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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 11, 2021 11:12:04 GMT -5
Two of my favorite bits. Never understood the show's obsession with Slim Whitman
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 11, 2021 12:10:06 GMT -5
They did poke fun at Canadian television and movies, too. Bob & Doug McKenzie began as a spoof of the required Canadian content in broadcasting, Martin Short's Brock Linehan character was based on tv interviewer Brian Linehan, the hockey sketch movie, where John Candy is supposed to be a kid playing hockey who gets to play in the NHL and the movie sketch with Candy and Flaherty as two guys from the Maritimes who come to Toronto for "Jobs, lots of jobs" are spoof's of the government-funded films that were done at different time periods.
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Post by codystarbuck on Mar 11, 2021 12:12:14 GMT -5
Two of my favorite bits. Never understood the show's obsession with Slim Whitman Commercials for Slim Whitman albums were all over tv, at the time, but he was unknown to most of the general public, until those started to appear. At first it was a spoof of the commercials; but, it was such a good character that they kept using him. |
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 11, 2021 12:21:19 GMT -5
Whitman's greatest triumph was freeing the world from an alien takeover in Mars Attacks
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