Just ask for me, I'm Harry, the guy with the snake on his face...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

...just a reminder. In stores tomorrow...5 discs, the first 9 episodes of "SCTV Network 90."



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[Philostopher]

1. I want a satellite dish.

From the guy with the snake on his face.

And a crane shot.

Thanks for the reminder -- even though they're the 'sanitized' episodes, there's hope the older ones will come out eventually.

I hope they don't take Lin Ye Tang out. I know it wasn't PC, and once it was pointed out to Dave Thomas he quit doing Lin Ye Tang, but the wooden robot sketch almost did me in the first time I saw it.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. Lin Ye Tang, trying to pick up Catherine O'Hara at the Christmas party...

It's been a long time since I've seen the sketch, and I forget which character O'Hara was playing, but his line was something like "I have something for you no smaller than a monkey's tail"...he did it in the accent and mumbled it, probably to squeak it past the censors, but it was "one of those" SCTV lines.

This one should also include Rick Moranis' "Gerry Todd" VJ character playing the video of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's "White Christmas" (Joe Flaherty as Bing Crosby, Thomas as Stills, Levy as Nash, Moranis as Young)...

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[Philostopher]

4. My favorite Gerry Todd sketch

Was the one about Perry Como. Joe Flaherty in a white cardigan and gray slacks lying on a gurney with the microphone positioned near his mouth.

There were two other fairly early non-PC sketches I still remember quite well -- there was 'Happy Gyorgi' where John Candy played the village idiot-savant and the Uzbeks drank all the battery fluid ... and one from the early shows that also was supposed to have been Eastern European (perhaps it was when the Soviets were supposed to have hijacked the satellite? Haven't seen the ep in over 20 years) where Candy, O'Hara and the rest went on and on, largely in some made-up dialect, in which the only English was 'Gypsies! Ptui!'

Bill Needle is my role model. You tend to forget how brilliant Dave Thomas really was until you start talking to people who watched the early SCTV sketches. And prescient -- remember the G. Gordon Liddy sketch? If I remember correctly, it was G. Gordon Liddy doing a talk show, and forcing all his guests to hold their hands over a candle, then calling them cowards when they had to move their hands. "Want some of this? It's good -- apple brown ratty!"

[Sagan]

2. "HOW ARE YA??"

I loved Bobbie Bittman.... :)

I cannot WAIT to buy these. I have been denied long enough!

[Tom Kitten]

5. me too!

I loved the whole Sammy Maudlin gang...remember "Maudlin's Eleven"? And Bobby's brother Skip Bittman...for his first appearance as a stand-up on Maudlin's show he brought out a huge boom box and spent some time fidgeting around with it until finally Bobby yelled at him "What are you doing!" "I wanedt to tape my show!"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. "M. O. Eeee-le-vennnn"...LOL

There was one Maudlin show where chain-smoker Sammy got into a coughing and gagging fit so prolonged and severe they cut to a commercial...then he swore that he was going to kick the habit for good, the audience had his word on it...and Bittman said "and he's gonna DO it, folks"...and Maudlin immediately lit a cigarette.

[Tom Kitten]

7. too funny!

how about the time "due to the length of the previous program we now join the Sammy Maudlin Show already in progress"...they go to Maudlin, Bittman, William B. William, Lola Heatherton and Andrea Martin dressed as a nun, who sits at the end of the couch and is being totally ignored by the others, who are just having a riot laughing at each others off-color jokes and other various inanities...Finally, Maudlin says, "Hey looks like we're out of time, folks"...(Looks over at Martin)..."Mother Theresa, so glad you could make it...Thanks for joining us!"

That was such a funny show, I think I'm going to run out and buy them too...It's been too long since I saw that show!