Well, I can. I can think of "Raiders" without hearing the 5 Neat Guys in my head ... once in a great while. 😄 Was the crowd booing because the Guys weren't accompanied by the Juul Haalmeyer Dancers?
If you watch all the 5 Neat Guys sketches in order (Neatest Hits --> Gold --> movie awards show) you see he gets more and more obviously intoxicated in each one.
Just for fun I decided to match up their movie songs with their greatest hits. “On Golden Pond” = “Mom Press the Crease in My Chinos.” “Reds” = “Slow Dance.” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” = “Ice Cream.” “Absence of Malice” = “Pimples & Pockmarks.” “Chariots of Fire” = “It’s December the First.” “Arthur” = “Clip-On Tie.” My favourite is “Chariots of Fire,” even though (or perhaps because) that’s where the audience starts to turn on them. :-)
@@felicity4711for me, its "slow dance/reds", wit its waltz time & melody, shits got a very romantically hazy & dreamy feel, same sorta vibe as tha beach boys "dont talk, put ur head on my shoulder" which is pure🔥🔥🔥. also u can hear tha xact moment tha audience become enraged by they performance lol 1:21
Wow impressive research...I have always remembered that line from chariots of fire so much so that when anyone mentions the movie I make that silly observation..🤡
Is there a video of all of these somewhere? There are individual videos scattered around TH-cam but it'd be nice if someone put them into a single one.
The classic SCTV lineeup - add in Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, and Andrea Martin and you have irreverent comic brilliance that will never be surpassed.
He mentions in the _SCTV_ book that he was having to push himself really hard to hit those notes, because all the singing was actually him and Rick Moranis laying down multiple tracks with the other thing lip-synching.
SCTV is The Beatles and SNL is the Rolling Stones. The latter has been active for much longer and alternated eras of absolute brilliance with fallow periods when they're basically just going through the motions; the former was truly great for its entire - but much shorter - existence.
First Saw SCTV in 76 when I lived in Maryland . Original cast. Funniest show EVER. Still love to watch anywhere I can. Taped some on VHS ( !) Wish they would put the old shows on DVD. Officer Friendly, The Man who would be King of the Popes, Ben Hur, A Fistful of Ugly, On the Waterfront Again, The Days of the week, Indira Gandhi and Slim Whitman...Awesome musical groups and guests, amazing parodies, Spot on impersonations ...nothing like it since...5 Neat Guys! Eugene doing Perry Como, Gino Vanelli, Andrea doing Streisand..Rick doing..."Gordon Lightfoot Sings every Song ever recorded!" This is comedy at its BEST. VERY BEST. Sorely missed..best regards, LKW
@@FloraWest Sadly my library has turned into Oprah's book club...BUT, I will keep looking on Ebay and of course, keep looking at TH-cam...Thanks for your reply! Best Regards, LKW
I just realized that several (maybe all?) of these songs are based on the 5 Neat Guys' classic hits. "Absence of Malice" is "Pimples and Pockmarks!" and "Reds" is "Slow Dance."
Yep, they all are: "On Golden Pond" is "Mom Pressed the Crease in my Chinos", "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is "Ice Cream", "Arthur" is "Don't Step on my Clip-on Tie", and then "Chariots of Fire" is "I Can't Get a Date for New Years"
The guys were under a lot of pressure. How do you expect them to come up with so many neat songs for an award show? On another note, for the last 35 years anytime I have heard the movie titles mentioned in the songs, the song sticks in my head for days. Raiders......of the lost ark....... met a nazi.....
Alex Coelho You must be an SCTV aficionado, Alex. I’m trying to find a scene where Jon Candy (not sure of his character) is in jail with I think Guy Maudlin And Eugene Levy And they sing, “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child “ One of my all time favorite SCTV bits. Can ya help me 🙏?
@@Redwood65 That’s at the end of this very episode! (The People’s Global Golden Choice Awards.) Raul Withers agrees to take the fall for fixing the awards show and Guy Caballero goes to visit him in prison. Then they both sing the “Motherless Child” song. The other inmates join in.
Here are the names of the original tracks; from the legendary Five Neat Guys musical catalogue: On Golden Pond - "Mom Pressed The Crease In My Chinos" (Because 'chinos' I like to look neat) Reds - "Slow Dance" (Or no dance for me) Raiders of The Lost Ark - We All Scream For Ice Cream Absence of Malice - "Pimples and Pockmarks" Chariots of Fire - "I Can't Get A Date For New Year's" (December the First) Arthur - Five Thugs Pulled My Tie From The Collar (So don't step on that clip-on tie)
They would show this after SNL some years, 1980s. It was at 1 AM, lol. Imagine that time of my young man's life with one eye open and buzzed. Now I'm watching again at around 1 AM and buzzed in 2023.
I would totally stay up after SNL just to watch SCTV, and that was 90 minutes long in some episodes, so it was like 230 am before I got to bed. Good thing no school next day.😂 I miss SCTV so much.
For years, I often wrote what other "themes" the Five Neat Guys would have done for certain Best Picture nominees (though I didn't generally repurposes their existing songs). "We want to see THE DESCENDANTS/They know so much we can learn/But all they talked 'bout was cheating/And a land deal in return" "I go! You go! They go! We all go for HUGO! Hey!" "THE HELP! They stock the pantry! THE HELP! They do all the laundry! THE HELP! Won't you treat them nicely? THE HELP!" "Oh that WAR HORSE, worked hard of course, and he never complained." "When your candidate/Sleeps with a girl you date/Getting fired is your fate/Cause it's THE IDES OF MARCH!" "MONEYBALL / The game that will show them all / That athletes / Are quite overpayed!"
I think they were supposed to be a parody of barber shop quartets (well, there were 5 of them, that was part of the joke), and the group The Lettermen from the late 60s.
The funny thing is- I knew all those films. I think most of the culture did. At that time me the culture was shared. What about now? Is it possible that a majority of people know the best movies (or at least the most popular movies) of the year. Answer: No. too many movies made- and the culture is no longer shared.
I doubt a lot of people here can remember just what a huge dearth of anything worth watching on TV or movies there was in the 1980's - especially the early 80's. SNL was going through 5 years w/out Lorne Michaels and showing it badly, and SCTV was the only remotely funny thing on eh!
I felt like when I watched SCTV late at night, as a teenager, I learned something important about satire: The mark of great satire is that it makes you feel sheepish about ever having taken seriously the thing being lampooned. I would watch this show, and laugh, and then think: "I've actually spent my valuable time watching movies and TV shows that were only slightly better than the intentionally terrible ones being cooked up here. Hmmmm."
Daryl clowned on Dales hat in the first season of Walking Dead. Something about his hat being straight out of On Golden Pond. Such an obscure reference on that show even.
I'm in mourning. We're down to the 'Eat Guys'.
Greatest Boy Band of all time
A man can say he loves 5 Neat Guys without running the risk other people will question his heterosexuality.
It’s not even up for discussion
In Heaven, there are endless reruns of SCTV.
In Heaven, there are reruns and new episodes of SCTV
Straight facts.
In that case, it's back to church on Sundays!
Yosh and Stan Schmenge will be there.
A sadly relevant comment this week. #RIPJoeFlaherty
"There were CHARIOTS OF FIRE, but I have to inquire, Why they didn't have no chariots in the movie ? " Good point ! LOL
LMAO!!!😂
You don't see talent like this anymore.
All these years later, I can’t think of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” without having this catchy little jingle come to mind…
RAYDERS
of tha LOST ARK
met a NAHTZEE
THEN his face MELT-ED, hey!
YES! I'm not the only one!
Absence of Malice pops into my head every couple of years.
Well, I can. I can think of "Raiders" without hearing the 5 Neat Guys in my head ... once in a great while. 😄 Was the crowd booing because the Guys weren't accompanied by the Juul Haalmeyer Dancers?
I can't think of Raiders without singing the 5 Neat Guys song.
"Met a Naaaaaaazi... Then his face melted!"
HEY!
Drunkenness was a hallmark of Flaherty's characters.
Hell yeah
Love how they have to give him an eye opener before they go on.
The only way it could be funnier is if he barfed when they left the stage.
If you watch all the 5 Neat Guys sketches in order (Neatest Hits --> Gold --> movie awards show) you see he gets more and more obviously intoxicated in each one.
Just for fun I decided to match up their movie songs with their greatest hits. “On Golden Pond” = “Mom Press the Crease in My Chinos.” “Reds” = “Slow Dance.” “Raiders of the Lost Ark” = “Ice Cream.” “Absence of Malice” = “Pimples & Pockmarks.” “Chariots of Fire” = “It’s December the First.” “Arthur” = “Clip-On Tie.”
My favourite is “Chariots of Fire,” even though (or perhaps because) that’s where the audience starts to turn on them. :-)
Best comment on TH-cam ever
@@ignorecorporatenews Thanks! :-)
@@felicity4711for me, its "slow dance/reds", wit its waltz time & melody, shits got a very romantically hazy & dreamy feel, same sorta vibe as tha beach boys "dont talk, put ur head on my shoulder" which is pure🔥🔥🔥. also u can hear tha xact moment tha audience become enraged by they performance lol 1:21
Wow impressive research...I have always remembered that line from chariots of fire so much so that when anyone mentions the movie I make that silly observation..🤡
Is there a video of all of these somewhere? There are individual videos scattered around TH-cam but it'd be nice if someone put them into a single one.
These guys were brilliant
Flaherty's character drunk as usual.
How much did he have?
Drunk and sexy
@@hankkingsley2976 - 5 Neat Shots!
I'd love to see the 4 living neat guys re-unite, it would mean so much to me.
A retrospective by the group, similar to the Beatles "Anthology" would be really keen!
Wouldn't be the same without the "5" neat guy...😟
@@jeshkam Dan Akroyd is from Ottawa. Maybe he could fill in?
They should open for the Who on tour!
Make that three now, Joe Flaherty died
"Absence of Malice!"
roger: Is the only one of the movies mentioned here that I did not see.
It's the exact same song as "Pimples and Pockmarks!"
Absence of Malice!
😂
ABSENCE OF MALICE
I'm tempted to just loop the Absence of Malice part for 1-10 hours!!
I see you did, lol.
THAT is the one that got me.
I just killed an hour over there, thanks.
No lyrics needed, just the song title is enough for these Five Neat Guys.
Dude, it's been in my head since day 1
HUGE fan of their work! "Don't Step On My Clip-on Tie" is a masterpiece!
Just noticed Dave Thomas misses his cue every time the camera changes angles and it's killing me
The classic SCTV lineeup - add in Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara, and Andrea Martin and you have irreverent comic brilliance that will never be surpassed.
O'hara and Martin where in the original cast.
This world did not deserve John Candy.
Look, just step around my clip-on tie.
And they get booed after all that. Classic.
Yep, that audience is sh1t.
SCTV was so crazy
Aww..I thought the 5 Neat Guys were beloved. lol
"Absence of Malice" has been stuck in my head since this skit aired.
I love Dave's high singing
The Harvey K-Tel high pitched voice.
He mentions in the _SCTV_ book that he was having to push himself really hard to hit those notes, because all the singing was actually him and Rick Moranis laying down multiple tracks with the other thing lip-synching.
@@felicity4711 So those were really the McKenzie brothers singing all those neat songs?
SCTV is SO much funnier than SNL! I find myself rolling on the floor laughing at SCTV, it's much more "cartoonish", and I love "cartoony" humor!
The older the episodes, the better.
We're talking 1976-1981.
SCTV is The Beatles and SNL is the Rolling Stones. The latter has been active for much longer and alternated eras of absolute brilliance with fallow periods when they're basically just going through the motions; the former was truly great for its entire - but much shorter - existence.
@@zombiedodge1426 I just think its a different kind of humor altogether. SCTV is like real life Looney Tunes! and SNL is just---satire
There's no Reds like dead Reds....
For meeeeeeee....
They're all great. But watch Flaherty ("N" on a grey shirt). He's playing it drunk & he's hilarious!
"How many drinks did he have?"
John Candy having to steer him around is the best
He's so perfect. He does it just enough.
Hilarious and handsome
@@sralyn I was always more of a Rick Moranis gal back in the day, but I definitely take your point.
First Saw SCTV in 76 when I lived in Maryland . Original cast. Funniest show EVER. Still love to watch anywhere I can. Taped some on VHS ( !) Wish they would put the old shows on DVD. Officer Friendly, The Man who would be King of the Popes, Ben Hur, A Fistful of Ugly, On the Waterfront Again, The Days of the week, Indira Gandhi and Slim Whitman...Awesome musical groups and guests, amazing parodies, Spot on impersonations ...nothing like it since...5 Neat Guys! Eugene doing Perry Como, Gino Vanelli, Andrea doing Streisand..Rick doing..."Gordon Lightfoot Sings every Song ever recorded!" This is comedy at its BEST. VERY BEST. Sorely missed..best regards, LKW
There's a bunch on DVD! I'm sure you can buy them somewhere but they have them at my library, maybe start by checking your local branch.
@@FloraWest Sadly my library has turned into Oprah's book club...BUT, I will keep looking on Ebay and of course, keep looking at TH-cam...Thanks for your reply! Best Regards, LKW
@@lisawiggs8220 Ugh, so disappointing for a library! They might do interlibrary loans? Anyway, good luck on your quest!
@@FloraWest Oh, heck! I forgot about that! YES!!! Thanks for reminding me! They DO still do THAT much...Thanks much!
Check out Donny & Marie in the audience at the end!
John candy his moves!!!
This is one of the funniest damn things I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve watched it three days in a row, now.
This part was better than the movies in the Global Golden Choice Awards
My dad loved them, but I never really cared for them at the time. Now years later I get it.Love the harmonies and the choreography.
Saw it back during the Nick at Nite years (11-12), and now these clips are my comfort comedy.
I just realized that several (maybe all?) of these songs are based on the 5 Neat Guys' classic hits. "Absence of Malice" is "Pimples and Pockmarks!" and "Reds" is "Slow Dance."
Yep, they all are: "On Golden Pond" is "Mom Pressed the Crease in my Chinos", "Raiders of the Lost Ark" is "Ice Cream", "Arthur" is "Don't Step on my Clip-on Tie", and then "Chariots of Fire" is "I Can't Get a Date for New Years"
The guys were under a lot of pressure. How do you expect them to come up with so many neat songs for an award show?
On another note, for the last 35 years anytime I have heard the movie titles mentioned in the songs, the song sticks in my head for days. Raiders......of the lost ark....... met a nazi.....
Alex Coelho You must be an SCTV aficionado, Alex. I’m trying to find a scene where Jon Candy (not sure of his character) is in jail with I think Guy Maudlin And Eugene Levy And they sing, “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child “ One of my all time favorite SCTV bits. Can ya help me 🙏?
Redwood65 look for Vic Arpeggio.
@@Redwood65 That’s at the end of this very episode! (The People’s Global Golden Choice Awards.) Raul Withers agrees to take the fall for fixing the awards show and Guy Caballero goes to visit him in prison. Then they both sing the “Motherless Child” song. The other inmates join in.
Would love to see this for real on the Oscars.
You know, that was an awesome year for movies!! All of those films are great!!
I love how "N" is always drunk.
The crowd reaction is hillarious.
seeing this for the first time 2024. laughing so heard i can't catch my breath!!! i loved sctv.
Watched this with my kids all the time. Such memories.
How dare they boo the 5NG?
Here are the names of the original tracks; from the legendary Five Neat Guys musical catalogue:
On Golden Pond - "Mom Pressed The Crease In My Chinos" (Because 'chinos' I like to look neat)
Reds - "Slow Dance" (Or no dance for me)
Raiders of The Lost Ark - We All Scream For Ice Cream
Absence of Malice - "Pimples and Pockmarks"
Chariots of Fire - "I Can't Get A Date For New Year's" (December the First)
Arthur - Five Thugs Pulled My Tie From The Collar (So don't step on that clip-on tie)
They would show this after SNL some years, 1980s. It was at 1 AM, lol. Imagine that time of my young man's life with one eye open and buzzed. Now I'm watching again at around 1 AM and buzzed in 2023.
Where I lived SCTV came on after Don Kirchner's Rock Concert at 2:30 AM, then the broadcast sign off!!
I would totally stay up after SNL just to watch SCTV, and that was 90 minutes long in some episodes, so it was like 230 am before I got to bed. Good thing no school next day.😂 I miss SCTV so much.
Which just happened to be a period when SNL was in a slump (aside from Eddie Murphy and sometimes Joe Piscopo).
Eugene Levy during Arthur - hahaha!
Neat guys. Great songs!
Candy's mustache.
It was my religion on Fridays but I'm seeing ones I didn't see back then so that's amazing.
So painful. So good!
John Williams , THESE GUYS would’ve put ‘Raiders’ into the stratosphere of movie music ! Just my two cents...
"Raiders of the Lost Ark" is the same melody as "Ice cream, you scream".
Chariots of fire sounds a lot like can I have some more relish on my hotdog.
The five...... Neat guys
For years, I often wrote what other "themes" the Five Neat Guys would have done for certain Best Picture nominees (though I didn't generally repurposes their existing songs).
"We want to see THE DESCENDANTS/They know so much we can learn/But all they talked 'bout was cheating/And a land deal in return"
"I go! You go! They go! We all go for HUGO! Hey!"
"THE HELP! They stock the pantry! THE HELP! They do all the laundry! THE HELP! Won't you treat them nicely? THE HELP!"
"Oh that WAR HORSE, worked hard of course, and he never complained."
"When your candidate/Sleeps with a girl you date/Getting fired is your fate/Cause it's THE IDES OF MARCH!"
"MONEYBALL / The game that will show them all / That athletes / Are quite overpayed!"
Neat!
Chariots of Fire is a banger 🔥
It leaves you wanting more
5 Neat Guys should have opened for the Blues Brothers...
Absence of Malice! great song 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Gold!!!! Including the audience
And they get booed for the effort.
This was so neat and who made the egg salad sandwiches
Is that john candy ? ❤❤❤🌹🙌
yes
"How many drinks did he have?" Quick line you barely hear at the beginning.
The 5 neat guys best best LOL
Who ate the egg salad sandwiches?
They're better than the tuna and the cheese!
Mom pressed the crease in my chinos, cause chinos I like to look good....
My personal favorite! 😁
"I scream"... The best horror tune in years.
Hahah I’ve memorized this
I'm sliding down a 5 Neat Guys rabbit hole.....HELP!!!!!
Wish they would have done, Who Made the Egg Salad Sandwiches.
Tough crowd
Why do I feel like 'A Mighty Wind' was born here?
I think they were supposed to be a parody of barber shop quartets (well, there were 5 of them, that was part of the joke), and the group The Lettermen from the late 60s.
I'm dying...
The funny thing is- I knew all those films. I think most of the culture did. At that time me the culture was shared.
What about now? Is it possible that a majority of people know the best movies (or at least the most popular movies) of the year. Answer: No. too many movies made- and the culture is no longer shared.
Does it get any better than this? Can I just ask that?
The day these guys disbanded was the day the music died.
I'm having a party in my wreck room
Love the lame' pants.
Why didn't they open for the Who on tour this year?
Lol I can’t!
Ah! that elusive entity known as "American Humour" ..... (When do we laugh?)
Absence of Malice!
So just how many drinks did he have exactly?
ABSENCE OF MALICE!
Was that Donny Osmond?
didn't they make that hit who made the egg salad sandwiches?
I doubt a lot of people here can remember just what a huge dearth of anything worth watching on TV or movies there was in the 1980's - especially the early 80's. SNL was going through 5 years w/out Lorne Michaels and showing it badly, and SCTV was the only remotely funny thing on eh!
Hold on now, SCTV was awesome but you're saying Eddie Murphy during his time on SNL wasn't funny? Come on now.
SCTV wasn't on everywhere either.
I felt like when I watched SCTV late at night, as a teenager, I learned something important about satire: The mark of great satire is that it makes you feel sheepish about ever having taken seriously the thing being lampooned. I would watch this show, and laugh, and then think: "I've actually spent my valuable time watching movies and TV shows that were only slightly better than the intentionally terrible ones being cooked up here. Hmmmm."
@@blachubear Yeah eddy had his moments but he was literally the only funny one on there back then.
These guys were swell or is it neat?
who made the egg salad sandwiches?
Wait is that ACTUALLY Donnie and Marie Osmond at the end?!
Hold on...Why wasn't Chariots Of Eggs nominated?
Arhur, was a little rich kid......,,
Arthur was a drunk little rich kid
He drove around in limousines!
Now the award shows are all garbage.
Joe Flaherty was really in the bag.
I don’t think so. I believe he said that he played the character as if he were slightly drunk and that’s what he did every time.
Eugene still drunk.
How dare these ignorant bozo's boo this incredible performance
skewing Billy Crystal
On Golden Pond is tedious nonsense.
Wonderfully horrible.
Chariots of Fire = awful movie.
Esp because there's no chariots in them. I want my money back.
The only good thing was the theme, which went to #1 on AT40.
Horrible crowd. It's not like they were seeing the Landmines for cripesake.
This hasn't aged well - the movie titles seem obscure and unimportant now.
Never even heard of "Absence of Malice".
It's ok they were obscure and unimportant then, too, so don't worry you're not missing anything.
Well, except for Raiders of the Lost Ark, Chariots of Fire, Arthur, On Golden Pond and Reds. But yeah, Absence of Malice...
Daryl clowned on Dales hat in the first season of Walking Dead. Something about his hat being straight out of On Golden Pond. Such an obscure reference on that show even.
Must be a millennial.