Canada

place · in 34 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 4 · 2008: 3 · 2009: 5 · 2010: 3 · 2011: 7 · 2012: 6 · 2013: 6

Threads

The Evil Baby Orphanage (2007) — bit, callback, 2007–2013
Tour de Nerdfighting 2008 edition — stage, retro, 2008–2012
John is denied entry to Canada for insufficient funds (1995) and has been flagged at every entry since 2001 — story, tell, 2012–2012
John asks Nerdfighters for punishment ideas in case Hank misses his VidCon-week Friday video (2012) — ask, reported back, 2012–2012

What the videos say

2007

2007-01-27 · Week 2 Condensed Highlight Reel — Hank says he stands in the only place in the continental United States where you can look south and see Canada. (00:01:05)
2007-05-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: May 16: Beating the EBO into the ground — John adds a story idea: evil babies grow into teenage 'evil baby junior counselors', and a 14- or 15-year-old at a mountaintop school in Canada discovers they are an evil baby from the past. (00:01:39)

2008

2008-05-30 · The Dread Pirate Fireball Roberts! (And Housekeeping) — John announces the 2008 Tour de Nerdfighting across America and hopefully a few places in Canada, telling Nerdfighters to mark their calendars for November. (00:00:48)
2008-10-11 · Question Friday — Asked, John says Paper Towns will be out in Canada at the same time as in the United States. (00:00:29)

2009

2009-03-18 · Lighting Candles for Rwanda — Hank says two days ago he spoke by phone with a woman from Rwanda whose entire family died in those 100 days; she had recently gone to Canada for school and followed events daily. (00:00:00)
2009-05-21 · Ulcerative Colitis: A Song — In Hank's song the doctor says insurers shun sick people, the pills will cost an arm and a leg, and prices here are as high as the market can bear. (00:01:04)
2009-11-08 · The TOUR DE HANK!!! — In a song Hank apologises to Canada: the tour is not going there because the forms and taxes make it hard; Vancouver was close but did not happen. (00:02:58)
2009-12-03 · This Machine Pwns n00bs: A Song — Hank shows gifts from the tour's final part: a 3D-printed ten-sided die, Kinder Eggs from Canada (after he complained they're unavailable in America), a duct-tape wallet, a bass-amp maker's shirt, a DFTBA headband. (00:02:44)
2009-12-23 · Amazing Christmas Facts With John and Hank — In Canada, Santa's postal code is H0H0H0: Canadian postal codes alternate letter and number, so it reads HO HO HO in leetspeak. (00:02:50)

2010

2010-03-13 · Peeing, Pooping, Prescription Drugs, and Ramen Noodle Fires — Hank says hockey is proportionally a much bigger deal in Canada than the Super Bowl in America: around 80% of Canadians watched the final Olympic hockey game. (00:01:57)
2010-08-22 · Is Obama a Muslim? Examine the Evidence! — John notes Obama repeatedly says he is a Christian but also repeatedly said he'd allow importing prescription drugs from Canada, which hasn't happened, so they won't take his word. (00:00:08)
2010-11-01 · Consider the Lemming — John says White Wilderness's makers, finding no footage of lemming suicide, shipped lemmings across Canada and forced them to commit suicide. (00:01:18)

2011

2011-01-26 · I OWN WARNER CHILCOTT! — Asacol is much less expensive in Canada, where Warner Chilcott negotiates with the entire population rather than with individuals, John says. (00:02:42)
2011-06-01 · The Evil Baby Orphanage Returns...for George Washington? — Assuming, dubiously, that without Washington the war is lost or not fought, John says the US probably takes at least 70 more years to gain independence, following a 'Canada model' to representative democracy. (00:00:59)
2011-07-08 · Kill the Dollar Bill! — No new coins need minting, since a billion $1 coins already exist; just remove the bills. People might be slightly inconvenienced for a while, but Canada and Europe got used to it. (00:01:56)
2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — John announces that all pre-orders of The Fault in Our Stars, wherever buyers live (the US, the UK, Canada, Malaysia), will be signed, and promises to get it done. (00:02:45)
2011-08-26 · Will He Kiss You? Am I a Muggle? It's Question Friday. — John says all pre-orders of The Fault in Our Stars will be signed, wherever ordered (Amazon UK, England, Canada); the whole first printing is being signed, but only pre-orders are guaranteed. (00:00:56)
2011-09-23 · The Improbability of Place - Thoughts from the San Juans — Hank lists the contingencies behind the San Juan Islands: a volcano, glaciers, mineral deposits, rising water, diplomatic squabbles splitting Canada and America, salmon runs drawing resident orcas, and a fishing village turned tourist destination. (00:01:29)

2012

2012-04-03 · Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy — John says Canada recently decided to discontinue its penny because it doesn't facilitate commerce and costs 1.5 Canadian cents to make. (00:00:03)
2012-06-06 · The Dangling Rope of Terror: It's Question Tuesday — John would accept the US becoming more like Canada if that means longer, healthier lives, more employment and less sexual violence, but not putting a queen on the money. (00:01:14)
2012-06-26 · Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada — John is in a hotel in Canada at a conference about educational video featuring CGP Grey, Vsauce, MinutePhysics, Vi Hart and many other fascinating people. (00:00:06)
2012-06-26 · Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada — John says every time he flies into Canada he is sent to a special immigration office and asked whether he has ever been denied entry before. (00:00:24)
2012-06-26 · Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada — John recounts that in 1995, as a college freshman, he and a friend drove to Windsor, Ontario with Mountain Dew, bread, peanut butter and $14 and were denied entry for insufficient funds. (00:00:41)
2012-06-26 · Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada — John says Canadian officers searched their car for drugs and turned them around, then US officers searched it again for three hours though they never got into Canada. (00:01:12)
2012-06-26 · Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada — John says he had no trouble entering Canada until 2001, when his name appeared on a list of undesirables; now he must explain the 1995 refusal each time and his bags are searched. (00:01:28)
2012-06-26 · Insufficient Funds: A Story of Canada — John says that today he asked the officer whether he could ever clear his name, and was told he would die on the list. (00:01:53)
2012-06-30 · Online Video about Online Video — Hank calls one suggestion, driving to Canada with only Mountain Dew, bread, peanut butter and $14, very good; it might be funny enough to do anyway, but he doesn't want to be blacklisted. (00:00:22)
2012-10-26 · Apples! CGP Grey Style — Hank says every McIntosh apple descends from one tree Scotsman John McIntosh found on a farm in Canada in 1796. (00:03:10)

2013

2013-02-12 · Talking to the President — John's penny question: Canada got rid of its one-cent coin and nothing bad happened, so how do we still live in a world with pennies? (00:01:39)
2013-08-20 · Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? — John says that, although free health care elsewhere is said to be paid for by higher taxes, the US spends more tax money per capita on health care than Germany, Australia, the UK or Canada. (00:00:08)
2013-09-24 · Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared — John says Drake is Canadian, which he calls arguably the best place in the world to be born today. (00:02:26)