The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

I'm afraid that only Canadians will probably get this one, but I want to know who else out there watches those Canadian Tire commercials and thinks that bearded guy (also known as the Canadian Tire Guy, or CTG to me) looks and acts a lot like Ned Flanders from The Simpsons?

Ok-ily Dok-ily.

Regardless of whether you see the connection or not, you may enjoy reading this news bit on how the Canadian Tire spokescouple divorce.

Turns out CTG is actually a man named Ted Simonett - an actor (he was in Police Academy 4, a The Twilight Zone episode, and a Poltergeist episode, so he can't be all that bad, right?), singer, musician, and possibly into photography, as well. (Although, I have no real evidence that the photo is really from the same Ted Simonett, but that camera in his hands suggests something)

I think the most lame part of it all is that apparently he has a contract with Canadian Tire that states he's not allowed to do interviews as a way of maintaining his dorky image for the commercials.

I guess he's not such a douche in real life, or something.

I mean, do you think we really care about this Canadian version of Nedily-Doodily? No, we really would rather see his demise than go another year with him pushing his cr*ppy products.

I hope the guy's getting paid a fortune to be under that contract, though, because I can only imagine that someone out there could be setting up a hit on the guy.

Others who agree on Canadian Tire Guy's irritation and appearance as Ned Flanders:

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The compiled thoughts of Dave Onishenko

Mr. Beardy McBeardface

His domain name seems still up for grabs.

This is a pretty good example of who the Canadian Tire couple are: Royal Canadian Air Farce