What to know
- Subway Takes Toronto debuted Oct. 13 with Toronto comedian Thea Rainford discussing what first-date food orders reveal about a person.
- The Toronto edition swaps New York’s MetroCard for a PRESTO card and was expected to run for 14 episodes.
- Rahma’s original series Subway Takes has amassed more than 800 million YouTube views and more than 1.1 million subscribers
Do Torontonians riding the subway have good takes?
Earlier this fall, YouTube Canada unveiled a slate of new shows from popular creators, including Subway Takes Toronto, hosted by Emmy-nominated comedian Kareem Rahma, who founded Subway Takes, a talk show where he asks people for their takes on the New York City subway.
The series sees Rahma asking comedians, celebrities and average people for their hot takes as they ride the subway together. He famously clips his microphone to a MetroCard and opens the conversation with, “So, what’s your take?”
Rahma counters his guest’s hot takes with either, “100 per cent agree/disagree,” a phrase that has gone viral on social media.
First date food choices
The first episode of Subway Takes Toronto dropped Oct. 13 and in it, Rahma debates Thea Rainford, a Toronto stand-up comedian, about whether “you can tell everything about a person by what they order on a first date.”
Rainford said she always orders a salad “so they know I’m not cool with my body.”
Although social media users in the comments didn’t quite see eye-to-eye on her take, they chimed in with other ways to vibe check a first date.
One person on Instagram said a better way to tell if a date is cool depends on how they treat the waitstaff, commenting, “You can tell on how they speak to the person serving them in the restaurant.”
Another social media user on X questioned the accuracy of judging a date based on their food choices, asking, “How many first dates do u have to experience to know if this is accurate or not lol?”
Is cheating in a dream actually cheating?
In an episode released just last week, Toronto-based painter Maxine McCrann said, “if you cheat on me in my dreams, that counts as cheating.”
Commenters under the video appreciated McCrann’s chaotic opinion, with one person writing, “It’s nice to have a truly unhinged and flatly incorrect take every now and then. Thank you.”
However, one person jokingly agreed with her, questioning why their partner would even cheat if they’re usually an unproblematic and sweet person in real life, “100 [per cent] agree! if you’re being a lil sweetie before we drift to sleep I see no reason why you’d bang my ageless ethereal fourth grade teacher in this well-lit laundromat full of all my colleagues and friends.”
Rahma hit McCann with the “100 per cent disagree,” arguing, “you can’t control your dreams!”
Subway Takes Toronto will continue its roll out this fall, with 10 more episodes on the docket, perfect material for dinner table arguments amongst your friends.
