♫ On the Fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Five golden toques Four pounds of back bacon Three French toasts Two turtlenecks And a beer (in a tree) ♫
What makes these skits iconic are that they are fully improvised. They started as a 2 minute filler at the end of SCTV program. The laughter you hear is from staff
And a parade in honor of hosers, in downtown Toronto. I was there. Miss the days when everyone wasn't so political and pissed off. ❤. Thanks for your interest in Canadian 'culture' 😂. You are now an honorary hoser! TAKE OFF EH!
It wasn't necessarily at the end but it was created as joke CanCon (Canadian Content) that was only shown in Canada until Americans that got the Canadian stations said they loved it so it became part of the main show.
I'm old enough to have watched SCTV when it was being aired! 90 minutes of comedic hilarity that kicks SNL's butt in every way. I wish they could syndicate the episodes and air them again. There are some truly memorable components and the framework of it being an actual broadcasting station made the possibilities endless.
Hosehead is an insult. It's a variation of the term "hoser" which comes from the Canadian culture of ice hockey when friendly teams would play each other is the agreement that whoever loses has to prepare the rink again for the next game (it has to be prepared in advance cos the process takes time) which they'd do after the game. This preparation is hosing down the ice to refresh it from the ice scratches and grooves to make it new for the next game. Thus the losers were "hosers". Hosehead is just a slang variation of it that Doug is using.
In the '80s when you went skiing you could yell out "coo-coo-coo-coo...coo-coo" from the top of the ski lift and were guaranteed to get several echoed replies from various spots on the lower mountain. Good times!
To be fair, a lot of people did dress like that, and filling almost empty beer bottles with cigarettes so that they couldn't be returned without cleaning them out and giving them to the kids who came around on bottle drives was a thing.
Bob and Doug are Canadian hero’s. So many hours of silliness and light hearted banter😂. Grew up with them even though my parents would have disapproved.
Bob and Doug McKenzie...two of the greatest fictional Scots in Canadian history...apparently they were 'drinking' Labatts in their early segments but Labatts wouldn't supply it free even though it was free advertising so they switched to Molson beer who were quite happy to give them all they wanted...maybe that was the inspiration for their movie, "Strange Brew".
I believe they actually used the old Molson (might have been Carling O'Keefe) Brewery along side the 401 in Toronto as the Elsinore Brewery it that movie.
@themisterchristie Who can forget the hockey-playing storm troopers...Canada's Arctic Defense Force prepared to meet any Russian incursion...of course it also could be Russians defecting en masse so our forces need to be equipped with plenty of hot chocolate and snacks...
If you look at the stuff on the table, it's all canadiana. The coleman stove, the cast iron pan, the mess kit, the stubies, and "the pack u smokes." In the town that I live (Edmonton), there is a sculpture of these two. Canadian icons.
So, I'm about 10-ish years younger than these two, and grew up in southern Ontario where they are also both from. My understanding was that the Canadian version of SCTV had fewer commercial breaks than the American version, and so Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis were tasked with coming up with a couple of minutes of something, and that they were told to, "make it Canadian!” They opted for something lowbrow, and it was hilarious! (or I guess some of us thought so, anyway) A common insult we used to hurl around when I was young was to call someone a "hosebag,” which is a marginally more polite way of saying, "douchebag,” and I always thought that's what they were referring to but cleaned up for TV, when they called each other, "Hoser!” Perhaps, or perhaps not, but it sure was funny. I think it's pretty obvious what the REAL two-word phrase they meant when they said, "take off.” 😉Back bacon (or peameal bacon) is what we always called the stuff that Americans now refer to as Canadian bacon. I remember hearing "Canadian bacon, " for the first time and thinking, "We have our own bacon?!" 🙂
The CRTC had Canadian content requirements. Stations had to have a certain amount of Canadian content. This skit was the response to increasing Cancon. The TV show, The Trouble With Tracey was another response. Some call it the worst ever sitcom. It was made with almost no budget and scripts ripped off other shows and lots of episodes filmed per week.
I think the "coo-loo-coo-coo" intro call was inspired by the "Hinterland Who's Who" segments that used to be inserted into commercial breaks on the CBC. They were one or two-minute vignettes about Canadian wildlife that started with a mournful flute melody and maybe the call of a loon. As kids we would groan because they interrupted the shows and seemed to go on forever.
@@AllanTidgwell nowhere. Just nowhere. The House Hippo is loved by Canuckleheads like us but most nature shows would rather show the huge hippos. So sad.
I did work at the brewers retail in Niagara Falls in the early 2000's and Americans would come in singing the song and asking to buy McKenzie brother souvenirs', not bad for a show that went off the air in 1984.
Bob and Doug are definitely Canadian touchstones for mostly the older generations. In the period of time where Rick Moranis was largely taking a break from acting, he and Dave Thomas reunited to portray versions of the Bob and Doug characters in the Disney movie Brother Bear, where they play two moose brothers who tell each other to "trample off" instead of "take off". In addition, my grandma would use the coo-loo-coo call all the time in the summer, brings back great memories.
That was the beauty of growing up in Edmonton in the '80s. Come Monday morning, EVERY kid in the school had watched SCTV on Friday night, and was talking like Bob and Doug! Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis are absolute legends, eh?
It is rumoured that the rest of the SCTV cast resented the success of the Great White North because it was mostly unscripted, and was created as an afterthought to fill some remaining time for the SCTV episode. Then it became the most popular segment. Get your hands on Strange Brew is you can. Hilarious movie!
If I’m correct the reason for Great White North was to fulfill the Canadian content requirements for the show to receive funding so they put it all in one segment lol The show started in Toronto then moved to Edmonton; there is a statue of the McKenzie Brothers of them on a park bench there in the downtown area 😎
In order to get the funding from CBC , SCTV was required to have 2 minutes of “Canadian content”. The entire cast cracked up and wondered what would constitute Canadian content and decided CBC was looking for a couple of dudes drinking beer and eating back bacon and voilà, Bob & Doug MacKenzie were born! You nailed it exactly when you said it was watching two random guys talking in their living room, because nobody knew what CBC meant by “Canadian content” so these sketches were kind of throwing shade at CBC…
Actually, the CRT mandated that any television or radio station in Canada had to have a certain amount of Canadian content. The practise was to ensure that Canadian talent would have an outlet and to promote our artists. Funding didn’t have a whole lot to do with it. It was more about making sure our talents could have an audience. It was joke when I was a kid, when we heard a strange song we’d call Canadian Content and the last one to speak had to drink. lol.
Love SCTV, Kids in the Hall, Canadian Air Farce, Red Green , Trailer Park Boys , This Hour has 22 Minutes , all great comedy. There are other great sitcoms from Canada.
@@heathermead8 The CBC used to make some neat little shows (shot on video) most of which have been forgotten in time. One was "Up at Ours" which was a brilliantly understated look at life in a St John's boarding house starring CODCO member Mary Walsh. When I got into TV later I met one of the show's director's, Walter Learning.
Not a comedy, but a great little CBC drama was Home Fires (1980-83). It's setting was WWII and concerned a doctor and his family. The daughter was played by newcomer Wendy Crewson and the father by the ubiquitous Gerry Parkes (Fraggle Rock). Booth Savage and Jeff Wincott also appeared. Such a shame that CBC can't release and air these shows again. I sure would love to be able to download Up at Ours and Home Fires as you can barely see a clip on TH-cam
A real blast from the past was the sitcom Excuse My French (1974-76). Sitcoms were not something that were done particularly well in Canada but this was an exception (see also Corner Gas). Popular in ratings and with critics the series ended in 1976 when the male lead moved to the US to work as a writer for The Sonny & Cher Show (Wiki). There were quite a few eps on YT which were posted by somebody who worked on the show but I think they are gone now.
I was working with some of my Canadian military brothers and sisters for NATO in Europe. The Canadians came into the dining hall. I greeted them with hey, take off, eh. OMG... Several faces lit up and I was regaled with quotes and lines from the McKenzie brothers for most of the next hour. You could tell what a genuine fondness they had for the special wit and comedy of Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. Here's to you, comrades. May your heart be light, your sorrows be few, and your mug of Moosehead beer ever full.
Dave Thomas' brother is the singer Ian Thomas. At least as humourous as Dave. He was a semi regular on The Red Green Show, which needs to be on your list. So many top tier celebs appeared on that show.
I agree! The Red Green Show was hilarious. Handyman Corner and Adventures with Bill, being my favourite sketches. All the characters on that show where amazing.
They had a single called "Take Off"... it did really well in the pop charts, if memory serves... or maybe it was just me:) Geddy Lee sang on the song... so great:)
The McKenzie Brothers, had an audio comedy album, originally on 33LP. It was their serious audio commentary, without the visuals, eh! It did have a song, with Rush vocalist, bass/keyboard Geddy Lee, called "Take Off!" (1981) You could later get this record on CD. The McKenzie Brothers, had a movie, too, eh! It was called "Strange Brew" (1983) The villain, whose Beer brewery altered people's minds, and they got Max von Sydow to portray the character. And, there's an evil Hockey team, too. and the brothers are trapped in a vat of beer, so they drink their way out,...and, ya know, things that Canadians laugh at. Good day.
Canadians love Bob and Doug. Many of us know a Bob or Doug, someone who would wait 2 1/2 hours for someone to take their donut order!!!! They are hilarious. My favourite was the issue about the donut shop parking spaces. Soooo funny. LOL
Me and my friends used to watch SCTV together every week. It was an event. I will never forget the first time Bob and Doug appeared. We laughed ourselves to tears until our guts hurt. We all owned touques like the ones Bob and Doug wore and we happened to be drinking the same beer they drink. Canadians have always been able to laugh at ourselves, it's just how we are.
This was THE iconic Canadian comedy show (skits) of the early eighties. I immigrated here from the UK in 1981 and this was a snapshot parody of Canadian life at that time. Innocent days.
Try watching The Red Green show. That was my dad's favourite. That show made Americans think we fix everything with duct tape and wear flannel all the time.
When this was airing for the first time I was an avid skier. While riding the lift if you started the "woo oook" someone else would finish it! I am Canadian and we consider Bob & Doug absolute icons!
Bob and Doug were iconic Canadian comedy characters back in the 80's as were the rest of the SCTV cast, many of whom learned their improv skills and graduated from Second City comedy troupe. Bob and Doug made their own movie called Strange Brew (a must see if you like Bob and Doug), put out a Christmas album with a guest appearance from Geddy Lee of Rush, and there was even a Hoser parade held in downtown Toronto featuring Bob and Doug on a beer float. These bring back great memories 🙂
It tickles the cockles of my Canadian heart that you are so in love with so many cultural aspects of this country. I think it's imperative that you spend at least five years tooling around Canada. Cheers mate!
The Great White North was absolutely a response from the SCTV team when they were required to have some distinctly "Canadian Content" on the show, as it was originally a sketch show shot in Toronto for both Canadian and American audiences. They'd been brought out to Edmonton, Alberta by the time TGWN was done (bigger production space), and they said 'we'll give them the most Canadian thing we can think of; two drunk hosers in front of a map of Canada surrounded by camping equipment and beers!" The set was slapped together in a day, and Rick Moranis (Bob McKenzie) and Dave Thomas (Doug Mckenzie) improved their way through the segments, literally using as simple a 'topic' as they could. No one could have guessed this last minute, studio demanded filler segment slapped together would turn into, at the time, the biggest and most recognizable part of the SCTV lineup! They even got to do a feature film; "The Adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie; Strange Brew"!
I remember they did a beer commercial and they had a 53 foot beer trailer hooked to their van. The van was lifted off the front wheels because of the weight. Doug tries to drive but it won't move. He then says "It's like winter conditions eh!" Lol
Dave Thomas' 'cooo-oo-coo-coo-coooo-oo-coo-coo is meant to mimic the owl-inspired theme music of another Canadian 80s wonder, the "Hinterland: Who's Who", which was a one or two-minute information segment on wildlife. It was always a brief sketch of any possible Canadian fauna, in any season, and what they get up to. The intro with the music depicted an owl, hence the owl-like sounds....yeah nah yeah, true story. Cheers.
Ian Thomas? Saw him in concert in the 70s in Renfrew Ontario at the Armory. They were awesome I think? Take off it is Ottawa Valley eh and not sure how sober i was
Did you know that the Hinterland Who's Who PSAs that used to air on TV and their iconic opening recorder riff were the inspiration for the Mackenzie Bros theme "Coo do coo coo" and Ian Thomas' hit song Pilot. Doug MacKenzie was played by Ian's brother Dave. Also Rick Moranis (Bob MacKenzie) was a former DJ and he requested Ian Thomas to play Pilot when he appeared on the SCTV show as a special guest.
Brought back memories.. I have done the coo coo koo song for my kids. They look at me like I'm strange 😅.. the best is when they did the 12 days of Christmas song. I had a record of the Christmas show with a picture of the brothers on set like you see them on the album cover.
The story is that they were told they needed more cancon. They pointed out that the show was written by, directed by, and starred Canadians and added: "What do you want us to do? Sit in front of a map of Canada, drinking beer and cooking back bacon and say eh and hoser for 2 minutes?"
So many good skits from SCTV. John Candy as Johnny Lerue or as Magmum PEI. He even hides in a potatoe field! lol. The Schemgy Brothers, John Candy and Euegene Levy. They're crazy accordion-playing brothers! lol. I never missed SCTV when it was on TV in the 70s. You reacting to these makes me have happy memories. Thanks Mert!
These guy were huge at the time in Canada and the US. Most white Canadians have some Scottish or Ulster Scot ancestry. Hence Robert and Douglas McKenzie. Douglas was a hugely popular name for boys in the 60’s in Canada.
If you listen to the Bob and Doug recording of "Take off ", it is sung by Geddy Lee of Rush, and the best line is during the opening when Bob and Doug thank him for his help and his line is, "hey, ten bucks is ten bucks eh."
"Hosehead" is a take off of "hosers", which means "losers". And of course, being Canadian, they had to say "eh" at the end of practically every sentence. Molson Canadian beer was a best seller years ago, before craft beer came along.
I lived a block away from ITV studios in Edmonton where they filmed SCTV for a couple of years, and I would often see the whole crew coming and going...usually to the bar right behind the studio!😅
yes yes yes!!!!! i've been waiting with baited breath for this lol a frozen butterball = a frozen turkey (name brand) hoser/houser = loser take off (eh) = eff off also- if you don't know hey made a full length film: Strange Brew.
Okay, kiddies. I lived back then and I will tell you. Hoser (and variations) has nothing to do with losers flooding the hockey rink or any other variations. When we were kids, you couldn't call the other kid 'douchebag' because your mom would wallop you around the head and ears, so 'hosebag' was invented. When Doug and Bob came to SCTV, they weren't allowed even to say 'hosebag', so they invented 'hoser'. And that's how a legend was born.
@@jameswolfden I thought it was from putting a hose on a funnel and trying to drink from the hose while somebody else poured beer into the funnel really fast. I'm pretty sure that one of our skit comedy shows did a bit on how it got invented. Done as if it was a heritage minute. If not, I really gotta lay off the weed !!😉😄
Their story is very humourous. You are correct about the extra two minutes having to be Canadian. So, most of SCTV actors were Canadian. Regardless CBC and our broadcast regulator “demanded” the extra 2 minutes had to be Canadian content. In protest Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas thought about every stereotype and how to exaggerate it. Then they created the stage set and worked on the first season’s episodes over 3 weekends. The beer was real beer. So often they were completely liquored halfway through the day. As the Bob an Doug characters were so popular they were asked to keep doing the skits. Americans living near the border could pick up the Canadian channel broadcast over the air and asked for the Bob and Doug skits to be aired on the US version of the show. From there they took off to the phenomenon that we still hear about today. A ‘screw you’ to the government ended up being a Canadian icon.
You just might enjoy Wayne and Shuster, two funny men from Toronto who appeared more often on the Ed Sullivan show than any other comedic duo from Toronto up to that time.
We LOVED Bob & Doug growing up. I can not remember a particular skit, but the banter was always so fun. My favourite thing was they made an entire movie with Gedde Lee from RUSH singing the theme song "Take Off!" Silly, funny, and we thought it was awesome. Also, it was a thing to call your pals hosers if they did stupid stuff, so that's why Doug (Dave Thomas) calls hus brother hose head or hoser. 😉
You should look up an interview with Rick Moranis when he talks about creating the skit. It basically came about as a frustrated half-joke because they were getting annoyed with the CBC about the show needing more "Canadian content" Also, apparently they shot the D&B skits at the very end of the day, so almost no one was on set. Just Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, and a skeleton crew operating the camera and they were all chilling out with beer and goofing off. Legends, all of them
God love ya fella. I've just started watching your stuff. Why a Scottish guy who lives in Malaysia has taken such an interest in Canada is beyond me, but thanks. I am sixth generation Canadian, but love my Scottish heritage. You've hit on a niche. Can't wait to start watching your take on the Trailer Park Boys.
Bod and Doug are Canada icons.. and are beloved in Canada and to prove it. remember when Space X launched their rocket to the space station. every Canada noticed the astronauts were BOB and DOUG. and we all laughed. next video you should look for is the hit single from the album
Red Green is another iconic Canadian show that ran from 1991-2006. Every episode had a segment called "handyman corner", where one of the characters tries to fix things like broken fixtures, tractors, etc. by improvising, usually incorporating duct tape, which he thinks is the magic solution to everything lol. Another show is This Hour Has 22 minutes (title was later shortened to "22 minutes"). They're 22 min. comedy episodes of fake news stories, interviews and commercials. Love watching your videos!
I remember there were times when it came near to a commercial break, SCTV would start it off with a commercial skit of their own. I won't ever forget the one where Dave Thomas was "advertising" a microwave oven. My mom was watching with me but didn't realize it was an SCTV commercial, so when Dave went to remove whatever was in the microwave, there was an electrical buzz and Dave came out with a skeleton hand. The funniest thing about this was the absolutely horrified shriek that came out of mom. I think that was the hardest I laughed up to that point in my life. On another note, you might like "Take Off" by Bob and Doug McKenzie with Geddy Lee.
3:04 Hose-head is a derivative of Hoser. Back in the day, there was always that one house on the street with a backyard rink that all the kids would play in. At the end of the night, the team that lost had to hose down the rink for the next night. They were called hosers (losers). P.S> Bob & Doug McKenzie made a movie: Strange Brew. Canadian Classic.
Movie Brother Bear they played/voiced the two moose. Sooo 😂, Love em! The dvd had the whole movie with their commentary version. 😊 Love your vids too btw! Cheers!
Im not considered "younger gereration" as ill be 39 next month, but i grew up watching these shows and i love seeing them again. Its been many years now. Thanks for the nostalgic throwback to what created the weirdness that is current me. Haha. Hope everyone is taking care
I grew up in Canada watching these guys on TV. Bob and Doug eh. Take off eh. SCTV and all the funniest people you could imagine. Awesome to see this again. I couldn't laugh harder.😂 Marco
Was still a child when SCTV was on into early teens. Being a kid and watching the tvs being thrown and that really amused me the most. This was a Canadian comedy club Second City, put out many great actors who usually went to the US to become more famous. Love the over done canadisms
The Great White North segments were made to fulfill the Canadian Content regulations here in Canada. They didn't have a script and didn't know what would constitute "Canadian content" so they just decided to play up every Canadian stereotype they could (within the SCTV context of a local cable TV station). They just put on the toques, got the map, surrounded themselves with Molson Canadian beer cases and adlibbed for a whole day. The US syndication needed shorter episodes, due to having more commercial time, & it was assumed that this segment would be what got cut. However they decided to keep this part & they became quite popular. The did more segments, toured, recorded a comedy album (I still love their version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas"), and even had a movie! Like SCTV itself, they are not well known with the younger crowd, these days.
Bob and Doug are ICONS!! Lol .. “Hose-head” or “Hoser” were terms used to pretty much say, “you’re an IDIOT!” .. Canadians are still the best at laughing at themselves.. Damn, sure miss those 80s! 🎉❤️😬
The word 'hoser' goes back to the days before zambonis. The losing team had to hose down the ice after the game. It actually means 'loser' but, has grown to include hick or red-neck.
@@PaulMartin-qu5up That makes sense.. because much of calling someone a ‘hoser’ - in our 80s terms, meant ‘loser’.. lol .. thanks for the enlightenment 😬👍🇨🇦
SCTV was on when I was growing up. Starting watching that before SNL. I can remember my drink coming out of my nose when I watch Martin Short play Ed Grimly . The hum he does at the beginning of Great White North is so Iconic. John Candy , Eugene Levy , Katherine O’Hara , so many amazing comedians.
Bob & Doug are classic 😂 If you liked them The Red Green show is worth a look. "If the women dont find you handsome, at least they find you handy." "Keep your stick on the ice"
Hosehead means you drink beer constantly through a hose and act like it. The show was aired in the USA, too and the States had an extra commercial so those two started this to fill in for Canadian viewers. It became so popular that eventually it was shown in the US as well.
Actually the story of Bob and Doug was even more hilarious, as it was instigated by the Canadian Content Laws. Even thou SCTV had Canadian actors and produced in Canada it wasn't enough .. it's few extra minutes of less commercials had to have "Distinctively Canadian Content" and oh did they do that - this is from the 1996 book SCTV: Behind The Scenes
It’s funny that you said it’s almost like they are improvising, Dave Thomas (Doug), said in an interview that the entire skit is improvised, at best they would agree to the topics before they started filming. Not a surprise as pretty much every cast member of SCTV started their careers in improv comedy clubs.
As previously mentioned, Ian Thomas is Dave Thomas' younger brother. His biggest hit is probably, 'Painted Ladies'. 12 Days of Christmas off of the Mackenzie's Great White North album/cd is great! I think the song, 'Take Off', was released as a single and features Geddy Lee of Rush. Along with SCTV and the Red Green Show, I would recommend taking a peek at Bizarre. Unfortunately, Super Dave Osborne is American (Bob Einstein) but he was hilarious. Also, Bowser and Blue. There is a youtube video of their Canada Day Virtual Covid Concert and at the 43:36 point of the video is a song Mert might quite enjoy -- T'was The Scots That Built This Country.
People of my age, Bob and Doug are legends!!! The little koo koo song is something we could sing and the other would instantly recognize. Sadly, I don't think the kids of today would recognize them. I feel this is the framework of Wayne's World from Saturday Night Live!!!
LOL so true! Once my sister and I were arriving at a campground from opposite ends of the country, not really any cell service and I figured she must be there by now. When my daughter asked how we were going to find her, I belted out coo roo coo coo, coo roo coo coo!!! And she yelled it back and we laughed our crazy laughs and the kids were wondering wtf??!! 😂😂😂 They still talk about it to this day!! 🤣
The movie Strange Brew is amazing but the album they did is the best. 'the great white north'.
AGREED!
@@lo_fye I forgot about that song! Now I have to find it again lol
@@lo_fye 1000% Canadian that song...and with Geddy Lee from Rush singing in Take off!.Beauty Eh? 🤣
I almost had a stroke when I found out Strange Brew is basically Hamlet.
@@lo_fye "....and a beer...." lol
♫ On the Fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me
Five golden toques
Four pounds of back bacon
Three French toasts
Two turtlenecks
And a beer
(in a tree) ♫
Classic Christmas song. My favorite of all the parody's.
What makes these skits iconic are that they are fully improvised. They started as a 2 minute filler at the end of SCTV program. The laughter you hear is from staff
I think the extra time was due to the 2 mins the USA has in adverts but we didn't. Bet that isn't the case anymore
And a parade in honor of hosers, in downtown Toronto. I was there. Miss the days when everyone wasn't so political and pissed off. ❤. Thanks for your interest in Canadian 'culture' 😂. You are now an honorary hoser! TAKE OFF EH!
It wasn't necessarily at the end but it was created as joke CanCon (Canadian Content) that was only shown in Canada until Americans that got the Canadian stations said they loved it so it became part of the main show.
@@angelasimmons2736 “Honour” 🙄
@@amymonroe9328 actually, it's a laugh track
I'm old enough to have watched SCTV when it was being aired! 90 minutes of comedic hilarity that kicks SNL's butt in every way. I wish they could syndicate the episodes and air them again. There are some truly memorable components and the framework of it being an actual broadcasting station made the possibilities endless.
They did syndicate the episodes for a long time
Second City Television , SCTV
I watched them on air in early 2000s
Both SCTV and SNL put out a lot of duds, we just tend to remember only the greatest hits.
I lived in Leduc, they used it for locations alot 🙂
Hosehead is an insult. It's a variation of the term "hoser" which comes from the Canadian culture of ice hockey when friendly teams would play each other is the agreement that whoever loses has to prepare the rink again for the next game (it has to be prepared in advance cos the process takes time) which they'd do after the game. This preparation is hosing down the ice to refresh it from the ice scratches and grooves to make it new for the next game. Thus the losers were "hosers".
Hosehead is just a slang variation of it that Doug is using.
Thanks. I never knew the origin… Is that right? Interesting
Thank you, I scrolled for your comment before I posted. Didn't want to steal it.
That's really interesting. I always thought it could be a made up variation of wanker.
I was today years old.....
There is also a populated "locality" called Horse Head in Saskatchewan, Canada.
I still listen to their version of the 12 Days of Christmas every year when the holiday rolls around
That is just regular Christmas carols!
And a beer in a tree😂
Classic!
I also have that CD and put it on every year still makes me laugh and have it mostly memorized as well
Tradition. It isn't Christmas without the McKenzie brothers. Or National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
In the '80s when you went skiing you could yell out "coo-coo-coo-coo...coo-coo" from the top of the ski lift and were guaranteed to get several echoed replies from various spots on the lower mountain. Good times!
The most nostalgic thing about these clips for me is this: the classic Canadian stubbie.
LMAO, Bob and Doug, brings back memories. These guys just put out the stereotypical behaviour that americans thought about us .
To be fair, a lot of people did dress like that, and filling almost empty beer bottles with cigarettes so that they couldn't be returned without cleaning them out and giving them to the kids who came around on bottle drives was a thing.
Bob and Doug are Canadian hero’s. So many hours of silliness and light hearted banter😂. Grew up with them even though my parents would have disapproved.
What, like, did you go on a date with them? Doug's always loaded, eh.
Bob and Doug McKenzie...two of the greatest fictional Scots in Canadian history...apparently they were 'drinking' Labatts in their early segments but Labatts wouldn't supply it free even though it was free advertising so they switched to Molson beer who were quite happy to give them all they wanted...maybe that was the inspiration for their movie, "Strange Brew".
I believe they actually used the old Molson (might have been Carling O'Keefe) Brewery along side the 401 in Toronto as the Elsinore Brewery it that movie.
A huge beer campaign.
@themisterchristie Who can forget the hockey-playing storm troopers...Canada's Arctic Defense Force prepared to meet any Russian incursion...of course it also could be Russians defecting en masse so our forces need to be equipped with plenty of hot chocolate and snacks...
If you look at the stuff on the table, it's all canadiana. The coleman stove, the cast iron pan, the mess kit, the stubies, and "the pack u smokes." In the town that I live (Edmonton), there is a sculpture of these two. Canadian icons.
Waitwhat??? Where is this sculpture at?
@@TheFreeBass It's at the Iceland's district in Edmonton. It's a sculpture of the two of them sitting on a bench drinking a stubby beer.
Your journey through Canadian comedy will forever be incomplete until you watch THE RED GREEN SHOW. :)
WD40 and duct tape!
If my wife is listening I’ll be coming straight home after the meeting. Keep your stick on the ice!
take off you hoser!
Bob and Doug McKenzie Christmas song is one of my all time favourites !
So, I'm about 10-ish years younger than these two, and grew up in southern Ontario where they are also both from. My understanding was that the Canadian version of SCTV had fewer commercial breaks than the American version, and so Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis were tasked with coming up with a couple of minutes of something, and that they were told to, "make it Canadian!” They opted for something lowbrow, and it was hilarious! (or I guess some of us thought so, anyway) A common insult we used to hurl around when I was young was to call someone a "hosebag,” which is a marginally more polite way of saying, "douchebag,” and I always thought that's what they were referring to but cleaned up for TV, when they called each other, "Hoser!” Perhaps, or perhaps not, but it sure was funny. I think it's pretty obvious what the REAL two-word phrase they meant when they said, "take off.” 😉Back bacon (or peameal bacon) is what we always called the stuff that Americans now refer to as Canadian bacon. I remember hearing "Canadian bacon, " for the first time and thinking, "We have our own bacon?!" 🙂
The CRTC had Canadian content requirements. Stations had to have a certain amount of Canadian content.
This skit was the response to increasing Cancon.
The TV show, The Trouble With Tracey was another response. Some call it the worst ever sitcom. It was made with almost no budget and scripts ripped off other shows and lots of episodes filmed per week.
I think the "coo-loo-coo-coo" intro call was inspired by the "Hinterland Who's Who" segments that used to be inserted into commercial breaks on the CBC. They were one or two-minute vignettes about Canadian wildlife that started with a mournful flute melody and maybe the call of a loon. As kids we would groan because they interrupted the shows and seemed to go on forever.
You're probably right.
I dunno, but me and my buddies have always used it as our call to each other in the bush, whether it's hunting or fishing or just fucking around.
The video "Behind The Vinyl: "Pilot" with Ian Thomas" is where he explains the inspiration for the MacKenzie theme and the song Pilot
But where else was I going to learn about the House Hippo?
@@AllanTidgwell nowhere. Just nowhere. The House Hippo is loved by Canuckleheads like us but most nature shows would rather show the huge hippos. So sad.
I did work at the brewers retail in Niagara Falls in the early 2000's and Americans would come in singing the song and asking to buy McKenzie brother souvenirs', not bad for a show that went off the air in 1984.
Canadians have to poke fun at everything....it makes the winters more bearable. 😂😂😂✌🇨🇦
That's because of the polar bears, eh. 'Cause the bears are bearable in the cold.
Sorry, but there's truth to that eh.
@@thethree60five 🤣🤣🤣✌🇨🇦
That, and beer eh. 🍺
@@robertjones6628 N' some smokes.
Bob and Doug are definitely Canadian touchstones for mostly the older generations. In the period of time where Rick Moranis was largely taking a break from acting, he and Dave Thomas reunited to portray versions of the Bob and Doug characters in the Disney movie Brother Bear, where they play two moose brothers who tell each other to "trample off" instead of "take off".
In addition, my grandma would use the coo-loo-coo call all the time in the summer, brings back great memories.
Have you ever watched brother bear with the director commentary turned on? They do the commentary in character as rutt and toque. Funny as hell
That was the beauty of growing up in Edmonton in the '80s.
Come Monday morning, EVERY kid in the school had watched SCTV on Friday night, and was talking like Bob and Doug!
Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis are absolute legends, eh?
Good day eh
It is rumoured that the rest of the SCTV cast resented the success of the Great White North because it was mostly unscripted, and was created as an afterthought to fill some remaining time for the SCTV episode. Then it became the most popular segment. Get your hands on Strange Brew is you can. Hilarious movie!
I heard the same must be true!
Also heard lots of beer was actually consumed
That could be but they all became extremely successful in Canadian and American TV and Movies.
Strange Brew is a great movie
If I’m correct the reason for Great White North was to fulfill the Canadian content requirements for the show to receive funding so they put it all in one segment lol The show started in Toronto then moved to Edmonton; there is a statue of the McKenzie Brothers of them on a park bench there in the downtown area 😎
In order to get the funding from CBC , SCTV was required to have 2 minutes of “Canadian content”. The entire cast cracked up and wondered what would constitute Canadian content and decided CBC was looking for a couple of dudes drinking beer and eating back bacon and voilà, Bob & Doug MacKenzie were born! You nailed it exactly when you said it was watching two random guys talking in their living room, because nobody knew what CBC meant by “Canadian content” so these sketches were kind of throwing shade at CBC…
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Actually, the CRT mandated that any television or radio station in Canada had to have a certain amount of Canadian content. The practise was to ensure that Canadian talent would have an outlet and to promote our artists. Funding didn’t have a whole lot to do with it. It was more about making sure our talents could have an audience. It was joke when I was a kid, when we heard a strange song we’d call Canadian Content and the last one to speak had to drink. lol.
Love SCTV, Kids in the Hall, Canadian Air Farce, Red Green , Trailer Park Boys , This Hour has 22 Minutes , all great comedy. There are other great sitcoms from Canada.
Corner Gas was likely the most successful in some terms, definitely the highest ratings.
Don't forget CODCO. Loved that Newfoundland sketch comedy show. The actors were hilarious.
@@heathermead8 The CBC used to make some neat little shows (shot on video) most of which have been forgotten in time. One was "Up at Ours" which was a brilliantly understated look at life in a St John's boarding house starring CODCO member Mary Walsh. When I got into TV later I met one of the show's director's, Walter Learning.
Not a comedy, but a great little CBC drama was Home Fires (1980-83). It's setting was WWII and concerned a doctor and his family. The daughter was played by newcomer Wendy Crewson and the father by the ubiquitous Gerry Parkes (Fraggle Rock). Booth Savage and Jeff Wincott also appeared. Such a shame that CBC can't release and air these shows again. I sure would love to be able to download Up at Ours and Home Fires as you can barely see a clip on TH-cam
A real blast from the past was the sitcom Excuse My French (1974-76). Sitcoms were not something that were done particularly well in Canada but this was an exception (see also Corner Gas). Popular in ratings and with critics the series ended in 1976 when the male lead moved to the US to work as a writer for The Sonny & Cher Show (Wiki). There were quite a few eps on YT which were posted by somebody who worked on the show but I think they are gone now.
I was working with some of my Canadian military brothers and sisters for NATO in Europe. The Canadians came into the dining hall. I greeted them with hey, take off, eh.
OMG... Several faces lit up and I was regaled with quotes and lines from the McKenzie brothers for most of the next hour. You could tell what a genuine fondness they had for the special wit and comedy of Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas.
Here's to you, comrades. May your heart be light, your sorrows be few, and your mug of Moosehead beer ever full.
Dave Thomas' brother is the singer Ian Thomas. At least as humourous as Dave. He was a semi regular on The Red Green Show, which needs to be on your list. So many top tier celebs appeared on that show.
I agree! The Red Green Show was hilarious. Handyman Corner and Adventures with Bill, being my favourite sketches. All the characters on that show where amazing.
@@northernsnow6982 oh yes! Red Green! I have duct tape signed by him!
Ian had several hits: Painted Ladies, Pilot, Coming Home (my fave), Hold On" to name a few
@@SherryLynnMadcat the handymans secret weapon! 😁
"If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy", meanwhile he was the worst handyman ever.
They are iconic! They even made an album and a movie
They had a single called "Take Off"... it did really well in the pop charts, if memory serves... or maybe it was just me:) Geddy Lee sang on the song... so great:)
The McKenzie Brothers, had an audio comedy album, originally on 33LP. It was their serious audio commentary, without the visuals, eh! It did have a song, with Rush vocalist, bass/keyboard Geddy Lee, called "Take Off!" (1981) You could later get this record on CD.
The McKenzie Brothers, had a movie, too, eh! It was called "Strange Brew" (1983) The villain, whose Beer brewery altered people's minds, and they got Max von Sydow to portray the character. And, there's an evil Hockey team, too. and the brothers are trapped in a vat of beer, so they drink their way out,...and, ya know, things that Canadians laugh at.
Good day.
There's a Bob and Doug McKenzie statue in Edmonton, Alberta where SCTV filmed for a number of years! They are definitely fondly remembered
Canadians love Bob and Doug. Many of us know a Bob or Doug, someone who would wait 2 1/2 hours for someone to take their donut order!!!! They are hilarious. My favourite was the issue about the donut shop parking spaces. Soooo funny. LOL
Me and my friends used to watch SCTV together every week. It was an event. I will never forget the first time Bob and Doug appeared. We laughed ourselves to tears until our guts hurt. We all owned touques like the ones Bob and Doug wore and we happened to be drinking the same beer they drink. Canadians have always been able to laugh at ourselves, it's just how we are.
I love how Bob brings up a topic and looks at Doug and says - Go! lol..lol
This was THE iconic Canadian comedy show (skits) of the early eighties. I immigrated here from the UK in 1981 and this was a snapshot parody of Canadian life at that time. Innocent days.
Try watching The Red Green show. That was my dad's favourite. That show made Americans think we fix everything with duct tape and wear flannel all the time.
Which has the added benefit of being true.
Another great Canadian success.
When this was airing for the first time I was an avid skier. While riding the lift if you started the "woo oook" someone else would finish it! I am Canadian and we consider Bob & Doug absolute icons!
Bob and Doug McKenzie were the quintessential Hoser Canadians. They were loved by everyone
Bob and Doug are legends in Canada!
Bob and Doug were iconic Canadian comedy characters back in the 80's as were the rest of the SCTV cast, many of whom learned their improv skills and graduated from Second City comedy troupe. Bob and Doug made their own movie called Strange Brew (a must see if you like Bob and Doug), put out a Christmas album with a guest appearance from Geddy Lee of Rush, and there was even a Hoser parade held in downtown Toronto featuring Bob and Doug on a beer float. These bring back great memories 🙂
Loved The Great White North! 🇨🇦❤
It tickles the cockles of my Canadian heart that you are so in love with so many cultural aspects of this country. I think it's imperative that you spend at least five years tooling around Canada. Cheers mate!
The Great White North was absolutely a response from the SCTV team when they were required to have some distinctly "Canadian Content" on the show, as it was originally a sketch show shot in Toronto for both Canadian and American audiences. They'd been brought out to Edmonton, Alberta by the time TGWN was done (bigger production space), and they said 'we'll give them the most Canadian thing we can think of; two drunk hosers in front of a map of Canada surrounded by camping equipment and beers!" The set was slapped together in a day, and Rick Moranis (Bob McKenzie) and Dave Thomas (Doug Mckenzie) improved their way through the segments, literally using as simple a 'topic' as they could. No one could have guessed this last minute, studio demanded filler segment slapped together would turn into, at the time, the biggest and most recognizable part of the SCTV lineup! They even got to do a feature film; "The Adventures of Bob and Doug McKenzie; Strange Brew"!
I remember they did a beer commercial and they had a 53 foot beer trailer hooked to their van. The van was lifted off the front wheels because of the weight. Doug tries to drive but it won't move. He then says "It's like winter conditions eh!" Lol
Remember the Canadian Police Chase commercial for Midas? It's so perfect, they run it every year: th-cam.com/video/8wxRrUKHglI/w-d-xo.html
Dave Thomas' 'cooo-oo-coo-coo-coooo-oo-coo-coo is meant to mimic the owl-inspired theme music of another Canadian 80s wonder, the "Hinterland: Who's Who", which was a one or two-minute information segment on wildlife. It was always a brief sketch of any possible Canadian fauna, in any season, and what they get up to. The intro with the music depicted an owl, hence the owl-like sounds....yeah nah yeah, true story. Cheers.
Dave Thomas is a legend. He also has a brother who is a well known Canadian singer.
Ian Thomas?
Saw him in concert in the 70s in Renfrew Ontario at the Armory. They were awesome I think? Take off it is Ottawa Valley eh and not sure how sober i was
Did you know that the Hinterland Who's Who PSAs that used to air on TV and their iconic opening recorder riff were the inspiration for the Mackenzie Bros theme "Coo do coo coo" and Ian Thomas' hit song Pilot. Doug MacKenzie was played by Ian's brother Dave. Also Rick Moranis (Bob MacKenzie) was a former DJ and he requested Ian Thomas to play Pilot when he appeared on the SCTV show as a special guest.
Feelin' fine mama
Ian Thomas,
Dave Thomas had a recurring role on the TV show Grace Under Fire. His brother was a singer in the seventies, my favourite being “Painted Ladies”
I love seeing the old stubby bottles!! Big part of my life😂 Def watch Red Green!!!!! Beachcombers too, it's not a comedy but a drama
Brought back memories.. I have done the coo coo koo song for my kids. They look at me like I'm strange 😅.. the best is when they did the 12 days of Christmas song. I had a record of the Christmas show with a picture of the brothers on set like you see them on the album cover.
The story is that they were told they needed more cancon. They pointed out that the show was written by, directed by, and starred Canadians and added:
"What do you want us to do? Sit in front of a map of Canada, drinking beer and cooking back bacon and say eh and hoser for 2 minutes?"
We had 2 minutes less commercial time in Canada and you're correct about it having to be filled with Cdn content. 😂😂
The 12 days of Christmas by Bob and Doug MacKenzie. It's hilarious, with the " partridge in pear tree" being a "beer"
So many good skits from SCTV. John Candy as Johnny Lerue or as Magmum PEI. He even hides in a potatoe field! lol. The Schemgy Brothers, John Candy and Euegene Levy. They're crazy accordion-playing brothers! lol. I never missed SCTV when it was on TV in the 70s. You reacting to these makes me have happy memories. Thanks Mert!
I love them being the voices of the 2 moose in the Disney movie Brother Bear. Such a great fit for them. They acted pretty similar.
These guy were huge at the time in Canada and the US. Most white Canadians have some Scottish or Ulster Scot ancestry. Hence Robert and Douglas McKenzie. Douglas was a hugely popular name for boys in the 60’s in Canada.
Red Green would be a good one to watch in your Canadian comedy series. He had a TV show for quite a while in the late 90s- ish
every Canadian knows that tune....can't graduate unless you do. Also gave us a classic Christmas Carol
Our vice principal handed out smokes at christmas, eh.
Both these actors received the Order of Canada for helping promote Canadian culture. Legends!
I love those Hosers!
If you listen to the Bob and Doug recording of "Take off ", it is sung by Geddy Lee of Rush, and the best line is during the opening when Bob and Doug thank him for his help and his line is, "hey, ten bucks is ten bucks eh."
Like, you totally forgot the groovy bit at the end, eh.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Sorry, eh.
@@kimlockhart7727 You also left my cassette of Brahms concerti on the dashboard of the van and the sun melted it. Like, who does that, eh?
They took the sterotypes to a new level and it was hilarious. Rick and Dave are Canadian icons❤ 🇨🇦
"Hosehead" is a take off of "hosers", which means "losers". And of course, being Canadian, they had to say "eh" at the end of practically every sentence. Molson Canadian beer was a best seller years ago, before craft beer came along.
This show made stars of Andrea Martin, Eugene Levy, Martin Short and of course the Mackenzie Bros. Hilarious comedy.
Don't forget the late, great, awesome John Candy! 😢❤😂
Try the ‘Frantics’ and ‘The Kids In The Hall’. Canadian gold in the world of comedy. ❤️🇨🇦
Darcy, Darcy, Darcy Pennell, she makes your day a lot less hell ...
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me a beer...
I lived a block away from ITV studios in Edmonton where they filmed SCTV for a couple of years, and I would often see the whole crew coming and going...usually to the bar right behind the studio!😅
yes yes yes!!!!! i've been waiting with baited breath for this lol
a frozen butterball = a frozen turkey (name brand)
hoser/houser = loser
take off (eh) = eff off
also- if you don't know hey made a full length film: Strange Brew.
SCTV created and inspired some of the greatest comedians of all time. Absolutely amazing show.
Okay, kiddies. I lived back then and I will tell you. Hoser (and variations) has nothing to do with losers flooding the hockey rink or any other variations. When we were kids, you couldn't call the other kid 'douchebag' because your mom would wallop you around the head and ears, so 'hosebag' was invented. When Doug and Bob came to SCTV, they weren't allowed even to say 'hosebag', so they invented 'hoser'. And that's how a legend was born.
I emphatically support this interpretation because I'm old too. Canadian bro stuff.
@@donpresant575 Ha! Nice.
The other story that I heard around the time is that hoser and hosehead came from the using a hose to siphon gasoline.
🍁💕🇨🇦😊 Good stuff, eh? Best show on TV.
@@jameswolfden I thought it was from putting a hose on a funnel and trying to drink from the hose while somebody else poured beer into the funnel really fast. I'm pretty sure that one of our skit comedy shows did a bit on how it got invented. Done as if it was a heritage minute. If not, I really gotta lay off the weed !!😉😄
Their story is very humourous. You are correct about the extra two minutes having to be Canadian. So, most of SCTV actors were Canadian. Regardless CBC and our broadcast regulator “demanded” the extra 2 minutes had to be Canadian content. In protest Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas thought about every stereotype and how to exaggerate it. Then they created the stage set and worked on the first season’s episodes over 3 weekends. The beer was real beer. So often they were completely liquored halfway through the day. As the Bob an Doug characters were so popular they were asked to keep doing the skits. Americans living near the border could pick up the Canadian channel broadcast over the air and asked for the Bob and Doug skits to be aired on the US version of the show. From there they took off to the phenomenon that we still hear about today. A ‘screw you’ to the government ended up being a Canadian icon.
You just might enjoy Wayne and Shuster, two funny men from Toronto who appeared more often on the Ed Sullivan show than any other comedic duo from Toronto up to that time.
We really were spoiled with the very best television back then, weren't we? Fantastic recommendation.
We LOVED Bob & Doug growing up. I can not remember a particular skit, but the banter was always so fun.
My favourite thing was they made an entire movie with Gedde Lee from RUSH singing the theme song "Take Off!"
Silly, funny, and we thought it was awesome.
Also, it was a thing to call your pals hosers if they did stupid stuff, so that's why Doug (Dave Thomas) calls hus brother hose head or hoser. 😉
I believe they ad-libbed all of these segments. As a teenager I had the album which was hilarious. There was also the movie: "Strange Brew"
You are are guest!
You should look up an interview with Rick Moranis when he talks about creating the skit. It basically came about as a frustrated half-joke because they were getting annoyed with the CBC about the show needing more "Canadian content" Also, apparently they shot the D&B skits at the very end of the day, so almost no one was on set. Just Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, and a skeleton crew operating the camera and they were all chilling out with beer and goofing off. Legends, all of them
God love ya fella. I've just started watching your stuff. Why a Scottish guy who lives in Malaysia has taken such an interest in Canada is beyond me, but thanks. I am sixth generation Canadian, but love my Scottish heritage. You've hit on a niche. Can't wait to start watching your take on the Trailer Park Boys.
Yes. It's very strange. I'm not sure why he's doing all this Canadian content either.
....and Letterkenny.
Bod and Doug are Canada icons.. and are beloved in Canada and to prove it. remember when Space X launched their rocket to the space station. every Canada noticed the astronauts were BOB and DOUG. and we all laughed. next video you should look for is the hit single from the album
I was surprised to see them as Rutt and Tuke when I watched Brother Bear with my daughter. These 2 are awesome! 😂
Red Green is another iconic Canadian show that ran from 1991-2006. Every episode had a segment called "handyman corner", where one of the characters tries to fix things like broken fixtures, tractors, etc. by improvising, usually incorporating duct tape, which he thinks is the magic solution to everything lol. Another show is This Hour Has 22 minutes (title was later shortened to "22 minutes"). They're 22 min. comedy episodes of fake news stories, interviews and commercials. Love watching your videos!
If the women don’t find you handsome they should at least find you handy.
"I'm a man, I can change if I have to, I guess". (I think that's what Red said at the end of the show when the boys went to their meeting. )
I remember there were times when it came near to a commercial break, SCTV would start it off with a commercial skit of their own. I won't ever forget the one where Dave Thomas was "advertising" a microwave oven. My mom was watching with me but didn't realize it was an SCTV commercial, so when Dave went to remove whatever was in the microwave, there was an electrical buzz and Dave came out with a skeleton hand. The funniest thing about this was the absolutely horrified shriek that came out of mom. I think that was the hardest I laughed up to that point in my life. On another note, you might like "Take Off" by Bob and Doug McKenzie with Geddy Lee.
Bud, I love your mom. Thankyou for sharing this story! I laughed out loud and scared my dog. 😀
3:04 Hose-head is a derivative of Hoser. Back in the day, there was always that one house on the street with a backyard rink that all the kids would play in. At the end of the night, the team that lost had to hose down the rink for the next night. They were called hosers (losers). P.S> Bob & Doug McKenzie made a movie: Strange Brew. Canadian Classic.
Movie Brother Bear they played/voiced the two moose. Sooo 😂, Love em! The dvd had the whole movie with their commentary version. 😊
Love your vids too btw! Cheers!
Im not considered "younger gereration" as ill be 39 next month, but i grew up watching these shows and i love seeing them again. Its been many years now. Thanks for the nostalgic throwback to what created the weirdness that is current me. Haha. Hope everyone is taking care
I grew up in Canada watching these guys on TV. Bob and Doug eh. Take off eh.
SCTV and all the funniest people you could imagine.
Awesome to see this again. I couldn't laugh harder.😂
Marco
I strongly recommend you take a look at some Red Green episodes. Another slant on Canadian deprecating humour. But it's all good.
SCTV was great. Another of their ongoing skits - 'All The Wee Beasties' - a parody of a UK show, 'All Creatures Great & Small'. Hilarious.
Brewers Retail = Beer Store, couple of Butterballs = Frozen Turkeys
Was still a child when SCTV was on into early teens. Being a kid and watching the tvs being thrown and that really amused me the most. This was a Canadian comedy club Second City, put out many great actors who usually went to the US to become more famous. Love the over done canadisms
I remember when Geddy Lee from Rush was on the Bob n Doug show
I grew up with these guys and love them (FYI I am 68). Iconic Canadian. Most of my generation love these guys. They have a movie too.
Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas recently did a bunch of radio ads as the McKenzie brothers to boycott a new beer tax in Ontario.
No tax on beer, eh!
The Great White North segments were made to fulfill the Canadian Content regulations here in Canada. They didn't have a script and didn't know what would constitute "Canadian content" so they just decided to play up every Canadian stereotype they could (within the SCTV context of a local cable TV station). They just put on the toques, got the map, surrounded themselves with Molson Canadian beer cases and adlibbed for a whole day.
The US syndication needed shorter episodes, due to having more commercial time, & it was assumed that this segment would be what got cut. However they decided to keep this part & they became quite popular. The did more segments, toured, recorded a comedy album (I still love their version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas"), and even had a movie!
Like SCTV itself, they are not well known with the younger crowd, these days.
Bob and Doug are ICONS!! Lol .. “Hose-head” or “Hoser” were terms used to pretty much say, “you’re an IDIOT!” .. Canadians are still the best at laughing at themselves.. Damn, sure miss those 80s! 🎉❤️😬
The word 'hoser' goes back to the days before zambonis. The losing team had to hose down the ice after the game. It actually means 'loser' but, has grown to include hick or red-neck.
@@PaulMartin-qu5up That makes sense.. because much of calling someone a ‘hoser’ - in our 80s terms, meant ‘loser’.. lol .. thanks for the enlightenment 😬👍🇨🇦
My sister and I still call each other hoser. She’s in my contacts like that 😂
@@michynature That’s awesome! Lol 😂
@@msgypsyqueen 😂
SCTV was on when I was growing up. Starting watching that before SNL. I can remember my drink coming out of my nose when I watch Martin Short play Ed Grimly . The hum he does at the beginning of Great White North is so Iconic. John Candy , Eugene Levy , Katherine O’Hara , so many amazing comedians.
As well as trying to fit in as many Canadian stereo types as possible, it was also a poke at typical local TV programming of the 70's and 80's.
Bob & Doug are classic 😂
If you liked them The Red Green show is worth a look.
"If the women dont find you handsome, at least they find you handy." "Keep your stick on the ice"
Hosehead means you drink beer constantly through a hose and act like it. The show was aired in the USA, too and the States had an extra commercial so those two started this to fill in for Canadian viewers. It became so popular that eventually it was shown in the US as well.
Actually the story of Bob and Doug was even more hilarious, as it was instigated by the Canadian Content Laws. Even thou SCTV had Canadian actors and produced in Canada it wasn't enough .. it's few extra minutes of less commercials had to have "Distinctively Canadian Content" and oh did they do that - this is from the 1996 book SCTV: Behind The Scenes
It’s funny that you said it’s almost like they are improvising, Dave Thomas (Doug), said in an interview that the entire skit is improvised, at best they would agree to the topics before they started filming. Not a surprise as pretty much every cast member of SCTV started their careers in improv comedy clubs.
As previously mentioned, Ian Thomas is Dave Thomas' younger brother. His biggest hit is probably, 'Painted Ladies'. 12 Days of Christmas off of the Mackenzie's Great White North album/cd is great! I think the song, 'Take Off', was released as a single and features Geddy Lee of Rush. Along with SCTV and the Red Green Show, I would recommend taking a peek at Bizarre. Unfortunately, Super Dave Osborne is American (Bob Einstein) but he was hilarious. Also, Bowser and Blue. There is a youtube video of their Canada Day Virtual Covid Concert and at the 43:36 point of the video is a song Mert might quite enjoy -- T'was The Scots That Built This Country.
Hahaha, yes, Bizaare!
Tyler, appreciate you get Canadian humour, unlike many US reactors.
"We have two topics today, back bacon and long underwear..... and they're, like, different topics, eh ?.." Bob always had a flair for the obvious.
I love sctv I can remember thoughts beer bottle types. One of my fav beer is the one next to Doug the Labbats 50. Take off eh
People of my age, Bob and Doug are legends!!! The little koo koo song is something we could sing and the other would instantly recognize. Sadly, I don't think the kids of today would recognize them. I feel this is the framework of Wayne's World from Saturday Night Live!!!
LOL so true! Once my sister and I were arriving at a campground from opposite ends of the country, not really any cell service and I figured she must be there by now. When my daughter asked how we were going to find her, I belted out coo roo coo coo, coo roo coo coo!!! And she yelled it back and we laughed our crazy laughs and the kids were wondering wtf??!! 😂😂😂 They still talk about it to this day!! 🤣
A hoser is the man below the Zamboni driver. It’s about making good ice
You really need to see their version of ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’, it is so hilarious!