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Jonathan Miller

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Aug 27, 2004, 9:05:54 PM8/27/04
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The Tubes are the musical guests in Episode 8 of the season 1 DVDs of
"SCTV Network 90". They appear in a skit called "The Fishing
Musician", do a song about sushi and "Talk to You Later". Vince
doesn't speak any lines, but he is on-camera plenty.

Elsewhere in the episode, John Candy shows up as a hippie with a
walkman and a weird accent. "Hey, are you guys 'up'? I sure am. I'm
listening to The Quicksilver Messenger Service right now!"

band beyond description

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Aug 27, 2004, 9:19:40 PM8/27/04
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"Jonathan Miller" <JonMi...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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thanks for the heads-up; i haven't gotten that far in my DVD set yet...
--
Peace,
~ Steve
"Thinkin a lot about less and less, and forgetting the love we bring..."


Pete

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Aug 27, 2004, 11:20:55 PM8/27/04
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"Jonathan Miller" <JonMi...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> The Tubes are the musical guests in Episode 8 of the season 1 DVDs of
> "SCTV Network 90". They appear in a skit called "The Fishing
> Musician", do a song about sushi and "Talk to You Later". Vince
> doesn't speak any lines, but he is on-camera plenty.

Does he get blown up?


Robert

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Aug 28, 2004, 9:34:38 AM8/28/04
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How/where do I get a copy of SCTV on DVD? I was quite young when it aired
on TV but do remember some skits. I remember seeing the Andy Kaufman
episode and wondering WTF was going on?!?!?!?!

This would make a GREAT Christmas or Birthday Present for my older brother
who remembers the series quite well.

Schmoe

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Aug 28, 2004, 3:07:59 PM8/28/04
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SCTV was some of the best television comedy ever produced. Proof is the long
line of top notch comics who went on to bigger if not better things: Andrea
Martin (simply brilliant), John Candy, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Dave
Thomas and, of course, Martin Short. Funny, funny stuff.


volkfolk

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Aug 28, 2004, 6:54:20 PM8/28/04
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"Schmoe" <jsc...@yourguess.com> wrote in message
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My favorite was always the "Halfwits" bit. I hurt myself laughing the first
time I saw it

Scot


Dave Kelly

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Aug 28, 2004, 7:23:37 PM8/28/04
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I'm on the fence about SCTV........They were very hit or miss.
I remember episodes when the glue/mexican skunk weed
was hittin!...and the show was hysterical......other
times. it was VERY unfunny.
I chose to watch the show on glue/mexican skunk weed
from there on out. Either way, Don Kirshners Rock Concert
was always on after SCTV.....and Mott The Hoople cured it ALL!
you feel that?


Schmoe

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Aug 28, 2004, 7:47:48 PM8/28/04
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"volkfolk" <volk...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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I had many favorites but probably the single fav is Andrea Martin playing a
on-the-spot reporter with a jungle scene in the background and the associate
noises and she's talking it up about something going on in the African
jungle when a 9-10 year old boy rides across the set in the background.
Still cracks me up thinking about it.


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Aug 29, 2004, 12:56:06 AM8/29/04
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"Schmoe" <jsc...@yourguess.com> wrote in message
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SCTV was among the best stuff, but the DVD set is only what was produced for
NBC, unfortunately *not* the several (?) great years of 30-minute episodes
produced for Canadian TV. Some complicated licensing and legal issues have
prevented even this much being issued until now on DVD...maybe others can
explain better, but I think this is what the situation is......

Larry

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Aug 29, 2004, 3:38:35 PM8/29/04
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On 27 Aug 2004 18:05:54 -0700, JonMi...@yahoo.com (Jonathan Miller)
wrote:

>The Tubes are the musical guests in Episode 8 of the season 1 DVDs of
>"SCTV Network 90". They appear in a skit called "The Fishing
>Musician",

The very next episode of Fishin' Musician was supposed to have Rush as
their guest. Unfortunately, the show got canceled before the new
season started. Count Floyd did the intro to "The Weapon" for Rush
live.

One of my favorite things on the show was when the Canadian Gov't got
on their case because there wasn't enough "distinctly Canadian"
content. They responded with Great White North.

--Larry

Steve Lenier

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Aug 29, 2004, 6:43:33 PM8/29/04
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Matt Blankman

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Aug 31, 2004, 12:48:35 AM8/31/04
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JonMi...@yahoo.com (Jonathan Miller) wrote in message news:<449897a.04082...@posting.google.com>...

I'm glad someone else noticed that! I kept meaning to post about Vince
& The Tubes on SCTV, but some how kept forgetting. The SCTV set has
made my year!

Matt

Matt Blankman

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Aug 31, 2004, 12:51:01 AM8/31/04
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"band beyond description" <1...@456.com> wrote in message news:<2pd5fcF...@uni-berlin.de>...

Supposedly, those will be coming eventually. The second cycle of the
first NBC season is next up, in late September. I've read they plan to
release everything. Of course, a lot of sketches from the syndicated
seasons were re-used for the 90 minute NBC shows.

Matt

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