Joel Cohen was (is?) a writer on the Simpsons and he's from Calgary, went to Wisewood. He was a guest speaker at a conference I was attending and I got a chance to chat with him. Nice enough guy, entertaining speaker but there have been a few references to Calgary in the show over the years so I'm pretty sure he's the reason why. This wasn't one of his more original jokes for sure.
Joel Cohen was (is?) a writer on the Simpsons and he's from Calgary, went to Wisewood. He was a guest speaker at a conference I was attending and I got a chance to chat with him. Nice enough guy, entertaining speaker but there have been a few references to Calgary in the show over the years so I'm pretty sure he's the reason why. This wasn't one of his more original jokes for sure.
Ya you’re right, could also be another writer ragging on him. That’s my guess
Matt Groening's father was from Saskatchewan as well, near Swift Current. Both Calgary and Winnipeg have been mentioned in the Simpsons before and I wouldn't be surprised if part of it is because he has some familiarity with Western Canada.
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Calgary is also mentioned in the episode where Springfield learns its anthem was just recycled by a salesman selling it to other towns (Calgary is one of those towns).
The Calgary Flames have been anything but lame this season, and that's why some writers of "The Simpsons" felt their fans could take a joke.
In the Season 30 episode "E My Sports," which aired on Sunday, the Flames were referred to as the Calgary Lames, an esports team that was defeated by the Evergreen Terrors in a tournament for the fictional video game "Conflict of Enemies."
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"We wanted to have a Canadian team, and we wanted that team, instead of Gatorade, to be dumping maple syrup on their coach," Al Jean, an executive producer for the episode, told NHL.com, "so we were working backwards and we wanted to get a team based on a Canadian sports team."
The Flames lead the Pacific Division with 95 points, have the most points in the Western Conference and became the second team to clinch a Stanley Cup Playoff berth on Sunday. Those facts were not lost on "The Simpsons" team.
"One reason we picked Calgary Lames is because in real life the Flames are so good, we knew that the Calgary could take a joke," Jean said.
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Cohen deemed the dig at Calgary a sign of tough love; something hard-nosed, ex-Flames coach Mike Keenan would approve of.
"I rationalized it in two ways," Cohen told NHL.com. "One, we're not calling the hockey team the Lames, we're calling the esports team the Lames, and I imagine it a type of Mike Keenan-motivation where calling them garbage is only going to make them play better and maybe win the [Stanley] Cup this year."
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Cohen is certain that this reference, where a team from Calgary loses a championship to a team from the United States, will not ring true in the end.
"I'm super hopeful. I've had my heart broken too many times to count," he said. "I still believe. And this is going to be what it takes to put [the Flames] over the top."
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Calgary is also mentioned in the episode where Springfield learns its anthem was just recycled by a salesman selling it to other towns (Calgary is one of those towns).
Skip to about 1:50 for the relevant part
Which is a bit of a meta riff on people here thinking the old CFAC/ Calgary 7 song "Hello Calgary" was unique.
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