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Canadian Bacon (1995) More at IMDbPro »

• The final note in the credits, "To Johnny LaRue - thanks to you, we got our crane shot", is a reference to one of John Candy's recurring characters on "SCTV Channel" (1983) .
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Michael Moore] as gun-toting anti-Canadian.
  
  
• A deleted scene featured James Belushi and Mary Charlotte Wilcox as Canadian border guards wearing beaver hats. They improvised the entire scene. Afterward, Belushi, a relative newcomer to the comedy scene, told comedy veteran Wilcox (whom he didn't recognize) "You're kind of funny" and that she should try to get into comedy.
  
  
• The Prime Minister's name comes from two Canadian PMs.
  
  
• CAMEO 'Maurice Mad Dog Vachon': the thug who arm wrestles with Rhea Perlman in a bar (Vachon was a hugely popular professional wrestler for over 40 years)
  
  
• Michael Moore wrote the screenplay during the first Gulf War, in reaction to what he felt was the US government's manipulation of the media in supporting Operation Desert Storm.
  
  
• Michael Moore was turned down by 47 different film companies before Madonna's Maverick Productions picked up the option.
  
  
• In one scene, the characters played by John Candy, Bill Nunn and Kevin J. O'Connor sit around a campfire and discuss films in which black characters are killed before their white co-stars. O'Connor mentions Forrest Gump (1994), which was released six months after principal photography on "Bacon" was completed, and four months after Candy's death. The line was looped in after the scene was shot.
  
  
• One of the odd little "inside" jokes is the title: "Canadian Bacon" is an American term. According to the American Pork Producers Association, the name was coined to designate that style of bacon which was, many years ago, imported from Canada because such a cut was not produced in the U.S. at the time. Canadians generally call such bacon "back bacon".
  
  

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