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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. Snow Flower and The Secret Hall Pass]]'', Shizuo wishes he had a girlfriend in Canada so he could get out of being in an arranged marriage.
* Played with in [https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14087848/22/Watch chapter 22] of the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fic ''[[Watch]]'' by "Rorschach's Blot". While Minerva McGonagall and Rolanda Hooch reminisce about their time as teammates on the Holyhead Harpies in the 1940s, the topic turns to Minerva's then-boyfriend, later husband:
{{quote|"... half the team didn't believe he even existed until the wedding," Hooch sighed. Who could have guessed that anyone actually did have a Canadian boyfriend? They'd all figured their teammate was covering for the fact that most men were too intimidated by her reputation to ask her out. They couldn't be blamed for being skeptical.}}
* Molly Ritter, daughter of the liaison to the Okeechobee, Florida displacees' residence in ''[[My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character]]'', has a "snowbird" boyfriend who spends half his year in Toronto. Naturally she gets playful "Boyfriend in Canada" ribbing from her friends.
* Played with in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fic ''[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23702959/chapters/56911591 That Universe over There]'' by "mytimeconsumingsidehobby": in a moment of panic Hogwarts student Thomas Harrington claims he has a French girlfriend named Adélie, who attends Beauxbatons. He in fact actually knows a girl at Beauxbatons named Adélie, and afterwards writes her and asks her to pretend to be his girlfriend to keep up the charade -- completely and thoroughly unaware that she would be delighted to be his ''real'' girlfriend. Amused, she agrees, and Harrington gains a real girlfriend without knowing it for ''quite'' a while.
== [[Film]] ==
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* [[Older Than Print]]: In Mary de France's 12th-century poem, ''[[wikipedia:Lanval|Lanval,]]'' Sir Lanval responds to Queen Guinevere's insinuation that "women are not what you prefer, but that there are very many pretty boys with whom you prefer to take your joys" by saying that he ''does'' have a girlfriend... she's just... a mystical being... who Guinevere doesn't know... and whom Guinevere can never meet.... yeah, that makes sense. {{spoiler|Made all the more amusing by the fact that it's ''true''.}}
== [[Live
* ''[[Chuck]]'': Emmett Milbarge claims to have a girlfriend named Henrietta in Ontario.
* In the pilot episode of ''[[Glee]]'', Sandy Ryerson claims that the scandal that got him sacked almost cost him his long distance girlfriend in another city. Will does not look convinced.
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* In an episode of ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'', Jan pretends to have a boyfriend named George Glass. She also does the same thing in ''A Very Brady Sequel'', and at the end of the movie, ends up finding a real boyfriend with the same name.
* On ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'', Dick wants to invite Nina and her boyfriend to dinner, but Mary suspects that Nina's boyfriend doesn't actually exist. The quickness with which Nina turns down the invitation to a double-date does not assuage that suspicion.
* Harmony on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Angel]]'' did this a lot according to Willow. "Oh, he goes to a different school, you wouldn't know him." But when Willow cites this, Harmony is actually in a relationship with Spike.
* In ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' episode "Jen The Fredo", Moss talks about a girlfriend he had "on holiday", causing Roy to snap "They're always on holiday, aren't they Moss?".
* Howard tells the others this in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''. When he actually does get a girlfriend, she's out of town when Leonard's mom comes over...which is unfortunate, since Leonard's mom is convinced he and Raj are in the closet.
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'''Chris:''' You're so full of shit, Meg. }}
* ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'': Frankie spent most of an episode trying to expose a new imaginary friend as a real human pretending to be imaginary. The friend claimed his maker lived in Canada. Then it was revealed he was really imaginary and his maker really came from Canada.
* ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]'' In the
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{{quote|'''Strong Bad''': And she was a very, very special lady. And she loved me so much and had skinny blonde hair and was always hanging out at the beach, gazing at a photo of me... Too bad when she had to go to another planet for reasons too complex to elaborate on. I'll probably never see her again. And neither will any of you.}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130205023929/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/loadingreadyrun/3643-Canadian-Girlfriend This] ''[[Loading Ready Run]]'' skit, complete with highlighting the issues of this problem if you live in Canada.
▲* ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]'' In the 3rd season episode "The83rd Annual Villy Awards", it seems Kite Man (who broke up with Ivy in the previous season) is going this route, insisting he has a girlfriend, but she is simply late. In truth, this is subverted, he does indeed have a date - Golden Glider - and she is a knockout, she's just too anxious to go and meet with him while his ex fiance is there; Ivy convinces her to do so.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* A non-gay version was done by undercover FBI agent Joseph Pistone AKA [[Donnie Brasco]]. Pistone was married but was posing as an unattached jewel thief, and so needed a plausible reason for the other mobsters why he didn't put the moves on other women, or was away to see his real family. So he'd pretend to have an out-of-state girlfriend.
* The ''Haskell Free Library and Opera House'' bears the name of a Vermont sawmill owner who espoused a Girlfriend in Canada... on the [[Girl Next Door|other side of the same village]]. They deliberately built this directly on the border in 1904, for use by both sides. [[Canada]] is not always a [[Long-Distance Relationship]].
* There are actually plenty of heterosexual men who have girlfriends who happen to live in Canada, especially Canadian men. Lesbians, especially
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