Any favorite memories from SCTV? I was always partial to Monster Chiller Horror Theater, hosted by Count Floyd (Joe Flaherty) and featuring favorite flicks like Dr. Tongue’s 3D House of Pancakes, Dr. Tongue’s 3D House of Stewardesses, and Tip O’Neil’s 3D House of Representatives. Oooh, wasn’t that scary?
How about you?
There’s a lot of great memories I have of SCTV, but there’s a few that I always think of right away:
Igor’s (I think) Tractor from when the Russians took over SCTV (though all of the Russian programming was hilarious), The Battle of the PBS Stars (the fight between Mr. Rogers and Julia Childs), and Johnny La Rue’s forced Christmas moment (when Caballero sent him into the cold, and Santa got him what he wanted: a crane).
The Great White North
I’m fond of the episode where there was a strike, so they had to borrow CBC’s feed for a while.
'It’s funny, ‘cuz it’s true!’
(OK, not ALL Canadian TV was as lame as all that, but there was an AWFUL lot that was…)
I fell in love with SCTV in the mid '80s when I was in high school and the local PBS station ran the show at midnight on weekdays. I used to sneak downstairs and watch with the volume turned waaaaay down so as not to wake up my folks.
Some of my favorite moments were:
Eugene Levy and John Candy as the Schmenge Brothers, the Leutonian singing sensations. (“And we’d like to thank Mrs. Frank Leuchatach for making the delicious cabbage rolls and coffee, right Stan?” “Ya, right Yosh!”)
Lee A. Iacocca’s Rock Concert (“Lee” and “Tony Orlando” singing “Tie A Yellow Ribbon 'round The Dodge Omni”)
Mrs. Falbo’s Tiny Town! The intro was fantastic: John Candy in drag dressed like Mother Goose, screaming into the parking lot in an early '70s AAR 'Cuda and staggering onto the set just as the theme song ended
Harold Ramis as Moe Green, the station manager. . .
and the list goes on and on. Damn, shouldn’t be posting after four beers. . .
Zappo
Wasn’t John Candy Mr Messenger in MFTT, and Andrea Martin Mrs Talbo herself?
(Or did they do a different version I never saw?)
The fishing musicians with Wendo O Williams and the plasmatics.
When the Russians took over SCTV
When Guy Cabellero stood up for a moment because he couldn’t get his wheelchair around something and explaind that he was just lazy.
Also when he appeared in Indy Jones III
The film reviews ‘That blowed up real good.’
SCTV is my favorite sketch comedy show.
Who was the John Candy character “with the snake on his face”? Seems to me he was some sort of salesman. I remember laughing hyterically at this, but now the memories of the actual sketch are vague.
I can’t remember his name, but he ran the local adult store in Melonville.
Adult videos, adult books, adult toys…and electronics, at one point, oddly.
He was good.
His name was Harry something. . .“Hi, I’m Harry, the guy with the snake on his face!”
You might be right, Tengu. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen it.
Zappo
Mrs. Falbo was played by Andrea Martin, and John Candy was the guy with the jester hat.
Remember Mrs. Falbo entertaining at the prison?
Ahhhh and Lola Heatherton - “I want to bear aaalllll your children! Ha. Ha. Ha.”
The Great White North was more than just a sketch to me, and to many Canadian youngsters of the time. We all went around singing “koooo lookookookoookookookooo, kooooo lookookookookookookoo” and calling one another hosers. What surprises me is that I will still, 15+ years later, call someone a hoser. And they will understand the meaning.
Dave Thomas, as Richard Harris, singing MacArthur Park. Holy Jesus, that was funny.
How about when the evil spirit took over the studio during sweeps week? Andrea Martin as the diminutive psychic, Guy Caballero blubbering “I’m ascairt! I’m ascairt!” Good times. Good times.