Is anyone else planning on watching 'Underfunded' tonight?

[evilcanuck 0]

I am fully prepared to be really annoyed and insulted by this show. i mean as if we dont have enough frikkin stereotypes and niavity to deal with now a tv show that is going to be rife with more!!!!!!!!

I hope it has been written by Canadians, we know how to poke fun at ourselves and thats ok, but i am really ready to not be happy to be made fun of by my new homeland

Imagine if there was a tv show that made fun of Africans, or Pakistanis.......I wonder how p.c. that would be?!?!??!?

im going to attempt to be open minded, but I may fly off the handle LOL

Its on at 10 on USA network if anyone wants to join me

[Leafgal 3]

Not on here in Ontario here I am, but that sounds like a good thing I won't be able to watch.

[sarah and hicham 3]

I didn't know it takes place in Canada

I saw the commercial and thought it looked funny but I probably won't watch it.

[David and Karen 0]

I had to google it cuz I didn't know what it was. I missed the boat!

[evilcanuck 0]

I googled also. They could at least get it right, we dont have Canadian Secret Service. Its Canadian Secret Intelligence Service!!! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr lol

Underfunded (USA, TV-PG-V) If you're looking for endless jokes about the Canadian Secret Service (''Next time, don't buy your spores in Quebec!'' says an agent to a baddie), you've come to the right place. After unraveling a plot to destroy a U.S. space station in this dying-to-be-a-series TV movie, top CSS spy Darryl Freehorn (Mather Zickel) is rewarded with a post in Washington, D.C., to smooth North American relations. The jabs at Canada age quickly, but the cast's chemistry (reminiscent of Canuck fish-out-of-water comedy Due South) is a good reason to check it out, eh? B-

Edited November 9, 2006 by evilcanuck

[Marilyn. 340]

I was checking to see if any of the actors in the show were Canadians...

Alistair Abell (Wawanesa, Manitoba)

Nathan Clark (IV) (regular performer with the Vancouver Theatre Sports League)

Dave Collette (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)

Barry W. Levy

Parm Soor (Born in India and raised in London, Parm moved to Canada where he studied Theatre at The University of Winnipeg)

Kirsten Williamson

to a name a few....

and it looks like there are a lot more Canadian actors who are on the show....

[Canuck Carrie 1]

I DVR'd it, but haven't watched it yet. I figure hubs will get a laugh.

[Reba 2]

We saw part of it, I hadn't heard of it, but we came back from walking the dogs and James was channel surfing and stumbled into it. it went past 11pm tho, and I had to get to bed.

I don't see that it would be anymore insulting or whatever than Due South, which pick'd on both sides of the border.

I think its a joint effort production Canada/US, but it looks as tho all the writers are American.

And yes, I'm sure they're aware that in real life its called CSIS, but quite often, real life organizations have different names and designations in movies and TV. Like the TV show Bones, the organization is called the Jeffersonian, but its based on the Smithsonian. Its fictional, not a documentary.

Tho CSIS is underfunded.

[evilcanuck 0]

ya it was ok, the references were sort of subtle, and they didnt make the canadian come off like a bumbling idiot, which was my fear initially, more it poked fun at the lack of knowledge about canada

What did you think of the actors canadian accent? I was really trying to hear if he sounded genuine (like us) or forced and ridiculous 9like bob & doug). It sounded more pronounced at tmes, but not like 'oot' and aboot and no doot

was he canuck?

and does anyone else like watching x-files re-runs just to pick out the canadian actors? lol.

ok one time, i wasnt looking at the screen, and i heard a voice and i was like 'omg its Relic' and omg i was right. a lot older but wow, a voice I havent heard in a couple decades!!!!

[CutienPurg 0]

Often times my husband and I will be watching tv here in the states and I'll say " this show is Canadian" or " xxxxx person is Canadian". He'll say " no theyre/it's not , why do you think so " I can always pick up the most subtle of Canadiana in their voices. I'm almost always right but my husband being Canadian doesnt hear it , probably the same way I dont hear the "yankee" in my voice

[Reba 2]

I do that all the time. Especially on SciFi channel. Probably 90% of the actors on their "original" shows are Canadian Stargate, Stargate Atlantis, Eureka, etc etc etc.

There's at least one Canadian on every single show currently on these days. Or at least one Canadian involved in the creation of, or writing of. I make a game of "find the Canadian". Its fun