I Need Episode Help

[JINGO88911]

One of the very first episodes of sctv i ever saw had John Candy and i think
Martin Short (could be wrong about him) as two guys from a town that was so
small it only had 15 people or something like that. They took the only car they
had to go to the big city and they kept singing some song. They kept picking up
hitch-hikers
and got all of them to sing the song. I might be wrong about this too but i
believe they were going to the big city because the only business in town was
failing and they went to be in show business to make enough money to save it.
The episode was shot outdoors and i believe it was a wraparound episode. I've
tried to find it in the Sctv Episode Guide, but i just haven't seen anything
like it yet.

Like I said, it's been a long time since i saw the episode so I'm sure some of
the facts may not be right in my description, but I know there was an episode
that was basically like that.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've been trying to remember this fro a
long time.

Thanks!

[Len]

are you talking about the one where the two Maritimers (Candy
and Flaherty) went to Toronto "to get a potful?"

that's Garth n Gord n Fiona n somebody

"yeeee hahhhhhh!! i hear there's LOTS of jobs in Toronto!!
lawyerin' jobs for you - and doctorin jobs for me!!!!"

jingo...@aol.com (JINGO88911) wrote in
<20010403113209...@ng-ci1.aol.com>:

[Wanda Sherratt]

Sounds to me like you're thinking of "Garth & Gord & Fiona & Alice",
from the CBC satire. That was Joe Flaherty and John Candy leaving New
Brunswick to seek their fortunes in Toronto, and picking up two girls
along the way. They kept singing

There's a rainbow in Toronto,
Where the Maritimers are bold;
They always get a potful,
But they never get a pot of gold...

And they were to it, and at it,
And at it, and to it,
You better tune your attitude in;
If you don't get at it when you get to it,
You won't get to it to get at it again!

(Boy, did I ever feel stupid typing out that chorus!)

Wanda

[PanFried]

You may have felt stupid typing it, but I felt pretty
stupid trying to sing along.

"Wanda Sherratt" <sher...@mediaone.net> wrote in message
news:3AC9F153...@mediaone.net...

[Markshark989]

Your mind may be combining two or more different skits. One that matches part
of your description is "Melvin & Howards," a parody of "Melvin & Howard" from
Cycle I (1981). In it, Rick Moranis as Melvin Dummar picks up Joe Flaherty as
Howard Hughes. They then pick up Dave Thomas as Senator Howard Baker, Eugene
Levy as Howard Cosell and John Candy as Curly Howard of the Three Stooges. Each
time they pick up a passenger, Moranis insists they sing a song. Some of the
songs are "The Name Game," "Guantanamera," "My Melody Of Love," and "Oh Elaine"
("Sextet From Lucia") from the Three Stooges short "Squareheads Of The Round
Table" (which by the way featured Shemp, not Curly).

[pgh...@hotmail.com]

You may be thinking of Melvin and Howard ,where they drove around in a
pick-up truck , picking up other Howards (for example Howard Cosell
and Curly Howard).

[Jim Powers]

Wanda Sherratt wrote:

> Sounds to me like you're thinking of "Garth & Gord & Fiona & Alice",
> from the CBC satire. That was Joe Flaherty and John Candy leaving New
> Brunswick to seek their fortunes in Toronto, and picking up two girls
> along the way. They kept singing
>
> There's a rainbow in Toronto,
> Where the Maritimers are bold;
> They always get a potful,
> But they never get a pot of gold...
>
> And they were to it, and at it,
> And at it, and to it,
> You better tune your attitude in;
> If you don't get at it when you get to it,
> You won't get to it to get at it again!
>
> (Boy, did I ever feel stupid typing out that chorus!)
>

Thanks...I was trying to remember the words to that song. It played whenever they
were walking up and down Yonge Street, to get away from Fiona who was
always "bummed OOT."

"Gord! I got Fiona pregnant! What are we gonna do?"
"I know! Let's go to...Yonge Street!"

I also liked the scene where they ran over a woodchuck that was being filmed for
a CBC nature documentary, and the director tried to resuscitate it.

[Wanda Sherratt]

>
> Thanks...I was trying to remember the words to that song. It played whenever they
> were walking up and down Yonge Street, to get away from Fiona who was
> always "bummed OOT."

Who is singing that dumb song, anyway? Is it Stompin' Tom Connors? I
know the piece finishes up with Gordon Lightfoot singing "Alberta
Bound", so I wondered if it was a real song that they'd gotten from
somewhere.

>
> "Gord! I got Fiona pregnant! What are we gonna do?"
> "I know! Let's go to...Yonge Street!"

I love that - the way Garth comes running out with his pants unzipped,
after all of 8 seconds with Fiona, and he already knows she's pregnant!

>
> I also liked the scene where they ran over a woodchuck that was being filmed for
> a CBC nature documentary, and the director tried to resuscitate it.

"Gord! You hit a woodchuck! And you knocked him for a loop!" "Well, I
ain't goin' back! You know why? Cause There's a rainbow in Toronto,
Where the Maritimers are bold...!"

Wamda

[hho...@hotmail.com]

Jim Powers wrote:

> I also liked the scene where they ran over a woodchuck that was being filmed for
> a CBC nature documentary, and the director tried to resuscitate it.

This was one of the best "payoffs" ever, IMO. I laughed my butt off when it finally
became apparent why they'd been harping on the damned woodchuck throughout the whole
episode.

-L.H.

[JINGO88911]

This is it! Thanks for the help! It was the Garth and Gord and Fiona and Alice
episode.
Again thanks!!

[James Allen Gray]

When I read your description, I also thought that it sounded like a combination of
Melvin and Howards (as described by Markshark) and Garth, Gord, Fiona and Alice
from the CBC episode. In the latter, Garth and Gord (Candy and Flaherty) leave a
small maritime town to find doctorin' and lawyerin' jobs in Toronto. As they
travel down the highway the score features Stompin' Tom Connors singing his song
"There's a Rainbow in Toronto" After Garth and Gord pick up the hitchhiker Fiona
they all sing the song together. Later, in Toronto, they all cruise Yonge Street
underscored by a heavier version of the song sung by Paul Flaherty (Joe's brother)
doing a damn good imitation of Blood Sweat and Tears' lead singer David Clayton
Thomas. Sorry to say though, that Short does not appear in either sketch.

[abar...@tampabay.r]

On 3 Apr 2001 15:39:04 GMT, bi...@rocketmail.com (Len) wrote:

>"yeeee hahhhhhh!! i hear there's LOTS of jobs in Toronto!!
>lawyerin' jobs for you - and doctorin jobs for me!!!!"

"Do they have doctoring jobs?"

"yeah"

"Do they have lawyering jobs?"

"yeah. Jobs for me and you!"