SCTV Season 2, ep. 6 Melonville Elections

[@Kitchengoddess1]

Seriously, the actual commercials are just as funny as the SCTV commercials!!!

[@sub-jec-tiv]

All the cast members are so good. John Candy and Catherine O’Hara consistently killing it.

[@QuadMochaMatti]

None of it would have happened if it hadn't been for Joseph Flaherty

[@robd2721]

Margaret Hamilton did commercials for Maxwell House in the 70s.

[@pressureworks]

The fact that you've recorded the typically bad local station promo spots and commercials, is perfect. They fit right in ! Plus i remember watching SCTV in the late 70s on a local independent UHF Station.

[@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL]

it’s not always easy to tell which is which

[@wmbrown6]

It's not just that. WOR-TV in New York - which ran "SCTV" from 1977 to 1979 - was a commercial VHF indie station - but they were just as low- to no-budget as the show about the fictitious TV outlet. RKO General could have been the model for "SCTV," F.W.I.W.

[@pressureworks]

@@wmbrown6 was it shown at 7 or 7:30pm. ?? I remember watching it on UHF Channel 48 Philadelphia The station often offered more interesting viewing in the 70s. Also enjoyed WOR Channel 9 The Million Dollar Movie, The Joe Franklin Show

[@wmbrown6]

@@pressureworks - WOR aired it Saturday nights at 11 P.M.

[@Dr.Quarex]

God I immediately want to actually watch One Is Enough; Catherine O'Hara is so incredibly charismatic in that satirical role

[@NevadaBoss]

"What we need is something to unite the people...a hatred, a common enemy.." This Jack Brown guy has a a bigly future in 21st century politics...

[@yomeroca]

Pictures in background: Che, Carter, and Mao, lol

[@PeterMaranci]

Lord, Catherine O'Hara was hot!

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

Yep 👍🏻, she sure was.

[@wmbrown6]

Am I the only one to notice Catherine O'Hara channeling Shirley MacLaine in that debate sketch?

[@_b_9895]

Good lord, John Candy predicted Donald Trump

[@sub-jec-tiv]

Who could have known that the stupidity of SCTV would become our reality?

[@wmbrown6]

Funny, I thought he would've predicted the likes of Obama ("bitter clingers"), Hillary Clinton ("basketful of deplorables") and Joe Biden. That's more what I heard from LaRue anyway.

[@jamesmcclelland1414]

Taken from then-ABC affiliate WPEC CBS 12 in West Palm 👋🏻 Beach 🏝️, Florida, in the wee hours of July 12, 1986, and originally broadcast 🔈 at 3:30 🕞 am Eastern.

[@JJJJJVVVVVLLLLL]

surreal laugh track

[@noyfb4769]

Supposedly spliced in by some chicken farmer. It's scary that anyone that incompetent could have anything to do with food production.

[@Matthew-xr5be]

".. can now eat their shorts.."..

[@fernandogarajalde4066]

Ironic that La Rue (actor) is posing next to a photo of Pres. Carter (peanut farmer) that lost a few years later to Pres. Regan (actor).

[@perrycomeau2627]

I like the hard issues.

[@bufnyfan1]

13:45 "And I know that the good people of Melonville love God's little creatures...and Craps" LOL--with a campaign slogan like that why did LaRue lose???

[@deandrep4380]

Spoof of Suzanne Somers Hit Show Three's Company Not Show Eight is Enough

[@charliefoster3221]

John Candy!!

[@moe9196]

2:07 I found the miscreant Crime Stoppers ! send me my $1000 reward !

[@johnrudy9404]

The laugh is really inappropriate, in timing, volume and intensity. Audience laughed at non humorous spots.

[@user-tx9hs5lx3l]

donald duck trump

[@isiahwashington2999]

Johnny LaRue would be a upgrade to Joe Biden

[@Dr.Quarex]

Well since he is basically playing Trump before Trump at least you are consistent

[@wmbrown6]

@@Dr.Quarex - No, LaRue is more a composite of Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Biden, especially in his contempt towards "the good people of Melonville."

[@user-tx9hs5lx3l]

EX COELIS DILEAS GU BRATH GABRIELLE BIGGAR STEWART PHOENIX ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@chynnadoll3277]

Does anyone else think Dave Thomas was the weakest link on this show?

[@stevejohnson1577]

Not at all.. he was chief writer

[@chynnadoll3277]

@@stevejohnson1577 : And the least funny.

[@stevejohnson1577]

No i disagree. I liked a number of his characters

[@anthonyarguien7785]

Asshole, Dave Thomas was the Head Writer after Harold Ramis left!

[@chynnadoll3277]

@@anthonyarguien7785 : He may have become the head writer, but he sure wasn’t funny when he acted in skits. He was awful, azzhole.

[@wmbrown6]

The backstory of Earl doubling as co-anchor of SCTV's election coverage and campaign manager for Johnny LaRue sounds like it was loosely based on the real-life saga of the late Lisa Howard (1926-1965), one of the earliest women journalists on TV. In 1964, when working for ABC News (where she anchored an early afternoon 5-minute newscast, "News with a Woman's Touch"), she became involved in a group called "Democrats for Keating" (a group that also included other NYC liberals including writer Gore Vidal) which supported the re-election bid of incumbent Sen. Kenneth Keating (R-NY) against his Democratic opponent, Robert F. Kennedy. This, as she was supposed to be reporting on the Senate campaign in that state. She had already been skating on thin ice at the network because of her friendship with Cuban leader Fidel Castro, her serving as his liaison with the State Department, and her hawking him on her newscasts (plus a few other things that can be found on the Spartacus website's profile of her as it related to the JFK assassination - www.spartacus-educational.com/JFKhowardL2.htm ), but her Keating activities for them were the last straw. After warning her over having "chosen to participate publicly in partisan political activity contrary to long established ABC News policy," the network fired her on Sept. 29, 1964 (her 5-minute newscast would be taken over by Marlene Sanders), and a wrongful termination suit she filed against them was summarily dismissed; she thereafter fell into a deep depression, especially after suffering a miscarriage, and she committed suicide by drug overdose in 1965.