Hey Giorgy!

[@theBaron0530]

"Oh no! Uzbeks have drunk all my battery fluid!"

[@robothunter1035]

Did you give them alcohol or matches?

[@tsartodd]

i knew this would happen!

[@V8_screw_electric_cars]

Uzbeks, the weak link in the chain of socialism.

[@jasonhunt19201]

as time goes on it gets funnier. When this was written in a car manual they showed you how to adjust the valves. Today in 2021 they tell you not to drink the stuff in the battery

[@stevenkoehler6018]

10x better than SNL

[@canaisyoung3601]

Fridays is 10x better than SNL. This is at least 1000, especially since this came on when a lot of people hated SNL for not being as good as it was in the 1970s.

[@ShmuckOnWheels]

Im going to buy a Corgi and name it Giorgy just so I can sing the song all the time. This made me cry with laughter when I first saw it on SCTV in the early 80's and its still screamingly funny. So simple yet hilarious. Thanks for posting! :)

[@rustykuntz94]

I still miss John Candy, great funny man. He did so much in this clip while barely speaking.

[@bondovwvw]

He was awesome!

[@TralfazConstruction]

You're quite right on this. The selection of the relatively few films in which John Candy starred or appeared are timeless classics.

[@parkercadie1]

We all need a Giorgy in our lives.

[@jimmadonna1436]

I definitely do!

[@Conchobhar]

If he is not helping somebody, he is helping somebody else!!

[@NevadaBoss]

whenever i used to talk a friend who was a fellow SCTV fanatic back in the day, & he asked what i was doing, I always answered "if i'm not helping somebody, i'm helping somebody else!"...Still THE greatest comedy show ever #LaRue4Ever

[@knucklemcknuckle8662]

I was in Sacred Heart junior high school at the time and they filmed this right across the street from us. I got to meet them all that day. Rick Moranis signed an autograph for a classmate named Amati’s on my back! Great memory and I really wish I kept those autographs.

[@nigelsaunders3573]

This series needs to have every episode in a blu-ray collection immediately

[@TralfazConstruction]

Nigel Saunders: Hear, hear. I'd go out even less than I do now if a master set became available.

[@Neville60001]

I second that request; unfortunately, the physical media industry seems to be dying, and even _if_ it wasn't, there's problems in getting _SCTV_ onto Blu-Ray (or 4K) in a complete box set, namely music rights (the 'Stairways To Heaven' sketch, plus a few others) and also appearently Dave Thomas doesn't want the first season on DVD/Blu-Ray because he was labeled 'The Beaver' in the opening credits.

[@videoplusdvd]

They never bothered to pay music rights during the series, even during the Network 90 years on NBC. Like WKRP, this makes the prospect expensive, if not impossible. Also since the series is mastered on videotape, it will never be any better than 480p resolution

[@almostfm]

@@videoplusdvd No, they paid them (if you use the music, you've got to pay the rights). What they found (at least with WKRP) was that when they were going to release them on home video, most of the bands upped the licensing fees a huge amount-the producer of the show said one of the bands wanted something like 100k to use their music on the VHS releases.

[@videoplusdvd]

With WKRP being shot on videotape, music rights were much cheaper vs, film. It’s when the licenses ecpired that things got messy and the soundalikes hit syndication runs.

[@TralfazConstruction]

Uzbeks! I thought this was hilarious when I first saw it in the early '80s; it's still eye-wateringly funny.

[@NormAppleton]

Don't give them money or matches. Uzbeks...the weak link in the great chain of socialism.

[@KohanKilletz]

I started dating a girl from Uzbekistan and I showed her this video waiting for her reaction

[@Qodir_03]

​@KohanKilletz how was it?

[@CarolYannes]

A great skit from one of the best episodes of any comedy show ever.

[@Matt-vv7fl]

Jesus I have had that theme song stuck in my head for over 20 years.

[@tsartodd]

SCTV, clowning on Uzbeks decades before Borat!

[@stevedrake604]

Borat clowned on Kazakhs. Pretty much the same though ....

[@tsartodd]

@@stevedrake604 true. Borat also referred to Uzbeks as "assholes Uzbekistan."

[@kevinfry8919]

Borat is a Kazakh

[@PhiloGant]

I wish that Rick Moranis did more with that character who’s having car “problems.” I love the entire cast but Rick is my personal favorite. R.I.P. John Candy - I still watch Planes Trains and Automobiles every thanksgiving.

[@senorsardonico6153]

The world needs Giorgy at a time like this. HE'LL tell us what to do!

[@msgfrmdaactionman3000]

Giorgy says, send the Uzbeks to Ukraine.

[@McNabbulous]

Can you imagine if Giorgy was the Soviet premier how much better the world would be?

[@TheDoddsworth]

2023, I'd take him for US President.

[@PJMontoya]

Russia would have crazy immigration rates.

[@dodgydave1564]

how in the world does this video get down votes? uzbeks i bet

[@badcompany-w6s]

People just do it on purpose.

[@kevinkuenn5733]

I knew this would happen!

[@theBaron0530]

"Dey are de weak link in de great chain of Socialism."

[@noyfb4769]

Lorne Michaels and his evil minions, baby! YEAH!

[@k1m6a11]

@@kevinkuenn5733 orwell?

[@bufnyfan1]

SCTV was taped for a few years in Edmonton, Alberta--at 0:29 you can see St. Vladimirs Russian Orthodox Church in the background--brilliant comedy writing for this skit as it looks like you are actually in Russia

[@gustavmarie]

The street view they got makes it really look like a Russian city like Nizhny Novgorod or Vladimir.

[@MostBeautifulCosmos]

It's NOT "St. Vladimirs Russian Orthodox Church"!!! The church in the background is St. Josaphat Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral.

[@MostBeautifulCosmos]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXfMdYJjaNCBh5o

[@gustavmarie]

@@MostBeautifulCosmos ok whatever Banderite

[@MostBeautifulCosmos]

@@gustavmarie yoo r rawsheen trawl mebbe?

[@lauriegashinski6838]

The King of Kensington.... Cossack-style

[@bradsmith1934]

I def see the connection!

[@walruswasrob]

A reference that would go over the heads of SCTV’s American fans.

[@eg4449]

@@walruswasrob I looked it up, it and King of Kensington was spot on! But you are right Rob, it was one of the layers that we didn't get.

[@floydfinder]

Some US stations carried King of Kensington; I saw it on channel 29 out of Philadelphia (they also aired Wayne and Shuster).

[@NormAppleton]

@@floydfinder There had to be a Canadian mole at that station.

[@badcompany-w6s]

I don't know why. This is one of my favorites

[@darwinradke3198]

Goddamn, I loved SCTV!!! (Why aren't all episodes streaming somewhere!?!)

[@tomservo75]

OMG I remember watching this episode on Nick at Nite many years ago, thought this was hilarious and looking for it ever since.

[@Sterm26]

Giorgy keeps waving at nobody, I'm dying

[@lancasterII]

He's not waving at nobody, he's waving at Russia! Lol

[@dplatt7290]

he's waving at everybody

[@restcure]

If he's not waving at somebody, he's waving at somebody else.

[@badcompany-w6s]

after he walks away from helping the guy with his car problem if you look off into the background you can see a Dodge Maxi wagon van making a right hand turn.

[@garrett6076]

That one guy sounded suspiciously like Dark Helmet

[@bufnyfan1]

The idea of "Hey Giorgy" was taken from a Canadian situation comedy from the late 1970s "King of Kensington" starring Al Waxman: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJLGpKWahdysmtk interestingly several SCTV cast members did cameos on that show (Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas)

[@michaellandon1960]

Video is not good, but glad I got my CCCP1 T-SHIRT. I googled cccp1 teespring. We use soviet mini cam next time to document everything.

[@snarkus63]

Isn't it amazing how much Russia *doesn't* look like Canada?

[@wildbob]

You Lose.... comrade ;)

[@marks.3303]

This was filmed in either Toronto or Edmonton (I can't recall which seasons were in Edmonton) which means they had to use an Orthodox church as a backdrop to turn Toronto into "Russia".

[@ElohimForToday]

You go far enough north on Bathurst and you don't need a backdrop to turn Canada into Russia lol

[@gustavmarie]

@@ElohimForToday Sections of North York could pass for the outskirts of Moscow easily

[@craignasen579]

North Edmonton

[@cabbagerollsandcoffee]

There's a few T-Shirts rolling around eBay if anyone is interested. Just type in "SCTV CCCP1"... Too Funny to see people walking with that around in public. If only anyone would understand for the new generation

[@stevedrake604]

Probably not a great idea to wear it around right now. Folks are a little testy about World events.

[@markvoelker6620]

LOL Hey look, Uzbeks have drunk all the battery acid, I knew that would happen! 😂🤣

[@RSGill1903]

I remember watching this when it first aired.

[@rlr50]

Uzbeks!!!!!!

[@msgfrmdaactionman3000]

If you turn on the auto-translate captions whenever they say Giorgy's name it spells out "you're gay". Try it out, lol! CCCP1 is probably my all time favorite episode! @:04 and @1:36, a guy outside his apartment holding a piglet, lol!

[@hizzlemobizzle]

Good catch. Changed the whole skit. Last line was the best "you're gay..your game...Yogi".

[@fullervisiondotnet]

Even Giorgy knows not to encourage Uzbeks to gamble.

[@Hellodarknessmyolefriend]

Got those russian unibrows good in place!!!🤣

[@julianmercier]

They usually had something bad to say about the Uzbeks!

[@videoplusdvd]

Only Uzbecks give thumbs down...

[@elg1959]

You lose.............comrade

[@jimmadonna1436]

I love this!!

[@cameronpickard7456]

those damn uzbeks after the battery fluid again

[@oildalejones567]

I posted this a while back; it got yanked and I got banned. What's your secret?

[@scharlesworth93]

still going strong 3 years later

[@StamfordBridge]

You clear it with Comrade Giorgy first?

[@theBaron0530]

Uzbeks took your post down.

[@oildalejones567]

@@theBaron0530 I knew this would happen!

[@evilchaosboy]

Looks like Putin called in Giorgy!! \m/

[@petewooldredge2572]

John Candy was the best

[@DarrenK-dt7sx]

You lose . . . Comrade! 😆

[@lancasterII]

What a fellow!

[@Fummy007]

You lose... comrade ;)

[@kennyolson1734]

Peter Potamus!!!

[@frankbarnwell____]

Hey Giorgy

[@jeffpotipco736]

😂😂😂😂😂😅

[@Sue_Morris]

Drinking battery acid on 3C P TV!!!

[@RatPfink66]

it's Georgi or Георгий

[@johnbatinovic6593]

No 3cp2 jokes

[@hankkingsley2976]

where did they find a car with a 6 volt battery

[@jvcyt298]

Uzbeck's!

[@pressureworks]

5 Uzbeks hit thumbs down.

[@frankkolton1780]

Every once in a while, on the way home from work, the Uzbeks will kidnap me and take me to a tavern and make me drink alcohol. When I get home late for dinner I tell my wife about it, but somehow I'm beginning to think she doesn't believe me. Those damned Uzbeks.

[@pressureworks]

Frank Kolton You mean to say you didn't drink Battery Fluid with them too ?

[@frankkolton1780]

@@pressureworks No, that stuff is too strong for me, I had a sip and I went crazy, I purposely set a table on fire, gambled my money away, and woke up in a barn full of animals.

[@pressureworks]

Frank Kolton when I drank it, I imagined tractors and other farm machinery was taken over by the souls of deceased Soviet Leaders.

[@senorsardonico6153]

2023 - Uzbeks have taken over southern Brooklyn. Seriously.

[@randomweaboo9834]

A want a balloon?

[@davidcoleman2796]

Putins Russia Lol

[@bollocksoplenty8417]

Sad they found a street in Toronto that passed for Soviet Russia.

[@frankkolton1780]

Don't worry, this is when they filmed SCTV in Edmonton...Comrade.

[@itcu185]

I like this better than King of Kensington so 3CP1 is a better broadcaster than the money sucking CBC