Canadian Connections

Season Eighteen (2005-2006)

• Kill Gil, Volumes 1 & 2 (#JABF01 / SI-1801) - At Krusty’s Kristmas on Ice, Moe insists to Patty and Selma that all male figure skaters are ‘twinkly in the lutz’. Elvis Stojko, who is performing, attempts to correct Moe by saying “That is a common misconception, I have a girlfriend in Vancouver”, to which Moe retorts “Made up girlfriend, made up city”

Canadian Guest Stars

• Elvis Stojko (Figure Staker) [(#JABF01 / SI-1801 "Kill Gil, Volumes 1 & 2")]

Season Seventeen (2005-2006)

• The Italian Bob (#HABF02 / SI-1702) - On their trip to Italy Bary asks Lisa about the Canadian flag on her back pack, to which Lisa responds "Well, some people in Europe have the impression that America has made some stupid choices in the past o' five years... so for the next week I am from Canada."
  
  
• Also at the start of the episode Bart's class seem less then excited to watch a show on diveristy produced by PBS and the National Film Board of Canada.

Season Sixteen (2004-2005)

• Midnight Rx (#FABF16 / SI-1516) - Homer and Grandpa start smuggling drugs in from Canada when drug costs get to high in the United States.  In Canada they meet up with Grandpa's contact who gives them a Health Care card and says  "taken that to any pharmacy and you'll get enough drugs to make Regina look like Saskatoon".
  
  
• After several runs finally they gets arrested at the boarder. In jail they are visited by a lawyer with a French translator.
  • Lawyer: We have confiscated your car and all its contents
  • Translator: Nous avons confisqué votre voiture et tout son contenu
  • Lawyer: You may leave Canada but never return
  • Translator: Vous pouvez quitter le Canada mais ne jamais retourner
  • Lawyer: I am a big fat french idiot
  • Translator: Je suis un grand gros ... hey
    
    
• Also on one trip you notice the welcome sign to Winnepeg that says "we are boring here, what's your excuse?"
  

Canadian Guest Stars

• Frank Gehry (Architect) [(#GABF08 / SI-1608 "Seven Beer Snitch")]

Season Fifteen (2003-2004)

• "Bart-Mangled Banner" (#FABF17 / SI-1517) - When Lisa speaks out about the 'climate of fear and repression’ in the United States the Simpsons are arrested under the Government Knows Best Act. They are sent to jail with a bunch of left wing celebrities, President Bill Clinton, and a man who drove a trucks full explosives from Canada, for which Marge wonders why they mix the real criminals with the joke ones.

• "Catch'em if You Can" (#FABF14 / SI-1514) - On Niagra Falls Homer and Marge are about to go over the edge, and Canadian and United States Coast Guard are fighting over who should help them:

  • American Coast Gaurd: Back off Canadians we got them
  • Canadian Coast Gaurd: You back off hosers, they are in Canadian waters, eh'
  • American Coast Gaurd: Beat it you puck smacking maple suckers!
  • Canadian Coast Gaurd: Take a hike you Shatner stealing Mexico touchers!

• "'Tis The Fifteenth Season" (#FABF02 / SI-1502) -  The taking astrolabe that Homer bought unexpectedly annonced the current time for Montréal.

• "The Regina Monologues" (#EABF22 / SI-1417) - When Homer is talking to the Queen he makes the analogy of the United States being Englands children, "I know we don't call as ofthen as we should, and we aren't as well behaved as our good two shoes brother Canada, who by the way has never had a girl friend... I'm just saying."

Season Fourteen (2002-2003)

• "Bart of War" (EABF16) - After a fight breaks out at the baseball game, Sideshow Mel suggests to sing a song. The Sea Captain recommends "Not a hymn to war like our national anthem, but a sweet soothing hymn like the national anthem of Canada". 
  
  The entire crowd then joined hands in the shape of the maple leaf and sang Oh Canada. "Well Bart, we've learned that war is not the answer," said Milhouse. To which Bart replies, "Except to all of America's problems".

• "Old Yeller-Belly" (EABF14) - Canadian Flag seen on the International Space Station.

• "C.E. D'oh" (EABF10) - When playing baseball, Bart claims that he is Tomokazu Ohka of the Montreal Expos.

• "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can"  (EABF07) - Lisa wins the state spelling bee and gets to go to the Spell-lympics in Calgary.
  
  Which makes sense, as Calgary also hosted the '88 Olympics. Also the episodes co producer was Joel H. Cohen; who was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta.

• "Bart vs. Lisa vs. 3rd Grade" (DABF20) - Bart help's Lisa with her homework on Canada with the mnemonic: Quiet Nerds Burp Only Near School. Which helps you remember the four founding provinces of Canada. Quebec, New Brunswick, Ontario, & Nova Scotia. 
  
  This is actually a good way to remember who joined Confederation in 1867, too bad I learnt it fifteen years after grade school.

Canadian Guest Stars

• Scott Thompson (Kids in the Hall) [(EABF12 "Three Gays of the Condo"]

Season Thirteen (2001-2002)

• "The Bart Wants What it Wants" (DABF06) - As Bart tries to win back his ex-girlfriend the Simpson family made a brief stopover to Toronto.
  
  Watch a Global National News promo about this episode (WMV or You Tube)
  (Used with permission (c) 2002 Global National News.)

• "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" (CABF18) - When Mr. Burns returns with the champagne and his girlfriend and Homer have already left, he passes an arcade machine called "Nuke Canada". 

Season Twelve (2000-2001)

• "Skinner's Sense of Snow" (CABF06) - The Simpsons watch the cirkus "Cirque de Puree". The pamphlet for the circus states: "As French-Canadians, they don't believe in refunds or exploiting animals for entertainment"; much to the disappointment of Homer.

• "Bye Bye Nerdie" (CABF11) - Janey to Lisa: Those shoes look Canadian.

Season Eleven (1999-2000)

• "Saddlesore Galactica" (BABF09) - Bachman Turner Overdrive are warming up to play and Bart asks Homer who they are. "It's BTO -- they're Canada's answer to ELP. Their big hit was TCB." [notices Bart staring at him, questioningly] .... that's how we talked in the 70's. We didn't have a moment to spare."

• "E-I-E-I-(ANNOYED GRUNT)" (AABF19) - The Simpsons go see a very bad Zorro movie, if you watch the credits carefully you can see that the National Film Board of Canada helped produce the movie.

Season Ten (1998-1999)

• "As Good As Lisa Gets" (AABF03) - The Otto posses as a comptroller says at an assembly "What she [Lisa] just did took courage, and where I come from, Canada, we reward courage."

• "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" (AABF07)- Springfield's baseball team the Isotopes are threatening to move to Moose Jaw after lack of fan support. 

• "Homer to the Max" (AABF09) - At a meeting of Springfield's players President Clinton rushed off after being told that Quebec has the bomb.

• " The Old Man and the "C" Student" (AABF16) - Channel 6 sponsors a contest to find a Springfield Olympic Mascot. Where "the winner will join such other memorable mascots such as The Atlanta 'Whatzit' and the Montreal 'Vampire'".

• "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" (AABF20) - Canadians appear on Japanese game show where they are covered in scorpions and the host laughs "Sting those Canucks!". Homer watching, laughs and yells "Take that, you stupid hosers!".

Season Nine (1997-1998) - Purchase Season Nine

• "The Bongo Show" (5F15) - Bart is doing a newscast about missing birds and says "Some say the birds flew to Canada, others say Toronto."

• "The Fly King" (5F11) - Ralph Wiggum is the Canadian delegate at Lisa's model U.N. As soon as fight breaks out, Ralph starts singing "Oh Canada".

• "Seymour Buttes" (4F23) - Principal Skinner gives Sergeant Skinner ten Canadian dollars as a souvenir he got from his trip to upstate New York.

• "Homer vs. New York State" (4F22) - Bart from the Statue of Liberty "Hey, immigrants! Beat It! Country's full!", boat caption says "Okay, folks. You hear the lady. Back into the hold. We'll try Canada.". Followed by groaning of the immigrants.

Canadian Guest Stars

• Alex Trebek [5F07 "Miracle On Evergreen Terrace"]

Season Eight (1996-1997) - Purchase Season Eight

• "The Canine Mutiny" (4F16) - Bart gets himself a credit card and buys Marge some Vancouver smoked salmon.

• "Burn, Baby Burns" (4F05) - Homer is in a the cider mill with Ned and Ned tells him that in Canada juice is cider and cider is juice.
   
  Not true by the way, just poking fun a Canada's "Oddball" ways.

• "You Only Move Twice" (3F23) - Bart is moved to a remedial class where he meets Gordy. When Bart ask what he was in for he say "I moved here from Canada, and they think I am a little slow, eh?."
  
  This little joke got the shows creator in trouble with some of his Canadian fans read more here.

Canadian Guest Stars:

• Bret "The Hitman" Hart plays himself [4F17 "The Old Man and the Lisa" ]
• Dave Thomas (SCTV fame) does the voice for Rex Banner.[4F15 "Homer vs. the 18th Amendment" ]

Season Seven (1995-1996) - Purchase Season Seven

• "Bart on the Road" (3F17) - The episode were Bart, Millhouse, Martin and Nelson take a trip to Knoxville several things happened:

1. Bart, Millhouse, and Martin tell their parents they are staying at the Sheraton Hotel in Canada for a National Grammar Rodeo as a cover for their road trip.

2. The father of a family of fighting kids threatens to turn around if they don't behave, Bart pulls up and Nelson hits the father in the back of the head. "That's it!" the father yells yells. "Back to Winnipeg!".

3. Martin wakes up and thinks he's in the great cornfields of Canada.

4. They saw the Canadian film Naked Lunch. After Nelson says ''I can think of at least two things wrong with that title"

Canadian Guest Stars: 

• Donald Sutherland played Hollis Hurlbut (the museum curator) [3F13 "Lisa the Iconoclast" ]
• Paul Anka plays himself. [3F04 "Treehouse of Horror VI" ]

Season Six (1994-1995) - Purchase Season Six

• "The PTA Disbands" (2F19) - Marge (who becomes a substitute teacher) complains to Homer "It took the children 40 minutes to locate Canada on the map." and Homer responds "Marge, anyone could miss Canada. All tucked away down there."

• "Homer vs. Patty & Selma" (2F14) - Marge's most international coffee in the house is "Montreal Morn"

Season Five (1993-1994) - Purchase Season Five

Canadian Guest Stars:

• Robert Goulet plays himself. [ 1F08 "$pringfield" ]

Season Four (1992-1993) - Purchase Season Four

• "Brother From The Same Planet" (9F12) - Lisa calls the teen idol Cory's 900 number from school to hear a taped Corey say "Now for the newspaper, Canada stalls on Free Trade Pact."

• "Homer's Triple Bypass" (9F09) - Homer is sick and he is trying to reassure Marge about the operation and he says "Don't worry, Marge. America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well, all of Europe, but you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!"

• "Marge Gets A Job" (9F05) - Homer in an attempt to stall Marge he looks at his newspaper and says "Canada to hold Referendum. Sorry Marge can't talk now."

Season Three (1991-1992) - Purchase Season Three "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" (8F22) - Millhouse's girlfriend Samantha is sent to Saint Sebastian's School for Wicked Girls, which happens to be run by French Canadian Nuns. When Millhouse goes to visit her a nun says, "Samantha, ne pas de boys.''. "Dog of Death" (8F17) - The Simpsons run into hard financial times and cannot afford new clothes for Maggie, they dress her in a "Crown Royale" bag. "Bart the Lover" (8F16) - Bart uses Gordie Howe's picture when sending Mrs. Krabappel a love letter "Lisa the Greek" (8F12) - Lisa is looking up football at the library and she goes over a library card that says "Oddball Canadian Rules". "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington" (8F01) - The winner of the essay contest say in his essay "Where but in America or possibly Canada could my family find such opportunity" "When Flanders Failed" (7F23) - Homer is watching the Canadian Football League draft picks for Roughriders and the Rough Riders, looking quite bored.

Season Two (1990-1991) - Purchase Season Two

• No Canadian References in Season Two

Season One (1989-1990) - Purchase Season One

• No Canadian References in Season One

Reoccurring

• The major highway that passes through Springfield is route 401, which is the show creator Matt Groening named after the major highway which runs through Ontario.

Canadian Guest Stars:

• The late Phil Hartman played Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz

• Maurice LaMarche of Futurama (Kif Kroker/Morbo/Calculon) has occasionally done voices.

Other Simpsons Martial

Virtual Springfield

• There's a reference to Canada (Toronto) in Virtual Springfield. Go to the library and click on the shelf closest to the information desk. Select the book of Famous Springfieldianites. Open the book and turn the page 3 times. You'll get to an ad for the movie "An American in Toronto". 
  Courtesy of Vince Chan
• Also in Bart's tree house his comic contains Canadian and American pricing.

Bongo Comics

• Bongo #44 has been written by two Canadian writers. Principal Skinner is deported to Canada where he's forced to work in a maple syrup mine for his socialized medicine. He escapes by attacking the RCMP officer with a beaver. 
  Courtesy Haynes Lee

For list of references to other countries on the Simpson's check out SNPP's list The Simpsons: A Foreign Affair. All the links point to episode capsules at The Simpsons Archive, although not all are available as they are a few years behind. Check out The Simpsons Archive at www.snpp.com