up here.
What I want to know is: when he puts a stop to the gravy train, what happens to the poutine supply? Let’s think clearly here, people!
That’s your tv show mainlanders
also Robyn is pretty much Vicky Pollard
I’m most confused by the “nicknames” (everything else about Lake Shore’s existence makes sense!).
Jersey Shore:
Mike “The Situation”
Sammi “Sweetheart” (never actually referred to as Sweetheart)
Ronnie
Lake Shore:
The Jew (let’s hope never actually referred to as “The Jew”, though she undoubtedly will be)
The Pole (” “)
The Shame of a Nation (Oh, Canada…)
“Jersey Shore had a duck phone, so we’ll have a goose phone. Jersey Shore had Snookie, so we’ll have a yeti.”
At least with Lake Shore all nationality’s are assholes unlike Jersey Shore that just hates italians
But my favourite book store is on Richmond.
Given that my friend’s roommate auditioned for this show (and is visible as the girl on roller skates), all of the “that’s your girlfriend/boyfriend” jokes hit a LITTLE TOO CLOSE TO HOME. Not that close, but still MUCH CLOSER than usual.
FAKE.
This is really weird. i understand that Jersey Shore is a large generalization and exaggeration of Italian -American culture, but it does nonetheless exist and most Americans know what a Guido is thus making a reality show based on ‘hilarious Guido culture’ understandable.
Lake Shore is rooted in nothing that any Canadian can familiarize with at all. Maybe i’m alone with this one, but i’m in Ottawa right now (capital city folks!) and i’m trying to go through my memory bank to recall anyone i’ve seen to resemble any of these characters. Anni Mei the asian girl who is both cartoonishly quirky AND a slut in her spare time? The gay lebanese guy? This show is so fucked.
I can’t wait for the non-porno parody of this.
This is undeniable proof that Montreal is better than Toronto.
Thank you douchebags, I will now join Kanye in his toast to you.
Downtown D is clearly the king of the clubs. He’s aways there.
‘Friday I’m probably there. Saturday I’m there. Sunday, sometimes I’m there’
Great. First the G20, now this.