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Great White North: Back-Bacon and Long Underwear

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The premise

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In this installment of Great White North, Bob and Doug McKenzie discuss two quintessentially Canadian topics: back bacon and long underwear. The segment runs approximately 2 minutes and features the brothers' trademark rambling, improvisational style of comedy that satirizes Canadian stereotypes. The sketch is part of the Great White North series, which was created to fulfill Canadian content requirements by mocking those very requirements. The segments were filmed at the end of each shooting day with just Thomas, Moranis, and a single camera operator, and were largely improvised.

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