Thanks for this upload! Algorithm put you in my feed because I've been enjoying old SCTV episodes lately. I see you have a podcast, looks like you have some pretty good guests.
I started watching SCTV back in the mid-70s, when it was produced in Toronto at the old Global TV studio. That was before the show had ties to NBC on American TV. I think the show still holds its own even in 2023. Another overlooked comedy show from Canada was Kids in the Hall which ran for a decade on CBC.
I totally agree! When the real commercial started I assumed that it was a sketch. It’s difficult for audiences today to understand the TV world of the late 70s and early 80s. SCTV was very skilled at parodying All aspects of television. It was the television of their time the late 70s and early 80s. If you’re from that time you immediately can get the joke that they were going for.
@@johnheart6890This should be 1986 87 as it's from when "Americans Most Wanted" began. The original program yes it's from 1981 that I remember from watching it when it was first aired. I also have the Bob and Doug LP album as well which came out that same year.
Haven't heard the Great White North in over 30 yrs. I still always hear "A beeeeer in a tree..." every time someone plays the 12 Days of Christmas. 🍻❤❤❤
40-some years ago (!) when I was 19 I always made it a point to be home to watch SCTV. I'd come home pretty high and I was afraid I'd hurt myself I laughed so hard at some of the skits.
I’m right there with you on that one man. I can remember watching the great white north and my mother asking me “Robert? What’s wrong with your eyes?“. Tombstone eyes, giggles, some really great trips.
When you’re a boy, every female teacher over 30 is kind of an Edith Prickley. You can’t imagine them ever being truly young and sexy, so if they talk that way, it’s kind of gruesome. Which is funny, in hindsight.
OMG! I used to watch this back in the late 1970's in Ohio late night weekends. Brings back memories and I thought these actors were hilarious! Gene Levy was my favorite. Thanks for posting!!!
I'm a Canadian who used to watch SCTV every week(I'm 60) and STILL think it's superior to SNL. I couldn't always convince people of this. It has legs,staying power that that other show often doesn't have.
Yes. Look at the talent! The primary actors all went on to be so successful in movies. I'm American and think Kids in the Hall and SCTV were epic comedy achievements. Thank you Canada.
Bill Needle psychologically destroying the Travolta (?) and Bo Derek takeoffs was hilarious. You get the impression that someone in the writers room was having fun there.
Like a Time Machine with the commercials, and that Elvis one was perfect, I thought it was a skit the way they cut it when it was becoming just big words that no trinket off TV could live up too.
The memories this brings back are great. One of the odder ones is that I had a girlfriend who lived in the apartment building in the opening credits from which they threw all those TV sets.
Dave Thomas was a master impressionist in that he could _stay funny_ while doing all those impressions. He also was great at voice mimicry, which Candy and Flaherty weren't.
Right after graduating HS, I traded my 1970 T/A Challenger for a 1971 440 six pack Roadrunner. One night we were watching SCTV and in one of the episodes Edith Prickley was driving a Blue 1971 Roadrunner with white strobe light decals. Her car looked just like mine. To this day I remember her crazy @ss driving “my car”. SCTV was a funny show as was Fridays. 🤙🤙🤙
@@labluvver That's what I thought too - I was like 'Wow, SCTV was great about creating Spoof Commercials'....until I realized that they WERE actual Commercials!! It seemed like almost half of this video was Commercials.
Sounds like Edith Prickley is obsessed with Parnell Roberts!!! She gushes over him with his name or his Trapper John character in all the prizes she mentioned.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My list of sketch shows that are better than Saturday Night Live are: this show, Fridays, In Living Color, Chappelle's Show, and Key and Peele. I do have Kids in the Hall as an honorable mention.
@@canaisyoung3601 Fridays was very underrated. I used to watch it here on the local ABC affiliate when I was growing up but it was only on for a few years. One of the more memorable characters was the little boy played by a pre-Seinfeld Michael Richards who always used to destroy things in the midst of playing with his toys. Larry David was also involved in Fridays, so it wasn't surprising to see many of Richards' former Fridays co-stars make appearances throughout the run of Seinfeld. Mary Edith Burrell played the mother of a little boy always getting bad vibes from Jerry; Melanie Chartoff played the comedy club barmaid that George Costanza dated for some time (The Fire episode); and Bruce Mahler played the rabbi always horning in on Elaine Benes' personal affairs.
sometimes i daydream it's 1982 or so and i'm on a hot date with Andrea, making her do all her characters. Pirini meeting up for dinner, Prickley over drinks, and Libby Wolfson back at my place.
Snyder was complex but controlled, Needle was a f***in _mess._ He just had his guts out in every bit. Easily the meanest character on SCTV, considering Karl Bildenhausen only appeared once.
The SCTV Podcast is now on the air: anchor.fm/sctvpod
Thanks for this upload! Algorithm put you in my feed because I've been enjoying old SCTV episodes lately. I see you have a podcast, looks like you have some pretty good guests.
I started watching SCTV back in the mid-70s, when it was produced in Toronto at the old Global TV studio. That was before the show had ties to NBC on American TV. I think the show still holds its own even in 2023. Another overlooked comedy show from Canada was Kids in the Hall which ran for a decade on CBC.
Kids in the Hall had 5 seasons but they were all excellent!
RIP Joe Flaherty. You will always be a great landmark of comedy
Guy Caballero, one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV was when he jumped up out of that wheelchair and took off running.
Ya jackass!
The memories this brings back are incredible.
I am sure they have no credibility.
The actual commercials included fit so well....They were carrying the program into a meta-reality....
I totally agree! When the real commercial started I assumed that it was a sketch. It’s difficult for audiences today to understand the TV world of the late 70s and early 80s. SCTV was very skilled at parodying All aspects of television. It was the television of their time the late 70s and early 80s. If you’re from that time you immediately can get the joke that they were going for.
Yes indeed.
@@francescaa8331 You're Coast Guard Auxiliary, aren't you. I do Talent for Gary Collins, so let me see if I can book you.
@@johnheart6890This should be 1986 87 as it's from when "Americans Most Wanted" began. The original program yes it's from 1981 that I remember from watching it when it was first aired.
I also have the Bob and Doug LP album as well which came out that same year.
The actors were fantastic in this show.
Light years funnier than SNL could ever be!
Yeah, but I still like both shows.
I totally agree, the most under rated comedy show ever.
Agreed.
I never watch SNL reruns, and all 40 whatever seasons are on hulu.
Enjoy the show and the old commercials.
Haven't heard the Great White North in over 30 yrs. I still always hear "A beeeeer in a tree..." every time someone plays the 12 Days of Christmas. 🍻❤❤❤
40-some years ago (!) when I was 19 I always made it a point to be home to watch SCTV. I'd come home pretty high and I was afraid I'd hurt myself I laughed so hard at some of the skits.
Same here
Yup. I was just a few years older, but same thing.
I’m right there with you on that one man. I can remember watching the great white north and my mother asking me “Robert? What’s wrong with your eyes?“. Tombstone eyes, giggles, some really great trips.
And it's still great to watch !
For a moment there I thought Rick Moranis was doing a perfect Geraldo impression.
A rabbi ,a chef, and a Scotsman in a kilt walked into a bar.....🤣
Edith Prickley hosts the "Mating Game" totally hysterical. I remember all of these fantastic and very funny SCTV clips way funnier than SNL.
Edith Prickley seems like the kind of gal that's flattened some grass in her time.
Where the leopards curl up for the night, there's Edith, babby
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Edith's more a Cougar than a Leopard.
@@satchice9102 Yes, Ms. Prickley can change spots with the best of 'em!
Pfffffttttt. HA! (As Edith would say)
I have seen so many real-life Edith Prickleys. Andrea Martin is great.
When you’re a boy, every female teacher over 30 is kind of an Edith Prickley. You can’t imagine them ever being truly young and sexy, so if they talk that way, it’s kind of gruesome. Which is funny, in hindsight.
Sings like Ethel Merman.
She reminds me of a character Mary Scheer from Mad TV would do. I thought it was her at first.
There is NO ONE like Edith Prickley. She's my idol. 😂
Greatest comedy show ever!
OMG! I used to watch this back in the late 1970's in Ohio late night weekends. Brings back memories and I thought these actors were hilarious! Gene Levy was my favorite. Thanks for posting!!!
I'm a Canadian who used to watch SCTV every week(I'm 60) and STILL think it's superior to SNL. I couldn't always convince people of this. It has legs,staying power that that other show often doesn't have.
I always have liked SCTV. I absolutely love Kids in the Hall. We U.S.-ians thank you.
Kids in the hall the best ! 😂
Yes. Look at the talent! The primary actors all went on to be so successful in movies.
I'm American and think Kids in the Hall and SCTV were epic comedy achievements. Thank you Canada.
SNL doesn’t hold a candle to SCTV
@@josephsummer777 It's not even a debate, to be honest. SCTV is much more creative and much more hilarious.
SCTV News. It doesn’t get any better than this😂
Loved this. Got off work at 10 pm. Turned this on and ate my reheated dinner.
Love this show and it's so great to see it again. Bob and Doug, Bill Needle and all the rest,thanks for putting these together, regards Scott-Peace.
The commercials add to the comedy.
These guys get funnier every year.
We didn't know how good we had it.
@@bryede Letterman took it all from Bill Needle.
Feb1981, just got home, 17 years old and just lit a joint and now I'm watching SCTV.
You are the only one who has accurate memory that this is 1981.
Just as funny as it was when I was a kid.
these vintage bumpers are precious nuggets of history
Bill Needle psychologically destroying the Travolta (?) and Bo Derek takeoffs was hilarious. You get the impression that someone in the writers room was having fun there.
Andrea was Edith Prickley. Loved her ❤️
This to me was the best intro music
I love it !
Love having the local US TV station parts too; cant tell where the parody ends and the reality starts.
"A MELONVILLE MAN ALMOST SPENDZ THE NIGHT IN JAIL" TOP STORY LOVE EUGENE LEVY 😂😂😂😂
This was the first show that I first saw John Candy back in the 70's.
Like a Time Machine with the commercials, and that Elvis one was perfect, I thought it was a skit the way they cut it when it was becoming just big words that no trinket off TV could live up too.
Wish they would show reruns of this on sat nights on NBC instead if SNL which is dead like tonight show !
Best, family friendly show on tv both sides of the border!😂🎉
The memories this brings back are great. One of the odder ones is that I had a girlfriend who lived in the apartment building in the opening credits from which they threw all those TV sets.
That must have been in Canada, EH ?!?
@@egreenbery Toronto
Can't tell the WPEC ads from the SCTV ad spoofs.
SCTV is the inspiration for our show ❤🎉
All uniquely talented. Tony Rosato was, for me, uniquely unique.
he looks like a guy who is just waiting to lose his mind
@@mlongpre100 - Indeed, later in his life, he did lose his mind.
He got the SNL job because of SCTV !
Oh, that Walter Cronkite.
Dave Thomas was a master impressionist in that he could _stay funny_ while doing all those impressions. He also was great at voice mimicry, which Candy and Flaherty weren't.
Andrea and Catherine O'Hara and Robin Duke are 3 of the funniest women on the planet
Hey, I'm getting an unusual amount of traffic on this episode...did somebody link to this? Thanks, Michael Delaney.
@@VHScape no I went looking for Andrea Martin online because I could not remember her name.. pulled up cast sctv.. down the rabbit hole to here..lol
@@salobrena6442 It must be the algorithm. Andrea is in every episode of SCTV, happily, so you can't miss her.
9:01-great things were happening at the University of Southern California Berkeley. 😆😆😆
Where’s that, now? Is it near Melonville? 🤔
@@salyluz6535 Southern California Berkeley man almost spends the night in jail
The topic is- “why are parking lots so small at donut shops?”
Peter's Doughnuts - ten tables and, like, three spots!
Man I miss these days
Loved watching SCTV!!
Oh my, I haven't seen this since I was 10 - This use to be my favorite show to
watch on Saturday nights.
Hell I'd watch "Starting Out".
Beats all the fawning "interviews" you get now
Love the commercials
Lovin' this!💕❤️💗
Between two ferns long before!
None of these people will ever amount to anything and live sketch comedy will never last.
Aw you're loaded eh.
I love sarcasm !
Funny how close SCTV was to the real ads. The fat buster scam could easily have been an SCTV bit.
Right after graduating HS, I traded my 1970 T/A Challenger for a 1971 440 six pack Roadrunner. One night we were watching SCTV and in one of the episodes Edith Prickley was driving a Blue 1971 Roadrunner with white strobe light decals. Her car looked just like mine. To this day I remember her crazy @ss driving “my car”. SCTV was a funny show as was Fridays. 🤙🤙🤙
Thank you !!
Bill Needle's cynicism was great.
Love Bill Needle!! 🤣
@kaw boy Ahhhh that’s pretty sharp 😁
@@hardlines4bill needle had me in stitches.
And a month from now you'll be in an ER dying from toxic shock due to dirty thread . . .@@fefferryerr1818
man of the hour geraldo rivera- ohhhh brother.
I like the mid Atlantic accent with announcers
Florida jam sounds legit !
😭🥶great show.
Too Funny.
Still waiting for my Elvis record.
I loved when they did the miracle worker
Comedy show ranked:
1) Monty Python's Flying Circus
2) Mad TV
3) SCTV
4) SNL
5) CNN Nightly News
The very early years (like this) were the best.
Real funny!!!👍😁❤
Total pros. So few cutaways.
Watched this way back in the 1980's
The Best!!
Edith Prickley channeling Pee Wee Herman @18:40 ! Great stuff!
Did they ever find the killer?
There are as many TV commercials as there are SCTV skits
Go to the youtube complaint department for that issue.
@@VHScape hahahahahhaahahahahahahhahaahahahah
It's a truly authentic representation of watching it 35 or so years ago.
Hard to tell they were not SCTV bits at first.
@@labluvver That's what I thought too - I was like 'Wow, SCTV was great about creating Spoof Commercials'....until I realized that they WERE actual Commercials!!
It seemed like almost half of this video was Commercials.
It MUST have something to do with Canada beer being so much stronger. Hooray!
Sounds like Edith Prickley is obsessed with Parnell Roberts!!! She gushes over him with his name or his Trapper John character in all the prizes she mentioned.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Top 3 sketch tv shows, in no particular order, SCTV, Chappelle and kids n the hall. Tell me I'm wrong. P.S. HOW ARE YA!!!!!!
and I'm not Canadian
@@prometheanubermensch130 I'm more of a Skip Bittman fan...
@@russellblake6471 - 100%
My list of sketch shows that are better than Saturday Night Live are: this show, Fridays, In Living Color, Chappelle's Show, and Key and Peele.
I do have Kids in the Hall as an honorable mention.
@@canaisyoung3601 Fridays was very underrated. I used to watch it here on the local ABC affiliate when I was growing up but it was only on for a few years. One of the more memorable characters was the little boy played by a pre-Seinfeld Michael Richards who always used to destroy things in the midst of playing with his toys. Larry David was also involved in Fridays, so it wasn't surprising to see many of Richards' former Fridays co-stars make appearances throughout the run of Seinfeld. Mary Edith Burrell played the mother of a little boy always getting bad vibes from Jerry; Melanie Chartoff played the comedy club barmaid that George Costanza dated for some time (The Fire episode); and Bruce Mahler played the rabbi always horning in on Elaine Benes' personal affairs.
LOVE that crummy map with our smaller neighbor made even smaller. We're not drawn correctly either.
Might big talk from a hat...😂
Seriously, I love that the reason for the GWN spots is that CBC regs required a certain amount of local-focused content.
@2:29 For dog's sake, look out for the MANATEES! Don't hurt the lovely cows of the sea.
andrea martin. love.
sometimes i daydream it's 1982 or so and i'm on a hot date with Andrea, making her do all her characters. Pirini meeting up for dinner, Prickley over drinks, and Libby Wolfson back at my place.
Bonus appearance by the real life Earl Camembert at 23:55!
I remember the Chinese Olympics when I was young, something you would never forget. I guess it is not appropriate today but wow, those were the days.
"Davrons or something". Lol Darvons.
Hit pause when recording in-between commercials. Found that out, our family was WOW. More tape space!😂
Wow, negative comment.
The thumbnail looks like Bill Gates shortly after he formed Microsoft.
Never missed a show I believe it came on at 12:30 they used to also Like snl have a musical guest
IN THAT OLD VOODOO I CALL LUUUUV, I COULD STAY AWAY BUT WAT WUD I DOOOOOO
Andrea Martin is 🔥
Robin's beautiful!
I liked her look on the Mating Game. Isn't she also a Pittsburgher just like Joe Flaherty?
"Kennels, Kenneth! There's two of us comin' home tonight!"
Looks familiar…
@@nemovalerius185 She grew up just outside Toronto. Went to high school with Catherine O'Hara.
Will u b posting more
Edith is my queen.
Haven’t seen this since it was new.
Sweet 👍
In Minnesota we have always pronounced it Oreh-gan-o and not Oregon-o. Not saying we are right but to hear it pronounced that way here is weird.
It's Italian I think your pronouncement is correct
oHH, they were talking about a spice? I thought iT was a strange form of origami.
Dave Thomas as Phil Needle.
Geraldo the Renegayde
Spoof of The Dating Game
Bill Needle, the original Debbie Downer.
Leave the commercials next time.
❤
Bill Gates in the thumbnail... Had no idea he was on SCTV.
Bill Needle reminds me of Tom Snyder..
Snyder was complex but controlled, Needle was a f***in _mess._ He just had his guts out in every bit. Easily the meanest character on SCTV, considering Karl Bildenhausen only appeared once.
Two kinds of potatoes.
😎