# 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:** 3
**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, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/41 "2018-01-24T18:41:18Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > My phone always changes well to we’ll. Sorry, eh. Get oot. ---
**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, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/42 "2018-01-24T18:43:18Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > My phone always changes well to we’ll. Sorry, eh. Ehhh, take off, ya hoser. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/43 "2018-01-24T18:48:07Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > One of my favorite 80s comedies. “It took you two minutes what would have taken us two hours. If you ever want a job, you come see me.” And, it’s also loosely based on Hamlet (Elsinore Brewery, eh?) > > I watched Bob and Doug on SCTV, too. I had their album on vinyl (and I now have it on CD). But, I, too, am old. 😃 Feh. Hoser. I have it digitized and on my phone. Yes, I know that CDs are digital, eh? I recognize the absurdity of my comment. ---
**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, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/44 "2018-01-24T18:59:03Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > Didn’t they popularize “hoser” for a while? Crap- I see “hoser” is right there in the poll. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/45 "2018-01-24T19:04:11Z")
I was always a much bigger fan of SCTV than SNL. In retrospect I think that still holds up. Great cast. The McKenzie Brothers were rarely the best thing in an episode but they rarely disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/46 "2018-01-24T19:12:24Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Not a clue. > > Never heard of them or Strange Brew. > > Too old for me methinks > [@Pleonast](#): > > No idea who they were. What are you guys? Fleshy-Headed Mutants? ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/47 "2018-01-24T19:21:20Z")
Anyone have the album on vinyl and play “You Are Our Guest”? (That was pronounced “you are are guest”) ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/48 "2018-01-24T19:37:06Z")
My [favorite scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eyss6tDHz8) from _Strange Brew_. ---
**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, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/49 "2018-01-24T19:42:05Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > My [favorite scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eyss6tDHz8) from _Strange Brew_. Hahaha!!! It’s like the Canadian version of “Dumb and Dumber” but 10 years earlier! :D:D ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/50 "2018-01-24T19:51:06Z")
“Two bowls of split pleas soup please!” ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/51 "2018-01-24T20:09:10Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > Or 78, if it’s a metric case. I still use the Bob and Doug method for converting Celsius to Fahrenheit: double it and add 30. I know they didn’t come up with that, but that’s where I learned it. I also frequently quote a line from Doug’s “Don’t Kill Bugs” sermon: “Sooner or later, no matter how good you are, somebody will hate you and think of you as a bug.” So true. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/52 "2018-01-24T20:43:45Z")
I saw them on SCTV the first time they aired. I bought their album. I was at the movie on opening day. I saw the movie more than 80 times _in the theater_. I was at the store waiting to buy it on DVD the morning it was released. I still quote them incessantly. I know Bob & Doug, eh. ---
**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, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/53 "2018-01-24T21:12:28Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I saw them on SCTV the first time they aired. I bought their album. I was at the movie on opening day. I saw the movie more than 80 times _in the theater_. I was at the store waiting to buy it on DVD the morning it was released. I still quote them incessantly. > > I know Bob & Doug, eh. Holy fuck **Bo**. Between snowboarding, your love of hockey, and now this revelation? I’m recommending to PM Trudeau that you be made an honourary Canadian. Perhaps even Order Of Canada! ---
**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, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/54 "2018-01-24T21:34:56Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I’m recommending to PM Trudeau that you be made an honourary Canadian. Perhaps even Order Of Canada! The Order of the Golden Toque, eh? ---
**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, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/55 "2018-01-24T21:38:44Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > The Order of the Golden Toque, eh? Five of them! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/56 "2018-01-24T21:48:56Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Holy fuck **Bo**. > > Between snowboarding, your love of hockey, and now this revelation? > > I’m recommending to PM Trudeau that you be made an honourary Canadian. Perhaps even Order Of Canada! But do Bob and Doug know **Bo**? ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/57 "2018-01-24T23:25:25Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > I saw the movie more than 80 times _in the theater_. **Bo** , I’m curious: how did you manage this? Did you quit your job and spend the entire day at the movie theater? I don’t know how long _Strange Brew_ played in theaters, but I can’t imagine that it was more than a few weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/58 "2018-01-24T23:34:16Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Holy fuck **Bo**. > > Between snowboarding, your love of hockey, and now this revelation? > > I’m recommending to PM Trudeau that you be made an honourary Canadian. Perhaps even Order Of Canada! That would totally rock, eh! > [@erysichthon](#): > > **Bo** , I’m curious: how did you manage this? Did you quit your job and spend the entire day at the movie theater? I don’t know how long _Strange Brew_ played in theaters, but I can’t imagine that it was more than a few weeks. 8 times in the theater the first week, 4 the second, then 1-2 times per weekend at Midnight Madness showings for the next few years. I was somewhat obsessive about movies I liked back then; people like me are why they’re known as “cult films”, eh. I’d see it both weekend nights, at least until _Spinal Tap_ came out and hit the MM circuit, then I’d see one each night. Thankfully, I’d already seen _Heavy Metal_ dozens and dozens of times by then or I’d have had to split time with that too. 😃 Back then, when you liked stuff that was weird by the standards of the time, you really had to glom on to it hard or it would disappear. It wasn’t like today, where the internet is one-stop-shopping-and-storage for all kinds of entertainment offerings. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/59 "2018-01-25T00:02:07Z")
Played [their “12 Days of Christmas”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3aCw-RurOk) a month ago for a friend who likely wasn’t allowed to watch SCTV. ---
**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 25, 2018, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362/60 "2018-01-25T00:08:30Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Played [their “12 Days of Christmas”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3aCw-RurOk) a month ago for a friend who likely wasn’t allowed to watch SCTV. Well, that’s cool! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-know-of-bob-and-doug-mckenzie/807362.md?page=4)