# "Blame Canada": the song. It's not even funny in the least. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 28, 2014, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812 "2014-09-28T23:32:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/41 "2014-09-29T12:53:50Z")
Leaffan, can’t you just accept that different people find different things to be funny? There’s really no point in us trying to explain why it’s funny to you. You undoubtedly find things to be funny that some of us don’t, and I don’t think you could explain why to us either. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/42 "2014-09-29T13:04:01Z")
> [@leahcim](#): > > When Canada is dead and gone there’ll be no more Celine Dion! My favorite line from the song. 😃 If they were looking for the least vulgar song from the movie, I’m not sure why they didn’t go with “What Would Brian Boitano Do?” rather than “Blame Canada.” In the latter, even if you bleep out the ‘fuck,’ you’ve got “now when I see him he tells me to (bleep) myself,” and omitting the ‘fuck’ doesn’t exactly lessen the vulgarity of the expression. In “WWBBD?” you’ve got one line where “Brian Boitano doesn’t take shit from anybody” and that’s about it, the “I’m sure he’d kick an ass or two” bothers you, but people haven’t bleeped ‘ass’ on the radio in eons. Not to mention, “WWBBD?” is a really fun song. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/43 "2014-09-29T13:21:58Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > Here’s my problem with the movie > > Kyle’s mom was right. The Terrence and Phillip movie really did corrupt the kids and teach them to use foul language It was a movie they shouldn’t have seen in the first place. It was rated R, intended for adults, adults who saw it thought it was crap, and the kids BSed their way in because their parents weren’t being vigilant enough. Then, after the damage was done, instead of saying “Oops, we goofed, but let’s do what we can, and explain to the kids why they shouldn’t emulate this movie,” they blamed _Canada_. They don’t blame the theater that failed to exercise vigilance, and let the kids in (IIRC, they paid a vagrant to be their “guardian”); they don’t blame the US distributor of the film; they don’t blame the MPAA for not giving it an X rating, so kids couldn’t get in even with an adult; they don’t blame the filmmakers, or T&P themselves. They blame Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/44 "2014-09-29T13:23:22Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Leaffan, can’t you just accept that different people find different things to be funny? There’s really no point in us trying to explain why it’s funny to you. You undoubtedly find things to be funny that some of us don’t, and I don’t think you could explain why to us either. Of course I can accept that other people find things funny that I don’t and vice versa. I asked because, out of context, it’s not a funny song. Given some context, I get it. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/45 "2014-09-29T13:23:50Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > _“And when Brian Boitano built the pyramids, he beat up Kublai Khan > 'Cause Brian Boitano doesn’t take shit from anybody!”_ [I was coming here to post that from YouTube!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNJmfuEWR8w) Cause that’s what Brian Boitano’d do!😃 At the company where I work, most of our corporate management is based in Canada. So whenever something gets fucked up we start playing the Blame Canada song. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/46 "2014-09-29T13:24:25Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > Is it unfunny like the [40-Year-Old Virgin](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=706847)? Is it also boring like [2001](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=734775)? Or maybe it’s just confusing you that some people enjoy something you don’t, like [ventriloquism](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-620566.html). Sorry. I won’t ever start any more threads. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/47 "2014-09-29T13:35:16Z")
The song exemplifies typical arrogant American blame-shifting and unwillingness to take responsibility for our actions. That’s what you Canadians say behind our backs, isn’t it? **Well, isn’t it??** ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/48 "2014-09-29T13:36:25Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > The song exemplifies typical arrogant American blame-shifting and unwillingness to take responsibility for our actions. That’s what you Canadians say behind our backs, isn’t it? > > **Well, isn’t it??** No. Well, the arrogant part at times, perhaps. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/49 "2014-09-29T13:44:24Z")
I’ll happily say it to your face, Yank. Genteel politeness only goes so far. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/50 "2014-09-29T15:23:13Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pxf_rFWW7TE/hqdefault.jpg "DVDA - What Would Brian Boitano Do? Live Video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxf_rFWW7TE) ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/51 "2014-09-29T15:27:41Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Not to mention, “WWBBD?” is a really fun song. I’d have to agree “What Would Brian Boitano Do?” is the better song in a lot of respects. However, in terms of determining which should have been Oscar nominated, I think it’s worth noting “Blame Canada!” actually contributes to the narrative of the movie; it imparts the intent and motives of the characters. “What Would Brian Boitano Do?” is a good song but it’s kind of a one-off joke by comparison. I’m not saying the Academy follows that idea all the time, necessarily, but to my mind it’s one they should and so in this case they made the right choice. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/52 "2014-09-29T15:34:45Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > In “WWBBD?” you’ve got one line where “Brian Boitano doesn’t take shit from anybody” I could swear the line was originally " 'Cause Brian Boitano don’t take shit from any-fuck-ing-oooonnnnnne!" but it isn’t on the DVD that way. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/53 "2014-09-29T15:38:48Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Sorry. I won’t ever start any more threads. :rolleyes: At least in this thread, you started off on a really bad foot if you didn’t want to get some flack. “I don’t understand what makes ‘Blame Canada’ from _South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut_ funny (as by itself, it seems more random and mean than anything else) and I don’t have the time/inclination/access to media to view it within the context of the movie. Can someone give me a short synopsis of the plot and how the song relates?” would have been a much less antagonistic way to get what you wanted. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/54 "2014-09-29T16:42:40Z")
And the near-unanimous answer would have been “Just watch the movie”. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/55 "2014-09-29T16:47:59Z")
Thank you for your report on this thread from Universe 37-B. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/56 "2014-09-29T20:16:22Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Sorry. I won’t ever start any more threads. :rolleyes: A typically shifty Canadian tactic, trying to get me to call you a liar. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/57 "2014-09-29T20:27:17Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > Is it unfunny like the [40-Year-Old Virgin](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=706847)? Is it also boring like [2001](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=734775)? Or maybe it’s just confusing you that some people enjoy something you don’t, like [ventriloquism](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-620566.html). Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/58 "2014-09-29T20:32:13Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > A typically shifty Canadian tactic, trying to get me to call you a liar. I don’t know what your problem is with me, or why you needed to point to other threads I started: one going back to 2011. If I bother you that much then take me to the pit. Otherwise you’re threadshitting on me in here. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/59 "2014-09-29T20:36:15Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > Is it unfunny like the [40-Year-Old Virgin](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=706847)? Is it also boring like [2001](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=734775)? Or maybe it’s just confusing you that some people enjoy something you don’t, like [ventriloquism](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-620566.html). I’m not sure what your problem with **Leaffan** is, but if it’s the fact that he doesn’t like some forms of entertainment, Cafe Society may not be the right forum for you. Knock it off or take it to the Pit. And **Leaffan** , if you object to what someone else is posting, please just report it and don’t reply. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812/60 "2014-09-29T21:02:24Z")
That and Canada was, up until the time they foisted Mayor Rob Ford on the world, viewed as totally and completely without harm, malice or blame. Blaming Canada is idiotic and wrong. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blame-canada-the-song-its-not-even-funny-in-the-least/699812.md?page=4)