Catherine O’Hara has a great career

Lola Hetherton...SHE IS PHENOMENAL!....and GEORGEOUS so much talent...:)

I remember the real Joey Heatherton bouncing on a trampoline singing the Stones song Jumping Jack Flash on some variety show or other. Of course she couldn’t sing at all. It was so silly it stuck with me.

Those dancers were named after SCTV costume designer Juul Haalmeyer and Juul himself was one of the dancers along with cast members and staff whoever was available. None were trained dancers and Catherine O'Hara asked for bad dancers to be her backup dancers and the Juul Haalmeyer dancers proved to be so popular they were brought back to SCTV several times. Eugene Levy is one of the dancers, he's in the middle and Juul Haalmeyer is to his right front row.

see lyrics above!

She got one heck of a major breakdown though

The Juul Haalmeyer dancers were actually comprised of Juul Haalmeyer the costume designer for SCTV and various cast members along with staff of the show, thrown together and given a dance routine. None were actually trained dancers but the joke was that they were such bad dancers that fit in with the SCTV network's low budget productions.

Earl's rushing to report on Lola, however, had far more in common with CBS anchorman Dan Rather who long had a mania for being first with a story regardless of whether it was true or not - and which, by the end of his career with CBS, caught up with him big time. Roger Mudd reported on this unsavory aspect of Rather - get the story out first, regardless of accuracy - in his memoirs about his years with CBS News ("The Place to Be: Washington, CBS News, and the Glory Days of Television News"). (Rather was in the anchor chair three weeks, having taken over from Walter Cronkite, when the ATTEMPT on Reagan's life occurred. Reynolds' outburst was over conflicting reports on Reagan's press secretary, James Brady, who was seriously wounded in that attempt - but died many, many years later, never the same after that shooting.) But this was not the only case of real-life newscast incidents being spoofed on "SCTV." I can name others: - The Season 2 episode of the Melonville general election, where Earl was doubling as both SCTV News anchor and campaign manager for Johnny LaRue's bid for Melonville West City Council (to the point of wearing LaRue campaign buttons on both sides of his jacket lapel) - and, at episode's end, facing investigations for breach of journalistic ethics, conflicts of interest, et al. - seemed a spoof of the real-life saga of Lisa Howard (1926-1965), an ABC News political reporter and anchor of a five-minute midday newscast, "News with a Woman's Touch," who in late Summer 1964 became part of a group of New York liberals (among them being writer Gore Vidal) who comprised a group, "Democrats for Keating," which supported the re-election bid of incumbent GOP Senator Kenneth Keating against his Democratic opponent, Robert F. Kennedy; she insisted she could report on the Senate campaign impartially even as she was working behind the scenes to stop RFK, but nonetheless ABC suspended her on Sept. 29, 1964, and then by the time of the election fired her outright. Ms. Howard filed a $2 million lawsuit alleging damage to her reputation and career, but it was dismissed in early 1965; when they fired her, they also cited, in their justification for sacking her, her conduct as she was making her second special on Cuban leader Fidel Castro, in 1964, "Cuba and Castro Today," which made a permanent enemy of ABC News' then-boss, Jesse Zousmer (1912-1966), who in its wake retaliated against her viciously in her last remaining months with the network. (Had Floyd Robertson existed and worked there at the time, he may well have confronted her in the hallways leading to and from the newsroom about whether she had a "Castro fetish," in the same way as in a first-season episode where Earl was doing stories revolved around dogs, Floyd snapped at him and his "dog fetish.") Despondent over not only the loss of her career, but also a recent miscarriage, she committed suicide by drug overdose on July 4, 1965. - The Season 3 episode where Earl sat silent for 2 minutes waiting in vain for a filmed or taped item about a bus race to come up sounded like a spoof of a moment towards the end of one late night newscast on KNBC (Channel 4) in Los Angeles wherein anchor John Schubeck (1936-1997), seeing an item he'd read on the teleprompter only 10 minutes before, sat stone-faced, motionless, not saying a word, for the remaining 2 minutes of the newscast before "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" commenced. - In the Season 1 episode "The Hefty Neil Story," as Earl was previewing lurid sex items, they sounded almost like a rewrite of selected items cited by Mike Wallace (1918-2012) as he interviewed San Francisco station KGO-TV's general manager, Russ Coughlan (1919-1990), with regard to the station's news priorities as part of a piece he reported on about the Frisco local TV news ratings wars; he mentioned only 58 seconds were devoted by KGO to national and international news, with most "important" items either scantily dealt with, or not dealt with at all, while the rest of the newscast (sans commercials) was devoted to fires, crimes, sex, tearjerkers, animal stories, exorcism, the occult, etc., and of course sports and weather (which led media critics to speculate the station's calls as standing for "Kickers, Guts and Orgasms") - the type of "journalism" road Earl went and which "values" he exemplified and emulated. (For obvious reasons, SCTV's writers couldn't have reworked the infamous time KGO reported - with the proverbial "film at 11" - on a man's severed privates found along railroad tracks in/around Oakland.) To put this in perspective, the SCTV tease on interviews with "victims of the Midnight Rapist" sounded like it was rewritten from "the Nashville Stomper" which KGO had reported on one night.

It's a shame something like that will never get off the ground in the real world.

C'mon guys, she just wants to bear your children! 😢😂

For respect.