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** Joe Flaherty in particular was put in front of a camera to improvise some one-man sketches that -- while funny -- certainly were also used to cheaply pad out the running time. Count Floyd's classic "Blood Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin, Pennsylvania" monologue was the result of one of these sessions. You can also see Flaherty hilariously padding things out in Guy Caballero's "1984" wrap up. (The U.S. syndicated version cuts it short, though.)

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** Joe Flaherty in particular was put in front of a camera to improvise some one-man sketches that -- while funny -- certainly were also used to cheaply pad out the running time. Count Floyd's classic "Blood Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin, Pennsylvania" monologue was the result of one of these sessions.sessions (specifically from a marathon one-man improv session he did in season 3 to make up for having briefly quit the show for a few weeks). You can also see Flaherty hilariously padding things out in Guy Caballero's "1984" wrap up. (The U.S. syndicated version cuts it short, though.)
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** A meta example. The first couple of seasons were produced at the original Creator/{{Global}} in Toronto (when it was limited to Ontario as a pan-regional superstation). After that, they moved to Edmonton, using the facilities of CITV (also a superstation, via satellite distribution). CITV wound up becoming a Global station in 2000 after Global;s parent [=CanWest=] purchased CITV's owner WIC (though CITV had nominally been an independent station, they'd been purchasing programming from Global since the late 80s). This also gave Global's then-sister company Fireworks Entertainment distribution rights, as WIC owned the rights thanks to buying CITV's parent Allarcom, who had struck the deal with the producers that moved the show to Edmonton to begin with.

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** A meta example. The first couple of seasons were produced at the original Creator/{{Global}} Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork in Toronto (when it was limited to Ontario as a pan-regional superstation). After that, they moved to Edmonton, using the facilities of CITV (also a superstation, via satellite distribution). CITV wound up becoming a Global station in 2000 after Global;s parent [=CanWest=] purchased CITV's owner WIC (though CITV had nominally been an independent station, they'd been purchasing programming from Global since the late 80s). This also gave Global's then-sister company Fireworks Entertainment distribution rights, as WIC owned the rights thanks to buying CITV's parent Allarcom, who had struck the deal with the producers that moved the show to Edmonton to begin with.
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* {{Padding}}: With the show's timeslot tripling from 30 to 90 minutes with the ChannelHop to Creator/{{NBC}}, they had to find lots of ways to pad things out. The addition of musical guests and the debut of longer sketches were one way to deal with this, but the show also resorted to rerunning old sketches and using some underdeveloped material simply because it filled out the show. This does make it feel more like a real TV staion.
** Even the half hour shows suffered from this occasionally, with repeats of previously-aired sketches (usually fake commercials) becoming more and more noticeable at the end of each season.

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* {{Padding}}: With the show's timeslot tripling from 30 to 90 minutes with the ChannelHop to Creator/{{NBC}}, they had to find lots of ways to pad things out. The addition of musical guests and the debut of longer sketches were one way to deal with this, but the show also resorted to rerunning old sketches and using some underdeveloped material simply because it filled out the show. This does make it feel more like a real TV staion.
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** Even the half hour shows suffered from this occasionally, with repeats of previously-aired sketches (usually fake commercials) becoming more and more noticeable at towards the end of each season.
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** Joe Flaherty in particular was put in front of a camera to improvise some one-man sketches that -- while funny -- certainly were also used to cheaply pad out the running time. Count Floyd's classic "Blood Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin, Pennsylvania" monologue was the result of one of these sessions. You can also see Flaherty hilariously padding things out in Guy Caballero's "1984" wrap up.

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** Joe Flaherty in particular was put in front of a camera to improvise some one-man sketches that -- while funny -- certainly were also used to cheaply pad out the running time. Count Floyd's classic "Blood Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin, Pennsylvania" monologue was the result of one of these sessions. You can also see Flaherty hilariously padding things out in Guy Caballero's "1984" wrap up. (The U.S. syndicated version cuts it short, though.)
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* {{Padding}}: With the show's timeslot tripling from 30 to 90 minutes with the ChannelHop to Creator/{{NBC}}, they had to find lots of ways to pad things out. The addition of musical guests and the debut of longer sketches were one way to deal with this, but the show also resorted to rerunning old sketches and using some underdeveloped material simply because it filled out the show.

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* {{Padding}}: With the show's timeslot tripling from 30 to 90 minutes with the ChannelHop to Creator/{{NBC}}, they had to find lots of ways to pad things out. The addition of musical guests and the debut of longer sketches were one way to deal with this, but the show also resorted to rerunning old sketches and using some underdeveloped material simply because it filled out the show. This does make it feel more like a real TV staion.
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** Particularly egregious in later seasons was the liberal use of "promos" that advertised upcoming SCTV programming. Basically, clips would be shown from an upcoming sketch, with a reminder to 'stay tuned' for that piece of SCTV programming either later in the episode or 'coming soon'. The clips from the sketch were rarely funny out of context, and the promos obviously only existed to lengthen an episode's running time. Probably the worst case was in the final season, when (amongst many other promos), SCTV aired two promos for sketches that were ''never even seen on the show'': a ''Dialing For Dollars'' segment hosted by Earl Camembert, and a new kids show hosted by Sammy Maudlin. The full-length sketches themselves were obviously deemed not good enough to make the cut, but somehow the pointless unfunny-by-themselves ''promos'' for the sketches were still needed fill out the episode's running time.
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::Even the half hour shows suffered from this occasionally, with repeats of previously-aired sketches (usually fake commercials) becoming more and more noticeable at the end of each season.
::Joe Flaherty in particular was put in front of a camera to improvise some one-man sketches that -- while funny -- certainly were also used to cheaply pad out the running time. Count Floyd's classic "Blood Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin, Pennsylvania" monologue was the result of one of these sessions. You can also see Flaherty hilariously padding things out in Guy Caballero's "1984" wrap up.

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::Even **Even the half hour shows suffered from this occasionally, with repeats of previously-aired sketches (usually fake commercials) becoming more and more noticeable at the end of each season.
::Joe **Joe Flaherty in particular was put in front of a camera to improvise some one-man sketches that -- while funny -- certainly were also used to cheaply pad out the running time. Count Floyd's classic "Blood Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin, Pennsylvania" monologue was the result of one of these sessions. You can also see Flaherty hilariously padding things out in Guy Caballero's "1984" wrap up.
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::Even the half hour shows suffered from this occasionally, with repeats of previously-aired sketches (usually fake commercials) becoming more and more noticeable at the end of each season.
::Joe Flaherty in particular was put in front of a camera to improvise some one-man sketches that -- while funny -- certainly were also used to cheaply pad out the running time. Count Floyd's classic "Blood Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin, Pennsylvania" monologue was the result of one of these sessions. You can also see Flaherty hilariously padding things out in Guy Caballero's "1984" wrap up.
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** A mild one, but Bob and Doug exchanging Christmas presents with each other in "Christmas Staff Party". And later in the same episode, [[spoiler:Johnny [=LaRue=] receiving a crane shot from Santa Claus]]. From the same episode, the entire cast singing "White Christmas" together.

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** A mild one, but Bob and Doug exchanging Christmas presents with each other in "Christmas Staff Party". And later in the same episode, [[spoiler:Johnny [=LaRue=] receiving a crane shot from Santa Claus]]. From In the same episode, the entire cast singing "White sings " White Christmas" together.
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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: One sketch of "The Johnny [=LaRue=] Show" has Johnny doing "exercise" by opening and closing the fridge and jogging in place while sitting down, and at one point, he has a mild heart attack. This sketch is far less funny considering Creator/JohnCandy's real life fatal heart attack in 1994.

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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: HarsherInHindsight: One sketch of "The Johnny [=LaRue=] Show" has Johnny doing "exercise" by opening and closing the fridge and jogging in place while sitting down, and at one point, he has a mild heart attack. This sketch is far less funny considering Creator/JohnCandy's real life fatal heart attack in 1994.
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* {{Padding}}: With the show's timeslot tripling from 30 to 90 minutes with the ChannelHop to Creator/{{NBC}}, they had to find lots of ways to pad things out. The addition of musical guests and the debut of longer sketches were one way to deal with this, but the show also resorted to rerunning old sketches and using some underdeveloped material simply because it filled out the show.
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** The news team delves into FoeYay on a regular basis. Earl's clueless attempts to get Floyd's attention and amuse him that just end up annoying him are very reminiscent of a little kid with a crush, and then there's the times Floyd [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther displays actual affection or at least concern for Earl]]...

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** The news team delves into FoeYay team, on a regular basis. Earl's clueless attempts to get Floyd's attention and amuse him that just end up annoying him are very reminiscent of a little kid with a crush, and then there's the times Floyd [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther displays actual affection or at least concern for Earl]]...
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* WeirdAlEffect: ''The Sammy Maudlin Show'' was a parody of ''Sammy & Company'', Creator/SammyDavisJr's short-lived 1975 daytime talk show, which featured the real [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Williams_(DJ) William B. Williams]] as the announcer/sidekick.
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** The entire "The Great White North Palace" wraparound. Long story short: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Guy Caballero]] takes advantage of [[EnsembleDarkhorse Bob and Doug]]'s popularity. It backfires on him, the [=McKenzies=], and SCTV. [[spoiler: Bob and Doug lose their jobs at the end.]] [[note]]only for a short while. They get their show back.[[/note]]

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** The entire "The Great White North Palace" wraparound. Long story short: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Guy Caballero]] takes advantage of [[EnsembleDarkhorse Bob and Doug]]'s popularity. It backfires on him, the [=McKenzies=], and SCTV. [[spoiler: Bob and Doug lose their jobs at the end.]] [[note]]only for a short while. They get their show back.back, though in the next episode their show is cut back from two minutes to one minute, and then there are occasional episodes that don't include them at all, when they had been appearing once an episode since the previous season, before they are gone for good due to their actors leaving the show.[[/note]]

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** In their TV-themed parody of ''Film/TheGodfather'' they mercilessly satirize cable TV via the cheesy Ugazzo Home Vision network. After ''SCTV'' was canceled by NBC it ended up moving to Cinemax for its final season.

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** In their TV-themed parody of ''Film/TheGodfather'' they mercilessly satirize cable TV via the cheesy Ugazzo Home Vision network. After ''SCTV'' was canceled by NBC it ended up moving to Cinemax and the Canadian pay-TV network Super Channel for its final season.


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** A meta example. The first couple of seasons were produced at the original Creator/{{Global}} in Toronto (when it was limited to Ontario as a pan-regional superstation). After that, they moved to Edmonton, using the facilities of CITV (also a superstation, via satellite distribution). CITV wound up becoming a Global station in 2000 after Global;s parent [=CanWest=] purchased CITV's owner WIC (though CITV had nominally been an independent station, they'd been purchasing programming from Global since the late 80s). This also gave Global's then-sister company Fireworks Entertainment distribution rights, as WIC owned the rights thanks to buying CITV's parent Allarcom, who had struck the deal with the producers that moved the show to Edmonton to begin with.
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** The sketch tweaking ''Series/TheMidnightSpecial'' in season 3 (''The Film/MidnightExpress Special''), since the next season Creator/{{NBC}} canceled ''The Midnight Special'' and replaced it with ''SCTV''.
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* EarWorm:
** The intro, especially seasons 2-4.
** "Koo-loo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo! Koo-loo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo-koo!"
** The theme for the SCTV news is pretty catchy, too.
** Let's be honest, if you watch a sketch with catchy music enough times, there is a very good chance that it will be stuck in your head for weeks.
** The theme songs for Identical Bellhops/Cheese Hostesses/OPEC Oil Ministers definitely count as this.
** "Who made the egg salad sandwiches?"
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** "Who made the egg salad sandwiches?"
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* WeirdAlEffect: ''The Sammy Maudlin Show'' was a parody of ''Sammy & Company'', Creator/SammyDavisJr's short-lived 1975 daytime talk show, which featured the real [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Williams_(DJ) William B. Williams]] as the announcer/sidekick.
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* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Canadians know that Bob and Doug are caricatures of themselves, but that's a point of national pride after a fashion in that Canadians are well known to enjoy poking fun at themselves.

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* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Canadians know that Bob and Doug are caricatures of themselves, but that's a point of national pride after a fashion in that Canadians are well known to enjoy poking fun at themselves.themselves (the fact it was written and portrayed by Canadians certainly helps).
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* ValuesResonance: While it's for entirely selfish reasons, Johnny [=LaRue=] wanting to secure "the gay vote" in his mayoral campaign comes off as quite progressive and forward-thinking for the time.

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* ValuesResonance: While it's for entirely selfish reasons, Johnny [=LaRue=] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66hLNY-D13A wanting to secure "the gay vote" vote"]] in his mayoral city council campaign comes off as quite progressive and forward-thinking for the time.

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