Funniest sketch?
W Lee or T Beatty
Excuse me if this question has been asked here before (I'n new to this
newsgroup), but I'd like to know what other SCTV fans consider to be the
funniest SCTV bit...
My own vote is a tie between the first version of the "English for
Beginners" sketch (Perini Scleroso and Miss Lucille Hitzger: "Can you
direct me to the hotel?" "Cahn you dahrahca me to nah lohto?") and the
first Tex and Edna Boil appearance. In both cases I literally fell off
the couch on to the floor, convulsed with laughter, laughing till I
cried. Nothing else ever has made me laugh so hard. I honestly thought
I might die. Yes, Andrea Martin nearly killed me -- twice.
Ain't that right Edna?
Terry Beatty
Mr. Gone
My vote goes for the "Mel's Rock Pile" sketch with Dave Thomas doing an
impression of Richard Harris singing "MacArthur Park." I ruptured my
spleen the first time I saw it.
Bruce
W Lee or T Beatty <wl...@muscanet.com> wrote:
>Excuse me if this question has been asked here before (I'n new to this
>newsgroup), but I'd like to know what other SCTV fans consider to be the
>funniest SCTV bit...
>My own vote is a tie between the first version of the "English for
>Beginners" sketch (Perini Scleroso and Miss Lucille Hitzger: "Can you
>direct me to the hotel?" "Cahn you dahrahca me to nah lohto?") and the
>first Tex and Edna Boil appearance. In both cases I literally fell off
>the couch on to the floor, convulsed with laughter, laughing till I
>cried. Nothing else ever has made me laugh so hard. I honestly thought
>I might die. Yes, Andrea Martin nearly killed me -- twice.
>Ain't that right Edna?
>Terry Beatty
I'll put in my vote for "The Jazz Singer" with Al Jarreau. Of course,
the Sid Dithers character is a classic, but Joe Flaherty's Rabbi
Maesch does me in.
Honorable mention goes to one that I think was called "Hour of the
Wolf" which was a Bergman take-off. Aaah, shrimpkin.
george hiebert
The sketch is Fighting Airdogs Over the Pacfic with John and Dave.Dave
was great as the Japanese pilot..."I don't feel so good.Boy those
kamakazis sure know how to knock back the sake" I was on the ground.
Trudi Marrapodi
In article <328E8A...@muscanet.com>, W Lee or T Beatty
<wl...@muscanet.com> wrote:
> Excuse me if this question has been asked here before (I'n new to this
> newsgroup), but I'd like to know what other SCTV fans consider to be the
> funniest SCTV bit...
I have just about died laughing at SCTV many times, but my clearest memory
of laughing so hard that I began to cry because my stomach hurt too much
from laughing was at the sequence of "Irving Cohen" commercials on one
episode from the Cinemax season. "Give me a C--a bouncy C..."
There was one for furniture polish (which came in a spray can and a paste
can, which always strikes me as an American as being weird, but I know it
was sold like that at one time in Canada...maybe it still is), then the
one for Bojax Cleanser (this is where it really started to hurt), topped
off by the one and only Tardy Cannon, which lives on to this day as
(colloquially in my household) the only thing that could ever get my
sister Gena anywhere on time. Da da da da, da dee dee dee, and whatever
the hell else you wanna put in there. I was so paralyzed by laughter I was
lying helpless on a bed, unable to move.
Seond prize would have to go to "The Merv Griffth Show." Especially Floyd
the Barber.
Pete B
Mine's a tie between when Floyd the barber asks the Godfather to mess
up Opey for breaking his barber pole. "Opey's such a nice boy. Can't
you just break his leg or something"
- and -
again Levy as Perry Como in the famous commercial. I audio taped that
back then (poor college students couldn't afford VCR's in the early
80's) and can't hear the damn thing due to my hysterical laughter in
the background!
See ya,
Pete
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Steve Wik
In article <328E8A...@muscanet.com> W Lee or T Beatty <wl...@muscanet.com> writes:
>From: W Lee or T Beatty <wl...@muscanet.com>
>Subject: Funniest sketch?
>Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 21:47:04 -0600
>Excuse me if this question has been asked here before (I'n new to this
>newsgroup), but I'd like to know what other SCTV fans consider to be the
>funniest SCTV bit...
Ooh! Tough one! I'd have to vote for either "Vic Arpeggio: Private
Investigator", "Rome, Italian Style" or that Canadian Playhouse thingy hosted
by Lin Ye Tang from the first season! Of course there's also Divine as Peter
Pan and the whole CCCP TV thing and.....
BOSCO
R.J. Payne
In <328E8A...@muscanet.com> W Lee or T Beatty <wl...@muscanet.com>
writes:
>
>Excuse me if this question has been asked here before (I'n new to this
>newsgroup), but I'd like to know what other SCTV fans consider to be
the
>funniest SCTV bit...
>
>My own vote is a tie between the first version of the "English for
>Beginners" sketch (Perini Scleroso and Miss Lucille Hitzger: "Can you
>direct me to the hotel?" "Cahn you dahrahca me to nah lohto?") and the
>first Tex and Edna Boil appearance. In both cases I literally fell
off
>the couch on to the floor, convulsed with laughter, laughing till I
>cried. Nothing else ever has made me laugh so hard. I honestly
thought
>I might die. Yes, Andrea Martin nearly killed me -- twice.
>
>Ain't that right Edna?
>
>Terry Beatty
Sorry, but there's no way I could pick just one...!
PaulW
>In article <328E8A...@muscanet.com>,
>W Lee or T Beatty <wl...@muscanet.com> wrote:
>>Excuse me if this question has been asked here before (I'n new to this
>>newsgroup), but I'd like to know what other SCTV fans consider to be the
>>funniest SCTV bit...
How about "Whatever Happened to Baby Grimley?" -- one of the all-time great
Candy-Short pairings?
Remember a crumpled Ed lying in the driveway, saying: "I'm completey
ruined, you know."
"Grilled cheese and soup, how pleasant."
PAULW
Root Boy Jim
In article <328E8A...@muscanet.com>,
W Lee or T Beatty <wl...@muscanet.com> wrote:
>Excuse me if this question has been asked here before (I'n new to this
>newsgroup), but I'd like to know what other SCTV fans consider to be the
>funniest SCTV bit...
It's not even close. The funniest *show* was the 'Night of the
Prime Time Stars' episode, a takeoff on Poltergeist.
Also in that show was the promo for the series 'The Long Hard War'.
The Towering Inferno was pretty good too.
Christopher Murphy
Tough one.
I don't think I can narrow it down to just one sketch. One that I do
remember (sort of) with fondness was the one wher John Candy plays a police
dispatcher. I forget his name (Dirk Grummen or something like that) who
wears bunny slippers at work. This eccentricity is overlooked by the
department because he's such a damn fine police dispatcher! Anyhow, the
parts that cracked me up was when the announcer woud do a voice over for
the show and Candy would stare directly into the camera with a seriously
determined look on his face. There's one scene where he's in a fight with
his boss and breaks it off to stare into the camera. His boss (Flaherty) is
just looking at him wondering what the hell he's doing while the announcer
goes through his routine.
Subtle. Priceless. I wanna be a police dispatcher when I grow up.
Chris
--
"They tore the forest down to build a piece of crap!"
Niel Young
PaulW
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>I don't think I can narrow it down to just one sketch. One that I do
>remember (sort of) with fondness was the one wher John Candy plays a police
>dispatcher. I forget his name (Dirk Grummen or something like that) who
>wears bunny slippers at work. This eccentricity is overlooked by the
>department because he's such a damn fine police dispatcher! Anyhow, the
>parts that cracked me up was when the announcer woud do a voice over for
>the show and Candy would stare directly into the camera with a seriously
>determined look on his face. There's one scene where he's in a fight with
>his boss and breaks it off to stare into the camera. His boss (Flaherty) is
>just looking at him wondering what the hell he's doing while the announcer
>goes through his routine.
That was a good one. Had an immortal police despatching line: "Dammit, I
don't know where that street is!"
PAULW
george hiebert
Anyone remember Clog,with Ramis as a Swedish detective who would flip his
clog shoes at crooks?
"You may be hot stuff in Sweden Clog, but here your just a flatfoot in
orthopedic shoes. You got that?"
Trevor Cordes
"Now I know why they call these things Zeros!" -- the Japanese pilot
;-)
Todd
In article <E157D...@world.std.com>, r...@world.std.com (Root Boy Jim) wrote:
>In article <328E8A...@muscanet.com>,
>It's not even close. The funniest *show* was the 'Night of the
>Prime Time Stars' episode, a takeoff on Poltergeist.
I've always had a special place in my heart for "Mel's Rockpile." Is it time
for the spot dance yet?
Todd
Mark Czerniec
"Mrs. Falbo's Tiny Town" is on location at a prison ala Johnny Cash.
There's a jailbreak, and the bewanded star is confronted by a burly
inmate who observes, "It's just you and me, Mrs. Fablo."
Mark Czerniec <czer...@execpc.com>
http://members.aol.com/markenosha/
Shaft
Clogs was funny, but overall the funniest on-going sketch was Happy Hour,
with Marsden, that puppet, and weekly western with Don Mills, Cheaplaffs,
Tojo, and the rest. At least thats how I feel about the matter. A close
second would be Mel's Rock Pyle with Rockin' Mel Slurp.
hkfuhee
The guys name was Turk Grummen and he came from the 'Cushy World of Limo
Dispatching.'
And don't forget the Romance - 'here's your coffees Mr. Grummen.'
And the Drama - 'You take a left on Main'
And the hard hitting action 'Listen Chief, I told you that I don't feel
comfortable in Police issue shoes, so
either you let me wear the slippers, or I WALK!!!"
PaulW <pa...@azstarnet.com> wrote in article
<paulw.32...@azstarnet.com>...
Root Boy Jim
>In article <E157D...@world.std.com>, r...@world.std.com (Root Boy Jim) wrote:
>
>>It's not even close. The funniest *show* was the 'Night of the
>>Prime Time Stars' episode, a takeoff on Poltergeist.
I almost forgot...
Monday...
Tuesday...
Wednesday...
Thursday...
Friday...
Saturday...
Sunday...
These are...The Days of the Week!
Trudi Marrapodi
In article <19961202231...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
fthom...@aol.com wrote:
> As difficult as it is to choose SCTV's funniest sketch, I remember the one
> that literally had me gasping for air, laughing so hard I thought I was
> going to become ill: Ed Grimley's "The Fella Who Couldn't Wait For
> Christmas."
This is a favorite with my sisters and me. What kid who ever celebrated
Christmas can't relate to that wonderful misery of anticipation as you lie
in bed on Christmas Eve, unable to sleep for thinking of what might be
lying under the tree just a short distance away?
We always die laughing when Ed can't stand the suspense anymore and
decides to open his bedroom door just the teensiest little crack to see if
he can just take one little peek, and you instantly hear a parent roar
"GET TO BED!" and he slams it back shut! That is our mother all over. To
this day, she still does it when we have Christmas at her house, and we're
all at least in our 30s! We can't get out of bed a second before she wants
to on Christmas morning, because we'll hear her bellow "GO TO SLEEP!"
> And, while not the funniest, I have an enduring affection for the
> "Pre-Teen World" Telethon: Who else knows the lyrics?
>
> It's been real decent
> doing our show
> but now the Government's
> saying no!
> And we're all a-scared
> every boy and girl
> of losing Pre-Teen World...
>
> Gosh, I can't remember what I had for breakfast, but *this* is stuck in my
> mind forever.
>
> Frank Thompson
So true! My favorite parts of that one were the Recess Monkeys doing the
Chilliwack song, and the girls tap-dancing to Hall & Oates! "I can't go
for that...no can do..."
fthom...@aol.com
As difficult as it is to choose SCTV's funniest sketch, I remember the one
that literally had me gasping for air, laughing so hard I thought I was
going to become ill: Ed Grimley's "The Fella Who Couldn't Wait For
Christmas."
And, while not the funniest, I have an enduring affection for the
Michael Anthony Smit
Root Boy Jim (r...@world.std.com) wrote:
: I almost forgot...
Rocko..
"That's Dr. Rocko to you.."
--
"who's the skag?....sis?"
__
"HiHo"
MikeS.
Christopher Murphy
Michael Anthony Smit <ms...@uoguelph.ca> wrote in article
<58044d$r...@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca>...
>
> Rocko..
>
> "That's Dr. Rocko to you.."
> --
> "who's the skag?....sis?"
> __
> "HiHo"
>
>
> MikeS.
>
Dr. Waynewight: How much is it gonna cost for you to keep your mouth shut?
Rocco: A Thousand bucks!
Dr. Waynewright: (Suppressing laughter) Alright Rocco. You drive a hard
bargin.
You spend ten years in here and when you get out you'll have a thousand
bucks
waiting fou you.
Rocco: Heh, heh. Easiest thousand bucks I ever made!
--
Chris
Larry Lloyd
For me, it's Eugene Levy as a catatonic Perry Como, singing " I Love
the Night Life...". Levy was the funniest thing on
SCTV, and why he isn't a star is beyond me.
-Larry Laloyd