Because News puts "hack a dart" on the guessing list

CBC Comedy's fast-starting radio-panel clip turns a dictionary question into a tour of Canadian expressions.

Channel: CBC Comedy Story of October 28, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 66,194 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (6,574).

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Carly's first guess is "Please and thank you." Asked which distinctly Canadian phrase has entered an American dictionary, the Because News panel starts with politeness, then wanders into hockey grievances and cigarette slang.

The excerpt, posted by CBC Comedy as "Hacking a dart is honorary 🇨🇦", drew roughly 46,000 views in its first half-day, already several times the channel's usual full-day audience for a Short. Its comment section was also four times as busy as a typical first day.

Gavin Crawford's quiz leaves plenty of room for wrong answers. The panel works through variations of "yeah, no" and "no, yeah" before Colin offers "Damn Leafs." Another panelist tries "let's hack a dart," meaning to smoke a cigarette. This is a comedy quiz, not smoking advice.

The answer Crawford gives is "trash panda," the affectionate nickname for a raccoon. Viewers pick up the language game from there: some suggest "double double" or "out for a rip," while others nominate "cobra chicken" for Canada geese. Commenters from Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin also recognize the expressions, making the Canadian vocabulary quiz a small cross-border discussion about who says what.

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The numbers

The Short has already passed CBC Comedy's usual first-day views, with only half a day online.

the video's first day

usual first day here

6,574

this video

66,194

subscribers

262,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

136,624,528

views per day

29,775

typical day: 48,881

the video

views

45,690

likes

858

comments

41

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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278,000

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262,000

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256,000

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254,000

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254,000

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244,000

As of October 28, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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