Will Arnett explains Canadian slang

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Highlights include "gong show", "two-four", "kerfuffle" and "toque"

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[new_peteland]

I had no idea he was Canadian.

[louder]

kerfuffle is the best word ever.

[longlonglong12]

Some of these would obv only be said by a certain ~type, but pretty accurate overall (tho wtf never heard gonch/gitch/whatever in my life), and honestly didn't realize Will was *that* Canadian.

[shittysoup]

Gitch/gonch/gotch is definitely popular among my parents generation. I don't really hear young people use it as much but everybody's parents called it that growing up. It's dad slang for sure imo lol.

[beckyleeman]

Gitch is more hockey talk.

[boltonlove]

These aren’t slang, but growing up I heard a lot of phrases that I repeat now and my coworkers are always baffled by them.

“It’ll be better before you’re married” (basically stop crying because it doesn’t matter)

So and so is “getting my goat”. (Somebody is being annoying)

[tucker]

lol I've deff never heard the married one before, that's funny

[boltonlove]

I work w/ kids and one of them got into a fight w/ his sister and was crying and I told him that and he cried even more because he said he doesn’t wanna get married lmao

[foxtree]

Lol, awww.

[longlonglong12]

I just thought it was a... word... tbh. My reaction was similar to Will's in the vid "You guys don't have that word down here?"

[tucker]

same, I just thought kerfluffle was a word lol

[aspacecake]

Yeah I thought it was just a word , I had no idea it was Canadian