# SCTV-The show SNL wanted to be when it grew up! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 10, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sctv-the-show-snl-wanted-to-be-when-it-grew-up/325604 "2005-10-10T18:04:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sctv-the-show-snl-wanted-to-be-when-it-grew-up/325604/61 "2005-10-14T18:35:15Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > They messed with his barber pole. Good enough–they _broke_ his barber pole!“It was a nice pole…it had…stripes…oooh…” ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sctv-the-show-snl-wanted-to-be-when-it-grew-up/325604/62 "2005-10-14T19:33:45Z")
Dunno why I missed this question the first time around… I’ll blame it on a lack of coffee… Tex and Edna’s souvenir shop - Tex and Edna Boyle’s Praire Warehouse and Curio Emporium. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sctv-the-show-snl-wanted-to-be-when-it-grew-up/325604/63 "2005-10-14T19:38:14Z")
OK, fine, but let’s address this Python “pole of Africa” business. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sctv-the-show-snl-wanted-to-be-when-it-grew-up/325604/64 "2005-10-14T19:43:14Z")
> [@vl\_mungo](#): > > Dunno why I missed this question the first time around… I’ll blame it on a lack of coffee… > > Tex and Edna’s souvenir shop - Tex and Edna Boyle’s Praire Warehouse and Curio Emporium. It’s “Boil”–but you’re right!Here’s what’s left: [ul] [li]1.Libby Wolfson’s one-woman stage show (looong title)[/li][li]2. “Hi-Q” contestant who always rang in early (was on both high school and night-school versions)[/li][li]5. Jackie Rogers Jr.'s tell-all book (about his father)[/li][li]9b. Skip Bittman’s real first name? “She still calls him Herschel and she still calls me (blank)”[/li][li]10. Program SCTV was showing the first time CCCP1 broke in (SCTV version of a classic)[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sctv-the-show-snl-wanted-to-be-when-it-grew-up/325604/65 "2005-10-14T21:47:38Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > “Pole of Africa”?! Doesn’t ring a bell. But other “plot-driven” Pythons are Cycling Tour and Buying an Ant. > > Oh, and there was the horrible Mr Neutron episode, but I try not to dwell on it. I don’t know the title, but it was the one where they spent the whole episode on one movie being filmed – originally about Antarctic explorers (it was filmed on a beach with the sand painted white), but then they figure out there are no lions in the Antarctic for the hero to fight, so they shift it to Africa – and in the final product we see the intrepid explorers marching across the sand (wearing heavy fur coats) and the voiceover tells us about the story of four (or whatever) brave souls “who set out to find the legendary Pole of Africa, and found – themselves!” It was, as you may guess, a sendup of Hollywood. The hero gets to fight both and lion **and** a giant penguin with long green tentacles. ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sctv-the-show-snl-wanted-to-be-when-it-grew-up/325604/66 "2005-10-14T22:08:40Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I don’t know the title, but it was the one where they spent the whole episode on one movie being filmed – originally about Antarctic explorers (it was filmed on a beach with the sand painted white), but then they figure out there are no lions in the Antarctic for the hero to fight, so they shift it to Africa […] > > The hero gets to fight both and lion **and** a giant penguin with long green tentacles. Although that sketch does go on for an awfully long time, it doesn’t fill the [entire episode](http://www.ibras.dk/montypython/episode23.htm). Maybe the middle third or so. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sctv-the-show-snl-wanted-to-be-when-it-grew-up/325604/67 "2005-10-14T22:17:04Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > I don’t know the title, but it was the one where they spent the whole episode on one movie being filmed – originally about Antarctic explorers (it was filmed on a beach with the sand painted white), but then they figure out there are no lions in the Antarctic for the hero to fight, so they shift it to Africa – and in the final product we see the intrepid explorers marching across the sand (wearing heavy fur coats) and the voiceover tells us about the story of four (or whatever) brave souls “who set out to find the legendary Pole of Africa, and found – themselves!” > > It was, as you may guess, a sendup of Hollywood. > > The hero gets to fight both and lion **and** a giant penguin with long green tentacles. “A giant _10-foot electric_ penguin! And you could stab its wing and the blood’ll go ‘PSSSSHHHHHH’!!” ---
**Author:** ![waits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df788c/32.png) [@waits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waits)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sctv-the-show-snl-wanted-to-be-when-it-grew-up/325604/68 "2005-10-15T03:00:25Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > It’s “Boil”–but you’re right!Here’s what’s left: [ul] > [li]1.Libby Wolfson’s one-woman stage show (looong title)[/li][li]2. “Hi-Q” contestant who always rang in early (was on both high school and night-school versions)[/li][li]5. Jackie Rogers Jr.'s tell-all book (about his father)[/li][li]9b. Skip Bittman’s real first name? “She still calls him Herschel and she still calls me (blank)”[/li][li]10. Program SCTV was showing the first time CCCP1 broke in (SCTV version of a classic)[/li][/ul] 1. _I’m Taking My Own Head, Screwing It On Right, And No Guy’s Gonna Tell Me It Ain’t!_ 2. Wasn’t it their version of _Julius Caesar_ with Bobby Bitman as Caesar? ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sctv-the-show-snl-wanted-to-be-when-it-grew-up/325604/69 "2005-10-15T03:17:27Z")
> [@waits](#): > > 1. _I’m Taking My Own Head, Screwing It On Right, And No Guy’s Gonna Tell Me It Ain’t!_ > > 2. Wasn’t it their version of _Julius Caesar_ with Bobby Bitman as Caesar? I still sometimes will find myself thinking – "I want to especially thank my friends in the Caesarian section. " [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sctv-the-show-snl-wanted-to-be-when-it-grew-up/325604.md?page=3)