# Do you know of Bob and Doug McKenzie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 24, 2018, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362 "2018-01-24T08:00:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/21 "2018-01-24T15:57:03Z")
Not a clue. Never heard of them or Strange Brew. Too old for me methinks ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/22 "2018-01-24T16:00:08Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Too old for me methinks Yeah, the sweet spot would have been being aware of SCTV (SNL’s nerdy Canadian stepbrother) in 1980-1982. The movie came out in 1983, and by then, the characters may well have already been on the downside of their popularity. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/23 "2018-01-24T16:00:59Z")
No idea who they were. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/24 "2018-01-24T16:06:04Z")
I’m not a huge fan, but of course I know their body of work. Years back we had friends visiting from Canada. I rented Strange Brew on videotape. They didn’t think it was funny, nor did they think Canadians behaved in any way like Bob and Doug. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/25 "2018-01-24T16:17:04Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > A two-four, yes. Or 78, if it’s a metric case. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/26 "2018-01-24T16:30:45Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I’m not a huge fan, but of course I know their body of work. > > Years back we had friends visiting from Canada. I rented Strange Brew on videotape. They didn’t think it was funny, nor did they think Canadians behaved in any way like Bob and Doug. Your Canadian friends have no sense of humour then. Obviously it’s a parody, and a pretty damned good one too! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/27 "2018-01-24T16:30:53Z")
I knew they were a Canadian comedy duo, thought they did novelty songs, and I knew Rick Moranis was one. That’s all I got. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/28 "2018-01-24T16:31:53Z")
Take off, eh. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/29 "2018-01-24T16:45:24Z")
A friend and I had just great memories of Strange Brew from when we were teenagers. A few years ago I dug out a copy and we re-watched. The movie was awful. My memory just kept the handful of funny moments and the other 80 something minutes were just bad. My friend hated it it even more than I did. Sometimes you can’t go home again I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/30 "2018-01-24T16:55:53Z")
Didn’t they popularize “hoser” for a while? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/31 "2018-01-24T17:00:26Z")
Heard of them, knew Moranis was one of them, saw the Strange Brew title in my netflix rec’s at one point. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/32 "2018-01-24T17:01:07Z")
[Pizza raid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUX6S7h03PI)! ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/33 "2018-01-24T17:07:59Z")
Probably the most difficult pop culture sensation for me to explain to people under 30. “OK, so the distributor of this SNL-type show wanted a recurring 3-minute sketch of identifiably Canadian content. Moranis and Thomas were incredulous. ‘What do you want us to do? Sit in front of a Canadian map with tuques on and drink beer?’ That’s what they did, and it took off. They had a hit album, a hit single, a hit movie, t-shirts, Pizza Hut commercials, the whole thing, eh?” Seriously, if you hadn’t lived through that, would you believe it? And, yes, I loved those guys. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/34 "2018-01-24T17:20:45Z")
[How they came to be.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkH1Dk5O7KA) ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/35 "2018-01-24T17:28:02Z")
They were in the news this past summer. But being old, I of course already knew who they were. Several of the SCTV cast appeared in a benefit concert in Toronto for Dave Thomas’s nephew who was paralyzed in a snowmobiling accident. Thomas and Moranis reprised their roles as the McKenzie brothers. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/36 "2018-01-24T17:57:19Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I’m not sure what Dave Thomas is up to these days and don’t care enough to Google it. He’s moved into television dramas in recent years – _Bones_ and _The Blacklist_ most recently. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/37 "2018-01-24T17:59:11Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > [How they came to be.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkH1Dk5O7KA) We’ll known story here in Canada, and exactly true. We have mandated Canadian content rules, and thus were born Bob and Doug. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/38 "2018-01-24T18:09:13Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > We’ll known story here in Canada, and exactly true. > > We have mandated Canadian content rules, and thus were born Bob and Doug. My phone always changes well to we’ll. Sorry, eh. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/39 "2018-01-24T18:23:06Z")
They also had a cameo in Disney’s _Brother Bear_ as mooses. ---
**Author:** ![Marlonius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Marlonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlonius)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/40 "2018-01-24T18:27:06Z")
I am a 45 year old Canadian. I will let you guess if I am familiar with the comedic hilarity that is Bob and Doug MacKenzie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362.md?page=3)