The theme tune wasn't a Canadian recording, or even commissioned for the program. I just found it was a De Wolfe library recording. You can even hear it in stereo in this link: ruclips.net/video/Pc_ZUK1XmCo/видео.html
But this was also the first season with Rick Moranis, so it evens out (plus Candy and O'Hara do come back). Highlights of this opening for me: - Rick Moranis randomly making out with a blonde. - Tony Rosato taking some woman's sandwich. - Dave Thomas getting his pencil stuck in a paper plate. - The hot dog cooker satellite, which looks cheaper than the one from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Oh, I love the humorous irony... _"From the people who brought you the most popular TV show in syndication..."_ (TV sets shown being thrown out of apartment windows in a highrise.)
@chriszaharias1985 Robin Duke and Catherine O'Hara have been friends since childhood. Tony Rosato and John Candy were pretty tight too. Rick Moranis was brought in through Dave Thomas. Rosato wasn't the "token fat guy" and Moranis wasn't the "token nerdy guy",they all had different ranges.
Tony Rosato wasn't that fat, anyway. He was just short and muscular, which I guess is a thing with some Italian guys. And this show did teach me that Rick Moranis wasn't always typecast as a nerd, especially since he can do spot-on vocal impressions and most of the time, he never wore glasses (his or a prop version).
I loved the urban myth that claimed the opening scene when those televisions were thrown from the apartment building was filmed when the Leafs got kicked out of the playoffs.
@KomedyKollector - And Catherine O'Hara was trying her luck in the U.S., including a run on the very short lived "Steve Allen Comedy Hour" on NBC in 1980-81.
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Billy West's Big Voice Guy on Ren & Stimpy probably owes its existence to Dave Thomas' work on these intros.
...OH, but you did, YOU DID. Today you are on RUclips.COM. SCTV cast...you have reached the world and beyond!
way better intro than that crappy syndication version
The theme tune wasn't a Canadian recording, or even commissioned for the program. I just found it was a De Wolfe library recording. You can even hear it in stereo in this link: ruclips.net/video/Pc_ZUK1XmCo/видео.html
Is it me for a moment or does Joe look unbelievably gorgeous in this sequence?
This was that weird season where Tony Rosato and Robin Duke stood in for John Candy and Catherine O'Hara.
But this was also the first season with Rick Moranis, so it evens out (plus Candy and O'Hara do come back).
Highlights of this opening for me:
- Rick Moranis randomly making out with a blonde.
- Tony Rosato taking some woman's sandwich.
- Dave Thomas getting his pencil stuck in a paper plate.
- The hot dog cooker satellite, which looks cheaper than the one from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
And then they would move on to SNL
My Factory, My Self was the best episode that season.
I watch this all the time in syndication and never knew why TVs were being thrown out of things. Now I know!
Can't wait for season 4 to be posted, that's when all the pieces came together👍
That original SCTV theme reminds me of ice hockey for some reason.
Oh, I love the humorous irony...
_"From the people who brought you the most popular TV show in syndication..."_ (TV sets shown being thrown out of apartment windows in a highrise.)
This is the SCTV opening I remember. Any time you can make good use of old Atlas missile footage, you're doing the dang thing!
"..and even the tiny Republic of--- plpppth."
If they'd left it there it would be even more hilarious!
@chriszaharias1985 Robin Duke and Catherine O'Hara have been friends since childhood. Tony Rosato and John Candy were pretty tight too. Rick Moranis was brought in through Dave Thomas. Rosato wasn't the "token fat guy" and Moranis wasn't the "token nerdy guy",they all had different ranges.
Tony Rosato wasn't that fat, anyway. He was just short and muscular, which I guess is a thing with some Italian guys.
And this show did teach me that Rick Moranis wasn't always typecast as a nerd, especially since he can do spot-on vocal impressions and most of the time, he never wore glasses (his or a prop version).
I loved the urban myth that claimed the opening scene when those televisions were thrown from the apartment building was filmed when the Leafs got kicked out of the playoffs.
Well maybe the Bruins will do it to the Leafs again this year, eh ? (I'm in western Massachusetts)
Don't think so. The Leafs have no where to go but up.
Ha. I didn't remember Robin Duke being there for a season....
This was before she was hired to do Saturday Night Live, during its really shaky years in the early 1980s. Ditto Tony Rosato.
Because it took so long to get season 3 up and running, and by that time John Candy had already taken another job offer, "Big City Comedy" on CTV.
This was around the time John Candy started doing movies.
Loved how Joe Flaherty was playing a Russian with an obvious fake mustache.
@KomedyKollector - And Catherine O'Hara was trying her luck in the U.S., including a run on the very short lived "Steve Allen Comedy Hour" on NBC in 1980-81.
It hasn't worked out very well for Rosato....
@Anthony Arguien Chill out. The comment is ten years old.