Happy Canada Day! (Or Independence Day, if that’s your preferred flavour of national observance) Here’s a video that has a much greater probability of actually existing than the significant other you assured your family you had over the long weekend.

This video was written by Graham and Kathleen, and Kathleen had some thoughts she wanted to share with regards to the process that led to this update. I’ve posted them below:

This video came about in a very organic, super last second kind of way. Graham and I realized that LRR hadn’t really written a Canada Day video. Various ideas were bandied about and cycled through:
Infomercial – how to get a Canadian Girlfriend
Educational filmstrip – How to pass the Canadian Citizenship test (patently false)
Some sort of idea involving bees or butts (apocryphal)

We kept coming back to the idea of “Canadian Girlfriend” though. At first I wanted to make the video about the concept (the infomercial frame was quickly scrapped, shifting to Educational Presentation, which was then scrapped as being too similar to the last Canada Day video Graham and I wrote…) We ended up riffing back and forth on why a person would conceivably need to come up with a Canadian Girlfriend, and before we knew it, we’d written a page and a half of a killer dialogue video that was very funny, but only tangentially about the original concept.
However, the jokes were fresh, the Laffs™ were good, and I liked being able to work the topical (topical humour in a LRR video?!) angle of Google+ into it, so we went with it. The end result is the (hopefully) delicious slice of dialogue sketch you see in front of you. In retrospect, I detect a strong odour of Mitchell and Webb about it, which is not the worst thing your video could smell like by all means.

Unskippable this week was Crysis 2: Part 1. You can find that here.

And this week’s Checkpoint Episode, ‘Supremely Legal’ can be found over at PATV.

Cheers!