SCTV - Pepi Longsocks

[@crazysingingchick]

Rest in Peace, John Candy and now Joe Flaherty. 😞🙏

[@jimjam51075]

They were the only two to survive in the film.

[@richstone2627]

When SCTV first played here in the U.S. I never missed an episode. John Candy was one of the greatest comedians ever. R.I.P.

[@patryot5668]

funny so many of his characters were disliked by the others in the skits and yet when he died they were openly weeping..they loved that man.

[@MrJeffcoley1]

I found SCTV by accident flipping through the channels late one night, probably in 1981. After that I never missed an episode.

[@stephenkane7499]

Some really good actors can't from this group.

[@Rutoenfit]

Brilliant SCTV-ness. As someone who watches many, many badly dubbed films, they nail the phrasing and convoluted, awkward lines perfectly.

[@AvengerII]

There'll NEVER be an end to your hobby as long as they keep dubbing live-action films. Companies have actually gotten better at dubbing animation -- half the dubs are good today! (I will NEVER call Speed Racer's English dub a bad one. It fits with that series. It was already weird to begin with before it got Americanized. People are kidding themselves when they say the original Japanese series was high art... It wasn't!) The live-action films? They usually fail to get voices that even match up well with the "look" of the character let alone getting people who can ACT well! Oh yeah -- at least 3/4 of the live-action dubs STILL suck! Occasionally, you'll actually find a dub that WORKS with the film if the movie was ridiculous to begin with. The 2004 Cutie Honey actually has a dub that works in spite of some questionable voice-casting there. The film was a farce to begin with BUT the Japanese sometimes take their comedy too seriously, too.

[@sottoblue6510]

I was in Germany for awhile and watched some a bit of tv with dubbing, and some films. I then got a chance to do this with some Italian and French films. English dubbing seems to be the worst of the lot. I wonder, do we tend to subtitle in English more while other countries tend to dub more? My brother was living in Italy for awhile in the 90s (I think), when the dubbing voiceover actors went on strike. I believe they won the strike, as for many people, the native voice of actors for Deniro, or Julia Roberts was as integral to their stardom as Deniro's voice would be for us here in the U.S. Worst voice job ever that I heard, the actress who played Fran Drescher of "The Nanny" fame did the voice as a sultry temptress in Germany. Totally missed the point, that the mismatch of the voice and her beauty was the source of the comedy.

[@BenTenpenny]

@@sottoblue6510 It is quite interesting to read someone's thoughts on German voice acting. We tend to prefer toned down, "realistic" voices when dubbing foreign media. That is something that can add another layer of humor to a series, especially adult oriented cartoons like the Simpsons, Family Guy and especially Archer where our actors' voices are very distinctive but not cartoony. To deliver these absurd lines in a dry, serious manner and high artistic prowess (almost all of our voice actors - at least the older ones - are classically trained actors) just adds another layer of subtle humor to it. Susanna Bonasewicz, the voice actress for Fran Dresher in "The Nanny", does not necessarily sound like a sultry temptress if you're a native speaker (or rather listener) but rather cheerful, careless and slighty annoying. It fits really well and while a can absolutely see how there is some humor missing from the German dub due to this, the series is good enough on its own. I can't, off the top of my head, think of a proper voice here in germany that would come close to Fran Drescher or Roseanne Barr. Our Roseanne Barr is voiced by the same woman that's also our main voice for Whoopi Goldberg and Kathy Bates. Voice acting and dubbing is its very own art form here in Germany traditionally done by well trained actors, directors and technicians. The sad thing is that streaming culture seems to make it difficult for studios here to meet our usual quality standards. Another great thing about dubbing is that you can decide to either cast based on actor or based on a specific role. Up until the voice actor hat a falling out with Disney our Capt. Jack Sparrow was voiced very fittingly by someone other than our usual voice for Johnny Depp.

[@sottoblue6510]

@@BenTenpenny That seems like it could be a smart choice for Johnny Depp, you could cast a dozen actors for his voice, this voice actor lost an always interesting gig, if not lucrative enough for him. Believe me, I love the voices of German actors, almost as much a the trained British actors. But I watch German shows here, and I find the dubbing English seems more polished (distractingly polished) than if watch it in German. The acting in German seems so much more "natural" than the dubbed acting. I hear voices that sound like my in-laws and German friends that I know in different regions, which is how I hear undubbed American acting that's any good. Maybe that's a trend that's over, I was watching the Winter Olympics and I'm more catching up on news when I visit. That Drescher window was a moment in time. I find it interesting that Drescher and Barr are voiced by the same actress, as they are such starkly different voices and each so representative of their regions. Just to add a note to this, as information that might be of interest to you, as you seem as attuned to the voice as I am. Fran became famous for being a beauty with that very contrasting, very stereotypically NY Jewish tone (I live just outside of NYC, there's many different accents in this little area, including a number of accents that seem to be derived as a mixture of the original immigrant ancestor's accent when they first spoke English. The " "Jewish" accent as we typically know it has the nasal sound Drescher does from the Yiddish syllables and intonation. The Italian, Irish, variety of latino, asian, carribean and african accents all can have specific neighborhoods and towns as their basis. My cousins grew up in a town called Lindenhurst that is about 20 miles away from where I grew up, and I can tell a native from that village in an instant. It used to be German immigrants (obviously with that name), but there was an Irish influx that seems to have created a kind of lisp. It's only a couple square miles, but it seemed to have swallowed up everyone's diction. There is an interesting clip by Fred Armisen, a comedian from "Saturday Night Live" and "Portlandia" where he does American accents as if he were travelling through areas. He does another one just on the Long Island area, where we both grew up. Anyway, I'm enjoying the German actors and their voices joined together more these days, as in "Babylon Berlin" and maybe less intense shows like "BioHackers" and "Die Toten vom Bodensee," where my wife grew up and where I can reminisce some beautiful vacations we had in the area.

[@BenTenpenny]

@@sottoblue6510 Your observation that german acting is much more natural than our voice acting is very accurate. This has to do with the way most movies are produced and greenlit here in Germany which, for some reasons, shaped a mainstream brand of young good looking actors that usually lack traditional training hence the more natural (I would call it unrefined) style of acting in most german movies and tv series. Older actors tend to come through actual acting schools which might sometimes lead to interesting discrepancies in acting style/prowess in such productions. Drescher and Barr don't share the same voice actress. Barr, Goldberg and Bates do. I was, to a degree, aware of the Jewish background behind Drescher as well as the characters belonging to the Fine family. As someone of jewish descent I am very interested in this trope. That's partially why I am familiar with the work of Fred Armisen as well. (I really enjoyed Portlandia despite having never been there myself.)

[@willietheraildog]

SNL got the publicity, but SCTV was the true art of comedy.

[@yomomma2054]

+Michael Weber Right? Also, to come up with that story...also has to have some great writers.

[@alitlweird]

Michael Weber SNL was funny for the first 15 to 20 years.

[@alitlweird]

I remember playing Jump the Weeds as a kid!

[@geniusmchaggis]

you do not!

[@AvengerII]

I think SNL had its moments until the mid-1990s; that's about when I lost almost complete interest in it. Now, sad to say, we're going to be seeing THAT original era pass into the dustbins of history as more of the comedians of that era (late 1960s and 1970s) pass on. They've lost Belushi, Gilda Radner, Harold Ramis, and John Candy already. Over the next ten years, we'll really get hit bad by passings because all these guys are now in their late 60s/70s and a few are even close to 80 now! Frankly, I still think the SNL cast members they had from roughly 1986 to 1991 was the best group they ever had on that show. Very talented group of people, very little deadweight, and the writing was more consistent and less of the shilling you see. They were more equal-opportunity hecklers and honest than they are now. People really ought to go back and look at the first five years and see it again in the original full-length episodes and NOT the syndicated/edited packages (like I saw a lot of this stuff originally). There were great episodes and sketches but it was still very inconsistent those first five years and I think people tend to mythologize it because of the immediate movie successes Chase, Belushi, and Aykroyd had close to their stints on SNL. I think half the time 3/4 of the people working on that show were on drugs and didn't get much done before air time! There's a lot of stoner humor that does not hold up today. Even with the Best of SNL syndicated package, you could tell they were running on fumes on the last/fifth season of the remaining original cast. Phil Hartman, Dana Carvey, Jon Lovitz, Dennis Miller, A. Whitney Brown, Jan Hooks, Nora Dunn, Victoria Jackson, Michael Myers were all on the show around that period 1986-1991. Sad to think that Hartman and Hooks are gone now... The rest are fairly quiet but I think most everybody's working and doing something. Carvey's still doing standup and I saw a Netflix comic special (newer one) he did around 2 years ago and he's still funny. Myers was the most successful of the group but he's kind of in a career lull now.

[@GalootWrangler]

In the words of Samuel Johnson’s Bulgarian cousin - no stranger to such melancholy - “When a man is tired of the potato joke, he is tired of life.”

[@hughbetcha64]

"Look at his large frame and his broad girth. He is surely unusual" Priceless.

[@Awaiting-The-Son]

Hugh Betcha was priceless too. Joe is a master journeyman. And it's a term I use to this day. But most folks don't quite get it. Another thing is the "fact" that John Williams was the son of a Leutonian anvil maker.

[@Matterhorny]

Berth

[@milascave2]

Kids can be cruel when their words are dubbed.

[@GordiansKnotHere]

SCTV was way ahead of their time. True innovators of comedy.

[@BayviewFinch]

When I'm feeling down, I try to remember the potato joke, and it cheers me up.

[@buyerofsorts]

Ok, its been three years but your comment made me laugh. :)

[@miked8227]

Three years ago it was barely funny I remember forcing myself to laugh.

[@Bobdixon_Moonvarga_Dancer_III]

Look at me I’m a potato 🥔

[@BayviewFinch]

Four years later and it still cheers me up. Gotta love the potato joke.

[@atomicdancer]

Bulgarians have the best potato jokes. Ha ha ha ha ah

[@macandrewes]

"I should crush their heads like nuts. Like nuts I say." We literally said that all through high school. Classic!

[@jessiejames2155]

..."like nuts I say".

[@richardkey4289]

Huh.one of the dudes from " kids in the hall" was using that gag , was it stolen from this....?

[@KaninTuzi]

@@richardkey4289 I was wondering the same. Which one came first?

[@johndean4727]

@@richardkey4289 yes.

[@jasonjcr_cars819]

So did I, still so! lol If there could be only 1, it would be this one….

[@tommy1gtr]

Best phrase of the sketch “you must not allow yourself to get angry, remember you had ten classmates last year now you have but five..” lol

[@mikemike8623]

I have done Joe Flaherty's potato impersonation for 40 years. Never fails to get a laugh.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

It is very funny, Father.

[@josephreilly6328]

In the not to distant future, children will play jump the potato. Ya know with Der technology and all

[@elainebmack]

As kids in the 60's we used to watch to the foreign films on Saturday afternoons (usually gladiator movies) and laugh at the really bad dubbing. This skit really reminds me of that!

[@mikemike8623]

It's supposed 2 it's a takeoff on Pippi Longstocking

[@stevepipenger4651]

@@mikemike8623 I'm pretty sure he gets that. That's the reason for the comment

[@carolhart8696]

Parody perfection. Everyone involved was on top of their game.❤

[@jme630]

Catherine O'Hara's laugh in the dubbed voices is the best ... very reminiscent of Lola Heatherton

[@lewis9702]

She wants to bear your children!

[@doniellestenson3502]

Lol🏆

[@KOLDBLU3ST33L]

So much fun back then. Miss them, and, of course, the great John Candy. R. I. P.

[@richardc8738]

I just love the faux dubbing into English. This team working out of Edmonton was brilliant. Every member became a star.

[@robbernath]

It was Toronto, I believe.

[@richardc8738]

SCTV was first produced and filmed in Edmonton by Allarcom, then later moved to Toronto. That is my recollection, but I don’t know how many seasons were done in each city.

[@jensfranck4125]

Correct. This episode was definitely produced in Edmonton.@@richardc8738

[@525Lines]

The DVD commentary said the cast were saying filthy things since the audio wasn't recorded and were afraid someday a lipreader would watch this.

[@rockisheaven]

I wonder if any lipreader has ever actually tried to do it.

[@chuck7190]

"Oooooo a potato. MMMmmm yum yum yum!" "Eat that potato, eat it Pepi it's good for you!" Hilarious! John Candy and Joe Flaherty are geniuses.

[@jasonhurd4379]

This and Edith Prickley in The Miracle Worker are my favorite SCTV movie spoofs.

[@AmericanDefender]

Rick Moranis looks hilarious in that wig!

[@schris413]

I recognize those frog lips anywhere.

[@adamrubinger2644]

That's funny but that's not Rick Moranis, its Fred Armison... Rick Moranis is like 3 and half feet tall.

[@adamrubinger2644]

Oh damn that is Rick Moranis! Hard to tell, they both have frog lips, and Fred Armison is always in a wig😅

[@brinkybrinkz]

He does, so funny!

[@jaylenbrownfan2112]

Bob and Doug McKenzie eh.

[@Lewis9709]

When I was growing up jump the weed was a great sport played by real athletes who played for the love of the game. Today's weed jumpers are a bunch of overpaid prima donnas using PED's.

[@brianallen2358]

Thanks eh, great humour.

[@buyerofsorts]

Most people would rather smoke the weed than jump it these days.

[@matthiasschmatz8101]

Hier in Germania wee du have simillar game: it is cold stomping da weed. U stomp bearfood on a thistle and try not to cry.

[@ChristopherSibert]

"I do not feel like laughing, father. Not even at the potato joke."

[@Toocoolforunclesam]

"mmm a potato, yumyumyumyumyum."

[@STILLTRIPIN81]

They do not even ask me to play jump to weeds I should crushed there heads Like nuts...like NUTS

[@jessiejames2155]

Which one was the Potatoe ??

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@jessiejames2155 Dan Quayle

[@kawasakiwhiptwo5821]

Anyone remember when Eugene Levy played Gino Venelli singing I Just Want To Stop and (making fun of how hairy Venelli was) ends up looking like a werewolf? LOL!!! One of my favorites.

[@socksumi]

Never make Candy angry. Eddie Haskel learned that in SCTV's Leave it to Beaver sketch.

[@shokojimhollingsworth3940]

And never take a dare from Whitey lol😂

[@brianallen2358]

This is one of my favourite sketches of any show. As a teenager I dreamed of getting my own apartment and eating nothing but potatoes for days. Some people dream big, some people really like potatoes.

[@genericusername1365]

Every teenager has secretly had this dream.

[@Roddy556]

Another youtuber said whybdo we have hunger? Potatoes have a ton of calories and they're practically free.

[@toddlemieux2302]

Classic, filmed at Fort Edmonton Park (note the round barn and windmill) during SCTV's tenure filming in Edmonton 80-82

[@glennmarshall4693]

This sketch was filmed around Edmonton, I watched this when it first aired in 1981. I love John in this, I feel like doing what he did to his classmates to others sometimes, heheh

[@RandomDudeOne]

Looks like typical July weather in Edmonton.

[@DailyBrusher]

@@vincevega0 Really? You recognize that location? I was wondering just that!

[@Lewis9709]

There's more humor and comedic genius in this single sketch than an entire season of SNL. As an American I must admit nobody does comedy like Canada!

[@phillecompte3438]

Man you said it and it is so true.

[@gregkinney2565]

Highly doubtful that you are American. You are just another insecure Canadian.

[@benmiddleton9984]

Lewis 970 SCTV= GENIUS

[@minskie]

You have good taste and are so right. SCTV s ideas were so much more brilliant and out there.

[@paleshelter4002]

@MegaBeanandCheese agree! Comedic artistry!

[@V8_screw_electric_cars]

Ah jump the weed, we used to play that game back in Leutonia.

[@genericusername1365]

A fine game!

[@thezealouscellist1966]

Yeah, Jasch you always had the biggest weeds growing behind your house, real flashy!

[@greenatom]

SCTV had such an impact on me when it first ran. Brilliant and subtle. I haven't seen this skit in decades, but it all came back as I watched it here. Great to see it again.

[@jeffreywalker4133]

In addition to the cast's brilliance, the makeup, hairstyle, and wardrobe people were phenomenal. Think John Candy as Divine, Andrea Martin as Edna Boil, Catherine O'Hara as Brooke Shields, Dave Thomas as Liberace, etc.

[@wilburbonzo]

I love SCTV their spoofing and inversion of cultural memes was brilliant

[@redsoxclover11]

John Candy , Rick Moranis , Catherine O’Hara . What a great cast.

[@tomtruett1946]

I really enjoyed Joe Flaherty, and Andrea Martin too.

[@robm9999]

And of course Eugene Levy, Martin Short and Dave Thomas.

[@MrM-u3h]

Harold Ramis too!

[@philipsmith3686]

@@tomtruett1946 is that rick morranis too?

[@davidscott3820]

Sctv= good clean descent classic family comedy. It will last forever. Canada is a great country!😄🗽

[@crazysingingchick]

No more pencils, no more books, no more angry looks from the schoolmaster!

[@crazysingingchick]

Four years later and I still come back to watch this frequently. It's that great. :)

[@crazysingingchick]

Nature and Physics haha!!!

[@crazysingingchick]

Nature and Physics I would not want to disappoint Pepi.

[@jaxsun72]

The amount of talent in this skit is mind boggling.

[@theusher2893]

Right??

[@mrRagalorn]

LOL!!! God bless you John Candy.

[@joeswanson6782]

mrRagalorn yes, he was truly funny at one time. Before the movies.

[@joegee2815]

I loved this show, it did jump the shark right about when Harold Ramis got sucked into the glamorous movie making business. He really was the comedic genius who wrote some really great skits. Either that or I ran out of weed, could be either one back then.

[@genericusername1365]

"Jump The Weed" game! Wow, I've been missing out all these years. Definitely going to suggest this game to my grandkids. See how they like it.

[@jjkhawaiian]

Maybe if they don't like that they can play pull the weed.

[@genericusername1365]

@@jjkhawaiian Oh my heck! That's a freakin' GREAT idea! You are a genius! We need more people like you in government. Common sense!

[@jjkhawaiian]

@@genericusername1365 Bless you

[@ras_krystafari3333]

Woke the smeed

[@karenbaumgartel6077]

That‘d probably go over like a turd in a punch bowl!

[@jessiejames2155]

I'm 53. My Daughter is 22 . I just showed this skit to her..and she's been lauphing dancing singing and talking about it, to her friends..all day now...she can't believe it, it's so funny ! 👍😁 ...-Wait till she see's Steve Martin singing : "King-tut".... 😄👍

[@metalred74]

Ahhhh...Pepi got the ultimate revenge on those kids for laughing at him - he swung them around like a sack of potatoes and they all died a horrible death when they hit the ground with tremendous force! Now he can play "jump the weed" in peace with no one else around to bother him!

[@jmcanada7029]

Comic gold. ⭐ This was filmed at Fort Edmonton Park. 🌟

[@latifahgordeeva6198]

John Candy was a laugh riot

[@brandonjerome]

Funnier than the 🥔 joke

[@SCRnflz]

Man I miss Second City. I was one of the very few kids in my elementary school that got and appreciated this kind of humor.

[@MelWarrior]

Pepi randomly hurling a rock and knocking an old man off his bike rendering him unconscious, and then he just casually shrugs his shoulders seemed so insane🤣🤣🤣

[@ThetreeDraggon]

this made my day watching john candy toss a bunch of ragdolls into the air onto some straw.

[@mike196212]

Every Friday night in the early 80s I made sure to NEVER miss SCTV. I used to watch one version on CBC(I'm from Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada) and the later,longer version on NBC. Brilliant show,never gets old. Funnier than Saturday Night Live.I remember seeing the Pippi Longstockings original when I was about ten or eleven. I think it was from Finland or Sweden. Dead on send up. I'm 49 now and still nuts about SCTV. We were(my family) truly bummed out by John Candy's death. RIP John. Great show.

[@elainebmack]

"I should crush their heads like nuts...like nuts I tell you..."

[@rocknroller77]

😆

[@sayhitosteve2785]

But he won't, because he needs them.

[@auberjean6873]

Thank you, SCTV, for this timeless flashback and all the memories that came with it! I remember SCTV not caring about sponsors, (don't think they had any!) which made their humor better!

[@auberjean6873]

@Michele T, we were lucky to see it and other gems, both Canadian and English. Who could forget, Are You Being Served?, or Naughty Night (which I can't find in KZbin) or Kids in the Hall? Happy New Year Michele and keep on laughing!

[@auberjean6873]

@Michele T, Thank you!

[@Ndnative3431]

So fun to see young Eugene levy, Catherine, Rick Morenis, and of course, John Candy ❤️❤️❤️

[@potaterjim]

They nailed the subtle "voice actor for a foreign dub"

[@harlonpeppernuts]

70's weed and SCTV. Man, I had a great childhood!

[@MrWhtgst]

There are some heavy hitters on this show too bad I missed out.

[@octofish]

This brings back some memories. I was glued to this show as it was happening, right from when it started.

[@silverserpent420]

I miss that kind of comedy. Too advanced for the time and just right for today.

[@highwaymaintainer]

I just laughed for 20 minutes straight, this show was amazing

[@jaybug1171]

Before there was internet, we played "jump the weeds."

[@kosmosyche]

Ah, good times

[@Mordorer]

Stick ball.

[@jaybug1171]

@Duran Duran Yes, and I will jump the highest and win . But we will all have fun!

[@jimwoodman8158]

"Classic Bulgarian Children's Film". That phrase has probably never been said before or since

[@melindaunknown6411]

I love those people. All so talented!

[@violetbrown2372]

I remember those weird Pippy Longstonging's movies showing up on Weekend afternoons...

[@Imintune...]

Gotta luv that dubbing. 😂 Jump the weeds anyone?

[@mike196212]

SCTV still towers above loads of other shows. It hasn't----unlike a LOT of old SNL skits----aged at all. One more reason I'm proud to be a Canadian.

[@axelkyster2642]

Your little sister does "skits" for Grandma....SCTV and SNL did "sketches". Although, in this case, this was a short, filmed piece...

[@mike196212]

@@axelkyster2642 My ''little sister'' works hard in a hospital. The other two work hard as well. So do I and my two brothers. What,exactly,are you bugged about? I think SCTV was better than SNL. I would say this even if I wasn't Canadian. So it was a ''filmed piece.'' And??

[@lawrencelampke6007]

SNL and SCTV were both good shows. SCTV had more good sketches per show and their cast was virtually unchanged for their run. SNL has had a lot of good sketches throughout the much longer time it's been on and had had many great and some so so actors during it's time. All SCTV players were great and worked together seamlessly

[@SovereignStatesman]

"OH OH, these potatoes are HOT, Pepi!!" (Picks up pot with bare hands) LOL classic

[@brendacameron4827]

Hahahaha! 😄

[@HenryvKeiper]

Geez, I totally remember the terrible Pippi Longstocking movie they're making fun of here - bad dubbing and all.

[@StupidTVclips]

I actually typed this 2 months ago but I'm saying it right now at my desk.

[@Babesinthewood97]

Those films are brilliant in original language. The dubbing may be a different story.

[@hd-xc2lz]

There were several Pippi movies with same cast and same terrible dubbing as I recall. When I was a kid they always came on late morning, after the Saturday morning cartoons, at a time when you knew that your parents would come in soon and turn the TV off, tell you to go outside and play. Watching Pippi you were always pushing your luck.

[@marilynmalcolm9920]

You would think that his schoolmates would know better than to antagonize him, seeing as how he keeps killing them off. Funny stuff, I love this skit.

[@katefromct1969]

Marilyn Malcolm You think they would learn by now. They are surely stupid. Let’s frown on them.

[@miked8227]

My only knock on this skit is that it lacks realism, you know , which I tend to frown on.

[@dlxmarks]

30 years since John Candy passed. I'll never stop missing him.

[@xavierrandall]

I remember Pepi Longsocks episode back when SCTV was on television.

[@tectonicD]

I’m going through opiate withdrawals and this actually made me laugh! Now that certifies this as being funny.

[@jeffg2671]

I'm on kratom now, takes away the legs cramps and everything, you got this doggy

[@tectonicD]

Thank you guys

[@jeffg2671]

@@tectonicD get capsules, and ypur gunna need to take alot, like 6 or 7, you might get sick so take with food

[@chaching1281]

Levy and O'hara are both in Schitts Creek together.

[@alukuhito]

What's that?

[@brendarodgers5686]

"Let's play jump the wheat!" Has me in tears. LOLO!

[@clark9992]

Weed.

[@elmobolan4274]

Product of the 70s and loved Pippi Longstocking's.....this was great!!!

[@drmlabs]

I miss this show. Great to see these clips. I used to watch it every week, tried to get my friends to watch it

[@john_from_eastcoast.]

This is classic comedy!! 👍👍 RIP John Candy 🌹 March 4, 1994.

[@stephenjackson4392]

I watched this 40 years ago stoned on weed I laughed so hard my stomach hurt Classic now and still funny LOL

[@hauntedhose]

Stoned on weed

[@brinsonharris9816]

Time well spent!

[@CandyxKush]

Its 2023, Im stoned af and just watched this for the first time. LOL

[@starsastheyare9254]

"Jump the weeds." Hilarious.

[@genericusername1365]

The classic pastime!

[@mr.t6142]

Thanks for the SCTV post, I wish they had a show this funny out now. Candy is hilarious in this skit!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BradiKal61]

SCTV introduced me to the music of The Tubes, and I will be forever grateful

[@rr7firefly]

I went to a circus in Cotbus, a small German town, and people were having lots of fun. About halfway through, Pippi Longstocking came out (they call her Pippi Langstrumpf) and the crowd went NUTS! But I think Pepi Longsocks takes the cake (or potato).

[@Havanacuba1985]

Pepsi lives a positive life by destroying any negative antagonists , leaving him happy . Be like Pepi

[@gamesmithy]

The Atomic Punk much like Kevin spacey

[@mrfivegold]

I understand random commenter on KZbin, I shall kill all those who hurt my fragile emotions.

[@lunarmodule9915]

There is no hidden message troll(s). This is a spoof on foreign films that kids watched as far back as the 60s and 70s on Saturday afternoon or after school TV. Therefore those from the Millennial generation are not likely to "get it".

[@lunarmodule9915]

There is no hidden message troll(s). This is a spoof on foreign films that kids watched as far back as the 60s and 70s on Saturday afternoon or after school TV. (Listen and read the intro.) Therefore those from the Millennial generation and younger are not likely to "get it".

[@mrfivegold]

Nature and Physics oh yes. My father also knows the potato joke.

[@MrJohndoakes]

They used to run the (badly-dubbed) West German Pippi Longstocking films during certain weekends on KTLA (Channel 5) ....and this gave me flashbacks. If the SCTV image was static-y, it would fit what I experienced in the era of analog US television because we were unknowingly "TV dx'ing" all the LA stations in San Diego.

[@bluetickfreddy101]

Pepi seems like a good kid Maybe misunderstood A little Hahaha

[@jl-fy3zj]

Kills a man with a rock then shrugs it off nonchalantly

[@mathematicalcowboy3166]

“What the hell?”

[@elonmust7470]

It was Red Green

[@bobhughes9628]

White privilege

[@sirtalkalotdoolittle]

A hundred years ago, this was the first SCTV skit I ever saw. It's been love ever since.

[@Majic88888]

One of the best sketches of all time.

[@PRH123]

In our area of the US, DC, SCTV was available only very late at night, well after midnight, on the lowest sleaziest local channel, from an adjoining city 50 miles away (baltimore)... so in general people didnt know it existed... it was so much funnier than SNL though....

[@yourladybug]

'We do not want to play with you!' 'Yeah, we would frown on it!' LOL!!!!!!!!!

[@crazysingingchick]

This is at least the 10th time I’ve watched this (although it’s been a while), and tonight I already started laughing uncontrollably when he went for the rock. I had forgotten about that part, but immediately remembered when he looked at the rock. Then when it happened I laughed harder. I also laughed thinking about how I laughed prematurely due to already knowing what he was about to do with the rock. Also I am high af. Too much jump the weed(s) I guess.

[@MerkinMuffly]

This was anime dialogue before there was anime.

[@seditiouswalrus]

Not really earliest dubbed anime (at least in US) would have been Alakazam the Great back in 1961. SCTV premiered in 1976.

[@TheBigBigSean]

Anime? Pfffft. Dubs like this came from kung-fu movies.

[@JimiLaPointe]

Anime existed since the 40s

[@awedamnitscam84]

Anime

[@mikestand714]

SCTV was always good.liked "kids in the hall" and the biggie though not canadian "benny hill"these shows were true comedy not like the crap fest on tv today

[@rhughes1795]

Mike's tan D -Hilarious

[@wendyokoopa7048]

I miss Monty python's flying circus, red green, royal Canadian air farce too.

[@GoofballLtG]

Give Studio C a try! Start from season one. 👍

[@mike196212]

Brilliant. Still laugh until it hurts. Remember the premiere of this,remember the original Pippi Longsocks.

[@allengumm1157]

Me, too. Great parody; kind of sad a little bit, too.

[@torontotontos7085]

RIP Joe Flaherty

[@NankerPhelge65]

damn, this was the first ive heard of his passing,

[@hodgepodgebuhgodge3739]

I miss Kukla, Fran and Ollie.

[@mikepetri3536]

John Candy is the best

[@daves4645]

Ah....the good old days playing jump the weeds.

[@bkdsog]

We had 3 uhf, 3 vhf channels. Sctv came on about 10:30pm fri and sat nights on pbs. Im getting older. I was 8. 1976. That was our fun, for the night...

[@jjryan1352]

The perfect parody....of Japanese cartoons. Thought I watching Speed Racer.

[@stephenison5703]

God bless you John candy rest in peace my man 🙏

[@dannystargazer]

hey hodgepodge I thought I was the only one that was reminded of kukla fran and Ollie on Saturday afternoon ,wish those were available on dvd

[@jerjerbeat]

soon it will be summer vacation time again. time to play jump the weed!

[@liamball8335]

The dummy gag gets me every time. 👏🏻