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.

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

Some really good actors can't from this group.

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.

Berth

Kids can be cruel when their words are dubbed.

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.

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.

@@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.

@@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.

@@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.)

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

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

I remember playing Jump the Weeds as a kid!

you do not!

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.

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

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

Look at me I’m a potato 🥔

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

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

It is very funny, Father.

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

..."like nuts I say".

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

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

@@richardkey4289 yes.

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

It was Toronto, I believe.

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.

I recognize those frog lips anywhere.

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

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

He does, so funny!

Bob and Doug McKenzie eh.

She wants to bear your children!

Lol🏆

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

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

"mmm a potato, yumyumyumyumyum."

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

Which one was the Potatoe ??

@@jessiejames2155 Dan Quayle

Every teenager has secretly had this dream.

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

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

Nature and Physics haha!!!

Nature and Physics I would not want to disappoint Pepi.

Ah, good times

Stick ball.

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

Obviously a parody of ``Pippy Longstocking``

@@phillecompte3438 Figured that out, did you. It's "Pippi" actually. And the comment above means that Pepi was made a pariah at school and was bullied by school kids, just like Carrie was.

@@eduardo_corrochio Yup I figured that out smart ass and oh is it Pippi really .Geez you are a clever one aren't you .Did you look that up just be sure you would look intelligent in your comment ?Thanks for the education Edweirdo ,oops did I spell that wrong ? Come on back with your comments I like a good fight .Let's just see how intelligent you really are .

@@phillecompte3438 If "Edweirdo" is the prime example of your cleverness, clearly I am beaten by a person with scathing wit. You win. lmao....

@@eduardo_corrochio Obviously your attempt at condescension is feeble and pretentious at best .Be careful who you attack on line with your limited sense of humour. You may find yourself exposed as the weak minded person you pretend not to be .

Man you said it and it is so true.

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

Lewis 970 SCTV= GENIUS

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

@MegaBeanandCheese agree! Comedic artistry!

😆

But he won't, because he needs them.

me too. exactly.

Not me.

I loved those films!

Funnier than the 🥔 joke

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

And never take a dare from Whitey lol😂

I really enjoyed Joe Flaherty, and Andrea Martin too.

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

Harold Ramis too!

@@tomtruett1946 is that rick morranis too?

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

@@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??

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

A fine game!

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

Looks like typical July weather in Edmonton.

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

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

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

@@genericusername1365 Bless you

Woke the smeed

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

i know some people now a days i would like to do that to if you know what i mean. 🤣

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

Weed.

Thanks eh, great humour.

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

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.

Hahahaha! 😄

“What the hell?”

It was Red Green

White privilege

Stoned on weed

Time well spent!

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

The classic pastime!

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

Thank you guys

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

"being stoned"... Finally,someone that gets it.

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

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

The Atomic Punk much like Kevin spacey

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

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".

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".

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

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

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

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.

@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 KZfaq) or Kids in the Hall? Happy New Year Michele and keep on laughing!

@Michele T, Thank you!

@Michele T I've just noticed The Great Outdoors is available on SKY so I might have to convince the Mrs to bang it on.

mistermalta The best!

+mistermalta Agreed. And on a low budget. I remember when it came on AFTER Saturday night live when I was a teenager. My brothers and I watched it religiously.

Yes back in 1976 was when I first started watching SCTV ,I was instantly hooked

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