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🇨🇦 📺 CANADIAN TV TIME MACHINE — THE SWEATER (1980) 🏒 If you grew up in Canada, chances are you remember this little animated masterpiece! 🇨🇦 In 1980, the National Film Board of Canada released The Sweater, a charming animated short directed by Sheldon Cohen and based on Roch Carrier’s beloved story The Hockey Sweater. Set in a small Quebec village during the winter of 1946, the story follows a young boy who, like practically every other kid in town, worships the legendary Maurice “Rocket” Richard of the Montreal Canadiens. But when his mother orders him a new hockey sweater from the Eaton’s catalogue, disaster strikes! Instead of the glorious red, white and blue of the Montreal Canadiens, he receives something absolutely unthinkable… a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater! 😱🍁 And if that wasn’t bad enough, his mother insists he wear it! What follows is one of the funniest and most memorable stories in Canadian hockey folklore, complete with an angry young hockey player, an unforgiving referee, and a desperate prayer for a million moths to eat his sweater! Narrated by Roch Carrier himself, this little film captures something wonderfully Canadian — childhood innocence, small-town winters, hockey rivalries, and the almost religious devotion Canadians once had for their favourite teams. More than four decades later, The Sweater remains a treasured piece of Canadian culture. 🎬 The Sweater (1980) National Film Board of Canada Directed and animated by Sheldon Cohen Based on The Hockey Sweater by Roch Carrier Who else remembers watching this Canadian classic growing up? 🏒❤️ #CanadianNostalgia #TheHockeySweater #NFB
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🇨🇦📺 CANADIAN TV TIME MACHINE DEFINITION There are certain TV theme songs that can instantly take you back 40 years. For me, this is one of them. I remember being a kid in the early 1980s, occasionally skipping school and watching Definition on CJOH in the morning. For a time in the early ’80s, it aired at 11 a.m., followed by another familiar childhood fixture, Romper Room & Friends. And the moment that music started, you knew exactly what was on. 🎶 “Soul Bossa Nova.” Hosted by Jim Perry, Definition was one of those wonderfully simple Canadian game shows that didn’t need flashing lights or million-dollar prizes. Two teams competed in a word game somewhat like Hangman. In the show’s “Give & Take” format, contestants would give a letter they hoped wasn’t in the answer, then take a letter they believed was — gradually revealing the pun-filled solution. Produced at Toronto’s CFTO-TV, Definition debuted on CTV in 1974 and remained a fixture of Canadian television until 1989. But that theme music may be just as memorable as the show itself. The infectious instrumental was Quincy Jones’s 1962 recording “Soul Bossa Nova.” Years later, Toronto hip-hop duo Dream Warriors sampled it for their breakthrough hit “My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style” — turning the music so many Canadians associated with Definition into part of a Canadian hip-hop classic. And its strange pop-culture journey didn’t end there. Mike Myers later used “Soul Bossa Nova” in Austin Powers, introducing that unmistakable tune to yet another generation. But for those of us who grew up watching Canadian television in the ’70s and ’80s, those opening notes meant one thing first: Definition was on. 🇨🇦 Do you remember watching Definition? Here is a short clip of Martin Short as a guest star playing Definition. #CanadianTV #CanadianNostalgia #GameShows
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