Redpill me on what Canada/Toronto was like when they made the show vs. now - /tv/ (#213441632) [Archived: 84 hours ago]

Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:03:20 PM No.213441632
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:04:08 PM No.213441654
I lived in Toronto from 1991 to 2019 and it was a shithole then, it's just an Indian shithole now.
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:04:25 PM No.213441662
Juden vs juden
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:05:25 PM No.213441688
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We'll never get kino like this again. Kenny is a fucking idiot for salting the earth on his way out.
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:05:51 PM No.213441706
Around 2008 I met some weird looking jewish chick with a tiny head at a buddy's gf's house. She claimed to have dated Spenny and said she broke up with him because he wouldn't stop asking to piss on her.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:06:41 PM No.213441737
>>213441654
yeah pretty much this. i would add more condos as well
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:06:46 PM No.213441742
I met Spenny once when I was like 13, by sheer chance. I was nervous so I just said "Hey! Spenny, Kenny vs Spenny!" he made a sour face and said "Hey! Spenny Spenny vs Spenny!" in babytalk and kept walking.
Trooth Bombz "Black in the Dayz" from /asp/ !ntxFr6SCLM
8/6/2025, 10:08:01 PM No.213441776
>>213441688
This show is too gay.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:08:41 PM No.213441793
>>213441688
He really blew it when he burned bridges with Matt Stone. Kenny tells a different story almost every time he brings it up so who the hell knows what really happened
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:09:00 PM No.213441802
>>213441688
>Kenny is a fucking idiot for salting the earth on his way out.
What did he do?
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:10:23 PM No.213441845
Jamie seemed like Kenny's soulmate sometimes during the show.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:10:53 PM No.213441858
>>213441802
The show was ending so Kenny made the last episode an extravagant vacation to South America on the show's dime where he just recorded himself talking about how he grifted the producers and they're idiots.

Ten years later he wonders why he can't get new seasons on Netflix.
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:15:48 PM No.213441981
>>213441793
qrd?
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:15:49 PM No.213441983
>>213441858
>Ten years later he wonders why he can't get new seasons on Netflix.
I don't even know if it would be funny not rather than simply sad. Maybe a Kenny & Spenny miniseries would be better - like they start doing a competition before realising it's so depressing and the idea is they assign themselves both an absurd task to pull off but they do it via teamwork. Would be a nice bookend to their tv relationship where they are working as one rather than pitted against each other - but maybe that defeats the purpose of kenny and spenny being cynical and depressing lol
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:16:56 PM No.213442013
I rewatched Who Can? last night and laughing hard a lot. Wish Kenny did that whole deal once or twice more, like an episode where he blindsides Spenny with an alien abduction and probing
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:20:25 PM No.213442093
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>>213441632 (OP)
80% staged like all reality slop. But it realliy funny, mainly as Kenny and Spencer are like different views into the Yiddish mind (conniving, underhanded cheat and stuck up, neurotic emotionally haplass dipshit). Top 10 episodes:
>who drink more beer
>who can run a 10 mile race
>who can smoke more weed
>who can laugh first
>who can stay fat the longest
>who can make the best commercial
>who can wear a head squid the longest
>who can imitate each other best
>who do black guys like more parts 1 & 2
>who can first get a stain/gets the most stains
>>213441654
Season 1 was shot in the shittiest Toronto hood, they moved to slightly better one after that.
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:21:30 PM No.213442123
>>213441981
Matt Stone and Trey Parker produced Kenny Vs Spenny for Comedy Central but also Kenny wrote for South Park for a little while. Kenny says that Matt told him not to do another show called Testees while still making Kenny Vs Spenny and Kenny did it anyway and it severed their relationship entirely
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:25:09 PM No.213442212
>>213442093
Who Can 69 The Longest? was the finest hour for the crew.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:26:25 PM No.213442244
>>213441632 (OP)
I was just starting University downtown Toronto in 2007. City had a lot of independent shops, restaurants and bars. People were a lot more calm and the pace a little slower. You could wander into almost any park and smoke a joint, play a board game or even take a nap and it was safe and nobody bothered you.

Over the next few years all the little shops got replaced with corporate shit, all the little parks are filled with junkies and the cool cozy shithole apartments me and my friends all rented for next to nothing were replaced by condos.

City has gone to complete shit.
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:27:12 PM No.213442273
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Was Kenny parodying something specific during the whole Ryan bit? Not even the demon bread, more like his whole verbose character
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:29:21 PM No.213442318
>>213441858
>The show was ending so Kenny made the last episode an extravagant vacation to South America on the show's dime
they go to a resort in cuba
it's the cheapest place you can go from toronto
>Ten years later he wonders why he can't get new seasons on Netflix.
he could fund it himself, he was making a million a year from kvs + southpark and has his own investment properties in toronto
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:29:43 PM No.213442326
>>213442244
Looking from the outside in, I'm always curious how Canadian character/culture overlaps with America's and what is more influenced by British culture/ways. All I could really detect that was British in the show would be Kenny/Spenny saying shit like "mum" or "bum" rather than "mom" or "butt"
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:31:45 PM No.213442386
>>213441632 (OP)
I saw Spenny in Vancouver once. Heโ€™d clearly been homeless for a few weeks and his pants had been thoroughly pissed, I donโ€™t know why he wouldnโ€™t just go in an alleyway I mean practically every corner in downtown Vancouver already smells like hobo piss, plus the rest of his clothes were fairly clean I think heโ€™d been crashing on peopleโ€™s couches and stuff and was just panhandling to get back in his feet or whatever. Anyway we (me and a couple buddyโ€™s) went up to him and asked if he wanted to get lunch with us or something, we tried to ignore the pants, and he stood up and we walked and talked with him for a bit when he started leading us towards a piercing studio and repeating that we need to get our wallets out now, we bugged and just sorta left him to his own devices.
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:32:45 PM No.213442426
>>213442318
Here's one question that I always wonder about that no bright spark ever asked Kenny about in interviews: in maybe episode 1 or 2 commentary, he says the introduction is inspired by his favourite movies like High Noon, Seven Samurai, *and* Triumph of the Will. Always curious as to why this Jew has that as one of his favourite movies. He seems to have an autistic interest when it comes to the Third Reich - among the records Spenny holds hostage in one episode are recordings of Hitler's 1936 speeches
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:37:39 PM No.213442558
>>213442326
I don't want to pretend that things were perfect back then, but it felt like there was a lot more social cohesion in Toronto in the mid 2000's. Less crime, less cliques like gangster shit, ultra left or right ideas etc. law enforcement was relaxed, people were not vocally against gays, drug use etc. Slowly the divisive nonsense in American media crept up along with the global phenomenon of ever widening economic gaps and here we are. I am often downtown and it has become completely soulless.
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:39:40 PM No.213442602
>>213442386
I guess he hits the booze pretty hard nowadays. Some anon on here said he ran into Spenny once and Spenny called him a fucking retard while waving his arms around. I wish someone remembered the story better because it was hilarious
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:47:10 PM No.213442794
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>>213442426
have you seen pitch, from before they did the show?
you see kenny's record collection and some stuff like that weird soviet flag he had
kenny was a photojournalist during desert storm, I could see why he's interested in personality cults
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:48:06 PM No.213442822
>>213442426
Kenny's so thoroughly jewish that obsessing over the nazis is almost like a forbidden fruit to him. You're brought up on something being so villainized you'll almost develop a fascination with it.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:49:49 PM No.213442860
>>213442558
The mid-2000s literally had "the year of the gun", the city was full of groids chimping out. I agree that things like addicts fucking up neighborhoods is a way bigger problem than it was. Can't even go to the Eaton Center now, it's the Walking Dead down there. That area used to be at least decent, you could walk through it and it wasn't a complete dump, and they'd have events like NXNE going on there.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:50:21 PM No.213442877
Kenny
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Kenny's play about how the holocaust was a good thing for jews was the peak of the show desu. That or who can eat the most meat.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:52:59 PM No.213442938
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WHY'S THE EYES SO RED BUSTER??
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:53:23 PM No.213442945
>>213441983
You are an idiot and the worst poster on 4chan right now.
Unironically kys.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:53:40 PM No.213442954
kvs2
kvs2
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how they advertise themselves
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:53:55 PM No.213442960
gsmm
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grampa stop molesting me
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:55:12 PM No.213442989
kvs
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>>213442954
vs how they're looking
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:55:32 PM No.213442999
>>213442954
Kenny vs Pug-Rapist
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:56:30 PM No.213443024
>>213442989
Zamn, Spenny turned into a silver fox!
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 10:59:24 PM No.213443091
>>213442989
Spenny looks like Jamie Lee Curtis.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:06:48 PM No.213443254
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>>213441654
It was a fun shithole until like 2010 though.
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:13:25 PM No.213443404
>>213442938
The only episode where they actually expressed love for one another. Weed really is amazing.
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:24:08 PM No.213443682
wolfish
wolfish
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Can't believe Spenny outlived Wolfish
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:27:20 PM No.213443756
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>>213443254
My apartment back then was $950/month for a 3 bedroom, down the street from there. I was more of a "drugs in Trinity park" kind of guy though.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:29:12 PM No.213443809
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>>213441858
>jew jews the jews
Funny how 2 of the jewiest jews(him and larry david) i am very fond of
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:29:53 PM No.213443830
Untitled
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Kenny makes bank for nothing.
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:30:33 PM No.213443841
TORONTO-CHURCHST
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>>213441632 (OP)
>>213441654
>>213441737
jesus
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:31:36 PM No.213443865
>>213443841
This must be an old photo - you can still see the sky instead of ugly fucking glass monoliths nobody wants.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:33:41 PM No.213443924
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I miss it bros.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3fi7ioYxeE
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:34:43 PM No.213443955
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>>213443924
wrong pic
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:37:29 PM No.213444037
>>213443924
>Stay up late on CityTV
>Watch Speaker's Corner
>Wait for Ed the Sock to come on and see if there's strippers
>No strippers
>Wait for SexTV to see tits
>It's an educational episode
>Hang on for dear life to see softcore porn
>No dice, it's fapping to phone sex commercial strippers tonight
I was never happier...
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:39:28 PM No.213444095
>>213442602
my friend played an event gig on the same bill as him and he told me that Spenny IRL is literally the same person you see on the show. it's not an act or a character at all.
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:39:42 PM No.213444101
>>213443841
VGH. All that parking lost like tears in rain.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:41:24 PM No.213444141
>>213443830
I still buy his merch
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:41:57 PM No.213444147
>>213442989
Damn these dudes are old. Then again, they were in their mid to late 30s when the show first started.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:42:13 PM No.213444163
>>213444037
>finger hovering previous channel button in case anyone walked in

>>213444095
I was working at the SOHO in Toronto and Spenny walked by, I said hi and he just ignored me. He looked awful.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:45:49 PM No.213444252
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This image captures the vibes.
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:46:18 PM No.213444263
>>213444095
Anyone who thinks Spenny was acting should watch Single White Spenny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkuzL5FQU5A
Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:51:10 PM No.213444391
>>213441632 (OP)
In general everyone was content that we were doing better than the Americans re the financial crisis. The economy was still kinda shit but Canada avoided the worst of it by just kicking the problem down the road.

In general, Canada used to be a very high trust society. There was more sense of community, it was super common to talk and even hang out with strangers in public, there was a productive sense of civic nationalism that transcended left or right. Caring about politics was super gay because it was very boring granular shit like "should we spend the trade surplus?!" Everyone thought Jack Layton was going to be elected PM after Harper and institute a bunch of reforms to healthcare. The pre-Trudeau government was trying to push this kind of militarist Commonwealth-nostalgic sense of national identity and it worked on a lot of millennials.

Big cities had their own distinct character before everything got gutted and replaced with the same High Street shops and condos you can find anywhere on the planet. Only Vancouver and Winnipeg were seen as shitholes at the time, Toronto was seen as just kinda boring.
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Anonymous
8/6/2025, 11:51:38 PM No.213444405
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>>213442954
>Nanaimo to Campbell River
>think that's gonna be a bitch of a trip including 3 different ferries
>It was on the island the entire time
Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:01:48 AM No.213444658
>>213442989
i'd probably dye my hair if i were spenny
Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:03:54 AM No.213444710
>>213441632 (OP)
Shit, but less shit than now, just like everywhere else.
Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:05:57 AM No.213444752
Kenny vs Retard
Kenny vs Retard
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I got priced out of Toronto and have to live in Hamilton now. It fucking sucks. I've been here two years now, haven't made a single friend and everyone is in a bad mood. :(
Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:06:47 AM No.213444772
>>213443404
Spenny also embraced Kenny on the head squid episode. I think, up until he "lost", he was genuinely tripping on acid.
>OH MAN I LOVE YOU I'M SORRY I'M SO MEAN TO YOU...OH MAN YOU'RE WARM
Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:07:20 AM No.213444796
>>213441632 (OP)
Canadian cities just feel like American cities 10 years ago.
Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:07:29 AM No.213444804
>>213444391
accurate.
>super common to talk and even hang out with strangers in public.
This is one thing I miss, people would literally just hang out. Every saturday or sunday people would play drums and do drugs, cops knew what was up and rarely bothered anyone, they were nice and easy to deal with. That said, I spent time travelling through Europe back then and it wasn't so different, the whole world has changed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ-FI1qFM5E
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Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:08:30 AM No.213444825
I'll give you a rundown on current Toronto

>Traffic as bad as Los Angeles
>Basements in Boomers houses being rented out for 2k a month
>Shoebox 400 square foot condo units are 500k
>Massive influx of Indians in the past three years
>Unemployment close to 10% (Almost impossible to even find an entry level Mcwagie job)
>Trendy bars that charge $20 a drink
>Nothing but tall high rises everywhere. You either live in a house that costs a million dollars or in a 600 square foot unit in a 50 storey building
>Amount of homeless tripled since Covid
>Everyone is so detached from everything they would walk over you if you got stabbed in the street
>Can't ride a subway without a crack addict yelling or smoking a pipe
>If you go to Brampton of Mississauga you'll have trouble finding a white person
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Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:10:13 AM No.213444864
>>213441654
I remember when it got way more gentrified around 2011 through 2017 leading into the jeet crisis
Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:10:52 AM No.213444880
>>213444825
You forgot crime
>everyone I know having their cars stolen
>license plates getting stolen to move the aforementioned stolen cars
>breaking and entering crimes at record rates
>everyone let out of jail, repeat offenders laughing
>People walk through the LCBO's stealing and nobody bats an eye

I ended up buying a place in the sticks, fuck current Toronto.
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Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:12:45 AM No.213444924
>>213441662
I remember Kenny did a short video call with Spenny while doing commentary or something and he told Spenny he is a Larry David-looking fuck.
Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:17:28 AM No.213445026
>>213444880
Yeah the western side of it is especially bad. Places like Brampton, Mississauga, Milton and Oakville have so many crime and smuggling rings happening. Even Doug Ford the premier had his car broken into
Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:28:05 AM No.213445300
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>>213444804
I remember one time taking the bus and some autistic guy in the back had a big illustrated book of trains, and everyone sitting around him started talking to him about what his favourite ones were and he wound up lecturing a bunch of strangers while pointing at big print outs with a huge grin on his face. must have been the best day of that retard's life.

also people used to hang out at the corner shop when buying newspapers, cigs or lotto tickets and everyone would chat with each other and the cashier while waiting in line. some guys would spend hours just chatting with the clerk and randos in the store
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Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:30:27 AM No.213445362
Canada is a dystopia, the boomers absolutely fucked everyone younger than them over.
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Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:48:21 AM No.213445852
>>213445300
So when did it all go to shit for you guys? Is the erosion of a national sense of community all down to immigration or other factors at play?
Anonymous
8/7/2025, 12:51:30 AM No.213445931
>>213445362
It's surreal seeing photos of my grandparents having house/dinner parties from the 70s/80s, all people from their town in south Wales they knew in the neighbourhood, from work, and around and about the town at the pub, rugby club, etc. Totally alien compared to my experience growing up where neighbours don't talk to each other even when conversations are amiable if circumstances force it.

The grandparents decided to move away from that place at the turn of the century because it had changed for the worst. Us losing our sense of community has left a massive void rarely discussed compared to the destruction of the more immediate family unit
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Anonymous
8/7/2025, 1:09:31 AM No.213446396
>>213445931
Greedy boomers and their kids got sucked into social media nonsense instead of keeping guard over their country and their kid's futures? Same story everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYBes8ki3lo