Favorite SCTV moments or characters.

[terrya]

What's your favorites from this CLASSIC television show?

There's just so many to choose from. But I'd have to single out Andrea Martin as Pirini Scleroso. I loved that character!


And a PS...when the hell are they going to release SCTV on dvd. It's about DAMN TIME!!!

Terry

[SidDithers]

1. So, did you drove or did you flew?

Sid Dithers in an Officer and a Gentile.

Funny stuff :)

Sid

[dwckabal]

2. Monster Horror Chiller Theater

oooooohh, scaaaaary!

[liberalmuse]

3. My favorite, too!

I loved that show! It would be great if they released it on DVD.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

7. Oh, the memories

The highlight of my sad life back in high school was to watch SCTV every week and right after it was Chiller Theater, the Pittsburgh show with Chilly Billy, the guy that character was based on. He did seem really depressed about doing Chiller Theater, because I think he had bigger ambitions, but it was great!

And SCTV was the best. After watching that, I could get through one more dreary week as I waited to get the hell out of the dreadful place where I lived!

[ironflange]

20. I have a soft spot for Count Floyd

Boo!

[meegbear]

4. Edith Prickley ...

and Andrea Martin's Brenda (HHHHHHH) Vacaro.

[stanwyck]

28. Another Edith fan

I love all the characters. Very talented people: Catherine O'Hara, Eugene Levy, Martin Short, Dave Thomas...all of them. But I have a soft spot for Edith Prickley because she looked and acted exactly like an elementary teacher in my hometown. Right down to the leopard coat. (which I thought was the height of glamour; I was so disappointed my mom didn't wear harlequin glasses, leopard prints, pillbox hats, and a cigarette holder).

[trotsky]

5. The Schmenge Brothers

Or the guys who blew stuff up. ("That blowed up REAL good!")

Man, too many things to pick from. That was a great show. What a collection of talent.

[madrchsod]

6. "he blew -up real good.."

and the talk show..been along time since i`ve seeen this show...

[Kolesar]

16. Sammy Maudlin as a late night host

I loved that part.

[hatrack]

26. YES! Another Sammy Maudlin fan!

Brilliant - I loved that show!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

8. Mrs. Falbo and The Queen Haters

It's a tie for the strangest two. Andrea Martin did the Romper Room styled "Mrs. Falbo's Tiny Town" with her elf assistant John Candy as "Mr. Messenger." In one episode she visited Melonville Prison. She's left alone with a huge bald-headed convict who stares menacingly at her for a minute and mutters "Heh heh heh...just you and me, Mrs. Fablo" (his mispronunciation).
Second was what I believe to be the final "Mel's Rock Pile" (when the show had moved to Cinemax) and Eugene Levy and Martin Short were the musical guests "The Queen Haters." It was a Sex Pistols takeoff with Short as Johnny Rotten and Levy as Sid Vicious and their song was "I Hate The Bloody Queen." Levy played bass and pogo danced with a look of contempt while Short spit out lines like "I hate the bloody Queen, I can't afford me dope" and ranted about "her Falklands war machine." It was perfect.
Also, there's not enough space here to even touch the extended Canadian film take-off "Garth & Gord & Fiona and Alice" which may be the single best thing these folks ever did. "Maybe the house bummed the mouse out"...

[Enraged_Ape]

9. Bob & Doug McKenzie

I knew a lot of people just like them.

Also loved...

The Farm Film Report
The Schmenge Brothers
The Fishin' Musician

...and too many others to name.

[phillybri]

18. Good day, eh?

Take off!!!

[Norbert]

53. You Hoser!

I love the McKenzie Brothers even though I never tried to squeeze a mouse into a bottle of beer.

[oxymoron]

10. Catherine O'Hara as Lola Heatherton.

[peekaloo]

14. I loved her Dusty Towne character, also

Raunchy lounge singer...."isn't that cute, isn't that true".

[Love Bug]

11. Great White North!

Coo roo koo koo, coo roo koo koo!

Take off, you hoser!

[trotsky]

12. Some links:

http://sctvguide.ca/
http://sctv.org/

[Richardo]

13. Dave Thomas imitating Bob Hope...

They say that for some reason Hope was very difficult to impersonate well. Thomas had it DOWN! :D

[peekaloo]

24. also did an excellent Walter Cronkite!

I love Dave Thomas. Most underrated comedian/impersonator, imho. Lin Ye Tang was a gut buster for me......"Tang Garden, come I make meal for you".

[CanuckAmok]

40. Oh, yeah! And wasn't he...

...turning everyone in to some sort of HUAC witch-hunt, just like the real Hope?

[XNASA]

15. The news team of Floyd Robertson and Earl Camembart.

Tex and Edna Boil.....



And of course, the John Candy characters, Mayor Tommy Shanks, Johnny LaRue and Gil Fisher, the Fishin' Musician.

It was the best comedy show ever shown on TV.

[Darth_Kitten]

17. I love that show........

it's so hard to pick a favourite.... ;)

[lpbk2713]

19. This is where Ed Grimley was born.

I must say.

[DonP]

21. Guy Caballero, media mogul extrodanaire!

I haven't seen Guy mentioned yet.

I loved the wheel chair that he didn't need, but used for sympathy when negotiating contracts with Johnny LaRue.

I think Guy runs fox news now, doesn't he?

[KamaAina]

29. You know why he used that wheelchair?

For respect!

[A HERETIC I AM]

22. John Candy as Yosh Schmengy

"The Schmengy Brothers" polka act.

[frylock]

23. johnny la rue..

also Guy Caballero.

[KamaAina]

30. dupe

da dupe dupe

[KamaAina]

31. Hey, hoser! Here comes Johnny La Rue...

...look out! He's gonna make us wash his car, eh?

[Beaker]

39. johnny wanting a crane shot...

for his man-on-the-street feature, "street beef".

[kodi]

47. la rue's crane shot at the end of "polynesean town" was tops

a true hero

[ellie]

25. Top of the reactor restaurant!

I had to look up the specifics. It is officially called "Towering Inferno with Banda Brava." Hilarious!

[Redbear]

27. Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Pancakes

'Would you like some.....Pan-cakes?"

I always liked Lola's line about " I wanna bear your children."

[FunBobbyMucha]

32. Journey back to Spring, 1982...

...my straight friends (I was Ferris Bueller, and this particular Friday night was with my tee-totalling clique) and I camped out on my sofa late at night and watch SCTV. We were vets to the show, but this particular ep had some convoluted thing that included references to George Plimpton hawking ColecoVision, and Orson Wells following suit with Paul Masson wine. And it was a sci-fi skit to boot! Memory has faded, but I never laughed at this show harder.

[tsakshaug]

33. Memories....

Laughing reading this discussion. It was a great show. For some reason I remember best an episode with Edith Prickley doing a movie "Prickley Heat" a take off on "body heat" a movie at the time.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

34. SCTV on DVD

as far as I know, they are having major problems releasing it on DVD because of possible copyright infringement. Seems they borrowed too many musical bits w/out permission. What a damn shame. There's alot of underground tape swapping though.
This is probably my favorite show of all time.
I especially loved Tex and Edna (come onnnn down). How about when Tex left Edna?
That was so funny.
I love Andrea Martin's characters: Pirini Scleroso, Libby Wolfson (the play she wrote with Sue Bopper Simpson!), and of course Edith Prickly.
That whole cast was awesome and nailed the celebrity impersonations. Joe Flaherty doing Kirk Douglas still kills me.
If I had to pick a show, it probably would be CCCP3, the one where the Soviets highjack SCTV's satellite and show Russian programming.
Unfortunatelly, I believe it will be a cold day in hell before they release it in any form.

[CanuckAmok]

37. It's still on the Comedy Channel in Canada.

I'm sure someone has taped most of them. I'd offer, but we don't receive the Comedy Channel.

[Philostopher]

46. I think the CCCP ep was the one

With 'Happy Georgi' -- he solved everyone's problems.

Russian: "Oh, no, Georgi -- my car won't start!"

Happy Georgi: "Here is your problem -- it looks like Uzbeks have drunk all of your battery fluid!"

There also was a very early episode where John Candy did an Eastern European character of questionable lineage whose only line in English was "Gypsies -- ptui!" but I don't remember the context, and I don't think that was part of the CCCP show. Seems like that one came later.

Another favorite of mine -- and I imagine it would be considered too much of a racial stereotype now to ever make it on TV -- was Dave Thomas's Lin Ye Tang. The first time I remember seeing the character, he'd invented a wooden robot. It was a huge, solid block of wood that he swore moved. It did not, of course, move. "Maybe it's broken -- you come back another day, okay?"

Bill "you're all morons! I can't believe how stupid you are!" Needle and Angus "Bob's Your Uncle" Crock were other characters Thomas did that I remember.

Then there was Mayor Tommy Shanks, another Candy character, who was the completely demented mayor of Melonville. He used to do fireside chats surrounded by stuffed animals -- originally it was just stuffed dogs and cats, but if I recall, as the episode progressed, there also were stuffed elephants and giraffes -- at whom he threw handfuls of dog kibble as if he were throwing out candy to kids at a parade.

[CanuckAmok]

35. "Brock Linahan Goes Home"/Mrs/ Felbo/Pepe Longsocks

It's especially great considering the excellent impression of the real "Brock", whatever his name was. Can any Canuck DUers refresh my memory?

Also, Mrs Felbo's Tiny Town with G. Gordon Liddy,

Phil Donahue in Outer Space

Pepe Longsocks. "See how we jump the weed? Now you jump the weed!"

[ronzo]

36. Tex and Edna Boil

C'mon down...

[Beaker]

38. The Happy Hour, with Happy Marsdale(sp?)...

Aaah! A Bear!

[Beaker]

41. were The Plasmatics ever on "The Fishin' Musician"?

i seem to remember that they were, but a lot of those nights are a distant blur.

[Beaker]

42. the time that CCCP 1 took over the broadcast was pretty good.

[ThoughtCriminal]

44. CCCP-1 Notice we are using new Soviet Mini-cam

(slightly larger than a SUV)
What will the State think of next?!

[Kat45]

43. I can't remember the details of it, but when they were making fun

of the "Canadian content" requirement for Canadian TV stations. They'd keep showing a show, "Our friend, the (I can't remember what rodent was in here, a groundhog or something like that--does anyone remember?)

[BlackVelvetElvis]

48. That was a spoof of a Canadian game show

I believe it was along the lines of name that celebrity voice.
Eugene Levy was playing Dougall-something, the host. Very dry!

[Paul Hood]

45. The Merv Griffith Show

Eugene Levy did a great Floyd the barber.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

49. He also did Floyd the barber in the Godfather spoof.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

50. Whispers of the Wolf

One of Count Floyd's disasters. Ooooh scarrry!
That was a great spoof on an Ingmar Bergman Film.

[Tredge]

51. Bill Murray - DiMaggio's on the Wharf

One of my favorites was when Bill Murray did a guest appearance - he played Joe DiMaggio, who had opened "DiMaggio's on the Wharf," a seafood restaurant, with his brothers Dom and Vinnie.

Customers would get the opportunity to try and strike out Joe DiMaggio, and if they succeeded their meal was on the house. This took place IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RESTAURANT...

Dom DiMaggio (played by Martin Short): "Party of three - your table is ready..." BLAM (Joe ropes a line drive, blasting Dom in the side of the head)

Joe DiMaggio: "Sorry Dom - she pitched me high and tight."

Later a diner, trying to earn a free meal, pitches Joe way inside...

Joe: "You throwin' at me? You throwin' at me you little punk?" (smashes customer in the stomach with his bat) "Put 'im in the crab cooler. See how he likes that!"

I always wish they'd play that episode but I always seem to miss it.

[Rocinante]

52. The Grapes of Mud

as in The Grapes of Wrath. That was a pretty long piece and funny as hell.

[Lost4words]

54. nobody said Sid Dithers !?

the greatest private eye!