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Second City Television (SCTV) was a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's The Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984. Sketch Show redirects here. ...
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Andrea Martin (born January 15, 1947) is a Tony Award-winning American actor and comedienne. ...
Frederick Alan Rick Moranis (born April 18, 1953) is a Canadian actor, comedian and musician best known for his comedy work on SCTV and appeared in several Hollywood films including Ghostbusters, Little Shop of Horrors, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs, and My Blue Heaven. ...
Catherine OHara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian/American actress and comedian. ...
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Tony Rosato (born December 26, 1954) is an Italian-born actor who appears in television and movies in both Canada and the United States. ...
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Premise The basic premise of SCTV is that it is the television station for the city of Melonville, in an unknown state or province. Rather than broadcast the usual TV rerun fare, the business puts on a bizarre and humorously incompetent range of cheap local programming. This can range from a soap opera called "The Days of the Week", to game shows like "Shoot At The Stars", in which celebrities are literally shot at like targets in a shooting gallery, to full blown movie spoofs like "Play it Again, Bob" in which Woody Allen (Rick Moranis) tries to get Bob Hope (Dave Thomas) to star in his next film. In-house media melodrama was also satirised with characters like John Candy's vain, bloated variety star Johnny La Rue, Dave Thomas' acerbic critic Bill Needle, Joe Flaherty's wheelchair-bound program manager Guy Caballero, and Andrea Martin's flamboyant, leopard-skin clad station manager Mrs. Edith Prickley. The first TIME magazine cover devoted to soap operas, dated January 12, 1976. ...
Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian and playwright. ...
Bob Hope, KBE (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003), born Leslie Townes Hope, was an English-Born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel, well known for his good natured humor and career longevity. ...
History
Seasons 1 & 2: 1976-79 SCTV was initially produced starting in 1976 at the Toronto studios of the Global Television Network, then a small regional network of stations in Southern Ontario. For the first two years of the show, new episodes were seen every second week during the regular TV season from September to March. There were thirteen episodes produced in 1976/77, and another thirteen in 1977/78; these two years of alternate-week programming were considered one 'season' for syndication purposes. All of the original cast (except Harold Ramis) were from the Toronto branch of The Second City theatre improv troupe, and many of them had previously worked together on The David Steinberg Show. Ramis was also a Second City vet, but with the Chicago troupe. Global Television Network (more commonly called Global TV or just Global) is a Canadian English language privately owned television network. ...
David Steinberg, born into a Jewish family August 9, 1940, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Canadian comedian, actor, director, writer and author. ...
The original SCTV cast consisted of John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Ramis and Dave Thomas. All also served as writers on the show, although Martin and O'Hara did not receive writing credits on the very earliest episodes. Ramis served as SCTV's original head writer, but only appeared on-screen as a regular during the first season. The show also usually employed at least one or two other writers outside of the cast, but throughout its run SCTV's content was largely created by the on-screen performers. John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. ...
Joe Flaherty Joe Flaherty (June 21, 1941) is an American Canadian comedian. ...
Eugene Levy (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian Emmy- and Grammy Award-winning actor, television director, producer, musician and writer. ...
Andrea Martin (born January 15, 1947) is a Tony Award-winning American actor and comedienne. ...
Catherine OHara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian/American actress and comedian. ...
Rex David Dave Thomas (July 2, 1932 – January 8, 2002) was an American businessman and philanthropist. ...
SCTV became a weekly series on Global for the 1978/79 season, and was seen in syndication throughout Canada and parts of the United States.
Season 3: 1980-81 The show was temporarily off the air, but returned to production after producer Andrew Alexander and Allarcom-ITV Edmonton owner Dr. Charles Allard struck a deal to produce SCTV in Edmonton, Alberta. In 1980, after a one year hiatus, SCTV moved to CBC for its third season, and the show's production base moved to ITV Studios (Global TV) in Edmonton, where the show was produced for the 1980-1981 season, and part of the 1981-1982 season, wrapping production in December 1981. Candy, O'Hara and Ramis dropped out of the show at this juncture; added to the cast (and writing room) were Tony Rosato, Robin Duke and Rick Moranis. Moranis, a friend of Dave Thomas, would be the only cast member not to have come from the ranks of Second City. Edmonton is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, situated in the north central region of the province, an area with some of the most fertile farm land on the prairies. ...
Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ...
CBC Television is a Canadian English language television network. ...
Tony Rosato (born December 26, 1954) is an Italian-born actor who appears in television and movies in both Canada and the United States. ...
Robin Duke (born March 13, 1954 in St. ...
Frederick Alan Rick Moranis (born April 18, 1953) is a Canadian actor, comedian and musician best known for his comedy work on SCTV and appeared in several Hollywood films including Ghostbusters, Little Shop of Horrors, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs, and My Blue Heaven. ...
Seasons 4 & 5: 1981-83 In 1981, SCTV was picked up as a 90-minute show by NBC as a mid-season replacement (for The Midnight Special), airing first as SCTV Network 90, then as SCTV Network, late Friday nights. For this iteration of SCTV, Rosato and Duke dropped out (and ended up as cast members of Saturday Night Live), and Candy and O'Hara returned. AUGUST 25 1981 US Marine Sean Vance is Born on the 25th of August {ear nav|1981}} Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Midnight Special was a musical television series that ran from 1972 until 1983 on the NBC network. ...
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During its network run, the show garnered 15 Emmy nominations, winning two (both for outstanding writing in a variety or music program). The show continued to air on the CBC in Canada as a full hour, edited down from the NBC shows. An Emmy Award. ...
In 1982, the show moved back to Toronto. Writer/performer Martin Short was added to the cast in late 1982, but several episodes later Catherine O'Hara left again, as did Thomas and Moranis. Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian/American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. ...
Season 6: 1983-84 In the fall of 1983, NBC wanted the late Friday night timeslot for the new Friday Night Videos. SCTV was offered a slot on early Sunday evenings by NBC, but because they would have had to alter their content to appeal to "family" audiences, they declined. Instead, for their final season, the show moved to pay-TV channels Superchannel in Canada and Cinemax in the United States, changing the name slightly to SCTV Channel. For this final season, the cast consisted solely of Flaherty, Levy, Martin and Short, although Candy, Thomas, and O'Hara all made guest appearances. Additionally, writer/performers John Hemphill and Mary Charlotte Wilcox, though never full cast members, appeared semi-regularly throughout Seasons 5 and 6. For the Jimi Hendrix song, see 1983. ...
Friday Night Videos is a music video show broadcast on the American NBC television network from July 29, 1983 to May 24, 2002, and was considered network television’s answer to MTV. // In the beginning, MTV was still a phenomenon that very few people actually could see in their homes...
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Significance SCTV initially adapted its comedy from existing sketches and improvisation from the Second City stage show. However, especially after expanding to a ninety minute format, SCTV quickly pushed the envelope on television sketch comedy. While showing some influence from Monty Python's Flying Circus and Saturday Night Live, SCTV eschewed both the live television format and even filming before a live studio audience. This was mostly to save money, but it also allowed more attention and care to be taken in building a premise and supporting it. Second City redirects here. ...
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Having a moderately low budget and limited resources, SCTV got a reputation for making the most out of what it had, reusing sets and particularly taking advantage of expert makeup and hairstyling. With the luxury of being able to take long periods of time in the makeup chair, elaborate characters could be built. Not being bound by expensive and elaborate prosthetics, cast members and makeup artists worked together to create their characters, referring to the process in interviews as "improvisation in the chair."
To add to the feel of the show — which after all was supposed to be a low budget local television station that went national — the SCTV crew recruited their dance troupe from the writers on the show, led by costumer Juul Haalmeyer. The "Juul Haalmeyer Dancers" were spectacularly maladroit, parodying dance teams on variety shows through their sheer ineptness, and ultimately attracting a cult fandom of their own. (Juul Haalmeyer himself reports still being asked for autographs years later.) Juul Haalmeyer is a costume designer, best known for doing costume design on several iterations of SCTV. In addition, he was the leader of the Juul Haalmeyer Dancers, a woefully inept troupe of variety show dancers made up mostly of writers and crew on SCTV. Haalmeyer also worked a costume...
The core premise of the show allowed for tremendous variety in presentation, but unlike Monty Python, which often would cut from one sketch to another without any resolution, the SCTV format required television style bridges. One technique they used was to build premises into "promos" for shows that would never run (such as "Melvin and Howards," a parody of the movie Melvin and Howard which featured Melvin Dummar, Howard Hughes, Howard Cosell, Curly Howard and Senator Howard Baker on a road trip singing old tunes). Another was to take longer pieces that failed and cut them into promos or trailers. These short elements wound up being the equivalent of "blackout" pieces on the Second City stage. However, the internal logic of the series — that this actually was a television station producing low budget programming — was never lost. SCTV's techniques helped inform and influence later shows, with clear influence on The State, the Upright Citizen's Brigade, and The Kids in the Hall. Melvin and Howard was a 1980 movie directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Bo Goldman, based upon the claims of Utah service station owner Melvin Dummar concerning a purported will written by Howard Hughes, leaving Dummar 1/16th of his $2 billion estate, which would have amounted to $156...
Melvin Earl Dummar (born August 28, 1944) was a Willard, Utah service station owner who claimed that one evening in December 1967 he had picked up Howard Hughes along a desolate road in the Nevada desert. ...
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Howard William Cosell, born Howard William Cohen (March 25, 1918 – April 23, 1995) was an American sports journalist on American television. ...
Curly Howard (born Jerome Lester Horwitz) (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952), was one of the Three Stooges, along with brothers Moe Howard and Shemp Howard, and their friend Larry Fine, although Curly was more or less the breakout character. ...
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The State was a half hour long sketch comedy television show, broadcast on MTV from 1993 to 1995. ...
The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational comedy and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicagos ImprovOlympic. ...
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Later shows built a tight theme, sometimes acting as a metaparody — as in the Emmy-winning "Moral Majority" episode where advertisers and special interest groups forced significant changes to SCTV’s programming, "Zontar" (a parody of the John Agar film Zontar, Thing from Venus) which featured an alien race seeking to kidnap SCTV’s on air talent for "a nine show cycle plus three best-ofs" (which was the actual deal NBC worked out with SCTV that season), and an ambitious parody of The Godfather featuring an all out network war over pay television between SCTV, CBS, NBC, ABC and PBS. (The last featured mafia style hits on the sets of The Today Show, Three's Company and The NFL Today, as well as an extended sequence with guest star John Marley reprising his Godfather role of Hollywood mogul Jack Woltz.) While these shows continued to incorporate the broad range of television parodies the show was known for, they also had a strong narrative thread which set the show apart from other sketch comedy shows of the time. John G. Agar (January 31, 1921 - April 7, 2002) was a successful Hollywood actor who ascended to celebrity shortly after World War II. He is perhaps best remembered for as Shirley Temples first husband (1945-1950) and for starring in the Sands of Iwo Jima alongside John Wayne; however...
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The Today Show, officially known as Today, is an American morning news and talk show airing weekday mornings on NBC. Debuting on January 14, 1952, it was the first of its genre, spawning similar morning news and entertainment television programs across the United States and around the world. ...
Threes Company is an American sitcom that ran from 1977 to 1984 on ABC. It is a remake of the British sitcom Man About the House. ...
The NFL Today is a TV show that precedes the American football program The NFL on CBS on CBS Sports. ...
John Marley (October 17, 1907 – May 22, 1984) was an American actor who is best known for his role as Phil Cavalleri in Love Story and as Jack Woltz - who receives a horses head in his bed - in The Godfather. ...
Jack Woltz is a fictional character from the novel The Godfather and the 1972 film adaptation. ...
The show would also have a huge influence on The Simpsons. In the DVD commentary for Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment (in which Dave Thomas guest-stars), everyone says how much they loved the show and how influential it was because "it was so funny". Matt Groening goes on to say that he was specifically inspired by the town of Melonville, its own little universe with many recurring characters, and that that was the type of universe he wanted for The Simpsons. Both Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin have guest-starred on The Simpsons. Simpsons redirects here. ...
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 (another humorous program that also enjoyed a "cult" following like that of SCTV) at times featured references to the show and its characters; for example, during the film Space Mutiny, a character with an outrageous hairdo is said to resemble Ed Grimley and prompted numerous impersonations of said character. In another example, near the end of the film Danger! Death Ray a character throws a watch out of a window, prompting Crow T. Robot to cry, "SCTV is on the air!". Mystery Science Theater 3000 (often abbreviated MST3K, sometimes MST 3000 or MST 3K or just MST) is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc. ...
Space Mutiny (also known as Mutiny in Space) is a 1988 science-fiction action film about a mutiny aboard the spaceship known as the Southern Sun. ...
SCTV DVD cover, showing Ed Grimley (second from right-top) Edward Mayhoff Ed Grimley was a character introduced on the television series SCTV and later used in Saturday Night Live. ...
Danger!! Death Ray, also known by its original Italian title as Il Raggio infernale which translates to “The Infernal Beam,†is a secret agent spy film created in Italy and released in 1967 during the wide popularity of the James Bond films and many subsequently created spy films of the...
Crow T. Robot Crow T. Robot is a fictional character from the American science fiction comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K). ...
The entire troupe was given a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in 2002. Also, John Candy, Martin Short, Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara have individual stars. Canadas Walk of Fame acknowledges the achievements and accomplishments of successful Canadians. ...
John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. ...
Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian/American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. ...
Eugene Levy (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian Emmy- and Grammy Award-winning actor, television director, producer, musician and writer. ...
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Features SCTV parody shows included Natalie Wingneck, a Tarzan-style spoof in which Martin played a girl raised by geese after her family died in a plane crash. A parody of the popular western drama Grizzly Adams — retitled Grizzly Abrams — depicted the burly wilderness hero as the owner of a wild tortoise which took weeks to lead police to the skeletal remains of its master, trapped beneath a fallen log. For other uses, see Tarzan (disambiguation). ...
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The TV station concept provided SCTV the ability to lampoon virtually any television genre, as well as commercials, promos, network IDs, and more. Some of the most memorable sketches involved parodies of low-budget late-night ads, like Al Peck's Used Fruit (they enticed viewers to visit by offering free tickets to Circus Lupus, the Circus of the Wolves; mocked-up photos depicted wolves forming a pyramid and jumping through flaming hoops). Equally memorable were the faux-inept ads for local businesses like Phil's Nails and Tex and Edna Boil's Organ Emporium. SCTV can refer to a number of things, including the following: SCTV (Indonesia) from Surya Citra Television, headquartered in Indonesia. ...
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Impersonations Impersonations were also an integral part of the comedy, with almost every cast member playing multiple roles as well-known personalities. Some impressions included: - John Candy as Orson Welles, Julia Child, Luciano Pavarotti, Glen Milstead as Divine, Curly Howard, Richard Burton, Tip O'Neill, Jimmy the Greek, Hervé Villechaize, and Alfred Hitchcock.
- Robin Duke as Shelley Winters
- Joe Flaherty as Gregory Peck, Gavin MacLeod, Donald Sutherland, Peter O'Toole, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Bing Crosby, William F. Buckley, Jr., Geraldo Rivera, Charles Bronson, Alan Alda, Gene Siskel, Richard Nixon, Jack Klugman, Slim Whitman, Larry Fine and Salvador Dalí
- Eugene Levy as Ricardo Montalban, Henry Kissinger, Judd Hirsch, John Charles Daly, The Andy Griffith Show's Floyd Lawson, Milton Berle, Neil Sedaka, Howard Cosell, Ralph Young, Perry Como and Gene Shalit
- Andrea Martin as Barbra Streisand, Linda Lavin, Joyce DeWitt, Indira Gandhi, Connie Francis, Arlene Francis, Ethel Merman, Karen Black, Marsha Mason, Brenda Vaccaro, Charo and Mother Teresa
- Rick Moranis as Merv Griffin, Woody Allen, Gordon Lightfoot, Ringo Starr, Dick Cavett, George Carlin, Brent Musburger, Michael McDonald, Al Waxman, David Brinkley, James Stewart.
- Catherine O'Hara as Katharine Hepburn, Morgan Fairchild, Jane Fonda, Dorothy Kilgallen, Mary Tyler Moore, Elizabeth Taylor, Lucille Ball and Brooke Shields
- Tony Rosato as Lou Costello, Ella Fitzgerald, Lou Ferrigno, Ed Asner and Tony Orlando
- Martin Short as Jerry Lewis, Pierre Trudeau, Dustin Hoffman, David Steinberg, Robin Williams, Fred Rogers, Ambassador Ken Taylor, Pee Wee Reese, Deliverance banjo-boy Hoyt Pollard, Jamie Farr, Scott Baio, Denny Terrio, Howie Mandel, Howie Meeker, Tony Sandler (of Sandler and Young), Tom Hayden, Gore Vidal and Brian Linehan
- Dave Thomas as Bob Hope, Richard Harris, DeForest Kelley, Liberace, Bennett Cerf, Michael Caine, G. Gordon Liddy, Roger Ebert, Neil Simon, Lee Iacocca, Carl Sagan, John Ritter, Walter Cronkite and Fred Travalena doing Jim Neighbors as Gomer Pyle.
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Luciano Pavarotti performing on June 15, 2002 at a concert in the Stade Vélodrome in Marseille Luciano Pavarotti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI[1] (October 12, 1935 – September 6, 2007) was a celebrated Italian tenor in operatic music, who successfully crossed into popular music becoming one of the most...
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Sketches and characters Popular sketches and characters include: - Mailbag, SCTV's take on a vox populi segment where near-apoplectic host Bill Needle would answer viewer mail. The shows length was continually cut, however, until Needle was down to mere seconds of airtime.
- Farm Film Report aka Farm Film Celebrity Blow-Up: Two hicks named Big Jim McBob (Flaherty) and Billy Sol Hurok (a spoof of Billie Sol Estes and Sol Hurok, played by Candy) interview celebrities and ultimately encourage them to blow up (creating the catch-phrase "blow'd up good, blow'd up real good!"). Exploding guests included Dustin Hoffman, David Steinberg (both played by Short), Bernadette Peters (Martin), Meryl Streep (O'Hara), and a lispy Neil Sedaka (Levy).
- Polynesiantown: a parody of modern-day film noir. In its attempt to emulate the movie Chinatown, this extended one-shot sketch ended with a crane shot that pushed the show so over budget that the sketch's producers got in trouble with the network. The shows writers incorporated this behind-the-scenes drama into the shows long-term continuity, causing fictional actor/producer/superstar Johnny LaRue's career to go into a tailspin as a result of this budget mishap.
- The Sammy Maudlin Show: Joe Flaherty was the afro-coiffed, knee-slapping, overly-effusive host welcoming a panel of "stars" who did nothing but heap lavish praise on each other and applaud their pointless profundities. Originally a parody of Sammy Davis, Jr.'s short-lived gab-fest, Maudlin (the word means overly sentimental, treacly) evolved into a late-night universe all its own. Eugene Levy is "a comic in all seriousness" as egomaniacal funnyman Bobby Bittman (whose younger brother Skip Bittman, played by Moranis, eventually appeared on Maudlin as well, with disastrous results); Andrea Martin skewered Liza Minnelli and Lorna Luft with "real terrific" combo-character Lorna Minnelli; Catherine O'Hara inhabited pill-popping boozer Lola Heatherton, a Joey Heatherton-Lola Falana amalgam who greeted fans with her trademark shriek, "I love you! I wanna bear your children!"; John Candy portrayed constantly-chuckling Ed McMahon-style sidekick/sycophant William B. Williams, who often wound up kneeling on the floor as guests came out and the couch filled up. The Maudlin regulars would later appear together in the Rat Pack movie parody Maudlin's Eleven.
- Mel's Rock Pile was a knockoff of the Citytv dance show Boogie and closely resembled American Bandstand. Hosted by "Rockin' Mel" Slirrup (Eugene Levy), a nervous, bespectacled nerd who played lame pop songs for surly in-studio teen guests. One memorable episode of Mel's Rock Pile featured an appearance by Sex Pistols-type band The Queen Haters, featuring the entire Short-era cast in perfect '80s punk-band mode.
- Martin Short's Jackie Rogers, Jr. was an earnestly smarmy albino Las Vegas headliner with a grating, lisping laugh in a manner similar to Sammy Davis, Jr. He's partial to sequined jumpsuits, Jack Jones-style song standards, and "eligible ladies". Later, Rogers would run for political office but drop out of the race when he realizes it's cramping his show-biz lifestyle.
- Martin Short's somewhat-unclassifiable uber-nerd Ed Grimley (later featured on Saturday Night Live when Short became a regular) was an SCTV fixture, appearing on numerous assorted shows, commercials, promos, and "behind-the-scenes" dramas.
- Half-Wits and High-Q were parodies of quiz shows College Bowl and Reach For The Top hosted by a highly-irritable Alex Trebek approximation named Alex Trebel (Levy), a thinly-veiled riff on the real-life Jeopardy! host.
- The 5 Neat Guys, an absurdly clean-cut, '50s style vocal group (á la The Four Freshmen), were portrayed by Candy, Flaherty (as the drunk one), Levy, Moranis, and Thomas. The "5" sang songs like "I've Got a Hickey on My Shoulder", "Pimples and Pockmarks" and other memorable tunes. Several of their songs contrasted with their squeaky-clean image, however, such as "She Does It","Patsy Has the Largest Breasts In Town", and "Who Brought the Egg Salad Sandwiches".
- Another Martin Short character, talk-show host Brock Linehan was a parody of real-life Canadian interviewer, the late Brian Linehan. Linehan was famous for his overpreparation, which Short satirized by going in the opposite direction: on SCTV's version of the Linehan show, called Stars in One, all the research compiled about any particular episode's guest was totally and completely wrong, making for some unhappy guests and one frustrated, uneasy host.
- Harry, the Guy with the Snake on his Face (John Candy). Harry ran Melonville's adult book and X-rated video stores.
- "Video deejay" Gerry Todd (Moranis) hosted an all-night "televised-radio" type of video show. Moranis' turtleneck-sporting, smooth-talking radio-personality parody was perfectly pitched—complete with casually-pronounced "vuddeeo"--and eerily presaged the first group of MTV VJs.
- Mayor Tommy Shanks (John Candy) is Melonville's "easygoing" (corrupt) mayor who is prone to sudden fits of rage and physical violence, yet gives regular fireside chats on SCTV while a stuffed dog sits motionless by his side. Throwing out one non-sequitur after another, Shanks manages to convey absolutely nothing of relevance during his broadcasts. Eventually, Shanks succumbs to mental illness and is institutionalized. While still in the institution, he runs for re-election with the campaign slogan "Get me outta here!" and wins by a landslide.
- SCTV News (later Nightline Melonville), anchored by Joe Flaherty as mostly professional (but alcoholic) newscaster Floyd Robertson and Eugene Levy as geeky, clueless Earl Camembert, a model of oblivious self-importance. The members of the SCTV news-team were named after Canadian news anchors Lloyd Robertson and Earl Cameron respectively, but otherwise bore no resemblance to their real-life counterparts. Unlike Saturday Night Live's similar news parody Weekend Update, which typically uses actual news headlines as set-ups for more satirical humour, SCTV News used more absurdist humor, with its news stories often focusing on events happening within the Melonville continuity. Another source of humour for this segment was the contrast between the hapless Camembert (whose name is pronounced "Canenbare") and the more respected Robertson, who usually ended up playing straight man to Camembert's antics. A running gag involved the news team's tendency to give the good news items to Robertson (such as the tiny Republic of Togo's threats against the USSR) and the trivial or poorly-prepared stories to his co-anchor (such as a fire at a doily factory).
- Monster Chiller Horror Theatre: This fright-film showcase featured laughably non-frightening z-movies like Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Stewardesses. Dr. Tongue was played by John Candy and Monster Chiller Horror Theatre was hosted by Flaherty character Count Floyd, who was revealed in a later episode to be SCTV News anchorman Floyd Robertson working a second job. This was a tip of the hat to the fact that in the early days of television, a channel's kiddie show host was often a member of the news staff in a clown suit or police uniform.
- The Shmenge Brothers and their polka band, The Happy Wanderers. Like Bob and Doug McKenzie, the Shmenges were breakout characters and their popularity resulted in the HBO special The Last Polka (a parody of Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz). (John Candy would go on to play another polka clarinetist in Home Alone, which also starred Catherine O'Hara). In one episode, the Shmenges performed a memorable tribute to composer John Williams.
- Dave Thomas as actor Richard Harris in a skit where "Harris" sang an extended version of his famous hit "MacArthur Park", then dances endlessly in total agony during the elongated orchestral stretch while the show moves on to other skits. The song finally ends when an audience member hurls a brick at his chest.
- The famous CCCP1-Russian television episode in which SCTV is taken over by Soviet programming. At first, nothing seems out of the ordinary at the station: on the air, Eugene Levy plays Perry Como in a promo for Still Alive, a TV-special in which Como's trademark relaxed style is taken to ludicrous extremes. The nearly-comatose Como sings one song while propped up against a dancer, another swaddled in bed with the covers pulled up to his chin, and performs a third number sprawled face-down and almost-motionless on the floor, mic lying next to his mouth, one finger moving to the beat. But SCTV is suddenly knocked off the air, replaced by an illegal signal from the Soviet television network. Throughout, the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which is abbreviated USSR in English but CCCP in Russian, is referred to as "three-C-P-one". From there, all the "shows" are Russian-themed spoofs: Tibor's Tractor, a situation comedy about a talking tractor similar to My Mother the Car--only with the voice of Nikita Khruschev; a game-show, What Fits into Mother Russia?, which celebrates the USSR's massive size; Upo-Scrabblenyk; and Hey, Giorgy--"everybody's favourite Cossack"--with the memorable line "Uzbeks drank my battery fluid!", uttered when Rick Moranis's Lada won't start outside an alehouse. (Popping the hood reveals the old-style battery's six cells sporting bendy straws.)
- A Jazz Singer parody which reversed the story by having musical guest Al Jarreau play a popular jazz singer who wants to become a cantor (hazzan). His father is a disapproving pop-music impresario played by Eugene Levy's befuddled Sid Dithers. Hasidic Dithers, four feet tall and cross-eyed behind Coke-bottle glasses, spoke with a thick early vaudeville-style Yiddish accent ("San Fransishky? So how did you came: did you drove, or did you flew?"). The payoff of this parody made for a classic SCTV moment: Jarreau has become a synagogue cantor, fulfilling his dream against his father's wishes, and he wonders if his father will ever speak to him again – until, during the service, he is interrupted by a disco-clad Dithers standing in the doorway in dancing shoes, spangled jacket, and corn-rowed hair.
- The episode in which a janitorial union went on strike, forcing stations to broadcast the network feed from CBC Television. Parodies ensued, such as Hinterland Who's Who, Front Page Challenge and It's a Fact, among others. Meanwhile, Eugene Levy's Sid Dithers played the union president, barely able to see over the conference table as he detailed the progress of the strike-talks ("Fifteen minutes for lunsch? Ye can't even blow on your shoop!")
- Magnum, P.E.I. wherein John Candy plays a savvy private investigator a la Magnum, P.I., chasing his quarry through the scenic potato patches of Prince Edward Island.
Ironically, the most popular sketch was intended as throwaway filler. Bob & Doug McKenzie, dim-witted beer-chugging brothers in a recurring Canadian-themed sketch called Great White North, were initially developed by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas (Bob & Doug, respectively) as a sardonic response to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) mandate requiring Canadian-based programs to feature two minutes of "identifiably Canadian content" in every episode. The characters ultimately became icons of the very Canadian culture they parodied, spinning off albums, a feature film (Strange Brew), commercials, and numerous TV and film cameos. Bob and Doug helped to popularize the stereotypical Canadian trait of adding "eh" to the end of sentences, a facet of Canadian life that is often gently ridiculed in American shows featuring Canadian characters. Recently, Moranis and Thomas recreated Bob and Doug in the form of a pair of moose in the animated feature Brother Bear from Disney. During Canadian rock band Rush's 2007 Snakes And Arrows tour, Moranis and Thomas reprised their Bob and Doug Mackenzie roles in an introductory clip projected on the rear screen for the song "The Larger Bowl". Previously, Rush used Joe Flaherty in his Count Floyd persona to introduce their song "The Weapon" during their 1984 Grace Under Pressure Tour. Vox Populi redirects here. ...
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