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I have been meaning to check out the first DVD with the earlier stuff on it. I have great memories of the show - my brother and I used to actually make audio tapes of it by putting a crude tape recorder next to the T.V. - I still have one of these tapes, in fact. But I do remember the quality of the show declining as time went on and seems to me they started adding canned audience noise, stuff like that.

The first time I ever heard Whiter Shade of Pale was on SCTV when Rick Moranis was playing at being some kind of blissed out keyboard rock god or something.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 20 March 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Favorite SCTV moment: "Sunrise Semester" with Salvador Dali giving painting lessons. "Two farm fresh AIGS!" [crushes eggs into canvas]

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 20 March 2005 11:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't remember the earliest shows, Bimble, but since NBC, SCTV has always had canned audience laughter.. it was all done in studio in Edmonton, until Dave Thomas volunteered to step down as head writer (to concentrate on the Mackenzies future career) and Don Navarro (SNL) took over.. they then moved to Toronto... once Thomas stepped down as head writer, imho, I've noticed a very steady slow decline in show quality, though with great moments (though I've yet to finish Volume 3, and the upcoming Volume 4, if it's planned)... (and the decline is not Toronto's fault of course)

― donut debonair (donut), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Did anyone notice if they had the sketch where Earl is doing an editorial on noise pollution and it gradually becomes clear to the audience and to Floyd that he is complaining about his own noisy neighbor: "Mrs. Karminsky, if you insist on having loud parties on weeknights..."?

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 20 March 2005 21:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Well all I can say is I remember shows without the canned audience laughter and I thought they were that much funnier for being that way.
It concerns me that maybe none of that made it onto the DVDs. :( Regardless I really should check out at least one of them, and I'm going down to Scarecrow today anyway. It sure is nice to be on spring break and have time to explore these things finally!

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Sunday, 20 March 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

well, all of the SCTV stuff on DVD has been NBC era stuff (i.e. canned laughter), so you'll probably be disappointed.

― donut debonair (donut), Sunday, 20 March 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

>so I can finally see the entirety of the "INDIRA!" skit.

What have you seen? Cuz I think the sketch runs 90 seconds tops. It's a precise parody of a TV ad for the Broadway "Evita" that ran ad nauseum in the New York area circa 1980.

At my college humor mag, we always did a Monday postmortem on Friday's SCTV.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 March 2005 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

Headline in the Toronto Star today:

http://www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20160304/282454233080556

Intentional, I would think.

― clemenza, Friday, 4 March 2016 22:49 (eight years ago) link

Levy suggests there could be a 40th anniv special.

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/blog/bc-beat/sctv-40th-anniversary-special-may-happen-says-eugene-levy/154284

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 March 2016 20:36 (eight years ago) link

Levy's Bobby Bittman origin special

http://www.avclub.com/article/dark-twisted-backstory-eugene-levys-bobby-bittman--233552

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 March 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRShqOOmHNw

― 빨간 럼 ఎరుపు రమ్ רום אדום (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 29 March 2016 22:19 (eight years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fztm-AzHmls

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Slg9ox-9Q

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 March 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link

nine months pass...

the full run of this isn't streaming anywhere is it

― na (NA), Wednesday, 25 January 2017 18:17 (seven years ago) link

No only Shout Factory DVDs. I'll PayPal someone $5 if they can find "Canadian Gaffes and Practical Amusements" online

― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 18:24 (seven years ago) link

three years pass...

Am I remembering incorrectly or did Eugene Levy once sing “Papa Loves Mambo” in Perry Como character, maybe at a roller disco.

― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 March 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link

I guess that song was not part of “Perry Como: Still Alice.” Seems like that was the only time Eugene Levy did that character, is that correct?

― Lipstick Traces (on a Cigarette Alone) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 15 March 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPPKtYmCpJ4

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 23 December 2023 23:08 (five months ago) link

Is that Scorcese documentary ever going to air?

― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 24 December 2023 00:25 (five months ago) link

It’s that time of year to rewatch Lola Heatherton’s LOVE SPIRIT Christmas special

― Josefa, Sunday, 24 December 2023 01:06 (five months ago) link

They should have played it at Morbs’s memorial.

― The Glittering Worldbuilders (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 December 2023 01:19 (five months ago) link

three months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMVrMHQk95s

― Sometimes It POLLS in April (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 April 2024 20:30 (one month ago) link

Awesome! What time? They should show more. My cable box died.
― Shatterproof Glass (dymaxia), Saturday, March 19, 2005 10:28 AM (nineteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thursdays at eight eightthirtyinnewfoundland

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 11 April 2024 20:54 (one month ago) link

three weeks pass...

Found out this morning that Rosemary Radcliffe, who was part of SCTV for a few years but not the TV show (she was on King of Kensington--ultra-Canadian thing), lives in St. Marys, where I am--slightly larger than Melonville.

https://i.postimg.cc/rFwXWzJD/sctv.jpg

― clemenza, Friday, 3 May 2024 15:54 (four weeks ago) link

Eugene looking suave there

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 May 2024 16:22 (four weeks ago) link

MARTIN, I REALLY THINK YOU OUGHT TO CALM DOWN, TAKE A STRESS PILL AND FINISH THE SCTV DOC

― Ippei's on a bummer now (WmC), Friday, 3 May 2024 16:49 (four weeks ago) link

Candy looks great!

― Billion Year Polyphonic Spree (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 3 May 2024 19:58 (four weeks ago) link

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