Topic: The "We'll Honeymoon in Canada" joke.

[3Stooges]

I don’t get this joke at the end of "Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise" where Moe says... “Now, all you have to do is wish for quintuplets and we’re all set”... And Curly replies something like.... “That's a synch, we’ll honeymoon in Canada”.

As if Canada is an especially a fertile place to make babies?

I don't get it. Does someone on the board know what Curly's referring to?

[Pilsner Panther]

The reference is to the Dionne quintuplets, who were born in Canada in 1934, and were very famous at the time:

http://schwinger.harvard.edu/~terning/bios/Dionne.html

Maybe there is something about Canada and fertility, but I wouldn't know. I'm just going to drink Canada Dry—

One bar at a time.

 

[kinderscenen]

Your "Canada Dry" reference reminds me of that joke Moe was attempting to tell on that show (the name escapes me) before the host (?!) stepped all over the punch line.

There was a more noticeable reference in "False Alarms", in which Curly 'names' each piece of hose that he picks up. It's amazing how many gags/references they used without me even getting them until fairly recently. "The boy's from Syracuse" escaped me until 5 or so years ago--as a former music major, I'm ashamed to mention that.

Sunday

[napo396]

hi in answer to your canada question at the time there were born in canada the famous dione quintuplets.  remeber that mulitiple bithr babies were rare however in canada these 5 survived adn were in the media for many years.

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[shemps#1]

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