SCTV on CBC circa 1981
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- A CBC-TV broadcast of SCTV recorded off CBET in Windsor/Detroit from around 1981, complete with vintage commercial breaks. Starring John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara and Dave Thomas. With special musical guests Rough Trade.
Let’s be honest. A VHS tape collection of SCTV actually taped off Canadian television is the holy grail when comes from this series. Thank you
I'd trade it in a minute for the SCTV/Bob & Ray special. Might throw in my VHS box set of John Candy's concurrent Big City Comedy series...
Amen.
YES LOLOLOL
Patsy has the largest breasts in town!
Especially with this cast
why?
I remember having lines in this show as a native bouncer..John Candy took us all out after..they were such a great cast. Really miss his comedy, but at least I got to meet him. Hope you all enjoy this episode as much as we had shooting it..Walter Belcourt
That must have been so cool
Thank you Walter for helping bring this incredible group of talent to the masses I was a teenager when this hit the airwaves late after Saturday night live so my parents didn’t have a problem with me staying up to watch it in fact it got my dad’s interest so much he stayed up to watch it with me that some quality father-son time that I will always remember fondly
John Candy is one of the few celebrities I wish I could have met.
Who made the egg salad sandwiches
That’s awesome! Good for you.
Once I discovered SCTV one Saturday night long ago we didnt have to endure 90 minutes SNL any longer. That was when I realized one of the benefits of our neighbors in Canadia. And I was duly thankful.
1000 times yes
Was a teenager around this time, and NBC scheduled this show after SNL. We could stay out until 1AM and skip SNL altogether, and never miss our favorite show
OMG, the actual Canadian commercials are almost as good as the show itself!
Molson Golden!!!!
I have trouble telling which is which.
@@user-tp6fo7im3d CBET is like the WKRP of Canadian TV. Promo spots for a cop show from ten years ago--what?!
Fortunate to live in metro Detroit, so I could watch CBET Windsor. Thanks!
We welcomed Channel 9 into our homes just as much as 2, 4, 7, 20, 50, 56 and 62. Good stuff, good times.
This is not only a great upload, but also the sweetest comments in the History of TH-cam 🥰
I just quit my job so I can spend all my waking hours watching SCTV. Ten hours a day simply wasn't enough.
seems like a reasonable career move...good choice, eh!
I had a job where I got paid to watch SCTV...as a master control operator every night before sign-off at the TV station in Lloydminster circa 1985.
I was lucky enough to live in Buffalo, NY and was able to tune into CBC TV broadcasts. Besides this show there were many other Canadian shows that were good. This however was the best.
We Torontonians were lucky enough to live near Buffalo. Commander Tom and Irv Weinstein
Channel 7 Eyewitnesses News Irv Weinstein: „some punk set an abandoned warehouse on fire. The resulting 5 alarm fire in North Tonawanda and Cheektowaga could be seen in the evening from Toronto‘s CN Tower…“
@@redcoat4ever323 Ah, it was great. We gave you Commander Tom and you gave us the Friendly Giant. Now that's when diversity actually was a strength!
@@redcoat4ever323 - Ah, Irv Weinstein. Eugene Levy's admitted model for his own characterization of Earl Camembert. I noticed, however, that Joe Flaherty never mentioned whom he based his own portrayal of Floyd Robertson (as "SCTV News" anchor) on. I thought I detected a bit of KDKA-TV (Pittsburgh) Eyewitness News' mainstay Bill Burns in Floyd, but . . . some mentioned he may've been partly based as well on another Pittsburgh anchor, Adam Lynch . . .
@@NormAppleton Taps Frandly Mahrkats!
The placement of the commercial for Halfwi... I mean, Reach for the Top, during SCTV, was perfect!
In the Detroit area, watching Channel 9 out of Windsor was just as good as watching anything off the Detroit T.V. stations at the time.
Great times I wish I had them years back.
The real commercials from back then are just as funny as the show!
I had the video on as background noise but when I heard "Canadian Tire" I had to look at the screen to make sure the cast wasn't having a goof.
Still FAR better than anything on today!!!
Correct. And, yet, it seems like it would be easy to replicate. Young, hungry, fearless comedians willing to take life as it is and turn it upside down with sarcastic humor. Without fear of being "cancelled" or "shamed". Let sarcastic humor lead the way in these very stressful times to unplug from reality and pee in your pants funny. At least for one evening a week.
@@paulolenski9431 ... let’s do it.
The funny thing is when it goes to the (real) "Happy Homeowner" PSA clip, it still feels like your watching SCTV doing a parody. One of the reasons SCTV was so funny is how they perfectly captured a low budget TV station...
In New York City we had our own low budget commercial TV station - WOR-TV (Channel 9) in the days when RKO General owned it. Made it much more ironic when, from 1977 to 1979, WOR ran the initial syndicated "SCTV." And to top it all off - prior to 1970 when they had to sell the station owing to CRTC regulations, RKO actually owned Windsor's Channel 9 which, prior to 1975, was known as CKLW-TV. And run like RKO's other stations. Even down to the "Million Dollar Movie."
I am so happy this is here! I grew up between Seattle WA and Vancouver BC, and used to watch this with very poor antenna reception from the side of Blanchard Mountain when I was in my early 20's. The commercials are great, just as I remember; it takes me a moment to determine if it is really a commercial or another skit from the show. I'm a US citizen who was heavily (and happily) corrupted by Canadian culture.
Similar story but from the "other" side watching the 1st few seasons of SNL from the over the air 100 miles away signals from Plattsburg, NY but when I moved to BC in the mid 80's, I got to see "Almost Live! ! " from KING-TV
@@Columbiastargazer "Almost Live!" was also great
CBC TV in Bellingham !!
I guess it truly was, as they always said, "television like you've never seen before!"
Dave Thomas and Catherine O’Hara and John Candy are so perfect at acting like pre-teen kids.
Preteen world
Andrea Martin captures the early-80s early-30s woman ...
For those too young to remember, there actually was a Brenda Vacarro commercial where she sounded like that. The fact SCTV made a classic bit out of it speaks volumes about their genius. Fine, fine quality programming indeed! (btw..if Dave did Lin Ye Tang today, despite it being brilliantly funny, he'd be cancelled faster than LaRue in a brothel..welcome to 2022,eh?)
I remember that commercial and lost it when SCTV spoofed it. I thought I was the only one who noticed Vaccaro’s husky voice and James Gandolfini breathing. Nope. Andrea Martin noticed too.
I remember the ‘wheezy’ commercial. Then, soon after, the newer version had her hair and clothes altered and silence between vocalizations. Then when SCTV did their parody, I literally fell on the floor! Hilarious!
🤣🤣🤣 4:00 the best lol
I've never seen this bit. Very, very funny!
@@fgrady1 somewhere along the line somebody got pissed off and just said screw it let's Let It Go like it is if the client is okay with it I don't give a s*** because I've got 10 more of these to do today and it's already 4:00
Loved watching this. So glad commercials left in. I miss Zellers!
Bobby’s giant phone gag never gets old. And it’s a replica of the Canadian-designed Contempra.
HELLO??????????
@@themoviedealers IT'S NAPOLEON!
SO great to see a whole show from back in the day. I saw this on tv that night and have always looked for it on you tube. what a relief to re-live this one in a million show. I was 16 then, and didn't know that I would be a SCTV fanatic through reruns from age 21 to now. A good 34 years of it being my favourite show of any genre.
The actual CBC commercial showing the Racquetball could easily have been introduced by Guy Cabellero! The commercials were a nice add! ThankS!
unlike most today here are two female comedians that are actually truly funny, Andrea Martin and Catherine O'Hara ,and you can tell that later cast members of SNL like Mike Myers watched SCTV ,you can see the SCTV characters in his characters, so glad I grew up with SCTV
I used to get so bummed because this came on Friday nights at 11:30, and I would sometimes fall asleep and miss most of it. Before the VCR days
I got to stay up with my Dad and watch it because it was a Friday night. I was 10 years old at the time. Fond memories!
An hour on cbc at 11:30 then at 12:30 on nbc for 90 minutes, struggled to stay awake at 9 years old,lol...
Boy do I miss the eighties! This song by Rough Trade was one of the best of the early eighties if not the entire eighties. And I miss the Toyota commercials of 1981 too. Oh Oh what a feeling Toyota!!!!!
At first, I thought the lead singer gal, was Joe Flaherty with a wig and makeup. Lol.
@@waynej2608 I can see why you thought Carole Pope could’ve easily passed for Joe Flaherty. Or vice versa.
Best gift my dad ever blessed me with was this canadian classic!!!!
The CBC commercials are almost like part of the show.
Maybe Canadians comedians are so funny because the whole country is so awkward?
@@soakingbook maybe Canadian comedians are so awkward because the whole country is funny I mean it's like the little brother that always gets punched in the arm
Thank you Gary Flinn. Your taste is most excellent I must say. LOL! This was a late night favorite from my childhood, had all of my friends hooked too. 😄👍
thanks for leaving in the commercials..so great to see. i may be exaggerating but, EVERYTHING SUCKS NOW.
That is true.
It's not such much sucks as there's no enthusiam in it.
That's happening with entertainment especially. We're so guided to what movies and TV shows we're supposed to watch, and what music we should listen to but very little of it is inspiring or memorable.
All digital, though, so your hard drive can be erased the next day!
Very, very disposable stuff.
It's amazing that VHS tapes, analog tech, holds up better than just about any of the DVD-R media people use today to burn videos if they bother to keep them on anything but silicon memory cards and magnetic discs. DVD-R has basically no shelf life unless it's the higher, archival quality grade.
AvengerII See, even you understand what I've come to known for a good while now.
No, the entertainment industry has been this way since at least the late 1990s. It's just more obvious now than ever.
@@AvengerII I am so sick of the omnipresent "everything sucks now" comments that accompany all vintage clips on TH-cam! SCTV was a rare gem then just as it would be if it ran now. 95% of everything *always* sucks!
They opened with the 5 NEAT GUYS! Incredible!
Which I thought was as much a parody of the inane novelty songs Mitch Miller used to foist on his artists when he ran Columbia's A&R department, as it was on groups like Canada's own Four Lads.
@@wmbrown6 Good call.
I just noticed ... the ad ends with the band shown in reverse order. Thus, TAEN5. They're messin' with our heads, man!
Outstanding!! The local commercials are hokey as they were here in Chicagoland in those days. Twas a simpler world, in some ways a better one.
I wish it was still here.
A lot better ...to bad we couldn't realize it at the time.
Yes indeed, Chicago back then was priceless. Today - a free fire zone for the gangs and cartels, corrupt/confused politicians and Marxist/Communists. We took the labor, sweat and hardships by our forebears to build a great city and destroyed it.
Somehow I remember all the commercials. I was only 5 years old. I guess that how often they aired.
In other ways, a worse one.
Rick Morains who plays the director in the Brenda Vaccaro commercial sketch, he says " She sounds like a seal in heat, then a moose with sinus problems." LOL. Andrea Martin does a great Brenda Vaccaro.
Way better than SNL at the time.
Much like the Simpsons, SNL has guests that they used to make fun of.
@@mikebowermaster4250 SNL is like the Simpsons? Well, I wouldn't go that far. But unlike SNL SCTV has more fun in its content.
Apples and oranges. SNL is/was live and has been running a long time with many shows and many winners and many flops. This writing is much more subtle and there are no duds. Great stuff without having to make comparisons.
The real commercials and jingles demonstrate just how subtle the SCTV parodies were. It's easy to mistake them for being over the top, today. But check out that "best view in town" lead in to Pre-Teen World, for example. SCTV was pitch perfect, always.
Hard to tell the SCTV commercials from the CBET actual commercials! Brilliant!
We will never seen anything like this again...
Took me a while to realize "The Happy Homeowner" (40:32) wasn't a skit but an actual PSA
I kept trying to figure out which cast member it was, and waiting for a punchline. And then it was over. It was amazing!
Thank you uploading and thank you for leaving in the commercials. Its a flashback to my Canadian youth. 🥃😎👍
Great upload... Loved sctv as a kid, and seeing this brought back lots of fond memories of watching the show in syndication on city tv during the mid 80's. Seeing those old commercials was a trip as well.
You got my sub.
Love SCTV but I'm so thankful for the legitimate commercials in the video. It's almost hard to tell the difference between the show and the ads. Brilliant!
Great show, great cast!
Can't wait for the in-depth coverage of the Canadian racquetball championships.
I grew up with channel 9, it was right across the border from Detroit, good times.
Me too, though I grew up in Toledo!
Me three. CBC from Windsor. Those were the days. Wayne and Schuster, too.
Sometimes in the summer when I was home from college in northeast Ohio, we could pick up SCTV on the Windsor station if there was a good bunch of sunspots that night or something to help bounce the signal to us. I'd try to catch both the CBC and NBC versions on the same night! Sadly, this opportunity ended soon after, when our town finally got cable TV and our days of picking up stations over the air with rabbit ears ended for good.
The actual commercials sure took me back to when i was 9 years old.
I love the commercials. And I'm from Ohio so only a few hours away from Windsor
Ditto! I'm an hour away.
SCTV Best Late night television show of all time.
Back in the days of SNL in the Murphy Era was great. SCTV & SNL made Late Saturday Night that much funnier. 😄😆
THIS EPISODE IS INSANE. Rick Moranis at his sleezy best - the Huckster, 21:55 and 26:50 as Dr. Saul Rubin, female psychiatrist. IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER - BECAUSE ITS INSANE AND ACCURATE.
Isn’t he amazing?!? Rick Moranis had so much success playing variants of this kind of Nerdy, horned-rimmed glasses guy… but he could do SO MANY different kinds of characters!
Rough Trade clearing up that Humiliation is better than Bondage.
So much concentrated talent! Levy's Gene Shallat is so dead on!
I encountered Gene Shallit in New York City when I was a kid so this is way long ago and I guess he at least kept his public Persona up on the street and it was really kind of HOW ARE YA!
Alex Trebek impersonations were top notch by Levy.
Pure Gold! Like a treasure found hidden in an archive. 🥰
Went to the reunion show last summer in Toronto. It was so good we laughed until we cried. All the regulars and Scott Thompson hosted / performed. we cried at the end too from the nostalgia and love for the troupe.. Awesome
I kept *getting fooled-* when did the *Canadian television* spots _end-_ and *SCTV* _begin._
Yes!! I had to make sure which was which!
Windsor wasn't that bad. At least they have a Caesars casino/hotel these days.
Don Lake was in the Canadian Tires commercial, so it was almost like an SCTV skit.
Who remembers the Ghoul and Sir Graves Ghastly on Detroit TV?
42:00 is uncannily like SCTV's High Q, especially when the kid buzzes in an answer before the guy finishes the question.
So....that car ad at 17:30. I have NEVER heard Celica pronounced that way. Has the rest of the world....including Toyota, for that matter....been saying it wrong all these decades?? ROTFLMAO . Seriously though, these ads actually add a whole lot to the
experience! Thanks for the upload!
They don't even make Celica's anymore. They discontinued the line at least 5 years ago. Still making Camry's and Corolla's after all these years but every other model of Toyota has been replaced by one thing or another including the Tercel, the Paseo, the MR2, the Cressida, etc., etc.
And then there's the Lexus line, Toyota's answer to Mercedes Benz.
If you watch the very first Mott's Clamato commercial, it was pronounced "Clam-ay-to".
It's Canadia. What do you expect.
@@OofusTwillip I say "Clam-ay-to," you say "Clam-ah-to," let's call the whole thing a Bloody Caesar, which must be the official cocktail of Canada.
That's the way they pronounce it in the UK.
Whoever posted this, if you have more from that era you’re more than welcome to post any time.
Google
@@terryadkins9297 Yeah, tell Mr. Google to post more!
love the 80's Canadian Commercials!
the
Toyota Celeeca?
Guy Cabellero is a legend
Man oh man I so remember smoking just a little herb with my brother and we'd be stoned and laughing our arses off!!! Loved it...still like be it. I still think Eugene Levy and Roy Flanahan! They are under rated genius's!!! And Catherine O'Hara....then all the Christopher Guest movies as well!!
They created such awesome characters!
sctv AND rough trade?! I have died and gone to Heaven.
Geez, Guy Caballero’s sure the gymnast. And Catherine O’Hara as the tour guide being thrown over counter(mannequin) always cracks me up. 😂
In my senior year in highschool, on Friday night, we had to wait up.... literally... until 12:30 at night...to find out if sctv was on. It was not announced on the tv guide, and sometimes they would show the midnight special, but other times it was sctv. NBC never let us know ahead of time and literally it was like every other week or every third week that we could watch sctv.... that's how much we loved it and thats how important it was. It was a FAR BETTER television show than SNL....not even close. We grew up in Pennsylvania and sctv to us was like the most important thing on tv.
The funny thing is, it's still in that class decades later. I only discovered SCTV in the last year myself and I consistently thought "this is probably the best comedy TV show I have ever seen." Certainly the best sketch comedy show, even better than Monty Python or Kids in the Hall. It's gold.
I remember being younger and all we had as cable was access and this show was on late at night. Still have fond nemories.
1979 84 were the best years i have had..love sctv and the classic commercials....those days were great......not anymore though...
God I remember that commercial with those awful breaths between every sentence
Brenda Vacaro went from staring in Midnight Cowboy..to doing a tampon commercial.. not such a good career move.
Eugene Levy as Gene Schilitt sing Christopher Cross song ... Sailing. 😂😂😂😂
Awesome. One of the best celebrity impressions ever. Gene Shalit definitely had the 1970's afro/mustache look like Alex Trebek, Gabe Kaplan and several other notable personalities of the time. Even as a kid, I didn't get them confused like some people.
Remember when there was something worth seeing on CBC TV? Long LONG ago.
What about the Emmy winning series Schitt's Creek?
@@garyflinn3989 Wow I sure do love watching these old comedians decades past their prime doing a modern TV show with moronic "woke" elements like "non-binary" characters. How wholesome.
5 Neat Guys!
Catherine O'Hara always so cute
remarkable cast
been waiting to see these old episodes for years. thanks for posting.
Stumbled into greatness
Andrea is hilarious as libby wolfson. Moranis is great in that low key psychologist role
Micki Moore - You're Beautiful
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I am actually laughing harder watching the real commercials . SCTV really captured the dumbness of the day. Wish there was a show like it today .
Capturing today's dumbness is hardly a feat!
I can hardly distinguish the actual commercials from the SCTV parody commercials.....
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The Suzuki commercial at 30:30 was the same model I had a few years later!
It's tough to tell when the skits end and the commercials begin.
1981 looks great 🥺
It was in most aspects even though we were in a severe recession at the time. Everybody got thru it with great T.V. movies, music, radio.
Nice to get this from CBET. That's still carried down here on cable here in Toledo!
Thank you kindly for sharing Gary. EL's take on Gene Shallot is spot on!
32:22 Can't help but think that Mike Myers was probably watching "Pre-Teen World" and got the idea for his Wayne Campbell character, complete with the vocal inflections.
Austin Powers has quite a bit of Jackie Rogers Jr. in him as well.
i miss those days , man i,am old and thats ok!
Channel 9! That is where I would watch it!
I wrote "Who Made The Egg Salad Sandwiches ?" for Jimi Hendrix in 1967. I dropped it in his lap at Electric Ladyland recording studios when I was the building custodian, and he threw it at me. So when "The Five Neat Guys" called me about recording the song I was very, very surprised. I had to do a rewrite of most of the lyrics because the song originally was littered with 4 letter words. (Tryna get some of that Punk Rock money
Billy Idol recorded it as a B side, with no luck, previous to TFNGs releasing it. They found an audience for the song and took it to No. 26 on Billboard. True story....
Rona Barrett impression was impressive.
This was from March 1982
Love this show
Nanoo -Nanoo . Jim calling Mock. We miss you Robin. Nanoo-Nanoo
TV was so good, yet bizarre and authentic back in those days, of course, it wasn't as good as the 90s era, but still very fun to watch, way superior to the sh1t that tv has become nowadays
Thank you!
Libby Wolfson...."I was a poodle when I went down there" ...hilarious!
Hard to tell where the TV9 ad and SCTV begin and end.
Hi School IQ at 42:10...Margret Meagan, Central, still needs to wait for the whole question.
Remember for the commercials that the Canadian Dollar was only worth 45 cents USD. Thats why the price of $20 for a Canada Mist Jacket seems high for 1980.
Canada's dollar never got below 80 cents US.
the happy home owner commercial 40 minutes in, Michael C Hammer, mc hammer.....lmao
The local TV handyman tip at 40:30 was hosted by a fellow named Michael C. Hammar. Yes, the handyman was MC Hammar, several years prior to the debut of MC Hammer. Again, it was a local TV spot, not SCTV, but Dr. Tongue would see this as more than a coincidence.
I never picked that up! Great!
1000 times better than SNL ...
The “Best View In Town” indeed!
I love 5 Neat Guys!
THIS SHOW WAS A RELION AT MY HOME!!!
The Elephant Man turned out to be a cute elephant after all!
I hope there's a Lighting Boutique commercial in there! I love living in a border town!
Did anyone else scan through this quickly and for a second think that it was John Candy and Rick Moranis at 18:05 ?
Thats probably the last time i watched the cbc.
Right?
Yeah, before Fox came for ya.
The real commercials could double as sketches for the show! I never knew the car was pronounced “Toyota Ce-LEE-ka” though, lol!