Parodies
In February 1987, the miniseries was parodied on the NBC show Saturday Night Live as "Amerida," in which the U.S. is taken over by Canada. It posited Wayne Gretzky as the new president, and suggested that Canada's army invaded the U.S. with hockey sticks. The American protagonist (played by Canadian actor Phil Hartman) longs for a country "where you don't have money that's all the colours of the rainbow" and "you can spell words like colour and flavour without using a 'u'." The flag of "Amerida" was the U.S. flag with the stars replaced by a white maple leaf.
The satirical Canadian radio program Double Exposure parodied the series in a sketch called Kanada with a K, in which "Joe Klark with a K" rescues the nation from "Comrade Ed."
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“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)