69 SCTV Janitorial Strike: Part 2 [143] [Seasons 4 & 5] 

RIP Joe Flaherty. We lost a good one. :(

That woodchuck CPR scene was hilarious!

Back when the world was a good place. Toronto was such an awesome city back then.

Pure comedy brilliance. In college we used to watch SCTV reruns in 2001-2002, after they cancelled the late night talk show “Later.” We recorded them on VHS and would rewatch them until we had episodes memorized. This one was one of our favorites! I’ll never forgive Carson Daly for replacing those beloved reruns with his God-awful “Last Call” show. 🤮

Great to hear Gordon Lightfoot at the end. He just passed away yesterday. 5/1/23

I love that they actually got Jayne Eastwood! She got to Go Down The Road Twice!!!! :)

The boys driving a 65 Pontiac Parisienne, love it.

Lol. Setting up bowling pins at Hazelton Lanes.

Sheer brilliance to have Jane Eastwood in the goin down the road parody😊

Love this episode. So cool to see yonge st. the way I remember it.

That bit with the cbc and the woodchuck is great.

@6:47 - If it hadn't been for seeing G & G + F & A via this swell channel, I wouldn't have ever learned of the cultural phenomenon/ambassador that was the late Stompin' Tom Connors - even though that was just a few weeks ago. I may be just another Yank, born and raised in Western Washington State, but for the most part, Canada has been a great neighbour, friend, and ally to us for many, many years. I was fortunate to be able to briefly visit parts of it during my youth, from B.C. to Ontario and Quebec, through my participation in school band programs/competitions in the '80s; experiences that remain with me decades later. Had it not been for the call of the Yukon that appealed to my recently-landed Finnish immigrants to the U.S. maternal great-grandparents over a century and a quarter ago, neither I, my sister, nor mother and her siblings, nor my grandmother (who was born at Bear Creek YT, where my great-grandfather first struck his discovery claim along that tributary that it is said he also named) or her siblings would have existed in the forms we have known. My namesake maternal grandfather was born to Finnish immigrants to the U.S. in Wyoming, but as a horseman for his entire life, spent time up in Alberta cowboying as a young man in the early part of the 20th century - so perhaps our family has felt a longer/closer connection to your fair land than many other fellow Americans have. As with Garth, Gord, Fiona, and Alice, my great-grandparents didn't come away with much in the way of gold in their pursuit of it - that would be found in far greater quantities through the infinitely more destructive mechanized dredging, long after they headed south from the YT/Alaska for the last time to permanently settle on their farmstead in SW Washington State in 1905 - though they did arrive with a fully-formed family including several children, which held even greater value to my great-grandfather. Even as an outsider, I can respect the passion and the pride that Mr. Connors had for his country and his fellow countrymen alike... and he could definitely craft some mighty fine songs, that I've also been binging on as of late. I would certainly see him as a national treasure, of the kind that I wish we had more of now - no matter where we come from.

This is my favorite episode. Finally, I have come home.

This will be the only Luba Goy impression you will ever see in your life. I was really shocked to hear her name outside of her announcing it herself when she hosted Bits & Bytes.

Love it.

1:45 C.B.C. is now on the air 😂🤣😂

Anywhere north of Fargo has premium CBC TV, french immersion radio stations. My first trip up north went direct to Winnipeg, french canadian women at every bustop, ATM dispensed pictures of alien creatures and Indians with funnel hats paddling a canoe and a Queen Macdonald somebody, the Thunder Bay cigar store guy was sleeping on a cot guarding the cubans ...

They really need to bring back CanFax, totally unironically I believe it would be a hit show.

And that's cash on the barrel Ted...

Your homework: see The Rowdy Man (real can. film classic with a young gordon pinsent) also 1970 canadian cinema verite, the groundbreaking, Going down the road. the inspiration for Fiona, Gord, Garth Ted and Alice etc. Great seeing Jayne Eastwood who was also in the original film.

07:34 "To It and at It": There's a rainbow in Toronto Where the maritimers are bold They always get a potful But they never get a pot of gold But they're to it and at it And at and to it You gotta tune your attitude in And if you don't get at it when you get to it You won't get to it to get at it again You won't get to it to get at it again A guy from old New Brunswick He couldn't even pay his rent We don't know how he traveled But we all know where he went He was to it and at it And at and to it You gotta tune your attitude in And if you don't get at it when you get to it You won't get to it to get at it again You won't get to it to get at it again

“She went out to live with her aunt in Etobicoke”

I met my wife on Yonge St. She was working a little club called "The Crooked Cricket" as a dancer. I asked her "what a girl like her was doing in a place like this" and she told me she was actually a long-haul truck driver and needed a new set of steer tires. I took one look at her thighs and believed every word of it. After we got back from our honeymoon at Niagra Falls (the Canadian side of course), I asked to see her truck and she admitted she didn't have one, nor a driver's license! It was too late for an annulment and we've been stuck with each other ever since. Coming up on our 40th anniversary now, I can't help but reflect on how she's both the best and worst thing that's ever happened to me.

I'm not a janitor, I'm a custodian!

This is during a time in Canada when it was probably the best country to live in.

22:24 End of the Strike Now back to work!! 😂🤣😂

00:54 CBC Woodchucks, Curling & Facts 😂🤣😂

2:26 the rowdyman & magnum pei 😂🤣😂

Funny thing people can joke but the reality is society couldn’t do without custodians.🤙

6:31 Garth & Gord 😂🤣😂

21:05 Test 1.2.3. 😂🤣😂

Too funny! Always love Sid Dithers!

oh my, they even played some Stomping Tom

@8:17 Nice collection of 8-tracks lol

21:48 San Fransisky 😂🤣😂

I needed something uplifting. Ty.

is there a full version of the hard rock version of the Yonge Street theme/At it and to it song from this skit? That shit is the jam

Steve Roman is a magnificent actor

Garth, Gord, Fiona and Alice. Produced by: Garth Gordon and Gordon Garthwaite. In Charge of Getting Things Done: Garth Wilson. Canadian Content Supervisor: Ian McIan.

YONGE STREET!

They ended the strike with a nosh and a bagel. And a bottle of seltzer water!

Coo....rukukukukukuoooo coo rukaku!!!.....Ya Hosers.....

Another one drinks a Moose

i wanna date that rowdy guy. hes looks dangerous,,,hahahaha

CBC? I'd rather watch Three C P! At least they have the lovable Yorgi!

A moose in the house !?

San Fransisky??

The woodchuck was the star of the show.😂

The syndicated version eliminates that hard-hitting news report on the Hunky Boot!

i love Canada

Hey, they said nudity and excessive violence. They lied to us!

11:05 cbc intermission 😂🤣😂

I think Jayne Eastwood said that Joe Flaherty's performed the Tom Conners cover. Not sure if that's true or not. Wish I could find it somewhere.

6:05 it's a Canadian Fact 😂🤣😂

Affable snow creatures...haha

Look out for dat ting!!

Is there anywhere I can find a full version of the hard rock cover at @14:52 ???

and of course 2nd City

Is David Clayton Thomas singing Stompin’s song?

18:53 news update end of the strike 😂🤣😂

4:21 Ken Taylor 😂🤣😂

Bummed owwut. Great accent

00:00 recap the negotiation 😂🤣😂

geniuses

Affable snow creatures🇨🇦lol

is my name Canadian enough

Yes humans were more creative loving natural and better without computers and now ai

We have Toronto by the bong Totally concerned with sex

18:20 another bs fact 😂🤣😂

All that Canadian art film did was make The Canucks- as Guy calls them- look stupid and bland!

Look out for dat ting!