That'S It! Back To Winnipeg!
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| Oh yeah, Letterman? C'mere and say that!
Why is everyone on TV picking on Winnipeg?
SO WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT WINNIPEG?...There was a time when, if comedy writers needed a Canadian place-name to get a giggle, they'd pick Moose Jaw or Medicine Hat or maybe even Flin Flon.
But of late, it seems that American TV writers treat Winnipeg, of all places, as the next best thing to a whoopee cushion.
Last month, David Letterman's writers suggested an interesting location for a new reality TV episode. Survivor: Winnipeg.
Just last week, the West Wing made a derisive diatribe about the game of hockey using - here we go again - Winnipeg in the process.
But this downhill snowball of slander about Winnipeg began long before Letterman.
Maybe it started when David Steinberg was directing Mad About You and the writers decided to give him and his home town an off-handed slap at the chops.
It was a putdown line - "You must be from Winnipeg."
Maybe it began with The Simpsons episode when an exasperated car-touring-dad announces: "That's it! We're going back to Winnipeg."
Which probably evolved into the TV commercial where the geeky Goodyear guy with the plane ticket for Hawaii discovers in flight that he's chosen the wrong gate.
"Goin' to Winnipeg."
As I was saying, I'm not sure why Winnipeg is suddenly such a recurring target of American television writers, unless, of course it's all those Canadian writers down there having their funny way with us.
Free Press TV writer Brad Oswald probably has the most likely, if uncomfortable, answer to why it's so cool to make fun of us.
"We're a cold, remote place with a funny sounding name."
YAY winnipeg rules!... *cough cough* |
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| Survivor Winnipeg ? Are they going to throw them in a Holliday Inn with fanatics groupies ? |
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| hmmm should we all go to winnipeg? |
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| trancey: here's the truth.
Even non-winnipeg canadians make fun of winnipeg! |
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| and also even ppl who live in winnipeg make fun of winnipeg.... |
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| Newfies are funnier |
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| >:I
i just think it sucks, hehe i dont make fun of it |
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| weeeehaaaaaa... pams just high off her ass even tho she dun do anything, unlike the rest of you, you crack monkies.. heheheh monkies on crack weehaaaaaaa |
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| my ass got me high? sweet god! |
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| see!!!..hihihihihi :b |
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| ur a siwwy biwwy :P |
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| fiew.... at least im not a st00pid wabbit :D |
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| ya like pat :P
lol, aw im so jk
*runs around screaming* |
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| heheheh *joins pam...brings cheese grater and big spoon along* |
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| i hope its moz....montzorella? god i cant spell |
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| i dont understand people who dont know their cheeses.
jesus! |
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| Its mozzarella
a fine cheese it is, can be mixed with virtually any meal |
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| thank u for ur wisdom o great cheese god *bows* |
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| thank you tipsy
FINALLY someone who apreciates good cheese
:) |
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| hahahahahahaa noo really i can't stop laughing you ppl are talking about how a cheese is spelt....hehhehehehe hahahahahaha wow that was funny you ppl are wierd man, soo wierd |
That'S It! Back To Winnipeg!
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