Analogman Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 some video TORONTO (CP) - The Trailer Park Boys may be Canada's latest low-rent darlings, but beer-swilling hosers Bob and Doug McKenzie were blazing a proud trail of loserdom when Ricky, Julian and Bubbles were mere children. And so CBC-TV is celebrating the SCTV favourites, portrayed by comics Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, this Sunday with its so-called "Two-Four Anniversary Special." Rick Moranis (left) and Dave Thomas, are shown in this undated handout photo as the characters Bob and Doug McKenzie in this scene from the SCTV comedy series. (CP PICTURE ARCHIVE/HO)Rick Moranis (left) and Dave Thomas, are shown in this undated handout photo as the characters Bob and Doug McKenzie in this scene from the SCTV comedy series. (CP PICTURE ARCHIVE/HO) The title is an homage to three beloved Canadianisms: the country's May 24th holiday weekend, the beverage of choice for Bob and Doug - an ice-cold case of 24 beer, colloquially known as a 2-4 - and the 24th anniversary of the Bob and Doug movie, "Strange Brew," a film that became something of a campus cult classic in the U.S. upon its release in 1983. "Someone was saying to me recently that if you did a montage of all of Canada's best-known symbols, there wouldn't be too many of them, but Bob and Doug would definitely be on there," Thomas said Thursday on the line from Los Angeles, where he's lived for more than 20 years. "We are certainly icons." The special - airing on Thomas's 58th birthday - features a long list of personalities paying tribute to Bob and Doug, including Canadians Martin Short, Tom Green, Paul Shaffer and Dave Foley. But there are also some longtime American fans like "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening and actor Ben Stiller, who remembers lining up with his mother for hours at a New York City record store as a child to get Bob and Doug's autographs. One of the funniest parts of the special, Thomas says, is former prime minister Paul Martin's deadpan appearance as he pleads for Canadians to reject the Bob and Doug stereotype once and for all. At one point, Martin sadly recalls: "I'll never forget the four-year-old girl in Buenos Aires who looked up at me with her pretty eyes and asked, 'Where's your beer, you knob?"' "He absolutely nailed it," Thomas says incredulously. "I couldn't believe how hilarious he was." In honour of the 24th anniversary, even beer-makers are getting in on the party - Red Cap Ale has created a limited-edition range of six Bob and Doug collectible stubbies available in Ontario all summer long. In every 12 pack of Red Cap stubbies, beer fans in Ontario will find one of the six anniversary edition clear stubby bottles, showcasing some of Bob and Doug's finer moments. Thomas loves Bob and Doug - characters created as a sort of raised finger to the CRTC's strict Canadian content regulations when SCTV was one the country's biggest television hits - but he admits to having frequently thrown out the Bob and Doug costume of toques and parkas in the past. He figured he and Moranis, one of his closest pals, had closed the door on the characters for good. "And every time, here we go again - I have to get another parka and another toque," he says with a laugh. When told he should hang on to the costume this time because they'll likely be expected to resurrect Bob and Doug again on the 50th anniversary, Thomas is rueful. "If I'm still alive, that is." He may be approaching 60, but Thomas doesn't appear to be slowing down. He makes the odd television appearance, playing Charlize Theron's uncle on an "Arrested Development" episode ("Who would turn that down?" he asked). And he's currently working on a movie about Canadian bandleader Guy Lombardo, and awaiting word on two television pilots - one a sitcom set in a hospital. Thomas admits he misses Canada, even though he sold his cottage on Ontario's Lake Simcoe years ago. "My wife caught me hurling rocks at our motorboat in anger and frustration and she said: 'You know, maybe you're just not a cottage person,"' he recalls. "And she was right. It was a hassle maintaining that cottage." But he marvels every time he returns to Toronto, saying he's astonished at how bustling and vibrant the city is now compared to how it was in the 1970s and '80s, when he was launching his comedy career. "I sometimes wonder if Toronto was the city it is now when I was starting out, if I would have even needed to leave it," he said. "It is really such a great, vital place now." cbc article Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tongue-tied lightning Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 take off, eh ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 One of my favorite movie quotes: "I gotta pee so bad I can taste it!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ction Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I once had a cat named "Hoser." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I had the "Take Off" 45. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I had the "Take Off" 45.It's a beauty way to go. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ction Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I had the "Take Off" 45. I had the album (on cassette). Now I'm really hoping it is up on the pig place so I can snag it again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 The b-side was "Elron MacKenzie", with Dave Thomas playing a preacher - is that on the album? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dannygutters Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 When I get a parking ticket I say "Beauty, Only a Twenty", Tho in chicago it's usually a 50 or 100.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 The b-side was "Elron MacKenzie", with Dave Thomas playing a preacher - is that on the album?Yes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ction Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 To be honest, the only bit I clearly remember from the album is their metric conversion system (double it and add 30). Which I still use to this day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted May 25, 2007 Author Share Posted May 25, 2007 If I didn't have puke breath, I'd kiss you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 "10 bucks is 10 bucks" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Barbarino Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 Geddy Lee stopped in for the anniversary Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aricandover Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I'd love to see the full version Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dreamin' Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I had the LP. Geez, I'm old, eh? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Somnambulist Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I love the movie within the movie in Strange Brew. "Radiation has made me an enemy of civilization." "So's I spent most of my time looking for beer. Psst. act, act." "Like Charlton Heston in Omega Man. Did you see it? It's a beauty." Such a quotable movie. I remember in high school when we studied Shakespeare, my friends and I finally realized that Strange Brew was a remake of Hamlet. It's actually pretty spot on with the character parallels. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ottawateeth Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 the special could've been better...Rick Moranis did not look like he was into it at all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Barbarino Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 And Molson or Labatt should get in on that retro Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WilcoFan Posted May 25, 2007 Share Posted May 25, 2007 I see. Well, perhaps one of THESE would refresh your memory, eh? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ms. yvon Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 i loved the version of 12 days of christmas that was on the album: "FIVE GOLDEN TOQUES!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted May 27, 2007 Author Share Posted May 27, 2007 Bob Okay, good day, this is our Christmas part of the album, and you can play this at your Christmas parties, uh, or to yourself on Christmas Eve, if there's nothing else to do.Doug Good day, eh? In case you thought, like, I wasn't on this part!Bob Oh, I guarantee ya, you'd be on. Okay, so, good day, this is the Christmas part, and, we're gonna tell you what to get, uh, your true love for Christmas.Doug Look out the window!Bob Where?! Whadda ya doing?Doug Snow, hosehead.Bob Wha? Oh, it's the Great White North, and it's snowing, cause it's Christmas time. Hey, hoser!Doug What?Bob Here's a quiz. Quiz for Doug.Doug Okay, I have my thinking touque on.Bob Yeah, right. What are the twelve days of Christmas? Cause, figure it out, right. Christmas is when?Doug Uh, the 25th.Bob Right, and what's the 24th, Christmas Eve, right? So, that's two. And then, what's after that?Doug Um... Uh, Wrestling Day.Bob No. Get out.Doug Boxing Day, yeah, yeah.Bob That's three. Then what's after that? Nothing.Doug New Year's.Bob Four. And what's...Doug New Year's Eve.Bob Five. Where do you get twelve?Doug Uh... There's two Saturdays and Sundays in there, that's four. That's nine. And, three other days, which I believe are the mystery days. (Music starts.)Bob Okay now. This is our Christmas song, in case you don't know what to get somebody for Christmas.Doug There's lots of ideas in here, so, listen, and don't get stuck.Bob Okay.Doug By the way, that's me on the organ.Bob Aw, geez.Doug You start.Bob Okay. On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: a beer.Doug On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: two turtlenecks,Bob And a beer. (Okay...) On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: three French toast,Doug Two turtlenecks,Bob And a beer. (Okay...)Doug There should be more there, eh?Bob Where? On the... go.Doug Fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: four pounds of backbacon,Bob Three French toast,Doug Two turtlenecks,Bob And a beer.Doug In a tree. See, you need more.Bob Fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: five golden touques!Doug Four pounds of backbacon,Bob Three French toast,Doug Two turtlenecks,Bob And a beer, what was it?Together In a tree!Bob Okay, on the sixth... go.Doug Of Christmas, my true love gave to me: six packs of two-four,Bob & BG Singers Five golden touques!Doug Four pounds of backbacon,Bob Three French toast,Doug Two turtlenecks,Bob And a beer,Together In a tree!Bob Okay.Doug Okay.Bob On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: seven packs of smokes,Doug (Nice gift...) Oh, six packs of two-four! (BG Singers also sing "nice gift".)Bob & BG Singers Five golden touques!Doug Four pounds of backbacon,Bob Three French toast,Doug Two turtlenecks,Bob And a beer,Together In a tree!Bob Right, I keep forgetting.Doug Phew! This should just be the two days of Christmas, it's too hard for us!Bob Um...Doug Go, hoser.Bob Oh.Together Eigth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:Doug Eight comic books,All Seven packs of smokes, six packs of two-four, (Bob and Doug become unsynchronized with the BG Singers, and quit singing.)BG Singers Five golden touques! Four pounds of backbacon, three French toast, two turtlenecks,All And a beer,Doug On my tree!Bob Yeah. That beer's empty. Okay. Day,BG Singers Twelve!Bob Uh, twelve.Doug Good day, and welcome to day twelve.BG Singers Five golden touques!All Four pounds of backbacon, three French toast, two turtlenecks, and a beer, in a tree!Bob Beauty, eh?Doug Where'd you learn to do that?Bob Uh, albums.Doug Boy. So, like, that's our song, Merry Christmas...Bob Merry Christmas!Doug And good day!Bob Good day, everybody. Happy New Year, too. Sheesh. Okay, you know what you left out?Doug What?Bob Donuts - I told you to get me donuts! Either on the ninth day or the tenth day, or the eleventh day, I wanted donuts!Doug Okay, the song's over.Bob But I want...Doug Merry Christmas, everybody!Bob Or on the twelfth day, you coulda got me a dozen donuts.Doug So, go out to the stores, and get some presents.Bob You coulda gone down to, like, the good donut shop, where if you buy a dozen, you get another one free, and then thirteen for the thirteen days of Christmas.Doug Well, next Christmas, I'll get me a chainsaw...Bob Take off!Doug Boy, that song was a beauty. It moved me...Bob Yeah, I think it ranks up there with Stairway to Heaven...Doug Wha-? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anodyne Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 i just realized that ray was driving trucks in the great white north about the same time those hosers crashed their van into lake ontario. when doug apologized to rosie larose for his nervous breakdown, i about cried. "two bowls of split plea soup" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ms. yvon Posted May 28, 2007 Share Posted May 28, 2007 first: a-man: awesome with the 12 days text! i raise my morning joe and left over vegan choc. chip cookie in the direction of WVA! ... Doug Uh... There's two Saturdays and Sundays in there, that's four. That's nine. And, three other days, which I believe are the mystery days. Doug By the way, that's me on the organ.Bob And a beer.Doug In a tree. See, you need more. BG Singers Twelve! holy cow, i can hear that in my head! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted May 28, 2007 Author Share Posted May 28, 2007 I hope to find the whole special somewhere - I am sure it is out there to snag. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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