Operation Watch This: Crappy Canadian Thanksgiving
Starring Ellen Page, Justin Long, and Har Mar Superstar:
You know how it is when you and all of your movie star/Apple commercial friends get together and make a silly kind of off-season holiday viral video just for the FFFFFFFFF of it. Classic SHOWBIZ (of which I am a Professor now, basically). SIDENOTE: adding the same adjective to the beginning of everything is always funny. Canadian Twilight = Canadian LOLz. Just a comedy pro-tip for you for when Mila Kunis, DJ Qualls, and LCD Soundsystem come over to your house to make a fake Easter commercial. (Thanks for the tip, Har Mar Superstar.)
Posted by Gabe at 2:40 PM in Viral Video
Tags: Canada | Ellen Page | Har Mar Superstar | Justin Long | Thanksgiving
Ellen Page better hope she never actually has to pretend to be drunk in a role, because those big cameras probably wouldn't be able to capture how good she is at it, and would probably end up shattering into a million pieces that can't be undid homeskillet
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Happy Martin Frobisher's Failed Attempt to Find the Northwest Passage Day, fellow Canadians!
I say we also add to the fact Har Mar Superstar once made out with Kate Moss to our Thanksgiving lore, cause that makes the same amount of sense of having turkey cause a dude came here by accident when he was looking for China.
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yep, columbus, he had a great time searching for spices and silks with the pilgrims up on plymouth rock. let's not make this historyclassgum.
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America has Thanksgiving?!
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I wanted to correct you.. but I'm gonna let it pass.. I is not professor history here!
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I'm a bit confused why I should be corrected. Thanksgiving is basically a traditional harvest holiday, but in Canada Martin Frobisher's celebration meal after safely returning from not finding the Northwest Passage is considered the first Thanksgiving (Canada). I IS NOT DUMB. I'S SWEAR IT. I OFF TO QUAFF MOLSONS IN ME 'GLOO NOw.
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His was the first thanksgiving. Not the first Thanksgiving Day, where people actually made an effort to celebrate. Prior to it being made an official day, people just celebrated it intermittently whenever they wanted and it was just this thing you could do. And then it became official later, and didn't really have anything to do with Frobisher anymore.
"The first Thanksgiving Day after Canadian Confederation was observed as a civic holiday on April 5, 1872 to celebrate the recovery of the Canadian Monarch the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) from a serious illness." (wikipedia!!)
So it's not much better! But they obviously have since changed the date of celebration several times! And the final change didn't come until 1957 (check your wikipedia again, homes!) And as far as i know, the final date (2nd monday of october) is completely arbitrary, and is only meant to be around the time of crop harvesting, after they separated it from Armistice Day.
Disclosure: My degree is in political science. I have no idea what the hell i'm talking about outside of wikipedia and grade 11 history class.
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ugh. i hate it when i don't realize how long my comments are.
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Well, I was gonna correct you on the English dude stumbloing upon America by accident on his way to China. But now I am actually doubting my own knowledge.. so never mind! :)
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Why does Har Mar have to pronounce "Degrassi" like a fancy-pants?
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Oh, celebrities: always trying, and failing, to prove that you don't need professional writers.
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I don't like it when famous people make it this clear that they are only inches away from being a 13-year-old me. The only thing missing was Ellen waking up to find the whole thing was only a dream. Or was it? (apple next to her in bed.)
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Wow, thank you for shattering any illusions I harbored about being in any way a unique and creative individual.
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I'm more freaked out that Justin Long and my mom have the same apron
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This is bullshit. Everyone's favorite adorable superstar Canadian is and always will be Eugene Levy. (Whatever happened to Gooby, by the way? Remember that waking nightmare? Now you do! You're welcome!)
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Wow Ellen Page is on a ROLL! Get it? Roller Derby Pun? Anyone?
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i don't seem to get it, do you mean she's standing on a dinner roll. Oh, you mean she's on the honor roll, lol okay i get, man thats funny ill be using that one for days to come.
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Jeeez, this post is all about Canada eh, so I would appreciate it if you would use honour with a U. Thank U! ;)
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How is this off season? Canadian Thanksgiving is next week. Which I know because I was looking in my planner and not phased at all for several minutes that it said Thanksgiving is in October this year.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdyLRBK2ucQ
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This is mediocre. If Ellen Page, Justin Long and Har Mar Superstar weren't in this, it would not be on videogum. Because it is not very good!
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And it's not bad enough to be terrible, which would be better. What was it that Dante said, about the worst part of hell being reserved for those who refused to take a side in a conflict? I think that is basically what he said. Well, this video would be in that circle of hell, for refusing to choose whether to be bad or good, and merely being gad. Or bood.
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Gad. I do believe Dante said the worst circle of hell was for traitors and people who stand on the left side of the escalator in the Metro as your train pulls away while you stand behind them helplessly and watch (DC hell only - Dante was quite the visionary).
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goddamn dc tourists, get out of my metro! making me miss the late night orange line train and then having to wait 40 min for the next one...ugh
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I kept waiting for David, Michael and Michael to show up.
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I agree. It totally had a Stella vibe, only not as successful or funny
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Also, Crappy Canadian Thanksgiving? More like Crappy Viral Nothankyou!
Thankgizing!
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....and save this awful short.
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It's complete BS that they could not find a real wishbone!! That was not a wishbone.
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I'm Canadian! And it is Thanksgiving this weekend! Are these people now my best friends? (Answer: NO but props for poutine)
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I was hoping Dave Foley would appear and beat them all with a ladle for being so irritating. BUT NOPE.
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Har Mar Superstar is terrible. There's really nothing else to say.
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Yeah, I remember when this happened last year. Thanksgiving is a laugh riot.
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Many lulz at your avatar, T. Rez
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Dr. SHOWBIZ phD, please make this Easter video happen. That is all.
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This is only making my flaming Ellen Page girl-crush worse.
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lololol degrassi jr. high reruns. SO TRUE. THAT IS SO US.
i think if they mentioned Jonovision i probably would have creamed my snowsuit.
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I would do the same if they also mentioned Telefrancais. C'EST FORMIDABLE!
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ah, Jonovision. thanks for the memories.
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Hey, I know how to spell 'Canada?'
C, eh?
N, eh?
D, eh?
Get it?
*slaps knee*
Now that's the type of comedy my dad can sink his teeth into! (and he has. he loves that joke)
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Whatevs, haters. I thought it was funny.
Also, there are SO MANY Canadians on this blog. I didn't know you knew how to use computers up there.
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It's oh-so-difficult to avoid hating something that's intended to be a low-brow parody intended to show how zany Ellen Page is while utilizing copious stereotypes but somehow ends up being... wait, never mind-- that's what it was.
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That little big headed girl is strangely cute.
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Quit doing all this random FFFFFFFFF.
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I can't tell if Ellen Page would be a good fuck or not. I mean she has a pretty face but she can't shake that annoying high school drama club vibe....
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Uff, why couldn't this be more like that other Thanksgiving... You know the one where everyone dies of smallpox?
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