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'''Colonel Stacey:''' *winks* }}
''[[Royal Canadian Air
The Air Farce's mix of political and cultural satire has been a mainstay of the program, and has in many ways set the mold for political satirists of later years, both Canadian and abroad.
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The show came to a close with the 2008 "Final Flight" season, culminating with their series finale on December 31, 2008. They continued to do New Year's Eve specials since then, although they announced on the 2019 special that it would be the last one.
For those that want a taste of the funny, the [http://www.airfarce.com/ official
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* [[Adored by the Network]]: One skit showed the schedule for upcoming shows for newly created cable channels. The network controlling these extra channels adored [[Seinfeld]], because it appeared on all channels in the same timeslot. But not as much as the Seinfeld channel, which occupied every time slot.
* [[Atomic F-Bomb]]: Taken to it's literal extent as a one-shot Chicken Cannon replacement.
* [[BFG]]: The Chicken Cannon, Canada's biggest Weapon of Mass Distraction, which the troupe uses to make fun of various people and things in the news (as well as, at the start, Canada's military budget cutbacks in the '90s). It is loaded with [[Abnormal
** Plus jello. [[Phrase Catcher|There's always room for jello.]]
** Since the 2009 New Year's special, these have been replaced by "[[Double Entendre|F-
* [[Canadian
* [[Can't You Read the Sign?]]: In the October 31, 2003 episode, Anne McLellan is at a gun store helping people register their guns. A guy brings his rifle in and puts it on the counter. Anne says, "Ugh, did you not see the sign?" and points to a sign reading "DO NOT bring FIREARMS to gun registry office." The guy looks at the sign and says, "Well, I don't smoke!"
* [[Captain
{{quote|'''Announcer''': Coming up next, the overnight forecast.
'''Weather Guy''': Dark! }}
* [[Catch
** "You got that right!" "You betcha!" "Tell me about it!" "Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah!" "Totally!" (''A Canadian Moment'')
** "I'm Mike. From Canmore."
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** "When I regained consciousness." (''Sergeant Renfrew of the Canadian Mounted Police'')
* [[Caustic Critic]]: Gilbert Smythe-Bite-Me.
* [[Conspiracy
* [[The Ditz]]: On TV, Mike from Canmore; many others also qualify, but he's the undisputed king. On radio, Big Bobby Clobber (an [[Affectionate
* [[Drives Like
{{quote|'''Heikki Flergenpootz''': Quebec drivers can now turn right on red light. Next big hurdle for Ministry of Transportation, getting Quebec drivers to ''stop'' at red light.}}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Getting Crap Past The (Barely Existent)
** For example, in one skit, Stephen Harper and his wife are advertising some new cooking products. One is a bottle of... something, this troper wasn't really paying attention to what, but I believe it might have been mayonnaise. Stephen was holding it. His wife started rubbing his stomach. The mayonnaise (or whatever) squirted out of the bottle, onto his wife's face and his arm.
* [[Horny
* [[Long
* [[
{{quote|'''Jean Chretien''': We are both flatulently bisexual.
'''Bernard Lord''': I think you mean "fluently bilingual." }}
** So much so that an "English to Chrétienadian dictionary" became a punchline prop.
* [[Must Have
* [[New Year Has
** Although, due to December 31, 2011 falling on a Saturday (meaning ''[[Hockey Night in
* [[No Indoor
* [[Operator From
* [[Pilot
* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: A very macho sports host character's favorite sport? Synchronized swimming. (He "gets wet just thinking about it".)
** "You don't like synchronized swimming and you dare to call yourself [[wikipedia:John Manley|
* [[Running
* [[Special
** Jean Chretien took the opportunity to critique his portrayal as sounding more like Preston Manning.
* [[Unusual
** There's also a rather risqué sketch from the October 15 2004 episode featuring a bureaucrat (Jessica Holmes) explaining why government money was used to fund a film about the male sex organ, only she doesn't want to use a word that might offend people so she replaces it with "bicycle." "The film makers are also looking for men who are willing to show their bicycles on camera. Apparently men are happy to talk about their bicycles, especially with other men who might have slightly smaller bicycles. So that's why the government is putting money into this film project. But if you want me to be perfectly honest, I think men spend far too much time thinking about their bicycles."
** Another sketch featured a scientist doing a report on sex, while replacing all the terms with city names. The reporter who is interviewing him ends the sketch by saying "I'll never look at a map the same way again!"
* [[Verbal
{{quote|'''Stockwell Day:''' Let's look at the facts surrounding my leadership of our party. Since I took over, our founder, Preston Manning, has announced he's getting out of politics. We've had quite a few members leave the party. The latest poll puts our popularity just below E. coli bacteria. Okay, let's not look at the facts.}}
{{quote|'''Afghani Puppet:''' People have the wrong idea about Osama bin Laden!
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