SCTV on CBC circa 1981 

I'd trade it in a minute for the SCTV/Bob & Ray special. Might throw in my VHS box set of John Candy's concurrent Big City Comedy series...

Amen.

YES LOLOLOL Patsy has the largest breasts in town!

Especially with this cast

why?

That must have been so cool

Thank you Walter for helping bring this incredible group of talent to the masses I was a teenager when this hit the airwaves late after Saturday night live so my parents didn’t have a problem with me staying up to watch it in fact it got my dad’s interest so much he stayed up to watch it with me that some quality father-son time that I will always remember fondly

John Candy is one of the few celebrities I wish I could have met.

Who made the egg salad sandwiches

That’s awesome! Good for you.

Molson Golden!!!!

I have trouble telling which is which.

@@BrianRoberson-k7g CBET is like the WKRP of Canadian TV. Promo spots for a cop show from ten years ago--what?!

In New York City we had our own low budget commercial TV station - WOR-TV (Channel 9) in the days when RKO General owned it. Made it much more ironic when, from 1977 to 1979, WOR ran the initial syndicated "SCTV." And to top it all off - prior to 1970 when they had to sell the station owing to CRTC regulations, RKO actually owned Windsor's Channel 9 which, prior to 1975, was known as CKLW-TV. And run like RKO's other stations. Even down to the "Million Dollar Movie."

1000 times yes

Was a teenager around this time, and NBC scheduled this show after SNL. We could stay out until 1AM and skip SNL altogether, and never miss our favorite show

seems like a reasonable career move...good choice, eh!

I had a job where I got paid to watch SCTV...as a master control operator every night before sign-off at the TV station in Lloydminster circa 1985.

We welcomed Channel 9 into our homes just as much as 2, 4, 7, 20, 50, 56 and 62. Good stuff, good times.

Similar story but from the "other" side watching the 1st few seasons of SNL from the over the air 100 miles away signals from Plattsburg, NY but when I moved to BC in the mid 80's, I got to see "Almost Live! ! " from KING-TV

@@Columbiastargazer "Almost Live!" was also great

CBC TV in Bellingham !!

I guess it truly was, as they always said, "television like you've never seen before!"

Yes!! I had to make sure which was which!

Windsor wasn't that bad. At least they have a Caesars casino/hotel these days.

Don Lake was in the Canadian Tires commercial, so it was almost like an SCTV skit.

Who remembers the Ghoul and Sir Graves Ghastly on Detroit TV?

42:00 is uncannily like SCTV's High Q, especially when the kid buzzes in an answer before the guy finishes the question.

I remember that commercial and lost it when SCTV spoofed it. I thought I was the only one who noticed Vaccaro’s husky voice and James Gandolfini breathing. Nope. Andrea Martin noticed too.

I remember the ‘wheezy’ commercial. Then, soon after, the newer version had her hair and clothes altered and silence between vocalizations. Then when SCTV did their parody, I literally fell on the floor! Hilarious!

🤣🤣🤣 4:00 the best lol

I've never seen this bit. Very, very funny!

@@fgrady1 somewhere along the line somebody got pissed off and just said screw it let's Let It Go like it is if the client is okay with it I don't give a s*** because I've got 10 more of these to do today and it's already 4:00

Correct. And, yet, it seems like it would be easy to replicate. Young, hungry, fearless comedians willing to take life as it is and turn it upside down with sarcastic humor. Without fear of being "cancelled" or "shamed". Let sarcastic humor lead the way in these very stressful times to unplug from reality and pee in your pants funny. At least for one evening a week.

@@paulolenski9431 ... let’s do it.

We Torontonians were lucky enough to live near Buffalo. Commander Tom and Irv Weinstein

Channel 7 Eyewitnesses News Irv Weinstein: „some punk set an abandoned warehouse on fire. The resulting 5 alarm fire in North Tonawanda and Cheektowaga could be seen in the evening from Toronto‘s CN Tower…“

@@redcoat4ever323 Ah, it was great. We gave you Commander Tom and you gave us the Friendly Giant. Now that's when diversity actually was a strength!

@@redcoat4ever323 - Ah, Irv Weinstein. Eugene Levy's admitted model for his own characterization of Earl Camembert. I noticed, however, that Joe Flaherty never mentioned whom he based his own portrayal of Floyd Robertson (as "SCTV News" anchor) on. I thought I detected a bit of KDKA-TV (Pittsburgh) Eyewitness News' mainstay Bill Burns in Floyd, but . . . some mentioned he may've been partly based as well on another Pittsburgh anchor, Adam Lynch . . .

@@NormAppleton Taps Frandly Mahrkats!

Maybe Canadians comedians are so funny because the whole country is so awkward?

@@soakingbook maybe Canadian comedians are so awkward because the whole country is funny I mean it's like the little brother that always gets punched in the arm

I got to stay up with my Dad and watch it because it was a Friday night. I was 10 years old at the time. Fond memories!

An hour on cbc at 11:30 then at 12:30 on nbc for 90 minutes, struggled to stay awake at 9 years old,lol...

Much like the Simpsons, SNL has guests that they used to make fun of.

@@mikebowermaster4250 SNL is like the Simpsons? Well, I wouldn't go that far. But unlike SNL SCTV has more fun in its content.

Apples and oranges. SNL is/was live and has been running a long time with many shows and many winners and many flops. This writing is much more subtle and there are no duds. Great stuff without having to make comparisons.

HELLO??????????

@@themoviedealers IT'S NAPOLEON!

I wish it was still here.

A lot better ...to bad we couldn't realize it at the time.

Yes indeed, Chicago back then was priceless. Today - a free fire zone for the gangs and cartels, corrupt/confused politicians and Marxist/Communists. We took the labor, sweat and hardships by our forebears to build a great city and destroyed it.

Somehow I remember all the commercials. I was only 5 years old. I guess that how often they aired.

In other ways, a worse one.

That is true.

It's not such much sucks as there's no enthusiam in it. That's happening with entertainment especially. We're so guided to what movies and TV shows we're supposed to watch, and what music we should listen to but very little of it is inspiring or memorable. All digital, though, so your hard drive can be erased the next day! Very, very disposable stuff. It's amazing that VHS tapes, analog tech, holds up better than just about any of the DVD-R media people use today to burn videos if they bother to keep them on anything but silicon memory cards and magnetic discs. DVD-R has basically no shelf life unless it's the higher, archival quality grade.

AvengerII See, even you understand what I've come to known for a good while now.

No, the entertainment industry has been this way since at least the late 1990s. It's just more obvious now than ever.

@@AvengerII I am so sick of the omnipresent "everything sucks now" comments that accompany all vintage clips on RU-vid! SCTV was a rare gem then just as it would be if it ran now. 95% of everything *always* sucks!

I had the video on as background noise but when I heard "Canadian Tire" I had to look at the screen to make sure the cast wasn't having a goof.

In the Detroit area, watching Channel 9 out of Windsor was just as good as watching anything off the Detroit T.V. stations at the time. Great times I wish I had them years back.

At first, I thought the lead singer gal, was Joe Flaherty with a wig and makeup. Lol.

@@waynej2608 I can see why you thought Carole Pope could’ve easily passed for Joe Flaherty. Or vice versa.

I kept trying to figure out which cast member it was, and waiting for a punchline. And then it was over. It was amazing!

Okay SCTV or commercial? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hiUBOopyJcE.html

Preteen world

Andrea Martin captures the early-80s early-30s woman ...

Which I thought was as much a parody of the inane novelty songs Mitch Miller used to foist on his artists when he ran Columbia's A&R department, as it was on groups like Canada's own Four Lads.

@@wmbrown6 Good call.

I just noticed ... the ad ends with the band shown in reverse order. Thus, TAEN5. They're messin' with our heads, man!

Awesome. One of the best celebrity impressions ever. Gene Shalit definitely had the 1970's afro/mustache look like Alex Trebek, Gabe Kaplan and several other notable personalities of the time. Even as a kid, I didn't get them confused like some people.

Brenda Vacaro went from staring in Midnight Cowboy..to doing a tampon commercial.. not such a good career move.

Capturing today's dumbness is hardly a feat!

Isn’t he amazing?!? Rick Moranis had so much success playing variants of this kind of Nerdy, horned-rimmed glasses guy… but he could do SO MANY different kinds of characters!

Rough Trade clearing up that Humiliation is better than Bondage.

Ditto! I'm an hour away.

Micki Moore - You're Beautiful ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4brIMbCWgUI.html

Me too, though I grew up in Toledo!

Me three. CBC from Windsor. Those were the days. Wayne and Schuster, too.

Sometimes in the summer when I was home from college in northeast Ohio, we could pick up SCTV on the Windsor station if there was a good bunch of sunspots that night or something to help bounce the signal to us. I'd try to catch both the CBC and NBC versions on the same night! Sadly, this opportunity ended soon after, when our town finally got cable TV and our days of picking up stations over the air with rabbit ears ended for good.

They don't even make Celica's anymore. They discontinued the line at least 5 years ago. Still making Camry's and Corolla's after all these years but every other model of Toyota has been replaced by one thing or another including the Tercel, the Paseo, the MR2, the Cressida, etc., etc. And then there's the Lexus line, Toyota's answer to Mercedes Benz.

If you watch the very first Mott's Clamato commercial, it was pronounced "Clam-ay-to".

It's Canadia. What do you expect.

@@OofusTwillip I say "Clam-ay-to," you say "Clam-ah-to," let's call the whole thing a Bloody Caesar, which must be the official cocktail of Canada.

That's the way they pronounce it in the UK.

I encountered Gene Shallit in New York City when I was a kid so this is way long ago and I guess he at least kept his public Persona up on the street and it was really kind of HOW ARE YA!

Alex Trebek impersonations were top notch by Levy.

the Toyota Celeeca?

Google

@@terryadkins9297 Yeah, tell Mr. Google to post more!

Pat French Noticed they show a "Reach For The Top" promo at 42:00 here.

You might be looking for "half wits"...just Google that with sctv

Did you have a Mamie Van Doren at your high school?

@@RideAcrossTheRiver a few.

@@GohAhweh More Libby Woolfson at my high school.

Austin Powers has quite a bit of Jackie Rogers Jr. in him as well.

SNL has done hilarious stuff in the past ten years and is highly popular. What bothers you about it?

Yeah, I loved that squawking peacock...

Um, sorry, but that position would have to belong to one of the members of KISS. Sew: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WFSaKL5dFgc.html

Better than Alex Trebel

What about the Emmy winning series Schitt's Creek?

@@garyflinn3989 Wow I sure do love watching these old comedians decades past their prime doing a modern TV show with moronic "woke" elements like "non-binary" characters. How wholesome.

The funny thing is, it's still in that class decades later. I only discovered SCTV in the last year myself and I consistently thought "this is probably the best comedy TV show I have ever seen." Certainly the best sketch comedy show, even better than Monty Python or Kids in the Hall. It's gold.

I think the poor video quality makes it slightly funnier by adding credence to SCTV's alternate reality television network. :)

you don't get what rough trade was all about..you should be wondering why she was censored by the cbc...she was not allowed to sing the lyric.."cream my jeans." if u don't know by now..the song is about a high school female who has secret lesbian fantasies about about another high school female.

Rough Trade are great.

Rough Trade is Cringeworthily Awesome!

In 30 years, Cardi B, Beyonce, really all today's music will be cringeworthy too.

Didn't want to like them, but "High School Confidential" had such an infectious hook. I'll be hearing it in my head for weeks.

It was never an appropriate song. I was 7 or 8 when it came out and I had a lot to learn... Thank you, Ms. Pope!

Good one...

That was only on SCTV's Season One.

@@garyflinn3989 that's what I thought, but you never knew with them. I didn't watch the US broadcasts, only the Canadian ones, as I grew up in a border town (Detroit).