Hi, everybody. This show is fantastic, but it gives me the creeps!
Particularly the shows of the 1980s involving Ed Grimley's digitisation drama fiasco. That tech talk of the day was quite entertaining.
Also the theme song at the end of the show.
The crazed look of a few cast members' eyes as well.
The random times it came on tv here in the nineties.
The film review segments with explosions.
Etc. etc. etc.
Did SCTV give anybody else the creeps?
Yes, it did. I remember seeing it as a young child and it would come on late at night sometimes. It seemed random then, and I must be talking about sometime in the early eighties. Maybe very late 70s. But I would come across it on occassion as a child and I found it very wierd and somewhat unnerving. I became intrigued by it after having come across it a few times, but it always seemed a little creepy to me. It downright frightened me the first time or two I saw it. I was pretty young then.
shareI can definitely understand how something creepy and odd and fleeting throughout childhood becomes fascinating! I did not see SCTV until the mid 1990s on a weeeeird satellite tv station that was incredibly weird and I thought it was really a local production (an ancient one)..
Anyway thanks for your response and I'm glad to hear someone out there can relate.
"I thought it was really a local production"
Yeah, the first few times I saw it as a kid, I really believed it was some cheap pirate station that would take over sometimes, usually late at night. It felt like something I probably shouldn't have been seeing.
Yeah, the first few times I saw it as a kid, I really believed it was some cheap pirate station that would take over sometimes, usually late at night. It felt like something I probably shouldn't have been seeing.
That was the point, the re-occurring skits represented shows and commercials on a cut-rate TV station. Like Count Floyd, for instance, always telling the viewer that something was scary. A truly frightening vampire character would
1) Not be named FLOYD and
2) would not have to assure the viewers constantly that he was scary.
Get it?
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"I miss Dwight. Congratulations, Universe. You win."
And then Count Floyd would rush toward the camera and pull back and go OOOOOOOOh! OOOOOOOh! Scary! I am in tears laughing remembering it! :)
shareBut I would come across it on occassion as a child and I found it very wierd and somewhat unnerving..
Their Das Boot parody freaked me out. Any time they did saga shows, like the one where some mystical thing made characters disappear (it's been years since I've seen it, so my description isn't great), kind of weirded me out. I had been hearing about SCTV for years from my family and was happy that I could finally see late-night reruns of it, but some of it I just didn't get and it kind of did give me the creeps. Especially if there was a skit that didn't feature any familiar faces.
"You taste like a burger. I don't like you anymore." -- Andy, Wet Hot American Summer
There was a parody of some movie that was possibly shown on "Monster Chiller Horror Theater" with Andrea Martin frothing at the mouth which gave me nightmares. I wish I could remember what movie was being parodied. All I can remember is someone driving a car through the woods and Martin continually looking quite terrifying.
sharei do believe that was a parody of 1944's (and 1940 in briton) Gaslight .
shareThere was a parody of some movie that was possibly shown on "Monster Chiller Horror Theater" with Andrea Martin frothing at the mouth which gave me nightmares. I wish I could remember what movie was being parodied. All I can remember is someone driving a car through the woods and Martin continually looking quite terrifying.
i do believe that was a parody of 1944's (and 1940 in briton) Gaslight*Man.people never get their sketches right (i.e. Bregund mistaking Six Gun Justice for the Cisco Kid).
Holy smokes!
shareWhy are/were children watching this show? This is definitely made for adults.
Oh, bugger!!!:)
I've been watching it since I was 8(3-4 years after it's cancelation) and I found it appealing for kids cause of the colourful characters and wraparound storylines.
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I began watching when I was really young. About... four or five? Probably even earlier, but that's as far back as my memory goes. My dad and brother were crazy about it, and I just grew up watching it. The only thing that scared me as a kid was Count Floyd, lol. I was only a kid, and Joe Flaherty throwing his head back and howling, even comically, scared the *beep* out of me.
I used to watch this show when I was eleven.
shareExcellent work!
Now, bring me that horizon!
"Count Floyd" was a hoot. I particularly remember one episode where John Candy was doing a Vincent Price impression, "Dr. Tongue's House Of The 3-D Slave Chicks" :-)
Another favorite of mine was the time they were running a fund raising telethon, and the station manager, "Guy Caballero" (Joe Flaherty) threatened the audience saying that if they didn't contribute, the station would start running soccer matches 24/7. "That's all you'll get! SOCCER! And there's nothing more boring than THAT!"
I was also a big fan of "The Happy Wanderers" and "Dining with LaRue"
"Count Floyd" was a hoot. I particularly remember one episode where John Candy was doing a Vincent Price impression, "Dr. Tongue's House Of The 3-D Slave Chicks" :-)
Another favorite of mine was the time they were running a fund raising telethon, and the station manager, "Guy Caballero" (Joe Flaherty) threatened the audience saying that if they didn't contribute, the station would start running soccer matches 24/7. "That's all you'll get! SOCCER! And there's nothing more boring than THAT!"
I was also a big fan of "The Happy Wanderers" and "Dining with LaRue"
Love the Shmenge Brothers! To this day, my family and I can't mention coffee and cabbage rolls without breaking into an accent or thanking Mrs Vilviachki.
shareMy Favorite is the Leave to Beaver 25 annversery show, Bad Hollywood movies,
Merv Griffin show Otis get Opie drunk . And John Candy imitating Divine.
John Candy was even scarier as Divine than Divine was!
I would think "Mrs. Falbo's Tiny Town" was give kids the creeps as well, especially for the weird theme song.
This show is hilarious and delightfully twisted.
I've begun watching the old videotapes I made of this show when it was in syndication in the 80s. Such an amazing achievement, and so many incredible bits:
Jerry Lewis Live on the Champs Elysses
On the Waterfront Again
Angel Cortez -- FBI Jockey
Swami Bananananda
Ben-Hur, starring Curly
Midnight Cowboy II in 3-D, with commentary by Pauline Kael
Canadian programming to combat a union strike
Could go on and on, but anyone who's seen the show knows what I'm saying. Even when this show was sub-par, it was still better than almost anything else at the time.
I remember most of those bits, and they all bring a smile to my face. Even when the segments were a bit "off," they still made me laugh while I was cringing.
shareI was 11 when it first came on in Canada back in '76. I don't remember ever being creeped out by it then, but I do remember liking it even better than SNL, which I loved too.
Later on, I must have been 16 or 17 when the Towering Inferno episode was on. I recall being kind of creeped out by Martin Short's Johnny Nucleo character.
Oh spiffing. Absolutely spiffing. Well done. Two dead, twenty-five to go.
-Basil Fawlty
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You forgot to mention Monster Chiller Horror Theatre,
The House of Stewardesès musta scared he crap outta you.
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