Fave sketches?
Julio P
My experiences: I started watching SCTV sometime after John Candy died. I
wanted to see some of his earlier performances on SCTV so I watched come of
my dad's old videotapes with SCTV. I also saw "Dr. Tongue's 3-D House Of
Stewardesses" on Nick At Nite's 10th anniversary week, where they showed
some old shows that are not on the network anymore, like SCTV.
Some of my favorite sketches:
The opening of "3-D House Of Stewardesses" with Guy and Pirini.
"Sit down."
"Seed dow."
"Sit-- Sit down."
"Seed-- Seed dow."
"Have a seat."
"Hasseet!"
"Sit-- Never mind."
"Ner my."
The one where Levy and Flatterty (sp) are playing Siskel and Ebert. They do
"Star Wars 14: Empires Are A Girl's Best Friend" and the DOG OF THE WEEK,
"Henry." Look at Flatterty's face when it's time for the "Dog Of The Week."
More to come...
Peter Maranci
Someone may have already mentioned this one, but John Candy was
incredible doing "Street Beef" on the (1st?) SCTV Xmas special --
particularly when he was drunk and lying on the street crying. Genius. I
don't know why he was never as funny in the movies...maybe because he
didn't get to write his own material?
I have a lot of episodes on tape, but one that I don't have and
really miss is when Andrea played a Georgian woman who had her arms and
legs cut off by Cossacks, but recovered by eating yogurt.
Jeeze, if SNL had one-TENTH the talent of SCTV it would be
tolerable...
-->Pete
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george hiebert
>
> I have a lot of episodes on tape, but one that I don't have and
>really miss is when Andrea played a Georgian woman who had her arms and
>legs cut off by Cossacks, but recovered by eating yogurt.
It was like a meeracle.
John M. Vogel
Julio P (Wei...@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: Some of my favorite sketches:
: The opening of "3-D House Of Stewardesses" with Guy and Pirini.
: "Sit down."
: "Seed dow."
: "Sit-- Sit down."
: "Seed-- Seed dow."
: "Have a seat."
: "Hasseet!"
: "Sit-- Never mind."
: "Ner my."
Wasn't there one in which Pirini is alone in Guy's office and sits in
Guy's chair and starts acting silly? Or am I just dreaming? That was
classic :)
John
jvo...@crl.com
ho...@aol.com
In article <5al7sq$7...@news-central.tiac.net>, pmar...@tiac.net (Peter
Maranci) writes:
> Someone may have already mentioned this one, but John Candy was
>incredible doing "Street Beef" on the (1st?) SCTV Xmas special --
>particularly when he was drunk and lying on the street crying. Genius. I
>don't know why he was never as funny in the movies...maybe because he
>didn't get to write his own material?
>
>
Dave Thomas says in his new book that he is immensely proud of writing
that bit, becuase of the legend that grew up involving Candy being
actually drunk and ad-libbing . . .
Cheers,
Z
Andrey Spiwak
SCTV. I think it is the immigration officer she is visiting in the sketch, or
an employment counsellor played by Joe Flaherty. Bad memory in me old age.
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fing...@village.ios.com
There was a sketch in the 90 minute series called "Dr. X, the Man with
the X-Ray Eyes," with Dave Thomas as a gumshoe with x-ray vision and
Rick Moranis as the invisible man. It was hilarious (as I remember it),
but I haven't seen it since it first aired, what, 14 years ago? I'd
dearly love to see that again.
Peter Maranci
>>Wasn't there one in which Pirini is alone in Guy's office and sits in
>>Guy's chair and starts acting silly? Or am I just dreaming? That was
>>classic :)
>>
>>John
>>jvo...@crl.com
>>
>No, that is true. I have seen that one also, and it is priceless like most
>SCTV. I think it is the immigration officer she is visiting in the sketch, or
>an employment counsellor played by Joe Flaherty. Bad memory in me old age.
Pirini had been working as a cleaning woman at SCTV, and sat at
Guy's desk and started talking, picking up the phone, etc. "Sell FORTY
shares!". Guy came in and I *think* she sent him flying out of there in
his wheelchair...
Another great one: Lin Ye Tang in "Blind Fists of the Furious
Dragon", featuring Schtick Fu.
And one that I *dreamed* about for years was from the first
season, when Dave Thomas did a commercial for a microwave. He had his hand
inside it when it started up, and he pulled out a skeleton claw instead of
a hand. It was totally surreal when the claw started reaching for his
throat...
Endorphin
I can't remember the name of the bit, but one of my favorite
sketches cast John Candy and Dave Thomas (I think) as two hillbillies
who "blowed things up real good."
Anyone remember the details? I used to have it on video -- but that
was about 10-15 years ago.
Jackie
This was the "Farm Film Report", and yes, celebrities and others used to
"blow up real good!" My personal favorite was Brooke Shields...yeah, she
blowed up REAL good!
--
Jackie
...that's all I know for now.
hkfuhee
>
> Wasn't there one in which Pirini is alone in Guy's office and sits in
> Guy's chair and starts acting silly? Or am I just dreaming? That was
> classic :)
>
> John
> jvo...@crl.com
>
>
Yah, she took Guy's office and wheel chair.
She picked up the phone and sold forty shares.
Then she wiped the sweat off her brow and started lamenting like Guy does
about Big trouble.
Then Guy came in and boned her.
But the NBC version censored that last part.
HKFUHEE
Merrick Weintraub
That was Big Jim McBob and Billy Saw Heroc sayin, "May the
good lord take a liken to ya, and blow ya up real soon!"
They also blew up Neil Sedaka, Randy Newman, The Village People.
All very deserving.
Merrick
JFK
ItEndorphin wrote:
>
> I can't remember the name of the bit, but one of my favorite
> sketches cast John Candy and Dave Thomas (I think) as two hillbillies
> who "blowed things up real good."
>
> Anyone remember the details? I used to have it on video -- but that
> was about 10-15 years ago.
Candy and Joe Flaherity. Farm Film Report? Something like that..
scott weiler
her...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
>
> Merrick Weintraub (merr...@interport.net) wrote:
>
> : That was Big Jim McBob and Billy Saw Heroc sayin, "May the
> : good lord take a liken to ya, and blow ya up real soon!"
>
> : They also blew up Neil Sedaka, Randy Newman, The Village People.
> : All very deserving.
>
> : Merrick
>
> : Jackie <wj82...@ucflink.com> wrote:
>
> : >>
> : >> I can't remember the name of the bit, but one of my favorite
> : >> sketches cast John Candy and Dave Thomas (I think) as two hillbillies
> : >> who "blowed things up real good."
> : >>
> : >> Anyone remember the details? I used to have it on video -- but that
> : >> was about 10-15 years ago.
>
> : >"blow up real good!" My personal favorite was Brooke Shields...yeah, she
> : >blowed up REAL good!
>
> : >--
> : >Jackie
>
> : >...that's all I know for now.
>
>
> HermitUm... A little mixed up. It was Joe as Big Jim McBob and John as Billy
Sol. I've got a .wav file that I use to boot up my computer that has
their "Howdy Farmers..." spiel. It's pretty cool, eh! I've got more if
anyone's interested.
-Scott Weiler
her...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
John M. Vogel
hkfuhee (hkf...@hkstar.com) wrote:
: Yah, she took Guy's office and wheel chair.
: She picked up the phone and sold forty shares.
: Then she wiped the sweat off her brow and started lamenting like Guy does
: about Big trouble.
: Then Guy came in and boned her.
: But the NBC version censored that last part.
Well, excepting for that last part, you've got it spot on...
Thanks for refreshing my memory. I loved that bit.
John
jvo...@crl.com
Peter Maranci
In article <5bavud$q...@park.interport.net>,
Merrick Weintraub <merr...@interport.net> wrote:
Big Jim and Billy Saul also blew up Andrea Martin doing an
absolutely *incredible* Bernadette Peters. I don't know why she never did
that again.
"I'm going out there Little Miss Nobody...but I'm coming back a
star!"
"She's real cute...in a vulner'ble kinda way."
hkfuhee
That was called Farm Film Celebrity Blow Up starring Billy Saw Hurog and
Big Jim McBob.
They would get stars to Blow up (John Candy and Joe Flaherty) and they had
such favourites as Paul Anka [who blew up because of his high voice),
Brooke Sheilds (who showed her talent by singing Whip It) and Dustin
Hoffman (who blew up as Tootsie).
HKFUHEE
Endorphin <Endo...@zannalee.mit.edu> wrote in article
<32D76C...@zannalee.mit.edu>...
greg
In article <01bc02c0$ba947880$0a0a...@hkstar.com.hkstar.com>, "hkfuhee" says...
>They would get stars to Blow up (John Candy and Joe Flaherty) and they had
>such favourites as Paul Anka [who blew up because of his high voice),
that was Neil Sedaka (Eugene again!) that they forced to sing higher cuz
he "sounds like a girl"! HA!
Bob Fingerman
Merrick Weintraub wrote:
>
> That was Big Jim McBob and Billy Saw Heroc sayin, "May the
> good lord take a liken to ya, and blow ya up real soon!"
For once and for all, the correct spelling of John Candy's character is
BILLY SOL HUROK, not "Saw." How the hell did anyone hear it as "Saw?"
gr...@stim.com
her...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca wrote:
>>
>> Merrick Weintraub (merr...@interport.net) wrote:
>>
>> : That was Big Jim McBob and Billy Saw Heroc sayin, "May the
>> : good lord take a liken to ya, and blow ya up real soon!"
>>
>> : All very deserving.
One of my favs was when Eugene did a beautiful Freddy Fender. He was only
able to say "wasted days and wasted..." before they blowed him up! Now *that*
was pure genius!
greg
sco...@the.alamo.com
It was Neil Sedaka who blew up, actually (the Eugene Levy version of
Neil Sedaka, which was pretty funny), not Paul Anka.
"They say that blowin' up, is, haaaard tooo dooo ..."
HK>That was called Farm Film Celebrity Blow Up starring Billy Saw Hurog and
HK>Big Jim McBob.
HK>They would get stars to Blow up (John Candy and Joe Flaherty) and they had
HK>such favourites as Paul Anka [who blew up because of his high voice),
HK>Brooke Sheilds (who showed her talent by singing Whip It) and Dustin
HK>Hoffman (who blew up as Tootsie).
HK>HKFUHEE
HK>Endorphin <Endo...@zannalee.mit.edu> wrote in article
HK><32D76C...@zannalee.mit.edu>...
HK>> I can't remember the name of the bit, but one of my favorite
HK>> sketches cast John Candy and Dave Thomas (I think) as two hillbillies
HK>> who "blowed things up real good."
HK>>
HK>> Anyone remember the details? I used to have it on video -- but that
HK>> was about 10-15 years ago.
HK>>
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Patrick McGinley
The Peoples Golden Global Choice Awards <?> where Bob Hope turns them in. At
the end Guy Cabalioro gets out of his wheelchiar and starts doing his kung fu,
gets nailed in the mellon, ends up in jail, and at the end, they all burst into
a spiritual song (saw the ending on a friends cable, and they didn't have the
repentant singing part, which really hurt.)
They don't make television like this anymore, which is why I'm here.
JBsbr2day
One of my all time favorites was night school quiz bowl, all contestants
were drop outs or recent immagrents what a scream!!
Dave Kington
JBsbr2day wrote:
>
> One of my all time favorites was night school quiz bowl, all contestants
> were drop outs or recent immagrents what a scream!!
The Half Wits? I believe it was hosted by "Alex Trebell". I recall
Martin's "Lawrence Orbach": "Yes, Alex I'm currently in my 15th year at
high school" or some such thing. Hilarious!!!
Gotta love it
Dave
Chris Odorjan
Although I liked the "Half-Wits" sketch, I think the one JBsbr2day is
talking about was "Hi-Q", also hosted by Alex Trebell. Half-Wits was
more like Jeopardy, but Hi-Q was people from a night-school. One was
from some European country who couldn't speak any English, and he had
his wife translate for him (she of course froze on screen). John Candy
kept ringing his buzzer, then claiming he didn't do it. In the end, the
students drive Alex Trebell nuts.
Chris "BoB" Odorjan
http://www.oxford.net/~bobnet/
Antman
If any of you are ancient enough to remember the original version of
"Hollywood Squares" with Peter Marshall as host (not the later version
with John Davidson), the Night School set was an exact duplicate.
The contestants were Dave Thomas as Oogie Sharp, a half-deaf old coot
who was almost too slow to play the game; Joe Flaherty as an Arthur
Andrew Liggett-type character who rambled on and on about nothing, even
after the question time had expired; Rick Moranis, who kept buzzing in
to offer his help fixing things around the studio; Joe's brother Paul
played the nuclear physicist Thjs, whose translator/wife kept freezing
on camera; John Candy was Mike, who kept buzzing in, but then insisted
that he didn't ("this damn buzzer must be broke, Alex"); and Catherine
O'Hara played Margaret Meehan, a constant frustration to Alex, who would
buzz in with possible answers before the questions were even asked ("A
small, viselike object, Alex?").
As in every game show he hosted, Trebel eventually loses his temper and has
their buzzers disconnected one by one. When Moranis offers to help with
the disconnections ("I've got a set of tools in the car, Alex; 'bam-bam'
and I'm back in the studio."), Alex screams, "Why don't you disconnect
your OWN buzzer!?!?!?" A delighted Moranis complies, and is completely
entangled in cable as the credits roll. BTW, the producer of the show
is Hudgie DeRobertis...
One of the classic SCTV sketches, which I show to all newcomers!!
Antman
Dennis Terrell
I always loved the episode where Johnny La Rue has been relegated to
the streets of Mellonville on Christmas Eve with only one camera and
one microphone and ordered by Caballero to do a man-on-the-street type
show. Poor guy... all did was blow up the budget for the crane shot
in Polynesiantown. The final shot showing Santa's gift to J.LaR. was
a classic.
her...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Dennis Terrell (dex...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: I always loved the episode where Johnny La Rue has been relegated to
I thought Jerry Todd's "gyro-cam" was a pretty cool gift. When he has
jumping around with it on and fell into thr tree was great.
Hermit
Andrey Spiwak
In article <5dctd2$arq$1...@news.sas.ab.ca>,
her...@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca () wrote:
>Dennis Terrell (dex...@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
>: I always loved the episode where Johnny La Rue has been relegated to
>: the streets of Mellonville on Christmas Eve with only one camera and
>: one microphone and ordered by Caballero to do a man-on-the-street type
>: show. Poor guy... all did was blow up the budget for the crane shot
>: in Polynesiantown. The final shot showing Santa's gift to J.LaR. was
>: a classic.
>
Dave Thomas describes this in his new book about SCTV, saying that this was
done in the dead of winter in Edmonton and John Candy was a real trooper
throughout the shoot. The book is an excellent source for SCTV fans.
Andrey
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Izolde
Wasn't that the same Christmas show with "Christmas with Liberace"
(Thomas, of course), and Ed Grimley's Boy who Coudln't Sleep?
greg841
I remember one Count Floyd introduction to the movie "Blood Sucking
Monkeys From West Mifflin, Pennsylvania." Being from Pennsylvania, I
thought that the title alone was one of the funniest things I had ever
heard!
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"Everyone's Gone to The Moon" - Jonathan King
Izolde
Re the bloodsucking monkeys:
I love the story about this in Dave Thomas's SCTV book. Turns out
Flaherty flew the coop for a vacation in Italy and left the cast for a
couple of weeks. He turned out the bloodsucking monkey and several other
Guy Caballero bits in the studio alone one morning, just working off the
top of his head. I always thought Joe was the most underrated SCTV guy,
anyway. The bloodsucking monkeys bit was always one of my favorites, too.
Laura