SCTV Tex & Edna Boil's Organ Emporium

[@metalred74]

Tex and Edna Boil are LEGENDARY names in both the organ and budgie communities!

[@ZakhadWOW]

I was a bigger fan of Rex & Edna's Prairie Warehouse and Curio Emporium

[@ZakhadWOW]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXfYh4xol7x3pKs

[@mariusdressler2509]

Wouldn't go anywhere else for either.

[@mosart7025]

I just heard an podcast interview with Dave Thomas. He said he was driving to LA and was in Missouri. He saw this huge warehouse and went in. It was sold organs and they really were giving away budgies. He mentioned it to Andrea and she said, "We gotta do it!"

[@sahilprashar567]

I never knew

[@tphvictims5101]

The ENTIRE cast of SCTV were amazing.

[@reenougle]

Andrea Martin is a genius. Pure and simple.

[@jacktheripoff1888]

Absolutely. I often wondered what SNL in 1976-79 would have been like with her. But SCTV was the place for her to be in her true comedic element. Loved this show. Had the good luck to have had it aired in the pre-cable days in the late 70's on our ABC affiliate Sundays at 11:30 PM.

[@WrvrUgoThrUR]

Yes she is. A the little character nuances make for a whole other level of funny.

[@WrvrUgoThrUR]

@@jacktheripoff1888 she was right where she needed to be. SNL was fast food. SCTV was a home cooked meal. It took time to prepare and develop that kind of character-based sketch comedy. Not to knock SNL, but SCTV is a perfect example of leaving the funny people alone to be funny.

[@tomthebomb557]

SCTV proved that with no money for stage or effects, pure genius talent and writing and gifted comic performers, you can pull off a show that would blow anyone else out of the water...

[@scottbaxendale323]

Eugene Levy is no slouch either.

[@tuxguys]

The Greatest, Hippest, Most Intelligent Ensemble Comedy Show In Television History? One of them, certainly...

[@JasonFlyBoy]

Maybe not the hippest, but the most intelligent and funny by a country mile with Edna in a caffeine frenzy for sure!

[@mikewines7852]

I think it's the funniest comedy sketch show by far. The combination of intelligent yet offbeat writing and a cast of mega talented comedic players made SCTV pure comedy gold. And SCTV still holds up today, l watch old SCTV skits alll the time.

[@smallstudiodesign]

It and SNL.

[@mistermysteryman107]

I mean. It’s not THAT funny

[@zelmoziggy]

Your Show of Shows

[@richdelgado3405]

For those who didn't get to see TV commercials during the 70s, this is actually pretty damn close to the real thing.

[@johnheart6890]

That is TRUE.

[@carlosspeicywiener7018]

I swear it was based on a furniture store commercial I saw on local tv when I was a kid. They even had the electric piano.

[@XPHALCON]

@@carlosspeicywiener7018 I have a fuzzy memory of the same lol

[@WinkLinkletter]

Sometimes I'll look back at some collections of those ads; you almost forget how chintzy T.V used to be, especially local commercial.

[@YippeeSkippie426]

Probably the best spoof of 1970s local t.v. commercials ever.

[@orangelion03]

Funniest sketch show EVER. Deep pool of talent. So many truly inspired skits.

[@sahilprashar567]

i PURCHASED MY FIRST ORGAN FROM EDNA BACK IN 85 ,,THE BUDGIE IS STILL ALIVE..I REMEMBBER IT WAS OFF I90 LEFT AT THE TURNPIKE

[@crushercathy69]

You say the Budgie is still alive, but is your organ still working???????????............LOL!!!!!!!!

[@--pussypatroll--]

LIAR !! We don't say 'turnpike' or have any highways that start with the letter 'I' up here in Canada.

[@sahilprashar567]

@@--pussypatroll-- the commercial skit in this old sctv clip had that ..

[@sahilprashar567]

@@--pussypatroll-- I think you are a young person you do realize this show is from the mid 80s. I dont think you know about SCTV. watch the clip and you will get all the American references. this particular sketch was done numerous times. And they would give to location of I90 turnpike. And I'm also in canada.

[@--pussypatroll--]

@@sahilprashar567 alright outsider... listen up. i was watching this before your people started invading canada... the late 70's / early 80's... your reference of the mid 80's is wrong... showing you don't have a clue wtf ur talking about. and my original comment was a joke you half witted Canadian wannabe.

[@johnheart6890]

This is based on local tv station commercials in the 1970’s. They don’t make them like this anymore, but I assure you, this parody is accurately funny!

[@HeatherSpoonheim]

Thanks so much. Thing is, back in the 70's some local stations had commercials almost this ridiculous.

[@TheSpritz0]

Heather Spoonheim True, I remember seeing very similar ones from a North Dakota station in late 1970's early 80's after that everything was micro-managed and produced!!

[@sclogse1]

Ninety nine dollars and ninety nine cents.

[@skywalker01974]

kern hill furniture co op , winnipeg.

[@56squadron]

Krass Brothers Mens store in Philly. Do a search on here, there's tons of them. That and Betsons furniture.... (also on here)

[@thekinginyellow1744]

Cal Worthington and his dog Spot if you were in California. Tex Worthington and his dog Spot if you were in Texas. Same crappy used cars in both locations.

[@spliceoncharlie]

Best late night comedy ever for me. The SCTV that I saw for the very first time was on NBC in the summer of 1981. This is the SCTV I remember and cherish and to this day still my favorite late night comedy show. That was Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Eugene Levy and Joe Flaherty and Martin Short. I have bought every single DVD of this classic that I can find. So many memories of staying up late and watching this show. Thanks for posting and sharing.

[@jamesanthony8438]

I think that's when my little brother and I started watching them, too. Been fans ever since. =)

[@LisaB646]

I loved watching this show back in the day! Always a classic and so damn funny!! Today's generation will never understand the hilarity of it.

[@kevincaldwell4707]

SCTV was the best comedy show on TV

[@kaliboo60]

I was in my teens when this came out. I miss all of these clips. The best!

[@goldenagenut]

Andrea Martin " I drank 388 cups of coffee in 30 minutes..." 🤣 These sketches are a scream! Still hilarious decades later! SCTV has held up VERY well over the years, what a cast!

[@thomaskauser8978]

Never laughed so hard ... Pulled the wheel at the last minute.

[@michaellinner7772]

That's a keeper! It's not well known that Andria Martin was the original "Mooggi" mother of Quark and Rom on Star Trek ds9.

[@cadaidram]

"This is a picture of our friends...Sue Jill Sue Sue Ellen & her husband Bob Jimmy Bob Don Bob"😂😂

[@franklinloll2229]

She says it so effortlessly!

[@ederst9759]

There was a giant prairie dog in North Dakota when we drove out West on summer vacation with our parents. I was the only kid in middle school that got the joke about "Jojo" the Giant Prairie Dog. It was like the humor of SCTV was made just for me and some of my friends, while everyone else was watching SNL, we were staying up later to watch SCTV.

[@GreasyFilms-qc1xo]

Stock photos + genius writer/performers = surreal comedy magic.

[@mikesmyth8330]

“Look for the detail next to the detail.” - This skit is all about that principle. There's no reason that Dave Thomas has to move his feet on the pedals, aside from the fact that that's what Tex would do. So great.

[@mikephalen3162]

One of the benefits of living across the lake from Canada was being able to watch SCTV.

[@tertommy]

I watched this in Pittsburgh in the 70's

[@ericjamieson]

Most big US cities had a channel that carried SCTV.

[@JasonFlyBoy]

And we in southern Ontario had the great benefit of getting Buffalo t.v. over the air - Bowling for Dollars, Commander Tom, Joey and "Love that Super Duper!"

[@JasonFlyBoy]

@Hot Hot Burma Ha! Way cool! (where was Promo the robot?)

[@troutymctrouttrout3809]

How did they keep it together 🤣😂Andrea Martin is top shelf yo.

[@cynthiar7350]

I remember finding SCTV on late night TV back in the late 1970’s just by accident. What a hoot!

[@redeorknot]

A guy I worked with who was less than brilliant, this was when the original shows were aired, when I said the show was hilarious said, 'That show is so stupid", thus proving my point. Great to see these gems again.

[@eddierayvanlynch6133]

I remember these local commercials from when I was a kid... Okay, I'm in Indiana and they still happen...

[@shokojimhollingsworth3940]

Ever watch WGN Chicago? Empire carpet? 5-8-8, two three hundred, Empiiiiiiire!

[@kmac1766]

😝😝😝

[@kmac1766]

“ROAD HOG!”😝

[@minskie]

flipping brilliant! Comic genius. Andrea Martin is the sexiest.

[@RatPfink66]

Yeah, I always wanted to go on "You!," massage Libby Wolfson's feet and see where things went.

[@elderlypoodle9181]

My husband and I want to be Tex and Edna after 30 years of marriage. Nobody gets it when we say " come on down "...

[@thebrinx9632]

We are too, but I don't think the Mrs. would get it...eh, maybe she would...(after married to me for 30 years...she'd probably get it) I'll give it a shot, let you know later

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Well, this is the thing.

[@maxbrandt6]

These Tex & Edna skits always cracked me up, way better then SNL any day! If I didn't know any better, I'd swear they based these characters off of actual people they met at one time and said, let's base a series of skits off these nice, odd-ball people!

[@davidmarshall7752]

They did. It was real.

[@loydgravitt7733]

SCTV knew a secret of great comedy that SNL and so many „contemporary“ comedy shows never did. If you build your comedy without reference to current political, cultural, or celebrity events, it will still be funny decades later. Even 35 years later, this skit is still uproariously funny because it is timeless. It is the same reason that the Marx Brothers still make us laugh a century later

[@DennisMoore664]

Nailed it.

[@michaelesgro9506]

Yes, it was its own universe or alt reality and while a lot, if not all, of the sketches can absolutely stand-alone (because there was that synergy of so much talent and creativity allowed to grow organically together) you appreciated it so much more if you could see the entire arc of self-referential characters that exposed themselves privately as well as within that reality of a fictional insular and incestual (I mean that in a positive, not creepy way) television network; The Schmenge Brothers, Johnny La Rue, etc etc Almost all of the legendary comedy series and sketch shows (top 50) in my opinion are British from the 60s to early 80s, some 90s, one or two this century (USA here btw) with few exceptions, SCTV is the absolute greatest and only grows over time to me. Also the great guest spots here and there....Bill Murray, DiMaggios on the Wharf with Levy and Short LOL. Find that one if you can!!!

[@habu027]

These Tex and Edna ads are the funniest things ever broadcast on television.

[@gibbsy36]

Shetland budgies!

[@davidweise9018]

Always loved these Second City Parodys

[@dspears666]

Parody?

[@lunarmodule9915]

Commercials were like this in the 70s. They actually advertised organs.

[@milascave2]

infinite: It didn't stop in the seventies. Local commercials stayed weird for a long time.

[@TheresaPowers]

They were not like this you idiot. They were serious, not like this hilarious advert.

[@helenchappell6502]

The car commercials were priceless!

[@gus473]

It's how I found my new kidney! 😉✌️🤣

[@Syncopator]

Especially late at night.

[@et090363]

1:40 "Now here's a picture of where the state police finally caught up with us." ROFL

[@Adam-xj8mp]

Still Hysterically funny 40 + years later!!

[@mattmitche11]

I like that at the end they add that the birds are intended to be ridden like a mount

[@jamesewanchook2276]

this was always one of the best routines! sctv... favourite of all time!

[@allengumm1157]

i thought I'd seen all of Tex and Edna's videos, but I guess not. Thanks for posting this one!

[@RC-Flight]

A fine group of Canadian talents

[@mikegike7273]

Andrea was born in 'merica.

[@michaelmapes4119]

"That's right, Edna!"

[@frankkolton1780]

I think there is a Tex and Edna in every medium to large town in the middle of every rural area in the US and Canada, a couple that are throwbacks from some earlier decade. They will both look like they were born to wear the outdated polyester clothes they always dress in and away's talk about what they do together "That's right honey". My grandparents had a couple living next to them that were exactly like this.

[@djay6651]

''Is that a take? Is that a keeper?'' Something of a catch phrase for Dave. He's used it other sketches.

[@dennisanderson3507]

Some day: I *will* have the wherewithal to purchase legit top quality pro-produced copy of *every* SCTV skit and episode available! This vow I swear!!!

[@DVD927]

Purebred Shetland Budgies lol

[@ihavegymnastics]

I love SCTV.....

[@HeavySig]

Around 2:00 it looks like Andrea almost broke out laughing, not sure if "mane" bit was scripted or ad-libbed.

[@MerkhVision]

I definitely think it’s like u said, she almost cracked up but saved it by coming up wit that line lol

[@Montanacellist]

That was awesome! Thanks for uploading this.

[@knarf_on_a_bike]

"A song in your heart and a budgie in your cage."

[@Michael-Bennett]

That's right Edna!

[@bitzofdataz]

Shetland budgies are the strongest budgies in the world! You can ride 'em!

[@moontheloon5]

I remember this when it aired..still funny as hell

[@michaelbruchas6663]

I loved Tex and Edna!

[@harryplummer6356]

Priceless!!!

[@jamesjamison1681]

I've never been to Canada but I could spend twenty years looking for the Emporium.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

There's one over in Southampton where the purchase receipts say 'SOUTHAMTON'

[@rdesranleau11]

i love how it starts out kinda funny, with a stale setup, but then keeps getting more ridiculous, and by the time it's over, i have tears in my eyes from laughing 😂

[@zrocks2001]

SCTV was way funnier than SNL as a kid in late 70s early 80s when we would go to school the next day everyone would talk about and imitate SCTV not SNL

[@michaelbutler1049]

Same here !

[@milascave2]

zroc: But it was very dry humor. Not all USA audiences appreciate dry humor.

[@rdgwd237]

By far SCTV was more creative and funnier than SNL...cannot even compare the two...

[@ionymous6733]

i dunno, i used to watch both and they were both hit or miss

[@harryplummer6356]

@@rdgwd237 SNL has been garbage for the past few years - as funny as a root canal.

[@steelers6titles]

I drank three hundred and eighty-eight cups of coffee yes three hundred and eighty-eight cups of coffee in half an hour.

[@cadaidram]

😂😂😂😂

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

It's possible ... one cup every 4.64 seconds.

[@secondcitynetwork]

We agree 100% with you

[@hadawson72268]

When I was like 12 or 13 and My cousins would babysit on a Saturday night- i thought It was cool to stay up late enough to watch SNL - but even more cool ( cause it was even more underground ) was to stay up watching SCTV … fannnnntastic

[@jacktheripoff1888]

First got introduced to this on WEWS ABC Channel 5 in Cleveland at 11:30PM on Sunday nights back in either '77 or '78. Then the Cinemax years of the early-mid 80's. If some episodes from the '80-81 time frame were on NBC, our affiliate never had them. Then Nick at Nite had the reruns from around '88-90. They were all so great. Could never pick a favorite performer although Count Floyd was my sentimental favorite character. I went to Second City for writing classes when they had an operation in Cleveland back in early 2000's. Jeff Blanchard and Mike Martoe were my teachers.

[@bduhe219]

One of my fav segments they used to put on. 😂

[@ss_whole]

LMAO "The kids rode it last night, it got so pooped it popped."

[@secondcitynetwork]

Those comedy "P's" are always funny.

[@tsnamm]

I like the one where they were giving away free sausages... but told the parents to keep their kids greasy fingers off the keyboards... 😆

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Those l'il piggies are greezy!

[@willyboy6126]

Shetland Budgie...LMAO!!!! ;D

[@zeigbert1743]

I've never wanted an organ so bad.

[@stevejepson9963]

No one mocks America better than a couple of Canadians

[@gregorycomunale1550]

I remember commercials like this in the eighties especially car dealers, and remember organ stores in the malls there was always that one salesman playing the organ with the background bongo drums, what cheesy and funny time the eighties where.🤓

After their organ business soured, Tex and Edna moved to Arizona where Ed opened an unpainted furniture store.

[@milascave2]

Aaron: at some point, he announced "that's wrong Edna, I'm a leaving you" right during the filming of the commercial. She did not see it coming.

[@mustangjane1610]

Aaron Morris, "... son you have a panty on your head! "

[@roscoefoofoo]

"Okay, then."

[@DannyD714]

i'd sure love to see an SCTV reunion special.

[@gus473]

I want to see old Felix cartoons! ಠಿ_ಠ

[@mikegike7273]

They won't do it with no John

[@DannyD714]

@@mikegike7273 or harold ramis even though he was only on the first season.

[@maskajon]

Had a friend in school kept cracking people up "Thats right Edna" ....He found out later his teachers first name was Edna...lololol

[@TJ-kk5zf]

much more subtle and dark, but also much more graceful and gentle than SNL

[@senorsardonico6153]

But never mean-spirited..

[@TJ-kk5zf]

@@senorsardonico6153 exactly

[@williamgeorgelopezjunior8533]

Sctv wasn’t broadcasted live though. There is a bit of a difference. …But let’s not compare

[@frankierb]

Incredible talent

[@jackmighty2962]

A Shetland budgie!!!!

[@steelers6titles]

Tex and Edna, happy together at the beginning. Tex couldn't deal with Edna's breathtaking beauty and charisma in front of the camera, and came to an unhappy end. Edna found the strength to keep on going, lol, with the help of her sister Edith Prickley, who happened to own the station.

[@chefry828]

omg. That was hilarious!

[@slicktheslickster]

388 cups of coffee!!!

[@kzinful]

I tell ya what, we miss those two so mightily it tears your innards. Back in the day, you couldn't touch these two, budgies(?), who are ya kidding, there were things in those trailers that even Ms. Beulah was shunned to even mention!! We truly love ya, please come back!!

[@MsPandaRosa]

After all, what goes better with an organ than a cute lil' budgie?

[@MirandaRights008]

Thank you so much for sharing this. A friend is getting married-AGAIN. And thought of sketch with budgies & honeymoon. On honeymoon you will be sharing a bathroom with just 1 other couple. This is the 1st I found so will keep looking. Am sure friend missed this(too busing chasing men. Adore Andrea Martin.

[@adolphsanchez1429]

"Bob Jimmy Bob Don Bob." Best name EVER.

[@northernstudioworks]

I thought it was great when it was revealed during SCTV's run that Edna was Edith Prickley's Sister.

[@peterross97]

"Bob Jimmy Bob Don-Bob" Best name ever!

[@mangoldm]

If you google Shetland budgies this is the top hit.

[@StonefolkNetwork]

Tex & Edna would be *THE* best couples costume

[@jimharper136]

We need real shops like this!

[@VisionaryCompanion]

Where is their son? I am still waiting for "Boil Boy: the Movie," starring Martin Short.

[@attentiondeficitsquirrel7660]

I’m laughing so hard it hurts.

[@johnpatterson4272]

SNL couldn't touch SCTV in the early 80s, it was that innovative. Tex and Edna are to Canada as Anne Murray is to Nova Scotia.

[@truthmatters-jt5up]

god, she is so hysterical.

[@lynnmetzner4578]

Is that Dave playing the part of Tex? (Never mind. I see that it is Dave Thomas.)

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Yes.

[@donmoore7785]

Looks like Dave Thomas with Andrea - awesome show.

[@DennisMoore664]

That's right, Edna.

[@brianjacobsen5762]

The Chevron truck. Brilliant.

[@CusterFlux]

Nobody does America like Tex 'n Edna.

[@roscoefoofoo]

That's 'Merica, to you!

[@saraconnolly843]

I forgot about these 2.

[@garymcaleer6112]

Without SCTV, this world would have no hope to soften the blows of the godless, fierce, and insatiably ambitious in politics, business, and religion.

[@katherenewedic8076]

Yes. Genius!

[@dollarcostbackpacker1226]

This is where mad t.v. got that idea from.

[@eddierayvanlynch6133]

Bob Jimmy Bob-Bob was my schoolbus driver in elementary school. Ever see a bus fly over railroad tracks like the Dukes of Hazzard? 🕯️😢 To those who didn't make it.

[@ericbrufatto5371]

Andrea Martin, as the woman, in winter garb and bandana, who can't speak, gets me every time LOL!

[@kalifani6]

aah yes - Perini Scleroso. However, maybe that character wouldn't go over so well these days though. Check out SCTV's My Fair Lady where she plays Eliza Doolittle. I still laugh myself senseless.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@kalifani6 Pussy brinko!

[@drobbi]

what's with the laugh track? The original broadcasts were without any.Edna's weird timing needs silence. Still, always good to see these two.